Moving the Centre

Moving the Centre
Author: Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Publishers
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1992
Genre: Education
ISBN:

In this collection Ngugi is concerned with moving the centre in two senses - between nations and within nations - in order to contribute to the freeing of world cultures from the restrictive walls of nationalism, class, race and gender. Between nations the need is to move the centre from its assumed location in the West to a multiplicity of spheres in all the cultures of the world. Within nations the move should be away from all minority class establishments to the real creative centre among working people in conditions of racial, religious and gender equality. -- Back cover.

Moving Places

Moving Places
Author: Nataša Gregorič Bon
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785332430

Moving Places draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making. The book centers on “moving places”: places with locations that are not fixed but relative. Locations appearing to be reasonably stable, such as home and homeland, are in fact always subject to practices, imaginaries, and politics of movement. Bringing together original ethnographic contributions with a clear theoretical focus, this volume spans the fields of anthropology, human geography, migration, and border studies, and serves as teaching material in related programs.

Moving the Mountain

Moving the Mountain
Author: Lu Li
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A student leader of the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square provides a persona account of the protests, the Chinese government's violent retaliation, and the aftermath.

Moving Subjects, Moving Objects

Moving Subjects, Moving Objects
Author: Maruška Svašek
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857453246

In recent years an increasing number of scholars have incorporated a focus on emotions in their theories of material culture, transnationalism and globalization, and this book aims to contribute to this field of inquiry. It examines how ‘emotions’ can be theorized, and serves as a useful analytical tool for understanding the interrelated mobility of humans, objects and images. Ethnographically rich, and theoretically grounded case studies offer new perspectives on the relations between migration, material culture and emotions. While some chapters address the many different ways in which migrants and migrant artists express their emotions through objects and images in transnational contexts, other chapters focus on how particular works of art, everyday objects and artefacts can evoke feelings specific to particular migrant groups and communities. Case studies also analyse how artists, academics and policy makers can stimulate positive interaction between migrants and non-migrant communities.

Cargomobilities

Cargomobilities
Author: Thomas Birtchnell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2015-04-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317961412

Objects and materials are on the move like never before, often at astonishing speeds and along hidden routeways. This collection opens to social scientific scrutiny the various systems which move objects about the world, examining their fateful implications for many people and places. Offering texts from key thinkers, the book presents case studies from around the world which report on efforts to establish, maintain, disrupt or transform the cargo-mobility systems which have grown so dramatically in scale and significance in recent decades.

The Places in Between

The Places in Between
Author: Rory Stewart
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0156031566

Rory Stewart recounts the experiences he had walking across Afghanistan in 2002, describing how the country and its people have been impacted by the Taliban and the American military's involvement in the region.

Decolonising the Mind

Decolonising the Mind
Author: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 126
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0852555016

Ngugi wrote his first novels and plays in English but was determined, even before his detention without trial in 1978, to move to writing in Gikuyu.

Moving Up Without Losing Your Way

Moving Up Without Losing Your Way
Author: Jennifer M. Morton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0691216932

"Upward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Moving Up without Losing Your Way looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility--the broken ties with family and friends, the severed connections with former communities, and the loss of identity--faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society"--Dust jacket.

Keep It Moving

Keep It Moving
Author: Twyla Tharp
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-10-29
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1982101326

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the world’s legendary artists and bestselling author of The Creative Habit shares her secrets—from insight to action—for harnessing vitality, finding purpose as you age, and expanding one’s possibilities over the course of a lifetime in her newest New York Times bestseller Keep It Moving. At seventy-eight, Twyla Tharp is revered not only for the dances she makes—but for her astounding regime of exercise and nonstop engagement. She is famed for religiously hitting the gym each morning at daybreak, and utilizing that energy to propel her breakneck schedule as a teacher, writer, creator, and lecturer. This book grew out of the question she was asked most frequently: “How do you keep working?” Keep It Moving is a series of no-nonsense mediations on how to live with purpose as time passes. From the details of how she stays motivated to the stages of her evolving fitness routine, Tharp models how fulfillment depends not on fortune—but on attitude, possible for anyone willing to try and keep trying. Culling anecdotes from Twyla’s life and the lives of other luminaries, each chapter is accompanied by a small exercise that will help anyone develop a more hopeful and energetic approach to the everyday. Twyla will tell you what the beauty-fitness-wellness industry won’t: chasing youth is a losing proposition. Instead, Keep It Moving focuses you on what’s here and where you’re going—the book for anyone who wishes to maintain their prime for life.