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Rescripting Religion in the City

Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis

By: Alana Harris

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Rescripting Religion in the City

Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis

By: Alana Harris

Rescripting Religion in the City explores the role of faith and religious practices as strategies for understanding and negotiating the migratory experience. Leading international scholars draw on case studies of urban settings in the global north and south. Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' this book makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology.

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333

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Routledge

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1317065689

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9781317065685

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Using Literature to Teach Diversity and Social-Emotional Skills in the Elementary Classroom (Create learning opportunities for students to embrace cultural differences)

By: Gwendolyn Cartledge,Amanda L. Yurick,Alana Oif Telesman

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Using Literature to Teach Diversity and Social-Emotional Skills in the Elementary Classroom (Create learning opportunities for students to embrace cultural differences)

By: Gwendolyn Cartledge,Amanda L. Yurick,Alana Oif Telesman

Introduce diversity and social-emotional learning to elementary students through a wide array of culturally relevant, quality children's literature. This valuable resource shares recommendations for books that explore race, ethnicity, gender, (dis)ability, religion, and more. The authors pair activities with book suggestions to promote healthy self-affirmation, self-assertion, and conflict resolution so students learn how their actions impact others. Gain a basic understanding of social-emotional learning and concepts. Discover why literature is an effective tool for conveying diversity issues and social-emotional concepts. Engage young students with literature and activities to help them understand complex issues. Integrate literature from a vast array of diverse groups into classroom learning to broaden cultural understanding. Create an environment in which students can learn, process, and celebrate cultural differences. Contents: Introduction Section I: Using Diverse and Culturally Relevant Children's Literature for Social-Emotional Development Chapter 1: Developing Social-Emotional Skills in Young Children Chapter 2: Using Diverse and Culturally Relevant Literature Section II: Affirming Others and Self and Asserting Self Through Diverse and Culturally Relevant Literature Chapter 3: Affirming Others Chapter 4: Affirming Self Chapter 5: Asserting Self Section III: Dealing With Aggression and Conflict Through Diverse and Culturally Relevant Literature Chapter 6: Responding to Aggression Chapter 7: Playing and Working Cooperatively With Others Chapter 8: Questioning Unfair Practices Epilogue Appendix: Integration of Digital Media References and Resources Index

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202

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Solution Tree Press

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1952812682

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9781952812682

The Crises of Multiculturalism

Racism in a Neoliberal Age

By: Alana Lentin,Gavan Titley

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The Crises of Multiculturalism

Racism in a Neoliberal Age

By: Alana Lentin,Gavan Titley

Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion, enemies within cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism, mediaeval practices subverting national 'ways of life' and universal values. This important new book challenges this familiar narrative of the rise and fall of multiculturalism by challenging the existence of a coherent era of 'multiculturalism' in the first place. The authors argue that what we are witnessing is not so much a rejection of multiculturalism as a projection of neoliberal anxieties onto the social realities of lived multiculture. Nested in an established post-racial consensus, new forms of racism draw powerfully on liberalism and questions of 'values', and unsettle received ideas about racism and the 'far right' in Europe. In combining theory with a reading of recent controversies concerning headscarves, cartoons, minarets and burkas, Lentin and Titley trace a transnational crisis that travels and is made to travel, and where rejecting multiculturalism is central to laundering increasingly acceptable forms of racism.

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298

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1848135823

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9781848135826

This is Not Art

Activism and Other 'Not-Art'

By: Alana Jelinek

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This is Not Art

Activism and Other 'Not-Art'

By: Alana Jelinek

Art is not political action. Art is not education. Art does not exist to make society stronger, or the world a better place. Art disrupts and resists the comfortable, the stiflingly familiar and the status quo, or it only serves to deaden a disenfranchised society further. So argues This Is Not Art, a radical and vigorous critique that debunks myths about art in order to celebrate its real and unique importance. With the postmodern deconstruction of now-outdated shibboleths such as 'genius', 'authenticity' and 'beauty', new and neoliberal myths about art have arisen to take their place: that art's value is primarily monetary as a prized and marketable commodity, or that art is important because it ameliorates social problems. These ideas are not only the province of art-dealers and power-brokers, but pervade the part of the artworld that defines itself as radical, political or ethical too. Highlighting the social mechanisms of legitimisation and dissemination that exclude the genuinely disruptive or defiant, This Is Not Art draws on Foucault and Marx to uncover an artworld obsessed with profit and from which diversity, individuality and freedom have been erased. In the search for a new way to understand art's urgent importance, Alana Jelinek returns to the question of 'what is art?', retelling the history of art practice for our contemporary moment and exposing the ways in which neoliberal norms and values have seeped into every aspect of our lives. From the author's unique perspective as a practicing artist and theoretician, This Is Not Art offers not just a searing criticism of the artworld as it is, but a vision of a new way of understanding and practicing art - as the embodiment of power and agency within us, the possibility of thinking and acting differently, of finding new stories to tell.

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167

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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085773802X

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9780857738028

Book's by Alana Khan

Rescripting Religion in the City

Rescripting Religion in the City

There's More to the Story

There's More to the Story

The Crises of Multiculturalism

The Crises of Multiculturalism

This is Not Art

This is Not Art

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