Most democratic theorists have taken Western political traditions as their primary point of reference, although the growing field of comparative political theory has shifted this focus. In Decolonizing Democracy, comparative theorist Christine Keating interprets the formation of Indian democracy as a progressive example of a “postcolonial social contract.” In doing so, she highlights the significance of reconfigurations of democracy in postcolonial polities like India and sheds new light on the social contract, a central concept within democratic theory from Locke to Rawls and beyond. Keating’s analysis builds on the literature developed by feminists like Carole Pateman and critical race theorists like Charles Mills that examines the social contract’s egalitarian potential. By analyzing the ways in which the framers of the Indian constitution sought to address injustices of gender, race, religion, and caste, as well as present-day struggles over women’s legal and political status, Keating demonstrates that democracy’s social contract continues to be challenged and reworked in innovative and potentially more just ways.
This dissertation examines Emily Dickinson as a woman who is empowered by the extended wings of her imagination, yet grounded by the gravity of social conformity. This conflicting portrayal frames this study's thesis: A trailblazer of American individualism, Emily Dickinson employs mythopoeia as agency in creating the prismatic self. Hailed as the most internally focused and rebellious of the American Renaissance poets, Dickinson uses a poetic practice that engages a process of multifaceted reflection, liberation, transformation, and genesis of the prismatic self in search of a sacred unity of mind, body, and cosmos. In seeking their identity, poets engage in the art and science of mythopoeia, a term originating from Greek meaning “myth-making”—its root word myth (mythoi) emerging from Aristotle’s Poetics. Dickinson’s poetry in both practice and process grapples with the complexity that emerges as she bravely embraces the ambiguity of being a knower in the world. In examination and analysis of this practice and process, this dissertation explores Dickinson as a meta-poet; recognizing that within her weaving of verse is a writing for self-understanding; she is ultimately creating a self through mythopoeia that becomes transparent as she adds each word to the page." -- abstract,
This important book addresses a growing international interest in 'age-friendly' communities, examining the conflicting stereotypes of rural communities as either idyllic and supportive or isolated and bereft of services.
Known worldwide through her EWTN network, MOther Angelica presents a book of timeless wisdom and practical insights drawn from her deep faith and personal suffering and experience. Her answers to life's dilemmas, large and small, are a sure source of inspiration for all.
This is a much-needed study of a remarkable life. Elizabeth Goudge was not only a sensitive and acute artist in fiction, but a profoundly insightful commentator on the processes of growing up spiritually and morally. She fully deserves the kind of sympathetic and appreciative exploration provided by this book. Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury Elizabeth Goudge once said she had done no exciting things - none of the wonderful things that some people do. Yet her achievement was wonderful. From the stuff of her own life even the hard things like depression and nervous breakdown, even the Christian faith that upheld her throughout she created best-selling books that were read, worldwide, throughout the forty years of her career and are still being read today. J.K. Rowling has said that her favourite childhood book was The Little White Horse - recently filmed as The Secret of Moonacre. Beyond the Snow is an appreciation of Miss Goudges life and work that attempts to look beyond her memoires, by linking them to her books and letters and the recollections of family and friends. It examines in particular her Christian faith and its illuminating influence on everything she did, and was. As Alan Walton said, reviewing The Joy of the Snow there is nobody like her.
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