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Motorbike People

Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets

By: Will Rollason

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Motorbike People

Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets

By: Will Rollason

In Motorbike People: Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets, Will Rollason examines the relationship between power and culture. Rollason looks at what social scientists gain—and lose—by abandoning the assumption that power is a universal feature of human social life. Through an ethnographic account of the lives and livelihoods of motorcycle taxi drivers in Kigali, Rwanda, Rollason depicts how forms of personhood can sit uneasily with conventional accounts of power relationships. From the motorcyclists’ everyday dealings with the police and each another to the regulation of their businesses at large and the Rwandan constitution, Rollason depicts the need for varied concepts of power. By allowing concepts of power to proliferate, the social sciences lose the political capacity to engage in questions of justice and make common cause with the oppressed, but gain the ability to rethink what it means to act politically and meet the challenges of a swiftly changing world. This work is recommended for students and scholars of the social sciences.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498576826

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We Are Playing Football

Sport and Postcolonial Subjectivity, Panapompom, Papua New Guinea

By: Will Rollason

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We Are Playing Football

Sport and Postcolonial Subjectivity, Panapompom, Papua New Guinea

By: Will Rollason

Sport is an important part of the lives of rural Papua New Guineans, and a significant connection to global imaginaries for economically marginal villagers. Such grassroots sport, however, is rarely studied and has never previously been the subject of an ethnographic monograph. This book represents a pioneering study of the history and effects of grassroots sport in Papua New Guinea. We Are Playing Football explores Panapompom people’s attempts to recreate the international game, and the social and subjective effects of this effort. From a raw ethnographic starting-point, the book moves through historical and interpretive materials, exploring the motives, methods and results of Panapompom people’s work to recreate global images of football, and to turn them to their own political ends. As the argument proceeds, we see how playing football implicates Panapompom people in circuits of domination, power and humiliation that tether them to colonial modes of control, and derogatory racialist identities, which they themselves reproduce in their communities. From its effects on the most intimate self-understanding, through the embodied experience of playing football, to the details of colonial history and the values and ideas underpinning community life, this book offers an original and challenging assessment of what it means to be “globalised.” It charts the new outlooks and imaginaries, the disruptions, failures and disappointments, and above all the vital synergies between different people that define the global situation of Panapompom people.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443826170

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Motorbike People

Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets

By: Will Rollason

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Power and Politics on Rwandan Streets

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Immigration Under New Labour

By: Will Somerville

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Immigration Under New Labour

By: Will Somerville

Will Somerville presents a comprehensive account of immigration policy since 1997, providing an in-depth account of policy and legislation since Tony Blair and New Labour were first elected.

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244

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Policy Press

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186134967X

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9781861349675

The Will Rogers Scrapbook

By: Will Rogers

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The Will Rogers Scrapbook

By: Will Rogers

A nostalgic return to Will Roger's America. Plus 100 photographs and exclusive interviews with some of Rogers' famous friends ... Wild-West shows and vaudeville, Hollywood, the silent movies and "talkies" and ... politics"--Jacket.

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0448123592

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Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies

By: Will Rogers

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Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies

By: Will Rogers

A collection of Rogers' writings and observations includes selections from his weekly articles and previously unpublished excerpts from his notes and correspondence

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300

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806123575

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9780806123578

The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

By: Richard Irving Dodge,Will Rogers

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The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

By: Richard Irving Dodge,Will Rogers

These journals also provide insight into Dodge's character, with reports of his official duties as a military man and of several landmark events in his family life. Extensive commentaries and notes by Wayne R. Kime provide further detail, including a history of Cantonment North Fork Canadian River, a six-company post Dodge established and commanded in the region."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806132671

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9780806132679

The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915

By: Will Rogers,Steven K. Gragert,M. Jane Johansson

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The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915

By: Will Rogers,Steven K. Gragert,M. Jane Johansson

This third volume of The Papers of Will Rogers documents the evolution of Rogers's vaudeville career as well as the newlywed life of Will and Betty Blake Rogers and the birth of their children. During these years, the Rogerses moved to New York City, and after many years of performing with Buck McKee and horse Teddy, Rogers began a solo act in vaudeville as a talking, roping cowboy. He appeared on the same playbill with such performers as Fred Stone, Eddie Cantor, and Houdini, and his stage career expanded to include an appearance in the Broadway musical comedy "The Wall Street Girl." Volume Three ends with Rogers's successful transition from vaudeville to Broadway, on the brink of his breakthrough as a star of the Ziegfeld Follies.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806133155

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The Papers of Will Rogers: The early years, November 1879-April 1904

By: Will Rogers

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The Papers of Will Rogers: The early years, November 1879-April 1904

By: Will Rogers

Horses, friends, ragtime music, and steer roping-those were the interests of the youthful Will Rogers as he came of age in the Indian Territory and traveled to the Southern Hemisphere in this first of six definitive volumes of The Papers of Will Rogers. By separating fact from legend and unveiling new knowledge via extensive archival research, this documentary history represents a unique contribution to Rogers scholarship and to studies of the Cherokee Nation West. Using many previously unpublished letters and photographs-together with introductions, notes, and biographies of his friends and relatives-volume one illuminates Rogers’s complex relationship with his father, his Cherokee heritage, his early education, first encounters with his future wife, Betty Blake, his voyage to Argentina, and his fledging years in Wild West shows and circuses in South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. Coorespondence, performance reviews, and rare newspaper documents spotlight the singular experiences that shaped the young Rogers within the context of his family, his ethnic background, and historical events. No other book describes so provocatively and authentically the genesis of America’s most beloved and influential humorist.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806127457

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9780806127453

The Papers of Will Rogers: The final years, August 1928-August 1935

By: Will Rogers

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The Papers of Will Rogers: The final years, August 1928-August 1935

By: Will Rogers

This fifth and final volume of The Papers of Will Rogers traces the career of Oklahoma’s beloved entertainer during his most popular years and extends beyond his death in 1935. By 1928, the Oklahoma humorist and commentator had reached national prominence through his newspaper columns, silent films, sound recordings, books, philanthropic endeavors, and lecture tours. His fame, fortune, and influence, however, had yet to crest. This volume showcases a wide variety of documents, including correspondence with some of the most significant figures of the day, revealing Rogers’s rise to fame as the nation’s leading social and political commentator and as a hugely popular star of radio, stage, and film. Rogers’s multifaceted career ended abruptly when he and the famous aviator Wylie Post died in an airplane crash in northernmost Alaska. This documentary history of his final years includes transcripts of radio broadcasts, contracts, and business documents, as well as nearly two hundred telegrams and letters to family, friends, and notable public figures—the majority of which have never before been published. It also covers the aftermath of his fatal airplane accident: the certificate of death, a first-person account of his funeral, settlement of his estate, efforts to pay tribute to his memory, and unauthorized attempts to capitalize on his fame.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806137681

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The Papers of Will Rogers: From the Broadway stage to the national stage, September 1915-July 1928

By: Will Rogers

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The Papers of Will Rogers: From the Broadway stage to the national stage, September 1915-July 1928

By: Will Rogers

In the early years of his performing career, Will Rogers was a vaudeville performer of limited prominence. Around the age of thirty-five, however, this Oklahoma cowboy philosopher shed his role as local stage entertainer and moved toward fame as a Broadway star and nationally beloved humorist. This documentary history, volume four in the definitive five-volume Papers of Will Rogers, reveals Rogers’s personal and professional transformation during what may have been the most productive period of his diverse career. Between 1915 and 1928—the years covered by this volume—Rogers developed his unique monologues of topical humor, sampled the relatively new medium of radio, and pursued a career in silent films. He also tried his voice in sound recordings, witnessed his work as a writer reach millions of readers of daily newspapers, became one of the most sought-after speakers on the dinner circuit, and embarked on a three-year tour of the nation’s lecture halls. In addition to Rogers’s personal correspondence with family members and friends, editors Steven K. Gragert and M. Jane Johansson present more than one hundred letters and telegrams to and from people Rogers touched both inside and outside public life, including prominent figures in politics, show business, literature, industry, government, publishing, and the arts. Much of this material, gleaned from private collections, interviews, manuscripts, and sound recordings, has never before been published.

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0806137045

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Will Rogers

Reflections and Observations

By: Will Rogers

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Will Rogers

Reflections and Observations

By: Will Rogers

This collection gathers speeches and newspaper columns by the popular American humorist in which he pokes fun at the politics of the day.

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1560547510

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Will

By: Will Smith, Mark Manson

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Will

By: Will Smith, Mark Manson

Una dintre forțele cele mai dinamice din divertismentul contemporan, recunoscută la nivel global, își povestește viața într-o carte deopotrivă curajoasă și motivantă, care îi urmărește parcursul de învățare până în punctul alinierii perfecte a succesului exterior, fericirii interioare și conexiunii umane. Will spune povestea necenzurată a uneia dintre cele mai uimitoare evoluții în lumea muzicii și filmului.

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Editura Trei

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6067892863

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A Will Rogers Treasury

Reflections and Observations

By: Will Rogers,Bryan B. Sterling,Frances N. Sterling

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A Will Rogers Treasury

Reflections and Observations

By: Will Rogers,Bryan B. Sterling,Frances N. Sterling

Presents a compendium of the wit and wisdom of American humorist Will Rogers, selected from among the most important of his newspaper columns.

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Crown Pub

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0517545764

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Book's by Will Rollason

Motorbike People

Motorbike People

We Are Playing Football

We Are Playing Football

Motorbike People

Motorbike People

Immigration Under New Labour

Immigration Under New Labour

The Will Rogers Scrapbook

The Will Rogers Scrapbook

Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies

Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies

The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915

The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915

The Papers of Will Rogers: The early years, November 1879-April 1904

The Papers of Will Rogers: The early years, November 1879-April 1904

The Papers of Will Rogers: The final years, August 1928-August 1935

The Papers of Will Rogers: The final years, August 1928-August 1935

The Papers of Will Rogers: From the Broadway stage to the national stage, September 1915-July 1928

The Papers of Will Rogers: From the Broadway stage to the national stage, September 1915-July 1928

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