Territory of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Territory of Desire write by Ananya Jahanara Kabir. This book was released on 2009. Territory of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A result of territorial disputes between India and Pakistan since 1947, exacerbated by armed freedom movements since 1989, the ongoing conflict over Kashmir is consistently in the news. Taking a unique multidisciplinary approach, Territory of Desire asks how, and why, Kashmir came to be so intensely desired within Indian, Pakistani, and Kashmiri nationalistic imaginations.
The Valley of Kashmir
The Valley of Kashmir - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Valley of Kashmir write by Walter R. Lawrence. This book was released on 2005. The Valley of Kashmir available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. (Reprint London 1895 edn.)
Land and Desire in Early Zionism
Land and Desire in Early Zionism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Land and Desire in Early Zionism write by Boaz Neumann. This book was released on 2011. Land and Desire in Early Zionism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A provocative look at the centrality of desire for "the Land" among early settlers in pre-state Israel
Tropics of Desire
Tropics of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropics of Desire write by Jose Quiroga. This book was released on 2000-11. Tropics of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From its sweaty beats to the pulsating music on the streets, Latin/o America is perceived in the United States as the land of heat, the toy store for Western sex. It is the territory of magical fantasy and of revolutionary threat, where topography is the travel guide of desire, directing imperial voyeurs to the exhibition of the flesh. Jose Quiroga flips the stereotype upside down: he shows how Latin/o American lesbians and gay men have consistently eschewed notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention. In Tropics of Desire, Quiroga reads hesitant Mexican poets as sex-positive voices, he questions how outing and identity politics can fall prey to the manipulations of the state, and explores how invisibility has been used as a tactical tool in opposition to the universal imperative to come out. Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as the performance of bolero and salsa, film, literature, and correspondence, and influenced by masters like Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin and a rich tradition of Latin American stylists, Quiroga argues for a politics that denies biological determinism and cannibalizes cultural stereotypes for the sake of political action.
The Botany of Desire
The Botany of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Botany of Desire write by Michael Pollan. This book was released on 2002-05-28. The Botany of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
