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Youth and sustainable peacebuilding
Helen Berents (ed.), Catherine Bolten (ed.), and Siobhan McEvoy-Levy (ed.)
This book examines the ways in which youth have been characterised by states, how they institutionally ‘participate’ in peacebuilding, and how they have generated peacebuilding processes outside of official systems of power.
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Heritage and healing in Syria and Iraq
Zena Kamash
What should we do with heritage damaged in conflict? Instead of succumbing to the tempting response of ‘reconstruct it, just as it was!’, British Iraqi archaeologist, Dr Zena Kamash, invites readers to think first and foremost about what might be most beneficial to the local communities of Syria and Iraq.
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Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge: Activism and everyday struggles in Europe
Suvi Keskinen (ed.), Aminkeng Atabong Alemanji (ed.), and Minna Seikkula (ed.)
Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge studies how different kinds of (b)orders are negotiated and challenged in antiracism and activism by people categorised as migrants and their supporters.
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Reanimating grief: Waking the dead in literature, theatre and performance
William McEvoy
Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song. It examines the way cultural works reanimate the dead in the form of ghosts, memories or scenes of mourning, and uses critical and creative writing to express grief’s subjectivity and uniqueness.
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