(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478031550)
Riding from the mountains of Iran to the beaches of California, Pardis Mahdavi meditates on the lessons learned over a lifetime of horseback riding and the falling, failing, and joy it brings. In Riding, Pardis Mahdavi meditates on the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478028406)
Riding is a story of horseback riding, but it is also a history of Caspian horses, an exploration of Iranian American identity in both the American Southwest and along the Iran-Turkey border, the authors own research on sex and politics, her relati...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Mar-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478031550)
Riding from the mountains of Iran to the beaches of California, Pardis Mahdavi meditates on the lessons learned over a lifetime of horseback riding and the falling, failing, and joy it brings. In Riding, Pardis Mahdavi meditates on the...Lasīt vairāk
At a time when states are increasingly hostile to the international rights regime, human rights activists have turned to non-state and sub-state actors to begin the implementation of human rights law. This complicates the conventional analysis of...Lasīt vairāk
This story of generations of Middle Eastern horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse from the days of Persian Empire marauders to the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them. 20,000 first printing. The untold story o...Lasīt vairāk
This story of generations of Middle Eastern horsewomen who safeguarded an ancient breed of Caspian horse from the days of Persian Empire marauders to the Taliban and others seeking to destroy them. 20,000 first printing. The untold story o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Aug-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780306832130)
Book of Queens reaches back centuries to the Persian Empire and a woman disguised as a man, facing an invading army, protected only by light armor and the stallion she sat astride. Mahdavi draws a thread from past to present: from her fearless Irani...Lasīt vairāk
At a time when states are increasingly hostile to the international rights regime, human rights activists have turned to non-state and sub-state actors to begin the implementation of human rights law. This complicates the conventional analysis of...Lasīt vairāk
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. And yet, th...Lasīt vairāk
Michiel Baas, Theodora Lam, Peidong Yang, Pardis Mahdavi, Denise L. Spitzer, Amrita Pande, Maria Platt, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Khoo Choon Yen, Grace Baey...
Sērija : New Mobilities in Asia
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789462988668)
The Asian Migrants Body: Emotion, Gender and Sexuality brings together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience, think about, perceive and utilize their bodies as part of the journeys they have embarked on. In exploring how b...Lasīt vairāk
Investigates the emerging, new sexual culture of Iranian youth, in which sexuality represents freedom and engaging in sex can be considered political activism. There is perhaps no place in the world today where the stakes of partying and h...Lasīt vairāk
A panic surrounds human trafficking and terrorism. The socially constructed war on terror and war on trafficking are linked through discourses that not only combine the two, but help promote an anti-Muslim sentiment. Using ethnographic data an...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Apr-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780804794428)
This book considers the intimate lives of migrant laborers and highlights the shortcomings of policies that criminalize migrants and their loved ones. The lines between what constitutes migration and what constitutes human tra...Lasīt vairāk
The lines between what constitutes migration and what constitutes human trafficking are messy at best. State policies rarely acknowledge the lived experiences of migrants, and too often the laws and policies meant to protect individuals ultimate...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Dec-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812247541)
Migrant Encounters examines what happens when migrants across Asia encounter both the restrictions and opportunities presented by state actors and policies, some that leave deep marks on migrants own life trajectories and others that produ...Lasīt vairāk
A panic surrounds human trafficking and terrorism. The socially constructed war on terror and war on trafficking are linked through discourses that not only combine the two, but help promote an anti-Muslim sentiment. Using ethnographic data an...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Apr-2011, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780804772204)
Gridlock explores how migrant workers actual experiences in Dubai contrast with the typical discussions—and global moral panic—about human trafficking. The images of human trafficking are all too often reduce...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Sep-2008, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780804758567)
Investigates the emerging, new sexual culture of Iranian youth, in which sexuality represents freedom and engaging in sex can be considered political activism. There is perhaps no place in the world today where the s...Lasīt vairāk
