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As a phenomenon of history with social, political, cultural implications, the entire 'negotiated' experience makes the South African situation unique in both the African and global context. As this phenomenon unfolds, many fascinating new artistic influences are being explored to capture the diverse cultural depths and questions of identity unleashed by the demise of apartheid. This collection of plays reflects certain key trends in both subje...

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These photographs were taken at Oak Park Heights Prison in Minnesota in 2005 ... do not include any non-American prisoners or any terrorism suspects and have nothing to do with the war on terror"--About the photographs, p. (70).

Born in Tehran in 1957, film-maker Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf grew up in the religiously and politically charged atmosphere of the 1960s. In this title, he reflects on the relationship between cinema and violence, tolerance, and social change, as well as the political and artistic importance of the autonomy of the film-maker.

Located on the west coast of India along the Arabian Sea, Goa officially became an Indian state in 1987 after nearly 500 years of Portuguese rule. This conflict of cultures is captured by Indian photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta in "The Edge of Faith." The book's 70 striking photographs create an intimate portrait of the Catholic community in Goa rarely seen before--a portrait of people torn between their fidelity to a history of Portuguese fait...

The British Grotowski Project"--T.p. verso.

Including an investigation of the notion of sovereignty from Bodin and Hobbes, through Rousseau and the Federalists, to Foucault and the framers of the European constitution, this title examines the articulation of the concept through the bloody history of European colonialism.

Presents an unorthodox, imaginative take on the transition from Communism to capitalism in the former Soviet Union. This title features three stories that are unified by questions such as: Are democracy and capitalism really a change for the better? Is there such a thing as collective responsibility? And how do we remember and understand our past?

A Sick Planet, " written in 1971, is an extremely prescient polemic on global environmental degradation.

During the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain. It was the badge of a remarkable Third World Bank...the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International). BCCI soon become a global corporate empire with former US Presidents, ex-British Prime Ministers and a range of dictators on its payroll, all helping with promoting the company. Tariq Ali was ...

Who killed Mrs Gandhi? We know the name of the assassins, but did they act alone? In this fictional filmscript, Tariq Ali suggests that larger forces were at work, exploiting genuine Sikh grievances to settle their own score with a Prime Minister who, whatever her faults, was fiercely independent of Washington and safeguarded Indian sovereignty with a zeal inherited from her father. Provocative and suggestive, this script planned as the second...

Explores the connections between worship and performance, the sacred and the profane. This book challenges the common assumptions about worship as being simply about religious feeling, and opens up the multifaceted possibilities of layering and overlapping that make public act of worship simultaneously an act of socio-historical practice.

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Of matters Modern analyses the experience of modernity in South Asia. Arguing that South Asias experience of modernity has to be understood in a global context, the book explores a wide range of topics: the emergence of 'Assam Fever' in colonial discourse, an experiment with fusion music in early colonial India, The emergence of detective fiction in colonial Punjab, the search for authenticity among nationalist and post-colonial thinkers, the ...