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La Americana
directed by Nicholas Bruckman, fl. 2008 and John Mattiuzzi, fl. 2006; produced by Nicholas Bruckman, fl. 2008 and Jesse Thomas, fl. 2008, People's Television (New York, NY: The Cinema Guild, 2008), 1 hour 6 mins
When nine-year-old Carla suffers a life-threatening accident, her mother, Carmen, must leave her behind and make the dangerous and illegal journey from Bolivia to the U.S., where she hopes to earn enough to save her daughter's life. Working in New York to support Carla's medical needs, Carmen struggles in vain to...
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directed by Nicholas Bruckman, fl. 2008 and John Mattiuzzi, fl. 2006; produced by Nicholas Bruckman, fl. 2008 and Jesse Thomas, fl. 2008, People's Television (New York, NY: The Cinema Guild, 2008), 1 hour 6 mins
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When nine-year-old Carla suffers a life-threatening accident, her mother, Carmen, must leave her behind and make the dangerous and illegal journey from Bolivia to the U.S., where she hopes to earn enough to save her daughter's life. Working in New York to support Carla's medical needs, Carmen struggles in vain to legalize her immigration status, and wrestles with the prospect of never seeing her daughter again. Then, after six years of separation...
When nine-year-old Carla suffers a life-threatening accident, her mother, Carmen, must leave her behind and make the dangerous and illegal journey from Bolivia to the U.S., where she hopes to earn enough to save her daughter's life. Working in New York to support Carla's medical needs, Carmen struggles in vain to legalize her immigration status, and wrestles with the prospect of never seeing her daughter again. Then, after six years of separation, Congress proposes "amnesty" legislation that could allow Carmen and Carla to be reunited at last...
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Nicholas Bruckman, fl. 2008, Jesse Thomas, fl. 2008, People's Television
Author / Creator
Nicholas Bruckman, fl. 2008, John Mattiuzzi, fl. 2006
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
The Cinema Guild
Topic / Theme
21st Century in World History (2001– )
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008 The Cinema Guild, Inc.
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Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh
written by Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury; edited by Thomas Blom Hansen, 1958- (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 265 page(s)
Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated nations. In spite of...
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written by Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury; edited by Thomas Blom Hansen, 1958- (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019), 265 page(s)
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Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated nations. In spite of an overriding anxiety of exhaustion, there are a few important caveats to the familiar feelings of despair—a growing economy, and an...
Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated nations. In spite of an overriding anxiety of exhaustion, there are a few important caveats to the familiar feelings of despair—a growing economy, and an uneven, yet robust, nationalist sentiment—which, together, generate revealing paradoxes. In this book, Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury offers insight into what she calls "the paradoxes of the popular," or the constitutive contradictions of popular politics. The focus here is on mass protests, long considered the primary medium of meaningful change in this part of the world. Chowdhury writes provocatively about political life in Bangladesh in a rich ethnography that studies some of the most consequential protests of the last decade, spanning both rural and urban Bangladesh. By making the crowd its starting point and analytical locus, this book tacks between multiple sites of public political gatherings and pays attention to the ephemeral and often accidental configurations of the crowd. Ultimately, Chowdhury makes an original case for the crowd as a defining feature and a foundational force of democratic practices in South Asia and beyond.
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Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Book
Contributor
Thomas Blom Hansen, 1958-
Author / Creator
Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Topic / Theme
General Context: Security Issues, Democracy, Political demonstrations, Politics & Policy, Sociology
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Copyright © 2019 Stanford University Press
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Under the Sun, Do They Feel My Shadow
written by Nicholas Claxton, fl. 1991; directed by Nicholas Claxton, fl. 1991; produced by Cherry Farrow, fl. 1991 and Nicholas Claxton, fl. 1991, Goldhawk Productions, in Under the Sun (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2012), 49 mins
Behind the violence and confrontation marking the Arab-Israeli conflict, there lies the story of people who attempt to treat the emotional and psychological scars of more than 20 years of war, exile and occupation. Such people dedicate their own lives to the future as they try to alleviate the anguish caused to th...
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written by Nicholas Claxton, fl. 1991; directed by Nicholas Claxton, fl. 1991; produced by Cherry Farrow, fl. 1991 and Nicholas Claxton, fl. 1991, Goldhawk Productions, in Under the Sun (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2012), 49 mins
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Behind the violence and confrontation marking the Arab-Israeli conflict, there lies the story of people who attempt to treat the emotional and psychological scars of more than 20 years of war, exile and occupation. Such people dedicate their own lives to the future as they try to alleviate the anguish caused to the Palestinians who live with violence every day.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Nicholas Claxton, fl. 1991, Marwan Hellis, 1977-, Shmuely Shaul, 1978-, Esther Bentolila, fl. 1991, Karim Abu-Dahi, fl. 1991, Kamilia Abu-Dahi, fl. 1991, Fatima Al-Shami, fl. 1991, Jihad Al-Shami, fl. 1991, Ranaan Gissen, fl. 1991, Eyad El-Sarraj, fl. 1973, Mohammad Abu-Shanab, 1978-, Cherry Farrow, fl. 1991, Goldhawk Productions
Author / Creator
Nicholas Claxton, fl. 1991
Date Published / Released
1991, 2012
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Under the Sun
Speaker / Narrator
Nicholas Claxton, fl. 1991
Topic / Theme
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1948 -- ), Palestinian, Jewish-Israeli, Arab, Wounds and injuries, Rebellions, Military occupation, Military personnel, Children, Civilian war casualties, Arab-Israeli Conflicts, 1949-, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1993-, Arab-Israeli War, 1948, History, Politics & Policy, Documentation of Crimes, Ethnography, Palestinians, Israelis, Arabs, Jews, Achuar-Shiwiar
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Copyright © 2013 BBC Worldwide
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