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Desistance, Resistance, and Normalcy (International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation)
by Tea Fredriksson Robin GålnanderThis book provides a nuanced, critical analysis of desistance from crime, particularly through the lens of women’s experiences. It develops desistance theory by interrogating the concept of normalcy, highlighting how normative societal expectations cause harms on desistance journeys. Through this lens, the book uncovers tensions between desistance as a journey towards societal (re)integration and the resistance desisters experience when encountering state institutions and social norms. Being no longer part of the old life, and not yet part of the new, desisters face both familiar and unfamiliar harms.A key conceptual contribution is the book’s critique of normalcy as both an aspirational and oppressive goal. The work illustrates how the pursuit of mainstream inclusion can expose desisters to both new and continuous harms. These include surveillance and stigma, social and literal death, gendered violence, and economic precarity. By engaging with feminist and temporal criminological theories, the book sheds light on how desisters’ experiences reveal the dark side of normalcy, calling into question whether its pursuit is wholly desirable.With its focus on the intersections of gender, stigma, and social control, this work advances academic debates on desistance, proposing a rethinking of how criminal justice systems and support frameworks engage with those transitioning out of criminalized lifestyles. It will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, desistance, gender studies, recovery from addiction, and to practitioners and policy-makers in these fields.
Desistance Transitions and the Impact of Probation (International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation)
by Sam KingMoving away from criminal behaviour can be fraught with difficulties. Often it can involve leaving behind old habits, customs, and even friends, while at the same time adopting a new way of life. How do individuals go about making a decision to give up crime? How do they plan to sustain this decision? And in what ways does probation help? This book explores these questions. Based on in-depth interviews with a group of men under probation supervision, Sam King investigates the factors associated with making a decision to desist from crime. The book examines strategies for desistance, and explores the factors that individuals consider when they are thinking about how they will desist. In doing so, the book sheds new light on existing understandings of desistance from crime and helps to develop our understandings of the role that individuals play in constructing their own desistance journeys. This book also highlights the role of probation in this process, offering a timely and critical review of the nature of probation under the New Labour government in the UK between 1997-2010. The findings indicate that we should allow Probation Officers greater autonomy and discretion within their roles, and that we should free them from the bureaucracy of risk assessment and targets. Moreover, the book warns against the potential fragmentation of community supervision. As such, the book will be of interest to criminology students, researchers, academics, policymakers and practitioners, particularly those who work with ex-offenders in the community.
Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, And America
by Dennis McNally"A blockbuster of a biography . . . absolutely magnificent."--San Francisco ChronicleJack Kerouac--"King of the Beats," unwitting catalyst for the '60s counterculture, groundbreaking author--was a complex and compelling man: a star athlete with a literary bent; a spontaneous writer vilified by the New Critics but adored by a large, youthful readership; a devout Catholic but aspiring Buddhist; a lover of freedom plagued by crippling alcoholism.Desolate Angel follows Kerouac from his childhood in the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, to his early years at Columbia where he met Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, beginning a four-way friendship that would become a sociointellectual legend. In rich detail and with sensitivity, Dennis McNally recounts Kerouac's frenetic cross-country journeys, his experiments with drugs and sexuality, his travels to Mexico and Tangier, the sudden fame that followed the publication of On the Road, the years of literary triumph, and the final near-decade of frustration and depression. Desolate Angel is a harrowing, compassionate portrait of a man and an artist set in an extraordinary social context. The metamorphosis of America from the Great Depression to the Kennedy administration is not merely the backdrop for Kerouac's life but is revealed to be an essential element of his art . . . for Kerouac was above all a witness to his exceptional times.
A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp
by Daniel Sayers<p>In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape—2,000 square miles of undeveloped and unforgiving wetlands, peat bogs, impenetrable foliage, and dangerous creatures. It was also a protective refuge for marginalized individuals, including Native Americans, African-American maroons, free African Americans, and outcast Europeans. <p>In the first thorough archaeological examination of this unique region, Daniel Sayers exposes and unravels the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery. He develops an analytical framework based on the complex interplay between alienation, diasporic exile, uneven geographical development, and modes of production to argue that colonialism and slavery inevitably created sustained critiques of American capitalism.</p>
Désolé, tu n’es pas une princesse Disney: la réalité des rencontres amoureuses pour les femmes
by Dr Ethan Gregory Jenny VanmaldeghemMesdames, pendant trop longtemps, vous avez été bercées d'illusions, persuadées que vous alliez vivre un conte de fées, à condition de trouver l'homme idéal. Le Dr Ethan Gregory vous propose un guide qui vous aidera à définir les barrières qui peuvent vous empêcher de vivre une relation harmonieuse. Désolé, tu n'es pas une princesse Disney vous propose de faire des choix et de mettre vos croyances actuelles à rude épreuve. Le Dr G. vous donnera des conseils sur la manière dont les hommes interprètent vos comportements pour que vous puissiez prendre le contrôle dans le jeu de la séduction. La méthode Ethan Gregory est une combinaison qui mêle confiance, préparation et responsabilité. Vous apprendrez pourquoi les règles et les normes qui placent les femmes en position soumise et passive dans leurs relations vous mènent droit à l'échec. Entrez dans la méthode EGA et vous vous ouvrirez à de nouvelles rencontres et de nouvelles possibilités. Si vous avez aimé les films « Ce que pensent les hommes » et « Modern Romance », vous allez adorer ce livre ! L'aspect « c'est vous qui décidez » de ce livre ajoute une bonne dose d'humour que les autres livres n'ont pas. Le Dr Ethan Gregory reste proche de la réalité. Ce livre est destiné à des femmes averties. En véritable gentleman, le Dr G ne termine pas son livre sans être sûr de combler vos besoins. Ce livre vous fera rire, rougir et surtout il vous fera changer votre point de vue. Vous apprendrez à laisser tomber le conte de fées et trouver un vrai partenaire. Il y a des tas d'hommes pleins de qualités qui attendent d'être considérés comme des partenaires potentiels. Laissez le Dr G vous aider à briser le sortilège et rappelez-vous : vous êtes la priorité ! Achetez ce livre ainsi que les autres à la boutique officielle du Dr Ethan Gregory et inscrivez-vous à sa newsletter hebdomadaire en visitant son site
Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen; and the War America Can't Win
by Elaine ShannonA story of the drug wars, U.S. involvement, and government corruption. The story that dominates this book is the February 1985 disappearance and murder in Mexico of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. No event in modern times has been so traumatic for those involved in drug law enforcement or so revealing of the strengths and weaknesses of the American drug policy.
The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines
by Marie BrennerAWARD-WINNING VANITY FAIR WRITER Marie Brenner shares a remarkable depiction of New York—a city in crisis—based on new, behind-the-scenes reporting that captures the resilience, peril, and compassion of the early days of the Covid pandemic.In the spring of 2020, COVID-19 arrived in New York City.Before long, America’s largest metropolis was at war against a virus that mercilessly swept through its five boroughs. It became apparent that if Covid wasn’t somehow halted, the death count in New York alone would be in the hundreds of thousands. And if New York’s hospitals failed, what chance did the rest of the country have?Brenner, having been granted unprecedented 18-month access to the entire New York-Presbyterian hospital system, tells the story of the doctors, nurses, residents, researchers, and suppliers who tried to save lives across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn and the northern periphery of the city. Drawing on more than 200 interviews, Brenner takes us inside secure ICU units, sealed operating rooms, locked executive suites, unknown basement workshops, and makeshift clinics to provide extraordinary witness to the war as it was waged on the front line. But The Desperate Hours is more than a thrilling account of medicine under extreme pressure. It is an intimate portrait of courageous men and women coming together in their devotion to duty, their families, each other, and the city they loved more than any other.
Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945–1970 (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine #7)
by Ali HaggettAlthough the figure of the ‘desperate housewife’ is familiar to us, Haggett suggests that many women in the 1950s and ’60s led satisfying lives and that gender roles, while very different, were often seen as equal.
The Desperate People
by Farley MowatMowat's tribute to the last survivor's of the Ihalmiut, People of the Deer - brave, proud and now fighting to save themselves from extinction.
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
by Andrew ScullA sweeping history of American psychiatry—from prisons to hospitals to the lab to the analyst’s couch—by the award-winning author of Madness in Civilization. For more than two hundred years, disturbances of the mind—the sorts of things that were once called “madness”—have been studied and treated by the medical profession. Mental illness, some insist, is a disease like any other, whose origins can be identified and from which one can be cured. But is this true? In this masterful account of America’s quest to understand and treat everything from anxiety to psychosis, one of the most provocative thinkers writing about psychiatry today sheds light on its tumultuous past. Desperate Remedies brings together a galaxy of mind doctors working in and out of institutional settings: psychologists and psychoanalysts, neuroscientists, and cognitive behavioral therapists, social reformers and advocates of mental hygiene, as well as patients and their families desperate for relief. Andrew Scull begins with the birth of the asylum in the reformist zeal of the 1830s and carries us through to the latest drug trials and genetic studies. He carefully reconstructs the rise and fall of state-run mental hospitals to explain why so many of the mentally ill are now on the street and why so many of those whose bodies were experimented on were women. In his compelling closing chapters, he reveals how drug companies expanded their reach to treat a growing catalog of ills, leading to an epidemic of over-prescribing while deliberately concealing debilitating side effects. Carefully researched and compulsively readable, Desperate Remedies is a definitive account of America’s long battle with mental illness that challenges us to rethink our deepest assumptions about who we are and how we think and feel.
Desperately Seeking Sisterhood: Still Challenging And Building
by Magdalene Ang-Lygate;Chris Corrin;Millsom S. HenryFirst Published in 1997. A collection of contributions from feminist researchers who attended the annual Women's Studies Network WSN conference in June 1995. Emphasizing theory, practice and campaigning, chapters seek to address contemporary issues from different perspectives - theoretical, practical and strategic.
Desperately Seeking the Audience
by Ien AngMillions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet, despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture, our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience, Ien Ang asks why we understand so little about its nature, and argues that our ignorance arises directly out of the biases inherent in prevailing official knowledge about it. She sets out to deconstruct the assumptions of this official knowledge by exploring the territory where it is mainly produced - the television institutions.Ang draws on Foucault's theory of power/knowledge to scrutinize television's desperate search for the audience, and to identify differences and similarities in the approaches of American commercial television and European public service television to their audiences. She looks carefully at recent developments in the field of ratings research, in particular the controversial introduction of the `people meter' as an instrument for measuring the television audience. By defining the limits and limitations of these institutional procedures of knowledge production, Ien Ang opens up new avenues for understanding television audiences. Her ethnographic perspective on the television audience gives new insights into our television culture, with the audience seen not as an object to be controlled, but as an active social subject, engaging with television in a variety of cultural and creative ways.
Despite All Adversities: Spanish-American Queer Cinema (SUNY series, Genders in the Global South)
by Andrés Lema-Hincapié; Debra A. Castillo2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleDespite All Adversities examines a representative selection of notable queer films by Spanish America's most important directors since the 1950s. Each chapter focuses on a single film and offers rich and thoughtful new interpretations by a prominent scholar. The book explores films from across the region, including Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's and Juan Carlos Tabío's Fresa y chocolate (Strawberry and Chocolate, 1993), Marcelo Piñeyro's Plata quemada (Burnt Money, 2000), Barbet Schroeder's La Virgen de los Sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins, 2000), Lucía Puenzo's XXY (XXY, 2007), Francisco J. Lombardi's No se lo digas a nadie (Don't Tell Anyone, 1998), Arturo Ripstein's El lugar sin límites (Hell Without Limits, 1978), among others. A survey of recent lesbian-themed Mexican films is also included.
Despite The Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives In Good Schools (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities Ser.)
by Amanda E. Lewis John B. DiamondOn the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that plagues schools throughout America: why is it that even when all of the circumstances seem right, black and Latino students continue to lag behind their peers? Through five years' worth of interviews and data-gathering at Riverview, John Diamond and Amanda Lewis have created a rich and disturbing portrait of the achievement gap that persists more than fifty years after the formal dismantling of segregation. As students progress from elementary school to middle school to high school, their level of academic achievement increasingly tracks along racial lines, with white and Asian students maintaining higher GPAs and standardized testing scores, taking more advanced classes, and attaining better college admission results than their black and Latino counterparts. Most research to date has focused on the role of poverty, family stability, and other external influences in explaining poor performance at school, especially in urban contexts. Diamond and Lewis instead situate their research in a suburban school, and look at what factors within the school itself could be causing the disparity. Most crucially, they challenge many common explanations of the 'racial achievement gap,' exploring what race actually means in this situation, and why it matters. An in-depth study with far-reaching consequences, Despite the Best Intentions revolutionizes our understanding of both the knotty problem of academic disparities and the larger question of the color line in American society.
Despotism, Social Evolution, and Differential Reproduction: A Darwinian View Of History (Evolutionary Foundations Of Human Behavior Ser.)
by L. Betzig Laura"Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," thus ended Darwin's Origin of Species. For many years, the book provoked a flood of argument, but yielded little evidence. In the first century after the book's publication, virtually no one tested Darwin's theory against the evidence of human history. Now that tide has changed. Laura Betzig challenges the proposition that the evolved end of human life is its reproduction by presenting the literature on conflict resolution from over a hundred societies. The research results presented in Despotism and Differential Reproduction convincingly uphold Darwin's prophecy.A basic premise behind research has always been that understanding the way things are should contribute to our ability to change them to the way we would like them to be. This idea forms the basis for Betzig's research--she sets out to explain how things really are by leading the reader through the historical and natural conditions that have promoted despotism in the hopes that this might eventually eradicate it. She begins with the idea that reproduction is the end of human life, and that all forms of power and strength are exploited in reaching this end. In this way, Betzig shows with startling clarity how power corrupts and how despotic governments continue to exist in the world today. Engaging--even at times railing against--existing literature on human and social evolution, such as that of Rousseau and Marx, Betzig asserts herself as a formidable and undeniable voice in this debate.Since Darwin's monumental work, more has been said about why questions regarding how human history has been shaped by natural history should not even be asked, than has been said in an effort to answer them. This work puts a stop to that by testing the Darwinian hypothesis and finding that he was right: light has in fact been shed on human political and reproductive history. Controversial and creative, this book makes no apologies for its bold messages and interdisciplinary boundary blending and addresses a topic of continuing interest and importance.
Despues del Interludio
by Ellyn PeirsonEl libro Después del Interludio explora el destino, la relación entre hermanos, el impacto en el destino de la dinámica de la familia de origen, dónde estábamos antes de nacer, a dónde vamos después de abandonar el planeta, lugares delgados, sueños, oraciones y la importancia de intención inflexible. El libro aborda el propósito y la pregunta personal más difícil de todas las preguntas personales: ¿por qué? Después del Interludio conversa con la existencia. El libro Despues del Interludio es una expresión de cada persona. Todos los seres humanos conocen el miedo. Todos los seres humanos pierden miembros de la familia. Todos los seres humanos cuestionan. Todos los seres humanos están heridos y tienen defectos. Y, sobre todo, todos los seres humanos vienen con un destino para ser descubierto y vivido y una capacidad monumental para amar. Las heridas que ocurren en el camino son parte del contrato que asumimos al venir aquí, siguiendo nuestras propias nubes de gloria de Wordsworthian. Si venimos una o varias veces es un punto discutible. El punto de la vida, según Despues del interludio, es ahora y lo que hacemos con todas las novedades de nuestras vidas. Después del Interludio es muy personal y, sin embargo, tocará a los lectores en sus creencias y miedos personales. Con referencias a los filósofos platónicos, Julián de Norwich, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, C. S. Lewis, Annie Dillard, Mary Oliver y Chet Raymo, el argumento de que el propósito de la vida es el avance del alma es llevado a casa. Y se lleva a casa con una apertura que permite al lector probarlo por tamaño, en lugar de insistir en la adopción o el rechazo.
Después del #MeToo: Dilemas del feminismo en la era digital
by Ayme RomanUn balance del movimiento #MeToo cinco años después de su eclosión «He escrito este ensayo, en algunos puntos muy crítico, con la esperanza de que pueda contribuir a abrir nuevas líneas de reflexión.» A pesar del optimismo entusiasta inicial, los últimos años nos han demostrado que todos los movimientos sociales adolecen de lagunas y ángulos muertos. Además, los movimientos contemporáneos de justicia social se enfrentan a nuevas dificultades características de la era digital. A lo largo de este ensayo, la activista y divulgadora feminista Ayme Román pone en valor los aspectos positivos de su legado pero también nos señala las limitaciones y obstáculos a los que se han enfrentado el #MeToo y el activismo feminista actual. Nadie pone en cuestión que el #MeToo representa un paso de gigante para el feminismo a todos los niveles, pero tal y como se argumenta en este lúcido ensayo, aún queda mucho camino por recorrer y paradigmas por modificar.
Destabilising Masculinism: Men’s Friendships and Social Change
by Brittany RalphThis book explores how two generations of relatively privileged Australian men have navigated the complex terrain of same-gender friendship across their lives, to offer both empirically unique and theoretically significant insights into the mechanics of social change in masculinities. Applying a feminist poststructuralist lens to data from in-depth interviews with 14 pairs of fathers and sons, it details how masculinist discourses of emotion and intimacy have governed the participants’ friendship practices at three chronological timepoints: fathers’ early lives and later lives, and sons’ early lives. A clear but complicated shift emerges, such that the commitment to stoicism and self-reliance dominant in the fathers’ early lives has given way to a growing embrace of intimacy and emotional expression within their and their son's contemporary same-gender friendships. Engaging with key debates in the field of critical studies on men and masculinities (CSMM), this book offers an alternative to the conceptualisation of this positive change as either representative of a holistic disintegration of hegemonic structures, or a superficial behavioural shift that is largely inconsequential to the gender order. Rather, it illustrates that the increasing influence of feminist, queer-inclusion and therapeutic discourse has destabilised masculinism in the context of men’s friendships, offering men an alternative subject position that allows care, expressiveness and intimacy. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Masculinity Studies.
Desterrados
by Bravo Alfredo Molano«Cuando mataron a Jaime Garzón admití que no podía regresar pronto, conseguí una mesa de trabajo grande, alé la pluma y comencé a escribir este libro. Al terminarlo comprendí agachando la cabeza en señal de profundo respeto que el drama de mi exilio, a pesar de sus dolores, es un pálido reflejo de la auténtica tragedia que viven a diario millones de colombianos desterrados, exiliados en su propio país. Creo, con ellos, que sólo un acuerdo político profundo permitirá echar las bases de una verdadera democracia; la guerra no tendría resultado distinto a la dictadura de los vencedores».Alfredo Molano
Destination Anthropocene: Science and Tourism in The Bahamas (Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics #7)
by Amelia MooreDestination Anthropocene documents the emergence of new travel imaginaries forged at the intersection of the natural sciences and the tourism industry in a Caribbean archipelago. Known to travelers as a paradise of sun, sand, and sea, The Bahamas is rebranding itself in response to the rising threat of global environmental change, including climate change. In her imaginative new book, Amelia Moore explores an experimental form of tourism developed in the name of sustainability, one that is slowly changing the way both tourists and Bahamians come to know themselves and relate to island worlds.
Destination China: Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era
by Pauline Leonard Angela LehmannThis book is a compelling account of China’s response to the increasing numbers of ‘foreigners’ in its midst, revealing a contradictory picture of welcoming civility, security anxiety and policy confusion. Over the last forty years, China’s position within the global migration order has been undergoing a remarkable shift. From being a nation most notable for the numbers of its emigrants, China has increasingly become a destination for immigrants from all points of the globe. What attracts international migrants to China and how are they received once they arrive? This timely volume explores this question in depth. Focusing on such diverse migrant communities as African traders in Guangzhou, Japanese call center workers in Dalian, migrant restaurateurs in Shanghai, marriage migrants on the Vietnamese borderlands, South Korean parents in Beijing, Europeans in Xiamen and Western professionals in Hong Kong, as well as the booming expansion of British and North American English language teachers across the nation, the accounts offered here reveal in intimate detail the motivations, experiences, and aspirations of the diversity of international migrants in China.
Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage
by Barbara Kirshenblatt-GimblettDestination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. She talks about how objects and people are made to "perform" their meaning for us by the very fact of being collected and exhibited, and about how specific techniques of display, not just the things shown, convey powerful messages. Her engaging analysis shows how museums compete with tourism in the production of "heritage. " To make themselves profitable, museums are marketing themselves as tourist attractions. To make locations into destinations, tourism is staging the world as a museum of itself. Both promise to deliver heritage. Although heritage is marketed as something old, she argues that heritage is actually a new mode of cultural production that gives a second life to dying ways of life, economies, and places. The book concludes with a lively commentary on the "good taste/bad taste" debate in the ephemeral "museum of the life world," where everyone is a curator of sorts and the process of converting life into heritage begins.
Destination Detroit: Discourses on the Refugee in a Post-Industrial City
by Rashmi LuthraDeindustrialized cities in the United States are at a particular crossroads when it comes to the contest over refugees. Do refugees represent opportunity or danger? These cities are in desperate need to stem population and resource loss, problems that an influx of refugees could seemingly help address. However, the cities are simultaneously dealing with local communities that are already feeling internally displaced by economic and technological flux. For these existing citizens, the prospect of incoming refugee populations can be perceived as a threat to financial, cultural, and personal security. Few U.S. locations provide a more vivid case study of this fight than Metro Detroit, where competing interest groups are waging war over the meaning of the figure of the refugee. This book dives deeply into the discourse on refugees occurring among various institutions in Metro Detroit. The way in which local institutions talk about refugees gives us vital clues as to how they are negotiating competing pressures and how the city overall is negotiating competing imperatives. Indeed, this local discourse gives us a crucial glimpse into how U.S. cities are defining and redefining themselves today. The figure of the refugee becomes a slate on which groups with varied interests write their stories, aspirations, and fears. Consequently, we can figure out from local refugee discourses the ongoing question of what it means to be a Metro Detroiter—and by extension, what it means to be a revitalizing U.S. city in this age.
Destination Elsewhere: Displaced Persons and Their Quest to Leave Postwar Europe
by Ruth BalintIn this unique "history from below," Destination Elsewhere chronicles encounters between displaced persons in Europe and the Allied agencies who were tasked with caring for them after the Second World War. The struggle to define who was a displaced person and who was not was a subject of intense debate and deliberation among humanitarians, international law experts, immigration planners, and governments. What has not adequately been recognized is that displaced persons also actively participated in this emerging refugee conversation. Displaced persons endured war, displacement, and resettlement, but these experiences were not defined by passivity and speechlessness. Instead, they spoke back, creating a dialogue that in turn helped shape the modern idea of the refugee. As Ruth Balint shows, what made a good or convincing story at the time tells us much about the circulation of ideas about the war, the Holocaust, and the Jews. Those stories depict the emerging moral and legal distinction between economic migrants and political refugees. They tell us about the experiences of women and children in the face of new psychological and political interventions into the family. Stories from displaced persons also tell us something about the enduring myth of the new world for people who longed to leave the old. Balint focuses on those persons whose storytelling skills became a major strategy for survival and escape out of the displaced persons' camps and out of the Europe. Their stories are brought to life in Destination Elsewhere, alongside a new history of immigration, statelessness, and the institution of the postwar family.
Destinations: Cultural Landscapes of Tourism (Routledge Advances in Tourism)
by Greg RingerThis book presents new directions both for tourism and cultural landscape studies in geography, crossing the traditional boundaries between the research of geographers and scholars of the tourism industry.Drawing on selected research from Europe, Southeast Asia, the Pacific and North America, the contributors combine perspectives in human geography and tourism to present cultural landscapes of tourist destinations as socially constructed places, examining the extent and manner by which tourism both establishes and falsifies local reality.The book addresses many critical themes which recent critiques in tourism studies focusing on the attitudes and behaviour of the tourist and on the industry as agents of social change have ignored, including the marginalization of the 'host' community, the privatization and commodification of local culture, and how tourism acts as both agent and process in the structure, identity and meaning of local places.