KIA Literary Agency was founded in 2002 in Tehran with the aim of promoting and supporting fine literary works in all forms throughout the world. It brings about opportunities for authors, illustrators, publishers, translators, and those involved in this field to meet their counterparts. And at the same time, it introduces them to the world and will inform them of all the related events which take place in the world of art and literature.
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This book examines the Thatcher government's attempt to revolutionise Britain's pensions system in the 1980s and create a nation of risk-taking savers with an individual stake in capitalism. Drawing upon recently-released archival records, it shows how the ideas motivating these reforms journeyed from the writings of neoliberal intellectuals into government and became the centrepiece of a plan to abolish significant parts of the UK's welfare state and replace these with privatised personal pensions. Revealing a government that veered between political caution and radicalism, the book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolutionary changes that ministers salvaged from the wreckage of their reforms. The book contributes to understanding of policy change, Thatcherism, and international neoliberalism by showing how major reforms to social security could reflect neoliberal thought and yet profoundly disappoint their architects.
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Emigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left? Marjory Harper, whose knowledge is grounded in a deep understanding of the local records, maps out the many factors which worked together to cause this massive diaspora. After an opening section where the author sets the Scottish experience within the context of the rest of the British Isles, the book then divides the country geographically, starting with the Highlands, then coastal Scotland, and the urban Lowland highlighting in turn the factors that particularly influenced each of these areas. Harper then discusses the organised religious and political movements that encouraged emigration. By interweaving personal stories with statistical evidence Harper brings to life the reality behind the dramatic historical migration.
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This quick reference book explains what personal care is, why it is necessary, which competencies personal care workers require, and how to safely and professionally care for, engage, and support people in need of care and their relatives in their daily lives. Target Group: Personal care workers, geriatric nurses
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Questions of identity trigger controversial and highly emotional discussions in the political and social debate. The positions range from radically emancipatory perspectives to authoritarian and restorative efforts on the far right wing of politics. Liberal democracies are now opening up – slowly – as identity- and gender-sensitive forums. Opposite them are the 'new ethics' of illiberal democracies and totalitarian states that are aimed at ethnic homogeneity and gender uniformity. But that's not to say that there is unity in the liberal settings on the necessary degree of identity politics. Both language and gender politics are deeply controversial. Do we need an 'identity' and, if so, which one or how many? Can the identity debate be extended by means of other concepts?
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Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The volume introduces new perspectives on the intellectual trajectories of well-known figures and critical activists including C. L. R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell. This biographical approach brings a vivid and distinctive lens to bear on how racialised social and political worlds were negotiated and experienced by these revolutionary figures, and on historic black radical engagements with left political movements, in the wake of the Russian Revolution.
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Der Protagonist dieses Romans, Don Ramón Villaamil, ist ein ins 19. Jahrhundert transportierter Don Quijote, der in verzweifeltem, tragikomischem Kampf um die Würde seiner Person der Korruption und Günstlingswirtschaft spanischer Prägung schließlich unterliegt. Der ehemalige Beamte der Steuerbehörde ist arbeitslos und versucht vergeblich, durch Bittbriefe eine neue Stellung zu erhalten, da ihm nur noch zwei Monate Arbeitszeit fehlen, um eine bescheidene Pension beziehen zu können. Seine Gattin, Doña Pura, frönt ihrem eigenen Interesse, der Oper. Ihre ledige Schwester Milagros, eine heruntergekommene Soubrette, lebt ebenfalls im Haushalt und „führt die Küche“. Die Tochter von Doña Pura und Don Ramón, Abelarda, die „Unbedeutende“, ist eine unscheinbare Person, die ihre einzige Chance darin sieht, einen ebenso farblosen Herren namens Ponce zu ehelichen, auf den eine kleine Erbschaft wartet. Den drei Frauen gemeinsam ist der Spitzname ›Miau‹, „denn sie haben so eine Fisonomie im Gesicht wie Katzen“, erklärt ein Schulfreund dem Luisito, Enkel von Don Ramón und Doña Pura, den man mit diesem Spitznamen in der Schule quält. Der anständige und ehrliche Don Ramón bleibt ohne Stellung, denn „Anständigkeit bedeutet manchmal dasselbe wie Dummheit“. Miau ist einer der frühen europäischen Romane, in denen der Einzelne der seelenlosen modernen Massenbürokratie entgegengestellt wird.
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Insanity, identity and empire examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular attention to gender, ethnicity and class as categories of analysis, reminding us of the varied journeys of immigrants to the colonies and of how and where they stopped, for different reasons, inside the social institutions of the period. It is about their stories of mobility, how these were told and produced inside institutions for the insane, and how, in the telling, colonial identities were asserted and formed. Having engaged with the structural imperatives of empire and with the varied imperial meanings of gender, sexuality and medicine, historians have considered the movements of travellers, migrants, military bodies and medical personnel, and 'transnational lives'. This book examines an empire-wide discourse of 'madness' as part of this inquiry.
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»Eleutheria« (Freiheit) ist das erste Theaterstück, das Samuel Beckett Ende 1940 geschrieben hat. Als er dem französischen Regisseur Roger Blin dieses und sein zweites Stück, »Warten auf Godot«, zur Aufführung anbot, entschied sich Blin für das zweite, weniger darstellerreiche Stück. Die Uraufführung 1953 war ein großer Erfolg, und Beckett zog daraufhin »Eleutheria« zurück; es wurde bis heute nicht aufgeführt. Victor, der Held der Geschichte und der unglückliche Sohn, hat seine bourgeoise Familie, Mutter und Vater Krap, verlassen. Dadurch aber, daß die beiden Schauplätze des Stückes, Victors Pension und der Krapsche Salon, nebeneinanderliegen, ineinander übergehen, gleichzeitig zu sehen sind, bleibt jederzeit ›gegenwärtig‹, was der verlorene Sohn tut, wie im Salon ›andererseits‹ recht merkwürdige Besucher vor sich hin und aneinander vorbei räsonieren. Im zweiten Akt in Victors Pension erfährt er durch seine Mutter und seine Verlobte vom Tode seines Vaters, und die Handlung wird nun immer absurder, um schließlich im dritten Akt einem verrückten Höhepunkt entgegenzusteuern. Zwar sind in dieser brillanten, bitterbösen Familienstudie Situationen, Figuren und Themen angelegt, die in den folgenden Werken ausgefeilt, ergänzt oder verkürzt wiederkehren, nicht aber derart jugendlich impulsiv und surreal wie in diesem ersten Theaterstück von Samuel Beckett."
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The book portrays men between the ages of 23 and 65, who work in caring professions in different areas, such as nursing homes, acute care clinics, home care, outpatient care and psychiatry, providing readers with an insight into their biographies. The protagonists recount in a candid way what motivated their career choice. Did they become aware of it through their environment or through personal experience? Which barriers did they have to overcome in the process of choosing a career? What do they think of their role as an exotic species in female-dominated teams? At which point did they begin to question the prevailing norms of gender identities?And what did that do for their own idea of masculinity? These portraits are enriched by five personal essays written by representatives from the Swiss healthcare sector who have been in the caring profession for a long time.
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Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, told from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It offers a challenge to the self-help promise of a clutter-free life, lived in a permanent state of efficiency and flow. The book reveals how contemporary projections of the good, productive life rely on images of failure. Riffing on the aphorism 'less is more' - a dominant refrain in present day productivity advice - it tells stories about streamlining, efficiency and tidiness over a time period of around 100 years. By focusing on the shadows of productivity advice, Neither use nor ornament seeks to unravel the moral narratives that hold individuals to account for their inefficiencies and muddles.
