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On Wings of Diesel
Author | : Jamal J. Elias |
Publsiher | : Oneworld Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1851688110 |
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Illustrated with beautiful colour photos throughout, On Wings of Diesel takes us on a journey through the fascinating world of Pakistani truck decoration. Ornately adorned and considered as moving artA", these trucks - veritable roving exhibitions - depict all aspects of life and support a highly developed artisanal industry. Examining designs and motifs, the cultural significance of the practice, and the motivations of truck owners, Jamal J. Elias provides a unique window on Pakistan's complex society that addresses questions of culture and religion in an accessible and exciting way.
Under the Drones
Author | : Shahzad Bashir,Robert D. Crews |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2012-05-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674069787 |
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In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Understanding the complexity of life along the 1,600-mile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan can help America and its European allies realign their priorities in the region to address genuine problems, rather than fabricated ones. This volume explodes Western misunderstandings by revealing a land that abounds with human agency, perpetual innovation, and vibrant complexity. Through the work of historians and social scientists, the thirteen essays here explore the real and imagined presence of the Taliban; the animated sociopolitical identities expressed through traditions like Pakistani truck decoration; Sufism’s ambivalent position as an alternative to militancy; the long and contradictory history of Afghan media; and the simultaneous brutality and potential that heroin brings to women in the area. Moving past shifting conceptions of security, the authors expose the West’s prevailing perspective on the region as strategic, targeted, and alarmingly dehumanizing. Under the Drones is an essential antidote to contemporary media coverage and military concerns.
Matatu
Author | : Kenda Mutongi |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226471396 |
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Drive the streets of Nairobi and you are sure to see many matatus colorful minibuses that transport huge numbers of people around the city. Once ramshackle affairs held together with duct tape and wire, matatus today are name-brand vehicles maxed out with aftermarket detailing. They can be stately black or come in extravagant colors, sporting names, slogans, or entire tableaus, with airbrushed portraits of everyone from Kanye West to Barack Obama, of athletes, movie stars, or the most famous face of all: Jesus Christ. In this richly interdisciplinary book, Kenda Mutongi explores the history of the matatu from the 1960s to the present. As Mutongi shows, matatus offer a window onto many socioeconomic and political facets of late-twentieth-century Africa. In their diversity of idiosyncratic designs they express multiple and divergent aspects of Kenyan life including rapid urbanization, organized crime, entrepreneurship, social insecurity, the transition to democracy, chaos and congestion, popular culture, and many others at once embodying both Kenya's staggering social problems and the bright promises of its future. Offering a shining model of interdisciplinary analysis, Mutongi mixes historical, ethnographic, literary, linguistic, and economic approaches to tell the story of the matatu as a powerful expression of the entrepreneurial aesthetics of the postcolonial world.
Aisha s Cushion
Author | : Jamal J. Elias |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780674067394 |
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Westerners have a strong impression that Islam does not allow religious imagery. Elias corrects this view. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, he argues that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought in diverse areas such as optics, alchemy, dreaming, vehicle decoration, Sufi metaphysics.
Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1940
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Navy Department |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 940 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : LOC:00176563370 |
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Navy Department Appropriation Bill for 1940
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 2718 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105119525553 |
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