1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463576903321

Autore

Meeks Brian

Titolo

Critical interventions in Caribbean politics and theory / / Brian Meeks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-62674-067-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Caribbean studies series

Disciplina

320.9729

Soggetti

Political science - West Indies

Radicalism - West Indies

Neoliberalism - West Indies

Postcolonialism - West Indies

Electronic books.

West Indies Politics and government

Caribbean Area Politics and government

West Indies Colonial influence

Jamaica Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface: Dreaming to Change the World -- Part One. Theoretical Forays -- The Frontline : Valentino, Pablo Moses, and Caribbean Organic  Philosophy in the Seventies -- Reasoning with Caliban : A Critical Reading of Paget Henry's Caliban's Reason : Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy -- Arguments within What's Left of the Left : James, Watson, and  the Question of Method -- Michael Manley : Crossing the Contours of Charisma -- Part Two. Caribbean Questions -- Saving the Soul of the University -- Black Power Forty Years On -- Lloyd Best, "The People," and the Road Not Taken in 1970 -- Cuba from Due South -- Grenada, Once Again : Revisiting the 1983 Crisis and Collapse of the Grenada Revolution -- Part Three. Jamaican Journeys -- Reinventing the Jamaican Political System -- Imagining the Future : Rethinking the Political in Jamaica -- Caribbean Radical Traditions and the Turn in the Jamaican Moment -- The Dudus Events in Jamaica and



the Future of Caribbean Politics -- Jamaica on the Cusp of Fifty : Whither Nationalism and Sovereignty?

Sommario/riassunto

"These essays by Brian Meeks, a noted public intellectual in the Caribbean, reflect on Caribbean politics, particularly radical politics and ideologies in the postcolonial era. But his essays also explain the peculiarities of the contemporary neo-liberal period while searching for pathways beyond the current plight. In the first chapters, titled 'Theoretical Forays,' Meeks makes a conscious attempt to engage with contemporary Caribbean political thought at a moment of flux and search for a relevant theoretical language and style to both explicate the Caribbean's recent past and confront the difficult conditions of the early twenty-first century. The next part, 'Caribbean Questions,' both retrospective and biographical, retraces the author's own engagement with the University of the West Indies (UWI), the short-lived but influential Caribbean Black Power movement, the work of seminal Trinidadian thinker and activist Lloyd Best, Cuba's relationship with Jamaica, and the crisis and collapse of the Grenadian Revolution. As evident in its title, 'Jamaican Journeys,' the concluding section excerpts and extracts from a longer, more sustained engagement with Jamaican politics and society. Much of Meeks' argument builds around the notion that Jamaica faces a crucial moment, as the author seeks to chart and explain its convoluted political path and dismal economic performance over the past three decades. Meeks remains surprisingly optimistic as he suggests that despite the emptying of sovereignty in the increasingly globalized world, windows to enhanced human development might open through policies of greater democracy and popular inclusion"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457728803321

Autore

Noddings Nel

Titolo

Happiness and education / / Nel Noddings [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-107-13153-7

1-280-43367-1

0-511-17952-9

0-511-20349-7

0-511-06389-X

0-511-30647-4

0-511-49992-2

0-511-07235-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 308 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

370/.1

Soggetti

Education - Aims and objectives

Happiness

Moral education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-302) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 Happiness as an Aim of Life and Education; PART 2 Educating for Personal Life; PART 3 Educating for Public Life; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

When parents are asked what they want for their children, they usually answer that they want their children to be happy. Why, then, is happiness rarely mentioned as an aim of education? This book explores what we might teach if we were to take happiness seriously as an aim of education. It asks, first, what it means to be happy and, second, how we can help children to understand what happiness is. It notes that, to be truly happy, we have to develop a capacity for unhappiness and a willingness to alleviate the suffering of others. Criticizing the present almost exclusive emphasis on economic well-being and pleasure, it discusses the contributions of making a home, parenting, cherishing a



place, development of character, interpersonal growth, finding work that one loves, and participating in a democratic way of life. Finally, it explores ways in which to make schools and classrooms happy places.

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996336217503316

Titolo

Annales Series historia naturalis : anali za istrske in mediteranske študije = annali di studi istriani e mediterranei = annals of Istrian and Mediterranean studies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Koper, : Zgodovinsko društvo za južno Primorsko

ISSN

2591-1783

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

[E]

Soggetti

Natural history

Natural history - Istria (Croatia and Slovenia)

Natural history - Mediterranean Region

Periodicals.

Europe Istria

Mediterranean Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Sloveno

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910921848703321

Titolo

Shakespeare, il teatro dell'io : individuo, soggetto, testo / a cura di Silvia Bigliazzi, Rocco Coronato e Bianca del Villano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : Carocci, 2024

ISBN

978-88-290-2540-4

Descrizione fisica

405 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

Collana

Studi superiori ; 1447

Disciplina

822.33

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

822.33 SHAK/S 225

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia