1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911146544403321

Autore

Bashiri Iraj

Titolo

The History of the civil war in Tajikistan / / Iraj Bashiri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-64469-288-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages)

Collana

Central Asian studies

Disciplina

958.6086

Soggetti

HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia

Tajikistan History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The War Year -- The Emirate of Bukhara -- The Sovietization of Tajikistan -- End of an Era -- The Government of National Reconciliation -- Reinventing the Wheel -- The Path to Recovery.

Sommario/riassunto

"The book is about the Tajiks, a Muslim community in Central Asia, their Sovietization, and their bloody civil war. The conflict was about the type of constitution that Tajikistan should adopt: Communist, secular, or based on the Islamic Shari'a. The parliamentary discussions aimed at preventing a war, and the armed struggle that ensued are both discussed in detail. Events are seen through the eyes of Safarali Kenjaev, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Tajikistan at the time. The volume also includes the author's impressions and interviews gathered during his year-long residence (1993) in war-torn Tajikistan as IREX's man in Dushanbe."--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911142886203321

Autore

Koivukoski Toivo

Titolo

After the last man : excurses to the limits of the technological system / / Toivo Koivukoski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2008

ISBN

1-282-49330-2

9786612493300

0-7391-3017-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Disciplina

601

Soggetti

Technology - Philosophy

Technology - Social aspects

Technology and civilization

Civilization, Modern - 21st century - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; By Way of an Introduction; Sect. 1. Thinking Technology to its Ends; Sect. 2. From a Posthistorical Worldview; Sect. 3. Experiments in Posthumanism; Sect 4. Technological Imperium andIts Limits; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

The meditations in this book map out the hypertextual pathways of our global techonological system, looking for its limits and ours, by drawing on the philosophy of German idealism and Homeric and pre-Socratic views on identity, substance, hospitality, and homecoming.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911138366603321

Autore

Lacy Karyn R. <1965->

Titolo

Blue-chip Black : Race, class, and status in the new Black middle class / / Karyn Lacy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007

ISBN

9786612772184

9781282772182

128277218X

9780520251151

0520251156

9781429482288

1429482281

9780520940697

0520940695

9781433708565

1433708566

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Collana

George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies

Disciplina

305.896/0730722

Soggetti

African Americans - Social conditions - 1975-

African Americans - Race identity

Middle class - United States

Social status - United States

African Americans - Washington Region - Social conditions

African Americans - Race identity - Washington Region

Middle class - Washington Region

Social status - Washington Region

United States Race relations Case studies

Washington Region Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Defining the Post-Integration



Black Middle Classes -- 2. Social Organization in Washington's Suburbia -- 3. Public Identities: Managing Race in Public Spaces -- 4. Status-Based Identities: Protecting and Reproducing Middle-Class Status -- 5. Race- and Class-Based Identities: Strategic Assimilation in Middle-Class Suburbia -- 6. Suburban Identities: Building Alliances with Neighbors -- Conclusion -- Appendix: A Recipe for Studying the Black Middle Class -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, ranging from lower-middle class to middle-middle class to upper-middle class. Focusing on the latter two, Lacy explores an increasingly important social and demographic group: middle-class blacks who live in middle-class suburbs where poor blacks are not present. These "blue-chip black" suburbanites earn well over fifty thousand dollars annually and work in predominantly white professional environments. Lacy examines the complicated sense of identity that individuals in these groups craft to manage their interactions with lower-class blacks, middle-class whites, and other middle-class blacks as they seek to reap the benefits of their middle-class status.