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- Contemporary Ethiopian is, without question, facing enormous challenges. At the core of these challenges lay a state-building process major constituencies and elite groups were either alienated from, forced to acquiesce to, or coopted into. Unable to derive political legitimacy from democratic participation, successive governments largely relied on coercion and neopatrimonialism,...
- Keyword:
- citizenship, managing diversity, constitutional law, law, states' rights, Ethiopia, political science, consociationalism, federalism, democratization, constitutionalism, intersectionality, and ethnic federalism
- Subject:
- Law and Political Science
- Creator:
- Dr. Juweria Ali, Loid Taye, Dr. Solomon Negussie, Melhik A. Bekele, Fowsia Abdulkadir, Dr. Christophe Van der Beken, Rediet Baye Ayalew, Professor Thomas Geraghty, Prof. Dr. Adeno Addis, Teguadda Alebachew, Dr. Abchu Wassihun, Dr. Mulugeta Mengist Ayalew, Prof. Dr. Assefa Fiseha, Dr. Mizanie Abate Tadesse, Dr. Getachew Assefa Wodemariam, Dr. Semir Yusuf, Abduletif Kedir Idris, Dr. Aberra Degefa, Kokebe Wolde Jemaneh, Dr. Kalkidan Negash Obse, Dr. Abadir M. Ibrahim, Dr. Zemalek Ayitenew Ayele, Dr. Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha, Dr. Semeneh Ayalew Asfaw, Dr. Abdi Jibril, Dr. Sossina M. Haile, Dr. Tigist Shewarega Hussen, Dr. Berihun Adugna Gebeye, Dr. Adem K. Abebe, Dr. Mohammed Dejan Assen, Dr. Zelalem Mogessie Teferra, Gossaye Ayele, Dr. Yitayew Alemayehu, Dr. Shimelis Mulugeta Kene, and Dr. Sisay Alemahu Yeshanew
- Contributor:
- Mezgebu Tesema (cover art) and May Malone (cover design)
- Owner:
- Basia Kapolka
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Libraries and Northwestern University Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/15/2022
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-22
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- ISBN 978-1-954984-06-6
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- Description:
- We all—users, businesses, governments, and the general public—expect internet platform companies, like Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon to govern their users. Without platform governance, we all experience disasters like foreign election interference, vaccine misinformation, counterfeiting, and even genocide. Unfortunately, the platform companies have failed. To this day, despite the lessons from...
- Keyword:
- technology, democracy, platform governance, and social media
- Creator:
- Paul Gowder
- Owner:
- Paul Anthony Gowder
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/04/2023
- Date Modified:
- 08/04/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-08-03
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI 10.1017/9781108975438
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- Description:
- At her first press conference, Eleanor Roosevelt, uncertain of her role as hostess or leader, passed a box of candied grapefruit peel to the thirty-five women journalists. Nearly sixty years later, Hillary Clinton, an accomplished professional woman and lawyer, tried to mollify her critics by handing out her chocolate-chip cookie...
- Keyword:
- Women's Studies and Journalism and Communication
- Creator:
- Beasley, Maurine H.
- Owner:
- Institutional Repository Administrator
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/11/2023
- Date Modified:
- 08/29/2023
- Date Created:
- 2005
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Paper ISBN: 9780810123120 and eBook ISBN: 9780810162341
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- Description:
- Winner, 2012 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award Women of the Washington Press argues that for nearly two centuries women journalists have persisted in their efforts to cover politics in the nation’s capital in spite of blatant prejudice and restrictive societal attitudes. They have been held back by the...
- Keyword:
- Women's Studies and Journalism and Communication
- Creator:
- Beasley, Maurine H.
- Owner:
- Institutional Repository Administrator
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/11/2023
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN: 9780810166141 and Paper ISBN: 9780810125711
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- Description:
- When Abigail Adams made her famous plea to John Adams to "remember the ladies," the role of advocacy on behalf of U.S. gender equality began its rocky and still uncompleted journey. In Women and the Press, Patricia Bradley examines the tensions that have arisen over the course of this journey...
- Keyword:
- Women's Studies and Journalism and Communication
- Creator:
- Bradley, Patricia
- Owner:
- Institutional Repository Administrator
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/11/2023
- Date Created:
- 2005
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN: 9780810162327 and Paper ISBN: 9780810123137
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- Description:
- In Spoiling the Stories, Tamar Merin presents the as yet untold story of the rise of prose by Israeli women, while further exploring and expanding the gendered models of literary influence in modern Hebrew literature. The theoretical idea upon which this book is based is that of intersexual dialogue, a...
- Keyword:
- Literary Criticism, Women's Studies, and Jewish and Holocaust Studies
- Creator:
- Merin, Tamar
- Owner:
- Institutional Repository Administrator
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/11/2023
- Date Created:
- 2016
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN: 9780810133723, Paper ISBN: 9780810133709, and Cloth ISBN: 9780810133716
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- Description:
- Situated within motherhood studies, this edited volume is at the interdisciplinary intersection of literature, life writing, gender, (im)migration, refugee, and cultural studies. Contributors examine literary fiction, memoirs, and children’s literature. The borders that displaced mothers face are examined through frameworks of postcolonialism, nationalism, feminism, and diaspora studies.
- Keyword:
- Motherhood -- Cross-cultural studies --Conditions sociales Motherhood-- Motherhood in literature -- Motherhood in motion pictures -- Women immigrants in literature -- Women immigrants in motion pictures -- Women immigrants -- Social conditions Women refugees -- Social conditions
- Subject:
- Motherhood, Women immigrants, Cross-cultural studies, Women immigrants in motion pictures, Women refugees--Social conditions, Motherhood in motion pictures, Motherhood in literature, and Women immigrants in literature
- Creator:
- Lombard, Maria (ed)
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- Lexington Books
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- Dunsky weaves historical background and data with the everyday narratives of Palestinian farmers, scientists, professors, writers, entrepreneurs, cultural initiators, and artists in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi calls the book “meticulously reported” and an “uplifting but gritty book.”
- Keyword:
- Palestine -- Biography Palestine -- Social conditions Palestinian Arabs Social conditions Middle East -- Palestine
- Creator:
- Dunsky, Marda
- Owner:
- Iman Magdy Khamis
- Publisher:
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Modified:
- 05/18/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and During the antebellum period, slave owners weaponized southern Black joy to argue for enslavement, propagating images of “happy darkies.” In contrast, abolitionists wielded sorrow by emphasizing racial oppression. Both arguments were so effective that a political uneasiness on the subject still lingers. In The Politics of Black Joy, Lindsey Stewart...
- Keyword:
- Frederick Douglass, racial violence, Zora Neale Hurston, southern mythmaking, emancipatory politics, Black joy, segregation, public sphere, and W. E. B. Du Bois
- Subject:
- Philosophy and Literary criticism
- Creator:
- Stewart, Lindsey
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/16/2023
- Date Modified:
- 03/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-4411-8, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-4412-5, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-4413-2
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- Description:
- An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Miriam Felton-Dansky’s Viral Performance proposes the concept of the viral as an essential means of understanding socially engaged and transmedial performance practices since the mid-twentieth century.
- Keyword:
- political theater, digital media, media, viral transmission, Artaudian, and performing arts
- Subject:
- Performing arts
- Creator:
- Felton-Dansky, Miriam
- Owner:
- Kirsten Markusic
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Modified:
- 01/25/2023
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Alternate Identifier:
- eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3717-2, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3715-8, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3716-5