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Book SynopsisPeace through Tourism considers the possibilities for tourism to contribute to efforts to unmask conflict and promote peace. This edited volume considers the intersections between tourism, peace, justice and sustainability through conceptual and empirical works surveying practices, problems and challenges all around the globe. It presents a complex and critical approach, arguing that peace through tourism is dialogic and not as simple as describing a few good niche segments of tourism.The pedagogies of peace represented here work to analyse structural violence associated with tourismsuch as in the dominance of neoliberal market imperatives over local or social economies; colonising, patriarchal and anthropocentric practices in tourism; and tourism's complex role in post-conflict settings. Analyses found here place scholars, industry and communities in conversation about building shared tourism futures where peace is understood as peace with justice and differencesTable of ContentsIntroduction Peace through tourism: Critical reflections on the intersections between peace, justice, sustainable development and tourism Part 1: Addressing structural violence 1. Fortress tourism: exploring dynamics of tourism, security and peace around the Virunga transboundary conservation area 2. Tourism, peace and sustainability in sanctions-ridden destinations 3. Insurgent citizens: mobility (in)justice and international travel 4. The role of dark commemorative and sport events in peaceful coexistence in the Western Balkans 5. Peacebuilding and post-conflict tourism: addressing structural violence in Colombia 6. Disrupting structural violence in South Africa through township tourism Part 2: Peace Tourism Pedagogies 7. “We are reconciliators”: when Indigenous tourism begins with agency 8. Exploring a unifying approach to peacebuilding through tourism: Abraham and Israel/Palestine 9. Promoting sustainable tourism futures in Timor-Leste by creating synergies between food, place and people 10. Living in the Wake of Rural Irish Troubles: building an institution for sustainable peace through emotive out-of-place tourism 11. Beyond multicultural ‘tolerance’: guided tours and guidebooks as transformative tools for civic learning 12. One stone, two birds: harnessing interfaith tourism for peacebuilding and socio-economic development 13. “Don’t look back in anger”. War museums’ role in the post conflict tourism-peace nexus 14. Dances with despots: tourists and the afterlife of statues Part 3: Radical Peace Tourism in Practice 15. Making waves: Peace Boat Japan as a model of sustainable peace through tourism 16. A diverse economies approach for promoting peace and justice in volunteer tourism 17. Te Awa Tupua: peace, justice and sustainability through Indigenous tourism Part 4: Postscript 18. WWOOFing in Australia: ideas and lessons for a de-commodified sustainability tourism 19. Gender and sustainability – exploring ways of knowing – an ecohumanities perspective 20. “This is a holy place of Ama Jomo”: buen vivir, indigenous voices and ecotourism development in a protected area of Bhutan 21. The land has voice: understanding the land tenure –sustainable tourism development nexus in Micronesia 22. Colonizing space and commodifying place: tourism’s violent geographies

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Book SynopsisTongulish is the language of sweet talk and honeyed words, babble and blather, quibble and quizzical. And tongulish is spoken throughout Rita Ann Higgins's lively new collection. These are provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinx and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of Irish lives and foibles, mischievous and playful in their portrayal of feckless folk and outcasts, flirts and weasels, gasbags and scallywags.Trade ReviewHiggins has always been a poet with a distinctive stance, never shirking her responsibilities as a public voice speaking on behalf of those who do not possess such a platforms. She is… both jocular and jugular, two traits that combine to make her a singular voice in Irish poetry… Passion and conviction walk hand-in-hand in these poems. -- Gerald Smyth * The Irish Times *Five years ago Rita Ann Higgins released Ireland Is Changing Mother, a poetry collection that doubled as a state-of-the-nation address. A call to arms and a hugely enjoyable read, it was an astute powerhouse of carefully chosen words that confirmed Higgins as one of Ireland’s great living poets. Tongulish, her 10th collection, is the follow-up… Tongulish features her trademark wit and warmth, while choosing to cast an eye towards private, domestic worlds and matters of communication… If Ireland is Changing Mother was the boom and bust, then Tongulish is the return to order. -- Eithne Shortall * Sunday Times Ireland *Tongulish, her 11th book of poetry, finds Higgins as intensively inventive and deliciously subversive as ever… The rebellious, innovative Higgins is one of his [James Joyce’s] distinctive heirs. Like Joyce, she knows just how to beat up the English language and her use of mythology, Irish language and Ireland’s past put her own inimitable stamp on her bang up-to-date present. -- Martina Evans * The Irish Times *

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Book SynopsisThrow in the Vowels is a retrospective from Rita Ann Higgins: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the Irish dispossessed. The 2010 reissue of this title included a free audio CD of poems read by the author now replaced by a QR code linking with these recordings online. She has since published two later collections, Ireland Is Changing Mother (2011) and Tongulish (2016).Trade Review'A brilliantly spiky, surreal blend of humour and social issues. Her poems are a witty mix of the erotic and the upfront political from a female perspective, with wonderful rhythms that effortlessly incorporate direct speech' - Ruth Padel, Independent on Sunday. 'A quite untameable poet. Higgins roams the provincial towns and countryside of Ireland fomenting rebellion and writing with unstaunchable energy of everything warm and unrespectable in Irish life. Her voice is like nobody else's, simple but not naive, raucous but sympathetic' - Peter Porter, PBS Bulletin. 'Higgins's voices are so distinctive and real that a whole world of semi-rural Irish poverty rises around the reader with the jolting acuity of an excellent documentary...an hilarious, absorbing and thoroughly disturbing experience' - Kate Clanchy, Independent. 'Rita Ann Higgins means a unique line in human warmth; and a unique colour of humour and a unique clarity' - Paul Durcan.

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Book SynopsisIreland Is Changing Mother is Rita Ann Higgins at her edgy best: provocative and heart-warming poems of high jinks, jittery grief and telling social comment by a gutsy, anarchic chronicler of the lives of the Irish dispossessed, before as well as since the demise of the Celtic tiger. This was her first new collection after her retrospective, Throw in the Vowels, and was followed by Tongulish.Trade ReviewIt shouldn't be unusual to hear a smart, sassy, unabashed, female working-class voice in Irish writing. But it is. Higgins's achievement doesn't depend on that rarity value, but it is certainly amplified by it. Higgins is, quite consciously, an artistic outsider - a unique fusion of wry, deadpan humour on the one side and absolute sincerity on the other. She doesn't congratulate herself for her sympathy with those who are (in this case literally) outside the world of art. She simply sees and writes. Her humour and playfulness keep sentimentality and self-righteousness resolutely at bay - She has made what is still the most direct and powerful statement of the class divide in Irish society - The boom years had no great effect on Higgins's voice, on her point of view or on her style. She had a manic linguistic energy long before the hysteria of the Tiger era quickened the pulse of the culture as a whole: Higgins could be regarded, in one of her guises, as Ireland's first rapper. - Her political satire hasn't lost its edge, but it no longer reads as a cry in the wilderness - Now the bubble's burst, we're left with our real treasures, and Rita Ann Higgins is one of them. -- Fintan O'Toole * The Irish Times *A brilliantly spiky, surreal blend of humour and social issues. Her poems are a witty mix of the erotic and the upfront political from a female perspective, with wonderful rhythms that effortlessly incorporate direct speech. -- Ruth Padel * Independent on Sunday *

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Book SynopsisFresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period. Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial importance as the first book designed to convey in the English language an ambitious range ofsecular romance and chronicle. Evidently made in London by professional scribes for a secular patron, this tantalizing volume embodies a massive amount of material evidence as to London commercial book production and the demand for vernacular texts in the early fourteenth century. But its origins are mysterious: who were its makers? its users? how was it made? what end did it serve? The essays in this collection define the parameters of present-day Auchinleck studies. They scrutinize the manuscript's rich and varied contents; reopen theories and controversies regarding the book's making; trace the operations and interworkings of the scribes, compiler, and illuminators; teaseout matters of patron and audience; interpret the contested signs of linguistic and national identity; and assess Auchinleck's implied literary values beside those of Chaucer. Geography, politics, international relations and multilingualism become pressing subjects, too, alongside critical analyses of literary substance. Susanna Fein is Professor of English at Kent State University and editor of The Chaucer Review. Contributors: Venetia Bridges, Patrick Butler, Siobhain Bly Calkin, A. S. G. Edwards, Ralph Hanna, Ann Higgins, Cathy Hume, Marisa Libbon, Derek Pearsall, Helen Phillips, Emily Runde, Timothy A. Shonk, Míceál F. Vaughan.Trade ReviewIn chapter after chapter, the collection pushes the borders of scholarly debate around the content as well as the form of the Auchinleck manuscript . . . [A] must-have for any scholar or student of Medieval English literature. * MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *A weighty and significant publication.. It constitutes essential reading, not only for any serious student of the Auchinleck Ms. and its texts, but also for those interested in medieval romance and in any aspect of medieval ms. culture. It is also an example of an all-too-rare phenomenon: a volume of essays which is, through their interaction and skillful curation, significantly more than the sum of its parts. * SCRIPTORIUM *Future scholars will need to ground themselves in this volume. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *This collection is a great resource for further scholarship on the Auchinleck manuscript and the treasures it contains. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *[A] thought-provoking and rich collection . . . As these essays amply demonstrate, the Auchinleck manuscript should remain well and trulyat the center of any study of late medieval English literary culture. -- Raluca Radulescu * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives - Susanna Fein The Auchinleck Manuscript Forty Years On - Derek Pearsall Codicology and Translation in the Early Sections of the Auchinleck Manuscript - A S G Edwards The Auchinleck Adam and Eve: An Exemplary Family Story - Cathy Hume A Failure to Communicate: Multilingualism in the Prologue to Of Arthour and of Merlin - Patrick Butler Scribe 3's Literary Project: Pedagogies of Reading in Auchinleck's Booklet 3 - Emily Runde Absent Presence: Auchinleck and Kyng Alisaunder - Venetia Bridges Sir Tristrem, a Few Fragments and the Northern Identity of the Auchinleck Manuscript - Ann Higgins The Invention of King Richard - Marisa Libbon Auchinleck and Chaucer - Helen Phillips Endings in the Auchinleck Manuscript - Siobhain Bly Calkin Paraphs, Piecework and Presentation: The Production Methods of Auchinleck Revisited - Timothy A. Shonk Scribal Corrections in the Auchinleck Manuscript - Miceal F Vaughan Auchinleck 'Scribe 6' and Some Corollary Issues - Ralph Hanna Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period. Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial importance as the first book designed to convey in the English language an ambitious range ofsecular romance and chronicle. Evidently made in London by professional scribes for a secular patron, this tantalizing volume embodies a massive amount of material evidence as to London commercial book production and the demand for vernacular texts in the early fourteenth century. But its origins are mysterious: who were its makers? its users? how was it made? what end did it serve? The essays in this collection define the parameters of present-day Auchinleck studies. They scrutinize the manuscript's rich and varied contents; reopen theories and controversies regarding the book's making; trace the operations and interworkings of the scribes, compiler, and illuminators; teaseout matters of patron and audience; interpret the contested signs of linguistic and national identity; and assess Auchinleck's implied literary values beside those of Chaucer. Geography, politics, international relations and multilingualism become pressing subjects, too, alongside critical analyses of literary substance. SUSANNA FEIN is Professor of English at Kent State University and editor of The Chaucer Review. Contributors: Venetia Bridges, Patrick Butler, Siobhain Bly Calkin, A. S. G. Edwards, Ralph Hanna, Ann Higgins, Cathy Hume, Marisa Libbon, Derek Pearsall, Helen Phillips, Emily Runde, Timothy A. Shonk, Míceál F. Vaughan.Trade ReviewA weighty and significant publication.. It constitutes essential reading, not only for any serious student of the Auchinleck Ms. and its texts, but also for those interested in medieval romance and in any aspect of medieval ms. culture. It is also an example of an all-too-rare phenomenon: a volume of essays which is, through their interaction and skillful curation, significantly more than the sum of its parts. * SCRIPTORIUM *Future scholars will need to ground themselves in this volume. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *This collection is a great resource for further scholarship on the Auchinleck manuscript and the treasures it contains. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives - Susanna Fein The Auchinleck Manuscript Forty Years On - Derek Pearsall Codicology and Translation in the Early Sections of the Auchinleck Manuscript - A S G Edwards The Auchinleck Adam and Eve: An Exemplary Family Story - Cathy Hume A Failure to Communicate: Multilingualism in the Prologue to Of Arthour and of Merlin - Patrick Butler Scribe 3's Literary Project: Pedagogies of Reading in Auchinleck's Booklet 3 - Emily Runde Absent Presence: Auchinleck and Kyng Alisaunder - Venetia Bridges Sir Tristrem, a Few Fragments and the Northern Identity of the Auchinleck Manuscript - Ann Higgins The Invention of King Richard - Marisa Libbon Auchinleck and Chaucer - Helen Phillips Endings in the Auchinleck Manuscript - Siobhain Bly Calkin Paraphs, Piecework and Presentation: The Production Methods of Auchinleck Revisited - Timothy A. Shonk Scribal Corrections in the Auchinleck Manuscript - Miceal F Vaughan Auchinleck 'Scribe 6' and Some Corollary Issues - Ralph Hanna Bibliography

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