San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 12, 2012 FORA.tv, the leading online destination for video programs from the worlds best conferences and events, will broadcast the latest Intelligence Squared U.S. (IQ2US) debate, “When It Comes To Politics, The Internet Is Closing Our Minds. Its been argued that the rise of personalization, the use of algorithms to filter what you see online, and easy access to the like-minded, have served to reinforce our pre-conceptions. Is the information bubble a myth, or is it undermining civic discourse? Is the rise of social media really broadening our world views, or narrowing them?
The debate will be streamed live next Tuesday, April 17th at 6:45 pm EST at…. Read more
Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims: The Public Performance of Pakistani Transnational Identity Politics (World Anthropology) The public sphere of the Manchester Muslim diaspora is a place of intense local micro-politics of honour and shame, debated in the globalized language of world affairs, and dramatically enacted through public performance. Pnina Werbner reveals a multi-centred world among Manchester Pakistanis, a locally created diasporic public space which appropriates and combines travelling ideas and images from a variety of sources into meaningful moral allegories. British South Asian Muslims became visible in the protests mobilized against The Satanic Verses, during which Pakistani immigrants abandoned the role of a…. Read more
Crime and Muslim Britain: Race, Culture and the Politics of Criminology among British Pakistanis (Library of Crime and Criminology) The Britain of the early twenty-first century has become consumed by heightened concerns about violent crime and terrorism in relation to Muslim communities in the West. Here Marta Bolognani fills a major gap in criminology and diaspora studies through an exhaustive investigation into crime among British Pakistanis. Through detailed ethnographic observation and interview data, Bolognani shows how Bradford Pakistanis’ perceptions of crime and control are a combination of the formal and informal, or British and ‘traditional’ Pakistani, that are no longer separable in the diasporic context. She also…. Read more
The Deadly Embrace: Religion, Politics, and Violence in the Indian Subcontinent, 1947-2002 (Subcontinent Divided: A New Beginning) The connection between religion, politics and violence is a controversial and pressing concern in the life of the subcontinent. This study attempts to unpick some of these linkages by means of a series of detailed historical case studies that cover the period from 1947 until 2002. List Price: $ 27.95 Price:…. Read more
