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View Rights PortalThe University of the Philippines Press (or the U.P. Press) is the official publishing house for all constituent units of the U.P. system, and is the first university press in the country. It is mandated to encourage, publish, and disseminate scholarly, creative, and scientific works that represent distinct contributions to knowledge in various academic disciplines, which commercial publishers would not ordinarily undertake to publish.
View Rights PortalColonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they devised elaborate systems of sexual governance, such as attending to marriage and the family. However, they also devoted disproportionate energy to marking and policing the sexual margins. In Sex, Politics and Empire, Richard Phillips investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and revolutionises our notions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations.
Colonial governments, institutions and companies recognised that in many ways the effective operation of the Empire depended upon sexual arrangements. For example, nuclear families serving agricultural colonization, and prostitutes working for single men who powered armies and plantations, mines and bureaucracies. For this reason they devised elaborate systems of sexual governance, such as attending to marriage and the family. However, they also devoted disproportionate energy to marking and policing the sexual margins. In Sex, Politics and Empire, Richard Phillips investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and revolutionises our notions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations. ;
This book is the first full-length study of contemporary American fiction of passing. Its takes as its point of departure the return of racial and gender passing in the 1990s in order to make claims about wider trends in contemporary American fiction. The book accounts for the return of tropes of passing in fiction by Phillip Roth, Percival Everett, Louise Erdrich, Danzy Senna, Jeffrey Eugenides and Paul Beatty, by arguing meta-critical and meta-fictional tool. These writers are attracted to the trope of passing because passing narratives have always foregrounded the notion of textuality in relation to the (il)legibility of "black" subjects passing as white. The central argument of this book, then, is that contemporary narratives of passing are concerned with articulating and unpacking an analogy between passing and authorship. The title promises to inaugurate dialogue on the relationships between passing, postmodernism and authorship in contemporary American fiction.
Building upon the book Disappearing Destinations (Jones and Phillips 2010) and its conclusion that promoted the need to recognize problems, meet expectations and manage solutions Global Climate Change and Coastal Tourism explores current threats to, and consequences of, climate change on existing tourism coastal destinations. Part 1 of the book provides a theoretical platform and addresses topics such as sustainability, tourism impacts, governance trade and innovation and how the media addresses climate change and tourism. It also assesses management and policy options for the future sustainability of threatened tourism coastal destinations. Part 2 presents case studies from all regions of the world (Europe, The Americas, Asia, Africa and Australasia) which synthesise findings to make recommendations that can be used to promote strategies that ameliorate projected impacts of climate change on coastal tourism infrastructure and in turn promote the future sustainability of coastal tourism destinations. This is a timely and informative text with appeal to researchers, undergraduate and post graduate students of tourism management, tourism planning, sustainable tourism development and leisure management, coastal tourism/management, environmental management/planning, geography, coastal zone management or climate change studies.
1969 erschien, wie es damals hieß, ein »Reader« von Peter Handke, der den Untertitel trug: Prosa Gedichte Theaterstücke Hörspiele Aufsätze. Die dort abgedruckten Gedichte waren dem im selben Jahr publizierten Band Die Innenwelt der Außenwelt der Innenwelt entnommen, in dem der Autor 42 für Lyrik bisher nicht verwendete Textformen entdeckte: etwa Die Aufstellung des 1. FC Nürnberg vom 27.1.1968, den Vorspann zum Film Bonnie und Clyde usw. Und obwohl Peter Handke in den darauffolgenden Jahren als Prosa- und Theaterautor in den Vordergrund trat, wendete er sich nicht von der Ausdrucksform Gedicht ab. Dies belegen etwa die Langgedichte Leben ohne Poesie oder Blaues Gedicht in dem Band Als das Wünschen noch geholfen hat (1974), das Gedicht an die Dauer (aus dem Jahre 1986) sowie die Haikus in den Notizbüchern, etwa den 2005 veröffentlichten Gestern unterwegs.
Bill ist ein smarter Dandy, der vom Stehlen und Betrügen einfach nicht lassen kann. Sein Luxusleben, die schicken Autos, High-End-Uhren und Designerklamotten kosten schließlich auch einen Haufen Kohle. Nur mit Gewalt hat er es nicht so. Fiona hingegen hat mit Gewalt nicht wirklich ein Problem und geht dabei effektiv und ziemlich robust vor. Fiona und Bill sind das ideale Liebespaar. Als sich Bill von einem New Yorker Gangster-Syndikat ein paar Millionen »borgt«, was er wohl lieber hätte bleiben lassen sollen, müssen die beiden fliehen wie weiland Bonnie & Clyde. Die rasante Jagd führt durch die amerikanischen Provinzen, wo irre Sheriffs lauern, in die Karibik, wo man sich nicht auch nur eine Sekunde lang sicher fühlen darf, und zurück nach New York City, wo schon die richtig harten Jungs vom Mob auf die beiden warten, die sich einmal mehr fragen müssen, wie sie aus dieser Nummer wieder rauskommen ...