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Author: Julia Beltsiou File Type: pdf Immigration in Psychoanalysis Locating Ourselves presents a unique approach to understanding the varied and multi-layered experience of immigration, exploring how social, cultural, political, and historical contexts shape the psychological experience of immigration, and with it the encounter between foreign-born patients and their psychotherapists. Beltsiou brings together a diverse group of contributors, including Ghislaine Boulanger, Eva Hoffman and Dori Laub, to discuss their own identity as immigrants and how it informs their work. They explore the complexity and the contradictions of the immigration process - the tension between loss and hope, future and past, the idealization and denigration of the otherstranger, and what it takes to tolerate the existential dialectic between separateness and belonging. Through personal accounts full of wisdom and nuance, the stories of immigration come to life and become accessible to the reader. Intended for clinicians, students, and academics interested in contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives on the topic of immigration, this book serves as a resource for clinical practice and can be read in courses on psychoanalysis, cultural psychology, immigrant studies, race and ethnic relations, self and identity, culture and human development, and immigrants and mental health.

Author: Milja Radovic File Type: pdf Film can be a socio-political and artistic-transformative cultural practice through which acts and activism are performed. Going beyond ideological constructs of activism and legal definitions of citizenship, this book offers a novel approach to understanding the ontology of acts and activist citizenship, particularly in the context of their expression through film. The author approaches film as act and focuses on the scene of film as a space that goes beyond representation, constituting its own reality through which activist citizens emerge. By looking at autonomous creative acts through a range of directors works from across the world, the author explores both the ontological and ontic dimensions of transformative acts of citizenship. In doing this the author poses the question of whether citizens are stepping out of dominant cultural ideologies to overcome social, ethnic, religious and economic divisions. This book is a fresh exploration of the ontology of acts and is essential reading for any academic interested in religion, theology, film and citizenship studies. **About the Author Milja Radovic is an academic working in the interdisciplinary field of religion, media and citizenship studies. Her academic studies traverse several fields, including citizenship, nationalism, conflict, peacebuilding and visual arts, gender studies, transnational cinema and ideology. Alongside her academic work she is actively engaged with the public sector, being an active member of Interfilm and serving as a juror at several International film festivals.

Author: Timothy Sandefur File Type: pdf Throughout history, kings and emperors have promised freedoms to their people. Yet these freedoms were really only permissions handed down from on high. The American Revolution inaugurated a new vision people have basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and government must ask permission from them. Sadly, todays increasingly bureaucratic society is beginning to turn back the clock and to transform America into a nation where our freedomsthe right to speak freely, to earn a living, to own a gun, to use private property, even the right to take medicine to save ones own lifeare again treated as privileges the government may grant or withhold at will. Timothy Sandefur examines the history of the distinction between rights and privileges that played such an important role in the American experiment, and how we can fight to retain our freedoms against the growing power of government. Illustrated with dozens of real-life examplesincluding many cases he litigated himselfSandefur shows how treating freedoms as government-created privileges undermines our Constitution and betrays the basic principles of human dignity. **From the Inside FlapThroughout history, kings and emperors have promised freedoms to their people. Yet these freedoms were really only permissions handed down from on high. The American Revolution inaugurated a new vision people have basic rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and government must ask permission from them. Sadly, todays increasingly bureaucratic society is beginning to turn back the clock and to transform America into a nation where our freedoms--the right to speak freely, to earn a living, to own a gun, to use private property, even the right to take medicine to save ones own life--are again treated as privileges the government may grant or withhold at will. Timothy Sandefur examines the history of the distinction between rights and privileges that played such an important role in the American experiment, and how we can fight to retain out freedoms against the growing power of government. Illustrated with dozens of real-life examples---including many cases he litigated himself--Sandefur shows how treating freedoms as government-created privileges undermines our Constitution and the basic principles of human dignity. From the Back CoverWith The Permission Society, his fourth magnificent book, plus countless articles, speeches, and legal briefs, Timothy Sandefur has emerged as one of Americas most important political and legal theorists. Yet his writing is eminently readable. Here, his focus is on the fundamental shift from liberty to license that began setting in systematically during the Progressive Era, after which Americans increasingly have had to get permission from government officials before they could open a business, build on their property, attend to their health, and even speak in many contexts. Rich in both theory and example, this book puts the modern world of liberty only by government permission in perspective. The Founders blood would boil, and the readers will too. -- Roger Pilon, B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute and Director of the Cato Institutes Center for Constitutional Studies It is remarkable that one man can be both an active constitutional litigator and a genuine constitutional scholar. Timothy Sandefurs latest book brilliantly explains how freedom is not permission. Are we citizens whose liberty is presumed or are we subjects who must seek permission from our rulers? Read this important book and decide. -- Randy E. Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown Law, and author of Our Republican Constitution Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the Peopleand Restoring the Lost Constitution The Presumption of Liberty. Timothy Sandefur has always been focused on one thing freedom. Sadly, licensing laws and permit requirements are taking more and more of our freedoms away, and forcing Americans instead to ask approval from bureaucrats before they can build homes, take jobs, or even express their political opinions. In this book, Sandefur makes a powerful case for why a free society is better than a permission society--and explains how we can act to defend our freedoms in the future. -- Hugh Hewitt, radio talk show host and author of The Brief Against Obama The Rise, Fall & Epic Fail of the Hope & Change Presidency