Once, a long time ago, there was a king whose wisdom was known throughout all the land. Nothing could be hidden from him. It seemed as if news of the most secret things came to him through the air. He had one strange custom. Every day when he was alone, a trusted servant brought him a magic dish. One day when the servant took away the magic dish, he tasted the left-over food on the dish. Eating the food gave the servant the power to understand animals. Follow the servant as he uses this new-found power to win the hand of a beautiful princess.
"You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
An insightful, accessible examination of the way in which day-to-day speech is tangled in a complicated web of history, politics, race, economics and power.
There are many books on the market which discuss indigenous ways of knowing, and bemoan western society's seeming lack of interest in anything other than scientific fact-based knowledge. Equally plentiful are the writings of critical theorists who consider today's public education system to be divisive, and manipulated by those in power to ensure that their children have the educational advantages needed to maintain the elite hierarchical status quo.
Space, Knowledge and Power Foucault and Geography Edited byThe first to engage Foucault's geographies in detail from a wide range of perspectives, this book is framed around his discussions with the journal Hérodote in the mid 1970s. The contributors (including a number of key figures such as David Harvey, Chris Philo, Sara Mills, Nigel Thrift, John Agnew, Thomas Flynn and Matthew Hannah) discuss just what they find valuable and frustrating about Foucault's geographies. This is a book which will both surprise and challenge.
