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Twelve leading figures in post-colonial and translation studies, political philosophy, art, radical aesthetics, policy-making and sociology, reflect on the political and cultural meanings of migration; their arguments framed by artworks that provide glimpses of cross-cultural encounters. Essays - including a meditation on "wasted lives" by internationally renowned academic Zygmunt Bauman - explore the challenges of migration, history and integration and attempt to develop radical new figurations of migrant identity, underlining the necessity of an imaginative reach towards "The Other".  Free Download Bradt's Slovenia, 3rd Edition by Rudolf Abraham English | March 25, 2025 | ISBN: 1784777056 | True EPUB | 288 pages | 21 MB This new, thoroughly updated and significantly expanded third edition of Bradt's Slovenia offers expert travel advice about this engaging European country. 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