Böcker av Michael Kearney

Becoming Forest openswith Aishling—the young Irish woman at the heart of this story—as she visitsher grandmother in California following her grandfather’s death. Aishling findsher grandfather’s journal and reads about a trip he made to India years ago tovisit the original Bodhi Tree, the place where the Buddha found enlightenment.  At the end of the journal, she finds a letter addressed toher from her grandfather asking for her help passing along his message of “deepsecurity” to her generation as they deal with the climate crisis and theuncertain future ahead. Aishling goes to India to follow in her grandfather’spath to find a way of responding to his request. There she meets and falls inlove with a young Buddhist monk, who is also on a quest. As they walk together alongthe roads of India, they gather unexpected and invaluable insights from eachother and come closer to the answers they both seek. Thirty years later, Aishling’s daughter Tara isvisiting her in Ireland. Tara is grieving the death of her father and also thedestruction of the forests from drought and fire. She is also searching for a wayto heal the burnout she and her friends are experiencing while working tocombat climate change. Becoming Forestweaves together threads of Native American and Celtic spirituality withBuddhist understanding and connection to the natural world, creating a tapestrywhich holds both the despair and awakening of Aishling

Four Letter Words Michael Kearney (author)Djohan Hanapi (illustrator)Setsuko Adachi (contributor)Priyageetha Dia (contributor)Lim Lee Ching (contributor) Four Letter Words has at its core a unique concept of the collaborative effort. The author/poet, Michael Kearney, came up with the idea for a book of poetry and retinal art over twenty years ago. Inspired by William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman's collaborations, and Roland Barthes' notion of 'The Death of the Author', Kearney envisioned a work where the only communication between the poet and the artist would be the artist's readings of the poems. After a long search, Kearney found Delere Press, who ventured to take on the challenging concept. The press placed Kearney's poems with risograph artist Djohan Hanapi of Knuckles & Notch. Hanapi created his illustrations sans communication with Kearney until after the project was completed. The result is a work where the poems and illustrations can be examined/enjoyed as stand-alone pieces of art, or as a whole, which exposes the pitfalls of any attempt at forming a tight, concise, interpretation of these pieces. Four Letter Words is a work that is open to the possibility of a myriad of readings; it allows each reader to discover their own meaning(s), and perhaps also discover something(s) about themself.

In this book, the author shows how the concept of peasant has been outdistanced by contemporary history. He situates the peasantry within the current social context of the transnational and post-Cold War nation-state and clears the way for alternative theoretical views.

This work explores major shifts and re-orientations in the history of American anthropology. It engages three fundamental intellectual-political challenges that American anthropology is destined to confront - becoming more self-reflexive, achieving holism, and defence of universal human rights.

The concept of "peasant" has been constructed from residual images of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. This book undertakes a re-examination of the concept, placing the peasantry within the current social context of the transnational and post-Cold War nation state.