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Book SynopsisThis unique book examines the relationship between wounding and sexuality, bringing together issues around sexuality, gender, power, violence and representations. Drawing on a range of disciplines including cultural and media studies, sociology and psychology, it explores social practices such as S&M, cosmetic surgery and ''extreme'' sports.Trade Review'Sex and violence are each moments of transgression, trespassing across boundaries. The essays in this startling book, so ably collected by Burr and Hearn, attend to the similarities among various erotic wounds. Whether self-inflicted or done by others, criminal or consensual, textual or corporeal, erotic wounding is more than simply a site of skin-deep pleasure and/or pain. Beneath the epidural lie a host of gendered and sexual inequalities that many of these authors make viscerally visible.' - Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook, US and author of The Gender of Desire 'A fascinating collection of readings on the interweaving of sexuality and violence in the 'erotics of wounding' men's and women's bodies. Surprises abound the collection encompasses unexpected and controversial viewpoints, theories of the body, sexuality, and the social nature of violence, and deconstruction of popular culture. You'll want to read every chapter.' - Judith Lorber, Professor Emerita, Graduate School and Brooklyn College, CUNY, US; co-author of Gendered Bodies: Feminist Perspectives and author of Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change. 'This is a fascinating, challenging and timely book, drawing together an impressive list of international contributors. Exploring a wide range of issues around the relation between sex, violence and the body, it makes a significant contribution to the literature and will, I have no doubt, appeal to a wide readership across a range of disciplines. What is particularly original is approaching the sex-violence-body nexus through a specific focus on the 'erotics of wounding' and, in each of the subject areas addressed across the 12 chapters, the book clearly sets out the key conceptual issues, debates and challenges in this frequently misunderstood area. This is an important, insightful and challenging book.' - Professor Richard Collier, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.Table of ContentsIntroducing the Erotics of Wounding: Sex, Violence and the Body; J. Hearn and V. Burr Body Modification as Self-mutilation by Proxy; S. Jeffreys Breast Augmentation Surgery: Carving the Flesh as Female; T. Kinnunen Physical Bruises, Emotional Scars, and 'Love-bites': Women's Experiences of Men's Violence; M. Jones and J. Hearn Harming or Healing? The Meanings of Wounding Amongst Sadomasochists who also Self-injure; A. Ritchie Making the Moves: Masculinities, Bodies, Risk and Death in the 'Extreme' Sport of Rock-climbing; V. Robinson Transformations of Pain: Erotic Encounters with Crash; A. McCosker Tortured Heroes: The Story of Ouch! Fan Fiction and Sadomasochism; J. Alexander 'Oh Spike you're covered in sexy wounds!' The Erotic Significance of Wounding and Torture in Buffy the Vampire Slayer; V. Burr Spectacular Pain: Masculinity, Masochism and Men in the Movies; T. Edwards Cut Pieces: Self-mutilation in Body Art; U. Angkjær Jørgensen The Loathsome, the Rough Type and the Monster: The Violence and Wounding of Media Texts on Rape; M. Livholts Bibliography

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition; Masataka Yamaguchi, Dennis Tay, and Benjamin Blount PART I - COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 2. Culture and Cognition, Lexicon and Grammar; Ronald W. Langacker 3. Deliteralization and the Birth of 'Emotion'; Dirk Geeraerts 4. 'Overthrowing' Yesterday's ICM: Meaning Reversal in a Hong Kong Chinese (Cantonese) Constructional Idiom; Kam-yiu S. Pang PART II: CULTURAL LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 5. Cultural Linguistics; Farzad Sharifian 6. Sloppy Selfhood: Metaphor, Embodiment, Animism, and Anthropomorphization in Japanese Language and Culture; Debra J Occhi 7. The Ceremonial Origins of Language; Gary B. Palmer, Jennifer Thompson, Jeffrey Parkin, Elizabeth Harmon PART III: INTERSECTION OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY 8. On Intersubjective Co-construction of Virtual Space through Multimodal Means: A Case of Japanese Route-finding Discourse; Kuniyoshi Kataoka 9. DiscoTable of Contents1. Introduction: Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition; Masataka Yamaguchi, Dennis Tay, and Benjamin Blount PART I - COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 2. Culture and Cognition, Lexicon and Grammar; Ronald W. Langacker 3. Deliteralization and the Birth of 'Emotion'; Dirk Geeraerts 4. 'Overthrowing' Yesterday's ICM: Meaning Reversal in a Hong Kong Chinese (Cantonese) Constructional Idiom; Kam-yiu S. Pang PART II: CULTURAL LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 5. Cultural Linguistics; Farzad Sharifian 6. Sloppy Selfhood: Metaphor, Embodiment, Animism, and Anthropomorphization in Japanese Language and Culture; Debra J Occhi 7. The Ceremonial Origins of Language; Gary B. Palmer, Jennifer Thompson, Jeffrey Parkin, Elizabeth Harmon PART III: INTERSECTION OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY 8. On Intersubjective Co-construction of Virtual Space through Multimodal Means: A Case of Japanese Route-finding Discourse; Kuniyoshi Kataoka 9. Discovering Shared Understandings in Discourse: Prototypes and Stereotypes; Masataka Yamaguchi 10. Experiences as Resources: Metaphor and Life in Late Modernity; Lionel Wee 11. An Analysis of Metaphor Hedging in Psychotherapeutic Talk; Dennis Tay PART IV: SUMMARY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 12. Situating Cultural Models in History and Cognition; Benjamin Blount ?

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Emslie establishes that narrative explanations are to be preferred over non-narrative in the humanities. They are more truthful in two senses. They both correspond more closely to reality and allow inference as to normative values. This is particularly the case when aesthetics are added to the mix.Trade Review"An independent scholar and author of Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love (2010), Emslie argues for the value of narrative explanations in humanistic writing. He develops this argument through the analysis of an unusually wide-ranging mix of theoretical and critical fields that includes Marxist humanism, feminist theory and literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and German idealist philosophy, along with a number of eclectic subjects - such as sports and conspiracy theories - by which he explains the value of the kinds of narrative explanation for which he argues . . . This is not a book for those uninitiated into the language and content of critical theory, but it usefully explores the form and purpose of writing in the humanities. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." - CHOICETable of ContentsAn Overview Marxist Humanism: Hegel, Marx, Lukács, Eagleton, Habermas Women and Writing: Women Theorists, Women Novelists, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë Freud: Science as narrative, a perverse and singular teleology, certainty masquerading as doubt Philosophy and Fatherland: German Transcendentalism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism Realism: Brecht, Sport, the Bible, Lenin, Conspiracy theories Death

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Book SynopsisChinese artists, activists, and netizens are pioneering a new order of pornographic representation that is in critical dialogue with global entertainment media. Jacobs examines the role of sex-positive feminists and queer communities to investigate pornography's afterglow (a state of crisis and decay within digital culture).Trade Review"Jacobs is the foremost scholar on Chinese pornography, especially in the field of female consumption of pornography. This book builds upon her previously published work but seeks to both both interrogate recent shifts in pornographic consumption and production and revisit some longer-standing themes from her earlier work. By placing pornography within this specific geographical and critical-theoretical landscape, this work breaks new ground and will have a significant impact on the fields of porn studies, LGBTQ studies, and visual culture studies." Sharif Mowlabocus, Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex, UK "The Afterglow of Women's Pornography in Post-Digital China envisions women's pornography as an imagined civil society that starts taking into account sexual difference, sex-positive feminisms, and various developments towards queer aesthetics. This book brilliantly documents the attitudes of disobedience, emotionality, erotic consciousness and open discussion proposed by young Chinese women, both from Mainland China and Hong Kong, whose aesthetics on pornography constitute an important aspect of women's ongoing struggle for identity, equality and legitimacy." - Petula Sik Ying Ho, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong "This book leads us through an intellectual and inspiring journey which wanders into the erotic lives of modern Chinese women. It challenges readers to reconsider the intricacies of different kinds of pornography, while reflecting on the emergence of a new civil society. The extraordinary ride into the hearts of women is full of surprising turns that will undoubtedly open up new debates." - Donna Chu, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong KongTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Women's Drifting Eyeballs and Porn Tastes 2. Wandering Scholars and the Teachings of Ghosts 3. Message on the Body in the Chinese Netsphere. 4. The Art of Failure as seen in Chinese Women's Boys' Love Fantasies 5. The Master Class of Left-Over Women Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis highly original study opens up a new dimension to Joseph Conrad by revealing his lifelong fascination with the popular culture of his day.Trade Review'Donovan is to be praised both for the care and detail of his excavation of popular culture in Conrad's oeuvre and for the lucidity with which he presents his results...Not only does this volume provoke renewed interest in its subject matter, but it also stands as a paradigm in its meticulous research, so that the combination provides that novel and most welcome thing - a riveting new work of Conrad scholarship.' - The Conradian 'What strikes the reader in this volume is Donovan's appreciation of Conrad's life and works, and his ability to bind together Conrad's innumerable subtle reflections on the emerging dominance of popular culture. This work is one of the most readable and informative studies of Conrad to appear in many years, an example of what rigorous scholarship and fine writing can achieve.' - English Literature in Transition 'Donovan's rewarding new study .... successfully demonstrates how thoroughly Conrad's fiction is permeated by the material traces of popular culture. ... Each of its extended readings and biographical anecdotes serves both to consolidate and to invite reconsideration of the new face of Conrad that has emerged in Victorian and modernist studies over the past few decades. The aura of this new face deserves many more such studies.'- Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Visual Entertainment Tourism Advertising Magazine Fiction Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOver the last twenty years, critics and historians of the late Eighteenth-century have developed a multidisciplinary approach to the history of culture. This dialogue between literary critics and theorists, art historians and social historians is remapping the relations between culture and society, politics and aesthetics, law and representation.Trade Review- 'Thoughtful elaboration of each of the concepts contained in its title.' Denise Gigante, Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol.42, no.2, 2009 -'The editors have a done a masterful job of selection, arrangement, and attention to style so that, should one wisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Reforming Landscape: Turner and Nottingham; S.Daniels The Simple Life: Cottages and Gainsborough's Cottage Doors; A.Bermingham The Other Half of the Landscape: Thomas Heaphy's Watercolour Nasties; D.H.Solkin Chardin at the Edge of Belief: Overlooked Issues of Religion and Dissent in Eighteenth-Century French Painting; T.Crow The Sabine Women and Lévi-Strauss; T.J.Clark 'Love and Madness': Sentimental Narratives and the Spectacle of Suffering in Late Eighteenth-Century Romance; J.Brewer 'A Submission, Sir!': Who has the Right to Person in Eighteenth-Century Britain?; P.de Bolla Suspicious Minds: Spies and Surveillance in Charlotte Smith's Novels of the 1790s; H.Guest Wordsworth and Empire - Just Joking; D.Simpson Burns, Wordsworth, and the Politics of Vernacular Poetry; N.Leask Organic Form and it's Consequences; F.Ferguson Index

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Book SynopsisThis much-needed collection examines the formation of a black British canon including writers, dramatists, film-makers and artists. Contributors including John McLeod, Michael McMillan, Mike Phillips and Alison Donnell discuss the textual, political and cultural history of black British and the term 'black British' itself.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: G.Low & M.Wynne-Davies Foreword: Migration, Modernity and English Writing: Reflections on Migrant Identity and Canon Formation; M.Phillips PART I: INTERROGATING THE CANON 'The Ghost of Other Stories': Salman Rushdie and a Black British Canon?; J.Procter Not Good Enough or Not Man Enough?: Beryl Gilroy as the Anomaly in the Evolving 'Black British Canon'; S.Courtman In the Eyes of the Beholder: Diversity and the Cultural Politics of Canon Re-Formation in Britain; F.Folorunso in conversation with G.Low & M.Wynne-Davies PART II: NEW LANGUAGES OF CRITICISM Fantasy Relationships: Black British Canons in a Transnational World; J.McLeod 'New Forms': Towards a Critical Dialogue with Black British 'Popular' Fictions; A.Wood PART III: GENEALOGIES AND INTERVENTIONS Texts of Cultural Practice: Black Theatre and Performance in the UK; M.McMillan Canon Questions: Art in 'Black Britain'; L.R.Wainwright 'Sharing Connections': From West Indian to Black British; G.Low Afterword: In Praise of a Black British Canon and the Possibilities of Representing the Nation 'Otherwise'; A.Donnell Index

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Book SynopsisIn post-cold War thinking, North Korea was expected to collapse and be absorbed into a single Korean state by the democratic regime in South Korea.Trade Review"Korea could reunify when enough confidence is built between national and international elites to allow the union. This book is the best-documented treatment of such a possibility - and of its alternatives, most of which would sooner or later involve the U.S. and the city of Seoul in an unnecessary war. Everyone who is interested in East Asia or in peace must read this." - Lynn T. White III, Princeton University " "The volume represents one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date analyses of contemporary inter-Korean relations by top-notch Korean experts. Chapters in the volume are well organized, empirically penetrating, and rich in policy implications. Domestic, dyadic, regional, and international level factors are skillfully intergrated in accounting for the origins, dynamics, and implications of inter-Korean relations. This is the must reading for students, scholars, and policy-makers who are interested in Korea and Northeast Asia." - Chung-in Moon, Yonsei UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; S.Kim Inter-Korean Relations: A South Korean Perspective; S.Snyder Inter-Korean Relations: A North Korean Perspective; C.Armstrong Inter-Korean Economic Relations; P.Beck China in Inter-Korean Relations; A.Scobell Japan in Inter-Korean Relations; E.Kang Russia in Inter-Korean Relations; E.Wishnick U.S. in Inter-Korean Relations; V.Cha The KEDO: A Study of Inter-Korean Cooperation; J.Ho Roh Inter-Korean Relations: The Role of International Organizations; Shin-wha Lee Inter-Korean Relations and KU: Comparative and Theoretical Perspective; A.Kim

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Book SynopsisMany African nations are now described as 'fourth world nations', ones which essentially have no future. Focusing on the six most visible leaders of the period - painting detailed portraits of them both as leaders and as people - Schwab looks at how Africa served as a ground to play out larger international conflicts, namely the Cold War.Trade ReviewPraise for Africa: A Continent Self-Destructs: "For anyone interested in the reality of Africa, this is the book to read." - Amos Sawyer, President of Liberia, 1990-1994 "Offers brief, invaluable descriptions of several countries circumstances...readers will gain much from this astute analysis." - Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsIntroduction: U.S., European, and West African Ideological Designs The Conservatives William V.S. Tubman: Liberia's Conservative Designer Félix Houphouët-Boigny: A French Client in the Ivory Coast Senegal and Léopold Sédar Senghor: Francophile Nation and Poet Nigeria: The State that Lost its Future The Radicals Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana's Nationalist Icon Sékou Touré: Guinea's Fidel Castro, and His Connection to the Political Thought of Mali's Modibo Keita Conclusion: The Appalling Aftermath

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Book SynopsisThis book is a penetrating study of the long conflict between China and Japan. Drawing upon history, geopolitics and geoeconomics, this volume examines these important Asian powers at the bilateral, regional, and global levels. Contributors examine issues including oil feuds, the Taiwan factor, and implications for U.S. interests in Asia Pacific.Trade Review"China and Japan are major regional powers with an increasing global presence. This timely volume speaks to the important topic of their relations. The contributing scholars provide informative discussions of various dimensions of these relations, and help to put contemporary developments in a historical context." - Steve Chan, Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado"Skillfully bringing together historical, economic, cultural, territorial, and security dimensions, Hsiung and his collaborators show us how this pivotal Asian nexus, never an easy one, became so troubled. Yet the book also leaves us with a vision of how these old rivals might like Germany and France become reconciled, inaugurating a new Asian political architecture." - Lowell Dittmer, Professor of Political Scienceand Editor, Asian Survey, University of California at BerkeleyTable of ContentsTheory and the Long-Running Tussle?; J.C.Hsiung Historical and Contemporary Roots of Sino-Japanese Conflicts; R.Chu The Military Race Between China and Japan, and Asian Security; D.Van Vranken Hickey The Economic Dimensions in Sino-Japanese Relations; C.Cheng China and Japan in Regional (and Global) Economic Order; C.Clark The U.S.-Japan Alliance as a Factor in Sino-Japanese Relations; M.Gurtov Taiwan as a Factor in P.R.C.-Japan Relations; P.K.H.Yu & S.Kao Sea Power, Law of the Sea, and the Sino-Japanese East China Sea "Resource War"; J.C.Hsiung It Takes Two to Tango: The Sino-Japanese Conflict as Japan Views It; S.Sudo Is Senkaku/Diaoyutai a Hotbed for a Hot War between China and Japan?; U.Suganuma Conclusion: Will China and Japan Be Like Germany and France?; J.C.Hsiung

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Book SynopsisThe Idolatrous State of Exception in John Donne's Poetry and Prose God's Extimacy: Divine Excess and Baroque Monads in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw Tarrying with Chaos: Radical Evil and John Milton's Paradise Lost God beyond Essence: The Event of Love in the Poetry and Prose of Thomas TraherneTrade Review'This new work pushes the 'return to religion' into a 'return to theory,' pursued via exegetical and philosophical frameworks firmly located in the period of study, but with their roots and branches leading far wider than any 'contextual' approach could adequately map. In Cefalu's study, engagement with theology brings forward concepts, concerns and modes of reading that are born out of specific historical situations, traumas and debates, but are not reducible to them, modeling a theoretical approach to literature that is hermeneutically grounded in the very stuff of Western literariness (namely, its religious tropes, rhythms, and figures). Cefalu's chosen paradigm for encountering 'the sublime objects of theology' is Lacanian psychoanalysis, in the cultural and ethical spin given to it in the masterful work of Slavoj i ek and other members of the Slovenian school, including Mladen Dolor and Alenka Zupancic. This is a very timely book.' - Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Comparative LiteratureTable of ContentsThe Idolatrous State of Exception in John Donne's Poetry and Prose God's Extimacy: Divine Excess and Baroque Monads in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw Tarrying with Chaos: Radical Evil and John Milton's Paradise Lost God beyond Essence: The Event of Love in the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Traherne

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Book SynopsisPlease note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). In this first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship between art, politics, and the market.Trade Review"Raphael Dalleo and Elena Machado Sáez are to be commended on their compelling study of the complex relationship between the Civil Rights and post-Sixties eras of Latino/a-Caribbean literature, politics, and the market. The consideration of the challenges that face Cuban-Americans in their literary and artistic production is particularly timely, as well as their conception of a space for politically engaged, marketable literature in the twenty-first century. For these reasons, among others, The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature is worthy of attention and merits scholarly study." - Camino Real "Especially because of the timeliness of its arguments, but also because of the breadth and depth of its study and argumentation, The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature will be an important text for scholars and students of Latino(a) literature. One can already see how Dalleo and Machado Saez's book could well occasion a lively discussion of the next steps in the formation and cultivation of a Latino(a) canon for the twenty-first century." - Latino(a) Research Review "The first book to look seriously at the process by which a panethnic US Latino/a literary canon has been constructed. One of the greatest strengths of The Latino/a Canon is its sustained attention to the market - as constructive of certain modes of reception for these texts, as a force with which the authors themselves must engage, and as it is represented within the texts themselves. As an overview of the field and of the fundamental paradigms that have informed much Latino/a literary scholarship, the introduction is, quite simply, indispensable; it would supply a valuable framework for any course on Latino/a literature. The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature is an important contribution to Latino/a literary studies and will be of enormous value to anyone wishing to attend to the politics and process of canon formation." - MELUS, as reviewed by Marta Caminero-Santangelo. Santagelois Associate Professor of Englishand theauthor of On Latinidad: U.S. Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity and The Madwoman Can't Speak: Or Why Insanity Is Not Subversive. "This timely book challenges the ideological and chronological binaries behind the canon set up by established U.S. Latino/a literary critics. It provokes and exhorts readers to rethink the dualities - resident versus immigrant, oppositional versus mainstream - that imply that Latino/a literature can only be resistant through the anti-colonial discourse of the 60s and 70s. The clear and incisive discussions about canon formation, ideologies and the market are unprecedented and very much needed in the context of globalization." - Frances Aparicio, author of Listening to Salsa "Dalleo and Machado Sáez bring the hot topic of Latino/a literature to bear on important questions regarding the future and purpose of literature, arguing in favor of literature and its political place within the social. This is a call to scrutinize the way markets shape readers, including critics. This book will no doubt raise the bar of debates pertaining to the future of literature." - Román de la Campa, author of Cuba on My Mind and Split States and Global Imaginaries "The first book to be published on this subject that carefully examines the making of Latino/a literature in all its elements including the politics of marketing, publishing, and even book reviews. Dalleo and Machado Sáez clearly illustrate the inherent contradictions and tensions that characterize the making of the Latino/a literary canon and will force scholars to reconsider why some authors and not others are incorporated into their research and teaching." - Bridget Kevane, author of Latino Literature in America "Dalleo and Machado Sáez show a welcome sensibility to regional particularities and cultural discreteness in the outline of the social field of their research, attending to the significance of the New York or Miami milieu in determining the place of the works of Puerto Rican, Dominican-American, and Cuban diaspora authors within the larger corpus known as Latino literature. Their intervention enriches the critical discourse around the writings of U.S. Latino/a authors." - Silvio Torres-Saillant, author of The Dominican Americans and An Intellectual History of the Caribbean "Disrupting the binaries that divide Latinos/as and underscoring a critical hybridity, Dalleo and Machado Sáez recognize the heterogeneity of Latinidad and facilitate collective Latino/a mobilization. Dalleo and Machado Sáez move from an idealization of the past to a forward-thinking vision of a present and future influenced by the past." - Latino StudiesTable of ContentsSell Outs? Politics and the Market in Post-Sixties Latino/a Literature Periodizing Latino/a Literature Through Pedro Pietri's Nuyorican Cityscapes Mercado Dreams: The End(s) of Sixties Nostalgia in Contemporary Ghetto Fiction Movin' on Up and Out: Engaging Lowercase Latino/a Conversations with Junot Diaz and Angie Cruz Latino/a Identity and Consumer Citizenship in Christina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban Wrtiting in a Minor Key: Postcolonial and Post-Civil Rights Histories in the Novels of Julia Alvarez

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the cross-cultural reception of Derrida's work, specifically how that work in all its diversity, has come to be identified with word deconstruction. It is the first book to consider the cultural reception of Derrida's works, its accessible language and structure help to make this a benchmark amongst introductory Derrida studies.Trade Review'Through offering...an 'introduction' to Derrida's work in the context of literary studies, it also provides the advanced student of Derrida and researchers who specialize in the field of literary theory, poststructuralism, and 'deconstruction' much to consider, and equally much to reassess...one can only wish that there were more books of this quality on Derrida.' - Professor Julian Wolfreys, Department of English, University of Florida, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction The Task of the Translator: Translation as Transformation Interpretation and Overinterpretation: Deconstruction in America The Deconstruction of a Pedagogical Institution: Derrida and the 'Principle of Reason' The Postmodern Political Condition: Deconstruction and Enlightenment The Politics of the Proper Name: Nietzsche, Derrida and De Man Disfigured Maintaining the Presence of Marx: Marxism and Deconstruction Afterword: Legacy Bibliography Index of Works by Jacques Derrida Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers insights, knowledge and perspectives on Asian brands and branding as a strategic tool and provides a comprehensive framework for understanding Asian branding strategies and Asian brands, including success stories and challenges for future growth and strengths. The book includes theoretical frameworks and models and up-to-date case studies on Asian brandsTrade Review'Martin Roll's Asian Brand Strategy provides superb motivation and substance into Asian brands and branding. It offers invaluable inspiration and guidance into one of the hottest areas of marketing.' - Kevin Lane Keller, Professor of Marketing, Tuck School of Business 'Martin Roll's book Asian Brand Strategy has the serious theoretical framework which underpins any real understanding of the role of branding in business. And it has the practical pointers which make it useful for anyone wanting to implement a brand strategy. I would strongly recommend this book as compulsory reading for anyone who wants to understand the power of branding and how to implement a practical, no-gimmicks brand strategy.' - Ho Kwon Ping, Executive Chariman, Banyan Tree Resorts 'Martin Roll makes a compelling argument for branding to be one of the top issues for Asian CEOs to enhance shareholder value. He provides a thoughtful set of approaches, and illustrates these nicely with interesting cases from the region.' - Minsok Pak, Principal, McKinsey & Co. 'Highly readable...sprinkled with interesting case studies that will appeal to the layman as much as the expert.' - The TelegraphTable of ContentsIntroduction Branding - The driver of a successful business strategy Transforming the way we understand Asian cultures and consumers Asian country branding Celebrity branding in Asia Asian brand strategy Successful Asian brand cases Aspiring Asian brand cases 10 steps to build an Asian brand Asian brands towards 2020 - A new confidence in the boardroom Conclusion Appendix - Brand Valuation

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Book SynopsisUsing the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. Poverty, AIDS and Hunger outlines an easily-replicable model, at modest cost, that could lift people quickly out of poverty, with sustainable benefits.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Foreword by Stephen Lewis Preface by Bono Introduction; A.Conroy & J.Sachs PART 1: THE PERFECT STORM The History of Development and Crisis in Malawi; A.Conroy & J.Sachs Health and Disease in Malawi; A.Conroy & J.Malewezi The AIDS Pandemic; A.Conroy & A.Whiteside The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on the National Economy and Development; A.Whiteside & A.Conroy The Collapse of Agriculture; M.Blackie & A.Conroy Economic Isolation; J.Sachs Malawi and the Poverty Trap - First Person Account; A.Conroy PART 2: THE SOLUTIONS Introduction; J.Sachs Breaking Out of the Health and Disease Crisis; A.Conroy, J.Malewezi & J.Sachs Breaking Out of the Food Crisis; M.Blackie & A.Conroy Breaking Out of Economic Isolation; J.Sachs Changing Mindsets; A.Conroy & M.Blackie Ending Extreme Poverty in Malawi; J.Sachs Afterword; Tom Arnold

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Book SynopsisThe Interpersonal Idiom offers a timely reformulation of identity in the age of Shakespeare, recovering a rich and now obsolete language that casts selfhood not as subjective experience but as the experience of others.Trade Review'Selleck's well-researched, elegantly written, and theoretically sophisticated argument offers a timely reformulation of the self/other dyad in early modern literature and culture. By insisting on the ways the self is objectified in, for, and by the other, Selleck challenges the notion of autonomous selfhood that, even when under erasure in post-structuralist critique, pervades current usages of the term. This is an exciting thesis one that has the potential to remap the terrain not only of early modern but also postmodern accounts of the self.' - Jonathan Gil Harris, George Washington University.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Other Selves Properties of a 'Self': Words and Things, 1580-1690 Persons in Play: Donne's Body and the Humoral Actor Material Others: Shakespeare's Mirrors and Other Perspectives 'Womans Constancy': The Poetics of Consummation Epilogue: Subjects, Objects, and Contemporary Theory

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Book SynopsisIn early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widow burning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travellers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of ''Eastern barbarity''.Trade Review'Overall this is an impressive book which synthesizes disparate narratives of discovery, morality, and gender differentiation to illuminate the role of women in early modern culture.' - Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Renaissance Crossings; Widows, Witches, and Forms of Literary Haunting Under Western Eyes: Sati and Witches in European Representations Instructions for Christian Women: The Sati and European Widows Disorderly Wives, Poison, and the Iconography of Female Murderers Civility and "dying" to Speak: the Sati, Fetish, and History

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Book SynopsisThis book develops important new insights into the conditions that enable effective collaborations between arts and humanities researchers and SMEs in the creative economy. Drawing on the work of Creativeworks London, an AHRC-funded Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy, this is an in-depth study of how co-created and collaborative research projects work on the ground and will be of immense value to all these audiences. Chapters by researchers and practitioners examine a range of collaborative research projects supported by Creativeworks London's vouchers, which cover a large number of creative industry sectors and academic disciplines. The book identifies key learning from these projects that has wider relevance for academics, funders, policy makers, and SMEs in the creative economy.Morag Shiach is Professor of Cultural history at Queen Mary University of London, UK, where she is also Director of Creativeworks London and Vice-Principal for Humanities and Social Sciences. HerTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction; Morag Shiach and Tarek E. Virani.- Chapter 2. Cultural Policy, Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange; Morag Shiach and Tarek E. Virani.- Chapter 3. Bringing the Past into the Present: Mobilising Historical Research through Creative and Digital Collaboration; John Price.- Chapter 4. Creating Archival Value in a Changing Mediascape: The “World in a Cube” Project; Ian Christie with Wendy Earle, Eleni Liarou, Karen Merkel, Akim Mogaji.- Chapter 5. Consumer As Producer; Value Mechanics in Digital Transformation Design Process, Practice and Outcomes; Karen Cham.- Chapter 6. Goldsmiths Digital: Research and Innovation in the Creative Economy; Mick Grierson.- Chapter 7. Getting Inside the Creative Voucher: The Platform 7 Experience; Andy Pratt and John McKiernan.- Chapter 8. Devising Bespoke Art and Design Interventions for a Dialysis Community; Rachel Louis and Luise Vormittag.- Chapter 9. The BeatWoven Project; Noam Shemtov.- Chapter 10. At Home with Collaboration: Building and Sustaining a Successful University–Museum Partnerships; Alastair Owens, Eleanor John and Alison Blunt.- Chapter 11. Connections—Movements—Treasures: Unlocking the Potential of the June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive; Emma Sandon and June Givanni.- Chapter 12. Process as Outcome: Research across Borders; Caspar Melville.- Chapter 13. Social Art Map: Reflections on a Creative Collaboration; Emily Druiff and Sophie Hope.- Chapter 14. Making Friends: Childhood, the Cultural Economy and Creative Collaboration through Technology; Tessa Whitehouse and Emilie Giles.- Chapter 15. Outside the Voucher: Evaluating the Creative Voucher Scheme; Andy Pratt, Helen Matheson-Pollock, and Tarek E. Virani.- Chapter 16. Creative Collaborations: The Role of Networks, Power and Policy; Roberta Comunian.

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Book SynopsisKatharine Adeney demonstrates that institutional design is the most important explanatory variable in understanding the different intensity and types of conflict in the two countries rather than the role of religion. Adeney examines the extent to which previous constitutional choices explain current day conflicts.Trade Review"Katharine Adeney's book sets a new standard in the literature on comparative federalism and South Asian studies...The book's impressive empirical underpinnings will be invaluable in predicting the expected levels of federal stability in India and Pakistan." - Lawrence Saez, Political Studies Review "This book breaks new ground . . . Adeney's conclusions are particularly instructive to both practitioners and federalism think-tanks currently contemplating the institutionalisation of federalism in states like Sri Lanka, Iraq, Nepal and Afghanistan." - Contemporary South Asia "Katharine Adeney has written a book of exceptional analytical clarity. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this study moves beyond the tired clichés that have afflicted much of the comparative scholarship on India and Pakistan. Explaining why federal structures are sometimes able to manage diversity (and sometimes not), Adeney provides an original and historically informed account of institutions as both cause and effect - as a reflection of social realities as well as key determinants of political behavior. This is a book of significance well beyond South Asian studies." - Robert Jenkins, Professor of Political Science, Birkbeck College, University of London "Katharine Adeney's searching and finely nuanced study argues that federalism and consociationalism take many forms. Their achievement as strategies for dealing with ethnic conflict varies with context. Her historically informed analysis makes an important contribution to our understanding of federalism and consociationalism in general, while the particular cases, India's relative success and Pakistan's relative failure, illuminate the contextual quality of causality." - Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Professor of Political Science Emerita, University of Chicago "Katharine Adeney's book deserves an enthusiastic welcome for several reasons. Comparative research on Pakistan and India is a rarity - and it is rarer still to see analyses that are as penetrating and dispassionate as this one. Her discussion of 'ethnic' conflict is extremely valuable because - unlike many that have recently appeared - it breaks 'ethnicity' down into linguistic and religious dimensions. And it also demonstrates that what sometimes appear to be 'ethnic' conflicts are actually rooted in disputes over material issues, such as the control of resources. Finally, this is a major and subtle contribution to the literature on comparative federalism. It is unusual for a book - especially a first book - to enrich our understanding on so many fronts; but that is what this one does." - James Manor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex "Adeney's astute comparison of India and Pakistan is an important addition to the literature explaining that institutions matter to the democratic health of the countries that adopt them." - Donald L. Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsComparative Federalism and Ethnic Conflict: A Theoretical Examination * Federal Plans in Pre-independence India * The Federal "Problem" in South Asia: Institutional Design before Partition * Partition: Differences in Federal Design * Federal Segregation or Multiculturalism? * Federal (in)Stability in India * Federal (in)Stability in Pakistan * Future Prospects for India and Pakistan and Lessons for Ethnically Divided Societies

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Book SynopsisIncorporating perspectives from religious studies, humor studies, cultural and film studies, and theology, as well as original data from textual analysis and the voices of religious comedians, this book critically analyses the experiences of believers who appreciate that their faith is not necessarily a barrier to their laughter. It is often thought that religion and humor are incompatible, but Religious Humor in Evangelical Christian and Mormon Culture shows that humor is not only a popular means of entertainment, but also a way in which an individual or community expresses their identity and values. Elisha McIntyre argues that believers embrace their sense of humor, actively producing and consciously consuming comic entertainment that reflects their own experiences. This process is not however without conflict. The book argues that there are specific characteristics that indicate a unique kind of humor that may be called religious humor'. Through an examination of religious Trade ReviewReligious Humor in Evangelical Christian and Mormon Culture makes a substantial contribution to the growing field of the study of humor (specifically the genre of comedy) and religion. The focus on producers of humorous religious media, and on comedians in particular, in relation to religious audiences proves especially fruitful. * Journal for Religion, Film and Media *Finding similarities of core values among various Mormon and Evangelical Christian groups, Elisha McIntyre pinpoints another shared virtue: self-reflexive religious humor. Constructing a fresh apologetic for the place of laughter within these conservative communities, McIntyre expertly negotiates the tensions between their religious traditions (particularly those of LDS) and popular culture, merrily exploring areas of clean humor, sex, sin, and swearing, though not in that order. * Terry Lindvall, Professor of Communication, Virginia Wesleyan University, USA *Religious Humour in Evangelical Christian and Mormon Culture is a most welcome addition to the study of religion and humour. McIntyre focuses on two groups that can be seen as populated by humourless prudes, but in her very capable hands she shows us how they use strategies that make sense in their religious subcultures to make their co-religionists laugh. This book will expose people to a world of humour that is not normally available in HBO or Netflix specials, but which exposes the moral orders of American Evangelicals and Latter-Day Saints in new and insightful ways with a sophisticated theoretical framework. McIntyre has given us a work of insightful, accessible, and valuable scholarship. * David Feltmate, Associate Professor of Sociology, Auburn University at Montgomery, USA *What makes something funny to evangelicals and Mormons? This is the core concern of Religious Humor in Evangelical Christian and Mormon Culture. Through detailed analyses of stand-up performances, movies, web series, cartoons, and other instances of comedy, the book offers an important perspective on an understudied aspect of contemporary American Christianity. Using accessible language that preserves the lighthearted spirit—and even the humor—of its subject, the book situates evangelical and Mormon joking into robust theoretical frameworks.. * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Evangelicals, Mormons and Popular Culture 2. Introducing the Challenges of Humor 3. Appropriate Humor I: Blasphemy and Belief 4. Appropriate Humor II: Clean and Dirty Humor 5. Appropriate Humor III: Safe and Subversive Humor Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAt a critical point in the development of photography, this book offers an engaging, detailed and far-reaching examination of the key issues that are defining contemporary photographic culture. Photography Reframed addresses the impact of radical technological, social and political change across a diverse set of photographic territories: the ontology of photography; the impact of mass photographic practice; the public display of intimate life; the current state of documentary, and the political possibilities of photographic culture. These lively, accessible essays by some of the best writers in photography together go deep into the most up-to-date frameworks for analysing and understanding photographic culture and shedding light on its histories. Photography Reframed is a vital road map for anyone interested in what photography has been, what it has become, and where it is going.Table of ContentsPhotography Reframed: Always, Already, Again, Ben Burbridge and Annebella PollenSection I. New Ontologies: Photography between the Archive and the Network1. Technology and Interaction: Penelope Umbrico’s TVs from Craigslist, Duncan Wooldridge2. Post-representational Photography, or the Grin of Schrödinger’s Cat, Daniel Rubinstein3. Archival Measures: Photography Collections in a New Media Age, Tina Di Carlo4. The Grain of Ephemera/Event: Thinking Digital Archive through Photography, Sen Uesaki and Jelena Stojkovic5. Tomorrow’s Headlines Are Today’s Fish and Chip Papers: Some Thoughts on ‘Response-ability’ David Campany interviewed by Duncan WooldridgeSection II. Mass Culture and the Politics of Distinction6. Popular Photographic Cultures in Photography Studies, Gil Pasternak7. The Photographer as Reader: The Aspirational Amateur in the Photo-Magazines, Peter Buse8. Mrs Wagner’s Aspirations: The Album as Monument, Martha Langford9. When is a Cliché not a Cliché?: Reconsidering Mass-produced Sunsets, Annebella PollenSection III. (Networked) Society and the Spectacle: Photography and Exhibitionism10. The Shirt Off His Back: Male Torsos on Display in Contemporary Visual Culture, Marvin Heiferman11. The Politics of Amateurism in Online Pornography, Feona Attwood12 What a Body Can Do: From the Frenzy of the Communicative to the Visual Bond, Francis Summers 13. Hating Habermas: On Exhibitionism, Shame and Life on the Actually Existing Internet, Theresa M. Senft14. Paradise Lost: Exhibitionism and the Work of Nan Goldin, Ben BurbridgeSection IV. Documentary Photography and Global Crisis15. The Déjà Vu of September 11: An Essay on Inter-iconicity, Clément Chéroux16. Facing War: Photography and Humanism, Iain Boal and Julian Stallabrass17. War Primers, David Evans18. Immigration Photography in Italy, Andrea Pogliano 19. Landscape Photography’s ‘New Humanism’, Chad EliasSection V. Citizens? Photography, Resistance and Control20. Dead End Streets: Photography, Protest and Social Control, David Hoffman21. Escaping the Panopticon, Pauline Hadaway22 ‘You Don’t Even Represent Us’: Picturing the Moscow Protests, Aglaya Glebova23. Occupy the Image, Liam Devlin24. The Becoming-Photographer in Technoculture, Sarah KemberClosing Reflections, Ronnie Close, Catherine Grant, Sarah E. James and Sandra PlummerAfterword, Charlotte CottonList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsCreditsContributor BiographiesIndex

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Book SynopsisHow do children determine which identity becomes paramount as they grow into adolescence and early adulthood? Which identity results in patterns of behaviour as they develop? To whom or to which group do they feel a sense of belonging? How might children, adolescents and young adults negotiate the gap between their own sense of identity and the values promoted by external influences?The contributors explore the impact of globalization and pluralism on the way most children and adolescents grow into early adulthood. They look at the influences of media and technology that can be felt within the living spaces of their homes, competing with the religious and cultural influences of family and community, and consider the ways many children and adolescents have developed multiple and virtual identities which help them to respond to different circumstances and contexts. They discuss the ways that many children find themselves in a perpetual state of shifting identities without ever being firmTrade ReviewThis interdisciplinary book offers a significant contribution to understanding and supporting healthy identity development in children and adolescents, a critical task for ensuring their well-being and, in turn, to the future well-being of the planet. Its range of coverage is remarkable, with contributions by scholars from many countries using varied research methods to investigate diverse identity facets and issues. * Aostre Johnson, Emeritus Professor of Education, Saint Michael's College, Vermont, USA *This is an invaluable resource for all those who wish to have a glimpse of how children and young people on all five continents are making use, or struggling, with spirituality, religion, language, gender, education, class and ability in their journey to construct their identify. * Adrian-Mario Gellel, Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education, University of Malta, Malta *This is an excellent collection of essays written by a team of international scholars who specialise in culture and identity across age groups. The topics covered are wide-ranging and contemporary. Grounded in cutting-edge research and solid scholarship, this volume is a must-read for policymakers, academics and educators. * Charlene Tan, Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore *With broad-ranging perspectives, ranging from the socio-cultural to the spiritual, this work shares significant ideas illuminating how we can face the challenge of establishing our identities in an unpredictable world. * Yoshiharu Nakagawa, Professor of Education, Doshisha University, Japan *This handbook captures both the subaltern discourses and innovative intersections of gender, race/ethnicity, class, disability, religion, language, and technology to construct modern-day identities in children and adolescents. Its multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary global case studies make it the ideal resource to unlock the multi-layered complexities of an emerging research niche that influences worldviews. * Denzil Chetty, Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of South Africa, South Africa *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction, Marian de Souza (Federation University, Australia) Part I: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives 1. Social and Cultural Factors and the Construction of Young Children’s Identities, Tony Eaude (University of Oxford, UK) 2. The Origins of Self-Concept as Part of Identity Formation, Zoi Nikiforidou (Liverpool Hope University, UK) and Kyriakos Demetriou (University of Nicosia, Cyprus) 3. Conceptualising (De)colonial Identity in South Africa, Anne Becker (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) and Irene Becker (University of Johannesburg, South Africa) 4. A Self Rejected: Childhood Loneliness and the Experience of Alienation, Julian Stern (Bishop Grossette University, UK) 5. Wings To Their Feet: A Pedagogical Strategy of Dialogue as Prevention of Radicalization, Ina ter Avest (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands) 6. New Rites of Passage to Positives Selves and Engagements in Twenty-First Century France, Alain Ruffion (Eranos Institute, France) Part II: Educational, Social, Linguistic and Cultural Perspectives 7. Searching For Meaning and Identity amongst Young People in an Uncertain World: Perspectives from Latvia, Dzintra Iliško (Daugavpils University, Latvia) 8. Muslim-Based Schools and the Risk of Enclosing Education through Socialisation in South Africa, Nuraan Davids (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 9. Learning, Potential and Identity Construction in Maltese Early Years Settings, Rosienne Farrugia (University of Malta, Malta) 10. Minority Discourse: Decoding the Parsi Sensibility in Indian English Fiction, Reena Mitra (Independent Researcher, India) 11. Developing Their Best Reading and Writing Selves for Bi/Multilingual Students and Families, Jiyoon Lee, Kindel Turner Nash, Jennifer Mata-McMahon and Joshua Michael (University of Maryland, Baltimore Country, USA) 12. Language, Literacy and Identity from Early Childhood to Young Adulthood in Singapore, Mukhlis Abu Bakar (National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 13. A Construction of Young Adult Malaysians’ Linguistic Identity, Su Li Chong (Institute of Self Sustainable Building (ISB), Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia) 14. Identity and Language as Experienced by Student Teachers in Maltese Primary Schools, Josephine Milton (University of Malta, Malta) 15. Identity Formation and the Role of Religious Education Teachers in Australian Catholic Schools, Michael T. Buchanan (Australian Catholic University, Australia) 16. A Philosophical Perspective on Provision for Cultural Development in an English Context, Ruth Wills (Liverpool Hope University, UK) Part III: Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Class, Religion and (Dis)ability Perspectives 17. The Influence of Race and Religion on Identity Construction in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Anne Becker and Cornelia Roux (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 18. Insight into a Young Canadian-Muslim’s Experience of Identity, Shemine Gulamhusein (MacEwan University, Canada) 19. Heterogeneous Belonging, The Ethics of Care and Children’s Identity in the Indian Context, Jahnavi Misra (Independent Researcher, India) 20. Mediating Culture and Identity for Malay and Indian Transgender Youth in Asia, Roszalina Rawi (National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) & Hema Letchamanan (Taylor’s University, Malaysia) 21. Socialization of Identity and Culture of Jewish and Arab Children and Adolescents in Israel, Yaacov Katz (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) 22. Beyond Cultural Normativity to a Conceptual Clarity in Teaching “Women in Islam” in Turkey, Mualla Selçuk and Nahide Bozkurt (Ankara University, Turkey) Part IV: Spiritual, Health and Wellbeing Perspectives 23. Nurturing a Sense of Wholeness in Children and Adolescents from a Spiritual Perspective, Bob London (California State University, San Bernardino, USA) 24. The Construction of Spiritual Identity among Israeli Students, Zehavit Gross (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) 25. Changing Socio-Political Identity and Promoting Positive Mental Health and Holistic Education in Hong Kong, Ngar-Sze Lau (Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 26. Despair and Happiness: Japanese Youth of Today and Their Multiple Identities, Dorothea Filus (Monash University, Australia) 27. Grounding Being in the Ground of Being: Spiritual Experiences as Catalysts in Identity Formation, Tobin Hart (University of West Georgia, USA) References Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive reader that brings African experiences to bear on the ongoing global discussions of women, gender, and society. Bringing together the essential writing on this topic from the last 25 years, these essays discuss gender in Africa from a multi-disciplinary perspective.Trade Review'Contributors to African Gender Studies address, in very valuable ways, a variety of theoretical and methodological issues regarding study of the status of women in Africa as contrasted with notions of feminism in the North. Among those issues are the construction of gender in different African contexts, innovative development strategies, the role of the African academic, pedagogies in the North and South, insider and outsider perspectives, and revisionist historiography. This volume should be required reading for all students of Africa and its diaspora.' - Betty J. Harris, University of Oklahoma 'For the diversity and renown of its authors as well as the breadth of its topical coverage, this book deserves a wide reading. Its subject matter, African gender studies, is important not only for Africa but also for its ability to affect both the discourse about and action on global issues dealing with gender, 'development,' and social and economic justice. ' - Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Columbia College Chicago; author of For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of NigeriaTable of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCTION - CONCEPTUALIZING GENDER: DECOLONIZING FEMINISM White Women's Burden; O.Oyewumi Women's Roles and Existential Identities; I.Kopytoff The 'Status of Women' in Indigenous African Societies - Implications for the Study of African American Women's Roles; N.Sudarkasa Feminism and Difference: The Perils of Writing as a Woman on Women in Algeria; M.Lazreg PART II: CONSTRUCTING KINSHIP: FAMILY TIES AND THE 'DOMESTIC' Down to the Fundamentals: Women-Centered Hearth-holds in Rural West Africa; F. Ekejiuba African Bride Wealth and Women's Status; J. Ogbu Home-Made Hegemony: Modernity, Domesticity, and Colonialism in South Africa; J. Comaroff & J. Comaroff Colonial and Missionary Education: Women and Domesticity in Uganda, 1900-1945; N.Musisi Crisis and Reconstruction and the Mobilization of Labor; K.Atkins PART III: MAKING HISTORY/DOING GENDER Making History, Creating Gender: Some Methodological and Interpretive Questions in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions; O.Oyewumi What's So Feminist About Doing Women's Oral History?; S.Geiger Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History; E.Akyeampong & P.Obeng PART IV: JUDICIAL DISCOURSES Wives, Children, and Interstate Sucession in Ghana; T.Manuh Narratives of Power: Women's Experience of the World of Familial Relationships and Legal Discourse in Botswana; A.Griffiths Concepts of Equality in Cases of Discrimination Against Women: Examples From Africa; C.Jones PART V: WRITING WOMEN - READING GENDER Gender, Feminist Theory and Post-Colonial (Women's) Writing; J. Makuchi Nfah Abbenyi The Female Writer and Her Commitment; M.Ogundipe-Leslie Posessing the Voice of the Other; N.Nako PART VI: NECESSARY DIALOGUES: QUESTIONS OF POWER AND KNOWLEDGE Epilogue: In My Father's House; K.A.Appiah Questions of Identity and Inheritance: A Critical Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah's In My Father's Hourse ; N.Nkegwu Reinventing Africa; I.Amadiume Chasing Shadows: The Misplaced Search for Matriarchy; N.Nzegwu PART VII: DEVELOPMENT OR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION Definitions of Women and Development: An African Perspective; A.Pala Research Methodology and Investigative Framework for Social Change: The Case for African Women; F.Steady Recovering Igbo Traditions: A Case for Indigenous Women's Organizations in Development; N. Nzegwu PART VIII: TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC FUTURES - MODELS OF ACTIVISM Bitu: Facilitator of Women's Educational Opportunities; C.Obbo Funlayo Ransome-kuti: A True Citizen; C.Johnson-Odim & N.Mba Sheroes and Villains: Conceptualizing Colonial and Contemporary Violence Against Women in Africa; A.Mama

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Book SynopsisThese essays consider the Godzilla films and how they shaped and influenced postwar Japanese culture, as well as the globalization of Japanese pop culture icons. There are contributions from Film Studies, Anthropology, History, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies and from Susan Napier, Anne Allison, Christine Yano and others.Trade Review"At last, a critical analysis of Godzilla movies that breathes enough fire to be worthy of the Big G himself. This is a book for anyone interested in Japanese culture - scholars and fans alike will be delighted with these smart, provocative essays that explore what Japan's most popular monster has meant at home and abroad." - Annalee Newitz, author of Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture"These thirteen essays contextualize Gojira in terms of war memory and scientific modernity, Japanese folklore and worldwide fandom, and 'green' and 'pink' globalization. Well-researched and illuminating, this book challenges students and teachers alike to confront all-too-common stereotypes about cheesy cultural products from Japan. In Godzilla's Footsteps is the most ambitious attempt to date to make sense of postwar Japan's popular culture historically, and to examine Japanese history through pop culture icons." - Franziska Seraphim, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Boston College, author of War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2006 (2006) "In Godzilla's Footsteps is a fascinating look back at the early seeds of today's blossoming Japanese pop culture abroad." - Greenman ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; W.M.Tsutsui When Godzilla Speaks; S.Napier Mobilizing Gojira: Mourning Modernity as Monstrosity; M.Anderson Gojira as Japan's First Postwar Media Event; B.Kushner Lost in Translation and Morphed in Transit: Godzilla in Cold War America; S.Guthrie-Shimizu Wrestling with Godzilla: Intertextuality, Childish Spectatorship, and the National Body; A.Gerow Mothra's Gigantic Egg: Consuming the South Pacific in 1960s Japan; Yoshikuni Hybridity and Negotiated Identity in Japanese Popular Culture; J.Boss Teaching Godzilla: Classroom Encounters with a Cultural Icon; J.Bernardi "Our First Kiss Had a Radioactive Taste": Ohashi Yasuhiko's Gojira in Japan and Canada; K.J.Wetmore Jr. Godzilla Meets Super-Kyogen, or How a Dinosaur Saved the World; E.Rath Monstering the Japanese Cute: Pink Globalization and Its Critics Abroad; C.Yano Kikaida for Life: Cult Fandom in a Japanese Live-Action TV Show in Hawai'i; H.Katsuno Apocalypsis in Fantasy and Reality: Japanese Pop Culture in Contemporary Russia; Y.Mikhailova Epilogue: He Did the Stomp, He Did the Monster Stomp; T.C.Bestor

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Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to analyze the nature of European and North American firms' business experience in India with a particular emphasis on understanding the causes of their successes and failure. This book strives to offer Western managers the knowledge they will need to succeed in business in India.Trade Review'Doing Business in India first demystifies the country for Western managers...and then lays out sensible ways by which Western managers can build their business efforts on such solid understanding. This book completely fulfills its promise of helping managers do business in India.' - Srinivasa Rangan, Professor of Strategy and International Business, Babson College, and Co-author of Strategic Alliances: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Globalization 'Very interesting, to the point, and of great value...this book will be a must for Western managers wanting to explore business opportunities in India.' - Theis S. Ulriksen, Commercial Counsellor, Royal Norwegian Embassy (ret.), Director, Innovation Norway (ret.) 'Very insightful, a real insider's account of how to manage people, government, institutions, and risk in India, with sensitivity to the cultural context in which Indian business works. The introductory chapters that provide a historical context as well are unique. The case studies, which contain up-to-date material, provide frameworks for multinational businessmen to create their own reference points.' - Rafiq Dossani, Senior Research Scholar, Stanford University, USATable of ContentsIndia: A Commercial History Perspective The Rise of India A Brief History of the Indian Software Industry Cultural Portrait Understanding India Strategizing Success in India Communicating with Indians Managing Relationships with the Indian Government Negotiating and Resolving Conflicts in India

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