Cultural studies Books
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Work, Value,
Book SynopsisThis unique and insightful book provides a comprehensive examination of contemporary cultural policy and its discourses, influences, and consequences. It examines the factors that have led to a narrowing of cultural policy and suggests new ways of thinking about cultural policy beyond economics by reconnecting it with the practices of work, value, and the social. With a particular focus on Australia and the UK, and with reference to transnational bodies including UNESCO, this book identifies and examines influential national and international factors that have shaped cultural policy, including its implementation of an economic agenda. Deborah Stevenson retraces the foundations of contemporary cultural policy, with chapters exploring the hierarchies of legitimacy that form the basis of value and excellence, the increased hegemony of the economy within the art world complex, and the notions of class and gender as two key factors of social inequality that shape access to the arts. Analysing cultural value, work, and the social as important points of tension and potential disruption within contemporary cultural policy, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of arts and cultural management, cultural policy studies, cultural sociology, economics, and leisure and urban studies. It will also be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners across the humanities and the social sciences.Trade Review‘In a research field dominated by worthy activist polemics, Stevenson offers a cool-headed, clear, and thorough guide to the sociology of a policy struggle. Focused on the colonization of art and culture by economics and its reduction to “creative industries”, Stevenson’s book offers artists, institutions, policy makers and students – everyone in the art world complex in fact – an opportunity to grapple with the scale, complexity, and values of a much-needed policy change.’ -- Adrian Franklin, University of South Australia, Australia‘In a research field dominated by worthy activist polemics, Stevenson offers a cool-headed, clear, and thorough guide to the sociology of a policy struggle. Focussed on the colonisation of art and culture by economics and its reduction to “creative industries”, Stevenson’s book offers artists, institutions, policy makers and students – everyone in the Art World Complex in fact – an opportunity to grapple with the scale, complexity and values of a much-needed policy change.’ -- Adrian Franklin, University of South Australia, Australia‘Cultural Policy Beyond the Economy: Work, Value, and the Social is both an outstanding introduction to key issues in cultural policy, as well as a major contribution to the field. Thinking through issues of place, work, education, and value, Stevenson argues for a new vision of cultural policy grounded in the need to remember, and then to rethink, the social basis of culture.’ -- David O'Brien, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: culture is social 1. Understanding ‘art worlds’ 2. Art, excellence, market 3. Questions of value 4. Proxies, discourses, and contexts 5. The social art of engagement 6. Creativity, vocation, career Conclusion: culture, policy, and beyond Bibliography Index
£75.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cultural Heritage, Creativity and Economic
Book SynopsisExploring the relationship between cultural heritage and local economic development, this book introduces the original idea that one possible mediator between the two can be identified as creativity. Using a strong theoretical and empirical framework, Silvia Cerisola explores how cultural heritage, creativity and economic development are inextricably linked. This book is a clear econometric demonstration of how cultural heritage, through its inspirational role on different creative talents, generates an indirect positive effect on local economic development. These positive results justify important new policy recommendations in the field of cultural heritage. Interpreting both creativity and cultural heritage in a novel way, the author offers a new reading of the long lasting debate on the topic, examining different roles and impacts on the welfare of the local community. Regional science scholars will greatly appreciate the original conceptual framework and the empirical foundations of the book, as well as the thorough explanation of different approaches to the measurement of creativity. Policy makers and stakeholders will also benefit from the case studies highlighting the importance of cultural heritage.Trade Review'This book is one of the very first to explore a perspective too often forgotten in the debates on the value of cultural heritage. It deals with the support of cultural heritage for creativeness and helps us understand heritage as an asset for the future, and not merely as a footprint of the past. Moreover this book combines theoretical and statistical perspectives, which makes a seminal contribution for both practitioners and academics.' --Xavier Greffe, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France'The invaluable effects of cultural heritage on society in terms of education, inspiration and identity are commonly acknowledged in the relevant literature, but have never been assessed in quantitative terms. This book does so in a rigorous and convincing way, through the role of another critical element, social creativity.' --Roberto Camagni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy'By attributing to cultural heritage an inspirational and creative value, this book provides a fascinating new insight on its relationship with regional development. The volume elegantly conceptualises and empirically tests the role of creativity as a mediator between cultural heritage and local performance.' --Roberta Capello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Past President of RSAI, PortugalTable of ContentsContents: 1. Setting the scene 2. From cultural heritage to local development 3. Creativity: definitions and measures 4. A new conceptual framework for the definition and measurement of creativity 5. From cultural heritage to creativity 6. From creativity to socio-economic development 7. From cultural heritage to development through creativity 8. Conclusions and policy implications References Index
£88.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Cultural Economics, Third Edition
Book SynopsisCultural economics has become well established as a subject of interest for students and instructors of courses ranging from economics to arts administration as well as for policy-makers and practitioners in the creative industries. Digitization has had a tremendous impact on many areas of the creative economy and the third edition of this popular book fully reflects it. The Handbook of Cultural Economics is an acknowledged leading source for students, teachers and others interested in finding out about the subject. Cultural economics covers a wide range of topics and they are reflected in the many short and accessibly written chapters. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the subject and offers both suggestions for further reading and cross-references to other related chapters in the book. It therefore combines accessibility with depth of knowledge. The intention of the book is to introduce the reader to the various topics and to testify to the strength of economics in explaining the economic aspects of the world of the arts and creative industries. The third edition demonstrates the huge impact that digitization has had on production and consumption in the sector. While being accessible to any reader with a basic knowledge of economics, it presents a comprehensive study at the forefront of the field for students and teachers of economics, business economics, creative industries, and media and arts administration as well as for policy-makers. Contributors include: O. Ashenfelter, V. Ateca Amestoy, M. Bacache-Beauvallet, W. Baumol, P. Belleflamme, P.J. Benghozi, F. Benhamou, T. Bille, M. Blaug, K. Borowiecki, M. Bourreau, S. Cameron, D.C. Chisholm, F. Colbert, T. Cuccia, C. Dalla Chiesa, J. Denis, P. Di Caro, G. Doyle, J. Farchy, V. Fernandez-Blanco, B. Frey, O. Gergaud, V. Ginsburgh, M. Gómez-Vega, K. Graddy, A. Haddida, C. Handke, L.C. Herrero-Prieto, M. Hutter, W.M. Landes, M. Lavanga, Y.-H. Liu, I. Mazza, C. McAndrew, J. McKenzie, T. Navarrete, D. Netzer, J.W. O Hagan, T. Orme, M. Peitz, J. Prieto-Rodriguez, H. Ranaivoson, M. Rushton, G. Schulze, B. Seaman, S. Shin, J. Snowball, D. Throsby, R. Towse, O. Velthuis, R. Watt, J. Waldfogel, G. Withers, M. ZiebaTrade Review'Ruth Towse and Trilce Navarrete Hernandez are leading lights in cultural economics, and the third edition of the Handbook of Cultural Economics once again is the go-to source for research and wisdom in this area of research, impressive for both its depth and breadth.' --Tyler Cowen, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xi Introduction 1 Ruth Towse and Trilce Navarrete Hernández 1 Application of welfare economics to the arts 9 William J. Baumol 2 Art auctions 19 Orley Ashenfelter and Kathryn Graddy 3 Art dealers 29 Olav Velthuis 4 Artificial intelligence 38 Joëlle Farchy and Juliette Denis 5 Artists’ labour markets 46 Trine Bille 6 Artists’ resale rights 56 Victor Ginsburgh and Clare McAndrew 7 Artists’ rights 66 Michael Rushton 8 Broadcasting 72 Glenn Withers 9 Business models 82 Pierre-Jean Benghozi 10 Contingent valuation 95 Tiziana Cuccia 11 Contract theory and information goods 106 Richard Watt 12 Copyright 116 William M. Landes 13 Cost of production 129 Víctor Fernández-Blanco and Juan Prieto-Rodríguez 14 Creative industries 137 Ruth Towse 15 Creativity 145 Karol Jan Borowiecki 16 Criticism 154 Samuel Cameron 17 Crowdfunding 158 Carolina Dalla Chiesa and Christian Handke 18 Cultural capital 168 David Throsby 19 Cultural districts 174 Mariangela Lavanga 20 Cultural diversity 183 Heritiana Ranaivoson 21 Cultural entrepreneurship 192 Mark Blaug and Ruth Towse 22 Cultural statistics 197 David Throsby 23 Cultural value 206 Jen D. Snowball 24 Demand 216 Jordi McKenzie and Sunny Y. Shin 25 Digital piracy 228 Jordi McKenzie 26 Digitization in the cultural industries 235 Joel Waldfogel 27 Economic impact of the arts 241 Bruce A. Seaman 28 Event cinema 254 Allègre L. Hadida 29 Festivals 262 Bruno S. Frey 30 Google Trends data 266 Olivier Gergaud and Victor Ginsburgh 31 Heritage 279 Françoise Benhamou 32 Information goods 287 Michael Hutter 33 Intangible cultural heritage 294 Tiziana Cuccia 34 Intermediaries 304 Paolo Di Caro, Luigi Di Gaetano and Isidoro Mazza 35 International trade 311 Günther G. Schulze 36 Marketing the arts 320 François Colbert 37 Media economics and regulation 329 Gillian Doyle 38 Motion-picture industry 339 Darlene C. Chisholm and Yu-Hsi Liu 39 Museums 349 Víctor Fernández-Blanco and Juan Prieto-Rodríguez 40 Music industry 358 Christian Handke 41 Music publishing 371 Ruth Towse 42 Non-profit organizations 379 Dick Netzer (updated by Bruce A. Seaman) 43 Orchestras 392 Luis César Herrero-Prieto and Mafalda Gómez-Vega 44 Participation 399 Victoria Ateca-Amestoy 45 Performance indicators 408 Trilce Navarrete Hernández 46 Performing arts 415 Ruth Towse 47 Platforms 421 Maya Bacache-Beauvallet and Marc Bourreau 48 Political economy 430 Isidoro Mazza 49 Pricing the arts 441 Michael Rushton 50 Public support 449 Bruno S. Frey Index
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Liverpool University Press Transatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and
Book SynopsisTransatlantic Studies: Latin America, Iberia, and Africa emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate concerning the role of transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. The innovative research and discussions contained in this volume’s 35 essays by leading scholars in the field reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the diverse transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires. An emerging field, Transatlantic Studies seeks to provoke a discussion and a reconfiguration of the traditional academic notions of area studies, while critically engaging the concepts of national cultures and postcolonial relations among Spain, Portugal and their former colonies. Crucially, Transatlantic Studies transgresses national boundaries without dehistoricizing or decontextualizing the texts it seeks to incorporate within this new framework.Trade ReviewReviews'This volume is, without a doubt, the first attempt to fully theorize the disciplinary practices associated with the umbrella term “transatlantic studies”. Furthermore, it promises to provincialize, once and for all, Iberian Studies as well as to open Latin American Studies to a more radical and cosmopolitan critical practice.'Luis Martín-Cabrera, UC San DiegoTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, Pedro García-Caro, Robert P. Newcomb — Transatlantic Studies: Staking Out the FieldTransatlantic Methodologies2. Francisco Fernández de Alba — Transatlantic Coloniality in Cuba: The Case of Virgilio Piñera and Wilfredo Lam3. Joan Ramon Resina — Transatlantic Studies: The Discipline That Thinks Itself Beyond Its Threshold4. Joseba Gabilondo — The Atlantic State of Violence: State of Exception, Colonial/Civil Wars, and Concentration Camps5. Mario Santana — Iberian Studies: The Transatlantic Dimension6. Abril Trigo — Transatlantic Studies and the Geopolitics of Hispanism7. Lisa Surwillo — Transatlantic Currents: Oceanic Crossings in Novás Calvo’s El negrero8. Zeb Tortorici — Iberian Atlantic Bodies, Commodities, and Texts9. Benita Sampedro — Inscribing Islands: From Cuba to Fernando Poo and backTransatlantic Linguistic Debates10. José Del Valle — Linguistic History and Language Academies in Transatlantic Perspective11. Lena Burgos-Lafuente — Los amarres de la lengua: Spanish Exiles, Puerto Rican Intellectuals, and the Battle Over Spanish, 1942-201612. Julio Ortega — The Transatlantic Trajectory13. Robert Newcomb — “Across the Waves”: The Luso-Brazilian Republic of Letters at the Fin de SiècleTransatlantic Displacement14. Aurélie Vialette — Rewriting the Colonial Past: Spanish Women Intellectuals as Agents of Cross-Cultural Literacy in the Mexican Press15. Christina Karageourgou-Bastea — Luis Cernuda’s “Historial de un libro,” A Travelogue16. Pedro García-Caro — Triangulating the Atlantic: Blanco White, Arriaza, and the London Debate over “Spain”Transatlantic Memory17. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel — Children’s Gaze in Contemporary Cinema: A Transatlantic Poetics of Exile and Historical Memory18. Lisa DiGiovanni — Childhood Memories of Inner Exile in Spain and Chile19. Ana Corbalán — Ethical questions about human trafficking during times of dictatorship: Kidnapped children in Spain and Argentina20. James D. Fernández — Between Empires: Spanish Immigrants in the United States (1868-1945)21. Jennifer Duprey — The Exile as Disinherited: Pere Calders in Mexico22. Sebastiaan Faber — Rethinking Spanish Civil War Exile: The Curious Case of the Catalans23. Gina Herrmann — Transatlantic TrotskyTransatlantic Postcolonial Affinities24. Luis Fernández Cifuentes — Notions of Empire: Transatlantic Art at the Height of the Cold War (A Case Study)25. Antonio Gómez López-Quiñones — Transatlantic Film Studies in the Age of Neoliberalism: Towards a Post-National Cinema?26. Brad Epps — Looping the Loop: The African Vector in Hispanic Trans-Atlantic Studies27. Thomas Harrington — When the Mediterranean Moved West: Catalan Social Networks and the Construction of 19th and Early 20th Century Uruguayan Society and Culture28. Silvia Bermúdez — “Africa begins in…” Donato Ndongo’s and Francisco Zamora Loboch’s Transatlantic Cartographies29. Michelle Murray — Coerced Migration and Sex Trafficking: Transoceanic Circuits of Enslavement30. Marco Antonio Landavazo — The Good Monarchical Government: Popular Translations of Spanish Political Thought During Mexico’s IndependenceTransatlantic Influence31. Ignacio Sánchez-Prado — Alfonso Reyes, Hispanist Praxis and the Critique of Transatlantic Reason32. Lanie Millar — Nicolás Guillén and Lusophone Negritude33. Estela Vieira — Transatlantic Modernisms: Portugal and Brazil34. Vicente Cervera — Hispanisms in the Works of Pedro Henríquez Ureña35. Robert Wells — It’s Complicated -Ortega y Gasset’s Relationship with Argentina36. Enrique Cortez — Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo: The Colonial Matrix and the Latin American LiteraturesEpilogue37. Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel, Sebastiaan Faber, Pedro García-Caro, Robert P. Newcomb — The Future—If There Is One—Is Transatlantic
£126.00
Liverpool University Press Transnational Russian Studies
Book SynopsisTransnational Russian Studies offers an approach to understanding Russia based on the idea that language, society and culture do not neatly coincide, but should be seen as flows of meaning across ever-shifting boundaries. Our book moves beyond static conceptions of Russia as a discrete nation with a singular language, culture, and history. Instead, we understand it as a multinational society that has perpetually redefined Russianness in reaction to the wider world. We treat Russian culture as an expanding field, whose sphere of influence transcends the geopolitical boundaries of the Russian Federation, reaching as far as London, Cape Town, and Tehran.Our transnational approach to Russian Studies generates new perspectives on the history of Russian culture and its engagements with, and transformation by, other cultures. The volume thereby simultaneously illuminates broader conceptions of the transnational from the perspective of Russian Studies. Over twenty chapters, we provide case studies based on original research, treating topics that include Russia’s imperial and postcolonial entanglements; the paradoxical role that language plays in both defining culture in national terms, and facilitating transnational communication; the life of things ‘Russian’ in the global arena; and Russia’s positioning in the contemporary globalized world. Our volume is aimed primarily at students and researchers in Russian Studies, but it will also be relevant to all Modern Linguists, and to those who employ transnational paradigms within the broader humanities.Contributors: Amelia M. Glaser, Cathy McAteer, Connor Doak, Dušan Radunović, Ellen Rutten, Galin Tihanov, Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Julie Curtis, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, Marijeta Bozovic, Michael Gorham, Olga Maiorova, Philip Ross Bullock, Sergey Tyulenev, Stephen Hutchings, Stephen M. Norris, Tatiana Filimonova, Vera Tolz, Vitaly Nuriev and Vlad Strukov.Trade ReviewReviews ‘This book is a very sophisticated and accessible discussion of the issues involved with the concept of transnational. It is clear that the use of transnational throughout the volume is no trendy marketing ploy; it is meticulously woven throughout the book and discussed with great nuance and insight.' Brian James Baer, Kent State University‘This well-researched and thematically rich book is worth the attention of all who take an interest in what is currently an almost universally despised state, but one with a great cultural heritage.’ Arnold McMillin, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsContributorsTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction: Transnationalizing Russian StudiesAndy Byford, Connor Doak, and Stephen HutchingsPart I. Nation, Empire, and Beyond1. Transnational, Multi-National, or Imperial? The Paradoxes of Russia’s (Post-)colonialityVera Tolz2. Gogol'’s Other Coat: Transnationalism in Russia’s Literary BorderlandsAmelia M. Glaser3. The Empire Strikes East: Cross-Cultural Dynamics in Russian Central AsiaOlga Maiorova4. Where the Nation Ends: Transnationalism and Affective Space in Post-Soviet CinemaDušan Radunović5. Vladimir Sorokin’s Telluria: Post-Imperial Eurasia, Fragmented EuropeTatiana FilimonovaPart II. Beyond and Between Languages6. World Literature, War, Revolution: The Significance of Viktor Shklovskii’s A Sentimental Journey Galin Tihanov7. The Transnational Vladimir Nabokov, or the Perils of Teaching LiteratureMarijeta Bozovic8. Bringing Books across Borders: Behind the Scenes in Penguin BooksCathy McAteer9. ‘Sewing up’ the Soviet Politico-Cultural System: Translation in the Multilingual USSRSergey Tyulenev and Vitaly Nuriev10. The Politics of Theatre: ‘New Drama’ in Russian, across Post-Soviet Borders and BeyondJulie Curtis Part III. Cultures Crossing Borders11. A la russe, mais à l'étranger: Russian Opera AbroadPhilip Ross Bullock12. On Russian Cinema Going West (and East): Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad and Blockbuster HistoryStephen M. Norris13. Queer Transnational Encounters in Russian Literature: Gender, Sexuality, and National IdentityConnor Doak14. The Russian Novel of Ideas in Southern AfricaJeanne-Marie Jackson15. ‘Russian’ Imperfections? A Plea for Transcultural Readings of Aesthetic TrendsEllen RuttenPart IV. Russia Going Global16. Beyond a World with One Master: The Rhetorical Dimensions of Putin’s ‘Sovereign Internet’Michael Gorham17. RT and the Digital Revolution: Reframing Russia for a Mediatized WorldStephen Hutchings18. Meduza: A Russo-Centric Digital Media Outlet in a Transnational SettingVlad Strukov19. Transnational Self and Community in the Talk of Russophone Cultural Leaders in the UKLara Ryazanova-ClarkeIndex
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Liverpool University Press Searching for Japan: 20th Century Italy’s
Book SynopsisThis book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan’s relations with the West. Drawing from the fields of Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, analysis of these texts explores one central question: what does it mean to imagine Japanese culture as contributing to Italian culture? Each author shares in common an attempt to disrupt ideas about dichotomies and unbalanced power relationships between East and West. Proposing the notion of ‘relational Orientalism,’ this book suggests that Italian travelogues to Japan, in many cases, pursued the goal of building imaginary transnational communities, predicated on commonalities and integration, by claiming what they perceived as ‘Oriental’ as their own. In contrast with a long history of Western representations of Japan as inferior and irrational, Searching for Japan identifies a positive overarching attitude toward the Far East country in modern Italian culture. Expanding the horizon of Italian transnational networks, normally situated within the Southern European region, this book reinstates the existence of an alternative Euro-Asian axis, operating across Italian history.Trade Review"Through a sophisticated close reading of a variety of yet untapped Italian literary sources, this thought-provoking volume sheds light on a fascinating and understudied aspect of Italian foreign relations and cultural diplomacy. An exciting read for anyone interested in Japan-Italy relations, Orientalism, and East-West relations."Rebecca Suter, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Japanese Studies, The University of SydneyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Searching for Japan1. Cosmopolitan Possibilities in Translation. Views from the Russo-Japanese War2. Mussolini in Japan: Japanese Representations in the Age of Fascism3. Little Italy, Big Japan: Patterns of Continuity and Displacement among Italian Writers in Japan4. Madama Butterfly RevisedPostscript
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Transnational Spanish Studies
Book SynopsisThe focus of this book is two-fold. First it traces the expansive geographical spread of the language commonly referred to as Spanish. This has given rise to multiple hybrid formations over time emerging in the clash of multiple cultures, languages and religions within and between great empires (Roman, Islamic, Hispano-Catholic), each with expansionist policies leading to wars, huge territorial gains and population movements. This long history makes Hispanophone culture itself a supranational, trans-imperial one long before we witness its various national cultures being refashioned as a result of the transnational processes associated with globalization today. Indeed, the Spanish language we recognise today was ‘transnational’ long before it was ever the foundation of a single nation state. Secondly, it approaches the more recent post-national, translingual and inter-subjective ‘border-crossings’ that characterise the global world today with an eye to their unfolding within this long trans-imperial history of the Hispanophone world. In doing so, it maps out some of the contemporary post-colonial, decolonial and trans-Atlantic inflections of this trans-imperial history as manifest in literature, cinema, music and digital cultures. Contributors: Christopher J. Pountain, L.P. Harvey, James T. Monroe, Rosaleen Howard, Mark Thurner, Alexander Samson, Andrew Ginger, Samuel Llano, Philip Swanson, Claire Taylor, Emily Baker, Elzbieta Slodowska, Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, Henriette Partzsch, Helen Melling, Conrad James and Benjamin Quarshie.Trade Review“This book will be a welcome and important contribution to the ongoing re-shaping of Modern Languages in the UK, with an appeal and impact that goes far beyond.”Chris Harris, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroductionSection 1: LanguageChapter 1 Christopher J. Pountain: Transnational dimensions in the history of SpanishChapter 2 L.P. Harvey: Arabic in the Iberian PeninsulaChapter 3 James T. Monroe: The First Chapter in Ibero-Romance Literatures: The ḫarja-s (kharjas)Chapter 4 Rosaleen Howard: Indigenous people of the Andes through languageSection 2: TemporalitiesChapter 5 Mark Thurner: The Names of Spain and Peru: Notes on the Global Scope of the HispanicChapter 6 Alexander Samson: Time, Empire and the Transnational in the Early Modern Spanish WorldChapter 7 Andrew Ginger: Modern, Modernity, Modernism, and the Transnational; Or, Goodbye to All That?Chapter 8 Samuel Llano: Flamenco as Palimpsest: Reading through hybriditySection 3: SpatialitiesChapter 9 Philip Swanson: The Where is Latin America?: Imaginary Geographies and Cultures of Production and ConsumptionChapter 10 Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman: Digital Culture and Post-Regional Latin AmericanismChapter 11 Emily Baker: From ‘Imagined’ to ‘Inoperative’ Communities: The Un-working of National and Latin American Identities in Contemporary FictionChapter 12 Elzbieta Slodowska: Post-Soviet (Re)collections: From Artifact to Artifice in the Wake of the ‘Special Period’ in CubaChapter 13 Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián: Amphibious Visualities: Transnational Archipelagos of Recent Latin American CinemaSection 4: SubjectivitiesChapter 14 Henriette Partzsch: The Transnational Space of Women’s Writing in Nineteenth-century SpainChapter 15 Helen Melling: Envisioning African-descent Confraternities in early nineteenth-century Lima, PeruChapter 16 Conrad James: Dominican Trans: Frank Báez’s Global PoeticsChapter 17 Benjamin Quarshie: ‘Signos y cicatrices comunes’: Queerness, Disability, and Pedro Lemebel’s Poetics and Politics of EmbodimentList of Contributors
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Liverpool University Press Transnational German Studies
Book SynopsisThis volume consists of a series of essays, written by leading scholars within the field, demonstrating the types of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities underpinning German-language culture and history as these travel right around the globe. Contributions discuss the inherent cross-pollination of different languages, times, places and notions of identity within German-language cultures and the ways in which their construction and circulation cannot be contained by national or linguistic borders. In doing so, it is not the aim of the volume to provide a compendium of existing transnational approaches to German Studies or to offer its readers a series of survey chapters on different fields of study to date. Instead, it offers novel research-led chapters that pose a question, a problem or an issue through which contemporary and historical transcultural and transnational processes can be seen at work. Accordingly, each essay isolates a specific area of study and opens it up for exploration, providing readers, especially student readers, not just with examples of transnational phenomena in German language cultures but also with models of how research in these areas can be configured and pursued. Contributors: Angus Nicholls, Anne Fuchs, Benedict Schofield, Birgit Lang, Charlotte Ryland, Claire Baldwin, Dirk Weissmann, Elizabeth Anderson, James Hodkinson, Nicholas Baer, Paulo Soethe, Rebecca Braun, Sara Jones, Sebastian Heiduschke, Stuart Taberner and Ulrike Draesner.Trade Review‘Transnational German Studies offers a compelling contribution to the field of German Studies, offering both a clear account of its current identity in historical context and, crucially, a timely challenge to rethink the traditional boundaries of the discipline.’ Janet Stewart, Durham University‘This volume is a timely and important intervention in the field of German Studies. At a time when German Studies is perceived to be in crisis, with declining student numbers and the shrinking of university departments, it convincingly demonstrates how transnational perspectives offer to expand the discipline by imbuing it with critical new questions, and by encouraging reflection not only on what German Studies is today, but where it has come from, and where it may productively head.’ Anna Saunders, University of LiverpoolTable of ContentsIntroductionTransnationalizing German StudiesRebecca Braun and Benedict SchofieldSection OneLanguage: Local and Global Voices1. Translation, Transposition, Transmission: Low German and Processes of Cultural TransformationElizabeth Anderson2. Developing a Polyglot Poetics: The Power of Testimony and Lived Literary ExperienceUlrike Draesner3. German Writers from Abroad: Translingualism, Hybrid Languages, ‘Broken’ GermansDirk Weissmann4. Collaboration and Commitment: German-Language Books Across BordersCharlotte RylandSection TwoSpatiality: Mapping Nations, Mapping Networks5. Networks and World Literature: The Practice of Putting German Authors in their PlaceRebecca Braun6. Who is German? Nineteenth-Century Transnationalisms and the Construction of the NationBenedict Schofield7. Co-Producing World Cinema: Germany and Transnational Film ProductionSebastian Heiduschke8. Towards a Collaborative Memory: Networks and Relationality in German Memory CulturesSara JonesSection ThreeTemporality: Experiences of Time9. It’s About Time: The Temporality of Transnational StudiesAnne Fuchs10. Transnationalizing Faith: Re-imagining Islam in German CultureJames Hodkinson11. Transnational Imaginaries: Place of Palestine in Gershom Scholem, Franz Kafka, and Early CinemaNicholas Baer12. Securing the Archive: On the Transience of (Latin) American German IdentitiesPaulo SoetheSection FourSubjectivity: Ideology and the Individual13. Radical Germans and Their Anglophone Interpreters: Exploring and Translating ‘The Unconscious’ and PsychoanalysisAngus Nicholls14. Patterns of Global Exile: Exploring Identity through ArtBirgit Lang15. Representative Germans: Navid Kermani and the German Literary Tradition of Critical CosmopolitanismClaire Baldwin16. Contrite Germans?Stuart TabernerIndex
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Liverpool University Press Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity: by
Book SynopsisThis book reproduces the texts of four lectures, followed by discussions, and two interviews with Lise Gauvin published in Introduction à une poétique du divers (1996); and also four further interviews from L’Imaginaire des langues (Lise Gauvin, 2010). It covers a wide range of topics but key recurring themes are creolization, language and langage, culture and identity, ‘monolingualism’, the ‘Chaos-world’ and the role of the writer. Migration and the various different kinds of migrants are also discussed, as is the difference between ‘atavistic’ and ‘composite’ communities, the art of translation, identity as a ‘rhizome’ rather than a single root, the Chaos-World and chaos theory, ‘trace thought’ as opposed to ‘systematic thought’, the relation between ‘place’ and the Whole-World, exoticism, utopias, a new definition of beauty as the realized quantity of differences, the status of literary genres and the possibility that literature as a whole will disappear. Four of the interviews (Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9) relate to particular works that Glissant has published: Tout-monde, Le monde incrée, La Cohée du Lamentin, Une nouvelle région du monde. Many of these themes have been explored in his previous works, but here, because in all the chapters we see Glissant interacting with the questions and views of other people, they are presented in a particularly accessible form.Trade Review'Far too much of [Eduard Glissant's] writing remained untranslated. This series aims to correct this error and to provide access to some important later essays, lectures and interviews. [...] These new translations illuminate in different ways Glissant's sense of place as nonreductive, nonexclusive, but like the rhizome, endlessly connecting with others. These three volumes give vibrant voice to these "flashes of light", setting out a provocative web of ideas and arguments for a Whole-world in which diverse places, identities and cultures matter in the creation of an unforeseeable but vital future.'Neil Campbell, Western American LiteratureTable of ContentsKey Signs and Key Things: An Introduction to Édouard Glissant’s EssaysPreface (Charles Forsdick)Creolizations in the Caribbean and the AmericasLanguages and langagesCulture and IdentityThe Chaos-world: towards an aesthetic of RelationThe Imagination of LanguagesThe Writer and the Breath of PlaceWatching out for the WorldRethinking UtopiaOn Beauty as ComplicityMovements of Languages and Territories of the Novel
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Liverpool University Press The Hangover after the Handover: Places, Things
Book SynopsisAs a former British colony (1842–1997) and then a Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives, given the many names it possessed over the course of history, from ‘Barren Rock’, ‘Fragrant Harbour’, ‘Port of Incense’, ‘Pearl of the Orient’, ‘Asia’s World City’, ‘Vertical City’, ‘Floating City’ to ‘City at the End of Time’ among others. In the post-handover, post-hangover years, the circulation, reverberation and reception of cultural symbols, old and new, such as the King of Kowloon, Song Emperor’s Terrace, and Lion Rock have revealed the multifaceted appearances and connotations of Hong Kong’s ‘local’. At the intersections between real-life events, cultural production and consumption and multiple voices, the book extracts and examines the local relations between the inhabitants of the territory and the human and nonhuman agencies that stand or that have once stood for Hong Kong across time and through space. Via the lens of places, things and cultural icons, the book offers lessons to learn from Hong Kong by opening up manifold postcolonial, translocal and planetary perspectives to confront and interrogate the volatile experiences in the new millennia—unprecedented since the Cold War period of the twentieth century—shared by Hong Kong and other regions. After all, what does it mean, or take, to live in the contemporary world when the local, global and national are constantly given new meanings?Trade Review“This is a highly original and timely study in a field that is still developing, having been neglected in terms of its global cultural significance until very recently. Now Dr Wu’s book couldn’t be more topical.”Professor Michael Ingham, Lingnan University, Hong KongTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION: THE HANGOVER AFTER THE HANDOVERCHAPTER 1LOCAL RELATIONS AND THEIR POSTCOLONIAL OUTLOOKSCHAPTER 2HONG KONG’S LOCAL: (DE-)GENERATING LOCAL RELATIONSCHAPTER 3ALL HAIL THE KING OF KOWLOON! MEDIATING MALLEABLE MATERIALITYCHAPTER 4CONNECTING WITH THE LOCAL, OR NOT: THE SONG EMPEROR’S TERRACECHAPTER 5ANOTHER ROCK, ANOTHER HONG KONG STORY: LION ROCK FROM BELOW AND ABOVECONCLUSION: LOCAL AND TRANSLOCAL: LESSONS FROM HONG KONGBIBLIOGRAPHY
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Liverpool University Press Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France
Book SynopsisThis book examines the phenomenon of work suicides in France and asks why, at the present historical juncture, conditions of work can push individuals to take their own lives. During the 2000s, France experienced what commentators have described as a ‘suicide epidemic’, whereby increasing numbers of workers in the face of extreme pressures of work, chose to kill themselves. The book analyses a corpus of testimonial material linked to 66 suicide cases across three large French companies during the period from 2005 to 2015. It aims to consider what the extreme and subjective act of self-killing, narrated in suicide letters, can tell us about the contemporary economic order and its impact on flesh and blood bodies. What do rising work-related suicides reveal about conditions of human labour in the twenty-first century? Does neoliberal economics condition a desire for suicide? How do suicidal individuals describe the causes and motivations of their act? Combining critical perspectives from sociology, history, testimony studies, economics, cultural studies and public health, the book raises critical questions about the human costs of the shift to a finance-driven neoliberal order and its everyday effects within the French workplace.Trade ReviewReviews'This book offers us an exhaustive and penetrating analysis of the questions posed by workplace suicide. Sarah Waters makes it an essential key to understanding not only the transformations of the French society but of any society.' Christophe Dejours, Directeur de l'Institut de Psychodynamique de TravailTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Capitalism, work and suicideChapter Two: Suicide as TestimonyChapter Three: Going PostalChapter Four: Orange on the InsideChapter Five: Fast Cars and Vital ExhaustionConclusionBibliographyReferences
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Liverpool University Press Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism,
Book SynopsisAbdelkébir Khatibi (1938–2009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both postcolonialism and Islamic culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book introduces his works to Anglophone readers, tracing his development from the early work on sociology in Morocco to his literary and aesthetic works championing transnationalism and multilingualism. The essays here both offer close analyses of Khatibi’s engagements with a range of issues, from Moroccan politics to Arabic calligraphy and from decolonisation to interculturality, and highlights the important contribution of his thinking to the development of Western postcolonial and modern theory. The book acknowledges the legacy of one of the greatest African thinkers of the last century, and addresses the lack of attention to his work in the field of postcolonial studies. More than a writer, a sociologist or a thinker, Khatibi was a leading figure and an eclectic intellectual whose erudite works can still inform and enrich current reflections on the future of postcolonialism and the development of intercultural and transnational studies. The book also includes translated excerpts from Khatibi’s works, thus offering a multilingual perspective on his writing.Contributors: Assia Belhabib, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Dominique Combe, Rim Feriani, Charles Forsdick, Olivia C. Harrison, Jane Hiddleston, Debra Kelly, Khalid Lyamlahy, Lucy McNeece, Matt Reeck, Alison Rice, Nao Sawada, Andy Stafford, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Alfonso de ToroTrade Review'It is difficult to overstate the importance of Abdelkebir Khatibi, not just for the postcolonial or francophone world but for literary and cultural studies in general. This volume will be a significant contribution to scholarship on the multifaceted and complex work of this original literary and cultural voice.'Nasrin Qader, Northwestern University'Jane Hiddleston and Khalid Lyamlahy’s hard-hitting collection of essays on Abdelkébir Khatibi represents the first major English-language publication devoted to the Moroccan thinker and his work.[...] In this sense, there can be no greater homage to, or recognition of, Khatibian destabilisation and instigation than the editors' thoughtful interfolding of elements of surprise into the collection’s structure. [...] This book is positioned to be of immense interest to students and scholars of postcolonialism who are invested in the complex intersections of politics, literature, language, and identity, both within and beyond the francosphere. One of the book’s most precious contributions to (francophone) postcolonialism is how it points to fecund crossovers with adjacent fields of scholarship, and gestures toward potentially trailblazing interventions.'Yasser Elhariry, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies'There is also a useful overview of Khatibi scholarship, which in turn offers readers a chance to consider new avenues for research and enquiry. Particularly impressive is the way that this volume brings together many Khatibi scholars. [...] Hiddleston and Lyamlahy have done a laudable job of making the book accessible to a wide audience; whether one has just discovered Khatibi’s writings or spent a lifetime studying him, there is something in this collection for everyone.'Shannon K. Winston, French Studies'Abdelkébir Khatibi is quite properly characterized by the editors of this impressive collaboration as among the most important theorists of postcolonialism and contemporary Islamic culture. [...There are] fourteen individually fascinating and cumulatively compelling essays offered here, and which are valuably complemented by translations of substantial extracts from two of Khatibi’s major texts. [...] This absorbing introduction to his life and work deserves to be widely read and discussed.'Philip Dine, International Journal of French Studies'[Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism and Culture in the Maghreb and Beyond] stands as the most comprehensive account of Khatibi available in English to date. It presents insightful and authoritative readings on his relation to critical theory, poststructuralism, and postcolonial theory while integrating crucial but neglected aspects of his writing, notably his work in sociology, popular culture, and visual arts.' Matthew Brauer, Journal of North Africa StudiesTable of ContentsList of photographsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAbdelkébir Khatibi, At Home and AbroadJane Hiddleston and Khalid LyamlahyI. Critical Thinking: From Decolonisation to TransnationalismThe ‘Souverainement Orphelin’ of Abdelkébir Khatibi’s Early Writings: Sociology in the Souffles YearsAndy StaffordTireless Translation: Travels, Transcriptions, Tongues and the Eternal Plight of the ‘Étranger professionnel’ in the corpus of Abdelkébir KhatibiAlison RiceAbdelkébir Khatibi’s Mediterranean IdiomEdwige Tamalet TalbayevAbdelkébir Khatibi and the Transparency of LanguageAssia Belhabib (translated from the French by Jane Hiddleston)Performativity and Abdelkébir Khatibi, ‘From where to speak’: Living, Thinking and Writing with an ‘epistemological accent’Alfonso de ToroII. Cultural and Philosophical DialoguesKhatibi and the Transcolonial TurnOlivia C. HarrisonSegalen and Khatibi: Bilingualism, Alterity and the Poetics of DiversityCharles ForsdickDerrida and Khatibi: A ‘Franco-Maghrebian’ dialogueDominique Combe (translated from the French by Jane Hiddleston)Maghrebian Shadow: Abdelkébir Khatibi and Japanese CultureNao SawadaIII. Aesthetics and Art in the Islamic World and BeyondReading Signs and Symbols with Abdelkébir Khatibi: from the Body to the TextRim Feriani, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani and Debra KellyAbdelkébir Khatibi: The Other Side of the MirrorLucy McNeeceThe Carpet as a Text, The Writer as a Weaver: Reading the Moroccan Carpet with Abdelkébir KhatibiKhalid LyamlahyThe Artist’s Journey, or, the Journey as Art: Aesthetics and Ethics in Pèlerinage d’un artiste amoureux and beyondJane HiddlestonIV. TranslationsExcerpts from Abdelkébir Khatibi, La Blessure du nom propre (Paris: Editions Denoël, 1974)Translated from the French by Matt ReeckExcerpts from Abdelkébir Khatibi and Jacques Hassoun, Le Même Livre (Paris: Editions de l’Eclat, 1985)Translated from the French by Olivia C. HarrisonV. Bibliography
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Liverpool University Press Transnational French Studies: 2020
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Transnational French Studies situate this disciplinary subfield of Modern Languages in actively transnational frameworks. The key objective of the volume is to define the core set of skills and methodologies that constitute the study of French culture as a transnational, transcultural and translingual phenomenon. Written by leading scholars within the field, chapters demonstrate the type of inquiry that can be pursued into the transnational realities – both material and non-material – that are integral to what is referred to as French culture. The book considers the transnational dimensions of being human in the world by focussing on four key practices which constitute the object of study for students of French: language and multilingualism; the construction of transcultural places and the corresponding sense of space; the experience of time; and transnational subjectivities. The underlying premise of the volume is that the transnational is present (and has long been present) throughout what we define as French history and culture. Chapters address instances and phenomena associated with the transnational, from prehistory to the present, opening up the geopolitical map of French studies beyond France and including sites where communities identified as French have formed.Trade Review"A major strength of this new work is that it encompasses both the spatial and the historical dimensions of transnationalism in France.”Alec G. Hargreaves, Florida State University"This book constitutes a remarkably powerful and necessary intervention which will find its place alongside other recent attempts at challenging narrow and stereotypical understandings of French culture. This critical intervention is a very welcome contribution to the efforts aimed at asserting France’s intrinsic diversity."Etienne Achille, Villanova UniversityTable of ContentsINTRODUCTIONCharles Forsdick and Claire LaunchburyPART I: LANGUAGEIntroductionCharles ForsdickChapter 1: Transnational French before the nationSimon GauntChapter 2: Frenches on walls and onlineRobert BlackwoodChapter 3: Transnational French and Translingual FilmGemma KingChapter 4: Reading British Fiction in France: The Case of Jonathan CoeHelena ChaddertonChapter 5: Unbearableyasser elhariryPART II: SPACESIntroductionClaire LaunchburyChapter 6: The French Hexagon: Defining the Shape of the NationDouglas SmithChapter 7: Transnational fraternitéClaire LaunchburyChapter 8: Paris and London Calling: the restaurant as transnational siteDebra KellyChapter 9: The ‘Real’ Capital of France: ‘Authentic’ ‘Colourful’ MarseilleChong BertillonChapter 10: French and Francophone Videogames in Transnational PerspectiveHugh Dauncey and Jonathan ErvinePART III: TEMPORALITIESIntroductionCharles ForsdickChapter 11: Imagined Communities of PrehistoryBill MarshallChapter 12: Translating Revolutionary LanguageSanja PerovicChapter 13: Beyond a national memory of slavery and abolitionCharles ForsdickChapter 14: French Museums, Where the World MeetsHerman LebovicsChapter 15: Transnational Memory: Art, Ethics and Politics in La Seine était rouge (Leila Sebbar, 1999) and Je Veux voir (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2008)Max SilvermanChapter 16: Transnational Utopianism in French Futuristic Fiction: From Mercier’s L’An 2440 (1771) to Houellebecq’s Soumission (2015)Jacqueline DuttonPART IV: SUBJECTIVITIESIntroductionClaire LaunchburyChapter 17: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century FranceRichard HibbittChapter 18: Laïcité and belonging: Transnational PerspectivesMelanie AdrianChapter 19: French Food and Wine as Moveable FeastKolleen M. GuyChapter 20: Transnational approaches to language and sexualityDenis M. ProvencherChapter 21: Bande Dessinée: The Ninth Art of France that is not really FrenchLaurence GroveNotes on Contributors
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Liverpool University Press The Portuguese Revolution of 1974-1975: An
Book SynopsisPortugal is close to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. While this central moment in contemporary Portuguese history has long attracted international academic interest, there is a dearth of studies that explain the interrelationships between the main issues that singled out this revolutionary moment. The aims and actions of the three main protagonists the Armed Forces, the political parties and mass social organizations are linked in myriad ways: the political role of the Armed Forces; the crisis of state authority; the political justice formulas adopted; the affirmation of civilian political elites; the role of workers and neighbourhood movements, and other forms of popular mobilization; participation of the media in the political struggle; and post the momentous days, the transition from coup detat to revolution. The dominant moments and themes of the Portuguese revolution are relayed by close examination of original archival documentation; oral and written primary sources; and government records. Was military disquiet at the heart of the move toward democracy? Or was the instigator the growing dissatisfaction of the populace with the political class? A prime aim of the book is to view the revolution not only in terms of Portugals global position at the time, especially its historic colonialism, but what all players thought and expressed in the run-up to the 25th of April. Attention is paid to the immediate post-revolution period, and the national, political and military choices made as this unexpected path to democracy took hold.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook of Culture and Migration
Book SynopsisCapturing the important place and power role that culture plays in the decision-making process of migration, this Handbook looks at human movement outside of a vacuum; taking into account the impact of family relationships, access to resources, and security and insecurity at both the points of origin and destination.Utilising case studies from around the world, chapters look at migration from the perspectives of a broad range of migrants, including refugees, labour migrants, students, highly educated migrants, and documented and undocumented movers. The Handbook moves beyond an understanding of the economics of migration, looking at the importance of love, skilled movers, food and identity in migrants’ lives. It analyses the assumption that migrants follow direct pathways to new destinations where they settle, recognising the dynamic ways in which movers travel, following circular routes and celebrating new opportunities. Highlighting the challenges migrants face, disputes around belonging and citizenship are explored in relation to rising nationalism and xenophobia.The insightful studies of the choices migrants make around both perceived and real needs and resources will make this Handbook a critical read for scholars and students of migration studies. It will also appeal to policy makers looking to understand the complexity of the impetus to migrant movement, and the important role that culture plays.Trade Review’This Handbook provides a wealth of state-of-the-art chapters exploring the foremost issues concerning contemporary global migration. Its integrative theme of culture - human meanings and patterns as they affect migration processes - offers a most welcome perspective and mode of understanding.’ -- - Steven Vertovec, Max Planck institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany’Based on the fundamental argument that ‘’culture matters’’ for understanding migration, this rich collection of essays makes new and original contributions to the study of migration as a key global process. These novel perspectives include wellbeing, lifestyle, sex, religion, sport, food, resilience, and many others.’ -- - Russell King, University of Sussex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface xix 1 Handbook of Culture and Migration : an introduction 1 Jeffrey H. Cohen and Ibrahim Sirkeci PART I THEORY AND MOBILITY 2 Ask an “open” question and you’ll get a surprising answer: counterintuitive findings on Mexican migration to the United States 6 Judith Adler Hellman 3 Conflict model of migration and perception of human insecurity 17 Deniz Eroğlu-Utku and Pınar Yazgan 4 A culture of mobility? Perspectives on the human rights-based migration government 25 Markus Kotzur and Leonard Amaru Feil 5 The sexual dimension of migration: from sexual migration to changing lovescapes 40 Martina Cvajner and Giuseppe Sciortino 6 Kaleidoscopic relations in emerging destinations 54 Ruth McAreavey 7 Mirrored selves: reflections on religious narrative(s) in the lives of migrants 68 Eric M. Trinka 8 Gender and culture of migration 82 Caroline B. Brettell 9 Return migration 95 Julia Pauli 10 International migration, environment, and climate change dynamics 110 Michelle J. Moran-Taylor and Matthew J. Taylor 11 Taste and displacement 124 Micah M. Trapp PART II NATIONAL PATTERNS 12 Migration policy making in the US 138 Philip Martin 13 Migration of humans versus migration of cultures in the Middle East 152 Ayman Zohry 14 A framework for understanding migration from Sub-Saharan Africa: transnational and global perspectives 162 Claude Sumata 15 International migration from India: an historical overview 168 Ruchi Singh 16 Situations and challenges: survey on internal ethnic migrants in northwest Hubei in China 175 Ying Hou and Shengyu Pei 17 Labour market integration of immigrants in Finland 186 Elli Heikkilä and Nafisa Yeasmin PART III TRACING MOBILITIES IN SPACE AND PLACE 18 Contextualizing religiosity and identity in the case of Turkish immigrants in Western Europe 204 Tolga Tezcan 19 Transnational migration, racial economies, and the limitations to membership 219 Bernardo Ramirez Rios and Anthony Russell Jerry 20 Transnational migration and the lived experience of class across borders 232 Jennifer A. Cook 21 Student and retiree mobilities 248 Liliana Azevedo, Silva Lässer and Katrin Sontag 22 Violence and resilience across borders 263 Nia C. Parson 23 Development, migration, and the prospects of ‘betterment’ 274 Gregory Gullette 24 The ‘mobility turn’: economic inequality in refugee livelihoods 287 Naohiko Omata 25 Remittances and belonging: reading the social meaning of Peruvian migrants’ money 301 Karsten Paerregaard 26 Highly skilled migrants and their networks 313 Amy Carattini 27 Precarity, migration and extractive labour in the Peruvian Amazon 328 Gordon Lewis Ulmer 28 Refugees on the move: resettlement and onward migration in ‘final’ destination countries 341 Marnie Shaffer and Emma Stewart 29 Where is home? Navigating the complexities of refugee repatriation 351 Carrie Perkins 30 “They took a piece of my flesh”: transnational motherhood and activism in Tlaxcala, Mexico 363 Ruth M. Hernández-Ríos 31 Virtual village: Zapotec migrants in the digital era 372 Roberto J. González 32 Interconnectivities: mobility, food and place 386 Paulette K. Schuster PART IV HEALTH AND MOBILITY 33 Doing good or doing harm? The interrelations between migration, well-being, and mental health 397 Natalia Zotova 34 Experiences of sociocultural reproduction among migrant women in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana 412 Jemima Nomunume Baada 35 Migration, stress, and physiological dysregulation 425 Alexandra C. Tuggle and Douglas E. Crews Index 442
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Implementing the World Heritage Convention:
Book SynopsisAs the World Heritage Convention enters its 50th year, questions are being raised about its failures and successes. This topical book draws together perspectives across law and heritage research to examine the Convention and its implementation through the novel lens of compliance.The book challenges the widely held view that managing the 'world’s heritage' is a non-regulatory, incentive-based task with limited sanctioning options. Combining theoretical perspectives with deep technical analysis and historical investigation, the book tackles the compliance question through an examination of 12 diverse cases.Analysing past World Heritage properties like the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary (Oman) and Dresden Elbe Valley (Germany), as well as at-risk properties, like the Great Barrier Reef (Australia), Group of Monuments at Hampi (India) and Everglades National Park (United States), chapters trace the evolution and application of key non-compliance mechanisms like Reactive Monitoring, the In Danger List, and the Deletion procedure. In so doing, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the Convention's compliance architecture and the tools available to respond to instances of non-compliance.Illustrating how an improved compliance system is a critical component of a functioning and legitimate World Heritage regime, this book provides an invaluable resource to heritage and environmental policymakers and organisations looking to understand obligations under the Convention, as well as students and scholars coming to terms with the impact of the regime.Trade Review‘This work involves a high level of technicality in law and policy and scientific data analysis, highlighting the dynamic between scientific reports and decision-making in heritage policies.’ -- Anaïs Matiez, Asian Journal of International Law‘How we conserve our natural and cultural heritage, and with what effect on people and the natural environment, depends largely on how science-based regimes play out. Implementing the World Heritage Convention: Dimensions of Compliance is a major contribution to the critical debate on science-based governance of World Heritage. Hamman and Hølleland have systematically examined UNESCO’s digital archive to illuminate compliance and non-compliance across 12 high-profile cases, including the Everglades, the Great Barrier Reef, East Rennell, Old Town of Lijiang, Dresden and George Town. By synthesising perspectives from transnational environmental law and archaeology, the book breaks new ground in the vitally important project of global heritage conservation.’ -- Tiffany H. Morrison, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies‘A half-century after the adoption of the World Heritage Convention, much research and public comment focuses on the ways in which the World Heritage system is bent to political purposes and vested interests. But what if we take its ambitious regulatory apparatus seriously? Positing compliance as a key notion, heritage studies specialist Hølleland and law scholar Hamman deliver a meticulously researched analysis of how the rules and procedures around awarding, monitoring and removing World Heritage honours have been conceptualised and implemented over the years. For anyone interested in a realistic appraisal of the possibilities and limitations of the most prominent global framework for heritage conservation, this is an invaluable resource.’ -- Christoph Brumann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Implementing the World Heritage Convention 2. The World Heritage regime: rules, obligations and actors 3. World Heritage listings and the challenge of legacy issues 4. Reporting and Reactive Monitoring: a first step towards substantive compliance 5. The List of World Heritage in Danger: from fire alarm to non-compliance mechanism 6. Deletion from the World Heritage List: from deterioration to irretrievable loss 7. Conclusion: a regime at a crossroads Index
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Liverpool University Press Transnational Modern Languages: A Handbook
Book SynopsisAn Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.In a world increasingly defined by the transnational and translingual, and by the pressures of globalization, it has become difficult to study culture as primarily a national phenomenon. A Handbook offers students across Modern Languages an introduction to the kind of methodological questions they need to look at culture transnationally. Each of the short essays takes a key concept in cultural study and suggests how it might be used to explore and illuminate some aspect of identity, mobility, translation, and cultural exchange across borders. The authors range over different language areas and their wide chronological reach provides broad coverage, as well as a flexible and practical methodology for studying cultures in a transnational framework. The essays show that an inclusive, transnational vision and practice of Modern Languages is central to understanding human interaction in an inclusive, globalized society. A Handbook stands as an effective and necessary theoretical and thematically diverse glossary and companion to the ‘national’ volumes in the series.Trade Review“There are years of work, the hard work of rethinking and questioning, and above all, including that lend this volume its boundless energy and radiance. To see this set of topics, these key words, as the stuff of a scholarly volume, relaunches, better than anything else, the study of modern languages.”Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long BeachTable of ContentsAn IntroductionJennifer Burns and Derek DuncanAnimalFlorian MussgnugBilingualismClaudia PeraltaBordersElizabeth NijdamCitiesLorraine LeuColonizationDerek DuncanCommunitiesNaomi WellsConflictConnor DoakCosmopolitanismLuke SunderlandCreativityAlice Kettle and Tamsin KoumisDigitalThea Pitman and Claire TaylorEcologiesSophie FuggleEthicsRachel ScottEventMargaret Hills de ZárateFlowAlan O’Leary and Rachel JohnsonFuturesMonica SegerHumanJennifer BurnsKnowledgeCharles BurdettLanguageNicola McLellandLivenessBenedict SchofieldLocalityMarion DemossierMeAbigail BrundinMeAurélie Zannier-WahengoMimesisRicardo RoqueMiscegenationJeroen DewulfMultilingualismHilary FootittPerformanceJulia PrestPostcolonialCharles ForsdickPremodernitiesSharon KinoshitaRoutesPeter Campbell and Krešimir VukovićSexualitiesElliot EvansSoundCara LeveyStoriesEmma BondStoriesJulian PreeceTranslationLucas Nunes VieiraTranslationLoredana PolezziTranslationZrinka StahuljakVoiceyasser elhariry
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and
Book SynopsisThis important Research Handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the intersections between intellectual property (IP) and cultural heritage law. It explores and compares how both have evolved and sometimes converged over time, how they increased tremendously in significance, as well as in economic value, despite the fact that the former mainly pertains to the private sphere, whilst the latter is considered a ‘common good’.Featuring an excellent combination of contributions from leading experts, chapters offer insights into relevant cutting-edge issues that still remain unsettled. Divided into three main parts, it focuses on how IP can work as a tool for cultural heritage protection and, in particular, intangible cultural heritage, and discusses the politics and policies in this area, including whether such protection is fit for purpose. The final section explores special issues of intersection between the two, making it relevant to cultural heritage institutions such as museums, galleries, auction houses, libraries, and platforms, including issues of cultural heritage and IP management.Encompassing the latest developments and debates in the area, this Research Handbook will be key reading for academics, postgraduate students, and researchers in the fields of cultural heritage and art law, cultural heritage management, and intellectual property law. It will also be relevant for practitioners, policymakers, cultural heritage institutions, and content platforms.Trade Review‘This book provides interesting food for thought as to the extent regulation is required and whether education might be an equally powerful tool in some circumstances. While protection of cultural heritage is understandably steeped in history, the book contemplates many modern issues such as digitisation of works of cultural heritage and the implications of 3D printing. This is a well-thought-out and thought-provoking text that is likely to be of interest to a wide range of individuals, not just IP lawyers.’ -- Charlotte Duly, Marques‘In this Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage, Irini Stamatoudi puts together a tremendous group of high-level scholars to explore from various angles the complex but fascinating relationship between intellectual property and cultural heritage. The result is an extremely rich and inspiring set of contributions covering various aspects of the protection of cultural heritage by different IP rights, the politics and policies behind it, as well as the specific challenges and issues faced by cultural institutions in this process.’ -- Christophe Geiger, University of Strasbourg, France‘An invaluable collection of essays which explores the multiple ways the law may help build a bridge between our shared past and our futures, digital or otherwise.’ -- Marco Ricolfi, University of Turin and NEXA Center for Internet and Society, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage: Overview of the issues 1 Irini Stamatoudi PART I IP PROTECTION FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE SECTION I.A GENERAL 1 The notions of intellectual property and cultural heritage: Overlaps and clashes 8 Irini Stamatoudi 2 The protection of cultural heritage by copyright and related rights 37 Paul Torremans 3 The protection of cultural heritage by trademarks 55 Mira Burri 4 Cultural heritage and patent law: Alternatives for the protection of traditional knowledge and genetic resources 72 Pedro Henrique D. Batista 5 The protection of cultural heritage by designs 93 Bernd Justin Jütte and Alina Trapova 6 The protection of intangible cultural assets by trade secrets and unfair competition law 112 Neethu Rajam and Jens Schovsbo PART II IP PROTECTION FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE SECTION I.B SPECIAL ISSUES 7 Traditional knowledge, databases and prior art: Options for an effective defensive use of TK against undue patent granting 132 Reto M. Hilty, Pedro Henrique D. Batista and Suelen Carls 8 Re-evaluating the art practice of ‘appropriation’ from a copyright law perspective 154 Marina Markellou 9 Preservation and heritagisation of street art and graffiti 170 Enrico Bonadio 10 Copyright issues on the use of images on the Internet 191 Marie-Christine Janssens, Arina Gorbatyuk and Sonsoles Pajares Rivas 11 Linking, framing, and browsing digital or digitised works of art 214 Irini Stamatoudi and Zoi Mavroskoti 12 The protection of traditional cultural expressions by geographical indications 236 Michael Blakeney 13 Copyright ownership challenge arising from AI-generated works of art: A time to stand and stare 250 Theodoros Chiou PART III POLITICS AND POLICIES ASSOCIATED WITH PROTECTING CULTURAL HERITAGE BY IPRS 14 States’ discretion to classify IP subject matter as national cultural treasures 274 Maria-Daphne Papadopoulou and Maria G. Sinanidou 15 Intellectual property, cultural heritage, and human rights 294 Peter K. Yu 16 ‘Best practices’ to protect indigenous knowledge? 311 Jessica C. Lai 17 Intangible cultural heritage, intellectual property and the public domain 326 Charlotte Waelde 18 Bridging intellectual property and cultural heritage law in the practice of international governmental organisations 339 Andrzej Jakubowski and Hanna Schreiber PART IV SPECIAL ISSUES FOR CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS 19 The artist’s resale right 358 Simon Stokes 20 Digitization of cultural heritage under EU copyright: Digitizing the past to enable access and innovation for the future 374 Stavroula Karapapa 21 Intellectual property and cultural heritage issues for museums of archaeological materials 391 Pınar Oruç and Uma Suthersanen 22 Management issues for cultural heritage institutions 412 Konstantinos Roussos and Irini Stamatoudi 23 IP management for cultural heritage institutions 438 Rina Elster Pantalony 24 Cultural heritage, galleries and auction houses 454 Leila A. Amineddoleh 25 IP issues relating to cultural heritage platforms and new business models 479 Julia Wildgans 26 Born digital: Law, policy, and the preservation of videogames as digital cultural heritage 501 Benjamin Farrand 27 Private international law and cultural property and art disputes 516 Marc Weber 28 ADR, cultural heritage and intellectual property: A continuum of dispute resolution processes 542 Debbie De Girolamo 29 Intellectual property implications of 3D printing of cultural heritage 563 Charles Cronin Conclusion to the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property of Cultural Heritage: Important highlights 577 Irini Stamatoudi Index
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Equinox Publishing Ltd Madeira, Port, Sherry: The Equinox Companion to
Book SynopsisMadeira, Port, Sherry: The Equinox Companion to Fortified Wines fills a niche for all those seeking to understand the fortified wine industry as a whole: its history, producers, winemaking methods, and practical aspects of enjoying these unique wines, numbered among the world's most long-lived beverages. This book constitutes an educational compendium representing organised cutting-edge knowledge on the three classic fortified wines, brought to us by the Iberian culture. The reference work enables an appreciation of the histories of madeira, port and sherry against the background of world-changing events. Extensive terminological research has distilled years of professional knowledge into a reliable compendium, taking the reader on unique educational journeys through winemaking activities, from selection of grapes to bottle ageing. The companion offers comprehensive terminological coverage, including classifications and serving temperatures, as well as the intricacies of flavour compounds, responsible for various notes identified in wine bouquets, such as those of an old blended madeira, a vintage port, or a palo cortado sherry. Guidelines on wine and food pairing have been included to ensure the companion's suitability for a wide audience of readers: from wine experts to connoisseurs, from gourmet restaurant chefs to home cooks.Table of ContentsAuthor’s Preface Note to the Reader PART ONE: Madeira Wines I. Short Introduction II. Graphic Map of Terms III. Alphabetic Display IV. Wine and Food Pairing V. Chronology of Events PART TWO: Port Wines VI. Short Introduction VII. Graphic Map of Terms VIII. Alphabetic Display IX. Wine and Food Pairing X. Chronology of Events PART THREE: Sherry wines XI. Short Introduction XII. Graphic Map of Terms XIII. Alphabetic Display XIV. Wine and Food Pairing XV. Chronology of Events Online References Literature on Fortified Wines Appendix: To Inquisitive Readers
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Liverpool University Press Locating Guyane
Book SynopsisOverseas department of France in Amazonia and ‘ultraperipheral region’ of the EU, Guyane (French Guiana) is at the juncture of Europe, the Caribbean and South America. This collection of essays explores historical and conceptual locations of Guyane, as a relational space characterised by dynamics of interaction and conflict between the local, the national and the global. Does Guyane have, or has it had, its own place in the world, or is it a borderland which can only make sense in relation to elsewhere: to France and its colonial history, for example, or to African and other diasporas, or as a ‘margin’ of Europe?This edited collection is the first volume to study Guyane from multiple perspectives. It subjects the enduring clichés and negative stereotypes regarding Guyane to critical examination, exploring how discourse on this DOM is, and has been, formed and how it may evolve. Chapters discuss geographical, literary and cultural ‘locations’ of Guyane, past and present, challenging its relegation to the ‘periphery’, whilst also historicizing the production of its marginal status. Finally, the collection aims to outline possible future challenges to the conceptual location of Guyane and possible directions for continued research.Trade Review'The book is a fascinating challenge to historiographies of Guyane as it peels off the layers of its changing relationships with France and other places in the world, detangles its history of contact, reveals the actors involved in its many transitions from place of forced exile to high-tech center, highlights the role its penal past has played in making it “periphery”, and explains what being Guyanais today entails in a globalized world of flows where local Kreyol traditions and Maroon narratives get reinvented and shaped in the context of cultural commercialism and global art markets.'Hélène B. Ducros, Europe Now Journal‘This valuable interdisciplinary volume offers wide-ranging essays that examine stereotypes about France’s Amazonian outpost that go beyond simple images of the country as a ‘green hell.' Robert Aldrich, French History ‘Overall, with Locating Guyana Wood and MacLeod have achieved a milestone in the study of French Guyana.’Fabio Santos, PERIPHERIE'English-language works on Guyane are comparatively few and far between, and Locating Guyane rectifies a lacuna in the wider scholarship by exploring what makes it distinct from its fellow “old colonies” of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Réunion. Given the volume’s interdisciplinarity and the essays’ breadth, the short volume speaks to a wide range of academic disciplines, and consequently it serves as an excellent scholarly primer on Guyane, its colonial legacy, and its place in an increasingly global, modern world.' Christopher M. Church, H-France ReviewTable of ContentsIntroductionRichard Price, ‘The Oldest Daughter of Overseas France’Kari Evanson, ‘Grand Reporters in Guyane: Bringing the Exotic Back Home’Kathleen Gyssels, ‘Kor and Karnival, the carnal road of Léon-Gontran Damas: “Evidence of Things not Seen”’Silvia Espelt Bombín, ‘Frontier Politics: French, Portuguese and Amerindian Alliances between the Amazon and Cayenne, 1680–1697’Jonna Yarrington, ‘Producing the periphery’Edenz Maurice, ‘A school in Boniville Political skills and “Primitives’ in French Guiana (1930-1969)’Sarah Wood, ‘Reclaiming Félix Éboué: Departmentalisation and politics of commemoration in Guyane, 1944-2012’Antonia Cristinoi and François Nemo, ‘Palikur, a language between two worlds’Sally Price, ‘Maroon Art in Guyane: New Forms, New Discourses’Catriona MacLeod: ‘Performing and Parading Gender in Guyane’s Carnival’Bill Marshall, ‘Equality and Difference: Queering Guyane?’Conclusion: remaking Guyane?
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Frictions in Cosmopolitan Mobilities: The Ethics
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book investigates the clash between a desire for unfettered mobility and the prevalence of inequality, exploring how this generates frictions in everyday life and how it challenges the ideal of just cosmopolitanism. Reading fictional and popular cultural texts against real global contexts, it develops an 'aesthetics of justice' that does not advocate cosmopolitan mobility at the expense of care and hospitality but rather interrogates their divorce in neoliberal contexts.In this timely analysis, Rodanthi Tzanelli discusses questions of social injustice in the context of multiple and intertwined mobilities - business, technology, travel, tourism, popular cultural pilgrimage and social movements - that are at the forefront of early twenty-first century socio-cultural concerns. The book thus creates an interdisciplinary intervention on the politics and poetics of mobility in rapidly globalised lifeworlds and places.Human geography and sociology scholars with a particular interest in mobilities studies, cosmopolitanism, social theory and tourism or pilgrimage studies will find this book an intriguing and insightful read.Trade Review'Following on from her previous work, Dr Tzanelli's book is a journey in complexities where she untangles before our eyes the many threads that constitute contemporary mobilities. Theoretically grounded, she uses the film The Joker as a guide to revisit our assumptions on society, politics and mobility, while shedding light on the irony of performing cosmopolitanism and calling for a pluriversal perspective on knowledge. This book is a challenge to monolithic and ready-made thinking but mostly a much-needed look, without complacency, at our time.' -- Dominic Lapointe, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada'Provocative, seductive, and challenging are all ways to describe this book, which elaborates a critical look at (im)mobility. Rodanthi Tzanelli analyses the laugh of the Joker as the trace of a devastating pilgrimage that breaks with the possibilities of hospitality. She allows us to share multiple images of a planet that sees itself as a mirror ''unfolded-in-movement'': this book is an unmissable portrait of a world that laughs when it must cry.' -- Adrian Scribano, CONICET, University of Buenos Aires, ArgentinaTable of ContentsContents: PART I 1. Cosmopolitan irony: pluriversality and perspective 2. The poetics of justice: the joker as a modern(ist) character 3. The politics of resurgence: the joker as a factual-cinematic hero PART II 4. Meta-realist plots: the road to selfdom 5. Killing pleasure: heautoscopic performativity facing the neoliberal youlfie 6. The terror of image-making: heteroscopies of damaged hospitality PART III 7. Conclusion: unlocking certitude Bibliography Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Debating Biopolitics: New Perspectives on the
Book SynopsisEmerging out of the theoretical and practical urge to reflect on key contemporary debates arising in biopolitical scholarship, this timely book launches an in-depth investigation into the concept and history of biopolitics. In light of tumultuous political dynamics across the globe and new developments in this continually evolving field, the book reconsiders and expands upon Michel Foucault’s input to biopolitical studies. Featuring rigorously structured investigations into the genealogies, dimensions, and practices of biopolitics, this incisive book introduces novel voices and perspectives into the biopolitical corpus. Contributions from eminent scholars investigate core topics of governing populations, community, and sovereignty, as well as exploring areas that remain undertheorized in the field of biopolitics, including the political accounts of non-human entities, developments in sexual health policy, and the biopolitics of time. Broad in scope, the book draws from the foundations of the biopolitical canon to forge new horizons and create opportunities for novel theoretical and empirical analysis. Debating Biopolitics will be an invaluable tool for scholars and postgraduate students of political science and political philosophy. Its empirically driven research will also benefit practitioners and policymakers interested in the biopolitical dimension of decision-making and policy analysis.Trade Review‘This book is a wonderful guide to how contemporary understandings of life (both biological and political) become central to its governance. This is all the more vital as biopolitics is at the moment perhaps the most dynamic field of thought in the humanities and social sciences. From debates over COVID-19 responses to the governance of climate change, biopolitical framings are at the heart of social and political contestation.’ -- David Chandler, University of Westminster, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword viii Mika Ojakangas and Sergei Prozorov Introduction 1 Marco Piasentier and Sara Raimondi PART I GENEALOGIES 1 Subjectivity in Foucault and Agamben: the enigma of sovereignty and biopolitics 12 Sara Dragišić 2 Fear, the sovereign, and authority: Roberto Esposito and the escape from the Hobbesian State 30 Vappu Helmisaari 3 Governing according to nature: Jean Bodin on climates, humours, and temperaments 49 Samuel Lindholm PART II DIMENSIONS 4 Glenn Gould’s mastery of not-playing: style and manner in the work of Giorgio Agamben 68 Katarina Sjöblom 5 Biopolitics of time in Foucault and Agamben 86 Jürgen Portschy 6 Identities on the border 109 Ott Puumeister PART III PRACTICES 7 Governing by prevention: neoliberal management of sexual health in France 129 Théo Sabadel 8 Biopolitics of authoritarianism. The case of Russia 151 Anastasya Manuilova 9 Biopolitics, New Materialism and Latin-American constitutionalism: A linguistic encounter? 171 Gonzalo Bustamante-Kuschel 10 The two faces of biopolitical theory: genealogies and current approaches 193 Marco Piasentier and Sara Raimondi Index
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Liverpool University Press Fictional Labor: Ethics and Cultural Production
Book SynopsisThis book advocates for the ethically formative labor that fiction accomplishes. As a force of production, the fictional labor of literature and the visual arts shapes the formation of collective meaning in an era marked by the negligence of social, financial, and environmental responsibility. As neoliberalism’s hegemony since the 1980s has intensified through the proliferation of digital technologies in the 21st century, considering works of creative art as an ethically productive force is a necessary complement to political and economic critiques. The book invites readers to rethink how mutations in the production, circulation, and consumption of literary and visual materials are implicated in the commodification of information and attention for private gain. The link can have a positive effect that transforms the social relation from a capitalist ethos that expends life for profit to an alterity-driven ethos that defends life. But remedying the paucity of moral sentiments of social existence requires fictional labor to generate ethical sensibilities, cares, desires, and wills. The book’s close analyses demonstrate the aesthetic and formal aspects of literary and visual art that mediate between social relations to yield a dependence alterity, including the otherness of a precarious present, a menacing future beyond economic mastery, and an environment enmeshed with living beings and things.Trade Review‘Fictional Labor is a work of deep erudition that brings a wide spectrum of theoretical speculation to bear on formally inventive works of visual art and literature… Baek’s reflections on technology, neoliberalism, ethics, politics, and aesthetic form deliver a wealth of smart and ultimately auspicious insights that will encourage readers to imagine new ways of living—and of making art—as we forge ahead into a world unknown.’ Ari J. Blatt, L’Esprit CréateurTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Surplus-word2. Mask3. Vector4. Savage-wordConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press French Decadence in a Global Context: Colonialism
Book SynopsisDecadence is seldom looked at in the context of colonialism, and yet its heyday in the 1880s and 1890s is directly contemporary with the expansion of France’s modern colonial empire. Ever a slippery signifier, Decadence figures alternately as pro-colonial, anticolonial and apolitical. This edited volume gives a sense of the sheer range and diversity of intersections between colonialism and Decadence, from anticolonial anarchist writers to colonial discourse, from nineteenth-century women writers to our contemporary, Michel Houellebecq. Different chapters explore these intersections in the cultural imagination of dance, the novel, travel writing, historiographical theory, and literary networks. Decadence is often seen as an essentially metropolitan, urban movement, but this study identifies key spaces elsewhere, from fin-de-siècle Saigon to India in the heyday of French colonialism, from Byzantium to ancient Persia. Although the colonies were held up by some as an antidote to the threat of French decline, other writings reveal anxiety that the antidote might itself be a form of poison. Colonial contact might exacerbate degeneration, whether through cultural mixing or through the violence of colonial aggression itself. A profound anxiety about French identity and France’s so-called mission civilisatrice is played out through the imagery, the style and the pose of Decadence.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: French Decadence in a Global Context: Colonialism and ExoticismJennifer YeeChapter 1Bibelotic Buddhas: Decadence and its CriticsSam BootleChapter 2Sous-mission and the mission civilisatrice: Houellebecq’s Parody of Empire and DecadenceJenai Engelhard HumphreysChapter 3Gender, Decadence, and Orientalism in Jane Dieulafoy’s Journal de fouilles and ParysatisJulia HartleyChapter 4Anti-colonial exoticism in Mirbeau’s Jardin des supplicesRichard HibbitChapter 5Decadent and Anti-Decadent Networks of the Belle époque: littérature coloniale as a Rhetorical AllianceVladimir KaporChapter 6The Anarchist Denunciation of Decadent Colonialism: Georges Darien, Octave Mirbeau, and Jules VallèsAurélien LorigChapter 7Judith Gautier, La Conquête du Paradis or L’Inde éblouie: when French colonization becomes an Indian epicValérie Magdelaine-AndrianjafitrimoChapter 8Exoticism and the Threat of Contagion: Danger or Therapy for Decadent DanceHélène MarquiéChapter 9Decadent Colonial Saigon in Fin-de-siècle French LiteratureWanrug SuwanwattanaGeneral BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Liverpool University Press Women’s Club Football in Brazil and Colombia: A
Book SynopsisThe first women’s football book on Latin America centring the perspectives of players brings rare interview material that cuts through the clichés to uncover the lived reality of women footballers. It includes the first large-scale survey of South American women footballers’ views into dialogue with institutional and media perspectives. The early chapters consider the backdrop Latin American women footballers operate in, a media and institutional panorama that privileges a heteronormative athletic femininity whilst ensuring women’s football is never portrayed as anything other than an inferior version of the hegemonic (men’s) game. Following this, drawing on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork in which 33 semi-structured interviews were carried out with players and institutional figures, this pioneering book foregrounds the lived reality of women’s football in three strategic locations. Firstly, three months were spent in the Amazon region of Brazil where Esporte Clube Iranduba provides a fascinating alternative model for the growth of women’s football. This is contrasted with Santos FC, where women’s football tends to be constantly overshadowed by the presence of banal patriarchy, and finally with another fleeting glimpse of how another model is possible at Atlético Huila of Colombia, the surprise winner of the women’s Copa Libertadores in 2018.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Illustrations Glossary of Terms Acknowledgements Foreword from Silvana Goellner Introduction Chapter 1 - Mis-representing the agenda: The Case of Yoreli Rincón at the Women’s Copa Libertadores 2018 Chapter 2 – Football Institutions Chapter 3 – Atlético Huila: The Champions of South America Chapter 4 –Mermaids in the Land of the King Chapter 5 –The Team from the Heart of the Amazon Chapter 6 – Surveying the Field from the Players’ Perspective Overall Conclusions & Policy Recommendations Recommendations for Further Research References Semi Structured Interview List
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Liverpool University Press Transnational East Asian Studies
Book SynopsisTransnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging interdisciplinary potential and has immense value when examining the past, just as much as much as when examining the present. Artificially erected borders, which appear on maps and globes, fail to consider the ways people in diverse regions live and practice their everyday lives, existing beyond boundaries. The people of East Asia have always been on the move, they have never been homogeneous, and have evolved together, not apart. In this sense, people around the globe and also in East Asia have always been involved in a process of change and transformation. Hence, transnationalism is a way to overcome methodological nationalism, not only as a concept of identity and spatiality, but also as a concept temporally situated in the modern, because as a methodology, transnationalism does not take the national as a precondition. It allows us to move beyond and across borders, and to examine how ideas have been used and transformed in different contexts. This book thus underscores the complex interactions in the context of East Asia, past and present, while shaping the future of this complicated region.Table of ContentsIntroductionKevin N. CAWLEY and Julia C. SCHNEIDERPART ONE. CULTURES CROSSING BORDERSChapter 1. Confucianism and Becoming-in-the-World: A Transnational Modus VivendiKevin N. CAWLEYChapter 2. Diffusion and Transnationalism: Emplantation and the Crossing of Cultural BoundariesJames H. GRAYSONChapter 3. The Battle of Red Cliffs: From History to Transnational IdentityCarlotta SPARVOLIChapter 4: Translation beyond the Written Word: The Transnational Spread of The Journey to the West in East AsiaBarbara WALLPART TWO. NATION, EMPIRE AND BEYONDChapter 5. Postcolonial Theory in East Asian Studies: The Case of the Qing EmpireJulia C. SCHNEIDERChapter 6. Multilingualism as a Tool of Resistance Against Homogenising National Narratives: South Korean Female Subjectivities and Colonial Memory in Pak Sunnyŏ’s Ai rŏbŭ yu (I Love You, 1962)Nadeschda BACHEMChapter 7. Conjuring a Battling China: Willi Münzenberg and his International Popular FrontLei QINChapter 8. Fanxiang Toupiao 返鄉投票: Migrating Political Cleavages and Transnational Electoral Mobilisation in Vienna’s Taiwanese CommunityJulia MARINACCIOPART THREE. TRANSNATIONALISM IN POPULAR CULTURESChapter 9. Return Ticket to Pyongyang: Transnational Aspects in the Work of Film Maker Yang Yong-hiTill WEINGÄRTNERChapter 10. Re-Presenting Sino-Japanese relations through Flavors of YouthJamie COATES and Jennifer COATESChapter 11. Translation /Transplantation of Queer in South KoreaAllan SIMPSONChapter 12. A Transnational Approach in Understanding Japanese Colonial Influence in Taiwan: Manifestations in Taiwan’s Cinema and Popular MusicYu-Wen CHENPART FOUR. TRANSNATIONALISM IN GLOBAL EAST ASIAChapter 13. A Gateway to Exciting Opportunities? The Lives of African Migrants inside and outside Taiwan’s University CampusesSarah HANISCHChapter 14. Transnationalism and the Medical Cooperation in Family Planning in East Asia (1950s-70s)Aya HOMEIChapter 15. From Liberation to the Great Leap Forward: Ethnic Koreans and Assimilation in Northeast China, 1945-1962Adam CATHCARTChapter 16. The New Challenges of Transnational Security in Twenty-first Century East Asia: The Case of North KoreaMarco MILANI
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Liverpool University Press Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal
Book SynopsisThe LAMALIF anthology presents a wide variety of articles from LAMALIF, Morocco’s longest-serving Francophone journal. Active between 1966 and 1988, LAMALIF covered the most critical periods of Moroccan history and engaged in crucial debates about democratization, feminism, culture, education, Third World relations, and decolonization. However, LAMALIF was not just a journal; it was a real school, where Morocco’s, North Africa’s, and the developing world’s emerging and established writers, artists, and thinkers found a space to disseminate their ideas and address readerships across different cultures and geographical areas in French. This anthology is the first comprehensive translation into English of a wide selection of LAMALIF’s articles covering literary and art criticism as well as critical theory, feminism, Islam, and emigration. In addition to making available to Anglophone readerships articles about transnational solidarities and connections between North Africa and the rest of the world, LAMALIF anthology historicizes this sociocultural and political project within the painful period of authoritarianism in Morocco and reveals how culture worked as a trenchant weapon in the struggle against repression and silence.Trade Review'While some could see the thematic limitation as a weakness in the volume, I see it as a strength… the editors focus on their joint expertise, and the synergy between their academic background and the academic training of their translators… the editors of the volume demonstrate a will to build a community of North Africanists with multidisciplinary backgrounds and viewpoints... thus expanding the spehere of intellectual conversation between the Global South and North.' Aomar Boum, The Journal of North African StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on Transliteration and Translation ChoicesList of FiguresPreface by Zakya Daoud (a.k.a Jacqueline David)IntroductionPart I: Literature and Literary CriticismMohamed Berrada: Itinerary and Problematics of Modern Arab CultureTranslated by Steve FleckRachid Mimouni: A Literature, Fait AccompliTranslated by Matthew ReeckMohamed Bennis: The Manifesto of WritingTranslated by Matthew BrauerJamal Al Achgar: Driss Chraïbi: “I am from a lost generation.Translated by Andrea LloydSamira Mounir: Laâbi, or the New MessianismTranslated by Andrea LloydJamal Eddine Naji: Mostafa Nissaboury, “Moving past absence and deference to create.”Translated by Matthew BrauerFatima Mernissi: Abdallah Zrika, the Voice of Love Still UnheardTranslated by Andrea LloydAbdelfattah Kilito: Meddeb and His DoublesTranslated by yasser elhariryJ. M. et Zakya Daoud: Khaïr-Eddine: “We can’t stare at the sun without exposing ourselves to the tragedy of lucidity.”Translated by Khalid LyamlahyJacques Alessandra: The Fascination with FormalismTranslated by Khalid LyamlahyMohammed Khaïr-Eddine: Rediscovering the SouthTranslated by Khalid LyamlahyZakya Daoud: Khaïr-Eddine’s Linguistic Guerrilla WarfareTranslated by Khalid LyamlahyAbderrahmane Lakhsassi: The Conception of Tashelhit PoetryTranslated by Matthew BrauerAbdelwahab Meddeb: The Writer and Exile (A Reading of Anabase by St. John-Perse)Translated by Matthew ReeckJuan Goytisolo: The Current State of MudéjarismTranslated by Matthew BrauerZakya Daoud: Interview: A. Khatibi, To Be a Witness Generation, To Listen to the TimesTranslated by Matthew ReeckMohamed El Malki: The Arab Theater in Search of a Redefinition of its Socio-Cultural FunctionTranslated by Steve FleckZakya Daoud: Tayeb Saddiki Assesses Moroccan CultureTranslated by Matthew BrauerPart II: Art and Art CriticismLamlif editors: Tallal: A Sad ViolenceTranslated by Katarzyna PieprzakZakya Daoud: Chebaa: “The painting is working itself out in my head” Translated by Megan MacdonaldZakya Daoud: Amine Demnati: “Here they want to destroy. Art is beautiful. Destruction, on the other hand, is ugly.” Translated by Katarzyna PieprzakMohamed Chebaa: Let’s Liberate Painting from the Paratext!Translated by Elizabeth MarcusAlain Flamand: Chaibia’s Childhoods, or A Painter’s GraceTranslated by Megan MacdonaldToni Maraini: Yacoubi, Who Were You?Translated by Megan MacdonaldAbdallah Bounfour: Intertext and the Imaginary in The Work of AboulouaqarTranslated by Megan MacdonaldMohamed Kacimi: Writing on WritingTranslated by Megan MacdonaldJamal Al Achgar: Comics, a New Art... Translated by Andrea LloydAlain Flamand: Miloudi’s ShapesTranslated by Elizabeth Marcus Part III: Critical TheoryOmar Benjelloun/Mohamed Elberini: Document—Class Struggle in MoroccoTranslated by Idriss JebariMohamed El Berini: The Language Issue and the Class StruggleTranslated by Jill JarvisMoulim Laarousi: We Must Create a Language: Bouzfour and OubelhajTranslated by Kristin HickmanMoulim Laroussi: Ahmed El Yabouri: The Reflection of HegemonyTranslated by Kristin HickmanAbderrahman Tenkoul: Maghrebi Literature of French Expression and Critical DiscourseTranslated by yasser elhariryMohamed Jibril: What is the Purpose of Education?Translated by Ali AlalouFarida Bennis: Thesis: Is Marxism a Freudian Idealism? Translated by Idriss JebariZakya Daoud: FIRST COMMISSION: To Liberate Culture Is to Liberate ManTranslated by Jill JarvisAmina Achour Ihrai: Laroui, Belal, and Guessous: In the Face of Historical Lag and TraditionTranslated by Samia ErrazzoukiZakya Daoud: Abdelkébir Khatibi: We Must Attempt a Lasting Double CritiqueTranslated by Matthew ReeckMustapha Sihimi: COUNTERPOINT: What Policy? What Culture?Translated by yasser elhariryBensalem Himmic: CULTURE: Intellectuals in the Face of Historical DepressionTranslated by yasser elhariryAdelkébir Khatib: Beyond Trauma: Morocco/Spain (In Search of Lost Paradise)Translated by Matthew Reeck
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Liverpool University Press A New Region of the World: Aesthetics I: by
Book SynopsisWe are all now entering into a new region of the world, which designates its sites on all the given and imaginable expanses, and of which only a few had been able to foresee in the distance its wanderings and obscurities. […] This region itself, we soon foresee, as difficult as it may seem to formulate its partition, is mixed in time as much as in space, a common site which hides another gap. Time has changed and space has changed. A steep separation of time and space, overwhelming one another. A new region that is an epoch, mixing all times and all durations, an epoch also which is an inexhaustible country, accumulating expanses, which are looking for other limits, in incalculable but always finite number, as has been said of atoms. […] we are entering into this new region of the world, of totalized space, of relativized time, where everyone already admits that differences are determinant, but most often they refuse to recognize that their sum, their realized quantity, sketches another Relation, quite different because we have so long ignored it, but we know that it is made and brewed from inextricable and propitious contaminants. […] And we enter into the Whole-World, which always for us covers the totality of the world, but here it is that this Whole-World is also in our actuality another region of the world, a whole new region, and the world is there, it is right-here, it is ahead of us, who say it without saying it while saying it again, undertaking a new category of literature. None of the regions of the world is really unknown, the explorers have driven their trains to their endpoint, yet there is another region of the world in the world, which we have not traveled so much, for we will have to cross it all together, it is this very improbable Whole-World, and a few had knowledge of it. Well then, the world is completely recognized, and the Whole-World covers entirely the world, however and for us the Whole-World is to be discovered and known. It is a part of the world, which right-here transcends the world and designates it.Trade Review“The spirit and letter of the essay have been beautifully transferred into English, without betraying any of the original impetus […] it reproduces, in interesting and sometimes surprising ways, exactly what the Francophone reader would experience faced with the original text.”Hugo Azerad, University of Cambridge
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Liverpool University Press A New Region of the World Aesthetics I
Book SynopsisWe are all now entering into a new region of the world, which designates its sites on all the given and imaginable expanses, and of which only a few had been able to foresee in the distance its wanderings and obscurities. [] This region itself, we soon foresee, as difficult as it may seem to formulate its partition, is mixed in time as much as in space, a common site which hides another gap. Time has changed and space has changed. A steep separation of time and space, overwhelming one another. A new region that is an epoch, mixing all times and all durations, an epoch also which is an inexhaustible country, accumulating expanses, which are looking for other limits, in incalculable but always finite number, as has been said of atoms. [] we are entering into this new region of the world, of totalized space, of relativized time, where everyone already admits that differences are determinant, but most often they refuse to recognize that their sum, their realized quantity, sketches another
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Liverpool University Press The Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics
Book SynopsisThe Dreyfus Affair’s Literary Politics offers a new interpretation of writers’ political engagements in the crisis that ended the French nineteenth century, following the wrongful treason conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus. Émile Zola and three writers connected to him – Ferdinand Brunetière, Henry Céard and Saint-Georges de Bouhélier – drew on their affinities and antagonisms concerning Zola’s naturalist fiction to shape their political discourse in the Dreyfus Affair. Zola and Bouhélier were Dreyfusard, Brunetière and Céard anti-Dreyfusard, yet in each case they transformed a vision of what literature should be into arguments about French national identity, the proper relationship between literary and political thought, and the tensions between individual rights and raison d’état.Developing a method entitled ‘microhistories of ideas,’ Cooke shows that a longitudinal approach to each writer’s career yields a set of central unit-ideas that reappear in the new, emotive context of the Affair. Through close readings of material such as pamphlets, newspaper columns and aesthetic essays, the significance of often ephemeral writing to the larger questions of intellectual history – and to the outcome of the Dreyfus Affair itself - becomes clear.Trade Review"The significance of this approach is to highlight the importance of esthetic considerations in this—and potentially other—political debates rather than making art the handmaiden of political discourse. I think this is not only original, but could become a model for scholars studying literary politics in other times and places."Robert A. Nye, Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Microhistories of Ideas and the Dreyfus AffairConcise Chronology1. The Prehistory of ‘J’Accuse…!’: Zola’s Career as Critic2. Beyond ‘J’Accuse…!’: Zola in the Dreyfus Affair3. Against Zola and Individualism: Ferdinand Brunetière from Literary Critic to anti-Dreyfusard4. Saint-Georges de Bouhélier, Dreyfusard malgré lui5. Henry Céard Reads the Dreyfus AffairConclusionBibliography
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Liverpool University Press Colonial Continuities and Decoloniality in the
Book SynopsisThis volume pays tribute to the work of Professor Kate Marsh (1974-2019), an outstanding scholar whose research covered an extraordinarily wide range of interests and approaches, encompassing the history of empire, literature, politics and cultural production across the Francophone world from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. Each of the chapters within engages with a different aspect of Marsh’s interest in French colonialism and the entanglements of its complex afterlives — whether it be her interest in the longevity of imperial rivalries; loss and colonial nostalgia; exoticism and the female body; decolonization and the ends of empire; the French colonial imagination; the policing of racialized bodies; or anti-colonial activism and resistance. As well as reflecting the geographical and intellectual breadth of Marsh’s research, the volume demonstrates how her work continues to resonate with emerging scholarship around decoloniality, transcolonial mobilities and anti-colonial resistance in the Francophone world. From French India to Algeria and from the Caribbean to contemporary France, this collection demonstrates the persistent relevance of Marsh’s scholarship to the histories and legacies of empire, while opening up conversations about its implications for decolonial approaches to imperial histories and the future of Francophone Postcolonial Studies.Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Sarah Arens, Nicola Frith, Jonathan Lewis and Rebekah Vince I. Colonial Continuities and Nostalgia Bayadères in the French Imagination: A Persistent Dance Tessa Ashlin Nunn Jean-Paul Kauffmann: Nostalgia, Empire and Imagined Resurrections Patrick Crowley A Russian Love Affair: Memory, Nostalgia and Transimperial Connections Srilata Ravi Colonialism, Race and Caribbean Migration: A History of the BUMIDOM Antonia Wimbush Continuity or Rupture?: Remapping the End of Empire in Marguerite Duras’s ‘Cycle Indien’ Julia Waters The Visible Other: Muslim Women, Feminism, and National Identity in France Edwige Crucifix Bridge Slaves of Fashion. Les Indiennes: The Extended Triangle The Singh Twins II. Decoloniality and Transcolonial Modes of Resistance Hidden Heritages and Unlikely Legacies: An Eastern Jerusalem in Hubert Haddad’s Premières neiges sur Pondichéry Rebekah Vince Decolonizing Collective Memory from within: Rwandan Remembrance in Belgium and France Catherine Gilbert Divided Worlds, Distorted Selves: Coloniality and the Process of Identification in Yasmina Khadra’s Ce que le jour doit à la nuit Abdelbaqi Ghorab The Enslaved Man in Un Cœur simple: A Story within a Story Sucheta Kapoor Mobility, Immobility and Transgression: Representations of Dangerous Travellers in Mounsi’s La Noce des fous Jonathan Lewis Policing Black Anti-Colonial Activism in Interwar France: The Surveillance of Lamine Senghor in Fréjus, Marseille and Bordeaux David Murphy Afterword Charles Forsdick
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene:
Book SynopsisThis unique book considers COVID-19 as one pandemic amongst many, forming an episodic era of ebbing and flowing crises: the Virocene. Investigating COVID-19 in the context of the phenomenology of the crisis, it offers critical exploration of key theses in the study of mobility and futures, travel and citizenship. Through thought-provoking and insightful analysis Rodanthi Tzanelli suggests that COVID-19, and any highly infectious virus that follows, evolves into the new self-governing principle of various forms of movement, acting as an ontological magnet: as mobilities become reshaped by remote technologies, the very order of reality changes.Examining how one viral crisis can trigger more crises, prompting radical self-assessment in the new orders of life, Tzanelli suggests that the Virocene and the Anthropocene interact in ways that may lead to multiple ecological failures or produce the key to better futures. This interdisciplinary book analyses contemporary events from a range of perspectives, providing a large-scale qualitative assessment of recent phenomena.It will be a key resource for students and scholars of cultural sociology, sociological theory, geography, anthropology, environmental humanities and communication studies, while also benefiting practitioners in crisis management and policymaking interested in alternative approaches to pandemics and social change.Trade Review‘Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene: Mutating the Crisis deftly transcends both the myopic obsession with the crisis at hand and the optimistic platitudes about its aftermath that have circulated in popular pandemic commentary. In their place, Tzanelli offers a fresh perspective on the pandemic, arguing that it is not merely a momentary reordering of our daily (im)mobilities, but rather symptomatic of a new epoch in which recurring crises have become a hallmark of human life on earth. Tzanelli’s diagnosis shifts the conversation into an altogether different register, inviting readers to question our deeply held assumptions about the nature of reality and pointing us toward the real hopes we might harbor for our future world.’ -- Jennie Germann Molz, College of the Holy Cross, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I RE-INTRODUCING THE COENIC : OVERLAPPING ERAS = OVERLAPPING IMAGINARIES? Introduction to Cultural (Im)mobilities and the Virocene PART II VIROPOLITICS 1. Virocene imaginaries: colonising the ontic sphere 2. Virocene emplotments: masking cultural politics as biomedical events PART III FABRICA MUNDI (DIGITALIS) : THE RADICAL SHIFT 3. Work and the new (im)mobilities of the Virocene 4. Virocene pilgrimage in micro-spheres PART IV TOURISM, TRAVEL, ALTERMOBILITIES 5. Post-viral tourism’s antagonistic tourist imaginaries 6. Beyond technophilia: from alternative modernities to alternative realities PART V BEFORE THE REVOLUTION (IS THE DAY WE ALWAYS COME HOME Conclusion: pluritopia and pluriworlds that travel (with) us Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press Policing and urban society in eighteenthcentury
Book SynopsisIn the eighteenth century, as the forms, practices and spaces of urban sociability emerged and took shape (such as salons, clubs, theatres, public places and promenades), police forces and policing practices were undergoing far-reaching changes.
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Liverpool University Press Sounds Senses
Book SynopsisSounds Senses is about what happens to the francophone postcolonial condition when sound is taken as a point of departure for engaging cultural production.
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Liverpool University Press The Hangover after the Handover: Places, Things
Book SynopsisAs a former British colony (1842–1997) and then a Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong has witnessed at all times how relations are formed, dissolved and refashioned amidst changing powers, identities and narratives, given the many names it possessed over the course of history, from ‘Barren Rock’, ‘Fragrant Harbour’, ‘Port of Incense’, ‘Pearl of the Orient’, ‘Asia’s World City’, ‘Vertical City’, ‘Floating City’ to ‘City at the End of Time’ among others. In the post-handover, post-hangover years, the circulation, reverberation and reception of cultural symbols, old and new, such as the King of Kowloon, Song Emperor’s Terrace, and Lion Rock have revealed the multifaceted appearances and connotations of Hong Kong’s ‘local’. At the intersections between real-life events, cultural production and consumption and multiple voices, the book extracts and examines the local relations between the inhabitants of the territory and the human and nonhuman agencies that stand or that have once stood for Hong Kong across time and through space. Via the lens of places, things and cultural icons, the book offers lessons to learn from Hong Kong by opening up manifold postcolonial, translocal and planetary perspectives to confront and interrogate the volatile experiences in the new millennia—unprecedented since the Cold War period of the twentieth century—shared by Hong Kong and other regions. After all, what does it mean, or take, to live in the contemporary world when the local, global and national are constantly given new meanings?Trade Review“This is a highly original and timely study in a field that is still developing, having been neglected in terms of its global cultural significance until very recently. Now Dr Wu’s book couldn’t be more topical.”Professor Michael Ingham, Lingnan University, Hong KongTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION: THE HANGOVER AFTER THE HANDOVERCHAPTER 1LOCAL RELATIONS AND THEIR POSTCOLONIAL OUTLOOKSCHAPTER 2HONG KONG’S LOCAL: (DE-)GENERATING LOCAL RELATIONSCHAPTER 3ALL HAIL THE KING OF KOWLOON! MEDIATING MALLEABLE MATERIALITYCHAPTER 4CONNECTING WITH THE LOCAL, OR NOT: THE SONG EMPEROR’S TERRACECHAPTER 5ANOTHER ROCK, ANOTHER HONG KONG STORY: LION ROCK FROM BELOW AND ABOVECONCLUSION: LOCAL AND TRANSLOCAL: LESSONS FROM HONG KONGBIBLIOGRAPHY
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Liverpool University Press Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects:
Book SynopsisOver recent decades concerns at the increased scarcity and precarity of salaried employment have dominated political struggles, theoretical debates and cultural representations in France. This study argues that such concerns are evidence of a profound shift in contemporary French economy, culture and society. Engaging with work in political economy and sociology, the book sketches a new interpretative framework, the better to understand the nature and implications of these profound changes. It examines the challenges such changes have posed to fundamental French republican values, arguing they have opened up a rift between older notions of French republican citizenship and the precarious forms of subjectivity characteristic of post-Fordist labour. The book traces the symptoms of this rift in a range of cinematic and literary representations of the contemporary workplace, as these depict the dilemmas faced, the trajectories followed, and the geographical regions inhabited by French workers of different ages, sexes, social classes, and ethnicities.Trade Review“This is a well-written and clearly argued treatment of the implications of a post-Fordist regime of economic management on employment in France, as seen through literary and filmic representations."Nick Parsons, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionPART ONE: THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIESChapter One: The Crisis of Fordism. Symptoms and DiagnosesChapter Two: Modulating Work and WelfarePART TWO: CHARACTER TYPES, TRAJECTORIES, UNEVEN GEOGRAPHIESChapter Three: Modulated masculinitiesChapter Four: Femmes FortesChapter Five: Doomed YouthChapter Six: Sans PapiersConclusionBibliography
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Liverpool University Press Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s):
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on Trans-Mediterranean Francospheres offers an original examination of cultural production and the flows between urban capitals and “capital” in and of a selection of Mediterranean cities and sites. In three parts, the book covers both familiar and overlooked terrain, in chapters which examine writing the city, the transit between different poles, film and EU designated cultural capitals. The collection therefore brings together texts and their critical readings in new comparative ways. Following Jacques Derrida’s peregrinations in L’Autre Cap (1991), the volume interrogates the what of Europe; the when or where of Paris; the who of the Mediterranean. Or might the Mediterranean fall under the rubric of paleonomy, that is, as Michael Naas recalls Derrida’s words in Positions: “the ‘strategic’ necessity that requires the occasional maintenance of an old name in order to launch a new concept.”Taking this forward, we understand the Mediterranean as an old name to launch a new concept and the essays in the book each reflect on this in different ways. Issues concerning identity are challenged, since a Metropolitan, European, Arab or African identity may be preferred over a Mediterranean one. As borders become reinforced in the region, trans-Mediterranean bridging narratives may be thwarted, especially by those who write across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, in the face of the contemporary refugee crisis. Finally, chapters explore what it means to define a Mediterranean city—such as Marseille as European Capital of Culture—and interrogate how this feeds into the cultural production of a city whose multi-ethnic identities are as outward-looking towards North Africa as they are inward towards the French capital.Contributors: Silvia Baage, Marzia Caporale, Angela Giovanangeli, Mark Ingram, Christa Jones, Gemma King, Claire Launchbury, Megan C. MacDonald, Agnès Peysson-Zeiss, Ipek Çelik Rappas, Alison Rice, Rania SaidTrade Review“This edited volume breathes new life into our understanding of cultural exchanges in the Mediterranean. The contributors' inventive attention to the 'Francosphère' revives debates around postcolonial cultural production in its myriad interdisciplinary expressions."Claudia Esposito, University of Massachusetts-BostonTable of ContentsIntroduction: Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s)Claire Launchbury and Megan C. MacDonaldPART I: WRITING CAPITAL(S), NARRATING THE CITY: MEDITERRANEAN ALLER/RETOURSChapter 1: The Flâneuses of Tunis: Reading the City in the Life Narratives of Kaouthar Khlifi and Dora LatiriRania SaidChapter 2: City Speak: Nice through the Eyes of Jean Vigo, Jacques Demy and Emmanuel RoblèsChrista JonesChapter 3: Moroccan Narratives of Dystopia: Representations of Tangier in Leïla Kilani’s film Sur la plancheMarzia CaporaleChapter 4: Cultural Capitals in Crisis: Meditating on the Mediterranean and Memory Between Paris and Athens in La clarinette by Vassilis AlexakisAlison RicePart II: MARSEILLE MULTIPLES : CAPITAL OF CULTURE Chapter 5: Screening Cosmopolitan and Mediterranean MarseilleIpek Çelik RappasChapter 6: Shaping Mediterranean geographies: The museum of European and Mediterranean civilisations in Marseille and the making of identityAngela GiovanangeliChapter 7: Marseille Provence 2013: a social face-lift for an old lady?Agnès Peysson-ZeissChapter 8: Bridges and fault lines in the Mediterranean City: Neighbourhood memory in an urban walk in MarseilleMark IngramPART III– MEDITERRANEAN BEYONDSChapter 9: Between the Comoros Islands and Marseille: Trans-Mediterranean bridging narratives in the works of Salim HatubouSilvia BaageChapter 10: Trans-Mediterranean BeyroutesClaire LaunchburyChapter 11: Multilingual Pilgrimages: Language and Trans-Mediterranean Cultural Identity in Ismaël Ferroukhi’s Le Grand Voyage (2004)Gemma KingChapter 12: Bare Life At Sea: Mediterranean Crossings, Istanbul LimboMegan C. MacDonaldAcknowledgementsContributor Biographies
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Liverpool University Press Suicide Voices: Labour Trauma in France
Book SynopsisThis book examines the phenomenon of work suicides in France and asks why, at the present historical juncture, conditions of work can push individuals to take their own lives. During the 2000s, France experienced what commentators have described as a ‘suicide epidemic’, whereby increasing numbers of workers in the face of extreme pressures of work, chose to kill themselves. The book analyses a corpus of testimonial material linked to 66 suicide cases across three large French companies during the period from 2005 to 2015. It aims to consider what the extreme and subjective act of self-killing, narrated in suicide letters, can tell us about the contemporary economic order and its impact on flesh and blood bodies. What do rising work-related suicides reveal about conditions of human labour in the twenty-first century? Does neoliberal economics condition a desire for suicide? How do suicidal individuals describe the causes and motivations of their act? Combining critical perspectives from sociology, history, testimony studies, economics, cultural studies and public health, the book raises critical questions about the human costs of the shift to a finance-driven neoliberal order and its everyday effects within the French workplace.Trade ReviewReviews'This book offers us an exhaustive and penetrating analysis of the questions posed by workplace suicide. Sarah Waters makes it an essential key to understanding not only the transformations of the French society but of any society.' Christophe Dejours, Directeur de l'Institut de Psychodynamique de TravailTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Capitalism, work and suicideChapter Two: Suicide as TestimonyChapter Three: Going PostalChapter Four: Orange on the InsideChapter Five: Fast Cars and Vital ExhaustionConclusionBibliographyReferences
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Liverpool University Press Italy’s Sea: Empire and Nation in the
Book SynopsisFor much of the twentieth century the Mediterranean was a colonized sea. Italy’s Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean (1895-1945) reintegrates Italy, one of the least studied imperial states, into the history of European colonialism. It takes a critical approach to the concept of the Mediterranean in the period of Italian expansion and examines how within and through the Mediterranean Italians navigated issues of race, nation and migration troubling them at home as well as transnational questions about sovereignty, identity, and national belonging created by the decline and collapse of the Ottoman empire in North Africa, the Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean, or Levant. While most studies of Italian colonialism center on the encounter in Africa, Italy’s Sea describes another set of colonial identities that accrued in and around the Aegean region of the Mediterranean, ones linked not to resettlement projects or to the rhetoric of reclaiming Roman empire, but to cosmopolitan imaginaries of Magna Graecia, the medieval Christian crusades, the Venetian and Genoese maritime empires, and finally, of religious diversity and transnational Levantine Jewish communities that could help render cultural and political connections between the Italian nation at home and the overseas empire in the Mediterranean. Using postcolonial critique to interpret local archival and oral sources as well as Italian colonial literature, film, architecture, and urban planning, the book brings to life a history of mediterraneità or Mediterraneanness in Italian culture, one with both liberal and fascist associations, and enriches our understanding of how contemporary Italy—as well as Greece—may imagine their relationships to Europe and the Mediterranean today.Trade Review'This book is a much needed and welcome addition to the growing body of work on Italian colonialism, as well as broader Mediterranean studies, that also sheds new light on Italian fascism. Valerie McGuire provides an empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated analysis of one of Italy’s lesser studied “colonies”: the Dodecanese Islands.'Pamela Ballinger, University of Michigan'In Valerie McGuire’s Italy’s Sea, we encounter two kinds of Italian Mediterranean imaginary. In unearthing the largely forgotten history of Italy’s colonial rule in the Aegean (1924–1943, but de facto since 1912) the author distinguishes between two phases of colonial administration that were characterized respectively by two different Mediterraneanist ideologies. [...] Through thorough research of largely unexplored material [...] the author offers a masterful account not only of how Italian colonial subjecthood was imagined in the Aegean but also of how it was practiced by both colonizers and colonized. [...This book] is a welcome and valuable addition to the field of Italian and Mediterranean studies. [It] deserves high praise for [its] interdisciplinarity and for providing useful tools for addressing the issues with which [it is] concerned.'Konstantina Zanou, Italian American Review '[Italy's Sea] provides a very compelling account of the remaking of the Italian identity through the Mediterraneanist discourse and fills a void in the literature about both Italian and Greek histories by shedding new light on the impact of the colonial domination of the Fascist regime in the Dodecanese islands.' Matteo Giordano, Journal of Contemporary History‘McGuire’s ambitious and comprehensive work contributes essentially to understanding the intersection of colonial expansion, citizenship, and the construction of race in the Eastern Mediterranean.’ Joanna Bürger, H-Italy‘Valerie McGuire's book is a fundamentally important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies… an excellent text, written in captivating prose, a supreme novelty in the field of Italian studies and also in the broader context of colonial and postcolonial studies. The chapter “Everyday Fascism in the Aegean” will become required reading for students in my fascism class.’ Sergio Ferrarese, Quaderni d’Italianistica‘Italy’s Sea is a fine book that achieves its aims admirably. It makes very important contributions to our understanding of both Italian imperialism and the history and culture of Dodecanese. Its great innovation is to link, convincingly, the Mediterranean heritage of connectivity and pluralism to Italy’s modern imperial project.’ Nicholas Doumanis, Journal of Modern Greek Studies‘The way in which McGuire’s book adds to and expands the recently proliferating literature on Italian rule on the Dodecanese is by offering to write not simply a history of the archipelago under Italian administration, but a history of Italy – and even of Europe – through the experience of the Dodecanese… this is an important study that speaks to several literatures across disciplines.’ Alexis Rappas, Mediterranean Historical Review‘McGuire’s book is thorough, creative, and groundbreaking, building upon her dissertation at New York University and perspective gained from years of archival research and oral history interviews in Italy and in Greece. This is an important work for historians of contemporary Italy, Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean, and for the field of Italian studies, and will be appreciated by both undergraduate and graduate students… fascinating both as a historical and as a present-minded study.’ Mark I. Choate, Mediterranean Studies‘Unlike the many recent studies of empire that focus on Italy’s African colonies, the book’s focus on the eastern Mediterranean allows for unique and illuminating perspectives on the trajectory of Italian colonialism and nation-state building… McGuire masterfully recounts the Italian transformation of Rhodes into a cosmopolitan tourist destination that showcased the island’s Mediterranean and Levantine cultural heritage… an important addition to the growing scholarship on Fascism, Italian Empire, and the Mediterranean.’ Michael R. Ebner, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Nostalgia, the Aegean, and Mediterraneità in the Liberal Era2. Touring Italian Rhodes3. Belonging in the Archipelago: Nation, Race, and Citizenship4. Technologies of Empire: Everyday Fascism in the DodecaneseConclusion: Postcolonial ReturnsBibliography
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Liverpool University Press Transcultural Italies: Mobility, Memory and
Book SynopsisThe history of Italians and of modern Italian culture stems from multiple experiences of mobility and migration: between the late 19th century and the early 20th century, 27 million Italians migrated and 60 to 80 million people worldwide see their identity as connected with the Italian diaspora. Since the time of Italian unification, a series of narratives about mobility have been produced both inside and outside the boundaries of Italy, by agents such as the Italian state, international organizations or migrant communities themselves.The essays in Transcultural Italies follow the multiple trajectories of this complex history and of its representations. They do so by focusing on the key concepts and practices of mobility, memory and translation. Taken together, they represent a contrapuntal series of case studies that offers a fresh perspective on the study of modern and contemporary Italy. The essays in the volume explore the meanings that ‘transnational’ and ‘transcultural’ assume when applied to the notion of Italian culture.Contributors: Charles Burdett, Jennifer Burns, Derek Duncan, Chiara Giuliani, Viviana Gravano, Giulia Grechi, Margaret Hills de Zárate, Eliana Maestri, Valerie McGuire, Loredana Polezzi, Barbara Spadaro, Ilaria Vanni, Naomi Wells, Rita WilsonTrade Review“Transcultural Italies brings together a series of essays that interrogate the inherently dynamic nature of Italian identity and culture to advance the transnational turn that is presently reshaping the field of Italian Studies."Stephanie Malia Hom, University of California, Santa Barbara“Transcultural Italies adds new dimensions to the study of human mobilities and suggests a path-breaking approach to the cultural study of Italian migrations, from the movement of people and objects through space and memory to Italian influences on global culture.”Maddalena Tirabassi, Centro Altreitalie sulle Migrazioni Italiane, TurinTable of ContentsIntroduction: Transcultural ItaliesCharles Burdett, Loredana Polezzi and Barbara SpadaroSection 1: TracesThe Transnational Biography of ‘British’ Place: Local and Global Stories in the Built EnvironmentJennifer BurnsPorteña Identity and Italianità: Language, Materiality and Transcultural Memory in Valparaíso’s Italian CommunityNaomi WellsItalian Identity, Global Mediterranean: Tourism and Cultural Heritage in Post-Colonial RhodesValerie McGuireItaly and Africa: Post-War Memories of Life in Eritrea and EthiopiaCharles BurdettSection 2: Art, Objects and Artefacts‘The Path that Leads Me Home’: Eduardo Paolozzi and the Arts of TransnationalizingDerek DuncanMoving Objects: Memory and Material CultureMargaret Hills de ZárateVisualizing Spatialization at a Crossroads between Translation and Mobility: Italian Australian Artist Jon Cattapan’s CityscapesEliana MaestriAn Exhibition about Italian Identities Beyond BordersViviana Gravano and Giulia GrechiSection 3: Mobilities of MemoryPitigliano, Maryland? Travelling Memories and Moments of TruthBarbara SpadaroMisplaced Plants: Migrant Gardens and TransculturationIlaria VanniThe Chinese Community in Italy, the Italian Community in China: Economic Exchanges and Cultural DifferenceChiara GiulianiWriting the Neighbourhood: Literary Representations of Language, Space and MobilityRita WilsonFrom Substitution to Co-presence: Translation, Memory, Trace and the Visual Practices of Diasporic Italian ArtistsLoredana Polezzi
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Liverpool University Press The Culture of War: Literature of the Siege of
Book SynopsisThe Culture of War explores the unexpected flourishing of literature both high and low during the Siege of Paris at the end of the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. When Prussian forces completely blockaded Paris, isolating the city from the outside world, Parisians turned to literature to resist the enemy, to fill the idle hours under siege, and to articulate their place in history. This cultural boom was a conscious effort on the part of literary institutions like newspapers, publishers, and theaters to ensure the viability of their industries during a period of political uncertainty. To do so, many publishers, editors, and directors sought legitimacy through populism, promoting literature written by anonymous and unknown authors or that spoke to populist ideas. A study of national tragedy on a local scale, The Culture of War goes beyond traditional narratives of communal or individual psychology, and studies institutional responses to financial and political instability, viewing literature as a product of economic and political forces.Trade Review"This book offers an original and intriguing look into the literature of the four-month period of the Siege (introducing some virtually unknown works to readers) as well as a novel exploration of the ways that literary institutions responded to this moment of turmoil.”Anne O'Neil-Henry, Georgetown University'Because the book shows the power of a patriotism which reactivates references to the French Revolution, to the people in arms, the work, although written by a specialist in literature, is also extremely careful to get out of textual analysis stricto sensu to question literature as a social activity, [...] gives new life to printers, publishers, owners of newspapers and theatres, who are the actors of this moment of exceptional creativity. [...] All in all, this stimulating book reinforces the value of a multidisciplinary approach to writing in times of war.'Odile Roynette, Contemporary TerritoriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPart I: On StageChapter 1: The Boulevards Lose Their TheatersChapter 2: HugomaniaPart II: Off PressesChapter 3: The Feuilleton at WarChapter 4: The Dubious Battle of ReichshoffenPart III: At HomeChapter 5: Letters to No OneChapter 6: Historians of the PresentPart IV: In PrintChapter 7: De-Modernizing PublishingChapter 8: To Make the Past PublicCodaThe Siege and State ViolenceBibliography
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Liverpool University Press Haiti in the British Imagination: Imperial
Book SynopsisIn 1804, Haiti declared its independence from France to become the world’s first ‘black’ nation state. Throughout the nineteenth century, Haiti maintained its independence, consolidating and expanding its national and, at times, imperial projects. In doing so, Haiti joined a host of other nation states and empires that were emerging and expanding across the Atlantic World. The largest and, in many ways, most powerful of these empires was that of Britain. Haiti in the British Imagination is the first book to focus on the diplomatic relations and cultural interactions between Haiti and Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. As well as a story of British imperial aggression and Haitian ‘resistance’, it is also one of a more complicated set of relations: of rivalry, cultural exchange and intellectual dialogue. At particular moments in the Victorian period, ideas about Haiti had wide-reaching relevancies for British anxieties over the quality of British imperial administration, over what should be the relations between ‘the British’ and people of African descent, and defining the limits of black sovereignty. Haitians were key in formulating, disseminating and correcting ideas about Haiti. Through acts of dialogue, Britons and Haitians impacted on the worldviews of one another, and with that changed the political and cultural landscapes of the Atlantic World.Trade Review‘Haiti in the British Imagination: Imperial Worlds, 1847–1915 is a significant contribution to this vibrant field… focusing on the influence of Haitians on the writings of Britons in this period, a fascinating and nuanced picture emerges of competing social and political agendas played out via several cultural mediums… this book is not just an important read for scholars of Haitian and British history; it also contributes significantly to studies of the way dialogues between imperial and (post)colonial powers were formed and manipulated to suit competing agendas.’ James Forde, New West Indian GuideTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Representations of The Haitian Empire in the British Press, 1847–59Chapter Two: Policing the Caribbean: The Bulldog Affair and the Morant Bay WarChapter Three: Hayti, or, the Black RepublicChapter Four: Vive Dessalines! Revolution, Class and the Centenary of IndependenceConclusionBibliography
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Liverpool University Press Women, Citizenship, and Sexuality: The
Book SynopsisUntil well into the twentieth century, the claims to citizenship of women in the US and in Europe have come through men (father, husband); women had no citizenship of their own. The case studies of three expatriate women (Renée Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and Natalie Barney) illustrate some of the consequences for women who lived independent lives. To begin with, the books traces the way that ideas about national belonging shaped gay male identity in the nineteenth century, before showing that such a discourse was not available to women and lesbians, including the three women who form the core of the book. In addition to questions of sexually non-conforming identity, women's mediated claim to citizenship limited their autonomy in practical ways (for example, they could be unilaterally expatriated). Consequently, the situation of the denizen may have been preferable to that of the citizen for women who lived between the lines. Drawing on the discourse of jurisprudence, the history of the passport, and original archival research on all three women, the books tells the story of women's evolving claims to citizenship in their own right.Trade Review“This book explores the ways in which marginal sexual identities have been expressed through the trope of national identity. The study is as accessible as it is erudite, Melanie Hawthorne writes in a lively style that is all her own."Gretchen Schultz, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsWomen, Citizenship, and Sexuality: IntroductionChapter 1. "Comment Peut-on Etre Homosexuel?": Multinational (In)Corporations and the Frenchness of SaloméChapter 2. Renée Vivien: French Poet?!!Time Passes: An InterchapterChapter 3. "Partout Etrangère": Romaine BrooksChapter 4. Natalie Barney's Missed MarriagesAfterword: On Becoming a CitizenNotesBibliography
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Liverpool University Press Jewish–Muslim Interactions: Performing Cultures
Book SynopsisBy exploring dynamic Jewish-Muslim interactions across North Africa and France through performance culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, we offer an alternative chronology and lens to a growing trend in media and scholarship that views these interactions primarily through conflict. Our volume interrogates interaction that crosses the genres of theatre, music, film, art, and stand-up, emphasising creative influence and artistic cooperation between performers from the Maghrib, with a focus on Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, and diaspora communities, notably in France. The plays, songs, films, images, and comedy sketches that we analyse are multilingual, mixing not only with the former colonial language French, but also the rich diversity of indigenous Amazigh and Arabic languages. The volume includes contributions by scholars working across and beyond disciplinary boundaries through anthropology, ethnomusicology, history, sociology, and literature, engaging with postcolonial studies, memory studies, cultural studies, and transnational French studies. The first section examines accents, affiliations, and exchange, with an emphasis on aesthetics, familiarity, changing social roles, and cultural entrepreneurship. The second section shifts to consider departure and lingering presence through spectres and taboos, in its exploration of absence, influence, and elision. The volume concludes with an autobiographical afterword, which reflects on memories and legacies of Jewish-Muslim interactions across the Mediterranean. Contributors: Cristina Moreno Almeida, Jamal Bahmad, Adi Saleem Bharat, Aomar Boum, Morgan Corriou, Ruth Davis, Samuel Sami Everett, Fanny Gillet, Jonathan Glasser, Miléna Kartowski-Aïach, Nadia Kiwan, Hadj Miliani, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Elizabeth Perego, Christopher Silver, Rebekah Vince, Valérie ZenattiTrade Review"This collection dances off the page, with a series of engaging, accessible, insightful essays on the many ways in which Jewish and Muslim artists and performers from North Africa engaged (and continue to engage) with one another creatively, through comedy, art, film, theater, and music, from the colonial period to the present day."Sarah Abrevaya Stein, UCLA"Excellent ouvrage appelé à faire date. Savamment argumenté et novateur, il bouscule intelligemment des schèmes et des préjugés fossilisés. Les éclairages qu'il apporte sur les relations entre Juifs et Musulmans, oubliées ou occultées, sont pertinents et vivifiants. La mise en évidence, solidement argumentée et nuancée, de leurs affinités artistiques, culturelles et autres, va à contre-courant de l'approche conflictuelle habituelle de leurs interactions. Ce livre a l'immense mérite de sortir des sentiers battus et d'ouvrir de stimulantes perspectives de recherches. A l'ère des extrêmes et du déferlement du populisme, sa lecture s'impose absolument." - Mohammed Kenbib, Université Mohammed V de Rabat [Original quote]"A landmark volume that skilfully and innovatively disrupts fossilized schemas and prejudices through its arguments. The insights that it brings to bear on Jewish-Muslim relations, hitherto obfuscated or forgotten, are pertinent and restorative. Its elucidation of artistic and cultural affinities, convincingly argued and with great nuance, serves as a counterpoint to the more commonplace narrative of conflict when it comes to such interactions. This book is particularly noteworthy as it takes us off the beaten track and opens up stimulating avenues for research. In an era of extremes and a surge in populism it is a must read." - Mohammed Kenbib, Université Mohammed V de Rabat [English translation]"Quand les arts et la création artistique racontent les relations des juifs et des musulmans, ils offrent, alors, au lecteur les échos vibrants d'une histoire partagée dont les héritages résonnent encore aujourd'hui. C'est le défi relevé par les auteurs de cet ouvrage, affranchis des paradigmes politiques et idéologiques, et qui entre passé et présent renouent avec une histoire qui n'existe plus." - Karima Dirèche, CNRS TELEMME [Original quote]"When the creative and performing arts recount relations between Jews and Muslims, they offer to the reader vibrant echoes of a shared history whose legacies continue to resound today. Such is the challenge taken up by the authors of this volume who, free from political and ideological paradigms, reconnect with a forgotten history, somewhere between past and present." - Karima Dirèche, CNRS TELEMME [English translation]"A fascinating, eminently readable collection of essays documenting the dynamic, creative, and surprisingly close collaboration between Muslims and Jews in all domains of the performing arts in the Maghreb and in France from the 1920s to the contemporary post-independence period. In this collection, we encounter a colourful gallery of artists, authors, producers – both Muslims and Jews – who together entertained generations of mixed audiences with theatre plays in vernacular Arabic, cabaret performances, concerts, films, and comic one-man shows.This volume offers us a welcome and timely antidote to the feeling of complete deterioration of the relations between Jews and Muslims in recent decades."Professor Lucette Valensi, École des hautes études en sciences sociales'In brief, this is an exciting and much needed contribution to intercommunal religious studies in North Africa and France. …Scholars in art, music, theater and film will undoubtedly applaud the incontestable demonstration that the arts deeply matter in history and geopolitics.' Tamara Dee Turner, The Journal of North African Studies Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Samuel Sami Everett and Rebekah Vince I. Accents, Affiliations, and Exchange Albert Samama, a Tunisian Filmmaker in the Ottoman Empire at War (1911–1913) Morgan Corriou Translated by David Motzafi-Haller More than Friends? On Muslim-Jewish Musical Intimacy in Algeria and Beyond Jonathan Glasser Nationalist Records: Jews, Muslims, and Music in Interwar North Africa Christopher Silver Marie Soussan: A Singular Trajectory Hadj Miliani and Samuel Sami Everett Retelling the Jewish Past in Tunisia through Narratives of Popular Song Ruth F. Davis ‘Free, but United’? Artistic and Political Issues of Intercommunal Solidarity in Tunisia and Algeria, 1940–1960 Fanny Gillet Translated by David Motzafi-Haller II. Absence, Influence, and Elision Neglected Legacies: Omissions of Jewish Heritage and Muslim-Jewish Relations in Algerian Bandes Dessinees, 1967 through the 1980s Elizabeth Perego Forgotten Encounters: Sounds of Coexistence in Moroccan Rap Music Cristina Moreno Almeida Unmuted Sounds: Jewish Musical Echoes in Twenty-first Century Moroccan and Israeli Soundscapes Aomar Boum Connecting the Disconnect: Music and its Agency in Moroccan Cinema’s Jewish-Muslim Interactions Vanessa Paloma Elbaz Jerusalem Blues: On the Uses of Affect and Silence in Kamal Hachkar’s Tinghir-Jerusalem: Les echos du Mellah (2012) Jamal Bahmad A Newfound Voice from across the Mediterranean: Kamal Hachkar’s Dans tes yeux, je vois mon pays (2019) Milena Kartowski-Aiach Translated by David Motzafi-Haller Creative Coexistence or Creative Co-resistance? Transcultural Complexity in the Work of Street Artist ‘Combo’ Nadia Kiwan Shalom alikoum! Challenging the Conflictual Model of Jewish-Muslim Relations in France through Stand-up Comedy Adi Saleem Bharat Post-face Valerie Zenatti Afterword - Translated by Samuel Sami Everett About the Contributors Index
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Liverpool University Press Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism,
Book SynopsisAbdelkébir Khatibi (1938–2009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both postcolonialism and Islamic culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book introduces his works to Anglophone readers, tracing his development from the early work on sociology in Morocco to his literary and aesthetic works championing transnationalism and multilingualism. The essays here both offer close analyses of Khatibi’s engagements with a range of issues, from Moroccan politics to Arabic calligraphy and from decolonisation to interculturality, and highlights the important contribution of his thinking to the development of Western postcolonial and modern theory. The book acknowledges the legacy of one of the greatest African thinkers of the last century, and addresses the lack of attention to his work in the field of postcolonial studies. More than a writer, a sociologist or a thinker, Khatibi was a leading figure and an eclectic intellectual whose erudite works can still inform and enrich current reflections on the future of postcolonialism and the development of intercultural and transnational studies. The book also includes translated excerpts from Khatibi’s works, thus offering a multilingual perspective on his writing.Contributors: Assia Belhabib, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Dominique Combe, Rim Feriani, Charles Forsdick, Olivia C. Harrison, Jane Hiddleston, Debra Kelly, Khalid Lyamlahy, Lucy McNeece, Matt Reeck, Alison Rice, Nao Sawada, Andy Stafford, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Alfonso de ToroTrade Review'It is difficult to overstate the importance of Abdelkebir Khatibi, not just for the postcolonial or francophone world but for literary and cultural studies in general. This volume will be a significant contribution to scholarship on the multifaceted and complex work of this original literary and cultural voice.'Nasrin Qader, Northwestern University'Jane Hiddleston and Khalid Lyamlahy’s hard-hitting collection of essays on Abdelkébir Khatibi represents the first major English-language publication devoted to the Moroccan thinker and his work.[...] In this sense, there can be no greater homage to, or recognition of, Khatibian destabilisation and instigation than the editors' thoughtful interfolding of elements of surprise into the collection’s structure. [...] This book is positioned to be of immense interest to students and scholars of postcolonialism who are invested in the complex intersections of politics, literature, language, and identity, both within and beyond the francosphere. One of the book’s most precious contributions to (francophone) postcolonialism is how it points to fecund crossovers with adjacent fields of scholarship, and gestures toward potentially trailblazing interventions.'Yasser Elhariry, Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies'There is also a useful overview of Khatibi scholarship, which in turn offers readers a chance to consider new avenues for research and enquiry. Particularly impressive is the way that this volume brings together many Khatibi scholars. [...] Hiddleston and Lyamlahy have done a laudable job of making the book accessible to a wide audience; whether one has just discovered Khatibi’s writings or spent a lifetime studying him, there is something in this collection for everyone.'Shannon K. Winston, French Studies'Abdelkébir Khatibi is quite properly characterized by the editors of this impressive collaboration as among the most important theorists of postcolonialism and contemporary Islamic culture. [...There are] fourteen individually fascinating and cumulatively compelling essays offered here, and which are valuably complemented by translations of substantial extracts from two of Khatibi’s major texts. [...] This absorbing introduction to his life and work deserves to be widely read and discussed.'Philip Dine, International Journal of French Studies'[Abdelkébir Khatibi: Postcolonialism, Transnationalism and Culture in the Maghreb and Beyond] stands as the most comprehensive account of Khatibi available in English to date. It presents insightful and authoritative readings on his relation to critical theory, poststructuralism, and postcolonial theory while integrating crucial but neglected aspects of his writing, notably his work in sociology, popular culture, and visual arts.' Matthew Brauer, Journal of North Africa StudiesTable of ContentsList of photographsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAbdelkébir Khatibi, At Home and AbroadJane Hiddleston and Khalid LyamlahyI. Critical Thinking: From Decolonisation to TransnationalismThe ‘Souverainement Orphelin’ of Abdelkébir Khatibi’s Early Writings: Sociology in the Souffles YearsAndy StaffordTireless Translation: Travels, Transcriptions, Tongues and the Eternal Plight of the ‘Étranger professionnel’ in the corpus of Abdelkébir KhatibiAlison RiceAbdelkébir Khatibi’s Mediterranean IdiomEdwige Tamalet TalbayevAbdelkébir Khatibi and the Transparency of LanguageAssia Belhabib (translated from the French by Jane Hiddleston)Performativity and Abdelkébir Khatibi, ‘From where to speak’: Living, Thinking and Writing with an ‘epistemological accent’Alfonso de ToroII. Cultural and Philosophical DialoguesKhatibi and the Transcolonial TurnOlivia C. HarrisonSegalen and Khatibi: Bilingualism, Alterity and the Poetics of DiversityCharles ForsdickDerrida and Khatibi: A ‘Franco-Maghrebian’ dialogueDominique Combe (translated from the French by Jane Hiddleston)Maghrebian Shadow: Abdelkébir Khatibi and Japanese CultureNao SawadaIII. Aesthetics and Art in the Islamic World and BeyondReading Signs and Symbols with Abdelkébir Khatibi: from the Body to the TextRim Feriani, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani and Debra KellyAbdelkébir Khatibi: The Other Side of the MirrorLucy McNeeceThe Carpet as a Text, The Writer as a Weaver: Reading the Moroccan Carpet with Abdelkébir KhatibiKhalid LyamlahyThe Artist’s Journey, or, the Journey as Art: Aesthetics and Ethics in Pèlerinage d’un artiste amoureux and beyondJane HiddlestonIV. TranslationsExcerpts from Abdelkébir Khatibi, La Blessure du nom propre (Paris: Editions Denoël, 1974)Translated from the French by Matt ReeckExcerpts from Abdelkébir Khatibi and Jacques Hassoun, Le Même Livre (Paris: Editions de l’Eclat, 1985)Translated from the French by Olivia C. HarrisonV. Bibliography
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Liverpool University Press Marvels of Medicine: Literature and Scientific
Book SynopsisMarvels of Medicine makes a compelling case for including sixteenth century medical and surgical writing in the critical frameworks we now use to think about a genealogy of cultural expression in Latin America. Focusing on a small group of practitioners who differed in their levels of training, but who shared the common experience of having left Spain to join colonial societies in the making, this book analyses the paths their texts charted to attitudes and political positions that would come to characterize a criollo mode of enunciation. Unlike the accounts of first explorers, which sought to amaze audiences back in Europe with descriptions of strange and astonishing lands, these texts instead engaged the marvellous in an effort to supersede it, stressing the value of sensorial experience and of verifying information through repetition and demonstration. Vernacular medical writing became an unlikely early platform for a new form of regionally anchored discourse that demanded participation in a global intellectual conversation, yet found itself increasingly relegated to the margins. In responding to that challenge, anatomical treatises, natural histories and surgical manuals exceeded the bounds set by earlier templates becoming rich, hybrid narratives that were as concerned with science as with portraying the lives and sensibilities of women and men in early colonial Mexico.Trade Review“This book is highly original, combining very well the approaches, methods and techniques of two disciplines that usually have very different work agendas: the history of medicine and the history of literature.”María Luz López-Terrada, INGENIO [CSIC-UPV]‘Pérez Marín’s important new work is sure to generate future research on topics like these in literary studies of medicine.’ Allison Bigelow, H-LatAm'Pérez Marín has introduced these fascinating medical texts as a way of telling a more complete story of colonial Latin America. She closely reads them through the lens of cultural studies and literary analysis, balancing the highly technical information with its delivery in a narrative voice.' Patricia M. García, Seventeenth-century news‘Marvels of Medicine provides a thorough and compelling read towards the histories of Hispanic health disparities and medical experiences, acknowledging the roles of language proficiencies as well as racial and ethnic biases.’ Margaret E. Boyle, Nursing Clio 'Pe´rez Marı´n’s work offers a valuable, rich interdisciplinary analysis of early colonial medical texts and their authors. The author’s literary and historical contextualization of political, scientific, and cultural discourses that determined the fate of these men and their work is thorough and engaging. This book will be especially useful for scholars interested in viceregal medicine and circulation of knowledge.'Aimee Da´vila Hisey, Hispanic American Historical Review'Marvels of Medicine is a valuable addition to the field [of interdisciplinary study] and stands as an example of the intertextual delights available to us when we bring these skillsets to our reading of early medical writing. [...] The strength of this book lies in its engagement with the literary connections between the various works, highlighting how these individuals were not only authors and medical practitioners, but readers crafting their thoughts in relation to and over-against each other's publications and changing perceptions of Latin America, nature, climate and the human body in the late sixteenth century. [...] Marvels of Medicine offers a very interesting prism through which to engage with medical, social and literary thought in early modern scholarship and creates scope for similar intertextual analysis in this and later periods of medical writing.'Michael Vargas, Bulletin of Spanish Studies'Most of the early works on the natural history of New Spain were printed in Spain and marketed to a Spanish readership eager to feast on wonder [...] In her absorbing new book, Marvels of medicine: literature and scientific enquiry in early colonial Spanish America, Yarí Pérez Marín, a historian of literature at Durham University, seeks to redress the imbalance that inevitably accompanies such renderings by turning to a body of literature that hasn’t been included in the Latin American literary canon.' William Eamon, Colonial Latin American ReviewTable of ContentsIntroductionMedical books and colonial Latin American literatureChapter 1The surgeon’s secrets: the medical travel narrative of Pedro Arias de BenavidesChapter 2Irreconcilable differences?: anatomy, physiology and the New World bodyChapter 3Weakening the sex: the medicalization of female gender identity in New SpainChapter 4Contested medical knowledge and regional self-fashioningConclusionEpilogueWorks cited
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Liverpool University Press Understories: Plants and Culture in the American
Book SynopsisUnderstories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants – cacao, mate, agave, the hevea brasilensis, kudzu, the breadfruit, soy, and the ceiba pentandra, among others – this volume shows that vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries in and beyond the region. Drawing on a wide range of cultural traditions and forms across literature, popular music, art, and film, the essays included in this volume transcend regional and linguistic boundaries to bring together multiple plant-centred histories or ‘understories’ – narratives that until now have been marginalized or gone unnoticed. Attending not only to the significant influence of humans on plants, but also of plants on humans, this book offers new understandings of how colonization, globalization, and power were, and continue to be, imbricated with nature in the American tropics.Trade Review‘A timely exploration of plant studies in the hemispheric Americas, Understories showcases diverse methodologies for uncovering the imbrications of plant and human world-making across the two continents. Each chapter uniquely challenges the place of plants—from trees to succulents, breadfruit to transgenic soy—in the popular imaginary by charting dynamic histories of growth, transplantation, contamination, and adaptation in a variety of human-plant entanglements.’ Amanda M. Smith‘What impresses the reader of, specially, Latin American literature is the ways in which the fitting title of the collection – Understories also brings to mind plant stories/histories that have passed before our eyes unseen – among other production of its contributors, and in particular its editor, Lesley Wylie, has changed the ways in which we read canonical fictions about plants.’ Felipe Martinez-PinzonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Figures Introduction. Green Power: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics Lesley Wylie The Dark Twin: Cacao from Mesoamerican Cosmology to the Contemporary Neotropics Bruce Dean Willis “A Good Thing Spring Up”: The Breadfruit Story in the Caribbean Elaine Savory Ceiba pentandra: Axis of the Mesoamerican World / Mirror of Climate Change in the Caribbean Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert The Politics of Yerba Mate Nina Gerassi-Navarro Transgenic Soy in Argentina: Arts of the Toxic Zone Sebastián Figueroa “A Home of Cactus and Maguey”: Dwelling and Cultural Representation of Succulents of the Americas Odile Cisneros From Tropical Pathology to Tropical Plantation: the Hevea brasiliensis, 1839 to 1945 Lesley Wylie The Vine at the End of the World: Reimagining Kudzu in the U.S. South Jessica Martell and Zackary Vernon Bibliography Contributors
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Liverpool University Press France’s Memorial Landscape: Views from Camp des
Book SynopsisDuring August 1942 several women jumped to their deaths from a second story window at the tile factory in the small town of Milles near Aix-en-Provence. Between 1939 and 1942 the factory assumed various roles as internment camp, transit camp and ultimately deportation camp. This book is about the view from the ‘suicide window’ as it is presented within the Camp des Milles memorial museum which opened in 2012. It explores how this view might help us to understand and imagine the world of internment and deportation camps operating in France during the Second World War and their memorial today. The book uses the views framed by the window to think critically about the museography of the memorial within the wider context of France’s relatively late acknowledgment of its role in the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War.Trade Review“The author’s ability to locate often unforeseen comparisons with other historical contexts, objects and realities makes for a narrative full of surprising twists and turns that can enrich an otherwise intense, densely packed narrative account.” - Richard J. GolsanTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of illustrationsPrefaceIntroduction. This is not a CampChapter One. Window FrameChapter Two. TricoloreChapter Three. WagonChapter Four. LandscapeChapter Five. SkyConclusion. Recollections of a viewBibliographyIndex
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