Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Books

Book SynopsisThis text is about the indigenous Nyoongar people of the south-west of Western Australia and their perspectives on racism, which has had a devastating effect on their lives and culture since colonisation; and the multicultural policies that are effective in Australia. The author, and those Nyoongars interviewed, give valuable insight into Aboriginal lives. Their comments reveal how Nyoongar people survived the colonialism, cultural genocide, the horrendous state government policies under which they were forced to exist, the Stolen Generations of children and the loss of their land, identity, culture, and purpose in their lives. Presently, they are fighting for equality and for recognition as being part of the oldest living culture in the world, that of the Australian Aborigines.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction I. Nyoongar Culture before European Invasion II. Government Policies Regarding Nyoongars and Other Aborigines III. Concepts of Race and Racism IV. Racism: The Nyoongar Experience V. Post 1967 Referendum VI. Immigration VII. Multicultural Policies VIII. Nyoongar People and Multiculturalism (1) IX. Nyoongar People and Multiculturalism (2) X. Conclusion Bibliography of works cited Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a scientific and comprehensive analysis of Israelis who live in the United States. Using different complementary sources of data, and through cutting-edge approaches in the social sciences, this volume examines the settlement patterns of the Israeli immigrants, their social profile, their economic achievements, their Americanization processes, as well as the nature and rhythm of their Jewish identification including changes in attachment to the homeland. The characteristics of the immigrants shed light on Israeli society. At the same time they also have important implications for the Jewish community in the host country and on Jewish continuity in America. "...Rebhun and Lev Ari do what the title outlines. They offer nuanced and in-depth insights into transnationalism, identity and diaspora of American Jewish Israelis. Based on their theoretical and methodological expertise, the book can be recommended to scholars of these areas, regardless of its focus on Israel. For experts, American Israelis is a gem: it offers so much in terms of data and analysis that it makes for many questions, which should be addressed in further research, qualitative and quantitative alike." Dani Kranz, Erfurt UniversityTable of ContentsCONTENTS Chapter 1. Migration, Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Research on Israelis in the United States Chapter 2. Migration and Settlement in the United States Chapter 3. Socioeconomic Acculturation and Mobility Chapter 4. Jewish Identification and Attachment to Homeland Chapter 5. Discussion: The Multifaceted Israeli Diaspora

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Book SynopsisAgainst the background of the Ürümchi riots (July 2009), this book provides a longitudinal study of contemporary Uyghur identities and Uyghur-Han relations. Previous studies considered China’s Uyghurs from the perspective of the majority Han (state or people). Conversely, The Art of Symbolic Resistance considers Uyghur identities from a local perspective, based on interviews conducted with group members over nearly twenty years. Smith Finley rejects assertions that the Uyghur ethnic group is a ‘creation of the Chinese state’, suggesting that contemporary Uyghur identities involve a complex interplay between long-standing intra-group socio-cultural commonalities and a more recently evolved sense of common enmity towards the Han. This book advances the discipline in three senses: from a focus on sporadic violent opposition to one on everyday symbolic resistance; from state to ‘local’ representations; and from a conceptualisation of Uyghurs as ‘victim’ to one of ‘creative agent’.

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Book SynopsisUsing examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth. Essentializing rural identity, traditional culture and quotidian resistance, both aristocratic/plebeian and pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform struggles waged 'from above' and 'from below', surfacing in peasant movements, film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty, landowner and colonizer as disempowered, ‘ordinary’ or well-disposed towards ‘those below’, whose interests they share, underwrite populism and nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural ‘otherness’ abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist, the plebeian from home.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction I. CULTURE, TRADITION AND MODERNITY 1 Cultural Struggle ‘From Below’ 2 Cultural Struggle ‘From Above’ 3 Development caught between Tradition and Modernity II. SCREEN IMAGES OF RURAL STRUGGLE 4 Horror, Humour, Fiends and Fools 5 Best of Friends, or Worst of Enemies? III. CULTURE, CLASS STRUGGLE AND TRAVEL 6 The Grand Tour, or From Cosmopolitanism to Nationalism 7 Mass Tourism, or the Mob-in-the-streets Travels Abroad 8 Venice – Being There Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates whether the presence of Muslim representatives in city councils improves substantive representation of Muslim interests across 32 London boroughs. It theorizes that descriptive representation of minorities leads to improved responsiveness to minority interests contingent on the percentage of minority representatives, the proportion of minorities in the district, level of party fragmentation among minority representatives, their political incorporation, and the electoral competitiveness of the district. It uses multivariate regression analysis to test the effects of these five explanatory variables. It validates the quantitative findings with case studies of three London boroughs while also investigating the role of representational styles of Muslim councillors on their political attitudes and behavior.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations Ch. 1: Introduction: Muslims in Western Politics Ch. 2: Muslims and Minority Politics in Britain Ch. 3: Government Responsiveness to Muslim Interests Ch. 4: Across London Boroughs Ch. 5: London Borough Councils and Tower Hamlets Ch. 6: London Borough of Newham Ch. 7: London Borough of Hackney Ch. 8: Comparative Analysis and Muslims in National Governement Ch. 9: Conclustion References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an ethnographic account of contemporary Christian Palestinian lives in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Through individual life stories, Bård Kårtveit shows how Christians in the District of Bethlehem strive to live meaningful lives. Lives which are shaped by Christian-Muslim relations within the national community, the impact of Israeli presence in the Palestinian Territories, migration and homeland-diaspora relationships, and which are heavily influenced by changes in their local community and traditional family structures. By situating these stories in the changing political contexts of Palestine, from late Ottoman to Israeli/Palestinian Authority rule, the author engages with these general processes of patriarchal resistance to social change; the role of minorities in nation-building processes; the impact of Western interventions in the region; the rise of political Islam; and the impact of emigration in the Arab World.Trade Review“Kårtveit succeeds admirably in integrating the historical, political, and religious processes since Ottoman times. Well researched, this is a required read for anthropologists and Middle East scholars.” L.D. Loeb in CHOICE July 2015. “The author is commendably attentive to the nuances of individual stories and deftly links these to the wider context of a society subject to hostile occupation as well as to internal tensions between social change and the assertion of tradition as a defense against that change and the occupation.” Glenn Bowman in Journal of Palestine Studies 175, volume XLIV, Number 3 (Spring 2015), 63-64. “Kårtveits bok er betimelig i en tid da fremveksten av islamistiske bevegelser gjør at kristne og andre religiøse minoriteter i Midtøsten opplever økt press og usikkerhet. Boken er essensiell lesning for alle som er interessert i den arabisk-israelske konflikten generelt og minoriteter og migrasjon i Midtøsten spesielt.” Cathrine Thorleifsson in Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift / Norwegian Journal of Anthropology 03-04/2015, p. 310-311.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction: Palestinian Christians in the West Bank Ch. 1: Bethlehem between tradition and modernity Ch. 2: Christian-Muslim relations: land, law and family protection Ch. 3: National identity, attachments and solidarity Ch. 4: The Israeli occupation: a politics of paralysis Ch. 5: Bethlehem emigration and diaspora relations Conclusion and epilogue Appendices References Index

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Book SynopsisA sequel to the groundbreaking volume, Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions, the present volume examines in depth interactions between Western racial constructions of East Asians and local constructions of race and their outcomes in modern times. Focusing on China, Japan and the two Koreas, it also analyzes the close ties between race, racism and nationalism, as well as the links race has had with gender and lineage in the region. Written by some of the field's leading authorities, this insightful and engaging 23-chapter volume offers a sweeping overview and analysis of racial constructions and racism in modern and contemporary East Asia that is unsurpassed in previous scholarship.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Conventions Preface 1. Introduction: The Synthesis of Foreign and Indigenous Constructions of Race in Modern East Asia and Its Actual Operation, Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel I. Antecedents: A Detailed Examination of Early Western Racial Constructions of East Asians II. Interactions: The Fusion of European and Asian Constructions of Race III. Nationalism: Interactions between Race and Ethnic Nationalism in East Asia IV. Gender and Lineage: The Impact of Domestic and Foreign Racial Constructions PART I: ANTECEDENTS 2. East Asians in the Linnaean Taxonomy: Sources and Implications of a Racial Image, Rotem Kowner and Christina Skott The Linnaean Revolution and View of Humankind Sources of Linnaeus’ Racial Perspective on East Asians The Essence of Asia: Swedish Views of China Swedish Reports and Linnaeus’ Revision of His Human Taxonomy Linnaeus’ Legacy and the Unfolding Racial View of East Asians 3. Constructing Racial Theories on East Asians as a Transnational “Western” Enterprise, 1750-1850, Walter Demel The Founding Fathers of Racial Theories: Linnaeus, Buffon, Kant and Camper The Second Generation: Multiple Directions 4. The ‘Races’ of East Asia in Nineteenth-Century European Encyclopaedias, Georg Lehner Classifying the Peoples of Asia The Encyclopedias' Main Sources for Remarks on the “Races” of East Asia Chinese, Japanese and Koreans: Descriptions of East Asian peoples Stereotypes of East Asians in General Knowledge Visual Representations of Race in Works of General Knowledge Concluding Remarks 5. The Racial Image of the Japanese in the Western Press Published in Japan, 1861-1881, Olavi K. Fält Background The Oldest People on Earth The Shining Japanese Race Weak and Inferior Race Praising the Endeavors of a Poor Race Conclusion PART II: INTERACTIONS 6. The Propagation of Racial Thought in Nineteenth-Century China, Daniel Barth The Background: Imperial China and the “Other” Stage I (1846-1851): Marques and Wei Yuan Stage II (1851-1855): Hobson and Muirhead Stage III (1855-1872): The Self-Strengthening Movement Stage IV (1872-1892): John Fryer and the Chinese Scientific and Industrial Magazine Conclusion: Chinese Intellectuals, Social Darwinism and Race 7. Learning from the South: Japan's Racial Construction of Southern Chinese, 1895-1941, Huei-Ying Kuo The South Seas as Japan’s Backyard, 1895-1914 Japan's Expansion into the Southern Chinese Networks, 1914-1928 Chinese Anti-Japanese Nationalism and Japanese Discourses on South Seas Chinese, 1928-1936 Southern Chinese as Non-Han Races, 1936-1941 Conclusions 8. “The Great Question of the World Today”: Britain, the Dominions, East Asian Immigration and the Threat of Race War, 1905-11, Antony Best Immigration and “the Awakening of Asia” The Prophets of Race War Critics of White Solidarity Finessing the Racial Divide Conclusions 9. “Uplifting the Weak and Degenerated Races of East Asia”: American and Indigenous Views of Sport and Body in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia, Stefan Hübner Sportive Citizenship Training in the Philippines Chinese Cooperation and Acceptance of American-Style Modernization Japanese Resistance and its Defeat by American Style Modernization Conclusion 10. Racism under Negotiation: The Japanese Race in the Nazi-German Perspective, Gerhard Krebs Early Nazi Views on the Japanese Racial Position Becoming More Aryan The Problem with the Japanese in the Nazi Worldview Continuing Mutual Mistrust The End 11. Discourses of Race and Racism in Modern Korea, 1890s-1945 , Vladimir Tikhonov Race and Its Uncertainties The Emergence of Race Theories in Modern Korea: One of the Logics of the “Civilized World” “Race” and “Ethnic Nation” in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 Conclusion: Race as a Path to Modernist Self-assertion? 12. The United States Arrives: Racialization and Racism in Post-1945 South Korea, Nadia Y. Kim Contextual Background: America Marches In and Mass Mediates The American Military, Whiteness, and Imperialist Racial Formation American Mass Media, White Heroes, and Counter-Hegemony Blackness and Imperialist Racial Formation Racism and Invisibility in Korean “America” Concluding Remarks 13. A Post-Communist Coexistence in Northeast Asia? Mutual Racial Attitudes among Russians and Indigenous Peoples of Siberia, David Lewis Discrimination against Siberian Peoples as an Outcome of Racial Prejudice The Origin and Legacy of Russian Attitudes to Asians Racial Attitudes among Indigenous Siberian Peoples The Communist Model of Racial Modus Vivendi The Impact of Prolonged Racism on Indigenous Siberian Peoples Marriage as an Anti-Racist Means in a Multi-Racial Society PART III: NATIONALISM 14. Nationalism and Internationalism: Sino-American Racial Perceptions of the Korean War, Lü Xun Descendants of the Mongolian Hordes: American Perceptions of the Chinese The Ambitious Wolf: Chinese Perceptions of Americans The Mirrored Self: A Nation-State in the Making 15. Gangtai Patriotic Songs and Racialized Chinese Nationalism, Yinghong Cheng Gangtai Patriotic Songs: A “Colored” Political Genre of Pop Music A Tacit Collaboration between the Party-State and Capitalist Cultural Producers in Hong Kong and Taiwan The Interaction between Gangtai Patriotic Songs and Chinese Popular Nationalism Analyses Concluding Remarks 16. Japanese as Both a “Race” and a “Non-Race”: The Politics of Jinshu and Minzoku and the Depoliticization of Japaneseness, Yuko Kawai The Historical Trajectories of Jinshu and Minzoku Being a “Race” and a “Non-Race” in Present-day Japan: An Empirical Study Conclusions and Implications 17. Ethnic Nationalism in Postwar Japan: Nihonjinron and Its Racial Facets, Rotem Kowner and Harumi Befu Premises of Nihonjinron Nihonjinron as a Manifestation of Japanese Nationalism Nihonjinron and Its Concern with Origin, Blood and Racial Hierarchy The Impact of Race-Related Tenets on Everyday Life Functions of Ethnic Nationalism in Contemporary Japan Concluding Remarks 18. Ethnic Nationalism and Internationalism in the North Korean Worldview, Tatiana Gabroussenko The Soviet Discourse of the Outside World: Conditional Internationalism The North Korean Worldview in the “Soviet Era”: Echoing the Soviet Paradigm Mono-Ethnicity as a Special Korean Virtue: The Evolution of the North Korean World Vision under the Influence of Juche North Korean Propaganda about Foreigners from Inclusive and Alienating Perspectives Conclusion PART IV: GENDER AND LINEAGE 19. In the Name of the Master: Race, Nationalism and Masculinity in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema, Kai-man Chang From Anti-imperialist Nationalism to Cultural Nationalism Masculinities That Matter Conclusion 20. Sexualized Racism, Gender and Nationalism: The Case of Japan’s Sexual Enslavement of Korean “Comfort Women”, Bang-soon Yoon Korean “Comfort Women”: Drawn in as Substitutes The Nature of Victimization Colonial Policies and the Mobilization of Korean Women Treatment of Korean “Comfort Women” Lives under Sexual Slavery Nationalism, Gender and Sexual Violence Conclusion 21. “The Guilt Feeling That You Exist”: War, Racism and Indisch-Japanese Identity Formation, Aya Ezawa Power, Discourse, and “Mixed Blood” The Indisch and the Dutch East Indies The Indisch Community under Japanese Occupation Indisch-Japanese Relationships Indisch-Japanese Descendants Conclusion 22. ‘The “Amerasian” Knot: Transpacific Crossings of “GI Babies” from Korea to the United States, W. Taejin Hwang “An Act of Both Humanity and Patriotism”: The Amerasian Immigration Act of 1982 “Confucius’ Outcasts”: The Korean Amerasian “Plight” Inter-country Adoption of Korean “GI Babies” Living as a “Mixed-Blood Child” (Honhyeola) in Cold War Korea “Half-American Also is American”: Towards Migration Conclusion and Postscript PART V: CONCLUSIONS 23. The Essence and Mechanisms of Race and Racism in Modern East Asia, Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel The East Asian Contribution to the Study of Race and Racism East Asia’s Role within the Rise of Racial Theory and the Resulting Hybridity Sources and Manifestations of Racism The Close Links between Racism and Nationalism The Role of Gender and Lineage in Constructions of Race and Racism East Asia and the Future of Race and Racism Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when the idea of religious progress propels the shaping of modernity? In The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress. Missionizing Europe 1900 – 1965 Gerdien Jonker offers an account of the mission the Ahmadiyya reform movement undertook in interwar Europe. Nowadays persecuted in the Muslim world, Ahmadis appear here as the vanguard of a modern, rational Islam that met with a considerable interest. Ahmadiyya mission on the European continent attracted European ‘moderns’, among them Jews and Christians, theosophists and agnostics, artists and academics, liberals and Nazis. Each in their own manner, all these people strove towards modernity, and were convinced that Islam helped realizing it. Based on a wide array of sources, this book unravels the multiple layers of entanglement that arose once the missionaries and their quarry met.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Note on Spelling Glossary of German Terms Glossary of Islamic Terms Introduction Chapter 1. The Founder and His Vision Chapter 2. Preparing for Europe Chapter 3. Muslim Missions in Interwar Berlin Chapter 4. Converts in Search of Religious Progress Chapter 5. Jews into Muslims Chapter 6. The Berlin Mosque Library as a Site of Religious Exchange Chapter 7. The Mission in Nazi Germany Chapter 8. Reconfigurations within a Post-colonial World Archival Materials Bibliography General Index Index of Names

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Book SynopsisIn Muslim Tatar Minorities in the Baltic Sea Region, edited by Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund, the contributors introduce the history and contemporary situation of these little known groups of people that for centuries have been part of the religious and ethnic mosaic of this region. The book has a broad and multi-disciplinary scope and covers the early settlements in Lithuania and Poland, the later immigrations to Saint Petersburg, Finland, Estonia and Latvia, as well as the most recent establishments in Sweden and Germany. The authors, who hail from and are specialists on these areas, demonstrate that in several respects the Tatar Muslims have become well-integrated here. Contributors are: Toomas Abiline, Tamara Bairasauskaite, Renat Bekkin, Sebastian Cwiklinski, Harry Halén, Tuomas Martikainen, Agata Nalborczyk, Egdunas Racius, Ringo Ringvee, Valters Scerbinskis, Sabira Ståhlberg, Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund.Trade Review“This volume is a detailed and fascinating examination of a loose-knit ethno-religious community spanning several states. […] Svanberg and Westerlund successfully demonstrate that a European Islam is not only possible but has been functioning for centuries, almost unnoticed.” Abdullah Drury in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 30:1 (2019), 116-118, DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2018.1541632 https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2018.1541632Table of ContentsList of illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction, Sebastian Cwiklinski Early Settlements 1. Lithuania, Tamara Bairašauskaitė and Egdūnas Račius 2. Poland, Agata S. Nalborzcyk Second Wave 3. Saint Petersburg, Renat Bekkin and Sabira Ståhlberg 4. Finland, Harry Halén and Tuomas Martikainen 5. Estonia, Toomas Abiline and Ringo Ringvee 6. Latvia, Valters Ščerbinskis Third Wave 7. Sweden, Sabira Ståhlberg and Ingvar Svanberg 8. Germany, Sebastian Cwiklinski Index

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Book SynopsisIn A Dialogical Concept of Minority Rights, Hanna H. Wei demonstrates that a more plausible and realistic concept of minority rights should consist of not only rights against the state but also rights against the group. She formulates and defends three separate but related rights to dialogue, and thoroughly analyses how they may operate not only to maintain a healthy balance between the minorities’ need to be culturally distinct and their need to relate to and belong in the larger society, but also that they address the generalisations and presuppositions on which the debate of multiculturalism has been based, and constitute the first step of a possible solution to many of the theoretical and practical difficulties of minority protection.Table of ContentsExcerpt of Table of Contents Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Minority Rights: Laws, Concepts, Contestations: 0. Introduction; 1. Historical Evolution of the Notion of Minority Rights; 2. Laws: International, Regional, National; 3. Concepts: Legal, Political, Social; Chapter 2: Liberal Ideals, the Nature of Identity, Minority Rights: 0. Introduction; 1. Taxonomies of Group Rights; 2. Necessity of Group Rights; 3. Theoretical Validity and Moral Defensibility of Group Rights; 4. Group Interests, ‘Illiberal Group Rights’, the Principle of Toleration; 5. The Dialogical Nature of Cultural Identity, of Minority Rights; 6. 'Proximity' and a Dialogic Concept of Minority Rights; Chapter 3: A Dialogical Translation of the Concept of Minority Rights: 1. Substantive, Procedural, Dialogical: What's In A Name?; 2. Legitimacy of Law and Dialogical Minority Rights; 3. A Dialogical Concept of Minority Rights; 4. Minority Rights and their Prioritisation 5. Conclusion: Contextualizing Dialogical Processes; Chapter 4: Minority Rights against the State: 0. Introduction; 1. Minority Rights held by the Group against the State; 2. Rights held by Members of the Minority Group against the State; 3. Conclusion; Chapter 5: Rights against the Minority Group: 0. Introduction; 1. Why is this limb of minority rights necessary?; 2. The Right to Equal Concern 3. Well-being and the Right to Internal Dialogue; 4. Theory in Practice: Cases; 5. The Right of Exit Chapter 6: Group Agency and the Capacity to Self-Govern: 0. Introduction; 1. Moral Agency, Capacity and Group Rights; 2. The Practical Necessity of Internal Decision-Making Bodies; 3. Upgrading Capacities of Self-Government; 4. Conclusion; Chapter 7: The Future of Minority Rights: The Conclusion: 1. Minority Rights in Human Rights System: Pros and Cons; 2. Minority Rights and Dialogue: Limits, Challenges, Possibilities; 3. Conclusion: The Rights Culture vs. A Dialogical Rights Culture; Bibliography; Diagram; index

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Book SynopsisConsidering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Century offers the reader international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the importance of class analysis in the 21st century. Political economists, sociologists, educationalists, ethnographers, cultural and media analysts combine to provide a multi-dimensional account of current class dynamics. The crisis consists precisely in the gap between the objective reality and efficacy of class forces shaping international politics and the relative paucity of class-consciousness at a popular level and appreciation of class as an explanatory optic at a theoretical level. This important book shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must also take place on the ground of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play. Contributors are: Anita Biressi, Joseph Choonara, Maurizio Donato, Danny Dorling, Mark Gibson, Craig Haslop, Dave Hill, Peter Jakobsson, Marina Kabat, Holly Lewis, Catherine Lumby, Lisa Mckenzie, Tony Moore, Adrian Murray, Deirdre O’Neill, Jonathan Pratschke, Michael Seltzer, Eduardo Sartelli, Fredrik Stiernstedt, Roberto Taddeo, Mike Wayne, Milly Williamson, Ferruh Yılmaz.Trade Review"Considering Class is a highly beneficial source of intellect for both learners and researchers of Marxist class theory, especially those whose interests lie with contemporary analyses of culture and media... [It] presents its readers with new viewpoints on class by re-evaluating class theory from a contemporary standpoint and studying its place in culture and media. The book is worthy of commendation in that it successfully reintroduces critical perspectives on class theory to culture and media studies. It therefore proves a valuable collection of scholarly texts for researchers of relevant themes." – Ufuk Gürbüzdal, in: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books (23 January 2020)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors i 1 Introduction  Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne Part 1: Class Theory 2 Class and the Classical Marxist Tradition  Joseph Choonara 3 Social Class and Education  Dave Hill 4 Marxist Class Theory: Competition, Contingency and Intermediate Class Positions  Jonathan Pratschke 5 Class Segregation  Danny Dorling 6 The ‘Secret’ of the Restoration: Increased Class Exploitation  Maurizio Donato and Roberto Taddeo Part 2: Class and Culture 7 Exploitation, Oppression, and Epistemology  Holly Lewis 8 Peasants, Migrants and Self-Employed Workers: The Masks that Veil Class Affiliation in Latin America: The Argentine Case  Marina Kabat and Eduardo Sartelli 9 Capitalism, Class and Collective Identity: Social Movements and Public Services in South Africa  Adrian Murray 10 On Intellectuals  Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne 11 The British Working Class Post-blair Consensus: We Do Not Exist  Lisa Mckenzie 12 From Class Solidarity to Cultural Solidarity: Immigration, Crises, and the Populist Right  Ferruh Yilmaz 13 Recovering the Australian Working Class  Tony Moore, Mark Gibson and Catharine Lumby Part 3: Class and the Media 14 ‘Everything Changes. Everything Stays the Same’: Documenting Continuity and Change in Working Class Lives  Anita Biressi 15 Ghettos and Gated Communities in the Social Landscape of Television: Representations of Class in 1982 and 2015  Fredrik Stiernstedt and Peter Jakobsson 16 Class, Culture and Exploitation: The Case of Reality tv  Milly Williamson 17 Class Warfare, the Neoliberal Man and the Political Economy of Methamphetamine in Breaking Bad  Michael Seltzer 18 ‘The Thing Is I’m Actually from Bromley’: Queer/Class Intersectionality in Pride (2014)  Craig Haslop Index

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the rich scholarly legacy of Gunnar Jarring, the Swedish Turkologist and diplomat, the fourteen contributions by sixteen authors representing a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences provide an insight into ongoing research trends in Uyghur and Xinjiang Studies. In one way or other all the chapters explore how new research in the fields of history, linguistics, anthropology and folklore can contribute to our understanding of Xinjiang’s past and present, simultaneously pointing to those social and knowledge practices that Uyghurs today can claim as part of their traditions in order to reproduce and perpetuate their cultural identity. Contributors include: Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Rahile Dawut, Arienne Dwyer, Fredrik Fällman, Chris Hann, Dilmurat Mahmut, Takahiro Onuma, Alexandre Papas, Eric Schluessel, Birgit Schlyter, Joanne Smith Finley, Rune Steenberg Jun Sugawara, Äsäd Sulaiman, Abdurishid Yakup, Thierry Zarcone.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables A Note on Transliteration and Spelling Notes on Contributors Introduction: In the Footsteps of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring  Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Birgit N. Schlyter, Jun Sugawara Part 1: Language 1 From the Private Library of Gunnar Jarring and His New Eastern Turki Dictionary  Birgit N. Schlyter 2 Manuscript Technologies, Writing, and Reading in Early 20th Century Kashgar  Arienne M. Dwyer 3 From Eastern Turki to Modern Uyghur: A Lexicological Study of Prints from the Swedish Mission Press in Kashgar (1892–1938)  Äsäd Sulaiman 4 The Khotan Varieties of Uyghur as Seen in Jarring’s Transcription  Abdurishid Yakup Part 2: History 5 The 1795 Khoqand Mission and Its Negotiations with the Qing: Political and Diplomatic Space of Qing Kashgaria  Takahiro Onuma 6 Muslims at the Yamen Gate: Translating Justice in Late-Qing Xinjiang  Eric T. Schluessel 7 Models and Realities: Aspects of Format in Real Estate Deeds under Conditions of Legal Pluralism in Xinjiang  Jun Sugawara 8 Muslim Reformism in Xinjiang: Reading the Newspaper Yengī Ḥayāt (1934–1937)  Alexandre Papas 9 Defining the Past and Shaping the Future: Reflections on Xinjiang Narratives, Uyghur-Han-Hui Relations, and the Perspectives of Research  Fredrik Fällman Part 3: Religion 10 Writing the Religious and Social History of Some Sufi Lodges in Kashgar in the 20th Century  Thierry Zarcone 11 Ordam Mazar: A Meeting Place for Different Practices and Belief Systems in Culturally Diverse Xinjiang  Rahile Dawut 12 Magic, Science, and Religion in Eastern Xinjiang  Chris Hann and Ildikó Bellér-Hann Part 4: Kinship and Gender 13 “Keep the wealth within the Family”: Cousin Marriage and Swedish Uncles in Kashgar  Rune Steenberg 14 “A man works on the land, a woman works for her man”: Building on Jarring’s Fascination with Eastern Turki Proverbs  Dilmurat Mahmut [Dilimulati Maihemuti] and Joanne Smith Finley Index

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Book SynopsisA sequel to the groundbreaking volume, Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions, the present volume examines in depth interactions between Western racial constructions of East Asians and local constructions of race and their outcomes in modern times. Focusing on China, Japan and the two Koreas, it also analyzes the close ties between race, racism and nationalism, as well as the links race has had with gender and lineage in the region. Written by some of the field's leading authorities, this insightful and engaging 23-chapter volume offers a sweeping overview and analysis of racial constructions and racism in modern and contemporary East Asia that is unsurpassed in previous scholarship.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Conventions Preface 1. Introduction: The Synthesis of Foreign and Indigenous Constructions of Race in Modern East Asia and Its Actual Operation, Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel I. Antecedents: A Detailed Examination of Early Western Racial Constructions of East Asians II. Interactions: The Fusion of European and Asian Constructions of Race III. Nationalism: Interactions between Race and Ethnic Nationalism in East Asia IV. Gender and Lineage: The Impact of Domestic and Foreign Racial Constructions PART I: ANTECEDENTS 2. East Asians in the Linnaean Taxonomy: Sources and Implications of a Racial Image, Rotem Kowner and Christina Skott The Linnaean Revolution and View of Humankind Sources of Linnaeus’ Racial Perspective on East Asians The Essence of Asia: Swedish Views of China Swedish Reports and Linnaeus’ Revision of His Human Taxonomy Linnaeus’ Legacy and the Unfolding Racial View of East Asians 3. Constructing Racial Theories on East Asians as a Transnational “Western” Enterprise, 1750-1850, Walter Demel The Founding Fathers of Racial Theories: Linnaeus, Buffon, Kant and Camper The Second Generation: Multiple Directions 4. The ‘Races’ of East Asia in Nineteenth-Century European Encyclopaedias, Georg Lehner Classifying the Peoples of Asia The Encyclopedias' Main Sources for Remarks on the “Races” of East Asia Chinese, Japanese and Koreans: Descriptions of East Asian peoples Stereotypes of East Asians in General Knowledge Visual Representations of Race in Works of General Knowledge Concluding Remarks 5. The Racial Image of the Japanese in the Western Press Published in Japan, 1861-1881, Olavi K. Fält Background The Oldest People on Earth The Shining Japanese Race Weak and Inferior Race Praising the Endeavors of a Poor Race Conclusion PART II: INTERACTIONS 6. The Propagation of Racial Thought in Nineteenth-Century China, Daniel Barth The Background: Imperial China and the “Other” Stage I (1846-1851): Marques and Wei Yuan Stage II (1851-1855): Hobson and Muirhead Stage III (1855-1872): The Self-Strengthening Movement Stage IV (1872-1892): John Fryer and the Chinese Scientific and Industrial Magazine Conclusion: Chinese Intellectuals, Social Darwinism and Race 7. Learning from the South: Japan's Racial Construction of Southern Chinese, 1895-1941, Huei-Ying Kuo The South Seas as Japan’s Backyard, 1895-1914 Japan's Expansion into the Southern Chinese Networks, 1914-1928 Chinese Anti-Japanese Nationalism and Japanese Discourses on South Seas Chinese, 1928-1936 Southern Chinese as Non-Han Races, 1936-1941 Conclusions 8. “The Great Question of the World Today”: Britain, the Dominions, East Asian Immigration and the Threat of Race War, 1905-11, Antony Best Immigration and “the Awakening of Asia” The Prophets of Race War Critics of White Solidarity Finessing the Racial Divide Conclusions 9. “Uplifting the Weak and Degenerated Races of East Asia”: American and Indigenous Views of Sport and Body in Early Twentieth-Century East Asia, Stefan Hübner Sportive Citizenship Training in the Philippines Chinese Cooperation and Acceptance of American-Style Modernization Japanese Resistance and its Defeat by American Style Modernization Conclusion 10. Racism under Negotiation: The Japanese Race in the Nazi-German Perspective, Gerhard Krebs Early Nazi Views on the Japanese Racial Position Becoming More Aryan The Problem with the Japanese in the Nazi Worldview Continuing Mutual Mistrust The End 11. Discourses of Race and Racism in Modern Korea, 1890s-1945 , Vladimir Tikhonov Race and Its Uncertainties The Emergence of Race Theories in Modern Korea: One of the Logics of the “Civilized World” “Race” and “Ethnic Nation” in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 Conclusion: Race as a Path to Modernist Self-assertion? 12. The United States Arrives: Racialization and Racism in Post-1945 South Korea, Nadia Y. Kim Contextual Background: America Marches In and Mass Mediates The American Military, Whiteness, and Imperialist Racial Formation American Mass Media, White Heroes, and Counter-Hegemony Blackness and Imperialist Racial Formation Racism and Invisibility in Korean “America” Concluding Remarks 13. A Post-Communist Coexistence in Northeast Asia? Mutual Racial Attitudes among Russians and Indigenous Peoples of Siberia, David Lewis Discrimination against Siberian Peoples as an Outcome of Racial Prejudice The Origin and Legacy of Russian Attitudes to Asians Racial Attitudes among Indigenous Siberian Peoples The Communist Model of Racial Modus Vivendi The Impact of Prolonged Racism on Indigenous Siberian Peoples Marriage as an Anti-Racist Means in a Multi-Racial Society PART III: NATIONALISM 14. Nationalism and Internationalism: Sino-American Racial Perceptions of the Korean War, Lü Xun Descendants of the Mongolian Hordes: American Perceptions of the Chinese The Ambitious Wolf: Chinese Perceptions of Americans The Mirrored Self: A Nation-State in the Making 15. Gangtai Patriotic Songs and Racialized Chinese Nationalism, Yinghong Cheng Gangtai Patriotic Songs: A “Colored” Political Genre of Pop Music A Tacit Collaboration between the Party-State and Capitalist Cultural Producers in Hong Kong and Taiwan The Interaction between Gangtai Patriotic Songs and Chinese Popular Nationalism Analyses Concluding Remarks 16. Japanese as Both a “Race” and a “Non-Race”: The Politics of Jinshu and Minzoku and the Depoliticization of Japaneseness, Yuko Kawai The Historical Trajectories of Jinshu and Minzoku Being a “Race” and a “Non-Race” in Present-day Japan: An Empirical Study Conclusions and Implications 17. Ethnic Nationalism in Postwar Japan: Nihonjinron and Its Racial Facets, Rotem Kowner and Harumi Befu Premises of Nihonjinron Nihonjinron as a Manifestation of Japanese Nationalism Nihonjinron and Its Concern with Origin, Blood and Racial Hierarchy The Impact of Race-Related Tenets on Everyday Life Functions of Ethnic Nationalism in Contemporary Japan Concluding Remarks 18. Ethnic Nationalism and Internationalism in the North Korean Worldview, Tatiana Gabroussenko The Soviet Discourse of the Outside World: Conditional Internationalism The North Korean Worldview in the “Soviet Era”: Echoing the Soviet Paradigm Mono-Ethnicity as a Special Korean Virtue: The Evolution of the North Korean World Vision under the Influence of Juche North Korean Propaganda about Foreigners from Inclusive and Alienating Perspectives Conclusion PART IV: GENDER AND LINEAGE 19. In the Name of the Master: Race, Nationalism and Masculinity in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema, Kai-man Chang From Anti-imperialist Nationalism to Cultural Nationalism Masculinities That Matter Conclusion 20. Sexualized Racism, Gender and Nationalism: The Case of Japan’s Sexual Enslavement of Korean “Comfort Women”, Bang-soon Yoon Korean “Comfort Women”: Drawn in as Substitutes The Nature of Victimization Colonial Policies and the Mobilization of Korean Women Treatment of Korean “Comfort Women” Lives under Sexual Slavery Nationalism, Gender and Sexual Violence Conclusion 21. “The Guilt Feeling That You Exist”: War, Racism and Indisch-Japanese Identity Formation, Aya Ezawa Power, Discourse, and “Mixed Blood” The Indisch and the Dutch East Indies The Indisch Community under Japanese Occupation Indisch-Japanese Relationships Indisch-Japanese Descendants Conclusion 22. ‘The “Amerasian” Knot: Transpacific Crossings of “GI Babies” from Korea to the United States, W. Taejin Hwang “An Act of Both Humanity and Patriotism”: The Amerasian Immigration Act of 1982 “Confucius’ Outcasts”: The Korean Amerasian “Plight” Inter-country Adoption of Korean “GI Babies” Living as a “Mixed-Blood Child” (Honhyeola) in Cold War Korea “Half-American Also is American”: Towards Migration Conclusion and Postscript PART V: CONCLUSIONS 23. The Essence and Mechanisms of Race and Racism in Modern East Asia, Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel The East Asian Contribution to the Study of Race and Racism East Asia’s Role within the Rise of Racial Theory and the Resulting Hybridity Sources and Manifestations of Racism The Close Links between Racism and Nationalism The Role of Gender and Lineage in Constructions of Race and Racism East Asia and the Future of Race and Racism Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGendering the Trans-Pacific World introduces an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology examines the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture.Table of ContentsPart I: Gendering the Trans-Pacific 1. Gendering the Trans-Pacific World, by Catherine Ceniza Choy and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 2. Notes on Trans-Pacific Archives, by Denise Cruz 3. The Many Labors of the Gendered Trans-Pacific World, by Karen J. Leong Part II: Geographies of Empire 4. Rethinking the Sexual Geography of American Empire in the Philippines: Interracial Intimacies in Mindanao and the Cordilleras, 1898–1921, by Tessa Ong Winkelmann 5. A Fascist Triangle or a Rotary Wheel: The Sino-Japanese War and the Gendered Internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo, by Erika Huckestein and Mark L. Reeves 6. Moving Within Empires: Korean Women and Trans-Pacific Migration, by Ji-Yeon Yuh 7. Re-franchising Women of Hawaiʻi, 1912–1920: The Politics of Gender, Sovereignty, Race, and Rank at the Crossroads of the Pacific, by Rumi Yasutake 8. Currencies of U.S. Empire in Hawaiʻi’s Tourism and Prison Industries, by Liza Keānuenueokalani Williams Part III: Intimacies and Affect 9. The Sexualized Child and Mestizaje: Colonial Tropes of the Filipina/o, by Gladys Nubla 10. “Ashamed of Certain Japanese”: The Politics of Affect in Japanese Women’s Immigration Exclusion, 1919–1924, by Chrissy Yee Lau 11. Gendered Adoptee Identities: Performing Trans-Pacific Masculinity in the 21st Century, by Kimberly McKee 12. Up in the Air: Circuits of Transnational Asian and Asian American Mothering, by Miliann Kang Part IV: Beauty and the Body 13. Pageant Politics: Tensions of Power, Empire, and Nationalism in Manila Carnival Queen Contests, by Genevieve Clutario 14. “Golden Lilies” across the Pacific: Footbinding and the American Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Laws, by Fang He 15. Traces of Empires in Breast Cancer in South Korea and the Trans-Pacific, by Laura C. Nelson 16. Graphical and Ethical Spectatorship: Human Trafficking in Stanford Graphic Novel Project’s From Busan to San Francisco and Mark Kalesniko’s Mail Order Bride, by Stella Oh Part V: Culture and Circulation 17. Performing between Two Empires: Colonial Modernity and the Racialized Politics of Filipino Masculinity in Okinawa and Japan, by Nobue Suzuki 18. A Careful Embrace: Race, Gender, and the Consumption of Hawaiʻi and the South Pacific in Mid-Century Los Angeles, by Shawn Schwaller 19. We Are Pacific Men, by Craig Santos Perez 20. Gendering the K-Vampire, by Hyungji Park 21. Through a Trans-Vietnamese Feminist Lens: The Cinemas of Vietnam and the Diaspora, by Lan Duong

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Book SynopsisGender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries explores women’s and men’s contributions to the arts and gendered visual representations in China, Korea, and Japan from the premodern through modern eras. A critical introduction and nine essays consider how threads of continuity and exchanges between the cultures of East Asia, Europe, and the United States helped to shape modernity in this region, in the process revealing East Asia as a vital component of the trans-Pacific world. The essays are organized into three themes: representations of femininity, women as makers, and constructions of gender, and they consider examples of architecture, painting, woodblock prints and illustrated books, photography, and textiles. Contributors are: Lara C. W. Blanchard, Kristen L. Chiem, Charlotte Horlyck, Ikumi Kaminishi, Nayeon Kim, Sunglim Kim, Radu Leca, Elizabeth Lillehoj, Ying-chen Peng, and Christina M. Spiker. Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Kristen L. Chiem and Lara C. W. Blanchard Part 1 Representations of Femininity 1 Cartographies of Alterity: Shape-Shifting Women and Periaquatic Spaces in Late Seventeenth-Century Japan Radu Leca 2 Indoctrinating Female Virtue: The Social Use of Chosŏn Woodblock Prints Nayeon Kim 3 Beauty under the Willow Tree: Picturing Virtuous Women in Nineteenth-Century China Kristen L. Chiem 4 Skillful Means (upāya) of the Courtesan as Bodhisattva Fugen: Maruyama Ōkyo’s Lady Eguchi Ikumi Kaminishi Part 2 Women as Makers 5 The Artistic Legacy of Yōgen’in, A Mortuary Temple Sponsored by Women in Early Modern Kyoto Elizabeth Lillehoj 6 Reconfijiguring Patriarchal Space: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) and the Reconstruction of the Gardens of Nurtured Harmony Ying-chen Peng 7 Questioning Women’s Place in the Canon of Korean Art History Charlotte Horlyck Part 3 Constructions of Gender and Interactions with the West 8 The Personal is Political: The Life and Death and Life of Na Hye-sŏk (1896–1948) Sunglim Kim 9 “Civilized” Men and “Superstitious” Women: Visualizing the Hokkaido Ainu in Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 1880 Christina M. Spiker Index

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Book SynopsisIn 2006 against the background of the increasing problematization of Muslims and Islam in German public debate, the German government established the German Islam Conference. In a post 9/11 world, this was a time period shaped by the global war on terror, changes in the German naturalization law, the proliferation of racism targeting Muslims, and the expansion of security apparatuses. In Governing Muslims and Islam in Contemporary Germany Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar critically analyzes the institutionalization of the Conference and the different projects this institution has set in motion to govern Islam and Muslims against the looming presence of racial representations of Muslims. The analysis begins with the foundation of the Conference until the end of its second phase in 2014.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction  Race, Religion, and the State  The German Islam Conference Part 1: Figuring the Past—on the Muslim Question Introduction to Part 1 1 Who are these Muslims? About the Past and the New Orient  1.1 About the New Orient  1.2 Canvassing Muslim Life in Germany  1.3 Can Anyone Wave a German Flag? Youth, Race, Gender, and Nationalism 2 Becoming a Problem  2.1 Problematic Ontologies  2.2 The Narration of a Problem  2.3 Gender Justice in the Swimming Pool Part 2: Reconfiguring the Present—Integration as the Answer Introduction to Part 2 3 Integration  3.1 Integration as Assimilation  3.2 Structural and Cognitive Integration  3.3 Emotional Integration  3.4 Social Integration or How to Re-socialize Muslims 4 Integration, Security, and Prevention  4.1 Defending German Society  4.2 Trust and Transparency  4.3 Responsibility and Togetherness  4.4 Suffering Incorporation 5 The Glossary of the Conflictive Present  5.1 The Social Polarization of Germany  5.2 A Polarized Society: “Muslim anti-Semitism”, “Islamism”, and “Hostility against Muslims” Part 3: Projecting Germanness into the Future—Tolerance and Imams Introduction to Part 3 6 The Tolerant Future  6.1 The Tolerant Germans  6.2 Ten Muslims teaching tolerance to the Muslim community 7 Secular Imams and Secular Muslims for a Secular Future  7.1 The Muslim Subjects of the Future  7.2 Imams  7.3 Secular Muslims Epilogue: The Time of Race, Racial Times Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe a number of friends and colleagues of Jørgen S. Nielsen have joined together to celebrate his life and work by reflecting his more than forty years of scholarly contributions to the study of Islam and Muslims in Europe. The fourteen articles move through conceptualisations, productions and explorations of the multitudes of Muslims in Europe, and the authors draw on Jørgen S. Nielsen’s own work on the history and challenges of the Muslim community in Europe, critical thinking, ethnicities and theologies of Muslims in Europe, Muslim minorities, Muslim-Christian relations, and on Islamic legal challenges in Europe. Contributors are: Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Naveed Baig, Safet Bektovic, Mohammed Hashas, Thomas Hoffmann, Hans Raun Iversen, Göran Larsson, Werner Menski, Egdūnas Račius, Lissi Rasmussen, Mathias Rohe, Emil B. H. Saggau, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Thijl Sunier, and Niels Valdemar Vinding.Trade Review“This collection of articles is a fitting tribute to a scholar who has set the standard and ‘defined the field’ of research on Muslim communities in Europe. For those who have studied under, worked with, or benefited from, Jørgen S. Nielsen’s personal commitment to and academic pursuits of accurate descriptions and understandings of the various Muslim communities in Europe, this volume will not disappoint. It demonstrates how indebted many of us are to the work of Jørgen S. Nielsen.” David D. Grafton, Hartford Seminary, The Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations “Jørgen S. Nielsen is rightfully acknowledged as a pioneer of the Muslims in Europe research, continuously authoring prolific texts. Whilst celebrating Nielsen’s research legacy, this collection of articles from some of the leading scholars in the field also contributes with vital and intriguing perspectives on Muslims in Europe.” Jonas Otterbeck, professor of Islamic Studies, Lund UniversityTable of ContentsPublisher’s Preface Editors’ Introduction List of Contributors Bibliography of Jørgen S. Nielsen Part 1: Conceptualizing Islam and Muslims 1 Between Islam as a Generic Category and Muslim Exceptionalism  Thijl Sunier 2 European Muslims as Skilled Kite Flyers  Werner Menski 3 Does European Islam Think?  Mohammed Hashas 4 Churchification of Islam in Europe  Niels Valdemar Vinding 5 “Perpetual First Generation”: Religiosity and Territoriality in Belonging Strategies of Turks of France  Samim Akgönül Part 2: Producing Islam and Muslims in Europe 6 Alternative Dispute Resolution among Muslims in Germany and the Debate on "Parallel Justice"  Mathias Rohe 7 Islamic Law in Lithuania? Its Institutionalisation, Limits and Prospects for Application  Egdūnas Račius 8 The King, the Boy, the Monk and the Magician: Jihadi Ideological Entrepreneurship between the UK and Denmark  Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen 9 ”Allah is Ignorance”: An Essay on the Poetic Praxis of Yahya Hassan and the Critique of Liberal Islam  Thomas Hoffmann Part 3: Multitudes of Muslims in Europe 10 Human First – To be Witnesses to Each Other’s Life: Twenty-one Years of Struggle for Equal Human Dignity  Naveed Baig, Lissi Rasmussen and Hans Raun Iversen 11 Muslims Accused of Apostasy: An Ahmadi Refutation  Göran Larsson 12 Marginalised Islam: Christianity’s Role in the Sufi Order of Bektashism  Emil B.H. Saggau 13 Islamic Literature in Bosnian Language 1990–2012: Production and Dissemination of Islamic Knowledge at the Periphery  Ahmet Alibašić 14 European Islam in the Light of the Bosnian Experience  Safet Bektovic Index

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Book SynopsisForest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary periods. The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculpture representing ancient Australian forests. Forest Family centers on the relationship between old-growth nature and human culture through the narrative strand of the Giblett family of Western Australia and the forests in which they settled during the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to general readers of environmental history, as well as scholars in critical plant studies and the environmental humanities.Trade Review"This work also makes a worthy contribution to post-dualistic theories of how human histories arise in and out of complex transhuman negotiations." (Peer Reviewer)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Contributors 1 Introducing Forest Family  John C. Ryan and Rod Giblett Part 1: Old-Growth Nature and Culture 2 From Understory to Overstory: Critical Studies of Old-Growth Trees and Forests  John C. Ryan 3 Forest Giants: Locating Southwest Australian Old-Growth Country  John C. Ryan 4 Family Trees: Jarrah, Karri, and the Gibletts of the Balbarrup-Dingup Area  Rod Giblett 5 Built in the Forest: A Hamlet History of Giblett Cultural Heritage  Rod Giblett Photographic Essay: Let No Man Put Asunder  Juha Tolonen Part 2: Old-Growth Arts and Activism 6 From Burls to Blockades: Artistic Interpretations of Karri Trees and Forests  John C. Ryan 7 Sing the Karri, Sculpt the Jarrah: Sustaining Old-Growth Forest Through the Arts  Robin Ryan 8 Old-Growth Activism: The Giblett Forest Rescue of 1994 and 1997  Nandi Chinna

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award This book offers a critical perspective of the education of the Latinx populations around the world. Whether they are first-generation immigrants, new immigrants, or native born, the research presented in this book pulls from the authors’ personal experiences and their students’ experiences and their rich and diverse cultures to connect with and inspire those interested in learning about the reality of Latinx populations in the US and beyond. The Latinx research described in this book aims at combatting deficit perspectives among educators and the public. It has taken on the task of highlighting the knowledges and experiences of Latinx students and their communities as strengths and resources to transform curriculum, teaching, and schooling. These chapters craft pedagogies and highlight initiatives that directly work against hegemonic and colonizing practices and schooling. As a result, this book critiques oppressive curriculum and instead recognizes the teacher as a critical actor.Table of ContentsForeword: Connection and Critical Praxis  Silvia C. Bettez Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction  Margarita Machado-Casas and Yolanda Medina 1 1961 Cuban Literacy Campaign: A Critical Analysis of the Culturing Process  Rita Sacay 2 From Critical Self Reflexivity to Action and Accountability: Atando Cabos Sueltos  Ana Lopez 3 Culturally Relevant Counseling: A Testimonio-Based Group Therapy for Latinx Youth  Alejandro Cervantes and Judith Flores Carmona 4 Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for Mexican American Students: Existing Research and Future Directions  Lin Wu 5 Culturally Responsive Lessons: Assessing English Language Learners (ELL s)  Juan Ríos Vega 6 Don’t Call It the New (Latinx) South, Estábamos Aquí por Años  Tim Monreal and Jesús A. Tirado 7 Dual Language Programs: The Landscape in Low Incidence Areas  Michele Schulze and Lindsay Grow 8 Emergent Bilingual Students Integrating Latinx Life-World Knowledges: Types of Student Knowledges and Promising Pedagogies  Susana Ibarra Johnson 9 Field Placement Experiences of Latinx Bilingual Pre-Service teachers: “Hoy es mi primer día oficial como maestra”  Katherine Espinoza 10 Growing Globally Conscious Citizens: Documenting Two Dual Language Maestras’ Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching Science  Melissa A. Navarro Martell, Jennifer Yanga-Peña and Gisel Barrett 11 Hate Speech in its Ultimate Form and the Response of an Educator: Warnings We Have Not Heeded  Marisol Diaz 12 Latin American Immigration in the Spanish Educational System  Sergio Andrés Cabello, Jhoana Chinchurreta Santamaría and Joaquín Giró Miranda 13 Latina Ethnographers Consider Ways of Knowing and Being in the Field: A Decolonial and Humanizing Approach to Educational Research with and for Immigrant Latinx Families  Sera J. Hernández and Ariana Mangual Figueroa 14 Latinx Adopted People’s Quest for Self-understanding: Alone and Brown in a Sea of Whiteness  Stephanie Flores-Koulish 15 Latinx Educators Dismantling Borders: “We Are Evolving, We Are Game Changers, We Are World Changers”  Lauren Johnson and Sheri Hardee 16 Latinx Engineering Students: A Critical Multimodal Analysis of Professional Identity Texts  Alberto Esquinca and Joel Alejandro Mejía 17 Latinx Immigrant Children Using Biliteracy and Their Linguistic Resources outside School Walls  Myriam Jimena Guerra 18 Local Latinx Community and Educational Histories in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands: Critically Engaging with U.S. Census Population Schedules  Lluliana Alonso 19 Parental Involvement across Race, Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status through QuantCrit: Complicating Statistical Results  Patricia Olivas 20 School Culture and Restorative Justice: Transformations and Radical Healing in One Latinx High School  Elexia Reyes McGovern, JC Lugo and Farima Pour-Khorshid 21 Second Language Writing Approaches in Teacher Education for Multilingual Preservice Teachers: Desde el Local Hasta el Global  Victoria Núñez 22 Secondary Latina Educators: Testimonios  Leila Little 23 Silenced Voices Reimagined in the Classroom: Speaking Their Truths  Kevan A. Kiser-Chuc 24 Student Ambassador Program  Angello Villarreal, Nicole Trainor and Walter Greason 25 Transfronterizx Students and the Figured Worlds of Texas State Writing Exams  Amy Bach and Brad Jacobson Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn Self-determination and Minority Rights in China, Linzhu Wang examines the rights of China’s minorities from the perspective of self-determination. The book offers an insight into the ethnic issues in contemporary China, by examining the principle of self-determination in shaping China’s ethnic grouping and appraising the rights of the minorities and their limits. Based on a comprehensive survey of the practice of self-determination in the Chinese context and the Regional Ethnic Autonomy regime, the author seeks to answer the questions of how the ethnic policies and laws have come to be, why they are problematic, and what can be done to promote minority rights in China.Table of ContentsIntroduction  1 Aims and Scope  2 Methodology  3 An Outline of the Book PART 1 Self-determinaion in the Chinese Context 1 The Nation of China  1.1 Pre-modern Chinese Identity  1.2 The Nation of China   1.2.1 Sun Yat-sen and the Nationalism of the Nationalist Party    (1) The Republican Era    (2) The Nationalist Definition of the Chinese Nation   1.2.2 The Communist Nationalism    (1) The Peasant Nationalism    (2) The Communist Nation Building: 1949–1978    (3) The Communist Nation Building: 1978 Onwards   1.2.3 The Nation of China  1.3 Sovereignty: China’s Perspective    (1) The Imperial Understanding of Sovereignty    (2) The Modern Concept of Chinese Sovereignty  1.4 Concluding Remarks 2 China and the Political Principle of Self-determination  2.1 National Self-determination at the Peace Conference of Paris and the Shandong (Shantung) Issue   2.1.1 Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia   2.1.2 Japanese and Chinese Positions   2.1.3 Consequences of the Conference  2.2 Lenin’s Theory of Self-determination and Its Influences upon China   2.2.1 The Nationalist Self-determination   2.2.2 The Cpc and Soviet Self-determination    (1) The Pre-Long March Period (1921–1934)    (2) The Long March Period (1934–1936)    (3) The Anti-Japanese War (1937–1945)    (4) The Civil War (1946–1949)  2.3 Concluding Remarks 3 The Right to Self-determination in the Chinese Context  3.1 An Overview of the Right to Self-determination in International Law   3.1.1 Colonial Self-determination   3.1.2 Self-determination in the Post-colonial Era    (1) Remedial Secession    (2) The Right to Self-determination in the Human Rights Context  3.2 The Question of Tibet   3.2.1 The Background   3.2.2 Resolution 1353 (1959)   3.2.3 Resolution 1723 (1961)   3.2.4 Resolution 2079 (1965)  3.3 Self-determination in the Situation of Hong Kong and Macau   3.3.1 Hong Kong    (1) The Origin of the Issue    (2) Hong Kong as a Non-self-governing Territory    (3) An Exception to the Colonial Self-determination   3.3.2 Macau  3.4 China’s Approach to the Right to Self-determination   3.4.1 Autonomy as a Means of Exercising Internal Self-determination    (1) One Country Two Systems    (2) Ethnic Territorial Autonomy PART 2 Minority Rights in China 4 The Regional Ethnic Autonomy Regime  4.1 Regions in the REA   4.1.1 Historical Factors   4.1.2 The Size of Population   4.1.3 Other Factors  4.2 Autonomous Agencies   4.2.1 The Local People’s Congress and Local People’s Government   4.2.2 Minority Representation in Autonomous Agencies    (1) Minorities in the People’s Congress and Its Standing Committee    (2) Minority Representation in the LPG    (3) Political Reality of Minority Representation  4.3 The Definition of Minorities   4.3.1 The Ethnic Identification Project   4.3.2 Problems of the Ethnic Identification Project   4.3.3 International Obligations of China in Relation to Minority Recognition    (1) ICESCR    (2) ICERD  4.4 The Definition of Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Situation in China   4.4.1 Criteria for Identifying Indigenous Peoples in International Law    (1) Defining “Indigenous”    (2) The Meaning of “Peoples”    (3) The Definition Advocated by China   4.4.2 The Applicability of the Concept of Indigenous Rights in China    (1) The Ilo Convention 169    (2) The African Interpretation   4.4.3 Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan   4.4.4 Indigenous Small-numbered Peoples in Russia    (1) The Ewenki Groups    (2) The Hezhe Group    (3) The Tuvinians  4.5 Concluding Remarks 5 Autonomous Rights under the rea: Legislative and Financial Rights  5.1 Legislative Power of Autonomous Agencies   5.1.1 Legislative Power   5.1.2 Adaptation Power   5.1.3 Adaptive Implementation Power  5.2 Autonomous Financial Power   5.2.1 Financial Rights of Autonomous Regions    (1) The Local Government’s Own Revenue—Tax income    (2) The Local Government’s Own Revenue—Intergovernmental Transfers    (3) The Tax Refund    (4) The General Financial Transfer    (5) The Special Fund   5.2.2 Financial Autonomy of Sub- provincial Autonomous Units  5.3 Concluding Remarks 6 The Cultural Rights of the Minorities  6.1 China’s International Obligations Concerning Minority Rights   6.1.1 Commitments Under The ICESCR   6.1.2 State Obligations under the ICCPR   6.1.3 State Obligations under the ICERD  6.2 The Rights of the Minorities to Culture under Chinese Law   6.2.1 Freedom of Religious Belief    (1) Religious Freedom before the 1980s    (2) Religious Freedom in Contemporary China     Institutional Religions     Minority Belief Systems   6.2.2 The Language Rights of the Minorities    (1) Linguistic Planning for the Minorities before the 1980s     The Situation of Minority Languages     Minority Writing Systems    (2) Language Policy in the New Era     Legal Provisions on Minority Languages     Language Use in Public Service     Language Use in Education     Language Use in Business and Other Aspects  6.3 Concluding Remarks  Conclusion  1 China’s Practice of Self- determination and Minority Rights  2 Prospects for Ethnic Territorial Autonomy in China References

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Book SynopsisThis book offers fascinating insights into the concept of diaspora by presenting a portrait gallery of writers highlighting diasporas on Welsh, Mauritian, Palestinian, Circassian Kurdish, British Sikh, Dutch Hindustani, Indian, Tamil and African experiences. Harjinder Singh Majhail and Sinan Dogan present the world of diasporas in interesting portrayals such as Gulnur’s research into Circassian history lying hidden in Yistanbulako elegy, Enaya’s visits into Milwaukee in Wisconsin where Palestinian Muslim women marry outside their religion because of the non-availability of suitable partners in their community and Harjinder Majhail’s sojourns into J. K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy portraying a teenager girl’s brave encounters in British Sikh diaspora. Contributors are Vitor Lopes Andrade, Kimberly Berg, Amenah Jahangeer Chojoo, Gülnur Demirci, Sinan Doğan, Jaswina Elahi, Ruben Gawricharn, Lola Guyot, Nadine Hassouneh, Harjinder Singh Majhail and Enaya Hammad Othman.

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Book SynopsisThe Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege offers a fresh and critical perspective to people of indigenous and/or marginalized identifications. It highlights the research, shared experiences and personal stories, and the artistic collections of those who are of mixed heritage and/or identity, as well as the perspectives of young adolescents who identify as being of mixed racial, socio-economic, linguistic, and ethno-cultural backgrounds and experiences. These auto-ethnographic collections serve as an impetus for the untold stories of millions of marginalized people who may find solace here and in the stories of others who are of mixed identity.Trade Review“A groundbreaking and thoughtful collection of narratives, essays, and poems on challenges that arise for individuals of mixed race identity at different stages of development. Drawing on the experiences of an international collection of scholars, these artifacts remind us that in a world where race and ethnic identities are often used to confer power and privilege, those who occupy hybrid spaces because of their status as ‘mixed’ people, often have unique insights into how these social constructions of identity play out in everyday life. Illuminating and thought provoking, this book will serve as a useful guide to anyone who seeks to understand why race and ethnicity continue to matter so much in modern society.” ~Pedro A. Noguera, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Education, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors The Homily of Pain and Privilege: Understanding the Need for a Discourse on Mixed Identity  Ellis Hurd Part 1: Exploring the Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege 1. Navigating the Ambiguity of Mixed Identity as Chinese-Indonesian  Dian Mitrayani 2. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being  Cristina Santamaría Graff 3. Stepping towards Healing about Learning Disability at Our Intersectionality: How Learning Disability Pain and Privilege Structured Our Schooling Experiences  Lisa A. Boskovich and David I. Hernández-Saca Part 2: Supporting Youth with Marginalized Identities 4. The Unidentified Nationality: Navigating Middle School as a Third Culture Kid  Hwa Pyung Yoo 5. Mis Roots  Paloma E. Villegas 6. A Different Kind of Asian Persuasion  Susan Y. Leonard 7. Transformative Consciousness Raising Questions  Hannah R. Stohry Part 3: Exploring the Convergences of Identity and Cultural Responsiveness 8. Will I Ever Be Enough? An African Louisiana Creole’s Narrative on Race, Ethnicity, and Belonging  Raymond Adams 9. Sika  Jessica Samuels Part 4: Interrelated Homilies (Movements) of Mixed Identity: An International Lens 10. Being Ambiguously Brown in Africa: An Autoethnography of Biracial Identity in Three Acts  Lynnette Mawhinney 11. Identity Perceptions of Youth in Middle and High-School: Beyond Being Mestizo  Mariana Leon and Guillermina de Gracia 12. Bordered Lives: An Autoethnography of Transnational Precarity  Francisco J. Villegas and Paloma E. Villegas 13. The Ubiquitous Rank: Some Reflections on Walking on Thin Ice  Anne Ryen Part 5: On Being Mixed and Moving Forward 14. Raising Consciousness for Multi-Racial Third Culture Kids  Hannah R. Stohry 15. Resisting Learning Disabilty Oppression: Healing through Dis/Ability Voice  David I. Hernández-Saca 16. Poems on Being Mixed and Moving Forward  Lisa A. Boskovich 17. Walking the Line  Iman Fagan Part 6: Conclusion 18. The Untold Future of Being Mixed: Moving Forward While Remembering What Is Behind  Ellis Hurd

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Book SynopsisThe Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege offers a fresh and critical perspective to people of indigenous and/or marginalized identifications. It highlights the research, shared experiences and personal stories, and the artistic collections of those who are of mixed heritage and/or identity, as well as the perspectives of young adolescents who identify as being of mixed racial, socio-economic, linguistic, and ethno-cultural backgrounds and experiences. These auto-ethnographic collections serve as an impetus for the untold stories of millions of marginalized people who may find solace here and in the stories of others who are of mixed identity.Trade Review“A groundbreaking and thoughtful collection of narratives, essays, and poems on challenges that arise for individuals of mixed race identity at different stages of development. Drawing on the experiences of an international collection of scholars, these artifacts remind us that in a world where race and ethnic identities are often used to confer power and privilege, those who occupy hybrid spaces because of their status as ‘mixed’ people, often have unique insights into how these social constructions of identity play out in everyday life. Illuminating and thought provoking, this book will serve as a useful guide to anyone who seeks to understand why race and ethnicity continue to matter so much in modern society.” ~Pedro A. Noguera, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Education, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors The Homily of Pain and Privilege: Understanding the Need for a Discourse on Mixed Identity  Ellis Hurd Part 1: Exploring the Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege 1. Navigating the Ambiguity of Mixed Identity as Chinese-Indonesian  Dian Mitrayani 2. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being  Cristina Santamaría Graff 3. Stepping towards Healing about Learning Disability at Our Intersectionality: How Learning Disability Pain and Privilege Structured Our Schooling Experiences  Lisa A. Boskovich and David I. Hernández-Saca Part 2: Supporting Youth with Marginalized Identities 4. The Unidentified Nationality: Navigating Middle School as a Third Culture Kid  Hwa Pyung Yoo 5. Mis Roots  Paloma E. Villegas 6. A Different Kind of Asian Persuasion  Susan Y. Leonard 7. Transformative Consciousness Raising Questions  Hannah R. Stohry Part 3: Exploring the Convergences of Identity and Cultural Responsiveness 8. Will I Ever Be Enough? An African Louisiana Creole’s Narrative on Race, Ethnicity, and Belonging  Raymond Adams 9. Sika  Jessica Samuels Part 4: Interrelated Homilies (Movements) of Mixed Identity: An International Lens 10. Being Ambiguously Brown in Africa: An Autoethnography of Biracial Identity in Three Acts  Lynnette Mawhinney 11. Identity Perceptions of Youth in Middle and High-School: Beyond Being Mestizo  Mariana Leon and Guillermina de Gracia 12. Bordered Lives: An Autoethnography of Transnational Precarity  Francisco J. Villegas and Paloma E. Villegas 13. The Ubiquitous Rank: Some Reflections on Walking on Thin Ice  Anne Ryen Part 5: On Being Mixed and Moving Forward 14. Raising Consciousness for Multi-Racial Third Culture Kids  Hannah R. Stohry 15. Resisting Learning Disabilty Oppression: Healing through Dis/Ability Voice  David I. Hernández-Saca 16. Poems on Being Mixed and Moving Forward  Lisa A. Boskovich 17. Walking the Line  Iman Fagan Part 6: Conclusion 18. The Untold Future of Being Mixed: Moving Forward While Remembering What Is Behind  Ellis Hurd

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Book SynopsisMinority Religions under Irish Law focuses the spotlight specifically on the legal protections afforded in Ireland to minority religions, generally, and to the Muslim community, in particular. Although predominantly focused on the Irish context, the book also boasts contributions from leading international academics, considering questions of broader global importance such as how to create an inclusive environment for minority religions and how to regulate religious tribunals best. Reflecting on issues as diverse as the right to education, marriage recognition, Islamic finance and employment equality, Minority Religions under Irish Law provides a comprehensive and fresh look at the legal space occupied by many rapidly growing minority religions in Ireland, with a special focus on the Muslim community.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Kathryn O’Sullivan Part 1: Accommodating Minority Religions: The International and Irish Context 2 Law, Religion and Religious Minorities: Reflections on International Human Rights Law and Global Trends  M. Christian Green 3 Accommodating Religious Minorities in Ireland: The Constitutional Framework  Eoin Daly Part 2: Islam and Irish Law: Implications for the Muslim Community in Ireland 4 Muslims in Ireland: History, Demographics and Debates  James Carr 5 The Accommodation of Islam in the Irish Workplace, Classroom and Hospital  Claire Hogan 6 Recognition of Muslim Marriage Ceremonies in Ireland: An Analysis  Susan Leahy and Kathryn O’Sullivan 7 Overseas Marriage and Divorce in Islamic Form: A Critical Perspective on the Development of Irish Private International Law  Máire Ní Shúilleabháin 8 A Comparative Review of the Accommodation of Islamic Finance in Irish Law  Edana Richardson Part 3: International Perspectives on Sharia Councils: Regulation and Governance 9 The Legal Framework for Regulating Shariah Councils in the UK: A Potential Model for Ireland?  Amin Al-Astewani 10 The Usefulness of the ‘Parity Governance Model’ in Muslim Family Law Debates  Samia Bano Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the mutual constitutions of visuality and empire from the perspective of gender, probing how the lives of China’s ethnic minorities at the southwest frontiers were translated into images. Two sets of visual materials make up its core sources: the Miao album, a genre of ethnographic illustration depicting the daily lives of non-Han peoples in late imperial China, and the ethnographic photographs found in popular Republican-era periodicals. It highlights gender ideals within images and develops a set of “visual grammar” of depicting the non-Han. Casting new light on a spectrum of gendered themes, including femininity, masculinity, sexuality, love, body and clothing, the book examines how the power constructed through gender helped to define, order, popularise, celebrate and imagine possessions of empire.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: The Chinese Imperial Model in the Southwest Borderland: Gender, Visuality and Transitions  1 Observational Practices: Detractor, Defender and Truth  2 Ethnographic Illustrations in Chinese History: Long Tradition, Multiple Genres and Various Pictorial Practices  3 Ways of Seeing: a Visual Grammar of Gender, the Power of Representation  4 Empire, Visuality and Structure of Feelings: Engendering the Ethnic Minorities in China’s Southwest Borderland  5 Imperial Context: Native Chieftain System, Gaitu Guiliu and Miao Rebellions  6 Wartime China: the Reproduction of Borderland Images  7 Chapter Organisation 1 Gender Inversion and the Power of Representation: Imagining and Visualising Ethnic Minority Women’s Masculinity  1 Women in Power: the Fancy of Images of “Nüguan 女官 (Female Government Official)”  2 Interpreting “Nanyi Nülao 男逸女勞 (Men Relax, While Women Work)” as “Nangui Nüjian 男貴女賤 (Men are Exalted, while Women are Humble)”: Defaming Women’s Work through Space  3 The Most Respected Women in China: Refashioning Images of Non-Han Women at Work in Republican China  4 China’s Domestic Feminists?: Reinterpreting Non-Han Gender Roles  5 The Essentialness of Work: “Women Question” and Family Status  6 Concluding Remarks 2 Dancing in the Moonlight: Fashioning Sexuality of Non-Han People  1 Naked Female Bodies: Images of the Duanqun Miao and Shuibai Yi  2 Chuzi Shuangfu 處子孀婦 (the Virgin and the Widow): Copulation and Chastity  3 Dancing under the Moonlight: Marriage Customs, Rites and Sexual Regulation  4 Encountering Sexuality: Enlightenment Plans and the Diversity of Representation  5 Refashioning Moon Dancing: The Freedom of Lian’ai 戀愛 (love)  6 A Romantic Land with Freedom: Ze’ou 擇偶 (Choice), Lihun 離婚 (Divorce) and Taohun 逃婚 (Escape before the Wedding Night)  7 Freedom, Xing 性 and Women’s Desire  8 Concluding Remarks 3 Yiguan Zhuangmao衣冠狀貌 (Clothes, Hat, and Physical Body): Materialising and Symbolising Human Variations  1 Delineating a Typical Non-Han Face in the Southwest: Black Skin, Deep Eyes, White Teeth and Hooked Nose  2 Highlighting Xianzu 跣足 (Bare Feet)  3 The Hierarchy of Dressing: the Representation of the Non-Han Subject in Simple and Casual Clothes  4 Republican Anthropometric Photography: New Styles and the Ambiguity of Racial Differences  5 Conceptualising and Visualising an Ethnographic Body: the Implications in China  6 Ambiguous Attitudes: How Should the Statistics of Body Measurements be Interpreted?  7 Shengzhuang 盛裝 (Festival Costumes): New Ways of Visualising the Non-Han  8 Collecting, Exhibiting and Preserving Non-Han Material Culture  9 Concluding Remarks 4 Imperial Images? Rethinking Miao albums and Ethnographic photography  1 Zhengqi Haoyi爭奇好異(Competing over Eccentricity and Chasing Exoticism): the Anxiety of Pleasure  2 Multiple Viewers: the Growing Market for Popular Ethnography  3 Making Ethnographic Truth? The Paradox of Copying and the Participation of Artists in the Market Place  4 Resurrection in Republican China: Collection, Preservation, Reproduction and New Styles  5 Beyond Identity: Commercial Ethnographic Photography  6 Concluding Remarks Conclusion Appendix: Table of Miao Albums with Collection Date and Original Collector Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Islam in Post-communist Eastern Europe: Between Churchification and Securitization Egdūnas Račius reveals how not only the governance of religions but also practical politics in post-communist Eastern Europe are permeated by the strategies of churchification and securitization of Islam. Though most Muslims and the majority of researchers of Islam hold to the view that there may not be church in Islam, material evidence suggests that the representative Muslim religious organizations in many Eastern European countries have been effectively turned into ecclesiastical-bureaucratic institutions akin to nothing less than ‘national Muslim Churches’. As such, these ‘national Muslim Churches’ themselves take an active part in securitization, advanced by both non-Muslim political and social actors, of certain forms of Islamic religiosity.Trade Review‘Račius’ book is one of the best overviews of the macro-trends that run through post-communist Islam in Eastern Europe.’ Gianfranco Bria in Studia Islamica 117 (2022), 375-379. 'Račius’ book stands out as a successful synthesis of research on Islam in Eastern Europe […]. Rather than offering chapters on the individual countries, in each chapter the author juxtaposes the arrangements and constellations in all seven countries that he focuses on. Equally important is that Račius brings the discussion of Eastern European Islam into the broader debate on Islam in Europe. […] This thought-provoking book makes an important contribution to the debate on Islam not only in post-socialist Europe but across the whole of the continent.' Michael Kemper in Die Welt des Islams 61 (2021), 492-494.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction: What? The Churchification of Islam; Where? In Eastern Europe 1 Notions of Church  1.1 Grappling with Terms: Church and Other Forms of Religious Collectivities  1.2 Islam—A Church-Less Religion? 2 Islam in Minority (Diaspora) Contexts  2.1 The Diaspora: Between Migration, Ethnicity and Religion  2.2 Muslims as (Religious) Diaspora(s): Immigrants versus Autochthons  2.3 Fiqh al-aqalliyyat versus ‘Euro-Islam’/‘European’ Islam  2.4 Patterns of Governance of Religion (with an Eye on Islam) in (Western) Europe 3 Key Concepts in the Regimes of Governance of Religion in Europe  3.1 The Churchification of Islam in Europe  3.2 The Securitization of Islam in Europe  3.3 Religious Nationalism  3.4 The Analytical Framework and Model 4 State-Church Relations in Eastern Europe: An Overview  4.1 Islam in Eastern Europe: The Context  4.2 Historical Precedents of State-Church Relations in Eastern Europe  4.3 Frameworks of Governance of Islam in Post-communist Eastern Europe 5 Three Levels of (Non)Accommodation of Islam in Eastern Europe  5.1 Legal Level  5.2 Practical Politics Level  5.3 Non-Muslim Social Actors Level 6 Bottom-Up View: Dynamics in the Islamic Field  6.1 From Islamic Spiritual Administrations into National Muslim Churches   6.1.1 “Encompasses the totality of believers of that faith understood here as a set of dogmas, rituals and ethics”   6.1.2 “Has an ecclesiastical-bureaucratic structure staffed by professional (ordained) clergy”  6.2 Inner-Islamic Plurality and Community Dynamics Conclusions: The Winners, the Losers, and the Prospects Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDorothy Fujita-Rony’s The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History examines the importance of women's memorykeeping for two Toba Batak women whose twentieth-century histories span Indonesia and the United States, H.L.Tobing and Minar T. Rony. This book addresses the meanings of family stories and artifacts within a gendered and interimperial context, and demonstrates how these knowledges can produce alternate cartographies of memory and belonging within the diaspora. It thus explores how women’s memorykeeping forges integrative possibility, not only physically across islands, oceans, and continents, but also temporally, across decades, empires, and generations. Thirty-five years in the making, The Memorykeepers is the first book on Indonesian Americans written within the fields of US history, American Studies, and Asian American Studies. See inside the book.Trade Review“This book makes significant contributions to Asian American studies, studies of empire and colonialism, US Cold War history, women’s history, and gender studies. Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony marshals a wealth of evidence from personal narratives and material culture to reveal how women’s “memorykeeping” constitutes a practice of resistance and critique. Her study illuminates the workings of multiple empires in the everyday life of two Toba Batak women, H.L. Tobing and Minar T. Rony, making visible the intertwined forces of gender and empire." - Valerie Matsumoto, University of California, Los Angeles "Dr. Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony’s book, The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History, is an original and pioneering manuscript in the field of Indonesian American Studies. Particularly valuable is how the scholarship highlights women’s memorykeeping across time and space. A work of this importance is long overdue." - Shirley Lim, State University of New York at Stony BrookTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Note on Orthography and Names Introduction: Daughter of a Daughter: the Labor of Memorykeeping  1 Questions  2 The ‘Indonesian American’ Context  3 ‘Return’ and ‘Belonging’ Part 1: Empire and Gender 1 Empires:Interimperialism, Migration, and the United States  1 Introduction  2 When Empires Came to You: the Toba Batak  3 Multilingualism and Interimperial Temporality  4 The United States Cold War  5 Conclusion 2 Gendered Knowledges:Patriarchies and the Politics of Belonging  1 Introduction  2 The Toba Batak Culture as Political Location  3 Colonial Domesticity  4 Converging Gender Hierarchies  5 Negotiation and Challenge  6 Conclusion Part 2: Curating Time 3 Stories and Silences: Telling the Past  1 Introduction  2 Searching for Archives  3 What Is Said  4 What Is Not Said  5 Two Pictures  6 Conclusion 4 Artifacts and Memories: Representing Meaning  1 Introduction  2 Knowledge as Legacy  3 Memorykeeping as Response to Precarity  4 The Labor of Artifacts  5 Conclusion Part 3: Memorykeeping Prologue to Part 3: A Journey and a Path 5 Across Empires: The Narrative of H.L. Tobing  1 Raja Pontas  2 The Old Times  3 Family  4 The Adat  5 Christianity  6 Tarutung  7 Living in the Village  8 Dutch Rule  9 Elementary School  10 Salatiga  11 Early Marriage  12 Semarang  13 Magetan  14 Pearaja  15 Bengkalis  16 Japanese Occupation and World War II  17 Kisaran  18 Medan  19 Progress  20 Opportunities  21 United States  22 Homecoming 6 For Those Who Follow: The Autobiography of Minar T. Rony  1 Beginnings  2 Bengkalis  3 Siantar  4 Return to Bengkalis  5 Bukit Batu  6 Pearaja  7 Jakarta  8 Return to Siantar  9 Medan  10 Teacher and Guide  11 The United States Conclusion: The Urgency of Time Timeline Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGendering the Trans-Pacific World introduces an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology examines the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture.Table of ContentsPart I: Gendering the Trans-Pacific 1. Gendering the Trans-Pacific World, by Catherine Ceniza Choy and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 2. Notes on Trans-Pacific Archives, by Denise Cruz 3. The Many Labors of the Gendered Trans-Pacific World, by Karen J. Leong Part II: Geographies of Empire 4. Rethinking the Sexual Geography of American Empire in the Philippines: Interracial Intimacies in Mindanao and the Cordilleras, 1898–1921, by Tessa Ong Winkelmann 5. A Fascist Triangle or a Rotary Wheel: The Sino-Japanese War and the Gendered Internationalisms of Sylvia Pankhurst and Carlos Romulo, by Erika Huckestein and Mark L. Reeves 6. Moving Within Empires: Korean Women and Trans-Pacific Migration, by Ji-Yeon Yuh 7. Re-franchising Women of Hawaiʻi, 1912–1920: The Politics of Gender, Sovereignty, Race, and Rank at the Crossroads of the Pacific, by Rumi Yasutake 8. Currencies of U.S. Empire in Hawaiʻi’s Tourism and Prison Industries, by Liza Keānuenueokalani Williams Part III: Intimacies and Affect 9. The Sexualized Child and Mestizaje: Colonial Tropes of the Filipina/o, by Gladys Nubla 10. “Ashamed of Certain Japanese”: The Politics of Affect in Japanese Women’s Immigration Exclusion, 1919–1924, by Chrissy Yee Lau 11. Gendered Adoptee Identities: Performing Trans-Pacific Masculinity in the 21st Century, by Kimberly McKee 12. Up in the Air: Circuits of Transnational Asian and Asian American Mothering, by Miliann Kang Part IV: Beauty and the Body 13. Pageant Politics: Tensions of Power, Empire, and Nationalism in Manila Carnival Queen Contests, by Genevieve Clutario 14. “Golden Lilies” across the Pacific: Footbinding and the American Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion Laws, by Fang He 15. Traces of Empires in Breast Cancer in South Korea and the Trans-Pacific, by Laura C. Nelson 16. Graphical and Ethical Spectatorship: Human Trafficking in Stanford Graphic Novel Project’s From Busan to San Francisco and Mark Kalesniko’s Mail Order Bride, by Stella Oh Part V: Culture and Circulation 17. Performing between Two Empires: Colonial Modernity and the Racialized Politics of Filipino Masculinity in Okinawa and Japan, by Nobue Suzuki 18. A Careful Embrace: Race, Gender, and the Consumption of Hawaiʻi and the South Pacific in Mid-Century Los Angeles, by Shawn Schwaller 19. We Are Pacific Men, by Craig Santos Perez 20. Gendering the K-Vampire, by Hyungji Park 21. Through a Trans-Vietnamese Feminist Lens: The Cinemas of Vietnam and the Diaspora, by Lan Duong

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Book SynopsisGender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries explores women’s and men’s contributions to the arts and gendered visual representations in China, Korea, and Japan from the premodern through modern eras. A critical introduction and nine essays consider how threads of continuity and exchanges between the cultures of East Asia, Europe, and the United States helped to shape modernity in this region, in the process revealing East Asia as a vital component of the trans-Pacific world. The essays are organized into three themes: representations of femininity, women as makers, and constructions of gender, and they consider examples of architecture, painting, woodblock prints and illustrated books, photography, and textiles. Contributors are: Lara C. W. Blanchard, Kristen L. Chiem, Charlotte Horlyck, Ikumi Kaminishi, Nayeon Kim, Sunglim Kim, Radu Leca, Elizabeth Lillehoj, Ying-chen Peng, and Christina M. Spiker. Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Kristen L. Chiem and Lara C. W. Blanchard Part 1 Representations of Femininity 1 Cartographies of Alterity: Shape-Shifting Women and Periaquatic Spaces in Late Seventeenth-Century Japan Radu Leca 2 Indoctrinating Female Virtue: The Social Use of Chosŏn Woodblock Prints Nayeon Kim 3 Beauty under the Willow Tree: Picturing Virtuous Women in Nineteenth-Century China Kristen L. Chiem 4 Skillful Means (upāya) of the Courtesan as Bodhisattva Fugen: Maruyama Ōkyo’s Lady Eguchi Ikumi Kaminishi Part 2 Women as Makers 5 The Artistic Legacy of Yōgen’in, A Mortuary Temple Sponsored by Women in Early Modern Kyoto Elizabeth Lillehoj 6 Reconfijiguring Patriarchal Space: Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) and the Reconstruction of the Gardens of Nurtured Harmony Ying-chen Peng 7 Questioning Women’s Place in the Canon of Korean Art History Charlotte Horlyck Part 3 Constructions of Gender and Interactions with the West 8 The Personal is Political: The Life and Death and Life of Na Hye-sŏk (1896–1948) Sunglim Kim 9 “Civilized” Men and “Superstitious” Women: Visualizing the Hokkaido Ainu in Isabella Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, 1880 Christina M. Spiker Index

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Book SynopsisIn Freedom through Submission Johannes Renders explores Danish-Muslim statements on human freedom. Within a context where public talk of Islam is largely mediated by an incessant succession of controversies, the notion of freedom is weaponized both by and against a growing Muslim community. Danish Muslims take issue with liberal associations of the notion with autonomy and choice, and seek to reconfigure the public debate that pits freedom against Islam. This book brings out a sophisticated and reflective Muslim discourse, in which freedom is something individuals must simultaneously exercise, surrender, and achieve through a cultivated relinquishing of the will to Allah.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Transliteration, Translation, and Dates List of Figures Introduction  1 An Ethnography of Muslim-Talk on Freedom  2 An Anthropology of Religious Discourse 1 Is This Really Freedom?  1 Questioning  2 Resistance  3 Redefinition 2 Allah Named Himself  1 Ineffable and Perfect  2 Willing and Knowing  3 Planning and Attracting 3 Willing Submission  1 Always Surrounded  2 Willingly Surrendered  3 Already Muslim 4 Everything Is for Allah  1 Worship-Subjection  2 Spiritual Combat  3 Knowing-Belief 5 This Is Real Freedom!  1 Emancipation from Authority  2 Liberation through Authority  3 Iterative Choice Conclusion  1 Freedom as Submission  2 Freedom as Fantasy  3 Freedom as Promise Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book invites to rethink certain aspects of halal, and in particular the issue of the halal market and halal certification in Muslim-minority contexts. Rather than limiting itself to elucidating the doctrinal traditions relating to halal/haram, or on the contrary, focusing only on the external economic, financial, political or demographic factors that explain the changes taking place, Rethinking Halal shows the need to underline the points of balance between the aspects of religious doctrine on the one hand and the economic or political contextual aspects on the other hand. Through the study of various countries, Rethinking Halal demonstrates that Islam underwent a process of positivisation, that is, a kind of reframing of its rules and principles through the lens of a characteristically modern standardising, scientificising, and systematising mind. Contributors are Ayang Utriza Yakin, Louis-Léon Christians, Baudouin Dupret, Jajat Burhanudin, Syafiq Hasyim, Zaynab El Bernoussi, En-Chieh Chao, Rossella Bottoni, Lauren Crossland-Marr, Konrad Pędziwiatr, Matteo Benussi, Harun Sencal and Mehmet Asutay.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Rethinking Halal: Critical Perspective on Halal Markets and Certification  Ayang Utriza Yakin, Louis-Léon Christians, and Baudouin Dupret Part 1 Halal Market: Genealogy and Current Trends 2 Rethinking Halal: Hegemony, Agency, and Process  Harun Sencal and Mehmet Asutay 3 Halal Practices at the Dawn of Southeast Asian Modernity: Some Cases of Halal Fatwas in al-Manār in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century  Jajat Burhanudin 4 Halal Issues, Ijtihād, and Fatwa-Making in Indonesia and Malaysia  Syafiq Hasyim 5 Developing the Halal Market: China’s Opportunity to Strengthen MENA Ties and Uighur/Hui Issues  Zaynab El Bernoussi 6 Science, Politics, and Islam: The Other Origin Story of Halal Authentication in Indonesia  En-Chieh Chao Part 2 Halal Certification: New Interpretations in Critical Perspective 7 Halal Certification, Standards, and Their Ramifications in Belgium  Ayang Utriza Yakin 8 The Italian and Spanish Legal Experiences with Halal Certifying Bodies  Rossella Bottoni 9 The Process of Eating Ethically: A Comparison of Religious and National Food Certifications in Italy  Lauren Crossland-Marr 10 Halal Certification as a Source of Intra- and Inter-Group Tensions among Muslims in Poland  Konrad Pędziwiatr 11 Living Halal in the Volga Region: Lifestyle and Civil Society Opportunities  Matteo Benussi Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Political Potential of Upper Silesian Ethnoregionalist Movement: A Study in Ethnic Identity and Political Behaviours of Upper Silesians Anna Muś offers a study on the phenomenon of ethnoregionalism in one of the regions in Poland. Since 1945, ethnopolitics in Poland have been based on the so-called assumption of the ethnic homogeneity of the Polish nation. Even the transformation of the political system to a fully democratic one in 1989 did not truly change it. However, over the last three decades, we can observe growing discontent in Upper Silesia and the politicisation of Silesian ethnicity. This is happening in a region with its own history of autonomy and culturally diversified society, where an ethnoregionalist political movement appeared already in 1989.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Acronyms List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Region, Ethnicity and Politics  1.1 The Lipset-Rokkan Theory  1.2 Centre-Periphery Opposition  1.3 Political Behaviours  1.4 Region and Regionalism  1.5 Ethnic Conflict and Ethnic Mobilisation  1.6 New Social Movements  1.7 Regionalist and Ethnoregionalist Parties  1.8 Issue and Value Voting – Theory  1.9 Communities and Nationalism  1.10 Ethnic Identity and Ideology  1.11 Communities and International Law  1.12 Communities and Polish Law  1.13 Region, Ethnicity and Politics – Conclusions 2 Political Situation in Upper Silesia  2.1 Upper Silesia – Definition, Names, Borders  2.2 Upper Silesia – Subregions  2.3 Upper Silesia – Historical Remarks  2.4 Inter-War Period in the Silesian Autonomous Voivodeship  2.5 Silesian Harm (or Upper Silesian Harm)  2.6 Upper Silesia as Periphery  2.7 Upper Silesians  2.8 Upper Silesians in Scholarly Literature  2.9 (Upper) Silesian Movement  2.10 History of the Movement  2.11 European Context  2.12 Political Situation in Upper Silesia – Conclusions 3 Methodology  3.1 Aim and Object  3.2 Research Questions and Hypothesis  3.3 Terminology and Indicators  3.4 Methods, Techniques and Tools  3.5 Sampling  3.6 Procedure 4 Political Organisations in Upper Silesia  4.1 Rada Górnośląska   4.1.1 Fundacja “Silesia”   4.1.2 Pro Loquela Silesiana   4.1.3 Ruch Autonomii Śląska   4.1.4 Stowarzyszenie Osób Narodowości Śląskiej   4.1.5 Ślōnskŏ Ferajna   4.1.6 Związek Górnośląski   4.1.7 Niemiecka Wspólnota “Pojednanie i Przyszłość”  4.2 Organisations from Outside the Upper Silesian Council   4.2.1 Demokratyczna Unia Regionalistów Śląskich   4.2.2 Nasz Wspólny Śląski Dom   4.2.3 Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Niemców Województwa Śląskiego   4.2.4 Związek Ludności Narodowości Śląskiej  4.3 Śląska Partia Regionalna  4.4 Ślonzoki Razem  4.5 Electoral Committees   4.5.1 Autonomia dla Ziemi Śląskiej   4.5.2 Mniejszość na Śląsku   4.5.3 Zjednoczeni dla Śląska   4.5.4 Ślonzoki Razem  4.6 Electoral Results in the Region  4.7 Electoral Campaigns in the Region  4.8 Initiatives   4.8.1 Autonomy March   4.8.2 The Day of Commemoration of the Upper Silesian Tragedy   4.8.3 National Census 2011 – Campaign   4.8.4 Regional Education and Teaching Silesian Language   4.8.5 Recognition of Silesians as a Minority and Silesian as a Regional Language  4.9 Protests   4.9.1 Protest Against Further Centralisation of Public Television   4.9.2 Protest Against Rejection of the Citizens’ Legislative Initiative   4.9.3 Protest Against Naming the Square in Katowice after Maria and Lech Kaczyński   4.10 Political Organisations in Upper Silesia – Conclusions 5 Programmes and Postulates of Upper Silesian Organisations  5.1 Introduction  5.2 Ethnicity   5.2.1 Auto-identification   5.2.2 Silesianism   5.2.3 Heritage   5.2.4 Collective Memory   5.2.5 Categorisation  5.3 Political Programmes and Postulates   5.3.1 Recognition of the Ethnic Group   5.3.2 Regional Education   5.3.3 Teaching and Promotion of the Silesian Language   5.3.4 Decentralisation and Autonomy   5.3.5 Functions and the Role of the Organisation   5.3.6 Plans for the Future  5.4 Programmes and Postulates of Upper Silesian Organisations – Conclusions 6 Political Behaviours and Political Potential  6.1 Introduction  6.2 General Information about the Respondents  6.3 Ethnicity – Elements of Silesian Identity   6.3.1 Auto-identification   6.3.2 Territorial and Familial Ties   6.3.3 Categorisation and the Role of the Region   6.3.4 Stereotypes and Migration   6.3.5 Diversity and Separateness   6.3.6 Language and Traditions  6.4 Political Postulates – Popularity   6.4.1 Recognition and Education   6.4.2 Legal Status and Borders of the Śląskie Voivodeship   6.4.3 Priorities for Newly Registered Silesian Parties  6.5 Political Behaviours – Popularity of Studied Organisations   6.5.1 Voting Behaviours   6.5.2 Participation in Electoral Campaigns, Membership and Participation in Events   6.5.3 Political Behaviours Index  6.6 Relation Between Silesian Identity and Political Behaviours  6.7 Political Behaviours and Political Potential – Conclusions Concluding Remarks Annex 1 References Index

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Book SynopsisDorothy Fujita-Rony’s The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History examines the importance of women's memorykeeping for two Toba Batak women whose twentieth-century histories span Indonesia and the United States, H.L.Tobing and Minar T. Rony. This book addresses the meanings of family stories and artifacts within a gendered and interimperial context, and demonstrates how these knowledges can produce alternate cartographies of memory and belonging within the diaspora. It thus explores how women’s memorykeeping forges integrative possibility, not only physically across islands, oceans, and continents, but also temporally, across decades, empires, and generations. Thirty-five years in the making, The Memorykeepers is the first book on Indonesian Americans written within the fields of US history, American Studies, and Asian American Studies.Trade Review“This book makes significant contributions to Asian American studies, studies of empire and colonialism, US Cold War history, women’s history, and gender studies. Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony marshals a wealth of evidence from personal narratives and material culture to reveal how women’s “memorykeeping” constitutes a practice of resistance and critique. Her study illuminates the workings of multiple empires in the everyday life of two Toba Batak women, H.L. Tobing and Minar T. Rony, making visible the intertwined forces of gender and empire." - Valerie Matsumoto, University of California, Los Angeles "Dr. Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony’s book, The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History, is an original and pioneering manuscript in the field of Indonesian American Studies. Particularly valuable is how the scholarship highlights women’s memorykeeping across time and space. A work of this importance is long overdue." - Shirley Lim, State University of New York at Stony BrookTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Note on Orthography and Names Introduction: Daughter of a Daughter: the Labor of Memorykeeping  1 Questions  2 The ‘Indonesian American’ Context  3 ‘Return’ and ‘Belonging’ Part 1: Empire and Gender 1 Empires:Interimperialism, Migration, and the United States  1 Introduction  2 When Empires Came to You: the Toba Batak  3 Multilingualism and Interimperial Temporality  4 The United States Cold War  5 Conclusion 2 Gendered Knowledges:Patriarchies and the Politics of Belonging  1 Introduction  2 The Toba Batak Culture as Political Location  3 Colonial Domesticity  4 Converging Gender Hierarchies  5 Negotiation and Challenge  6 Conclusion Part 2: Curating Time 3 Stories and Silences: Telling the Past  1 Introduction  2 Searching for Archives  3 What Is Said  4 What Is Not Said  5 Two Pictures  6 Conclusion 4 Artifacts and Memories: Representing Meaning  1 Introduction  2 Knowledge as Legacy  3 Memorykeeping as Response to Precarity  4 The Labor of Artifacts  5 Conclusion Part 3: Memorykeeping Prologue to Part 3: A Journey and a Path 5 Across Empires: The Narrative of H.L. Tobing  1 Raja Pontas  2 The Old Times  3 Family  4 The Adat  5 Christianity  6 Tarutung  7 Living in the Village  8 Dutch Rule  9 Elementary School  10 Salatiga  11 Early Marriage  12 Semarang  13 Magetan  14 Pearaja  15 Bengkalis  16 Japanese Occupation and World War II  17 Kisaran  18 Medan  19 Progress  20 Opportunities  21 United States  22 Homecoming 6 For Those Who Follow: The Autobiography of Minar T. Rony  1 Beginnings  2 Bengkalis  3 Siantar  4 Return to Bengkalis  5 Bukit Batu  6 Pearaja  7 Jakarta  8 Return to Siantar  9 Medan  10 Teacher and Guide  11 The United States Conclusion: The Urgency of Time Timeline Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSeven new scholarly essays present original research that includes rare historical and photographic materials highlighting the significance of Islamic civilization and its vexed legacy in a variety of contemporary European countries and challenging the perception of European identity as exclusively Christian. This volume unearths a rich, complex history of relationships between Muslims and Christians in Europe whose value lies in the close and continued connections between them that began so long ago on European soil.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction, Elizabeth Drayson Part 1: Islamic Heritage and cultural politics 1 Turkey and the Politics of Memory: Consequences for Domestic and Foreign Affairs and Security in the Region, Karol Kujawa 2 The Legacy of the Ottoman (Turkish) Age in Slovakia in the 21st century, Gabriel Pirický 3 Islamophobia, Orientalism and “Jihadist Radicalisation” in the TV Series El Príncipe (2014-6), Carlos Yebra López Part 2: Islamic Heritage and Architecture 4 Hybridity as an appellation of twentieth-century Islamic built environment, Nuno Grancho 5 Mosques and cemeteries of the Polish Muslim Tatars as an example of Islamic legacy in the Central Eastern European landscape in the 21st century, Agata S. Nalborczyk 6 Revisiting the Ottoman-period Mosques in Albania: A Critical Observation on Late Interventions, Edmond Manahasa 7 Monumental Heritage and Past Conflict: The Ambiguous Role of Al-Andalus in Modern Spain and the Role of Art History, Elena Paulino Montero Index

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Book SynopsisParadise Lost. Race and Racism in Post-apartheid South Africa is about the continuing salience of race and persistence of racism in post-apartheid South Africa. The chapters in the volume illustrate the multiple ways in which race and racism are manifested and propose various strategies to confront racial inequality, racism and the power structure that underpins it, while exploring, how, through a renewed commitment to a non-racial society, apartheid racial categories can be put under erasure at exactly the time they are being reinforced.Trade Review[...] Paradise Lost is an essential read for understanding South Africa’s inextricable and heartbreaking entanglement with its deep history of racist colonial and apartheid systems. Throughout each book chapter, each author strives to outline solutions or ways forward within their particular sites of research—from the possibilities and limits of Ubuntu and decoloniality (citing Ndlovy-Gatsheni), to calls for African knowledge production and raciolinguistic decolonial thinking, to the necessity of radical democratic politics. These essays culminate in Modimowarbarwa Kanyane’s thoughtful elaborations of the ways South Africans need to work towards decolonizing both white and black minds to create substantive equality, social justice, and national reconciliation. The strength of this collection, however, is in giving us the realities of both past and present as a platform for reimagining what South Africa could be. Ultimately, the paradox that Paradise Lost reveals is that South Africa must think with race in mind or the country will never move through or beyond racism. Kathryn Mathers, Duke University, in Research Africa Reviews Vol. 7 No. 1, April 2023, pp. 60-63

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Book SynopsisSunni-Shia relations in Iran offer an analytical guide for the interpretation of inequality, securitization, and immigration. This book reorients our understanding of contemporary Iran by answering still unacknowledged questions: how is the relationship, the interaction and socio-political behaviour between the Islamic Republic and its Sunni minorities? Using unexamined sources and fieldwork, Hessam Habibi Doroh shows a clear insight into the life of Iranian Sunnis, their contention and cooperation with the state during Hasan Rouhani´s presidency. Comparison with the wider region complements this nuanced portrayal of impacts of privatization, secularization, and securitization on the sectarian relations between the state and its minorities.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Introduction Part 1: Confessional Minorities, Comparative Perspectives 1 Coexistence and Religious Differences in Asia 2 The Iranian Perspective Comparison and Conclusion of Part 1 Part 2: Unity and Its Enemies, Perspectives from Shia Elites Introduction to Part 2 3 Unity as the Order 4 Enemies and Their Infiltration Annex 1 Part 3: Exclusionary Co-existence, Perspectives from Sunni Communities Introduction to Part 3 5 Tolerance, Co-existence and the “Glory of Umma” 6 Injustice, Inequality and Discrimination Annex 2 Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe development of Islamic landscapes in Europe, is first and foremost related to Islamic authority. Religious authority relies on persuasiveness and deals with issues of truth, authenticity, legitimacy, trust, and ethics with reference to religious matters. This study argues that Islamic authority-making among European Muslims is a social and relational practice that is much broader and versatile than theological proficiency and personal status. It can also be conferred to objects, activities, and events. The book explores various ways in which Islamic authority is being constituted among Muslims in Western Europe with a particular focus on the role of ‘ordinary’ Muslims.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgement Notes on Transliteration Introduction  1 Islamic Authority: Themes, Stakes, and Foci  2 Assessing Islamic Authority  3 Islamic Authority-Making: Processes, Actors, and Contexts  4 Chapters and Cases 1 The Religious Broker: Networks, Reciprocity, and Intermediary Power  1 Introduction  2 What Is a Religious Broker?  3 Religious Brokerage in the City of Rotterdam. A Historical Case  4 The Emergence of Religious Brokers  5 The Dissolution of Religious Brokers  6 Conclusions 2 The Politics of Imam Training: The Domestication of Islam in Europe  1 Introduction  2 The Quest for Imams  3 Training Initiatives in Europe  4 Assessing Imam Training in Europe: What Is at Stake?  5 The Politics of Imam Training: Conclusions 3 Authoritative Pedagogics: The Sohbet  1 Introduction  2 Hizmet  3 Sohbet as ‘Sensational Form’ and a Site of Devotional Practice  4 Sohbet in Practice  5 Hizmet as a ‘Way of Life’  6 Gender  7 Conclusions 4 Alternative Authorities: Authority-Making from Below  1 Introduction  2 Authority-Making from Below, Ethics, Senses of Space and the Production of Locality  3 Cases  4 Conclusions 5 Seeking Authentic Listening Experiences in Shi’ism: Online and Offline Intersections of Majlis Practices  Aleeha Zahra Ali and Thijl Sunier  1 Introduction  2 Shi’a Muslims, Mobility and Story of Karbala  3 Majlis: Sermon and Ritual  4 Theorising the Majlis  5 Digitisation and Shi’ism  6 Authority and Authentication  7 Transnational Authority  8 Listening as a Practice of Authentication  9 Who Sits at the Minbar? Ulama, Zakirin, Public Speakers  10 The Scholar and the Listeners: Case Study  11 Conclusions 6 Branding Islam: Imagination and Claims-Making  1 Introduction  2 Cases  3 Conclusions Conclusions  1 Reprise  2 Cross-Overs, Connections, Entanglements, and Conceptual Threads  3 Reflections  4 What Else? Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam Mosque in Copenhagen. The study first demonstrates that individuals’ facing the unpredictable plays a decisive role in social processes. This leads to an investigation of how serendipities are erased when narratives are erected retrospectively in the form of commodified products, autobiographical narratives, and research. Furthermore, Petersen conceptualizes non-Muslims’ theological productions of Islam – Islam without the worship of Allah, so to speak – and demonstrates how this influences Muslim productions of Islam.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of figures Chapter 1: Entering the field Chapter 2: Ethnographic methodology Chapter 3: Muslims in Denmark Chapter 4 Sherin Khankan Chapter 5: The emergence of a religious demand Chapter 6: The serendipitous spread of a story Chapter 7: Planning the founding of Femimam Chapter 8: The serendipitous emergence of an institution Chapter 9: The pop-up mosque and its social media adhan Chapter 10: The first Mariam Mosque Chapter 11: Politicized and commodified narratives of Sherin Khankan Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Political Potential of Upper Silesian Ethnoregionalist Movement: A Study in Ethnic Identity and Political Behaviours of Upper Silesians Anna Muś offers a study on the phenomenon of ethnoregionalism in one of the regions in Poland. Since 1945, ethnopolitics in Poland have been based on the so-called assumption of the ethnic homogeneity of the Polish nation. Even the transformation of the political system to a fully democratic one in 1989 did not truly change it. However, over the last three decades, we can observe growing discontent in Upper Silesia and the politicisation of Silesian ethnicity. This is happening in a region with its own history of autonomy and culturally diversified society, where an ethnoregionalist political movement appeared already in 1989.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Acronyms List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Region, Ethnicity and Politics  1.1 The Lipset-Rokkan Theory  1.2 Centre-Periphery Opposition  1.3 Political Behaviours  1.4 Region and Regionalism  1.5 Ethnic Conflict and Ethnic Mobilisation  1.6 New Social Movements  1.7 Regionalist and Ethnoregionalist Parties  1.8 Issue and Value Voting – Theory  1.9 Communities and Nationalism  1.10 Ethnic Identity and Ideology  1.11 Communities and International Law  1.12 Communities and Polish Law  1.13 Region, Ethnicity and Politics – Conclusions 2 Political Situation in Upper Silesia  2.1 Upper Silesia – Definition, Names, Borders  2.2 Upper Silesia – Subregions  2.3 Upper Silesia – Historical Remarks  2.4 Inter-War Period in the Silesian Autonomous Voivodeship  2.5 Silesian Harm (or Upper Silesian Harm)  2.6 Upper Silesia as Periphery  2.7 Upper Silesians  2.8 Upper Silesians in Scholarly Literature  2.9 (Upper) Silesian Movement  2.10 History of the Movement  2.11 European Context  2.12 Political Situation in Upper Silesia – Conclusions 3 Methodology  3.1 Aim and Object  3.2 Research Questions and Hypothesis  3.3 Terminology and Indicators  3.4 Methods, Techniques and Tools  3.5 Sampling  3.6 Procedure 4 Political Organisations in Upper Silesia  4.1 Rada Górnośląska   4.1.1 Fundacja “Silesia”   4.1.2 Pro Loquela Silesiana   4.1.3 Ruch Autonomii Śląska   4.1.4 Stowarzyszenie Osób Narodowości Śląskiej   4.1.5 Ślōnskŏ Ferajna   4.1.6 Związek Górnośląski   4.1.7 Niemiecka Wspólnota “Pojednanie i Przyszłość”  4.2 Organisations from Outside the Upper Silesian Council   4.2.1 Demokratyczna Unia Regionalistów Śląskich   4.2.2 Nasz Wspólny Śląski Dom   4.2.3 Towarzystwo Społeczno-Kulturalne Niemców Województwa Śląskiego   4.2.4 Związek Ludności Narodowości Śląskiej  4.3 Śląska Partia Regionalna  4.4 Ślonzoki Razem  4.5 Electoral Committees   4.5.1 Autonomia dla Ziemi Śląskiej   4.5.2 Mniejszość na Śląsku   4.5.3 Zjednoczeni dla Śląska   4.5.4 Ślonzoki Razem  4.6 Electoral Results in the Region  4.7 Electoral Campaigns in the Region  4.8 Initiatives   4.8.1 Autonomy March   4.8.2 The Day of Commemoration of the Upper Silesian Tragedy   4.8.3 National Census 2011 – Campaign   4.8.4 Regional Education and Teaching Silesian Language   4.8.5 Recognition of Silesians as a Minority and Silesian as a Regional Language  4.9 Protests   4.9.1 Protest Against Further Centralisation of Public Television   4.9.2 Protest Against Rejection of the Citizens’ Legislative Initiative   4.9.3 Protest Against Naming the Square in Katowice after Maria and Lech Kaczyński   4.10 Political Organisations in Upper Silesia – Conclusions 5 Programmes and Postulates of Upper Silesian Organisations  5.1 Introduction  5.2 Ethnicity   5.2.1 Auto-identification   5.2.2 Silesianism   5.2.3 Heritage   5.2.4 Collective Memory   5.2.5 Categorisation  5.3 Political Programmes and Postulates   5.3.1 Recognition of the Ethnic Group   5.3.2 Regional Education   5.3.3 Teaching and Promotion of the Silesian Language   5.3.4 Decentralisation and Autonomy   5.3.5 Functions and the Role of the Organisation   5.3.6 Plans for the Future  5.4 Programmes and Postulates of Upper Silesian Organisations – Conclusions 6 Political Behaviours and Political Potential  6.1 Introduction  6.2 General Information about the Respondents  6.3 Ethnicity – Elements of Silesian Identity   6.3.1 Auto-identification   6.3.2 Territorial and Familial Ties   6.3.3 Categorisation and the Role of the Region   6.3.4 Stereotypes and Migration   6.3.5 Diversity and Separateness   6.3.6 Language and Traditions  6.4 Political Postulates – Popularity   6.4.1 Recognition and Education   6.4.2 Legal Status and Borders of the Śląskie Voivodeship   6.4.3 Priorities for Newly Registered Silesian Parties  6.5 Political Behaviours – Popularity of Studied Organisations   6.5.1 Voting Behaviours   6.5.2 Participation in Electoral Campaigns, Membership and Participation in Events   6.5.3 Political Behaviours Index  6.6 Relation Between Silesian Identity and Political Behaviours  6.7 Political Behaviours and Political Potential – Conclusions Concluding Remarks Annex 1 References Index

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