Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisOver the last twenty years there has been a growing international interest in the city of Barcelona. This has been reflected in the academic world through a series of studies, courses, seminars, and publications. The Barcelona Reader hinges together a selection of the best academic articles, written in English, about the city, and its main elements of identity and interest: art, urban planning, history and social movements. The book includes scholarly essays about Barcelona that can be of interest to the student and the general public alike. It focuses on cultural representations of the city: the arts (including literature) provide a complex yet discontinuous portrait of the city, similar to a patchwork. The authors selected create a kaleidoscope of views and voices thus presenting a diverse yet inclusive Barcelona portrait. The Barcelona Reader offers a multifaceted assessment that will be essential reading for anyone interested in this iconic city.Trade ReviewReviews 'Bou and Subirana offer us a great collection of articles on the city of Barcelona written in English (...) in a book with a wide approach to the subject. The city is, by definition, a complex creation and its interpretation therefore demands a plurality of views ("ways of seeing" according to John Berger). Barcelones, in the words of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, expresses this multifocal attitude to observe reality and face the object of study. (...) With the help of twenty-one top-level essayists, they have turned Barcelona into a field of study of increasing interest. The complexity of the city demanded, as we say, multiple knowledge. The look that the texts present to us is the result of an interpretative framework that the authors define in so far as they practice it.' Toni Mollà, L'Espill'A cultural feast for both visitors and residents, the city is captured with depth and precision in The Barcelona Reader [...] Overall, the reader provides an in-depth study of Barcelona, from its crimes and graveyards, to its grand streets, to the questions of authenticity and tourism, to the showcase of the 1992 Olympic games. This is a reader that achieves its raison d’être, covering a broad range of specialities and topics for just about everyone. Ultimately, The Barcelona Reader succeeds in capturing the true essence of the city.' Pádraig Collins, AIGNETable of ContentsList of illustrationsNotes on contributorsIntroduction: Barcelona: Cultural readings of a city — Enric Bou and Jaume SubiranaI City, history, and territory1. Barcelona: The siege city — Robert Davidson2. Barcelona as an adaptive ecology — Ferran Sagarra3. A present past, Barcelona street names, from Víctor Balaguer to Pasqual Maragall — Jaume Subirana4. ‘The asylum of modern times’: Barcelona and Europe — Felipe Fernández-Armesto5. A fragile country — Colm TóibínII City and society6. Barcelona and modernity — Brad Epps7. Football and identities in Catalonia — Alejandro Quiroga8. The family and the city: Power and the creation of cultural imagery — Gary Wray McDonogh9. Memory and the city in Barcelona’s cemeteries — Elisa Martí-LópezIII Art, architecture, and the city10. Picasso among his fellows at 4 Gats: Beyond Modernisme? — Jordi Falgàs11. Gaudí: Poet of stone, artistic hedgehog — Marià Marín i Torné12. El Poble Espanyol / El Pueblo Español (1929) — Jordana MendelsonIV The Olympics and the city13. Barcelona: Urban identity 1992–2002 — Donald McNeill14. From the Olympic torch to the Universal Forum of Cultures: The after-image of Barcelona’s modernity — Joan Ramon ResinaV Literature, cinema, and the city15. La Gran Encisera: Three odes to Barcelona, and a film — Josep Miquel Sobrer16. The deceptive dame: Criminal revelations of the Catalan capital — Stewart King17. A Biutiful city: Alejandro González Iñárritu’s filmic critique of the ‘Barcelona Model’ — Benjamin Fraser

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Book SynopsisBetween the French defeat in 1940 and liberation in 1944, the Nazis killed almost 80,000 of France's Jews, both French and foreign. Since that time, this tragedy has been well-documented. But there are other stories hidden within it--ones neglected by historians. In fact, 75% of France's Jews escaped the extermination, while 45% of the Jews of Belgium perished, and in the Netherlands only 20% survived. The Nazis were determined to destroy the Jews across Europe, and the Vichy regime collaborated in their deportation from France. So what is the meaning of this French exception? Jacques Semelin sheds light on this 'French enigma', painting a radically unfamiliar view of occupied France. His is a rich, even-handed portrait of a complex and changing society, one where helping and informing on one's neighbours went hand in hand; and where small gestures of solidarity sat comfortably with anti-Semitism. Without shying away from the horror of the Holocaust's crimes, this seminal work adds a fresh perspective to our history of the Second World War.Trade Review'may well prove to be a landmark in the historiography of the subject . . . well-researched and cogently argued' -- Times Literary Supplement'[A] careful study . . . Semelin details, in accessible prose and with cogent organization, the extraordinarily complex story of Jews-French and foreign-in France during the Occupation.' -‘Engagingly written, combining psychological perspectives with first-rate historical research, and brimming with original insights, this is masterful scholarship.’ -- CHOICE'An altogether remarkable and indispensable book for all those with an interest in France and the Shoah.' -- Serge Klarsfeld'A most important book on the history of Jews in Vichy France. This meticulously researched work is already standard reading in the field and hugely contributes to the difficult debate on why 75% of Jews in France survived the Holocaust.' -- Jean-Marc Dreyfus

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Book SynopsisDid you know that the Bible has a great deal to say about ethnicity? Through the Bible, God shapes the way we engage with ethnicity. A biblical perspective on ethnicity gives us confidence to explore our own ethnic identities. In this eight-session LifeBuilder Bible Study, Steve Tamayo takes us through passages that open us up to difficult yet important conversations about race, culture, and ethnicity. If ethnicity is a gift from God, engaging this material may deeply transform the way we interact with family, friends, and enemies.

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Book SynopsisThe field of religions of Indonesia is dominated by the sheer size of the population of Muslims, which represent 87 percent of the Indonesian population. Christians form the second largest religious group and represent the largest concentration of members of minority ethnic groups with 7 percent represented by Protestants, 3 percent by Catholics. Christianity in Indonesia is an understudied topic; comprehensive works on the topic were published over a decade ago and despite the growing importance of Christianity as a minority religion in the country, there has been little published work in English on the subject in the last decade. If Christianity in Indonesia has not been sufficiently considered, works published in English on Christianity among the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia are even scarcer, notwithstanding the fact that almost half of the Chinese minority are either Protestant or Catholic. This volume fills a scholarly gap by addressing three aspects of Christianity in urban Indonesia: ethnicity (focusing on the ethnic Chinese), education (on private Christian schools) and enterprise (on the capital and class featured in charismatic/ Pentecostal churches). The author addresses issues of state-religion relations and state policy on religion; contested religious space; elite Chinese philanthropy; evangelism and multiculturalism; citizenship education; and Christian faith aspirations. The thirteen essays, which include material previously published in journals, narrate the social reality of urban Christians in contemporary Indonesia, and is essential reading for Asian Studies scholars.Trade Review‘Chinese Indonesian Christians, although not a numerically large community, are a significant and influential group within Indonesia’s rich ethnic and religious mix. Chang-Yau Hoon’s book knowledgeably navigates the complex history and socio-economic positioning of the Chinese Christians within the religious politics of Muslim-dominated Indonesia. At varying times personal, thoughtful and erudite, the essays collectively offer a valuable insight into the lived experiences and social structures of this important group of people.’ Robbie B. H. Goh, Provost, Singapore University of Social Sciences; author of Protestant Christianity in the Indian Diaspora (2018) and Christianity in Southeast Asia (2005)‘Comprehensive and easy to read, this book gathers first-hand material to map Chineseness and Christianity on the Indonesian multicultural landscape. Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia serves as an indispensable compass into the complex intra-faith differences among the Chinese Christians in Indonesia, revealing their negotiative but sometimes oblique and porous identities and strategies. Chang-Yau Hoon examines the “Great Harvests” at the heart of the largest Muslim country in the world, and he signs a masterpiece on the subject.’ Jérémy Jammes, Professor of Anthropology and South East Asian Studies, Sciences Po Lyon, France; editor of Chrétiens évangéliques d’Asie du Sud-Est [Christian Evangelicals in Southeast Asia] (2016)‘Hoon’s latest work skilfully unpacks the complexity of Christianity in Indonesia by interrogating the diverse experiences of Chinese Christians with respect to ethnicity, education and enterprise. Drawing on ethnographic data, Hoon brings us to these spaces to reveal the stories of Chinese Christians who have to contend with their minority status against the backdrop of state-enforced national homogeneity. Illuminated by Hoon’s reflexivity, Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia recounts many stories that will resonate with anyone invested in interreligious understanding amidst contentious religious diversity.’ Jayeel Cornelio, Associate Dean for Research and Creative Work, Ateneo de Manila University; author of Being Catholic in the Contemporary Philippines: Young People Reinterpreting Religion (2016) and lead editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society (2021)‘Intra-religious relations have always been as dynamic as inter-religious ones, and the opinions of particular individuals must not be taken as representative of a whole religious community. This book examines the subject of Chinese Christians who constitute the labels of two minorities at once: ethnic and religious. Informative and thorough, the book analyzes how this community negotiate the ever-growing diversity-in-unity in Indonesia.’ Muhammad Machasin, Professor of History of Islamic Cultures, Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University; and Chairman, Indonesian Council of Ulama, Yogyakarta, Indonesia‘This book reflects a deep knowledge of both historical and contemporary dynamics within the ethnic Chinese Christian communities in Indonesia, particularly among the three main Protestant groups: Ecumenical, Evangelical and Pentecostal-Charismatic. Many exceptional insights emerge as the reader discovers how the author carefully contextualizes this complex intersection of ethnic and religious identities within the changing politics of pluralism in the most numerous Muslim country in the world. This book is an essential reading to understand the unique set of glocal forces within which Indonesian Chinese Protestant Christians negotiate and construct their own meanings.’ Patrice Brodeur, Associate Professor, Institute of Religious Studies, University of Montreal, Canada; and Senior Advisor, The International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID)‘Based on rigorous ethnographic field research, Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia: Ethnicity, Education, and Enterprise examines the nuanced contestations of identity among Chinese Indonesian Christians in dealing with issues related to ethnicity and class, tradition and modernity, the local and the global… Hoon presents a multi-dimensional view of the everyday lives of Chinese Christians in Indonesia, offering insights that are rarely accessible to outsiders.’ Yan Liu, Asian Studies Review

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Book SynopsisExporting Japanese Aesthetics brings together historical and contemporary case studies addressing the evolution of international impacts and influences of Japanese culture and aesthetics. The volume draws on a wide range of examples from a multidisciplinary team of scholars exploring transnational, regional and global contexts. Studies include the impact of traditional Japanese theatre and art through to the global popularity of contemporary anime and manga. Under the banner of soft power or Cool Japan, cultural commodities that originate in Japan have manifested new meanings outside Japan. By (re)mapping meanings of selected Japanese cultural forms, this volume offers an in-depth examination of how various aspects of Japanese aesthetics have evolved as exportable commodities, the motivations behind this diffusion, and the extent to which the process of diffusion has been the result of strategic planning. Each chapter presents a case study that explores perspectives that situate Japanese aesthetics within a wide-ranging field of inquiry including performance, tourism, and visual arts, as well as providing historical contexts. The importance of interrogating the export of Japanese aesthetics is validated at the highest levels of government, which formed the Office of Cool Japan in 2010, and which perhaps originated in the 19th Century at governmentally endorsed cultural courts at worlds fairs. Increased international consumption of contemporary Japanese culture provides a much needed boost to Japans weakening economy. The case studies are timely and topical. As host of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and the 2025 Osaka Expo, Cool Japan will be under special scrutiny.

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Book SynopsisThe 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests highlighted with sharp clarity the role of race in social conflict and social movements. Building on more than a century of political and sociological scholarship, Race and Space considers the connections between race as a descriptor of physical differences between humans and space as a geographic location, and their subsequent impact on the human experience. The chapters address racialized issues spanning from how the characteristics of our community shape whether we experience police or immigrant violence, whether first-hand experience (or lack thereof) of this violence is likely to shape one’s choice to engage in ethno-racial justice activism, to analysing how the space of the prison shapes one’s sense of self and political possibility post-incarceration. Drawing together key drivers of activism such as flaws within the criminal justice system, race, ethnicity, and citizenship, this collection demonstrates how these elements interact to shape immigration policy and the experience of being accepted as a full member of one’s society. Emphasising location-specific human experience and incorporating insights from geography, Race and Space’s careful study of the differences of physical spaces gives rise to more complete explanations for social issues and variances in social movements.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Lisa Leitz Section I. Race Chapter 1. Racial Capitalism and Black Social Movements; Crystal Nicole Eddins Chapter 2. Inequities in Movement-Making: A Socio-structural Organizational Analysis of a Movement Organization Case; Callie Watkins Liu Section II. Race & Space Chapter 3. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: A Spatial Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Incidents of Police Violence; Ashley N. Jackson Chapter 4. Organizing a Weak Anti-prison Movement? Surrogate Representation and Political Pacification at a Nonprofit Prison Reentry Organization; Jonathan J.B. Mijs Chapter 5. Sustained Mobilization for Immigrant Rights: A Comparative Case Study of the San Joaquin Valley; Maria de Jesus Mora Section III. Space Chapter 6. Climatic Conditions and Internal Armed Conflicts: An Empirical Study; Mehdi Shiva, Hassan Molana, and Andrzej Kwiatkowski Chapter 7. It’s All About Timing: Temporal Dynamics in the Protest-Repression Nexus in Pinochet’s Chile, 1982–1989; Felipe Sánchez-Barría

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Book Synopsis'A must read...!!!' will.i.am'Each encounter is framed and presented with enormous literary skill and grace' David OlusogaWITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTOConversations with some of the most extraordinary Black minds of our age, discussing race, decolonisation, systemic inequalities and the climate crisis.In a series of incisive and intimate encounters, Sarah Ladipo Manyika introduces some of the most distinguished Black thinkers of our times, including Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka, and civic leaders first lady Michelle Obama and Senator Cory Booker.She searches for truth with poet Claudia Rankine and historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. She discusses race and gender with South African filmmaker Xoliswa Sithole and American actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith. She interrogates the world around us with pioneering publisher Margaret Busby, parliamentarian Lord Michael Hastings and civil rights activist Pastor Evan Mawarire - who dared to take on President Robert Mugabe and has lived to tell the tale. We also meet the living embodiment of the many threads, ideas and histories in this book through the profile of her fabulous 102-year-old friend, Mrs Willard Harris.In journeys that book-end the collection, Sarah Ladipo Manyika reflects on her own experience of being seen as 'oyinbo' in Nigeria, African in England, Arab in France, coloured in Southern Africa and Black in America, while feeling the least Black and most human among her fellow travellers, explorers all, against the sharp white relief of the South Pole.

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Book Synopsis‘There simply is no better literary voice for this moment in history than Jessica Wilson.’Sonya Renee Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of The Body is Not an ApologyWe will rewrite the narrative of Blackness that centres and celebrates our joy.For too long Black women have been left out of discussions about body image, food, health and wellness. By bringing the bodies of Black women centre stage, eating disorder specialist Jessica Wilson asks us to reimagine the ways we think about, discuss and tend to our bodies.This book is a call for body liberation now. It’s Always Been Ours pushes back against some of the unhealthy ideals within the wellness movement. Seamlessly blending stories of clients, friends and celebrities, Jessica reveals how a fixation on thin, white women negatively impacts how Black women exist within our bodies and harms all women. Jessica urges us to reject a diet culture that disproportionately harms Black women. She offers, instead, a politics of body liberation that prioritizes Black women’s physical and psychological needs.With just the right mix of wit, levity and wisdom, Jessica shows us how a radical reimagining of body narratives is a prerequisite to wellbeing for everyone. It’s Always Been Ours is a love letter that celebrates Black women’s bodies and shows us a radical and essential path forward to rediscovering vulnerability and joy.

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Book SynopsisThe films of John Akomfrah represent one of the most significant bodies of artistic production in the post-war era in Britain, yet little attempt has been made to analyse the consistencies and divergences across them. James Harvey’s John Akomfrah is the first comprehensive analytic engagement with these films, offering sustained close engagement with the artist’s core thematic preoccupations and aesthetic tendencies. His analysis negotiates the contextual and theoretical layers of Akomfrah’s rich and complex films, from the intermedial diaspora aesthetics of Handsworth Songs (1986) to the intersectional spatial ecopolitics of Purple (2017). Positioning Akomfrah in the burgeoning black British arts and cultural scene of the 1980s as a member of Black Audio Film Collective, Harvey traces the evolution of a critical relationship with the postcolonial archive in his early films, through analysis of documentaries made for television in the 1990s and up to more recent film installations in museums and galleries.Trade ReviewJames Harvey's dextrous, perceptive account of John Akomfrah's extraordinary contributions to cinema is a rich and invaluable work of scholarship. Spanning the full breadth of Akomfrah's career to date - from ground-breaking works with the Black Audio Film Collective to more recent gallery installation pieces - Harvey adopts a productive thematic approach, identifying formal and political links between individual works, and between Akomfrah and a variety of other artists, filmmakers and thinkers. Throughout, Harvey repeatedly returns to Akomfrah's deployment of archive materials and of montage techniques, pinpointing the manifold ways in which Akomfrah has innovated with both. This highly readable book is a significant contribution to the study of Black British cinema, experimental and avant-garde film, and the politics of the diaspora. -- Glyn Davis, University of St Andrews, UKThis is a timely and important book that traces the concerns and contexts of Akomfrah’s oeuvre from the early years of Black Audio Film Collective through to the Four Nocturnes commissioned for the the inaugural Ghana Freedom pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Through close readings and drawing from a wide range of sources this book explains Akomfrah’s central role as a commanding film maker of his generation in Britain. Harvey’s own theoretical fluency deciphers and explores Akomfrah’s preoccupations with iconicity, gesture, memory and montage, siting him finally as a neo expressionist for our epoch. -- Rachel Garfield, The Royal College of Art, London, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Positioning John Akomfrah 1.The Ghosts of Other Stories: Thatcherism and Postcolonial Britain 2.Black Stars: From Racial Iconicity to Black Atlantic Collectivity 3.Memory-images: Catharsis, Embodiment and the Aesthetics of Remembrance 4.Why They Come: Migration Films in the Age of ‘Refugee Crisis’ 5.Changing Site, Changing Sight: The Spatial Turn 6.Water, Earth, Elephants: The Human Destruction Trilogy as Political Ecology 7.‘Staking Claims on the Real’: An Interview with John Akomfrah Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA book about blood homicide in Bedouin and rural Arab society in Israel.Trade Review"The case studies are interesting and illuminating. They add an important empirical dimension to the general theoretical discussion of conflict resolution." -- Middle Eastern Studies

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Book SynopsisFrom 1940 to 1945 the Channel Islands were the only part of Britain to fall under German Occupation. During that period, local courts continued to function and to apply Island law. Lawyers, judges and government officials in Jersey and Guernsey continued to swear oaths of allegiance to the British Crown. But German anti-Semitic laws and other measures were introduced and became part of the legal system. This book examines the ways in which officials co-operated in the implementation of legal measures against the Islands' Jewish community and their property. Resident Jews were registered by Island authorities and lists of Jewish property were compiled and submitted to the Germans by local lawyers and bureaucrats. Jews were banned from employment and from appearing in public. Businesses were "Aryanised". Wireless sets were confiscated because their owners were Jewish, and many residents were deported. Based on a thorough review of Island archival material and previously unknown evidence, this book offers the first jurisprudential and legal analysis of the moral and legal failures of law and lawyers to combat the Holocaust and Nazi legality on British soil.

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Book SynopsisSingapore Malays subscribe to mostly traditional rather than modern interpretations of Islam. Singapore state officials, however, wish to curb the challenges such interpretations bring to the country's political, social, educational and economic domains. Thus, these officials launched a programme to socially engineer modern Muslim identities amongst Singapore Malays in 2003, which is ongoing. Negotiating Muslim Identities documents a variety of ethnographic encounters that point to the power struggles surrounding two basic and very different ways of living. While the Singapore state has gained some successes for its project, it has also faced significant and multiple setbacks. Amongst them, state officials have had to contend with traditional Islamic authority that Malay elders carry and who cannot be ignored because these elders are time-entrenched authority figures in their community. One of the book's significant contributions is that it documents how Singapore, an avowedly secular state, has now turned to Islam as a tool for governance. Just as significant are the insights the study provides on another aspect of Singapore state governance, one usually described as 'authoritarian'. The book demonstrates that even 'authoritarian' states can face serious obstacles in the face of religion's influence over its followers. The academic literature on Singapore Malays is sparse: this work not only fills gaps in the existing academic literature but provides new and original research data. Its data-rich ethnographic and anthropological approach show the complexities of Malay and Muslim social contexts, and complements other works that examine Southeast Asian states ' management of Islam, which has attracted much scholarship given the global interest in Islam-based politics and social organisation.

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Book SynopsisThe stark reality of all life, from the biology of the food chain incorporating all living beings to the social stratification and hierarchies of human cultures, revolves around violence -- physical or psychological. That unavoidable, black-and-white, worldview of survival of the fittest with little if any grey to mitigate it is coloured only by the red lifeblood of the victims of the bigger, the stronger, the smarter, the wilier, who literally and/or figuratively 'eat' their victims -- overcoming, overwhelming, controlling, oppressing them. The premise behind the book focuses on the representation of the visual and literary artistic products of a group of seemingly alike yet divergent societies, with linguistic and cultural ties that reflect those societies' means of control. These representations socialise viewers and/or readers in personal or public situations, establishing ubiquitous hierarchies. French social anthropologist/literary critic/theorist René Girard maintains in Violence and the Sacred that 'the oldest means of social control is . . . violence.' While the incorporated violence itself is not the overweening theme of this work, the representation or threat of violence functions in reality in terms that imply its consequences to the viewer or reader. These consequences are discussed in terms of control-directed violence based on gender roles and politics, socio-cultural power, and environmental issues or eco-violence. The underlying message is that of the necessity to behave according to imposed norms, stated or implied, or suffer those consequences -- convincing leitmotif in works by Spanish, Hispanic American and Latino visual artists and writers in the Spanish language over the ages.

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Book SynopsisThe Insurrection mounted by the Sendero Luminoso or ‘Shining Path’ guerrilla movement, sparked one of the most vicious civil wars in recent Latin American history, in which an estimated 69,000 people lost their lives. A high proportion of the victims comprised rural people from Peru’s Andean mountains. Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru’s Northern Highlands examines the origins and trajectory of the conflict in the Cajabamba-Huamachuco region, located in the country’s northern sierra, a hitherto ignored theatre of conflict in Peru’s recent civil war. Central to the book is the changing relations between guerrilla fighters and the rural population. How, and to what extent, did the Shining Path succeed in building popular support? What tensions arose between the rebels and the civilians? The book also surveys the literature on Shining Path dealing with the Ayacucho and other departments, comparing and contrasting developments elsewhere in the north. Taylor traces the area’s recent agrarian history, assessing the impact of land reform and the emergence of radical peasant organizations in the decade preceding the initiation of armed activity. Using interview data and reports drafted by the security forces, Taylor reveals the the state responses to this violent and bloody insurrection. Expertly written and extremely accessible, Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru’s Northern Highlands provides a comprehensive analysis of a tragically ignored chapter in Peru’s civil war.Trade ReviewI found Shining Path excellent, I love the historical sweep of things….By giving us the story of northern Peru, Taylor has added a whole other dimension and level of understanding to what we know about the violence….Beautifully written, authoritative, and persuasive all along the way. Orin StarnTaylor's book is an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the Shining Path. Taylor seamlessly integrates his insights about the characteristics of the Shining Path's trajectory that are specific to the northern highlands with the nature of the movement as a whole. Based on both decades of research in the northern highlands and a thoughtful review of many studies of the insurgency, this jargon-free, lucid and compelling work provides both an excellent introduction to the Shining Path for students and the general public, and important new insights for specialists.National Period... Taylor's book is a must read for those interested in the Shining Path and its historiography. It is also an important work for those interested in Peruvian political, peasant struggles, and the micro and macro processes of revolution. American Historical ReviewThis book is suffused with a deep understanding of the roots of guerrilla insurgency. It is clear, articulate, fluent, confident The narrative is lively, the analysis subtle and sophisticated. It is a pleasure to read and should have the widest possible readership.Development and Change

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Book SynopsisThe vision of the South American rainforest as a wilderness of rank decay, poisonous insects, and bloodthirsty ‘savages’ in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book offers a new reading of the genre by arguing that, far from being derivative, the novela de la selva re-imagined the tropics from a Latin American perspective, redefining tropical landscape aesthetics and ethnography through parodic rewritings of European perceptions of Amazonia in fictional and factual travel writing. With particular reference to the four emblematic novels of the genre – W. H. Hudson’s Green Mansions [1904], José Eustasio Rivera’s La vorágine [1924], Rómulo Gallegos’s Canaima [1935], and Alejo Carpentier’s Los pasos perdidos [1953] – the book explores how writers throughout post-independence Latin America turned to the jungle as a locus for the contestation of both national and literary identity, harnessing the superabundant tropical vegetation and native myths and customs to forge a descriptive vocabulary which emphatically departed from the reductive categories of European travel writing. Despite being one of the most significant examples of postcolonial literature to emerge from Latin America in the twentieth century, the novela de la selva has, to date, received little critical attention: this book returns a seminal genre of Latin American literature to the centre of contemporary debates about postcolonial identity, travel writing, and imperial landscape aesthetics.Trade ReviewWylie’s careful readings of these novelas alongside their many literary precursors and intertexts – from Columbus’s Diarios to early twentieth-century tropical medicine treatises from Spanish America – form a rich historical guide with which to study how these four writers problematise notions of reading and writing from within the postcolonial Latin American nation. * Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 30, No. 4 *Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Colonial Trophes and Postcolonial Tricks 2. Tropical Nature and Landscape Aesthetics 3. Salvaging the Savage 4. Paradise Lost: Wilderness and the Limits of Western Escapism 5. Jungle Fever: Degeneration as a Trop[olog]ical Disease Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates shortcomings in Western feminist conceptualizations, and shows how insights from African feminist thinking may enhance understandings of gender, both in and beyond Africa. Winner of the 2012 gender research award KRAKA-prisen. This book is about gender politics in Mozambique over three decades from 1975 to 2005. The book is also about different ways of understanding gender and sexuality. Gender policies from Portuguese colonialism, through Frelimo socialism to later neo-liberal economic regimes share certain basic assumptions about men, women and gender relations. But to what extent do such assumptions fit the ways in which rural Mozambican men and women see themselves? A major line of argument in the book is that gender relations should be investigated, not assumed, and that policies not matching people's lives are not likely to succeed. The empirical data, on which the argument is based, are first a unique body of data material collected 1982-1984 by the national women's organization, the OMM [when the author was employed as a sociologist in the organization] and secondly data resulting from more recent fieldwork in northern Mozambique. Importantly inspired by African post-colonial feminist lines of thinking, the book engages in a project of re-mapping and re-interpreting 'cultureand tradition'. In this context, the book investigates in particular matriliny [c. 40% of Mozambique's population live under conditions of matriliny] and female initiation. The findings open new avenues for gender politics, and for re-thinking sexuality and gender - in Africa and beyond. Signe Arnfred is Associate Professor, Dept of Society & Globalization, and Centre for Gender, Power & Diversity, Roskilde UniversityTrade ReviewA fascinating and important book [and] a powerful and moving contribution to the debates around how to improve African women's lives and, hence, men's as well. It would make an effective teaching tool, and, for its sometimes combative turn of phrase among its other writing strengths, is plain enjoyable to read. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *A unique and immensely valuable anthropological and historical study [that] should be considered vital to discussions both of the modern history of Mozambique and of gender politics in southern Africa and beyond. * LUCAS BULLETIN *The book is impressive on many fronts. To name two: as a narrative tracing changes in her thinking on gender in Africa over the years, it is a stellar example of a working scholar's self-reflexivity; and instructors seeking to introduce students to the complex, ongoing and productive debate concerning the efficacy of feminist theory in the African context will find the book very useful. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES *Makes a welcome contribution to Mozambican studies and will also interest feminists, especially those unfamiliar with the works of African feminist scholars. * MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I Conceptions of Gender and Gender Politics in Mozambique Women in Mozambique: Gender Struggle and Gender Politics, 1988 Notes on Gender and Modernization. Examples from Mozambique, 1990 Family Forms and Gender Policy in Mozambique, 1990 Simone de Beauvoir in Africa: Woman - The Second Sex?: Issues of African Feminist Thought, 2001 Conceptions of Gender in Colonial and Post-colonial Discourses, 2004 Part II Night of the Women, Day of the Men: Meanings and Interpretations of Female Initiation Feminism and Gendered Bodies: On Female Inititation in Northern Mozambique, 2008 Moonlight and Mato: Initiation Rituals in Ribáuè, 2000 Wineliwa - the Creation of Women: Initiation Rituals during Frelimo's Abaixo Politics, 1990 Female Initiation and the Coloniality of Gender, 2010 Situational Gender and Subversive Sex? African Contributions to Feminist Theorizing, 2008 Part III Implications of Matriliny in Northern Mozambique Male Mythologies: An Inquiry into Assumptions of Feminism and Anthropology, 2006-2007 Ancestral Spirits, Land and Food: Gendered Power and Land Tenure in Ribáuè, 2001 Sex, Food and Female Power: On Women's Lives in Ribáuè, 2006-2007 Tufo Dancing: Muslim Women's Culture in Ilha de Moçambique, 2004 Epilogue

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Book SynopsisExamines how the lives of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are deeply affected by the creation of mutually exclusive ethnic territories and proposes ways to reverse this trend. Focuses on pastoralism, politics, policies and development in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. It is based on anthropological field research over a period of thirty-four years and attempts a synthesis of historical findingsand political anthropology, including studies carried out from a perspective of development intervention. Presenting a detailed ethnographic view of recent events of ethnic violence in Kenya, the authors analyse how local patterns of conflict among pastoralists were influenced by both national and regional politics, which have encouraged an increased tendency of territorialized ethnicity. The authors then discuss ways of getting out of the ethnic trap and revitalizing a mobile livestock economy in a region where other forms of land use are impossible or much less effective. A companion volume to Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia, it will be of particular interest to political anthropologists, students of nomadism, pastoral economy ecology, and globalization. Günther Schlee is director of the Department of 'Integration and Conflict', Max Planck Institute forSocial Anthropology, Halle, Germany; Abdullahi Shongolo is an independent scholar based in Kenya.Trade ReviewA rich and fascinating look at the complex matrix of clan alliances and conflicts within and between pastoral societies in the context of local and national politics. * NOMADIC PEOPLES *The best reference book for political scientists, historians and administrators who seek to understand the critical issues driving conflict and impeding development in any interethnic pastoralist community in East Africa. * AETHIOPICA *Has profound implications for understanding 'tribalism' in Kenyan politics [and provides] invaluable insight into the regional context, as well as useful analyses for those researching ethnic conflict and policy implications in other parts of the world. * LUCAS BULLETIN *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Günther Schlee Moi Era Politics, Transnational Relations & the Territorialization of Ethnicity - Abdullahi A. Shongolo and Günther Schlee The Post-Moi Period (2002-2007) - Günther Schlee and Abdullahi A. Shongolo Feedbacks & Cross-fertilizations: the 'Declaration of Indigenous Communities of Mylae District' - Günther Schlee Some Comparative Perspectives, Conclusions & Recommendations - Günther Schlee

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates shortcomings in Western feminist conceptualizations, and shows how insights from African feminist thinking may enhance understandings of gender, both in and beyond Africa. Winner of the 2012 gender research award KRAKA-prisen. This book is about gender politics in Mozambique over three decades from 1975 to 2005. The book is also about different ways of understanding gender and sexuality. Gender policies from Portuguese colonialism, through Frelimo socialism to later neo-liberal economic regimes share certain basic assumptions about men, women and gender relations. But to what extent do such assumptions fit the ways in which rural Mozambican men and women see themselves? A major line of argument in the book is that gender relations should be investigated, not assumed, and that policies not matching people's lives are not likely to succeed. The empirical data, on which the argument is based, are first a unique body of data material collected 1982-1984 by the national women's organization, the OMM [when the author was employed as a sociologist in the organization] andsecondly data resulting from more recent fieldwork in northern Mozambique. Importantly inspired by African post-colonial feminist lines of thinking, the book engages in a project of re-mapping and re-interpreting 'culture andtradition'. In this context, the book investigates in particular matriliny [c. 40 per cent of Mozambique's population live under conditions of matriliny] and female initiation. The findings open new avenues for gender politics, and for rethinking sexuality and gender - in Africa and beyond. Signe Arnfred is Associate Professor, Dept of Society & Globalization, and Centre for Gender, Power & Diversity, Roskilde UniversityTrade ReviewA fascinating and important book [and] a powerful and moving contribution to the debates around how to improve African women's lives and, hence, men's as well. It would make an effective teaching tool, and, for its sometimes combative turn of phrase among its other writing strengths, is plain enjoyable to read. * AFRICAN AFFAIRS *A unique and immensely valuable anthropological and historical study [that] should be considered vital to discussions both of the modern history of Mozambique and of gender politics in southern Africa and beyond. * LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN *The book is impressive on many fronts. To name two: as a narrative tracing changes in her thinking on gender in Africa over the years, it is a stellar example of a working scholar's self-reflexivity; and instructors seeking to introduce students to the complex, ongoing and productive debate concerning the efficacy of feminist theory in the African context will find the book very useful. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES *Makes a welcome contribution to Mozambican studies and will also interest feminists, especially those unfamiliar with the works of African feminist scholars. * MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I Conceptions of Gender and Gender Politics in Mozambique Women in Mozambique: Gender Struggle and Gender Politics, 1988 Notes on Gender and Modernization. Examples from Mozambique, 1990 Family Forms and Gender Policy in Mozambique, 1990 Simone de Beauvoir in Africa: Woman - The Second Sex?: Issues of African Feminist Thought, 2001 Conceptions of Gender in Colonial and Post-colonial Discourses, 2004 Part II Night of the Women, Day of the Men: Meanings and Interpretations of Female Initiation Feminism and Gendered Bodies: On Female Inititation in Northern Mozambique, 2008 Moonlight and Mato: Initiation Rituals in Ribáuè, 2000 Wineliwa - the Creation of Women: Initiation Rituals during Frelimo's Abaixo Politics, 1990 Female Initiation and the Coloniality of Gender, 2010 Situational Gender and Subversive Sex? African Contributions to Feminist Theorizing, 2008 Part III Implications of Matriliny in Northern Mozambique Male Mythologies: An Inquiry into Assumptions of Feminism and Anthropology, 2006-2007 Ancestral Spirits, Land and Food: Gendered Power and Land Tenure in Ribáuè, 2001 Sex, Food and Female Power: On Women's Lives in Ribáuè, 2006-2007 Tufo Dancing: Muslim Women's Culture in Ilha de Moçambique, 2004 Epilogue

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Book SynopsisA comparative, whole-of-society approach to the Boko Haram insurgency that offers a more nuanced understanding of the risks, resilience and resolution of violent radicalization in Nigeria and beyond. It is now more than a decade since the violent Islamic group Boko Haram launched its reign of terror across northern Nigeria, claiming more than 27,000 lives and displacing over 2 million people. While its territorial gains have largely been recaptured, the insurgency rages on, devastating communities across vast stretches of the north-east and disrupting governance, livelihoods and food security, as well as posing a security risk to Niger, Chad and Cameroon. Less attention is paid to the pervasive popular rejection of violent extremism on the ground. How did a diverse and economically dynamic West African society unravel so violently, and for so long? Why does radicalizationhave so little influence on large Muslim populations in surrounding areas, such as the Yoruba in south-western Nigeria, or the poor ethnically similar Muslim majority in central Niger just north of the border? This book looks beyond the details of the insurgency to examine the wider social and political processes that explain why Boko Haram emerged when and where it did, and what forces exist within society to contain it. Drawing on the detailed fieldworkof specialist Nigerian and Nigerianist scholars from Nigeria, connecting the worst of Boko Haram violence to the wider realities of the present, the book offers new insights into the drivers of Islamic extremism in Nigeria - poverty, regional inequality, environmental stress, migration, youth unemployment, and state corruption and human rights abuses - with a view to charting more sustainable paths out of the conflict. Nigeria: Premium Times BooksTrade ReviewAmongst the many books that have been written on the history, evolution and the Islamic radicalisation characteristics of Boko Haram, this one, given its ground breaking methodology of engaging with communities and the Ulamas in Borno state, stands head and shoulders above most of the others. It occupies a strong position in the genre of well-researched policy papers, and its academic rigour is sufficiently robust to have propelled it towards publication in book form. * ACCORD *[T]he book is undoubtedly well-researched, well-written, and a valuable addition to Nigeria Studies bookshelves. * African Studies Quarterly *Table of ContentsForeword by Muhammad Sanusi II, CON, Sarkin Kano Introduction: Faith, Society & Boko Haram - Kate Meagher and Abdul Raufu Mustapha I: THE MACRO-SOCIAL CONTEXT The Roles of the Ulama in Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization - M. Sani Umar Why in Borno?: The History, Geography & Sociology of Islamic Radicalization - Abubakar Kawu Monguno and Ibrahim Umara "Boko Halal": Limits to Radicalization in Southern Niger Republic - Abdourahmane Idrissa The Effects of Security Measures on Youth Radicalization - Julie G. Sanda II: MICRO-SOCIAL RELATIONS Pathways to Radicalization: Learning from Boko Haram Life Histories - M. Sani Umar and David Ehrhardt Gender Norms and Women's Participation in Radicalization in Northern Nigeria - Zainab Usman and Sherine El Taraboulsi and Khadija Gambo Hawaja An Inquiry into Possible Factors Contributing to Radicalization in Childhood and Youth in Northern Nigeria - Murray Last Informalization & its Discontents: The Informal Economy & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria - Kate Meagher Informalization & its Discontents: The Informal Economy & Islamic Radicalization in Northern Nigeria - Ibrahim Haruna Hassan III. SEEKING A WAY FORWARD Endgames: The Evolution of Boko Haram in Comparative Perspective - David Ehrhardt and M. Sani Umar Conclusion:Toward a whole-of-society approach to counter-radicalization (by all contributors)

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Book SynopsisSardar travels to Asian communities throughout the UK to tell the history of Asians in Britain - from the arrival of the first Indian in 1614, to the young extremists in Walthamstow mosque in 2006. He interweaves throughout an illuminating account of his own life, describing his carefree childhood in Pakistan, his family's emigration to racist 1950s Britain, and his adulthood straddling two cultures. Along the way he asks: are arranged marriages a good thing? Does the term 'Asian' obscure more than it conveys? Do vindaloo and balti actually exist? And is multiculturalism an impossible dream?Trade Review'Energetic and accessible, Balti Britain is a powerful evocation of both the profundity and the myopia of the relationship between South Asia and Albion' Independent 'An erudite and entertaining book and it is its core contention that resonates profoundly: that Asians are not newcomers to Britain or foreigners to be accommodated and tolerated. Rather, the histories of Britain and the subcontinent are so intertwined through the experience of Empire and colonialism that British Asians are in fact direct products of this centuries-old encounter' The Times 'Sardar's engrossing, provocative book takes him and his readers on a journey - sometimes personal, always political - In the process, it reveals what he believes is the concealed history of the long relationship between Britain and India, Pakistan and Bangladesh' Metro 'An ambitious and provocative book that deserves to be read as the first draft of the history of Asians in Britain today' Observer "Deftly spiced and meaty concoctions that leave a largely positive taste in the mouth' Independent Biography and Memoirs Christmas Round Up. 'The great achievement of this book is to bring this is to bring this remarkable history to life with a novelist's sense of character - [A] clear-headed examination of multicultural Britain' Financial Times

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Book SynopsisIn the context of renewed debates about diversity and cohesion, this book interrogates contemporary claims about race and migration. It demonstrates that many of the claims are myths, presenting evidence in support of and in opposition to them in an accessible yet academically rigorous manner. The book combines an easy-to-read overview of the subject with innovative new research. It tackles head-on questions about levels of immigration, the contribution of immigrants, minority self-segregation, ghettoisation and the future diversity of the population. The authors argue that the myths of race and migration are the real threat to an integrated society and recommend that focus should return to problems of inequality and prejudice.Trade Review"..a very accessible, easy-to-read counter-argument to the many ill-informed headline-grabbing race and immigration 'factoids'..." Joy Thompson, LariaNews 'sleepwalking to segregation'? is a valuable tool, which combats the untruths and misinformation that pervade current policies on 'race relations' and race.' - Jon Burnett in Race & Class"Very useful for those researching multicultural Britain...[providing] myth-breaking that is urgent and necessary in challenging the current climate" Sociological Imagination"Nissa Finney and Ludi Simpson have produced an authoritative guide to evidence on immigration and segregation, in plain language. This book will help journalists and politicians to treat these issues with the seriousness they deserve, and hesitate before making alarmist claims that have no basis in fact." Jon Cruddas, MP"In an area where unwarranted generalisations and myths are all too common, and derive their plausibility from the current climate of moral panic, this well-researched and carefully argued book represents a welcome contribution. Based on a consistent line of thought, it should do much to improve the quality of public discourse on this vexed subject. It might provoke disagreement from time to time, and that reinforces its value." Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Westminster"If you want to know what has really been happening in Britain in terms of ethnic segregation, how many ghettos exist, or whether immigration is a threat to social solidarity, this is the book to read." Danny Dorling, Professor of Human Geography, University of Sheffield"An accessible and authoritative book which is much needed and hits the spot admirably." Chris Gaine, Professor of Applied Social Policy, University of ChichesterTable of ContentsIntroduction; Making sense of race statistics; Challenging the myth that "Britain takes too many immigrants"; Challenging the myth that "so many minorities can't be integrated"; Challenging the myth that "minorities don't want to integrate"; Challenging the myth that "Britain is becoming a country of ghettos"; Challenging the myth of "minority white cities"; Conclusion; Myths and counterarguments: a quick reference summary.

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Book Synopsis'Welcome. Welcome to Bristol in 1963. Welcome to Waterloo Bridge in 2016. Welcome to a house in May 2017. Welcome to three couples and what might be, what once was and what could have been in 2017. Welcome to a West Indian household in 2018. Welcome to London in 2018. Welcome to the past, present and – crucially – the future.' This anthology brings together six plays, all written or performed since 2017, by six brilliant Black British writers – Travis Alabanza, Firdos Ali, Natasha Gordon, Arinzé Kene, Chinonyerem Odimba and debbie tucker green. The plays demonstrate a rich range of settings, forms, styles, locations, scales, contents and concerns – and explore themes including politics and protest, grief and colonisation, relationships and gender. They have been seen on stages including the National Theatre, the Royal Court, the Bush and Bristol Old Vic, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in the West End, and on tour of the UK. Selected and introduced by leading theatre director Natalie Ibu, Contemporary Plays by Black British Writers celebrates a multiplicity of stories authored by Black playwrights in the UK over the last decade.Trade Review'A must... includes lots of things to work with for classes in KS3, 4 and 5... as Natalie Ibu says in her Introduction, it's impossible to create a collection of six plays that fully covers what Black British writers have to offer, but this is an excellent place to begin' * Drama & Theatre *'A fascinating insight into sexual identity, cultural differences, and shared experiences... I would recommend this book to a wide audience... it's an anthology that does not disappoint' * Word Matters (Journal of the Society of Teachers of Speech and Drama) *

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Book SynopsisAs a consequence of various rounds of EU enlargements, the degree of cultural diversity in Europe has intensified - a phenomenon which is increasingly perceived as problematic by many EU citizens. This fascinating book not only empirically explores the current state of the identity and the legitimacy of the EU as viewed by its citizens, but also evaluates their attitudes towards it. The expert contributors show that the development of a European identity and a common European culture is a prerequisite for European integration; that European identity and a common political culture will not develop rapidly but emerge slowly, and that the beginnings of a European identity and a common European culture are currently emerging. The roles of civil society organizations and political parties are examined within this context, and an explanatory model with subjective predictors of the attitudes towards the EU is tested. The empirical analysis is underpinned by a theoretical framework incorporating operational definitions and conceptual discussion of legitimacy and identity. This intriguing and thought-provoking book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students focusing on political science and international relations.Trade Review‘This book is an overall good quality addition to the library of any EU researcher. Its well defined focus does not in any way reduce the relevance of its conclusions. Ultimately, its original empirical findings, its impressive display of quantitative methodology and its contribution to integration and diversity literature will be advantageous in respect of almost any EU-related argument, not to mention a good starting point for future research.’ -- Journal of Contemporary European ResearchTable of ContentsContents: Preface and introduction Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Dieter Fuchs PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 1. Cultural Diversity, European Identity and Legitimacy of the EU: A Review of the Debate Olivier Ruchet 2. Cultural Diversity, European Identity and Legitimacy of the EU: A Theoretical Framework Dieter Fuchs PART II: EUROPEAN IDENTITY, NATIONAL IDENTITY AND SUPPORT FOR THE EU 3. Support of the EU and European Identity: Some Descriptive Results Dieter Fuchs and Christian Schneider 4. Multiple Identities and Attitudes Towards Cultural Diversity in Europe: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis Andrea Schlenker-Fischer 5. National and European Identity: The Case of France Isabelle Guinaudeau PART III: ATTITUDE FORMATION TOWARDS THE EU 6. Deliberation and the Process of Identity Formation: Civil Society Organizations and Constitution Making in the EU Julia De Clerck-Sachsse 7. National Political Conflict and Identity Formation: The Diverse Nature of the Threat from the Extreme Left and Extreme Populist Right Simon Bornschier 8. Making the Polity: Exploring the Linkage between European Citizens’ and Political Elites’ Preference for European Union Public Policy Catherine E. de Vries and Christine Arnold 9. Explaining Support for European Integration: An Attitudinal Model Dieter Fuchs 10. Cultural Diversity, European Identity and Legitimacy of the EU: Summary and Discussion Dieter Fuchs, Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Andrea Schlenker-Fischer Index

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Book Synopsis150 Station Road, Wheeldon Mill - a short stride across the Chesterfield Canal in the heart of Derbyshire - was home to the Nash family and their corner shop, serving a small mining community with everything from Brasso to Dolly Blue, from cheap dress rings to Lemon Sherbets.However, this was no ordinary home and no ordinary family. Three generations were adopted - Lynn Knight's great grandfather, a fairground boy given away when his parents left for America in 1865, her great aunt, rescued from an Industrial School in 1909, and her mother, adopted in London as a baby and brought north in 1930. Their story spans centuries and the changing society of twentieth century Britain. But more than that it is a story of community and of love. Full of colour, light and life, Lemon Sherbet & Dolly Blue is a story of what it really means to be family.Trade ReviewA book to recommend with all one's heart... It's a book you want to hug at each turn of fortune... Knight tells her tale scintillatingly. * The Times *A warm, human and well-written book, a slice of social history which throws a strong light on personal experiences. * Hilary Mantel *A treasure trove... Lynn Knight's vivid evocation of people who started with nothing, but lived lives rich in generosity and love makes a fascinating and thought-provoking story * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation be- came so widespread in China. After the country's devastating defeat against Japan in 1895, leading reformers like Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei turned away from the Confucian classics to seek enlightenment abroad, hoping to find the keys to wealth and power on the distant shores of Europe. Instead, they discovered the notion of 'race', and used new evolutionary theories from Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer to present a universe red in tooth and claw in which 'yellows' competed with 'whites' in a deadly struggle for survival. After the fall of the empire in 1911, prominent politicians and writers in republican China continued to measure, classify and rank people from around the world ac- cording to their supposed biological features, all in the name of science. Racial thinking remains popular in the People's Republic of China, as serologists, geneticists and anthropometrists continue to interpret human variation in terms of 'race'. This new edition has been revised and expanded to include a new chapter taking the reader up to the twenty-first century.Trade Review'In his brilliant book Dikotter explains how traditional notions about culturally inferior "barbarians" intermingled with Western forms of scientific racism to form a distinctively Chinese racial consciousness in the 20th century.' -- Forbes Magazine'[A] provocative ... groundbreaking work.' -- The New York Review of Books'Frank Dikötter's luminous study should be essential reading not just for sinologists but for historians interested in the construction of symbolic universes. Dikötter's study of the rise of Chinese racial thought also sheds much light upon the meanings of racialism in the West.' -- Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine'Frank Dikötter's important pioneering work establishes that ideas and perceptions of race in the "Middle Kingdom" have been no less ethnocentric than in Europe.' -- Times Literary Supplement'In The Discourse of Race in Modern China Dikötter shatters conventional notions about China's being relatively free of racism.' -- International Herald Tribune'Careful and dispassionate … provides a comprehensive and stimulating interpretative framework throughout, firmly grounded in attention to detail and a sensitivity to Chinese ideas and nuances of language. A major contribution in the field of modern Chinese history.' -- Asian Affairs'The subject is of premier importance, but it has been in effect suppressed, owing to a combination of timidity, embarrassment, and political unfashionability. But the discourse to which Dikötter refers is there, is very basic to the literature, and absolutely demands serious and dispassionate study. This is what Dikötter provides, in a work drawn along by the powerful logic of the author's argument, and by the distinctiveness and coherence of his conceptual approach.' -- William T. Rowe, Johns Hopkins University'This book is a fascinating study of a topic that is both extremely important and highly sensitive: how the Chinese have viewed other ethnic groups across time. The issue of racial differences constitutes a highly masked and oblique discourse in modern China. This is the first book to analyse that shielded rhetoric directly.' -- Frederic Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley'Dr Dikötter offers us a pioneering study in an important field. ... His book should be of interest to all who are concern about the misuse of the idea of race.' -- Michael Banton, University of BristolAnyone interested in Chinese perceptions of themselves, or in theoretical issues of race in general, should read this book. It has a wealth of detail and one can only hope that it stimulates other studies of non-Western racism.' -- Grant Evans, Far Eastern Economic Review'This book belongs to a very small minority of academic books on China in that it relates things worth knowing and continues, page after page, to provide intellectual stimulus.' -- W. J. F. Jenner, Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs'Unusually well written, succinct, to the point. ... The book is poised to become a classic on its topic.' -- Flemming Christiansen, Journal of Communist Studies'This short, powerful, luminous book, a model of taut argument and relentless logic, draws on a formidable breadth of scholarship. Dikötter has apparently read everything in every language in every sort of publication in every relevant field, and uses it with masterly selectivity. His writing style is concise, elegant and dense, lit by flashes of dry humour.' -- Gregor Benton, SOAS Bulletin'While it is impressively based on a wide range of Chinese writings skilfully translated, it has entailed considerable research in the fields of anthropology, sociology, genetics and education methods. ... His book is a rewarding one which will throw indirect light on many problems of interest to historians.' -- English Historical Review'Concise and briskly written ... Frank Dikötter has written a book about a highly sensitive -- indeed, potentially explosive -- subject. His handling of this subject, while sacrificing nothing in the way of candor, is fair and even-handed.' -- Paul Cohen, Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient'Dikötter's study of the discourse of race in modern China is a brilliant pioneering work of an important and neglected topic.' -- G.E.R. Lloyd, Discourse and Theory'A stimulating, insightful, and well-researched study of an important topic.' -- C. Montgomery Broaded, Contemporary Sociology'A pioneering and, in many ways, courageous work.' -- Ethnic and Racial Studies'Dikötter has read a great swath of material, highbrow and popular ... and has distilled it intelligently into a book that broadly curious historians of medicine will find enlightening and useful.' -- Nathan Sivin, Social History of Medicine'Extremely well researched with an objectivity, one might say almost detached or dispassionate presentation, that is necessary for such a sensitive topic.' -- Ruth Meserve, Journal of Asian History'A thoughtful and original book.' -- Stephan Feuchtwang, Anthropology Today'The book is a highly scholarly study, documented with extreme care and reference to an enormous range of sources in a variety of languages ... written in a clear and crisp style.' -- Asian Studies Review

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Book SynopsisThe Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years. In Turkey, where the Kurdish question is an issue of national significance, and in Iraq, where the gains made by the Kurdistan Regional Government have allowed it impose its authority, moves are afoot to solve 'the Kurdish Question' once and for all. In Syria, where the Kurds have borne the brunt of the Islamic State's onslaught as they defended their three self-declared cantons of Afrin, Kobane, and Cezire, and in Iran, where they struggle to express their cultural distinctive--ness and suffer disproportionately at the hands of the Islamic Republic's security and intelligence services, the pictures is less positive. Yet the situ--ations in both countries remain in flux, affected by developments in Iraq and Turkey in a manner that suggests we may have to revise the notion of the Kurds being forever divided by the bounda--ries of the Middle East's political geography and subsumed into the state projects of other nations. The contributors to The Kurdish Question Revisited offer insights into how this once seemingly intractable, immutable phenomenon is be--ing transformed amid the new political realities of the Middle East.Trade Review'A timely and wide-ranging work on aspects of Kurdish history, identity and culture, placed in the context of wider developments affecting the politics of the Middle East. The contributions are by leading specialists in the field. This is a major contribution to Kurdish and Middle Eastern Studies.' -- Philip Kreyenbroek, Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies, Georg-August University Göttingen'This volume will become a standard reference for all matters Kurdish and the definitive item in any research collection on the Middle East. A vital tool for students, scholars, and practitioners to understand the changing dynamics that have swept the region in recent years.' -- Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, Baker Institute Fellow for the Middle East, Rice University, and author of 'The First World War in the Middle East''A valuable addition to a critical debate. In an era when Middle East borders are fluid and changing this collection of essays shed an crucial light on a topic of enormous importance to the future stability and security of the region and the wider world. A vital read for scholars and policy makers alike.' -- Ali Ansari, Professor of Iranian History and author of 'Iran: A Very Short Introduction''A comprehensive guide to Kurdish questions, past and present. Established and emergent authorities provide a dazzling display of virtuoso contributions. The future of Kurdish studies in English starts here.' -- Brendan O’Leary, Lauder Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania'The Middle East has dramatically changed during the last few years due to the (mostly failed) Arab Springs, but also due to the new landscape of the Kurdish question. This important book offers an invaluable contribution to our understanding of these changes. Identity, gender, transnational, and national politics in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria are put in historical perspectives through chapters written by the leading scholars in Kurdish studies.' -- Gilles Dorronsoro, Professor of Political Science, Sorbonne University

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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a Pakistani? Can it mean more than one thing? And what do others think it means? Ziauddin Sardar explores what makes a Pakistani, and whether it's something one wants or ought to be. Reflecting on his culture and heritage through tales of the Pakistanis in his life, A Person of Pakistani Origins is a whirlwind tour of duelling poets, Bollywood films, a bookish auntie who harbours feminist urges, and a vanishing uncle who reappears miles away. Thoughtful and generously laced with humour, this book delves deep into Pakistan's eclectic culture, and the humble insanity of everyday life for a person of Pakistani origins. Sardar richly celebrates the importance of where we come from, and of who we become.Trade Review'An adroit genealogical inquiry, a wise meditation on the confusions and compulsions that make up an individual . . . Sardar’s captivating narrative constitutes a rebellion against the geographical truth of a country created by dissection.''This is a British cultural critic's impassioned reflection on identity, his own and Pakistan's, against the backdrop of the country's tumultuous 71-year-old history.''In the twenty-first century, migration, faith, and identity are disrupting nations and dividing peoples around the globe. Ziauddin Sardar uses his own life to understand and illustrate the complexities and profundities of these forces with unbearable lightness and also emotion, honesty, beauty and wit. Sardar’s birthplace, Pakistan, causes him much aggravation, but the nation’s heartbeat echoes his own, and he is made by its long civilisation. And still deeply affected by its story. He is cosmopolitan and thoroughly grounded. This wonderful book balances the two sides with panache and integrity. It’s the way we must all learn to live.' -- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author of 'Exotic England: The Making of a Curious Nation''Ziauddin Sardar’s journey is emblematic for our age of tragically hardening borders. A compassionately critical thinker about faith and nationality, Sardar was born in Pakistan and made his life in London, becoming an acclaimed scholar and writer. He reminds us that we now live in a world in which passports, visas and identities can be switched in a single second from "Exempted" to "Cancelled".' -- Ruth Padel, Professor of Poetry at King’s College London, author of 'On Migration', 'Tigers in Red Weather' and 'Emerald''Where so often Pakistan and Pakistanis are presented in a one-dimensional way through the prism of the latest crisis or bad news story, A Person of Pakistani Origins provides a complex, inter-generational, humorous, and deeply personal account of the many ways to be a British Pakistani.' -- Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, author of 'The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim Britain'

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Book SynopsisThis Companion provides an authoritative overview of how cultural diversity is managed in Asia. Although the Asian context appears at first sight to be irreconcilably divergent in terms of diversity management approaches, the contributing authors seek to explore thematic and geographical demarcations of the notions of cultural diversity and equality at work.Managing Cultural Diversity in Asia not only examines cultural diversity management in a particular geography but also makes a distinct contribution to the wider theory of managing diversity and equality by revealing the significance of context, time and place in framing policies and practices of management. With empirical and conceptual contributions from eminent scholars from across the Asian continent as well as the Asian diaspora, this volume highlights practices of equality and diversity management in settings across Asia and reveals the key drivers and implications of such practices.This important and path-breaking Companion will be an invaluable resource for both undergraduate and research-based postgraduate students on international and comparative human resource management, employment relations and industrial relations courses.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: Diversity Management Travels to Underexplored Territories Mustafa F. Özbilgin and Jawad Syed 2. Cultural Diversity Management in Malaysia: A Perspective of Communication Management Zulhamri Abdullah 3. Identity Salience, Occupational Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour in Multinational Teams: An Exploratory Study from the Turkish Context F. Pinar Acar 4. Religious Diversity in Lebanon: Lessons from a Small Country to the Global World Akram Al Ariss 5. Diverse Discretionary Effort in Workplace Networks: Serving Self Over Community in China Kurt April and Eon Smit 6. The Diversity Scenario in Pakistani Organizations Nailah Ayub and Karen Jehn 7. Diversity in Russia Moira Calveley and Graham Hollinshead 8. The Main Problems of Cultural Diversity Management in Turkish Companies which Operate in Central Asian Countries Beliz Dereli 9. Caste-based Quotas: India’s Reservation Policies Rana Haq 10. Intercultural Competencies Across Cultures: Same or Different? Charmine E.J. Härtel, Shannon Lloyd and Divya Singhal 11. When East Meets West: Managing Chinese Enterprise Relationships through Guanxi-based Diversity Management Charmine E.J. Härtel, Ruby M.M. Ma and Sharif As-Saber 12. A Comparison of the Japanese and South Korean Mindset: Similar but Different Management Approaches Yang-Im Lee 13. Confronting Discrimination through Affirmative Action in India: Playing the Right Music with the Wrong Instrument? Taran Patel 14. Demographic Profile of Economic Resources and Environment in South Asia Jalandhar Pradhan 15. Transplanting the Meritocracy in India: Creating a Shared Corporate Vision at the Local and Global Levels Nicholas P. Robinson and Prescott C. Ensign 16. Workforce Diversity in Iran: Some Case Study Evidence of Private Sector Organisations Ebrahim Soltani, Hugh Scullion and David Collings 17. Is Diversity Management Relevant for Turkey? Evaluation of Some Factors Leading to Diversity Management in the Context of Turkey Olca Sürgevil 18. Ethical and Cultural Aspects of Diversity and Unicity in the Arab Middle East: Managing Diverse Knowledge in a Culturally Unicist Environment David Weir 19. Diversity Management in Thailand Daungdauwn Youngsamart, Greg Fisher and Charmine E.J. Härtel 20. Islamic Civil Society and Social Capital in Turkey: The Gülen Community Ahmet Yükleyen 21. Asian and Other Immigrant Entrepreneurs in the United States Robert W. Fairlie 22. Nuzzling Nuances? Asian Diaspora in New Zealand Edwina Pio 23. Israel–Indian Teams in Israeli High-tech Organizations: A Diversity Perspective Ayala Malach-Pines and Nurit Zaidman Index

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Book SynopsisThis text reconstructs the history of the Sufi Naqshbandi brotherhood and its impact on the North Caucasus (Chechnya and Daghestan) in the early 19th century. It draws on Naqshbandi Arabic sources to explain the pivotal role of Sufism in transforming mountain society.Trade Review'What makes the study particularly novel contribution to the academic writing on the Caucasus is the fact that it focuses mainly on the Caucasian perspective towards the Russian expansion and the impact such expansion produced on the religious and political processes in the North Caucasus. [A...] Zelkina's nook is based on thorough and dedicated research, and provides extensive historical evidence to illustrate her argument. -Anna Matveeva, Islam and Christian-Muslim RelationsTable of ContentsGeneral description of the north Caucasus; Islam in Daghestan; the north Caucasus and foreign powers - the first stage of Russian expansion; the formation of the Naqshbandi Tariqa; the Naqshbandi ideas in Chechnya; the Naqshbandi Tariqa after the assassination of Hamza Bek; Shamil's Imamate.

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Book Synopsis"A Postcolonial People" is a lively, critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain that fills a conspicuous gap in the literature. This specially commissioned book combines conceptually innovative analysis with empirically rich studies to map out the diversity of the British Asian way of life. The migration and settlement of South Asians in large numbers in Britain is examined in the context of the postcolonial condition, in which boundaries between the West and Rest, centre and periphery, home and abroad are increasingly blurred. The contributors provide both fresh insights and vital information on the Asian British experience in its socio-economic, historical and cultural dimensions. The topics covered include: identity, the transformation of urban space, policing, healthcare, electoral politics, music, British Asian theatre and cinema.Trade Review'It clearly is a text which all students of immigration should read as a basic text.' * Professor John Rex, Journal of Punjab Studies *

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Book SynopsisThe subject of race, and exactly what this means, has become more important since 9-11 than ever before. Alana Lentin traces its development through political history right up to modern debates about ethnicity and xenophobia, and considers the implications of a ‘raceless’ and truly multicultural society. Thought-provoking and intelligent, this invaluable resource exposes the earliest roots of racist thought, and reveals how it has tenaciously remained a part of our everyday lives.

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Book SynopsisIssues of race and ethnicity in Europe have been brought to the fore by the recent electoral successes of extreme right-wing parties, while immigration and refugee policies are exposing deep uncertainties across the political spectrum. The politicization of 'race', ethnicity and immigration is a key feature of contemporary European society. In this important new volume, leading specialists explore the political mediation of racism across western Europe, examining its causes, character and consequences. Racism, Ethnicity and Politics in Contemporary Europe includes an overview of contemporary racism, investigations into its socio-economic and ideological roots, analyses of its role in party politics and studies of multilateral and non-governmental initiatives designed to promote anti-racism. The contributors provide case studies of Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Italy. They consider both the experience of racism in specific countries and common issues thrown up by the resurgence of racism at a time of profound socio-economic restructuring and political uncertainty. The rich insights offered by this book will be of interest to students and scholars active in many disciplines ranging from politics and sociology to discourse analysis and social psychology.Trade Review'. . . any student who is interested in the topic of making a study of the issue may well find much of value within its pages and so much food for thought.' -- Talking PoliticsTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Overview Part II: Contexts of Racism Part III: The Political Discourse of Racism Part IV: Public Policy Initiatives Part V: The Discourse of Anti-Racism and Citizenship Index

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Book SynopsisThe first in-depth yet accessible introduction to Galician history and culture for both lay and specialized readers. Of all the differentiated regions comprising contemporary Spain, Galicia is possibly the most deeply marked by political, economic and cultural inequities throughout the centuries. Possibly due to the absence of a nationally awarelocal bourgeoisie and the enduringly colonial structures informing Spanish-Galician economic and cultural relations, processes of national construction in the region have been patchily successful. However, Galicia's cultural distinctness is easily recognisable to the observer, from the language spoken in the region---the contemporary variant of old Galician-Portuguese---to the specific forms of the Galician built landscape, with its unique mixture of indigenous, imported and hybrid elements. The present volume offers English-language readers an in-depth introduction to the integral aspects of Galician cultural history, from pre-historical times to the present day. Whilst attention is given to the traditional areas of medieval culture, language, contemporary history and politics, the book also privileges compelling contemporary perspectives on cinema, architecture, the city of Santiago de Compostela and the urban qualities of Galician culture today. Helena Miguélez-Carballeira is a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Bangor University, and Director of the Centre for Galician Studies in Wales.Trade ReviewThis volume is especially welcome, as it offers an English language study of the culture of a region which has hitherto received little attention. . . . [S]hould also be of use both to undergraduates as well as research students gathering material for their dissertation . . . [and] to anyone with a general interest in Spanish cultural history. . . . * REFERENCE REVIEWS *Helena Miguélez-Carballeira further cements her status as a leading scholar in [Galician Studies]. A Companion to Galician Culture exemplifies the extent to which the field of cultural studies can expand our knowledge of Galicia. The contributors to this volume offer insightful comments on the history and place of Galician culture... and open up potentially productive lines of further study and investigation. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *Table of ContentsContributors Acknowledgements An Introduction to Galician Culture - Helena Miguélez-Carballeira Priests, Troubadours and Damsels: Galician Literature and Written Culture during the Middle Ages - Santiago Gutiérrez García Contemporary Galicia: From Agrarian Crisis to High-Speed Trains - Xosé Ramón Veiga Santiago de Compostela: Fact and Fetish - María Liñeira The Galician Language in the Twenty-First Century - Bernadette O'Rourke Bagpipes, Bouzoukis and Bodhráns: The Reinvention of Galician Folk Music - José Colmeiro Galician Architecture: From Foundations to Roof - Xurxo Ayán Vila Cinema in Galicia: Beyond an Interrupted History - Xan Gómez Viñas The Rural, Urban and Global Spaces of Galician Culture - María Reimóndez Rosalía de Castro: Life, Work and Afterlife - Helena Miguélez-Carballeira Contemporary Galician Politics: The End of a Cycle? - Noa Rios Bergantinhos Index

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Book SynopsisMaría Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody's muse. María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody's muse. Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Cartier boutique to request lifelike copies in a necklace? The story may be apocryphal, but it perfectly encapsulates her powerful, independent and unconventional persona. This book first examines Félix's life and work, reviewing her films and acting style and considering what they say about gender norms and a woman's place on screen. It then turns to her role as curator and benefactor, exploring how art, literature and song sustained her image. It concludes by exploring the persistent interest in her life story and evaluating her significance for contemporary audiences.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: María Félix: The Legacies of a Mexican Film Star 1. Screen Icon, Stardom, and the Invention of La Doña 2. Movement, Performance, and Gesture: The Arch of the Brow and The Slap 3. The Star as Archetype: Extending the Range of the Mujer sin Alma 4. María Félix as Iconic Inspiration, Benefactor, Co-Creator, and Agent 5. Transformation, Remediation, and Fandom: From Print to Digital Conclusion: Félix's Work, Afterlife, and Legacy Filmography Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGrounded in ethnographic research, this edited collection examines the intersections between grassroots culture, local identities, and the politics of catalanisme and independentisme from the end of the Francoist period to the present day. Through studies of various cultural manifestations including festivals, human tower-building, gastronomy, and bull-runs, chapters explore how civil mobilisation, women's increasing participation in the public sphere, and issues of gentrification and heritagisation have intertwined with identity politics and nationalist trends. An important consideration is how a popular culture centred on sociability responded to the lockdowns and restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic. More generally, the book reflects on the politicisation of culture and its role in nation-building, problematising such concepts as 'inclusion', 'integration', 'authenticity', 'belonging', and 'identity'. Contributors: Lluís Bellas, Camila del Mármol, Manuel Delgado, Mireia Guil, Venetia Johannes, Sarai Martín López, Romina Martínez Algueró, Dorothy Noyes, Xavier Roigé, Alessandro Testa, Mariann VacziTrade ReviewPopular Culture, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Catalonia is an enlightening volume which explores the connections between festivals, traditions, folklore, politics, identity, national character, territory, food and regional diversity. The authors also offer fascinating insights into the everyday life experiences and culture of large swathes of the population who engage with folkloric traditions. ... Overall, this volume offers valuable insights into the Catalan cultural, social and political landscape. -- Jordi Cornellà-Detrell * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Culture, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Catalonia - Mariann Vaczi and Alessandro Testa 1: Castells, Myths, and Allegories of Nation Building - Mariann Vaczi 2: The Ritual Making of Central Catalonia 1: National Identity and the Hanging of the Donkey - Alessandro Testa 3: The Ritual Making of Central Catalonia 2: Comparses and the Dynamics of Inclusive Nationalism - Alessandro Testa 4: Reclaiming the Cathar Past: At the Crossroads between Identity Politics and Tourist Economies in Catalonia - Camila Del Mármol 5: The Heritage of the Humiliated: Popular Resistance in Defense of the "Bous" in the Lands of the Ebro - Manuel Delgado, Romina Martínez Algueró, and Sarai Martín López 6: Communities without Festivities? Community Effects, Transformations, and Conflicts after Covid-19 in Catalonia - Xavier Roigé, Mireia Guil, and Lluís Bellas 7: Bon Profit! Food as National Identity in Catalonia - Venetia Johannes Afterword: Beneath the Nation: Collective Creation and Civic Need - Dorothy Noyes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Sociology of Race and Ethnicity is a comprehensive collection of the most significant articles to appear in this field. It presents the major ideas and approaches in this branch of sociology and covers the main themes in European debates as well as race-related questions in North America.Topics covered are: theories of racial and ethnicity division including rational choice, sociobiology and class approaches; the sociology of race, nationalism and colonialism; migration and ethnicity; the nature and causes of prejudice and racial discrimination; inter-ethnic conflict; racialisation and ethnic identity; race and social class in urban areas; multiculturalism and the problem of the political integration of immigrants.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I Acknowledgements Introduction Malcolm Cross PART I THEORIES OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVISION 1. Max Weber (1922/1978), ‘Race Relations’ 2. John Rex (1980), ‘The Theory of Race Relations – A Weberian Approach’ 3. Stuart Hall (1980), ‘Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance’ 4. Edna Bonacich (1980), ‘Class Approaches to Ethnicity and Race’ 5. Michael Banton (1991), ‘The Race Relations Problematic’ 6. Michael Banton (1994), ‘Modelling Ethnic and National Relations’ 7. M.G. Smith (1985), ‘Race and Ethnic Relations as Matters of Rational Choice’ 8. Stanford M. Lyman (1991), ‘Civilization, Culture, and Color: Changing Foundations of Robert E. Park’s Sociology of Race Relations’ 9. J. Milton Yinger (1983), ‘Ethnicity and Social Change: The Interaction of Structural, Cultural, and Personality Factors’ 10. Pierre L. van den Berghe (1978), ‘Race and Ethnicity: A Sociobiological Perspective’ 11. Iris Klein (1985), ‘Three Models of Explaining Ethnic Strife: Sociobiology, Neo-Marxism, and Rational Choice’ PART II RACISM, NATIONALISM AND COLONIALISM 12. Anthony D. Smith (1988), ‘The Myth of the “Modern Nation” and the Myths of Nations’ 13. Daniele Conversi (1995), ‘Reassessing Current Theories of Nationalism: Nationalism as Boundary Maintenance and Creation’ 14. Robert Miles (1993), ‘The Articulation of Racism and Nationalism: Reflections on European History’ 15. Fred W. Riggs (1994), ‘Ethnonationalism, Industrialism, and the Modern State’ 16. Nira Yuval-Davis (1993), ‘Gender and Nation’ 17. Peter Hill (1993), ‘National Minorities in Europe’ 18. André Liebich (1995), ‘Nations, States, Minorities: Why is Eastern Europe Different?’ 19. Jakob Rosel (1995), ‘Ethnic Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict’ 20. John Solomos (1986), ‘Trends in the Political Analysis of Racism’ PART III MIGRATION AND ETHNICITY 21. Aristide R. Zolberg (1991), ‘Bounded States in a Global Market: The Uses of International Labor Migrations’ 22. Robin Cohen (1991), ‘East–West and European Migration in a Global Context’ 23. Robert Miles (1990), ‘Whatever Happened to the Sociology of Migration?’ 24. Bhikhu Parekh (1994), ‘Three Theories of Immigration’ 25. Mary C. Waters and Karl Eschbach (1995), ‘Immigration and Ethnic and Racial Inequality in the United States’ 26. Anthony H. Richmond (1990), ‘Race Relations and Immigration: A Comparative Perspective’ 27. Roger Waldinger (1989), ‘Immigration and Urban Change’ Name Index Volume II Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in volume I PART I PREJUDICE AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION 1. Herbert Blumer (1958), ‘Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position’ 2. Andreas Wimmer (1997), ‘Explaining Xenophobia and Racism: A Critical Review of Current Research Approaches’ 3. Patricia G. Devine (1989), ‘Stereotypes and Prejudice: Their Automatic and Controlled Components’ 4. Herbert J. Gans (1979), ‘Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America’ 5. Russell H. Weigel and Paul W. Howes (1985), ‘Conceptions of Racial Prejudice: Symbolic Racism Reconsidered’ 6. Gerrard Kleinpenning and Louk Hagendoorn (1993), ‘Forms of Racism and the Cumulative Dimension of Ethnic Attitudes’ 7. Louk Hagendoorn (1993), ‘Ethnic Categorization and Outgroup Exclusion: Cultural Values and Social Stereotypes in the Construction of Ethnic Hierarchies’ 8. Martin Patchen (1995), ‘Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Ethnic Outgroups: How Are They Linked?’ 9. Paul M. Sniderman, Thomas Piazza, Philip E. Tetlock and Ann Kendrick (1991), ‘The New Racism’ 10. Michael Banton (1992), ‘The Nature and Causes of Racism and Racial Discrimination’ 11. Frank Bovenkerk, Robert Miles and Gilles Verbunt (1991), ‘Comparative Studies of Migration and Exclusion on the Grounds of “Race” and Ethnic Background in Western Europe: A Critical Appraisal’ 12. Tariq Modood (1994), ‘Political Blackness and British Asians’ 13. Joe R. Feagin (1991), ‘The Continuing Significance of Race: Antiblack Discrimination in Public Places’ 14. Dietrich Thränhardt (1995), ‘The Political Uses of Xenophobia in England, France and Germany’ PART II INTERETHNIC CONFLICT 15. Robin M. Williams, Jr. (1994), ‘The Sociology of Ethnic Conflicts: Comparative International Perspectives’ 16. Richard H. Shultz, Jr. (1995), ‘State Disintegration and Ethnic Conflict: A Framework for Analysis’ 17. David Carment (1993), ‘The International Dimensions of Ethnic Conflict: Concepts, Indicators, and Theory’ 18. A.N. Yamskov (1991), ‘Ethnic Conflict in the Transcausasus: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh’ 19. Valery Stepanov (2000), ‘Ethnic Tensions and Separatism in Russia’ Name Index Volume III Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to all three volumes appears in volume I PART I RACIALISATION AND ETHNIC IDENTITY 1. Fredrick Barth (1969), ‘Introduction’ 2. William L. Yancey, Eugene P. Ericksen and Richard N. Juliani (1976), ‘Emergent Ethnicity: A Review and Reformulation’ 3. Joane Nagel (1994), ‘Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture’ 4. Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan (1975), ‘Introduction’ 5. Stuart Hall (1992), ‘New Ethnicities’ 6. George A. De Vos (1995), ‘Ethnic Pluralism: Conflict and Accommodation: The Role of Ethnicity in Social History’ 7. Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1991), ‘The Cultural Contexts of Ethnic Differences’ 8. John Rex (1995), ‘Ethnic Identity and the Nation State: The Political Sociology of Multi-Cultural Societies’ 9. Sarah Bélanger and Maurice Pinard (1991), ‘Ethnic Movements and the Competition Model: Some Missing Links’ 10. Kum-Kum Bhavnani and Dana Collins (1993), ‘Racism and Feminism: An Analysis of the Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas Hearings’ PART II RACE, SOCIAL CLASS AND THE CITY 11. W.G. Runciman (1972), ‘Race and Social Stratification’ 12. Thomas F. Pettigrew (1981), ‘Race and Class in the 1980s: An Interactive View’ 13. William Julius Wilson (1989), ‘The Underclass: Issues, Perspectives, and Public Policy’ 14. Douglas S. Massey (1990), ‘American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass’ 15. Barbara Schmitter Heisler (1991), ‘A Comparative Perspective on the Underclass: Questions of Urban Poverty, Race, and Citizenship’ 16. Malcolm Cross and Roger Waldinger (1992), ‘Migrants, Minorities, and the Ethnic Division of Labor’ 17. Martin N. Marger (1989), ‘Factors of Structural Pluralism in Multiethnic Societies: A Comparative Case Study’ 18. Mirjana Morokvasic (1993), ‘"In and Out" of the Labour Market: Immigrant and Minority Women in Europe’ 19. Malcolm Cross (1995), ‘“Race”, Class Formation and Political Interests: A Comparison of Amsterdam and London’ PART III MULTICULTURALISM, CITIZENSHIP AND THE POLICY DEBATE 20. Tomas Hammar (1985), ‘Dual Citizenship and Political Integration’ 21. Rainer Bauböck (1994), ‘Changing the Boundaries of Citizenship: The Inclusion of Immigrants in Democratic Polities’ 22. Maxim Silverman (1991), ‘Citizenship and the Nation-State in France’ 23. William Safran (1991), ‘Ethnicity and Pluralism: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives’ 24. Stephen Castles (1995), ‘How Nation-States Respond to Immigration and Ethnic Diversity’ 25. Marco Martiniello (1995), ‘European Citizenship, European Identity and Migrants: Towards the Post-National State?’ 26. Robert D. Manning (1995), ‘Multiculturalism in the United States: Clashing Concepts, Changing Demographics, and Competing Cultures’ 27. Joseph Hraba (1992), ‘Citizenship and Ethnicity: The American Case’ 28. Jeremy Hein (1993), ‘Ethnic Pluralism and the Disunited States of North America and Western Europe’ 29. John Rex (1992), ‘Ethnic Mobilization in a Multicultural Society’ 30. John Rex (1994), ‘The Second Project of Ethnicity: Transnational Migrant Communities and Ethnic Minorities in Modern Multicultural Societies’ 31. John Edwards (1995), ‘The Nature and Varieties of Affirmative Action’ 32. Sarah Spencer (1994), ‘The Implications of Immigration Policy for Race Relations’ 33. Paul Gilroy (1990), ‘The End of Anti-Racism’ 34. Stanford M. Lyman (1992), ‘The Assimilation-Pluralism Debate: Toward a Postmodern Resolution of the American Ethnoracial Dilemma’ 35. Stephen Castles (1993), ‘Migrations and Minorities in Europe. Perspectives for the 1990s: Eleven Hypotheses’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisPersistent Disparity provides a comprehensive examination of the magnitude and scope of racial economic disparity in the United States. The authors directly assess the extent of black economic progress in the US since World War II and address the controversy of whether the racial income gap is closing or widening as America approaches the 21st century. Darity and Myers explicitly make the connection between what the theory of racial inequality espouses and corresponding policy recommendations for remedying such disparity such as affirmative action and reparations. The authors challenge the cultural-genetic explanation and advance a new theoretical explanation that incorporates a more expansive characterization of the nature and role of discrimination. They also conclude that conventional anti-discrimination efforts are unlikely to be sufficient to close the gap.This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in US social and economic history, political economy, African-American studies, and public policy.Trade Review'. . . the authors raise serious questions that often are not dealt with much in the mainstream economics literature. . . . Persistent Disparity is an interesting book with a provocative thesis that challenges conventional thinking. . .'/Table of ContentsContents: 1. The Widening Gap – Increasing Interracial and Intraracial Inequality 2. General Inequality in American Society and the Widening of the Gap within Races 3. Inequality and the Widening Gap between the Races 4. Education and Earnings Inequality among Family Heads 5. Family Structure, Labour Force Participation and Earnings Inequality 6. Forecasts and Prospects 7. Remedies for Racial Economic Inequality 8. Conclusions and Policy Directions

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Book SynopsisThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate more than thirty years of human rights violations under apartheid. Jillian Edelstein returned to her native South Africa to photograph the work of this committee and was present at some of the most important hearings, including that of Winnie Mandela. In Truth and Lies, portraits of those who testified are accompanied by their stories. The result is a powerful and moving record of the atrocities committed under apartheid and the fight to make the truth known.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how political democracy, economic mobility (and lack thereof), cultural and demographic shifts have affected the making of racial identities in South Africa over the past two decades of freedom. To what extent do South Africans hold on to inherited racial identities; are they embracing newer identities; do they move back and forth without making clear-cut choices about one racial identity or the other? The binary division between colour consciousness and colour blindness does not capture the contradictions of multiple belonging and association that a freer society brings about. The contributors in this volume discuss how identity shifts or lack thereof play themselves out in institutions of government, the economy, civil society; and the extent to which public policy has facilitated or impeded the emergence of a more integrated, equitable society.Trade ReviewThe colour of our future is a timely book. The individual chapters clearly show that questions of race have not withered away with the installation of a progressive constitution intended to create a nonracial society. That there might be good reason for understanding and accepting racial identities that are not only imposed or accepted for the purpose of resistance, but can, properly understood, be part of a positive future, is to be welcomed - Paul Graham, former executive director of IDASA.Table of ContentsForeword by David Scott; Acknowledgements and preface; What moving beyond race can actually mean: Towards a joint culture Xolela Mangcu; The colour of our past and present: The evolution of human skin pigmentation Nina G. Jablonski; Races, racialised groups and racial identity: Perspectives from South Africa and the United States Larry Blum; The Janus face of the past: Preserving and resisting South African path dependence Steven Friedman; How black is the future of green in South Africa's urban future? Mark Swilling; Inequality in democratic South Africa Vusi Gumede; Interrogating the concept and dynamics of race in public policy Joel Netshitenzhe; Why I am no longer a non-racialist: Identity, and difference Suren Pillay; Interrogating transformation in South African higher education Crain Soudien; The black interpreters and the arch of history Hlonipha Mokoena; Acronyms and abbreviations; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhat does friendship have to do with racial difference, settler colonialism and post-apartheid South Africa? While histories of apartheid and colonialism in South Africa have often focused on the ideologies of segregation and white supremacy, Ties that Bind explores how the intimacies of friendship create vital spaces for practices of power and resistance. Combining interviews, history poetry, visual arts, memoir and academic essay, the collection keeps alive the promise of friendship and its possibilities while investigating how affective relations are essential to the social reproduction of power. From the intimacy of personal relationships to the organising ideology of liberal colonial governance, the contributors explore the intersection of race and friendship from a kaleidoscope of viewpoints and scales. Insisting on a timeline that originates in settler colonialism, Ties that Bind uncovers the implication of anti-Blackness within nonracialism, and powerfully challenges a simple reading of the Mandela moment and the rainbow nation. In the wake of countrywide student protests calling for decolonization of the university, and reignited debates around racial inequality, this timely volume insists that the history of South African politics has always already been about friendship.Written in an accessible and engaging style, Ties that Bind will interest a wide audience of scholars, students, and activists, as well as general readers curious about contemporary South African debates around race and intimacy.Trade Review"Ties that Bind is an intriguing and long overdue book about race and friendship. It marks a time worldwide when virtual friendships are fast becoming the norm. And yet, after reading the chapters, one is left with a clearer sense of what it takes - or might take in the future - to actually be friends across race." - Sarah Nuttall is author of Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-apartheidTable of ContentsIntroduction: Times, Scales, and Spaces of Friendship in South Africa Shannon Walsh and Jon Soske; 1. With Friends like These: The Politics of Friendship in Post-Apartheid South Africa Sisonke Msimang; 2. Bound by Violence: Scratching beginnings and Endings with Lesego Rampolokeng Stacy Hardy and Lesego Rampolokeng; 3. 'Friend of the Family': Maids, Madams, and Domestic Cartographies of Power in South African Art Neelika Jayawardane; 4. The Impossible Handshake: The Fault Lines of Friendship in Colonial Natal, 1850-1910 T.J. Tallie; 5. The Problem with 'We': Affi liation, Political Economy, and the Counterhistory of Nonracialism Franco Barchiesi; 6. "A Song of Seeing": Art Education and the place of friendship under Apartheid Daniel Magaziner; 7. Corner Loving: Ways of speaking about Love MADEYOULOOK; 8. Affect and the State: Precarious workers, the law and the promise of friendship Bridget Kenny; 9. The Native Informant speaks back to the offer of friendship in white academia Mosa Phadi & Nomancotsho Pakade; 10. Kutamba Naye: In Search of Anti-Racist and Queer Solidarities Tsitsi Jaji; 11. Afropessimism and Friendship in South Africa: An interview with Frank Wilderson III Shannon Walsh.

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Book SynopsisAn encyclopedic work of reference to aid black studies, featuring over 1,000 biographies of significant historical and contemporary black figures.

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