Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books

Book SynopsisRooted in lived experiences and real conversations, this book challenges mixed-race studies which often prioritise Black/white binaries in the Global North while excluding multiracial experiences across the Global South.

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Book SynopsisThe Ghost in the Constitution offers a reflection on the political use of the concept of historical memory foregrounding the case of Spain. The book analyses the philosophical implications of the transference of the notion of memory from the individual consciousness to the collective subject and considers the conflation of epistemology with ethics. A subtheme is the origins and transmission of political violence, and its endurance in the form of symbolic violence and “negationism” in the post-Franco era. Some chapters treat of specific “traumatic” phenomena such as the bombing of Guernica and the Holocaust.Trade ReviewReviews 'Intellectually engaging, thoughtful, coherent, and logically developed. Resina writes with an elegance of style uncommon among scholars ...the most apt synthesis and expansion of ideas on memory and latency that I have read in recent years.' David Herzberger, University of California Riverside‘There is ample thought-provoking material and some stimulating insight in The Ghost in the Constitution, resulting from extensive research presented in polished writing.’José Colmeiro, Journal of Spanish Cultural StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Historical Memory and the Limits of Retrospection 9 2 Why Memory? Reflections on a Politics of Mourning 22 3 Memory and Imputation 39 4 Denial and the Ethics of Memory 58 5 Warming Up for the War: The Cultural Transmission of Violence in Spain since the Early Twentieth Century 72 6 Guernica as a Sign of History 103 7 Delenda est Catalonia: The Unwelcome Memory 114 8 Allez, Allez! The 1939 Exodus from Catalonia and Internment in French Concentration Camps 135 9 The Corpse in One’s Bed: Mercè Rodoreda and the Concentrationary Universe 147 10 Transatlantic Reversals: Exile and Anti-History 155 11 The Weight of Memory and the Lightness of Oblivion: The Dead of the Spanish Civil War 168 12 Between Testimony and Fiction: Jorge Semprún’s Autobiographical Memory 184 13 It Wasn’t This: Latency and Epiphenomenon of the Transition 224 14 Window of Opportunity: The Television Documentary as After-Image of the War 243 15 Anachronism and Latency in Spanish Democracy 260 16 Negationism and Freedom of Speech 276 17 Exhaustion of the Transition Pact: Revisionism and Symbolic Violence 292 Bibliography 307 Index 323

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Book SynopsisGalician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented period of growth following the process of political and cultural devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has occurred in a productive dialogue with global currents and with considerable projection beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the nation and the state, but these seismic changes are only beginning to be the subject of attention of cultural and media studies. This book examines contemporary audio/visual production in Galicia as privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural identities have been imagined, constructed and consumed, both at home and abroad. The cultural redefinition of Galicia in the global age is explored through different media texts (popular music, cinema, video) which cross established boundaries and deterritorialise new border zones where tradition and modernity dissolve, generating creative tensions between the urban and the rural, the local and the global, the real and the imagined. The book aims for the deperipheralization and deterritorialization of the Galician cultural map by overcoming long-established hegemonic exclusions, whether based on language, discipline, genre, gender, origins, or territorial demarcation, while aiming to disjoint the center/periphery dichotomy that has relegated Galician culture to the margins. In essence, it is an attempt to resituate Galicia and Galician studies out of the periphery and open them to the world.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations viiIntroduction: Peripheries are not what they used to be 1Part 1 Roots and Routes: Remapping Galician Culture in the Global Age1 Peripheral Visions, Global Positions 192 Deterritorialization and Deperipheralization: Galician Studies atthe Global Crossroads 443 Sound and Vision: All Roads Lead to Santiago 74Part 2 Peripheral Visions4 Made in Galicia: Making the Invisible Visible 1035 Reimagining Galician Cinema: Utopian Visions? 1206 The Galician Magic Kingdom: Nation and Animation from theGlocal Forest 1427 A Peripheral Focus: The Rebirth of the Novo Cinema Galego 168Part 3 Global Sounds8 Peripheral Movidas: Cannibalizing Galicia 2099 Smells Like Wild Spirit: Galician Rock Bravú, Between theRurban and the Glocal 23910 Bagpipes, Bouzoukis, and Bodhráns: The Reinvention ofGalician Folk Music 266Coda: Leaving the Periphery Behind 294Works Cited 309Index 321

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Book SynopsisOver the last decade Spain and Mexico have both produced an extraordinary wealth of television drama. Drawing on both national practices of production and reception and international theories of textual analysis this book offers the first study of contemporary quality TV drama in two countries where television has displaced cinema as the creative medium that shapes the national narrative. As dramatized societies, Spain and Mexico are thus at once reflected and refracted by the new series on the small screen.Trade ReviewReviews ‘A groundbreaking contribution to Hispanic cultural and media studies. Highly readable and well structured, the volume is a unique comparative transnational study of the two principal Spanish-language television markets/industries/cultures. Such comparative scholarship requires expertise on many levels in the two media cultures as well as a grasp of conceptual and theoretic underpinnings of mass media in the context of cultural studies, all of which Smith has in abundance and he uses his knowledge to provide a richly detailed and stimulating reading.’ Professor Marvin D'Lugo, Clark University'Dramatized Societies is an extremely valuable contribution to cultural studies. The balanced combination of introductory critical discourses on relevant issues and close readings of individual works offers a very useful and fertile grounding for seminars and classes on contemporary Spanish and Latin-American television.'Mario Santana, Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies‘Clear, yet erudite and peppered with witty asides, this book is as informative as it is pleasurable … This book works on multiple levels. Not only does it shed light upon little-known quality TV series, but on a meta-critical level, it is a model for successfully approaching the challenges of television studies.’ Olivia Cosentino, Revista de Estudios HispánicosTable of ContentsIntroduction: Cold Opens Part I: Spain 1 The TV Mini-series as historical memory: from the 23-F (TVE-1, 2009) to Marisol (Antena 3, 2009) (6803) 2 Transnational telenovela redux: Sin tetas no hay paraíso(Telecinco, 2008-9) (11162) 3 Youth culture in television: El internado (Antena 3, 2007-10), Física o química (Antena 3, 2008-11) (10513) 4 Post-colonial TV: El tiempo entre costuras (Antena 3, 2013-14) and El Príncipe (Telecinco, 2014) (13552) Part II: Mexico 5 Educational TV: XY (Canal 11, 2009-12) (11448) 6 Aesthetic TV: Soy tu fan (Canal 11, 2010-12), Pacientes(Canal 11, 2012-13) (9106) 7 Race on TV: Crónica de castas (Canal 11, 2014) (9876) 8 HBO Latino Effect: Capadocia (HBO Latino, 2008-12)(11442) Conclusion: Love Bites

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Book SynopsisIn this volume of Political Power and Social Theory, a special collection of papers reconsiders race and racism from global and historical perspectives. Together, these articles serve as an entry point for sharpening our sociological understandings of how racism operates in current times.

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Book SynopsisLos cuadernos aquí recogidos manifiestan una toma activa de conciencia de la paulatina mejora de las luchas de las comunidades, las actitudes de los gobiernos locales y nacionales, lo cual no impide que, al menor descuido, estos gobiernos recaigan en las viejas conductas retardatarias. El actual auge político-cultural de los pueblos indígenas de Colombia se sustenta esencialmente en una voluntad y una práctica de cambio ampliamente generalizada en las que las comunidades amerindias se convierten en actores, no sólo de su propia transformación, sino de la transformación democrática de la sociedad contemporánea en su conjunto, en la medida en que el indigena asume una voz ciudadana a escala nacional e internacional. Esta efervescencia ha alcanzado, por supuesto, a los wiwa. Este trabajo contribuye a senta las bases pedagógicas y lingüísticas para que la población wiwa se incorpore plenamente, desde la autogestión de una educación basada en su propia lengua y cultura, al espacio de la cultura letrada. ~ The notebooks collected here show an active awareness of the gradual improvement in the struggles of the communities,and the attitudes of local and national governments, which does not prevent these governments, at the slightest turn, from relapsing into the old resisting behaviours. The current political-cultural boom of the indigenous peoples of Colombia is essentially based on a widely generalised will and practice of change in which the Amerindian communities become actors, not only of their own transformation, but of the democratic transformation of the contemporary society as a whole, as long as the indigenous person assumes a citizen voice on a national and international scale. This momentum has naturally reached the Wiwa. This work contributes to laying the pedagogical and linguistic bases so that the Wiwa population can be fully incorporated, by self-managing an education based on their own language and culture, to the space of literate culture.

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Book SynopsisEl trabajo de Antonio Cornejo-Polar, a quien este volumen rinde homenaje, alimentó durante varias décadas la reflexión más seria y articulada que se haya producido en Perú sobre la crítica cultural que se vincula a la raíz misma del campo interpretado, a sus más profundas y conflictivas condiciones de existencia y desarrollo histórico. La obra de Cornejo-Polar se ciñó a la cultura andina en la región peruana. Su acercamiento acotado a la problemática cultural andina pasó a constituir un modelo de interpretación aplicable a múltiples aspectos de la cultura latinoamericana y a distintos momentos de su historia. Su trabajo sobre la problemática indigenista fue una labor incansable llena de fe en el trabajo crítico e interpretativo, generosidad, tolerancia sin concesiones, rigor y fuerza intelectual. Abrió una ruta para que todos entendiéramos mejor el sentido y compromiso de nuestro trabajo y para que nos adentráramos en la interioridad de un continente sorprendente, ignorado, que él contribuyó en gran medida, a presentar en toda su desafiante complejidad. ~ The work of Antonio Cornejo-Polar, to whom this volume pays homage, fueled for several decades the most serious and articulate reflection that has been produced in Peru on cultural criticism that is linked to the very roots of its interpreted field, to its deepest and conflicting conditions of existence and historical development. Cornejo-Polar's work explored Andean culture in the Peruvian region. His focused approach to Andean cultural issues became a model of interpretation applicable to multiple aspects of Latin American culture and to different moments in its history. His work on indigenous issues was tireless, generous, tolerant without concessions, rigorous and full of faith in critical and interpretative work, and intellectual strength. He opened a path for all of us to better understand the meaning and commitment of our work and for us to delve into a surprising unknown continent, which he portrayed in all its challenging complexity.

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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 SynopsisDuring Suharto's New Order (1966-1998), the ethnic Chinese expanded Indonesia's economy (and their own wealth) but, paradoxically, were marginalized and discriminated against in all social spheres - culture, language, politics, entrance to state-owned universities, and public service and public employment. Following the fall of Suharto, and the anti-Chinese riots in May 1998, Indonesia underwent a process of "Reformasi" and democratization, whereby for the first time in several decades Chinese culture became more visible. Many ethnic Chinese took advantage of the new democratic space to establish political parties, non-governmental organizations, and action groups in order to fight for the abolition of discriminatory laws, to defend their rights, and to promote solidarity between ethnic groups in Indonesia. They utilized the Reformasi atmosphere to promote pluralism and multiculturalism, and to liberate their long-suppressed identity and cultural heritage. This book dissects the complex meanings of "Chineseness" in post-1998 Indonesia, including the ways in which the policy of multiculturalism enabled such a resurgence, the forces that shaped it, and the possibilities for resinicisation. The author examines the ethnic Chinese self-identify, and investigates how the pribumi "Other" has contributed to identifying the ethnic boundary in terms of race and class. A unique aspect of the study is its discussion of the complexities of the cultural crossing, borrowing, and mixing experience of Chinese-Indonesians through localization and globalization.Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Problematic Identity; Approaches to Accommodating Chineseness; Historical Constructions of Chinese Identity; Chinese "Culture" and Self-Identity; Heterogeneity and Internal Dynamics of Chinese Politics; Re-Emergence of the Chinese Press; "Race", Class and Stereotyping: Pribumi Perceptions of Chineseness; Preserving Ethnicity: Negotiating Boundary Maintenance and Border-Crossing; Conclusion: Reconceptualising Chineseness.

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Book SynopsisDuring Suharto's New Order (1966-1998), the ethnic Chinese expanded Indonesia's economy (and their own wealth) but, paradoxically, were marginalized and discriminated against in all social spheres - culture, language, politics, entrance to state-owned universities, and public service and public employment. Following the fall of Suharto, and the anti-Chinese riots in May 1998, Indonesia underwent a process of "Reformasi" and democratization, whereby for the first time in several decades Chinese culture became more visible. Many ethnic Chinese took advantage of the new democratic space to establish political parties, non-governmental organizations, and action groups in order to fight for the abolition of discriminatory laws, to defend their rights, and to promote solidarity between ethnic groups in Indonesia. They utilized the Reformasi atmosphere to promote pluralism and multiculturalism, and to liberate their long-suppressed identity and cultural heritage. This book dissects the complex meanings of "Chineseness" in post-1998 Indonesia, including the ways in which the policy of multiculturalism enabled such a resurgence, the forces that shaped it, and the possibilities for resinicisation. The author examines the ethnic Chinese self-identify, and investigates how the pribumi "Other" has contributed to identifying the ethnic boundary in terms of race and class. A unique aspect of the study is its discussion of the complexities of the cultural crossing, borrowing, and mixing experience of Chinese-Indonesians through localization and globalization.Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Problematic Identity; Approaches to Accommodating Chineseness; Historical Constructions of Chinese Identity; Chinese "Culture" and Self-Identity; Heterogeneity and Internal Dynamics of Chinese Politics; Re-Emergence of the Chinese Press; "Race", Class and Stereotyping: Pribumi Perceptions of Chineseness; Preserving Ethnicity: Negotiating Boundary Maintenance and Border-Crossing; Conclusion: Reconceptualising Chineseness.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. Delhi has a large Hindu majority and a sizeable Muslim minority, amongst other religious and cultural pluralities. The Indian state is constitutionally committed to secularism and equal respect to all regions despite right-wing Hindu fundamentalism. Jakarta is the capital of a sprawling archipelago with a large variety of ethnic cultures, Indonesia having the largest Muslim population of the world, as well as sizeable ethnic and religious minorities comprising Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and others. The Indonesian state is constitutionally secular, but religion plays a large role in public life and is embedded in regulations that strongly impact people's private lives. Recently, there have been strong political currents to impose stricter Islamic codes. The public arena of sexual politics, in which the media play an important role, is explored in both cities. Hot sex is a major media selling point, particularly in Indonesia. Heteronormativity entails a system of symbolic violence in the sense that it punishes those that it excludes and polices those that it includes; the ways its powers are subverted are likewise symbolic. Passionate aesthetics refers to the dynamics, motivations, codes of behavior and presentation, subjectivities and identities that together make up the complex workings of erotic attraction, sexual relations and partnerships patterns. By charting the lives of women who live beyond the boundaries of the heteronormative, commonalities are revealed; boundaries and regulatory mechanisms in the context of symbolic violence are delineated; and the issue of the struggle for sexual rights for marginalised groups, and their open rebellion, brought to the fore. At the heart of the book lies elaboration of the ways Asian families are constructed -- their social, economic, sexual and religious agency, and how these engage with state-led values.Table of ContentsThe Essays; Apparatus; Translations into English; Style, notes, & chronology; Using the Works Cited; A Biography of Laura Esquivel; An Introduction to Esquivel Criticism; Like Water for Chocolate Like Water for Chocolate: The novels early critical reception; Like Water for Chocolate: The novel & the critics; Like Water for Chocolate: The film & the critics; The Law of Love; Swift as Desire; Malinche: A Novel; Future directions in Esquivel criticism; Laura Esquivels Mexican Chocolate; El chocolate mexicano de Laura Esquivel; Crossing Gender Borders: Subversion of Cinematic Melodrama in Like Water for Chocolate; Unmasked Men: Sex Roles in Like Water for Chocolate; The Absence of God & the Presence of Ancestors in Laura Esquivels Like Water for Chocolate; Gendered Spaces, Gendered Knowledge: A Cultural Geography of Kitchenspace in Central Mexico; Transformation, Code, & Mimesis: Healing the Family in Like Water for Chocolate; Cultural Identity & the Cosmos: Laura Esquivels Predictions for a New Millennium in The Law of Love; Laura Esquivels Quantum Leap in The Law of Love; The Two Mexicos of Swift as Desire; Malinche: Fleshing out the Foundational Fictions of the Conquest of Mexico; Esquivels Malinalli: Refusing the Last Word on La Malinche; Esquivels Fiction in the Context of Latin American Womens Writing; Glossary of Spanish & Nahuatl Words & Phrases; Index.

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Book SynopsisEleanor Nesbitt's introduction contextualises the life of Kailash Puri, Punjabi author and agony aunt, providing the story of the book itself and connecting the narrative to the history of the Punjabi diaspora and themes in Sikh Studies. She suggests that representation of the stereotypical South Asian woman as victim needs to give way to a nuanced recognition of agency, multiple voices and a differentiated experience. The narrative presents sixty years of Kailash's life. Her memories of childhood in West Punjab evoke rural customs and religious practices consistent with recent scholarship on 'Punjabi religion' rather than with the currently dominant Sikh discourse of a religion sharply distinguished from Hindu society. Her marriage, as a shy 15-year-old, with no knowledge of English, to a scientist, Gopal Puri, brought ever-widening horizons as husband and wife moved from India to London, and later to West Africa, before returning to the UK in 1966. This life experience, and Gopal's constant encouragement, brought confidence to write and publish numerous stories and articles. Kailash writes of the contrasting experiences of life as an Indian in the UK of the 1940s and the 1960s. She points up differences between her own outlook and the life-world of the post-war community of Sikhs from East Punjab now living in the West. In their distress and dilemmas many people consulted Kailash for assistance, and the descriptive narrative of her responses and advice and increasingly public profile provides insight into Sikhs' experience in their adopted country. In later years, as grandparents and established citizens of Liverpool, Kailash and Gopal revisited their ancestral home, now in Pakistan a reflective and moving experience. An Afterword by Eleanor contextualises the current UK Sikh scene. The book includes a glossary of Punjabi words and suggestions for further reading.Trade Review"This narrative offers a fascinating and thought-provoking glimpse into the long, diverse and well-lived life of a Sikh woman, a perspective sorely lacking given that much of Sikh history and experience has accumulated through male lenses. In her later role of an agony aunt, Kailash Puri was attuned to the deepest hurts and peak moments of members of the South Asian community." - Dr. Doris Jakobsh, University of Waterloo, Canada"Her individual biography intersects evocatively and movingly with the shifting realities of Partition, transnationalism, diaspora, race, gender, sexuality, and religion... As early as the 1950s the Sikh feminist began to address issues of marriage, sex, and relationships in magazines that no Punjabi had dared to discuss... A vital contribution to autobiography and multicultural literature." Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh, Colby College, Waterville, USA"Pool of Life reflects the wisdom of a woman who naturally engaged with the people around her whatever the context: in village life and the academic world, in pre-and post-partition India, in Great Britain, Nigeria and Ghana, always with an observant eye and a sympathetic ear. It is a book from which one can learn intellectually and emotionally about culture, life and change." Hugh Johnston, Professor Emeritus in History, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada"Through Kailashs eyes the reader can understand, from a new position, changing British attitudes to immigrants, changing gender roles, women in the workplace, and other topics relevant to twentieth-century social and cultural history. Her experiences will complicate any simplistic assumptions about gender relations, womens empowerment and self-expression, and attitudes towards immigrants. This book is a valuable primary source of autobiographical narrative helpfully coupled with a guide for further reading. It should be useful for those interested in Punjabi culture, understanding Sikhism as a living tradition, the Sikh diaspora, and twentieth-century British social history." - Suzanne Newcombe, Inform and the Open University, Religions of South Asia 9.1 (2015) 104105

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Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia has long been a crossroad of cultural influence and transnational movement, but the massive migration of Southeast Asians throughout the world in recent decades is historically unprecedented. Dispersal, compelled by economic circumstance, political turmoil, and war, engenders personal, familial, and spiritual dislocation, and provokes a questioning of identity and belonging. This volume features original works by scholars from Asia, America, and Europe that highlight these trends and perspectives on Southeast Asian migration within and beyond the Asia-Pacific region. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach -- with contributions from sociology, political science, anthropology, and history -- and anchored in empirical case studies from various Southeast Asian countries, it extends the scope of inquiry beyond the economic concerns of migration, and beyond a single country source or destination, and disciplinary focus. Analytic focus is placed on the forces and factors that shape migration trajectories and migrant incorporation experiences in Asia and Europe; the impact of migration and immigration status on individuals, families, and institutions, on questions of equity, inclusion, and identity; and the triangulated relationships between diasporic communities, the sending and receiving countries. Of particular importance is the scholarly attention to lesser known populations and issues such as Vietnamese in Poland, children and the 1.5 generation immigrants, health and mental consequences of state sponsored violence and protracted encampment, ethnic media, and the challenges of both transnational parenting and family reunification. In examining the complex and creative negotiations that immigrants engage locally and transnationally in their daily lives, it foregrounds immigrant resilience in the strategies they adopt not only to survive but thrive in displacement.

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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 SynopsisThis book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. Delhi has a large Hindu majority and a sizeable Muslim minority, amongst other religious and cultural pluralities. The Indian state is constitutionally committed to secularism and equal respect to all regions despite right-wing Hindu fundamentalism. Jakarta is the capital of a sprawling archipelago with a large variety of ethnic cultures, Indonesia having the largest Muslim population of the world, as well as sizeable ethnic and religious minorities comprising Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and others. The Indonesian state is constitutionally secular, but religion plays a large role in public life and is embedded in regulations that strongly impact people's private lives. Recently, there have been strong political currents to impose stricter Islamic codes. The public arena of sexual politics, in which the media play an important role, is explored in both cities. Hot sex is a major media selling point, particularly in Indonesia. Heteronormativity entails a system of symbolic violence in the sense that it punishes those that it excludes and polices those that it includes; the ways its powers are subverted are likewise symbolic. Passionate aesthetics refers to the dynamics, motivations, codes of behavior and presentation, subjectivities and identities that together make up the complex workings of erotic attraction, sexual relations and partnerships patterns. By charting the lives of women who live beyond the boundaries of the heteronormative, commonalities are revealed; boundaries and regulatory mechanisms in the context of symbolic violence are delineated; and the issue of the struggle for sexual rights for marginalised groups, and their open rebellion, brought to the fore. At the heart of the book lies elaboration of the ways Asian families are constructed -- their social, economic, sexual and religious agency, and how these engage with state-led values.Table of ContentsThe Essays; Apparatus; Translations into English; Style, notes, & chronology; Using the Works Cited; A Biography of Laura Esquivel; An Introduction to Esquivel Criticism; Like Water for Chocolate Like Water for Chocolate: The novels early critical reception; Like Water for Chocolate: The novel & the critics; Like Water for Chocolate: The film & the critics; The Law of Love; Swift as Desire; Malinche: A Novel; Future directions in Esquivel criticism; Laura Esquivels Mexican Chocolate; El chocolate mexicano de Laura Esquivel; Crossing Gender Borders: Subversion of Cinematic Melodrama in Like Water for Chocolate; Unmasked Men: Sex Roles in Like Water for Chocolate; The Absence of God & the Presence of Ancestors in Laura Esquivels Like Water for Chocolate; Gendered Spaces, Gendered Knowledge: A Cultural Geography of Kitchenspace in Central Mexico; Transformation, Code, & Mimesis: Healing the Family in Like Water for Chocolate; Cultural Identity & the Cosmos: Laura Esquivels Predictions for a New Millennium in The Law of Love; Laura Esquivels Quantum Leap in The Law of Love; The Two Mexicos of Swift as Desire; Malinche: Fleshing out the Foundational Fictions of the Conquest of Mexico; Esquivels Malinalli: Refusing the Last Word on La Malinche; Esquivels Fiction in the Context of Latin American Womens Writing; Glossary of Spanish & Nahuatl Words & Phrases; Index.

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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 SynopsisThis book is a series of original, critical meditations on short stories and novels from Central America between 1995 and 2016. During the Cold War, literary art in Central America, as in Latin America in general, was strongly over-determined by the politics of the Cold War, which gave rise to popular struggle and three major armed civil wars in the 1970s and 1980s in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. The period produced intense literary activity with political ideology central, personified by social denunciation in the testimonial novel and revolutionary poetry. Since then, though themes of violence are still at much of its core, Central American fiction has become more complex. We have witnessed a resurgence of literary writing and criticism with a focus squarely on the artistic side of narrative art: writing aware of its own figurative manoeuvres and inventiveness, its philosophical and affective dimensions, and its carefully crafted syntax. This collection of essays by Jeffrey Browitt attempts to trace some of the contours of this new literature and the contemporary subjectivities of its writers through close readings of Guatemalas Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Eduardo Halfon and Denise Phe-Funchal; Nicaraguas Franz Galich and Sergio Ramirez; Belizes David Ruiz Puga; El Salvadors Jacinta Escudos and Claudia Hernandez; and Costa Ricas Carlos Cortes. Key themes are gender, subjectivity and affect as these intersect with the deconstruction of the family, hegemonic masculinity, motherhood, revolutionary romanticism, and the relationship of humans with animals.

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Book SynopsisHierarchies and disparities based on sex and gender have characterized nearly all hominid societies over almost the entire world of cultures since time immemorial. Nearly without exception, those disparities have created a hierarchy of male over female. Languages reflect that. For example, in the English language, the word for the fe/male sex is based on the word male; man is the root for wo/man; and indeed man is generally considered the generic for all members of the species. Spanish, on the other hand, does differentiate hombre from mujer, but the masculine is still considered the root and the generic. For the purposes of S/HE: Sex & Gender in Hispanic Worlds, sex refers to biological differences, i.e., reproductive organs and secondary sexual characteristics, which are perceived as oppositional yet collaborative, in the propagation of the species. Gender, on the other hand, refers to culturally-specific expectations and/or stereotypes in terms of an individuals or groups self (re)presentation and/or behaviors. The main title, S/HE, is a nod to the arguably-gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun from the 1960s inclusive English-language movement in the United States, which was concurrent with equal rights movements in terms of race, ethnicity, sex and gender. This book focuses on sex and gender issues in the Hispanic worlds, paying homage to all who do not fit within the strict parameters of previous definitions by including broadened descriptions of identity, both biological and social, and by highlighting aspects of traditional and non-traditional lifestyles as portrayed in art and literature.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a series of original, critical meditations on short stories and novels from Central America between 1995 and 2016. During the Cold War, literary art in Central America, as in Latin America in general, was strongly over-determined by the politics of the Cold War, which gave rise to popular struggle and three major armed civil wars in the 1970s and 1980s in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. The period produced intense literary activity with political ideology central, personified by social denunciation in the testimonial novel and revolutionary poetry. Since then, though themes of violence are still at much of its core, Central American fiction has become more complex. We have witnessed a resurgence of literary writing and criticism with a focus squarely on the artistic side of narrative art: writing aware of its own figurative manoeuvres and inventiveness, its philosophical and affective dimensions, and its carefully crafted syntax. This collection of essays by Jeffrey Browitt attempts to trace some of the contours of this new literature and the contemporary subjectivities of its writers through close readings of Guatemalas Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Eduardo Halfon and Denise Phe-Funchal; Nicaraguas Franz Galich and Sergio Ramirez; Belizes David Ruiz Puga; El Salvadors Jacinta Escudos and Claudia Hernandez; and Costa Ricas Carlos Cortes. Key themes are gender, subjectivity and affect as these intersect with the deconstruction of the family, hegemonic masculinity, motherhood, revolutionary romanticism, and the relationship of humans with animals.

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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 SynopsisThis pioneering book is the first to argue that cinema and television in Spain only make sense when considered together as twin vehicles for screen fiction. The Spanish audiovisual sector is now one of the most successful in the world, with feature films achieving wider distribution in foreign markets than nations with better known cinematic traditions and newly innovative TV formats, already dominant at home, now widely exported. Beyond the industrial context, which has seen close convergence of the two media, this book also examines the textual evidence for crossover between cinema and television at the level of narrative and form. The book, which is of interest to both Hispanic and media studies, gives new readings of some well-known texts and discovers new or forgotten ones. For example it compares Almodóvar’s classic feature Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’) with his production company El Deseo’s first venture into TV production, the 2006 series also known as Mujeres (‘Women’). It also reclaims the lost history of female flat share comedy on Spanish TV from the 1960s to the present day. It examines a wide range of prize winning workplace drama on TV, from police shows, to hospital and legal series. Amenábar’s Mar adentro (‘The Sea Inside’) an Oscar-winning film on the theme of euthanasia, is contrasted with its antecedent, an episode of national network Tele5’s top-rated drama Periodistas. The book also traces the attempt to establish a Latin American genre, the telenovela, in the very different context of Spanish scheduling. Finally it proposes two new terms: ‘Auteur TV’ charts the careers of creators who have established distinctive profiles in television over decades; ‘sitcom cinema’ charts, conversely, the incursion of television aesthetics and economics into the film comedies that have proved amongst the most popular features at the Spanish box office in the last decade.Trade ReviewSmith is a passionate critic, an original and thorough cultural historian and a completely engaging writer (qualities that don’t often come together). Readers of all stripes will come away richly rewarded by this book. Kathleen VernonTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Between Cinema and Television City Girls I: Almodóvar’s Women on Film and Television City Girls II: Television’s Urban Women, Pre- and Post-Almodóvar Crime Scenes: Police Drama on Television Dramatic Professions: Workplace Fiction on Television Two Suicides and a Funeral: The Euthanasia Debate on Film and Television Transnational Telenovela: From Mexico to Madrid, via Barcelona Auteur TV: Case Studies in Creativity Sitcom Cinema: Case Studies in Convergence Index

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Book SynopsisThe Reinvention of Mexico explores the ideological conflict between neoliberalism and nationalism that has been at the core of economic and political developments in Latin America since the mid-1980s. It focuses on Mexico, which offers a unique opportunity to study one of the ruptures in 20th-century political thought that has come to define an era of unprecedented globalization. The book examines how neoliberals dismantling the statist economy in Mexico under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-94) confronted the dominant, official ideology upon which the country’s development had hitherto been based: revolutionary nationalism. It also considers how intellectuals and the main political forces to the left and right of the PRI grappled with the issues generated by the climate of market reform, in a period when there appeared to be few ideological alternatives to it, and the broader effort to reconcile economic liberalism with revolutionary nationalism that Salinas was attempting. Showing that the case of Mexico during the 1990s had important implications for the study of nationalism, the book offers timely insights into national responses to globalization and the form taken by debates about the most appropriate vision of political economy in Latin America. The highly contested result of Mexico’s 2006 election demonstrated the extent to which the fateful ideological conflict between neoliberalism and nationalism remains unresolved.Trade ReviewReviews'Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections.'Choice, Vol. 48, No. 11'Those who desire a thorough exploration of its content, or the definitive account of the PRI's attempt to redefine it in the 1990s, would do well to read this book.'Latin American Studies, Vol. 43'An invaluable contribution to the area of the discursive analysis of nationalism and in particular its interplay with liberalism.' Bulletin of Latin American Research Vol. 31, No. 4Table of Contents Preface I Nationalism and Liberalism Introduction 1. From Nation-Building to Crisis II Construction: State Discourses 2. ‘New Nationalism’ and ‘Social Liberalism’ 3. The Reform of Article 27 4. Free Trade III Contestation: Opposition Discourses 5. The Intellectual Reassessment of National Ideology 6. Nationalism and the Left: The PRD 7. Nationalism and the Right: The PAN Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWritten by a critically positioned participant in Zimbabwe's political history, this book covers more than a generation of eyewitness account and scholarly analysis by a war veteran academic and activist. Traces the roots of Zimbabwe's well known, but little analysed, revolution of 2000 to the 1970s guerrilla war, revealing the foundational philosophies, cosmologies and experiences that are manifest in the War Veterans-led revolution. The book is a bold account of an ongoing bottom-up struggle against neo-colonialism, settler economy and international capital. It traces the unfolding events of Zimbabwe's war of liberation, revealing little-known factsthat help to explain the complexity of current politics, ideology and class conflicts. Based on grounded empirical research this scholarly analysis differs significantly from the standard journalistic accounts of this topic.The book illustrates that the popular land occupations of 2000 were part of a much wider current under the surface that reconfigured industry, mining, finance, commerce and trade. War Veterans led a revolution that challenged thestate, ruling ZANU PF, the MDC, President Robert Mugabe, settler and international capital. Zimbabwe's revolution sets a new agenda and raises anew the intriguing question 'what are the people of Africa trying to free themselvesfrom and what are they trying to establish?' Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe: Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba (PB)Trade ReviewA thorough account of the pain, poverty and repression that the country went through as the locals sought and aspired for political independence. * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *Offers a historical perspective that traces the origins of the conflict, providing an analysis that traces the deep-seated roots of the war veterans' frustration. [...] Provides a vivid account of [the author's] personal experiences and a thorough account of the pain, poverty and repression that the country went through. * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsPart I Formation of the Vanguard: Zimbabwe's Liberation War The Journey: An Introduction Chitepo & ZIPA Periods: 1962-1977 Third Phase of War: Roots of Mugabe Era: 1977-1979 Part II Relegation, Reorganisation & Mobilisation Continuities & Discontinuities Reorganisation & Social Mobilisation: 1987-1997 Part III The Revolution & its Dynamics Early Phase of the Revolution: 1998-2000 Politics towards Rupture: 1997-2000 The Eruption of the Revolution: 2000-2002 Responses & International Impact: 2003-2010 Conclusion

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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 SynopsisTheorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle. A Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a challenge to established and still current modes of thought and research orientationswhich over-simplify the complex realities women face in the full range of violent conflicts, both past and present. By contextualizing the voices of women of Chiweshe, not only is an important and under-developed aspect of Zimbabwean and African history revealed, but a new approach to comprehending the highly-tensioned lives of women in war is presented, which is characterized here as Gendered Localised Resistance. This is examined through the prism of life in the Protected Villages in Chiweshe experienced in everyday social relations, revolutionary roles, and food security. It traces how women forged strategies of survival and resistance in the middle of guerrilla warfare pitted between the forces of the state and the revolutionary resistance movements. The book can be read as a unique and richly detailed account of the lives of women during the Zimbabwe civil war and liberation struggle; as a wider argument about how researchers can approach and incorporate lived experience into accounts of larger dynamics (war/revolution); and as a substantial and important contribution to feminist historiography and writings on women and war. Eleanor O' Gorman is Senior Associate at the Gender Studies Centre and a Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge; an independent consultant who has advised the UN, the UK Government (DFID and FCO), the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Zimbabwe: Weaver PressTrade ReviewWell researched and carefully argued, [it is] a well written, well-researched, theoretically sophisticated contribution to the history of the war. * ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE *[This] richly detailed study helps to refocus how we understand the role of women in war; liberating our understanding from a binary model or victim/agent that has dominated the literature for far too long. * LUCAS BULLETIN *This book offers unique insights. [The author's] analysis of women's survival and resistance strategies in a bygone war helps readers to better understand the struggles African women face in contemporary wars and the methods they use to cope and resist. * CHOICE *A grimly realistic book. If you have time to read only one book on women in the Zimbabwean war then this should be it. * JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Women, War, Voice & Agency Situating Women in Revolution: Battlefront Myths & Homefront Lives Re-Framing Women's Revolutionary Lives: Women, Gender & Local Resistance Setting the Fieldwork Context: Zimbabwe as Arena, Chiweshe as Locale Women's Perceptions of Revolutionary Participation: Understandings of Agency & Consciousness Living with & within Revolution: Challenges to Unity & Community The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman: Resistance & Survival by Women in Revolutionary War Conclusion: Women's Agency & Voice in War Reconsidered

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Book SynopsisThe first major study of the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of African soldiers who served with the British army during the Second World War. During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of the African experience of the war. It is a 'history from below' that describes how men were recruited for a war about which most knew very little. Army life exposed them to a range of new and startling experiences: new foods and forms of discipline, uniforms, machines and rifles, notions of industrial time, travel overseas, new languages and cultures, numeracy and literacy. What impact did service in the army have on African men and their families? What new skills did soldiers acquire and to what purposes were they put on their return? What was the social impact of overseas travel, and how did the broad umbrella of army welfare services change soldiers' expectations of civilian life? And what role if any did ex-servicemen play in post-war nationalist politics? In this book African soldiers describe in their own words what it was like to undergo army training, to travel on a vast ocean, to experience battle, and their hopes and disappointments on demobilisation. DAVID KILLINGRAY is Professor Emeritus of History, Goldsmiths, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.Trade Review[An] impressive study. * CONTEMPORARY REVIEW *An important scholarly contribution, but which, with its sweeping introduction and engaging style, can be read by all for pleasure and profit. * BBC HISTORY *REVIEWS OF THE CLOTH EDITION * . *Sober and judicious but also thrilling and dramatic. * AFRICA *Will become the one-stop reference for research on Anglophone Africa and its soldiers during World War II. [...] Killingray succeeds in putting human faces on some of the nearly one million African soldiers who laboured and fought. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *Will be the standard work on the subject for years, probably decades to come, an entirely fitting pedestal given David Killingray's leadership in this field. * INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS *Of particular interest is [the author's] challenge to the conventional wisdom that returning soldiers were the vanguard of independence movements. Recommended. * CHOICE *The most comprehensive work attempted on the subject thus far. [...] This book addresses issues which will not only appeal to African specialists, and military and imperial historians, but should interest many social, political, cultural, transnational and economic historians too. * REVIEWS IN HISTORY *[A]n impressive synthesis of primary and secondary sources on Africans' contributions to the British Second World War effort. [...] It is replete with first-hand examples and voices from African men and draws upon a formidable range of materials and sources. * PAMBAZUKA NEWS *A well written book that makes a valuable contribution and should be read by anyone interested in the Second World War, Africa and/or race and military service. * JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY *A ground-breaking book which reveals as much about the imperial British as it does about their African subjects. * NORTH SOUTH *David Killingray's fascinating new book sets out in compelling prose and finely researched detail the extraordinary story of Africa's stalwart and generous support of the Empire's most perilous of wars. * TLS *A must for those undertaking historical research. * SOLDIER MAGAZINE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Africa 1939 Recruiting Army life Indiscipline, strike & mutiny War Going home & demobilisation Ex-servicemen & politics The social impact of war service Postscript

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Book SynopsisThis book makes a unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism and will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergentliberal interventionism, and the various logics of international development. This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and development, drawing on a range of methodologies and approaches. The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century liberal imperialism and the humanitarian interventionism of the post-Cold War era are striking. The American military, both in Somalia in the early 1990s and in the aftermath the Iraq invasion, used ethnographic information compiled by British colonial administrators. Are these interconnections, which are capable of endless multiplication, accidental curiosities or more elemental? The contributors to this book articulate the belief that these comparisons are not just anecdotal but are analytically revealing.From the language of moral necessity and conviction, the design of specific aid packages; the devised forms of intervention and governmentality, through to the life-style, design and location of NGO encampments, the authors seek to account for the numerous and often striking parallels between contemporary international security, development and humanitarian intervention, and the logic of Empire. MARK DUFFIELD is Professor of Development Politicsat the University of Bristol; VERNON HEWITT is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia): HSRC PressTrade ReviewThere is enough quality in this volume to recommend this book to scholars and students interested in development theory and colonization and how both processes might be theorized as mutually constitutive. I have little doubt that the editors and contributors have set down a compelling research agenda that will be carried forward in future publications. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *A thought-provoking collection. [...] This is a valuable set of essays addressing contemporary issues with an eye on the past and revealing some insights into the antecedents of contemporary development rhetoric and techniques. * POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW *This volume adds to a recent debate that revisits the concepts and notions of development rooted in the 'civilising mission' during the colonial era. Hence it explores a hitherto largely ignored, or at least neglected link concerning the continuity of the 'colonial mind' in international relations of today. * NEW ROUTES *Table of ContentsMARK DUFFIELD & VERNON HEWITT Introduction MATT MEREFIELD The Exceptional Inclusion of 'Savages' & 'Barbarians': The Colonial Liberal Bio-politics of Mobility & Development VERNON HEWITT Empire, International Development & the Concept of Good Government HENRIK ASPENGREN Empire: A Question of Hearts? The Social Turn in Colonial Government. Bombay c.1905-25 SUTHAHARAN NADARAJAH 'Conflict Sensitive' Aid & Making Liberal Peace RICHARD SHELDON Development, Poverty & Famines: The Case of the British Empire LISA SMIRL Plain Tales from the Reconstruction Site: Spatial Continuities in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice TOM YOUNG & DAVID WILLIAMS The International Politics of Social Transformation: Trusteeship & Intervention in Historical Perspective MARK DUFFIELD Liberal Interventionism & the Fragile State: Linked by Design? PATRICIA NOXOLO Freedom, Fear & NGOs: Balancing Discourses of Violence & Humanity in Securitising Times APRIL R. BICCUM Theorising Continuities between Empire & Development: Toward a New Theory of History UMA KOTHARI Spatial Practices & Imaginaries: Experiences of Colonial Officers & Development Professionals DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON Decolonising the Borders in Sudan: Ethnic Territories & National Development PAUL KELEMEN 'Individualism is, Indeed, Running Riot': Components of the Social Democratic Model of Development

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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 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. This study, based on anthropological field research over a period of thirty-four years, focuses on pastoralism, politics, policies and development in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. The authors present a detailed ethnographic view of recent events of ethnic violence in Kenya and 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. They propose 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 andEthnicity 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 for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany; Abdullahi Shongolo is an independent scholar based in Kenya.Trade ReviewThe 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 - Günther Schlee and Abdullahi A. Shongolo 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 SynopsisThe author argues for the continued importance of NGOs, social movements and other 'civil society' actors in creating new forms of citizenship and democracy in South Africa. Critics of liberalism in Europe and North America argue that a stress on 'rights talk' and identity politics has led to fragmentation, individualisation and depoliticisation. But are these developments really signs of 'the end ofpolitics'? In the post-colonial, post-apartheid, neo-liberal new South Africa poor and marginalised citizens continue to struggle for land, housing and health care. They must respond to uncertainty and radical contingencies on a daily basis. This requires multiple strategies, an engaged, practised citizenship, one that links the daily struggle to well organised mobilisation around claiming rights. Robins argues for the continued importance of NGOs, socialmovements and other 'civil society' actors in creating new forms of citizenship and democracy. He goes beyond the sanitised prescriptions of 'good governance' so often touted by development agencies. Instead he argues for a complex, hybrid and ambiguous relationship between civil society and the state, where new negotiations around citizenship emerge. Steven L. Robins is Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Stellenbosch and editorof Limits to Liberation after Apartheid (James Currey).Trade ReviewAn important addition to the literature which draws attention to the 'ambiguous and contradictory character' of rights-based discourses in South Africa. [It] is a must read for anyone interested in the nature of democracy and identity in the post-apartheid era. * POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW *In this magnificent book, unearthing case studies from academic journals, Robins examines rights-based social movements and the resurgence of the 'traditional' in communal identity politics. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This illuminating post-apartheid ethnography deserves close study by anyone concerned with popular politics in the globalising South. Robins freely intersperses high-level social theory with carefully selected case studies and vignettes. * TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT *[...] an important book, setting out as it does a strong argument for rejecting some of the more cynical analyses suggesting an end of politics. Based on some rich empirical case studies it offers some fascinating insights into the post-apartheid dilemmas in South Africa. - -- Ian Scoones, IDS, SussexTable of ContentsIntroduction Activist mediations of 'rights' & indigenous identity Citizens & 'bushmen': the khomani San, NGOs & the making of a new social movement 'Civil society' & popular politics in the postcolony: 'deep democracy' & deep authoritarianism at the tip of Africa? AIDS, science & the making of a social movement AIDS activism & biomedical citizenship in South Africa Rights passages from 'near death' to 'new life': AIDS activism & new HIV-identities in South Africa Sexual rights & sexual cultures: AIDS activism, sexual politics & 'new masculinities' after apartheid Conclusion: beyond rights & the limits of liberalism

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 SynopsisWhen Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837, Britain was home to only 30,000 Jews and they did not yet have full political rights. By the end of the century their numbers had increased about sevenfold, and practising Jews had taken their places in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords. Victoria’s reign therefore saw a tremendous change in the profile of Jews within British society. The Victorian period was also one of economic transition for British Jews. While initially in a narrow range of predominantly working-class or marginal occupations with only a small upper-class élite, Jews became increasingly middle-class during these years; they began to enter the professions, and to move from inner London to fashionable suburbs. Increasingly, Britain's Jews were British-born and of British descent, and proclaimed their loyalty to British ideals. From 1881 on, however, the position changed dramatically: a mass of Jewish immigrants arriving from Russia, made conspicuous by their foreign dress, appearance, language, and habits, prompted the emergence of an ‘Aliens Question’ into the British political arena. The image of Jews changed yet again. All these developments were picked up in the illustrated magazines of the time: the object of a magazine is to interest its readers, and the unfamiliar may be more compelling reading than the commonplace. To illustrate the social history of the Jews in Victorian Britain, the authors therefore combed the Illustrated London News, Punch, and The Graphic and selected nearly 150 illustrations, with commentary, to show how the British image of the Jew developed in this period. The topics considered include early Victorian attitudes to Jews; the leading Jewish families and other prominent Jews; the Jewish way of life; immigrant Jews; Jewish life abroad; and the Jew in art.Trade Review'The editors of this highly interesting collection provide the background necessary to place all the material in its historical context.' Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor 'Consistently a pleasure to look at.'Chaim Bermant, Daily Telegraph'A most original and fascinating book ... a rich source-book for the social history of the Jews in Victorian England which is also a valuable contribution to the history of journalism.'Geoffrey Hodgson, The Independent'If you are interested in the opinions of non-Jewish journalists about things Jewish in Victorian England, then this is the book for you. But even if you are not, you can usefully learn much about Jewish life in those times.'Reuven Ben Dov, Jerusalem Post'The authors have married illustrations and text with consummate skill so as to effect continuity. Themes are carefully selected to define characters and situations that had a major influence in changing British attitudes towards Jews. The clarity of style and highly evocative illustrations combine to make this a reading mustA" for all concerned with both British and Jewish social history.'William Fishman, Jewish Chronicle'One of the most delightful and interesting books I have encountered in a long time. It is not a scholarly book, although its contents will provide a rich source of material and information for any student of Anglo-Jewish history ... as a means of acquiring a gem of a publication, you could do no better than buying this fascinating and charming ... volume.'Alastair Falk, L'Eylah'The magnificent little pictures make this book fascinating browsing and reading.'NRC HandelsbladTable of ContentsA most original and fascinating book ... a rich source-book for the social history of the Jews in Victorian England.' Geoffrey Hodgson, The Independent

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