Globalization Books

Book SynopsisThis book gives a critique of the contemporary global capitalist system and the adverse consequences suffered by the developing countries as a result of their 'integration' into this system. The current neoliberal paradigm of capitalist development as the only or the best alternative for the economic, social and political development of the developing countries is rejected. The authors search for more human and ecologically sustainable alternatives, focusing on Latin America, Asia and women.Table of ContentsCritical Perspectives on Globalization and Neoliberalism in the Developing Countries, Richard L. Harris and Melinda J. Seid Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the State of Underdevelopment in the New Periphery, Jorge Nef and Wilder Robles Relevance of Structuralist and Dependency Theories in the Neoliberal Period: A Latin American Perspective, Cristóbal Kay and Robert N. Gwynne Liberalization, State Patronage, and the “New Inequality” in South Asia, Mustapha Kamal Pasha Have Workers in Latin America Gained from Liberalization and regional Integration? , John Weeks Obstacles and Opportunities to Women’s Empowerment under Neoliberal Reform, Cathy A. Rakowski The Effects of Globalization and Neoliberalism in Latin America and the Beginning of the Millenium, Richard L. Harris Overcoming the Neoliberal Paradigm: Sustainable Popular Development, David Barkijn Index

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Book SynopsisAt its current state of historical development, capital finds its internal contradictions tending towards an irresolvable character as manifested in multiple crises. Embodied in a fistful of gigantic transnational companies whose representatives seek consolidation as a global oligarchy, capital continues to concentrate its economic, political and military power as it produces a growing mass of redundant human beings, promotes conflicts that result in misery, chaos, social degradation and death, and destroys entire societies while razing the natural environment, thereby putting humanity itself at risk. The defense of life and the construction of renewed hope for a future require opposition to the domination of capital. This book seeks to contribute to that effort by setting out an analysis of the mechanisms in which capital is based.Trade ReviewThe Neoliberal Pattern of Domination is a compelling, convincing and relevant historical account, both detailed and profound. David Hollanders (Tilburg University), Comparative Sociology, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2016.Table of ContentsForeword by R.A. Dello Buono Introduction Part One – The Domination of Capital: Its Logical and Historical Forms 1. The Basis of Capitalist Domination 2. The General Forms of Capitalist Domination 3. The Pattern of Domination: Historical Forms of Capitalist Domination 4. The History of Capitalist Domination Part Two – The Neoliberal Pattern: Second Emergence of the Natural Form of Domination 5. The Transition to the Neoliberal Pattern of Domination 6. The Neoliberal Economy 7. The Neoliberal State 8. The State Administration of Criminal Activity 9. Ideological Domination – A Reflection on the Intellectual and Moral Leadership of Neoliberal Capital Part Three – Conclusion 10. The Pattern of Domination and Historical Cycle of Capital Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe 38th World Congress of IIS addressed some of the most fundamental issues of sociological inquiry in light of global processes and the development of different fields of knowledge: What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of social as opposed to natural processes? How do efforts to map the social and political world interact with that world and with traditional sociological practices? What can we say about relationships between scientific, political and religious beliefs? This volume sets the stage for a sustained look at what social science can say about the twenty-first century and to address the theme of the congress in 2008: Sociology Looks at the 21st Century. From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism. Contributors are: Gustaf Arrhenius, Rajeev Bhargava, Craig Calhoun, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Yehuda Elkana, Raghavendra Gadagkar, Peter Hedström, Hans Joas, Hannes Klöpper, Ivan Krastev, Steven Lukes, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Helga Nowotny, Shalini Randeria, Alan Ryan, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Christina Torén, Michel Wieviorka, Björn Wittrock, Petri Ylikoski.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction  Björn Wittrock and Shalini Randeria Part 1: Forms of Being 1 What Can We Learn from Insect Societies?  Raghavendra Gadagkar 2 What Does it Mean to Be Human? Who Has the Last Word: Sociologists, Biologists, or Philosophers?  Alan Ryan 3 What Is It to Be Human? A Unified Model Suggests History will Have the Last Word  Christina Torén Part 2: Forms of Theorizing 4 Sociological Individualism  Peter Hedström and Petri Ylikoski 5 Norms as Social Facts  Steven Lukes Part 3: Forms of Believing 6 Political Secularity in India before Modern Secularism. A Tentative Overview  Rajeev Bhargava 7 Violence Affirmed. V.D. Savarkar and the Fear of Non-violence in Hindu Nationalist Thought  Jyotirmaya Sharma 8 The Future of Christianity  Hans Joas Part 4: Rethinking Democracy in Its Global Contexts 9 From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism  Shmuel N. Eisenstadt 10 Democracy for the 21st Century  Gustaf Arrhenius 11 Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics of Protest  Ivan Krastev Part 5: Rethinking Disciplinary Divides 12 The Modern University in Its Contexts. Historical Transformations and Contemporary Reorientations  Björn Wittrock 13 Embracing Uncertainty  Helga Nowotny 14 Rethinking Biomedicine  Vinh-Kim Nguyen 15 Manifesto for the Social Sciences  Craig Calhoun and Michel Wieviorka Part 6: Rethinking the University 16 The University in the 21st Century: Teaching the New Enlightenment at the Dawn of the Digital Age  Yehuda Elkana and Hannes Klöpper Index of Names Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThe present volume has grown out of the conference held at Princeton University on November 12-14, 2009. Its essays explore a coherent, interrelated nexus of topics that illuminate our understanding of the cultural transactions (social, political, economic, religious and artistic) of the Greek East and Latin West: unexpected cultural appropriations and forms of resistance, continuity and change, the construction and hybridization of traditions in a wide expanse of the eastern Mediterranean. Areas that the volume addresses include the benefits and liabilities of periodization, philosophical and political exchanges, monastic syncretism between the Orthodox and Catholic faiths, issues of romance composition, and economic currency and the currency of fashion as East and West interact. Contributors are Roderick Beaton, Peter Brown, Marina S. Brownlee, Giles Constable, Maria Evangelatou, Dimitri Gondicas, Judith Herrin, Elizabeth Jeffreys, Marc D. Lauxtermann, Stuart M. McManus, John Monfasani, Maria G. Parani, Linda Safran, Teresa Shawcross and Alan M. Stahl.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ... ix List of Contributors ... xv Introduction Hellenic Studies at Princeton: Thirtieth Anniversary ... 3 Dimitri Gondicas The Perils of Periodization ... 5 Marina S. Brownlee Renaissance Encounters: Preface ... 9 Peter Brown Part one: Philosophical and Political Exchanges George Gemistos Plethon and the West: Greek Emigres, Latin Scholasticism, and Renaissance Humanism ... 19 John Monfasani Renaissance Encounters: Byzantium Meets the West at the Council of Ferrara-Florence 1438–9 ... 35 Judith Herrin and Stuart M. McManus Byzantine and Italian Political Thought Concerning the Rise of Cities before the Renaissance ... 57 Teresa Shawcross Part Two: Monastic Syncretism The Meeting of East and West in Medieval Monasticism in Sicily and South Italy ... 97 Giles Constable Betwixt or Beyond? The Salento in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries ... 115 Linda Safran Part Three: Iconic Dialogues Between East and West: The Symbolism of Space in the Art of Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco) ... 147 Maria Evangelatou Linguistic Encounters: The Presence of Spoken Greek in Sixteenth-Century Venice ... 185 Marc D. Lauxtermann Part Four: Romance Issues Boccaccio and the Greek World of His Time: A Missing Link in the “True Story of the Novel”? ... 207 Roderick Beaton Byzantine Romances: Eastern or Western? ... 217 Elizabeth Jeffreys Part Five: The Currency of Fashion The Mediterranean Melting Pot: Monetary Crosscurrents of the Twelfth through Fifteenth Centuries ... 237 Alan M. Stahl Encounters in the Realm of Dress: Attitudes towards Western Styles in the Greek East ... 259 Maria G. Parani Index ... 000 i-

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Book SynopsisSpanning the Strait: Studies in Unity in the Western Mediterranean brings together a multidisciplinary collection of essays that examines the deep connections that bound together the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib in the medieval and early modern periods. Six articles on topics ranging from the eighth-century slave trade to sixteenth-century apocalypticism trace and analyze movement, mutual influence and patterns shared in the face of political, religious, and cultural difference. By transcending traditional disciplinary and temporal divisions, this collection of essays highlights the long history of contact and exchange that united the two sides of the Strait of Gibraltar. A comprehensive introduction by the editors contextualizes the articles within the last half-century of scholarship and salient contemporary trends. Contributors are Adam Gaiser, Linda G. Jones, Hussein Fancy, S.J. Pearce, David Coleman, and Marya T. Green-Mercado.Table of ContentsIntroduction Yuen-Gen Liang, Abigail Krasner Balbale, Andrew Devereux and Camilo Gomez-Rivas: Unity and Disunity across the Strait of Gibraltar ... 1 Articles Adam Gaiser, Slaves and Silver across the Strait of Gibraltar: Politics and Trade between Umayyad Iberia and Khārijite North Africa ... 41 Linda G. Jones,The Preaching of the Almohads: Loyalty and Resistance across the Strait of Gibraltar ... 71 Hussein Fancy, The Last Almohads: Universal Sovereignty between North Africa and the Crown of Aragon ... 102 S.J. Pearce, “The Types of Wisdom Are Two in Number”: Judah ibn Tibbon’s Quotation from the Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm al-Dīn ... 137 David Coleman, Of Corsairs, Converts and Renegades: Forms and Functions of Coastal Raiding on Both Sides of the Far Western Mediterranean, 1490-1540 ... 167 Marya T. Green-Mercado, The Mahdī in Valencia: Messianism, Apocalypticism and Morisco Rebellions in Late Sixteenth-Century Spain ... 193 Book Reviews Clifford R. Backman, on Samantha Kelly, The ‘Cronaca di Partenope’: An Introduction to and Critical Edition of the First Vernacular History of Naples, c. 1350 ... 221 Travis Bruce, on Ramzi Rouighi, The Making of a Mediterranean Emirate. Ifrīqiyā and Its Andalusis, 1200-1400 ... 224 Patrick Harris, on Cyrille Aillet, Les Mozarabes: Christianisme, Islamisation et Arabisation en Péninsule Ibérique (IXe-XIIe Siecle) ... 228 Capucine Nemo-Pekelman, on D. Freidenreich, Foreigners and their Food. Constructing otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law ... 231 Brenda S. Gardenour Walter, on Patricia A. Baker, Han Nijdam and Karine van’t Land, eds., Medicine and Space: Body, Surroundings, and Borders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages ... 238 Alexandra Cuffel, on Marc Michael Epstein, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination ... 243 Pamela A. Patton, on Katrin Kogman-Appel and Mati Meyer, eds., Between Judaism and Christianity: Art Historical Essays in Honor of Elisheva (Elisabeth) Revel-Neher ... 248 Miguel Angel Vazquez, on Ana Labarta, Carmen Barcelo and Josefina Veglison, Valencia arab en prosa i vers ... 252 Index ... 259

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Book SynopsisHigher Education in the UK and the US: Converging University Models in a Global Academic World? edited by Sarah Pickard addresses the key similarities and differences in higher education between the two countries over the last thirty years, in order to ascertain whether there exists a specific ‘Anglo-Saxon model’. This interdisciplinary book is divided into three thematic parts dealing with current fundamental issues in higher education within neoliberal Great Britain and the United States: economics and marketisation of higher education; access and admittance to universities; and the student experience of higher education. The contributors are all higher education specialists in diverse academic fields – sociology, political sciences, public policy studies, educational studies and history – from either side of the Atlantic. Contributors are: Bahram Bekhradnia, James Côté, Marie-Agnès Détourbe, John Halsey, Magali Julian, Kenneth O’Brien, Cristiana Olcese, Anna Mountford-Zimdars, Sarah Pickard, Chris Rust, Clare Saunders, Christine Soulas, and Steven Ward. *Higher Education in the UK and the US: Converging University Models in a Global Academic World? is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Charts, Figures, Tables and Illustrations Note on Contributors Introduction PART I - THE ECONOMICS AND MARKETISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION 1. Creating the Enterprising Student: The Moral Projects of Neoliberalism and Higher Education Reform in the UK and the US STEVEN WARD 2. Education Markets in English and American Universities JOHN HALSEY and KENNETH O’BRIEN 3. Higher Education in the United Kingdom under Tony Blair: An American Inspired Economic Issue MAGALI JULIAN 4. The English Experiment in Market-based Higher Education: Ideology and Reality Disconnected BAHRAM BEKHRADNIA PART II - ACCESS AND ADMISSION TO HIGHER EDUCATION 5. Are Admissions Models for Undergraduate Study Converging among Highly Selective Universities in the England and the US? ANNA MOUNTFORD-ZIMDARS 6. Widening Participation in English Universities: Accessing Social Justice? SARAH PICKARD 7. Access and the Rise of Accountability in the Governance of Public Universities in the US CHRISTINE SOULAS PART III - THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION 8. The Quality of the Student’s Learning Experience: A Strategic Dimension of British and American Higher Education Systems in the Early 21st Century MARIE-AGNÈS DÉTOURBE 9. The Decline in Study Time in British and American Universities: Unravelling the Paradox in Two Knowledge Economies JAMES CÔTÉ 10. The Student Experience in the UK and US: Two Converging Pictures of Decline? CHRIS RUST 11. British Students in the Winter Protests: Still a New Social Movement? CRISTIANA OLCESE AND CLARE SAUNDERS Index

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Book SynopsisWith the crisis of the global capitalist economy the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theoretical and practical standpoints. How do we make sense of this rapid flow of global consumer culture across national borders? What is the role of corporations, governments, ONG and social movements in shaping the terms of these flows? How do these flows of money, people, culture, goods and services work in practice? How do these flows affect the lives of the majority of regular people consuming and producing in the global marketplace? Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume examines the way cultures and individuals oppose, resist and re-center globalization. Contributors are: Gwen I. Alexis, Andrea Borghini, Cory Blad, Jack Bratich, Enrico Campo, Rekha Datta, Ricardo A. Dello Buono, Peter Kivisto, Vincenzo Mele, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Nancy Naples, Ino Rossi,Victoria Reyes, Saliba Sarsar, Manal Stephan, Karen Schmelzkopf, and Marina Vujnovic.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Notes on the Contributors x Introduction: Globalizing Cultures: Theories, Paradigms, Actions 1 Vincenzo Mele and Marina Vujnovic PART 1: THEORETICAL EXAMINATIONS AND CONCEPTS: GLOBAL CULTURE, GLOBAL IDENTITY, AND GLOBAL CIVIL SPHERE 1 Investigating Global Culture: Its Creation, Structure, and Meanings 23 Victoria Reyes 2 Global Interaction and Identity in Structuralist and Dialectic Perspectives: Toward a Typology of Psycho-cultural Identities 39 Ino Rossi Emeritus 3 The Civil Sphere beyond the Western Nation-State: Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on Alexander’s Cultural Sociology and Its Contribution to Civil Society Discourse 66 Peter Kivisto PART 2: NEOLIBERALISM BETWEEN STATE AND MARKET: NATIONALISM, INTERNATIONAL FREE TRADE AND PERSISTENCE OF THE STATE 4 The Role of the Nation-State in the Global Age 89 Andrea Borghini 5 Faustian States: Nationalist Politics and the Problem of Legitimacy in the Neoliberal Era 111 Cory Blad 6 Deification of Market; Homogenization of Cultures: ‘Free Trade’ and Other Euphemisms for Global Capitalism 124 Gwendolyn Yvonne Alexis PART 3: TRANSNATIONAL PRACTICES AND RESISTANCE: GENDER, MEDIA, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 7 Transnational Activism, Feminist Praxis, and Cultures of Resistance 143 Nancy A. Naples 8 Transnational Flash Publics: Social Media and Affective Contagions from Egypt to Occupy Wall Street 174 Jack Bratich 9 Transnational Feminist Media Practices: Seeking Alliance Against Global Capitalism 196 Marina Vujnovic 10 Shifting Contours in Latin American Cultures of Resistance 211 Ricardo A. Dello Buono PART 4: GLOBAL CONSUMER CULTURE: TOURISM, TASTE, CONSUMPTION AND IMAGINARY 11 Distinction and Social Class in America and Europe. Pierre Bourdieu’s Theory of Taste in Cross-Cultural Comparison 233 Vincenzo Mele 12 Consumption, Identity, Space: Shopping Malls in Bogotá 258 Enrico Campo 13 Trafficking Gypsiness in the 21st Century 288 Mihaela Moscaliuc 14 Tourism, Expatriates, and Power Relations in Vieques, Puerto Rico 311 Karen Schmelzkopf PART 5: HUMAN RIGHTS, EQUALITY AND CULTURE OF EMPOWERMENT 15 Overcoming the Divide: Arab Women between Traditional Life and a Globalizing Culture 331 Saliba Sarsar and Manal Stephan 16 The Millennium Development Goals and Gender Equality, and Empowerment in India 353 Rekha Datta Index 371

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Book SynopsisDomestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, "adopted" workers. While some use domestic service as training for their own future independent households, others are confined to it for life and try to avoid damage to their identities (Part One). Employment conditions are even worse in colonizer-colonized dichotomies, in which the subalternized have to run the households of administrators who believe they are running an empire (Part Two). Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, those employed develop strategies of resistance or self-protection (Part Three). A team of international scholars addresses these issues globally with a deep historical background. Contributors are: Ally Shireen, Eileen Boris, Dana Cooper, Jennifer Fish, David R. Goodman, Mary Gene De Guzman, Jaira Harrington, Victoria Haskins, Dirk Hoerder, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Majda Hrženjak, Elizabeth Hutchison, Dimitris Kalantzopoulos, Bela Kashyap, Marta Kindler, Anna Kordasiewicz, Ms Lokesh, Sabrina Marchetti, Robyn Pariser, Jessica Richter, Magaly Rodríguez García, Raffaella Sarti, Adéla Souralová, Yukari Takai, and Andrew Urban.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix Illustrations and Figures ... x List of Contributors ... xi 1 Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History ... 1 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger and Dirk Hoerder 2 Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work ... 25 Raffaella Sarti 3 Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers’ Migrations: A Global Approach ... 61 Dirk Hoerder PART 1 Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-Assertion 4 Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion ... 113 Dirk Hoerder 5 Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time ... 120 Majda Hrženjak 6 Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil ... 137 Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Jaira J. Harrington 7 Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present 158 Marta Kindler and Anna Kordasiewicz  8 Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers ... 182 Adéla Souralová 9 Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers’ Strike in Pune, Maharashtra ... 202 Lokesh 10 Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from 1970 to 2010 ... 222 Yukari Takai with Mary Gene De Guzman PART 2 Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household 11 Introduction: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household ... 245 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk 12 Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652–1914 ... 254 Shireen Ally 13 The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika ... 271 Robyn Allyce Pariser 14 Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870–1907 ... 296 Andrew Urban 15 “The Matter of Wages Does not Seem to be Material”: Native American Domestic Workers’ Wages under the Outing System in the United States, 1880s–1930s ... 323 Victoria K. Haskins 16 Who’s in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia ... 346 Bela Kashyap 17 Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of “Coloniality”: Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese Women ... 366 Sabrina Marchetti PART 3 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for the Changing Conditions in Domestic Work between the 19th and 20th Century 18 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for Changing Conditions in Domestic Work Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction ... 389 Silke Neunsinger 19 Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco ... 400 R. David Goodman 20 Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System ... 428 Magaly Rodríguez García 21 Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925–1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework ... 451 Dimitris Kalantzopoulos 22 Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction ... 465 Marina de Regt 23 What is “Domestic Service” Anyway? Producing Household Labourers in Austria (1918–1938) ... 484 Jessica Richter 24 “The Problem of Domestic Service in Chile, 1924–1952” ... 511 Elizabeth Quay Hutchison 25 Decent Work for Domestics: Feminist Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and the ILO ... 530 Eileen Boris and Jennifer N. Fish Index ... 553

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Book SynopsisDomestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. Poorly paid or even unpaid, this work has been assigned to women in most societes and occasionally to men often as enslaved, indentures, "adopted" workers. While some use domestic service as training for their own future independent households, others are confined to it for life and try to avoid damage to their identities (Part One). Employment conditions are even worse in colonizer-colonized dichotomies, in which the subalternized have to run the households of administrators who believe they are running an empire (Part Two). Societies and states set the discriminatory rules, those employed develop strategies of resistance or self-protection (Part Three). A team of international scholars addresses these issues globally with a deep historical background. Contributors are: Ally Shireen, Eileen Boris, Dana Cooper, Jennifer Fish, David R. Goodman, Mary Gene De Guzman, Jaira Harrington, Victoria Haskins, Dirk Hoerder, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Majda Hrženjak, Elizabeth Hutchison, Dimitris Kalantzopoulos, Bela Kashyap, Marta Kindler, Anna Kordasiewicz, Ms Lokesh, Sabrina Marchetti, Robyn Pariser, Jessica Richter, Magaly Rodríguez García, Raffaella Sarti, Adéla Souralová, Yukari Takai, and Andrew Urban.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... ix Illustrations and Figures ... x List of Contributors ... xi 1 Domestic Workers of the World: Histories of Domestic Work as Global Labor History ... 1 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger and Dirk Hoerder 2 Historians, Social Scientists, Servants and Domestic Workers: Fifty Years of Research on Domestic and Care Work ... 25 Raffaella Sarti 3 Historical Perspectives on Domestic and Care-Giving Workers’ Migrations: A Global Approach ... 61 Dirk Hoerder PART 1 Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-Assertion 4 Introduction: Combining Work and Emotions: Strategies, Agency, Self-assertion ... 113 Dirk Hoerder 5 Slovenian Domestic Workers in Italy: A Borderlands Care Chain over Time ... 120 Majda Hrženjak 6 Ties that Bind: Localizing the Occupational Motivations that Drive Non-Union Affiliated Domestic Workers in Salvador, Brazil ... 137 Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Jaira J. Harrington 7 Maid-of-all-Work or Professional Nanny? The Changing Character of Domestic Work in Polish Households, Eighteenth Century to the Present 158 Marta Kindler and Anna Kordasiewicz  8 Mutual Emotional Relations in Caregiving Work at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: Vietnamese Families and Czech Nannies-Grandmothers ... 182 Adéla Souralová 9 Making the Personal Political: The First Domestic Workers’ Strike in Pune, Maharashtra ... 202 Lokesh 10 Ambivalence of Return Home: Revaluating Transnational Trajectories of Filipina Live-In Domestic Workers and Caregivers in Toronto from 1970 to 2010 ... 222 Yukari Takai with Mary Gene De Guzman PART 2 Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household 11 Introduction: Domestic Work in the Colonial Context: Race, Color, and Power in the Household ... 245 Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk 12 Slavery, Servility, Service: The Cape of Good Hope, the Natal Colony, and the Witwatersrand, 1652–1914 ... 254 Shireen Ally 13 The Servant Problem: African Servants the Making of European Domesticity in Colonial Tanganyika ... 271 Robyn Allyce Pariser 14 Imperial Divisions of Labor: Chinese Servants and Racial Reproduction in the White Settler Societies of California and the Anglophone Pacific, 1870–1907 ... 296 Andrew Urban 15 “The Matter of Wages Does not Seem to be Material”: Native American Domestic Workers’ Wages under the Outing System in the United States, 1880s–1930s ... 323 Victoria K. Haskins 16 Who’s in Charge, The Government, the Mistress, or the Maid? Tracing the History of Domestic Workers in Southeast Asia ... 346 Bela Kashyap 17 Migrant Domestic Work through the Lens of “Coloniality”: Narratives from Eritrean Afro-Surinamese Women ... 366 Sabrina Marchetti PART 3 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for the Changing Conditions in Domestic Work between the 19th and 20th Century 18 From Servitude to Domestic Service: The Role of International Bodies, States and Elites for Changing Conditions in Domestic Work Between the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction ... 389 Silke Neunsinger 19 Reconfiguring Household Slavery in Twentieth Century Fes, Morocco ... 400 R. David Goodman 20 Child Slavery, Sex Trafficking or Domestic Work? The League of Nations and Its Analysis of the Mui Tsai System ... 428 Magaly Rodríguez García 21 Domestic work in Cyprus, 1925–1955: Motivations, Working Conditions and the Colonial Legal Framework ... 451 Dimitris Kalantzopoulos 22 Employing Migrant Domestic Workers in Urban Yemen: A New Form of Social Distinction ... 465 Marina de Regt 23 What is “Domestic Service” Anyway? Producing Household Labourers in Austria (1918–1938) ... 484 Jessica Richter 24 “The Problem of Domestic Service in Chile, 1924–1952” ... 511 Elizabeth Quay Hutchison 25 Decent Work for Domestics: Feminist Organizing, Worker Empowerment, and the ILO ... 530 Eileen Boris and Jennifer N. Fish Index ... 553

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Book SynopsisTraffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices presents texts by international media and cultural scholars that address the relationship between symbolic and infrastructural dimensions of media, analysing traffic in terms of media ecology, as epistemological principle, and as (trans-)formative power. Contributors are: Menahem Blondheim, Grant David Bollmer, Richard Cavell, Wolf-Dieter Ernst, Norm Friesen, Elihu Katz, Peter Krapp, Martina Leeker, Jana Mangold, John Durham Peters, Gabriele Schabacher, Michael Steppat, Wolfgang Sützl, Hartmut WinklerTable of ContentsMarion Näser-Lather and Christoph Neubert: Traffic – Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices: Introduction Section 1: Theorizing Traffic John Durham Peters: Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic Between Nature and Culture Gabriele Schabacher: Traffic as ‘Dirt Experience’: Harold Innis’s Tracing of Media Jana Mangold: Traffic of Metaphor: Transport and Media at the Beginning of Media Theory Hartmut Winkler: Traces: Does Traffic Retroact on the Media Infrastructure? Section 2: Traffic of Concepts Grant David Bollmer: Technobiological Traffic: Networks, Bodies, and the Management of Vitality Norm Friesen: Dewey’s Cosmic Traffic: Politics and Pedagogy as Communication Richard Cavell: McLuhan, Turing, and the Question of Determinism Martina Leeker and Michael Steppat: Data Traffic in Theater and Engineering: Between Technical Conditions and Illusions Section 3: Time, Space, and Power Menahem Blondheim and Elihu Katz: Communications in an Ancient Empire: An Innisian Reading of the Book of Esther Peter Krapp: Nomads of the Technical Sublime Wolfgang Suetzl: Street Protests, Electronic Disturbance, Smart Mobs: Dislocations of Resistance Wolf-Dieter Ernst: Performing Traffic: On Mobile Aesthetics in Contemporary Theater and Travel

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Book SynopsisDislocating Globality: Deterritorialization, Difference and Resistance offers a broad panorama of critical approaches to globalization, its effects, the critique of neoliberalism, and discusses various forms of resistance to its monocultural raison d’être. The authors in this volume address these issues from a variety of perspectives – theoretical, as well as geographically diverse case-based analyses ranging from South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, and Australia in attempt to show the diverse effects of globalization, and varied forms of negotiating globalization on a local level. Contributors are: Allie Biswas, Katherine Burrows, Jacob P. Chamberlain, Vytis Čiubrinskas, Maria Halouva, Jeanne Kay, Mara Matta, Gintautas Mažeikis, Dennis Mehmet, Beatriz Miranda-Galarza, Mustafa Mustafa, Abhijeet Paul, Šarūnas Paunksnis, and Némésis Srour.Trade ReviewDislocating Globality engages in a vigorous exploration of the complexities of globalization, particularly of some of its neglected aspects. Through a collection of very interesting papers which focus on particularly two essential aspects of the new forms of globality – the logics of political change and of cultural dislocation – it offers a fascinating picture of innovation and creativity on the dark side of the globalization process. Against the pleasant fable of globalization as the universal spread of a benevolent and uniform modernity, this collection offers a picture of a strange, creative, innovative world in the making where things, people and institutions are forced out of their conventional places and functions. The collection offers a fascinating critical view of global modernity in its migratory flows, cultural creativity and displacement, and the surprise of political improvisation. Sudipta Kaviraj, Columbia University This collection of essays opens up new research avenues and is going to become a standard reference for scholars of globalization. Traversing diverse global landscapes and working the boundaries between disciplines it sheds light on the dislocating effects produced by the experience of globality on economies, cultures, and societies. And at the same time it dislocates the very notion of globality, demonstrating how multiple practices of resistance haunt the “monocultural” tendencies of globalization from the inside. A fascinating reading and a welcome new start in globalization studies! Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna From the postcolonial confusions of the Charlie cartoons to the zero-popping arithmetics of a lumpen counter-hegemony, the range and verve of these essays will never allow the mono of 'their' globalization time to recover. A narrowed and homogenised theoretical distance is scattered into constituent variabilities and divergent localities, as each chapter of this book offers a differing and defiant global vernacular burn. John Hutnyk, RMIT University, Melbourne This is one of the most challenging and provocative anthologies on globalization to come out in recent times. The editor has managed to bring together a bunch of audacious, youthful and politically committed writers from different parts of the globe whose corners are diverse and wide-ranging. From gentrification in Istanbul and New Delhi to French response to Charlie Hebdo massacre, from disability in Ecuador to social enterprise in indigenous Australia, from analysis of iconic global artists to debating insurgency in the Arab world, from subaltern commodification in third-world industrial slums to the politics of diasporic sexuality – the sheer range of the contributions is mind-boggling. There are also some insightful and cutting-edge theoretical essays. This is activist scholarship at its best. These are the new dissenting voices in the study of globalization. Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay, the author of The Rumor of Globalization Dislocating Globility is an attempt to bring 'small voices' from the often sidelined parts of the world to counter and encounter the metropolises. Multidisciplinary, inter-media, and translocational, the project is an alternative articulation to the familiar discourse on globalization. Kuan-Hsing Chen, National Chiao Tung UniversityTable of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures List of Contributors PART 1 Experiencing Difference, Transculturalism, and Migration On Autonomy and Migration: The Politics of Statelessness Jacob P. Chamberlain Suis-je Charlie? The Colonial Genealogy of The French Response to the Charlie Hebdo Attack Jeanne Kay Dialectics of Global and Local in the Work of Subodh Gupta Allie Biswas Deterritorialization of the Image: Dissonances in The Imagery of Arab Identity? Némésis Srour From the ‘Mad Woman in the Attic’ to the ‘Queer Stranger in the Closet’: Sexuality and Migration at the Crossroads Mara Matta Transnationalism as Fragmentation of Globality: Ethnification and Strategies of Reterritorialization of Lithuanian Immigrants in the United States Vytis Čiubrinskas PART 2 Articulating Globalized Present and Resistance The Architects of New Turkey: Globalization of Urban Space in Istanbul and the New Islamic Gentry Dennis Mehmet Infrastructures of the Grey: Asli/naqli in a Mohalla Bazaar Abhijeet Paul Tahrir Square, January 2011: Crowds, Rumours, Civil Society and Globalization Mustafa Mustafa From Self-determination to Self-appreciation: Neoliberalism and Social Enterprise in Indigenous Australia Maria Halouva From Global Concepts to Local Stories: Intellectual Disability, Family and Resistance in Ecuador Beatriz Miranda-Galarza PART 3 Monocultures and Dislocations Undoing the Logic of Zero Katherine Burrows Composite Multiculturalism in the Era of the Distribution of the Global Imaginary Gintautas Mažeikis Dreams of Other Space: Heterotopian Emplacements of the Global Šarūnas Paunksnis Index

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Book SynopsisAt a time when the mass media insist on bombarding us with news about natural, political and economic disasters, words, ideas and images associated with such “crises” and “catastrophes” shape to a great extent collective memory and current imagination. Fear and Fantasy in a Global World seeks to stir the debate on the processes and meanings of, as well as on the relations between, fear and fantasy in the globalized world. Collective fears and fantasies are analysed from a number of cross-disciplinary perspectives, promoted by the epistemological underpinnings of comparative literature. In various ways and from different disciplinary angles, the 17 essays here gathered respond to and scrutinize key questions related to the imaginaries of fear and fantasy, as well as their relations to trauma, crisis, anxiety, and representations of both the conscious and the unconscious. Contributors: Alexandra Hills, Ana Filipa Prata, Brecht de Groote, Christin Grunert, Christopher Bollas, Daniela Di Pasquale, David Vichnar, Edith Beltrán, Gero Guttzeit, Hande Gurses, Harriet Hulme, James Rushing Daniel, João Pedro da Costa, Margarita García Candeira, Marija Sruk, Martijn Boven, and Ortwin de Graef.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Susana Araújo, Marta Pacheco Pinto, and Sandra Bettencourt Introduction Part 1: Local Fears, Global Anxieties Christopher Bollas The Transmissive Self and Transmissive Objects in the Age of Globalization James Rushing Daniel Dreamlandic Fantasy: Consumerism and Control in Bragi Ólafsson’s The Pets David Vichnar “Territories of Risk” within “Tropological Space”: From Zero to 2666, and Back Edith Beltrán Mexico’s Fearscapes: Where Fantasy Personas Engage in Citizenship Part 2: The Limits of Knowledge: Fantasy and Identity Formation Martijn Boven The Site of Initiative. Towards a Hermeneutic Framework for Analysing the Imagination of Future Threats Christin Grunert Conflict with the Perception of Time as Fertile Ground for Collective Insecurity: The Frightening Reality of Scientific Facts and their Transformation in Literary Fiction Gero Guttzeit Fearful Fantasy: Figurations of the Oedipus Myth in Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010) Marija Sruk Laugh Away the Fear! The Satisfaction of Comical Fantasy in the Holocaust Film Comedies of the Late 1990s Alexandra Hills Viennese Fantasies, Austrian Histories: Space, Fantasy and Fascism in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina and Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter Part 3: Boundaries and Performance: Language, Memory and Fantasy Harriet Hulme A Politics of Form: Fantasy and Storytelling as Modes of Resistance in the Work of Atxaga and Kundera Ana Filipa Prata Memory and Fantasy in Antoine Volodine’s Minor Angels Hande Gurses The Fantasy of the Archive: An Analysis of Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence João Pedro da Costa The Digital Meta-Dissemination of Fear in Music Videos. A Transdisciplinary Textual Analysis of Two Case Studies: Esben and the Witch’s Marching Song and M.I.A.’s Born Free Part 4: Uncanny Representations of the Self and the Other Ortwin de Graef Shaft which Ran: Chinese Whispers with Auerbach, Buck, Woolf and De Quincey Brecht de Groote The Phantom in the Mirror: Duplication, Spectrality, and the Romantic Fear of Fantasy in Wordsworth, Coleridge and De Quincey Margarita García Candeira Habitability and Spectres in the House of Language: Approaching (Post)Modernity in Las flores del frío, by Luis García Montero Daniela Di Pasquale War on Fear: Reinterpreting Dante’s View of the “Infidel” Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEthnicity and the Colonial State analyses, through a comparison of three West African communities (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), the ways in which ethnic labels and arguments are used (or omitted) in dealings with colonial administrations. It follows these strategies and choices over more than a century, between the conquest periods and independence. Where state structures were weak as a factor of group cohesion, ethnic arguments were especially likely to come into play. The analysis discusses internal fissures and conflicting interests within the communities as other incentives for ethnic coalition-building. The observations made in this book are put into the context of a global historical perspective, for which “ethnicity” has so far remained a badly defined concept.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii Maps ... x 1 Introduction ... 1 2 Group Identifications: African and Global Categories ... 36 3 Wolof and Wolofisation: Statehood, Colonial Rule, and Identification in Senegal ... 84 4 Fragmentation and the Temne: From War Raids into Ethnic Civil Wars ... 158 5 ‘Ethnic Identity’ as an Anti-colonial Weapon? Ewe Mobilisation from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s ... 220 6 Conclusion ... 293 Bibliography ... 313 Index ... 361

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Book SynopsisUntil recently migration did not occupy a prominent place on the agenda of students of Roman history. Various types of movement in the Roman world were studied, but not under the heading of migration and mobility. Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire starts from the assumption that state-organised, forced and voluntary mobility and migration were intertwined and should be studied together. The papers assembled in the book tap into the remarkably large reservoir of archaeological and textual sources concerning various types of movement during the Roman Principate. The most important themes covered are rural-urban migration, labour mobility, relationships between forced and voluntary mobility, state-organised movements of military units, and familial and female mobility. Contributors are: Colin Adams, Seth G. Bernard, Christer Bruun, Paul Erdkamp, Lien Foubert, Peter Garnsey, Saskia Hin, Claire Holleran, Tatiana Ivleva, Luuk de Ligt, Elio Lo Cascio, Tracy L. Prowse, Saskia T. Roselaar, Laurens E. Tacoma, Rolf A. Tybout, Greg Woolf, and Andrea Zerbini.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ... vii List of Figures and Tables ... viii List of Abbreviations ... x List of Contributors ... xiv 1 Approaching Migration in the Early Roman Empire ... 1 Luuk de Ligt and Laurens E. Tacoma 2 The Impact of Migration on the Demographic Profile of the City of Rome: A Reassessment ... 23 Elio Lo Cascio 3 Seasonal Labour and Rural–Urban Migration in Roman Italy ... 33 Paul Erdkamp 4 Food Distributions and Immigration in Imperial Rome ... 50 Seth G. Bernard 5 Migration in Early-Imperial Italy: Herculaneum and Rome Compared ... 72 Peter Garnsey and Luuk de Ligt 6 Labour Mobility in the Roman World: A Case Study of Mines in Iberia ... 95 Claire Holleran 7 State-Organised Mobility in the Roman Empire: Legionaries and Auxiliaries ... 138 Saskia T. Roselaar 8 Peasants into Soldiers: Recruitment and Military Mobility in the Early Roman Empire ... 158 Tatiana Ivleva 9 Tracing Familial Mobility: Female and Child Migrants in the Roman West ... 176 Christer Bruun 10 Isotopes and Mobility in the Ancient Roman World ... 205 Tracy L. Prowse 11 Revisiting Urban Graveyard Theory: Migrant Flows in Hellenistic and Roman Athens ... 234 Saskia Hin 12 Migration in Roman Egypt: Problems and Possibilities ... 264 Colin Adams 13 Mobile Women in P.Oxy. and the Port Cities of Roman Egypt: Tracing Women’s Travel Behaviour in Papyrological Sources ... 285 Lien Foubert 14 Human Mobility in the Roman Near East: Patterns and Motives ... 305 Andrea Zerbini 15 Moving Epigrams: Migration and Mobility in the Greek East ... 345 Laurens E. Tacoma and Rolf A. Tybout 16 Dead Men Walking: The Repatriation of Mortal Remains ... 390 Rolf A. Tybout 17 Movers and Stayers ... 438 Greg Woolf References ... 463 Index ... 513

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Book SynopsisOn Coerced Labor focuses on those forms of labor relations that have been overshadowed by the “extreme” categories (wage labor and chattel slavery) in the historiography. It covers types of work lying between what the law defines as “free labor” and “slavery.” The frame of reference is the observation that although chattel slavery has largely been abolished in the course of the past two centuries, other forms of coerced labor have persisted in most parts of the world. While most nations have increasingly condemned the continued existence of slavery and the slave trade, they have tolerated labor relationships that involve violent control, economic exploitation through the appropriation of labor power, restriction of workers’ freedom of movement, and fraudulent debt obligations. Contributors are: Lisa Carstensen, Christian G. De Vito, Justin F. Jackson, Christine Molfenter, David Palmer, Nicola Pizzolato, Luis F.B. Plascencia, Magaly Rodríguez García, Kelvin Santiago-Valles, Nicole J. Siller, Marcel van der Linden, Sven Van Melkebeke.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ... vii List of Maps, Tables and Figures ... viii Notes on Contributors ... ix 1 Introduction ... 1 Marcel van der Linden and Magaly Rodríguez García Part 1 Coerced Labor in International and National Law 2 On the Legal Boundaries of Coerced Labor ... 11 Magaly Rodríguez García 3 Modern Slavery: The Legal Tug-of-war between Globalization and Fragmentation ... 30 Nicole Siller 4 Forced Labor and Institutional Change in Contemporary India ... 50 Christine Molfenter Part 2 Convict and Military Labor 5 Forced Labor in Colonial Penal Institutions across the Spanish, u.s., British, French Atlantic, 1860s–1920s ... 73 Kelvin Santiago-Valles 6 Convict Labor in the Southern Borderlands of Latin America (ca. 1750s–1910s): Comparative Perspectives ... 98 Christian G. De Vito 7 ‘A military necessity which must be pressed’: The u.s. Army and Forced Road Labor in the Early American Colonial Philippines ... 127 Justin F. Jackson 8 Foreign Forced Labor at Mitsubishi’s Nagasaki and Hiroshima Shipyards: Big Business, Militarized Government, and the Absence of Shipbuilding Workers’ Rights in World War II Japan ... 159 David Palmer Part 3 Agricultural and Industrial Labor 9 Coerced Coffee Cultivation and Rural Agency: The Plantation-Economy of the Kivu (1918–1940) ... 187 Sven Van Melkebeke 10 “As much in bondage as they was before”: Unfree Labor during the New Deal (1935–1952) ... 208 Nicola Pizzolato 11 State-Sanctioned Coercion and Agricultural Contract Labor: Jamaican and Mexican Workers in Canada and the United States, 1909–2014 ... 225 Luis F.B. Plascencia 12 “Modern Slave Labor” in Brazil at the Intersection of Production, Migration and Resistance Networks ... 267 Lisa Carstensen Part 4 In Lieu of a Conclusion 13 Dissecting Coerced Labor ... 293 Marcel van der Linden Bibliography ... 323 Index ... 369

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Book SynopsisDoes the growing economic might of regional superpowers like Brazil mean that dependency theory of the 1960s was all wrong? The answer to this and many other enigmas of development is found in Sub-Imperialism Revisited, a theoretically rigorous study by the brilliant Mexican analyst Adrián Sotelo Valencia. In analysing the 21st Century conditions of Latin America, Sotelo systematically explores the concept of "sub-imperialism" as advanced in the pioneering work of Ruy Mauro Marini. Himself a former student of Marini, Sotelo elucidates the explanatory power of a fully Marxist conception of imperialism and underdevelopment while providing considerable insight into opposing conceptions of dependency. This timely book ultimately enables readers to appreciate why radical dependency theory remains more relevant today than ever.Table of ContentsForeword  Carlos Eduardo Martins List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Dependency Theory in the Post-1945 Development Literature of Latin America 2 Marini’s Marxism and Dependency Theory Today 3 Neo-imperialism and Neo-dependency: Two Sides of the Same Historical-Political Process 4 Sub-imperialism and Dependency 5 The United States and Brazil: Antagonistic Cooperation 6 Brasil Potência vs. Sub-imperialism 7 Dictatorship, Democracy and the State of the Fourth Power 8 Sub-imperialism and the Contemporary Capitalist Crisis Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume sheds new light on how today’s peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized in a context of rapidly advancing globalization. Focusing on peripheral spaces, mobilities and aesthetics, it presents critical readings of, among others, Indian caste quarters, the Sahara, the South African backyard and European migration, as well as films, novels and artworks about marginalized communities and repressed histories. Together, these readings insist that the peripheral not only needs more visibility in political, economic and cultural terms, but is also invaluable for creating alternative perspectives on the globalizing present. Peripheral Visions combines sociological, cultural, literary and philosophical perspectives on the periphery, and highlights peripheral innovation and futurity to counter the lingering association of the peripheral with stagnation and backwardness.Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Peripheral Visions in the Globalizing Present, Esther Peeren, Hanneke Stuit and Astrid Van Weyenberg Part 1: Theorizing the Peripheral A Grammar of Peripheralization: Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, Mireille Rosello The Infra-Periphery and Global Circuits of Symbolic Capital Accumulation, Paulina Aroch-Fugellie Fragments in Relation: Trajectories of/for an Unbound Europe, Sudeep Dasgupta Peripheral Worldscapes in Circulation: Towards a Productive Understanding of Untranslatability, Doro Wiese Part II: Peripheral Spaces The Center of All Concerns at the Periphery of the World: The Sahara Desert from a Nomadic Perspective, Luca Raineri Cast(e)ing Life: The Experience of Living in Peripheral Caste Quarters, Durgesh Solanki The South African Backyard as a Very Local Peripheral Space, Ena Jansen Part III: Peripheral Mobilities Mobile Peripheries? Contesting and Negotiating Peripheries in the Global Era of Mobility, Magdalena Ślusarczyk and Paula Pustułka “Repairing Europe”: A Critical Reading of Storytelling in European Cultural Projects, Astrid Van Weyenberg The Rise of the Peripheral Subject: Questions of Cultural Hybridity in the Greek “Crisis”, Evangelia Mademli Part IV: Peripheral Aesthetics Remains to be Un/Seen: Envisioning the Disappeared in Willie Doherty’s Ancient Ground and Patricio Guzmán’s Nostalgia for the Light, Paula Blair Shaping “Common Places”: Post-Soviet Narratives beyond Anti-Utopia in Ksenia Buksha’s The Freedom Factory and Igor Saveljev’s Tereshkova is Flying to Mars, Ksenia Robbe The Heterotopic Closet: Spectral Presences and Otherworlds in La Revue Monstre and Michael James O’Brien’s Interiors, Matthieu Foucher Contributors Name Index

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Book SynopsisWhat Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa examines the diverse experiences of being young in today’s Africa. It offers new perspectives to the roles and positions young people take to change their life conditions both within and beyond the formal political structures and institutions. The contributors represent several social science disciplines, and provide well-grounded qualitative analyses of young people’s everyday engagements by critically examining dominant discourses of youth, politics and ideology. Despite focusing on Africa, the book is a collective effort to better understand what it is like to be young today, and what the making of tomorrow’s yesterday means for them in personal and political terms. Contributors are: Ehaab Abdou, Abebaw Yirga Adamu, Henni Alava, Päivi Armila, Randi Rønning Balsvik, Jesper Bjarnesen, Þóra Björnsdóttir, Jónína Einarsdóttir, Tilo Grätz, Nanna Jordt Jørgensen, Marko Kananen, Sofia Laine, Naydene de Lange, Afifa Ltifi, Ivo Mhike, Claudia Mitchell, Relebohile Moletsane, Danai S. Mupotsa, Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera, Eija Ranta, Mounir Saidani, Mariko Sato, Loubna H. Skalli, Tiina Sotkasiira, Abdoulaye Sounaye, Leena Suurpää, and Mulumebet Zenebe. What Politics? Youth and Political Engagement in Africa is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations 1 Evasive Youth, Oblique Politics  Elina Oinas, Henri Onodera and Leena Suurpää Part 1: Envisioning 2 A Question of Power  Danai S. Mupotsa 3 Friendship and Youth Activism in Pre-revolutionary Egypt  Henri Onodera 4 Respectful Resistance: Young Musicians and the Unfinished Revolution in Tunisia  Sofia Laine, Leena Suurpää and Afifa Ltifi 5 Egyptian Youth-led Civil Society Organizations: Alternative Spaces for Civic Engagement?  Ehaab D. Abdou and Loubna H. Skalli 6 Taking the Forbidden Space: Graffiti and Resistance in Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia  Mulumebet Zenebe 7 Post-Revolutionary Tunisian Youth Art: The Effect of Contestation on the Democratization of Art Production and Consumption  Mounir Saidani Part 2: Entitlement 8 The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Burkina Faso  Jesper Bjarnesen 9 Hustling for Rights: Political Engagements with Sand in Northern Kenya  Nanna Jordt Jørgensen 10 “Acholi Youth Are Lost”: Young, Christian and (A)political in Uganda  Henni Alava 11 Struggling for New Communicative Spaces: Young Media Producers and Politics in the Republic of Benin  Tilo Grätz 12 Transnational Engagement: Return Migrant Women in Somaliland  Mariko Sato Part 3: Embeddedness 13 Salafi Youth on Campus in Niamey, Niger: Moral Motives, Political Ends  Abdoulaye Sounaye 14 Patronage and Ethnicity amongst Politically Active Young Kenyans  Eija Ranta 15 Political Violence in Zimbabwe’s National Youth Service, 2001–2007  Ivo Mhike 16 Students’ Participation in and Contribution to Political and Social Change in Ethiopia  Abebaw Yirga Adamu and Randi Rønning Balsvik 17 Child Participation in Ghana: Responsibilities and Rights  Þóra Björnsdóttir and Jónína Einarsdóttir 18 Diaspora as a Multilevel Political Space for Young Somalis  Päivi Armila, Marko Kananen and Tiina Sotkasiira 19 Addressing Sexual Violence in South Africa: ‘Gender activism in the making’  Claudia Mitchell, Naydene de Lange and Relebohile Moletsane Index

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