Globalization Books

Book SynopsisWith contributions from over 30 scholars, A Global History of Consumer Co-operation surveys the origins and development of the consumer co-operative movement from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day. The contributions, covering the history of co-operation in different national contexts in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia, illustrate the wide variety of forms that consumer co-operatives have taken; the different political, economic and social contexts in which they have operated; the ideological influences on their development; and the reasons for their expansion and decline at different times. The book also explores the connections between co-operatives in different parts of the world, challenging assumptions that the story of global co-operation can be traced exclusively to the 1844 Rochdale Co-operative Society. Contributors are: Amélie Artis, Nikola Balnave, Patrizia Battilani, Johann Brazda, Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens, María Eugenia Castelao Caruana, Kay-Wah Chan, Bernard Degen, Danièle Demoustier, Espen Ekberg, Dulce Freire, Katarina Friberg, Mary Hilson, Mary Ip, Florian Jagschitz, Pernilla Jonsson, Kim Hyung-mi, Akira Kurimoto, Simon Lambersens, Catherine C LeGrand, Ian MacPherson, Francisco José Medina-Albaladejo, Alain Mélo, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Silke Neunsinger, Greg Patmore, Joana Dias Pereira, Michael Prinz, Siegfried Rom, Robert Schediwy, Corrado Secchi, Geert Van Goethem, Griselda Verbeke, Rachael Vorberg-Rugh, Mirta Vuotto, Anthony Webster and John Wilson.Trade Review"Anyone working on the cooperative movement will have this book on their bookshelves. It very much assembles the state of the art in the history of consumer cooperation." - Stefan Berger, "What is New in the History of Social Movements?", in: Moving the Social, Volume 59 (2018), pp. 115-127 [DOI: 10.13154/mts.59.2018.115-127] "By illuminating the divergent histories of consumer cooperative movements in industrialized countries in Europe, North America, and Asia, A Global History makes an important contribution to scholarship. [...] Hilson and her collaborators will remain widely read for decades." - Carl J. Strikwerda, in: International Review of Social History 63:1 (2018), pp. 127–142 [DOI:10.1017/S0020859017000670] "The book is not uncritical of divisions between co-ops over markets, or of the tensions between cheap goods, colonial production, and ethical matters, or of failures such as the Berkeley co-op. Like its subject, this book is unwieldy, yet worldly; its ambitions are greater than the sum of its parts, but those parts are very rewarding in their detail—and those ambitions are inestimably worthy, enduring, and global." - Lawrence Black, in: Economic History Review 71:2 (2018), pp. 692-694Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850: Introduction  Mary Hilson, Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore 2 Co-operative History: Movements and Businesses  Mary Hilson SECTION 1: Origins and Models Introduction to Section 1  Mary Hilson 3 Rochdale and Beyond: Consumer Co-operation in Britain before 1945  Mary Hilson 4 The Belgian Co-operative Model: Elements of Success and Failure  Geert Van Goethem 5 History of Consumer Co-operatives in France: From the Conquest of Consumption by the Masses to the Challenge of Mass Consumption  Simon Lambersens, Amélie Artis, Danièle Demoustier and Alain Mélo 6 Consumer Co-operation in the Nordic Countries, c. 1860–1939  Mary Hilson 7 Canadian and us Catholic Promotion of Co-operatives in Central America and the Caribbean and Their Political Implications  Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens and Catherine C LeGrand 8 African American Consumer Co-operation: History and Global Connections  Jessica Gordon Nembhard 9 A Co-operative Take on Free Trade: International Ambitions and Regional Initiatives in International Co-operative Trade  Katarina Friberg SECTION 2: Challenges to Democracy – State Intervention Introduction to Section 2  Silke Neunsinger 10 German Co-operatives: Rise and Fall 1850–1970  Michael Prinz 11 The Rise and Fall of Austria’s Consumer Co-operatives  Johann Brazda, Florian Jagschitz, Siegfried Rom and Robert Schediwy 12 Consumer Co-operatives in Portugal: Debates and Experiences from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century  Dulce Freire and Joana Dias Pereira 13 Consumer Co-operatives in Spain 1860–2010  Francisco J Medina-Albaladejo 14 The Experience of the Consumer Co-operative Movement in Korea: Its Break off and Rebirth  Kim Hyung-mi 15 Consumer Co-operatives in the People’s Republic of China – A Development Path Shaped by Its Economic and Political History  Mary Ip and Kay-Wah Chan SECTION 3: Challenges to Business Introduction to Section 3  Greg Patmore 16 Managing Consumer Co-operatives: A Historical Perspective  Greg Patmore and Nikola Balnave 17 Patterns, Limitations and Associations: The Consumer Co-operative Movement in Canada, 1828 to the Present  Ian MacPherson 18 Rochdale Consumer Co-operatives in Australia and New Zealand  Nikola Balnave and Greg Patmore 19 Consumer Co-operation in a Changing Economy: The Case of Argentina  Mirta Vuotto, Griselda Verbeke and María Eugenia Castelao Caruana 20 Fighting Monopoly and Enhancing Democracy: A Historical Overview of us Consumer Co-operatives  Greg Patmore 21 Affluence and Decline: Consumer Co-operatives in Postwar Britain  Corrado Secchi SECTION 4 Consolidation Introduction to Section 4  Mary Hilson 22 Going Global. The Rise of the cws as an International Commercial and Political Actor, 1863–1950: Scoping an Agenda for Further Research  Anthony Webster, John F Wilson and Rachael Vorberg-Rugh 23 Consumer Co-operation in Italy: A Network of Co-operatives with a Multi-class Constituency  Patrizia Battilani 24 Consumer Societies in Switzerland: From Local Self-help Organizations to a Single National Co-operative  Bernard Degen 25 From Commercial Trickery to Social Responsibility: Marketing in the Swedish Co-operative Movement in the Early Twentieth Century  Pernilla Jonsson 26 Building Consumer Democracy: The Trajectory of Consumer Co-operation in Japan  Akira Kurimoto 27 Against the Tide: Understanding the Commercial Success of Nordic Consumer Co-operatives, 1950–2010  Espen Ekberg Conclusion 28 Conclusion: Consumer Co-operatives Past, Present and Future  Silke Neunsinger and Greg Patmore Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe aim of Protests and Generations is to problematize the relations between generations and protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Most of the work on recent protests insists on the newness of their manifestation but leave unexplored the various links that exist between them and what preceded them. Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa (Eds.) argue that their articulation relies at once on historical ties and their rejection. It is precisely this tension that the chapters of the book address in specifically documenting several case studies that highlight the generating processes by which generations and protests are connected. What the production and use of generation brings to scholarly understanding of the protests and the ability to articulate them is one of the major questions this collection addresses. Contributors are: Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Lorenzo Cini, Éric Gobe, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Andrea Hajek, Chaymaa Hassabo, Gal Levy, Ilana Kaufman, Sunaina Maira, Mohammad Massala, Matthieu Rey, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, and Stephen Luis Vilaseca. *Protests and Generations is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Conceptualizing Generations and Protests  Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa Part 1: Forms of Protest and the Production of Generations 1 Palestinian Youth in Israel: A New Generational Style of Activism?  Mohammad Massalha, Ilana Kaufman and Gal Levy 2 From Student to General Struggle: The Protests against the Neoliberal Reforms in Higher Education in Contemporary Italy  Lorenzo Cini 3 Lawyers Mobilizing in the Tunisian Uprising: A Matter of ‘generations’?  Éric Gobe Part 2: Genealogies of Generational Formations 4 2003: A Turning Point in the Formation of Syrian Youth  Matthieu Rey 5 Together, but Divided: Trajectories of a Generation of Egyptian Political Activists (from 2005 to the Revolution)  Chaymaa Hassabo 6 The Gezi Protests: The Making of the Next Left Generation in Turkey  Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz Part 3: Memory, History and the “New Generation” 7 ‘Freedom is a Daily Practice’: The Palestinian Youth Movement and Jil Oslo  Sunaina Maira 8 The Double Presence of Southern Algerians: Space, Generation and Unemployment  Ratiba Hadj-Moussa 9 “We are not heiresses”: Generational Memory, Heritage and Inheritance in Contemporary Italian Feminism  Andrea Hajek 10 Echoes of Ricardo Mella: Reading Twenty-First Century Youth Protest Movements through the Lens of an Early Twentieth-Century Anarchist  Stephen Luis Vilaseca

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Book SynopsisFrom Policemen to Revolutionaries uncovers the less-known story of Sikh emigrants in Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yin Cao argues that the cross-border circulation of personnel and knowledge across the British colonial and the Sikh diasporic networks, facilitated the formation of the Sikh community in Shanghai, eventually making this Chinese city one of the overseas hubs of the Indian nationalist struggle. By adopting a translocal approach, this study elaborates on how the flow of Sikh emigrants, largely regarded as subalterns, initially strengthened but eventually unhinged British colonial rule in East and Southeast Asia.Trade Review"[...] it is worth reading From Policemen to Revolutionaries for its creative and global thinking on migration history, modern Chinese history, Indian history and British imperial history. Furthermore, the study draws impressively on an abundance of global primary sources in various languages (English, Chinese, Indian), from official archives (Shanghai Municipal Council, Colonial Office, Indian Office) to local newspaper (London, India, Singapore, California, Hong Kong, Shanghai)". Jiang Jiaxin, in Crossroads, 19 (2020), pp. 99-115.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction  Sikh Migration in the Context of Global Migration  Shanghai in the Translocal Networks  Revisiting Sikh Diaspora and British Imperial History  Rescuing Shanghai Sikhs from Nation  Sources and Structure 1 Establishing the Sikh Police Unit in Shanghai  Hong Kong as the Reference  The Rise and Decline of the Localization Policy in the smp  A Martial Race in Motion  “They were Unsuitable for Shanghai”: Rejecting the Sikh Scheme  New Bottle with Old Wine: Revival of the Sikh Scheme  Conclusion 2 The Journey of Isser Singh: A Sikh Migrant in Shanghai  A Peasant’s Son in the Punjab  Optimizing the Migration Plan  The Road to Shanghai  Accommodating the Sikhs  Policing Hongkou  “A Man Who Gives Considerable Trouble”  An Unending End  Conclusion 3 Kill Buddha Singh: The Indian Nationalist Movement in Shanghai, 1914–1927  Go to North America!  The Rise of the Ghadar Party  The Politicization of Sikhs in Shanghai  Turning to the Left  From Hankou to Shanghai: The Ghadar Hubs in China  “I kill Him Because He was a Bad Man”  The Rise of a Surveillance Network  Conclusion 4 A Lone Islet or A Center of Communications? Shanghai Sikhs and The Indian National Army  The Birth of the ina and the Unification of Shanghai Sikhs  The ina in Crisis and the Hardship of Shanghai Sikhs  Subhas Chandra Bose and the Total Mobilization  The Mobilization of the Sikhs in Shanghai  The End of a Legend  Conclusion Conclusion: Circulation, Networks, and Subalterns in Global History Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSelling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers a time period from 1600 to the 2000s. The overviews in this volume examine sex work in more than twenty notorious “sin cities” around the world, ranging from Sydney to Singapore and from Casablanca to Chicago. Situated within a comparative framework of local developments, the book takes up themes such as labour relations, coercion, agency, gender, and living and working conditions. Selling Sex in the City thus reveals how prostitution and societal reactions to the trade have been influenced by colonization, industrialization, urbanization, the rise of nation states, imperialism, and war, as well as by revolutions in politics, transport, and communication. Contributors are: Pascale Absi, Dlila Amir, Deborah Bernstein, Francesca Biancani, Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette, Amalia L. Cabezas, Susan P. Conner, Satarupa Dasgupta, Mfon Umoren Ekpootu, Raelene Frances, Pamela Fuentes, Sue Gronewold, Hanan Hammad, Shawna Herzog, Philippa Hetherington, Nicole Keusch, Liat Kozma, Julia Laite, Nomi Levenkron, Mary Linehan, Maja Mechant, Fernanda Nuñez, Marion Pluskota, Cristiana Schettini, Hila Shamir, Yvonne Svanström, Isabelle Tracol-Huynh, Michela Turno, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, and Mark David Wyers.Trade Review"It provides a densely rich and complex look at five hundred years of social, economic, and political entanglements that will fascinate global and world historians, as well as those interested in colonial, urban, and migration history. In providing novel approaches to understanding the contested theories and practices around sold sex, Selling Sex in the City is an essential, even if very large, handbook for activists and political actors engaged in debates around sex work and human trafficking". Ruth Ennis, in Comparativ, vol. 29(6), (2019).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Selling Sex in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: An Introduction  Magaly Rodríguez García, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Lex Heerma van Voss Part 1: Urban Overviews Section 1: Europe 2 Selling Sex in Amsterdam  Marion Pluskota 3 Selling Sex in a Provincial Town: Prostitution in Bruges  Maja Mechant 4 Sex for Sale in Florence  Michela Turno 5 A Global History of Prostitution: London  Julia Laite 6 Prostitution in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia  Philippa Hetherington 7 The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Prostitution in Paris  Susan P. Conner 8 Prostitution in Stockholm: Continuity and Change  Yvonne Svanström Section 2: Africa and the Middle East 9 Prostitution in Cairo  Hanan Hammad and Francesca Biancani 10 Colonial and Post-Colonial Casablanca  Liat Kozma 11 Selling Sex in Istanbul  Mark David Wyers 12 Sexualizing the City: Female Prostitution in Nigeria’s Urban Centres in a Historical Perspective  Mfon Umoren Ekpootu 13 Sex Work and Migration: The Case of Tel Aviv and Jaffa, 1918–2010  Deborah Bernstein, Hila Shamir, Nomi Levenkron and Dlila Amir Section 3: The Americas 14 A Social History of Prostitution in Buenos Aires  Cristiana Schettini 15 Prostitution in the us: Chicago  Mary Linehan 16 Prostitution in Havana  Amalia L. Cabezas 17 Facing a Double Standard: Prostitution in Mexico City, 1521–2006  Fernanda Nuñez and Pamela Fuentes 18 The Future of an Institution from the Past: Accommodating Regulationism in Potosi (Bolivia) from the Nineteenth to Twenty-first Centuries  Pascale Absi 19 Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: Police Management without Regulation  Thaddeus Blanchette and Cristiana Schettini Section 4: Asia-Pacific 20 Commercial Sex Work in Calcutta: Past and Present  Satarupa Dasgupta 21 Prostitution in Colonial Hanoi (1885–1954)  Isabelle Tracol-Huynh 22 Prostitution in Shanghai  Sue Gronewold 23 Selling Sex in Singapore: The Development, Expansion, and Policing of Prostitution in an International Entrepôt  Shawna Herzog 24 Prostitution in Sydney and Perth since 1788  Raelene Frances Part 2: Thematic Overviews 25 “We Use our Bodies to Work Hard, So We Need to Get Legitimate Workers’ Rights”: Labour Relations in Prostitution, 1600–2010  Marion Pluskota 26 Working and Living Conditions  Raelene Frances 27 Migration and Prostitution  Nicole Keusch 28 Prostitution and Colonial Relations  Liat Kozma 29 Seeing Beyond Prostitution: Agency and the Organization of Sex Work  Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette 30 Coercion and Voluntarism in Sex Work  Mark David Wyers 31 A Gender Analysis of Global Sex Work  Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk 32 The Social Profiles of Prostitutes  Maja Mechant Part 3: Conclusion 33 Sex Sold in World Cities, 1600s–2000s: Some Conclusions to the Project  Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Magaly Rodríguez García and Lex Heerma van Voss

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Book SynopsisPublication of the Global Studies Directory represents an unprecedented project in world practice. Based on the professional assessment by a large international team of experts, the Directory offers information on the most well-known scholars, political and public figures who have made outstanding contributions to the establishment and development of global studies or made a fundamental impact on the formation of global world. The Directory also contains comprehensive information about organizations, periodicals and special literature of direct relevance to the theory and practice of globalization and fully demonstrates the state of affairs in the field of study on a global level. This project is a continuation of many years of research which first resulted in the publication of the Global Studies Encyclopedic Dictionary, the companion publication to the Directory.Table of ContentsExpert Council From the Editors Part 1: People Part 2: Organizations Directory Publishers Institutes, Centers, Associations Universities Part 3: Publications Periodicals Annotated Monographs, Published in English Annotated Monographs, Published in Russian Monographs, Published in Russian French Monographs German Monographs Spanish Monographs\ Index

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Book SynopsisAs the economic crash of 2007-8 and its sequels developed, neoliberal economists often said that economic theory can never cope with such eruptions, and left-minded economists and political economists struggled to find answers. This book documents discussions as they developed; an introduction and an afterword tell the story of the crisis, and offer syntheses and angles on some of the debated issues. What were the chief imbalances in the world economy? Is US hegemony breaking down? Were falling profit rates at the root of the crash, and if so why were they falling? How does "financialisation" reshape capitalism? Why did neoliberalism prove so resilient? How might the repercussions lead to it being subverted from the right or from the left? Contributors are Robert Brenner, Dick Bryan, Trevor Evans, Barry Finger, Daniela Gabor, Andrew Gamble, Michel Husson, Andrew Kliman, Costas Lapavitsas, Simon Mohun, Fred Moseley, Leo Panitch, Hugo Radice, and Alfredo Saad-Filho.Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgement About the Contributors Introduction The Story of The Crisis From Crunch to Slump From Banks to Governments To "Emerging Economies" Global Finance The Keynesian Moment, And Reverting To Type "Safe to Invest" Crises and Finance Minsky vs Marx? Phases Profits and Crises Okishio Ruinous Competition The Resilience of Neoliberalism Part 1. After 2007: "Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity (myself especially) are in a state of shocked disbelief." Fred Moseley - The long trends of profit. March 2008 Costas Lapavitsas – A new sort of financial crisis. April 2008 Leo Panitch – The crisis depends on the fightback. April 2008 Simon Mohun – An era of rampant inequality. May 2008 Trevor Evans – The imbalances are unsustainable. June 2008 Dick Bryan – The inventiveness of capital. July 2008 Michel Husson – A systemic crisis, both global and long-lasting. July 2008 Part 2. After September 2008: "This sucker could go down" Michel Husson – The crisis of neoliberal capitalism. December 2008 Costas Lapavitsas - The debacle of financialised capitalism, January 2009 Andrew Kliman – The level of debt is astronomical. December 2008 Leo Panitch – The chain broke at the weakest link. December 2008 Fred Moseley – The bondholders and the taxpayers. December 2008 Simon Mohun - The neoliberal model is bust - January 2009 Robert Brenner - The economy in a world of trouble. April 2009 Dick Bryan – The underlying contradictions of capitalist finance. June 2009 Part 3. After 2009: The endless bailout Barry Finger - The falling rate of profit. July 2011 Leo Panitch - The banks' crisis and the left's crisis. August 2011 Michel Husson – Nationalise the banks! September 2011 Michel Husson – The endless bailout of Europe. November 2011 Daniela Gabor – Europe: the bankers vs the people. June 2012 Part 4: After 2010: Neoliberalism resurgent Hugo Radice – A turning point from neoliberalism? June 2012 Paul Hampton and Martin Thomas – The world of neoliberalism. October 2013 Barry Finger – An alternative view on the world of neoliberalism. January 2014 Andrew Gamble - The resilience of neoliberalism. June 2016 Part 5: After 2015: Chaotic regulation Michel Husson - The coming crisis. October 2015 Fred Moseley - "Too much debt in relation to income". January 2016 Andrew Kliman - "The situation had long been unsustainable". January 2016 Dick Bryan - “We become a hedge fund of our own lives”. January 2016 Hugo Radice - “The globalisation of elites”. January 2016 Leo Panitch - “The great recession is not going away”. January 2016 Simon Mohun - "A protracted transition". June 2016 Alfredo Saad Filho - Brazil and neoliberalism. July-August 2016 Afterword Appendix 1: Marx on capitalist crises Appendix 2: Ruinous competition Appendix 3: The Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Dependency, Neoliberalism and Globalization in Latin America, Carlos Eduardo Martins manages the difficult task of updating theories on all three key concepts, enabling their fresh application towards a critical comprehension of societies, especially those in the periphery. En Globalización, dependencia y neoliberalismo en América Latina, Carlos Eduardo Martins cumple la difícil tarea de actualizar las teorías sobre esos tres conceptos clave para el pensamiento contemporáneo y la comprensión de las sociedades, principalmente las periféricas.Table of ContentsForeword  Theotonio Dos Santos Preface to the English Edition Translator’s Acknowledgement List of Figures Prologue  Adrián Sotelo Valencia Introduction 1 Social Sciences and the Challenge of Globalization 2 The Modern World System and Capitalism: Origins, Cycles and Secularity 3 Globalization and the Crisis of the Modern World System 4 Impasses of US Hegemony: 21st Century Perspectives 5 Dependency and Development in the Modern World System 6 Revisiting the Political Economy of Dependency in the Light of Marx and Contemporary Capitalism 7 Latin America: Dependency, Neoliberalism and New Models of Development 8 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisYouth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives investigates the ways that young people navigate the intersections of religion and identity. As part of the Youth in a Globalizing World series, this book provides a broad discussion on the various social, cultural, and political forces affecting youth and their identities from an international comparative perspective. Contributors to this volume situate the experiences of young people in Canada, the United States, Germany, and Australia within a globalized context. This volume explores the different experiences of youth, the impact of community and processes of recognition, and the reality of ambivalence as agency. Youth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives is now available in paperback for individual customers.

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Book SynopsisIn Moral Pressure for Responsible Globalization, Sherrie M. Steiner offers an account of religious diplomacy with the G8, G7 and G20 to evoke new possibilities in an effort to influence globalization to become more equitable and sustainable. Commonly portrayed as ‘out of control’, globalization is considered here as a political process that can be redirected to avoid the tragedy of the global commons. The secularization tradition of religion depicts faith-based public engagement as dangerous. Making use of historical materials from faith-based G-plus System shadow summits (2005-2017), Steiner provides ample information to arrive at an interpretation that significantly differs from traditional accounts. Using broader scope conditions, Steiner considers how human induced environmental changes contribute to religious resurgence under conditions of weakening nation states.Trade Review"Rigorous, inclusive, and extensive, Moral Pressure for Responsible Globalization is an exemplary model of transdisciplinary scholarship that not only contributes new knowledge otherwise lost between the interstices of disciplines, but also addresses at its core the ethical imperative of globalized responsibility for the ecosystems upon which our lives depend. At a time when the era of globalization is characterized by “governance without government,” mounting uncertainties, and “wicked problems” such as the metastasizing of religiously motivated violence, Moral Pressure for Responsible Globalization is indispensable literature for religious studies scholars and political scientists alike." - Adam Loch, University of Denver/Illif School of Theology, Reading Religion March 2018 "This impressive and well-researched book provides readers with new insights into the politics at the juncture of religion and transnational environmental policy." - P. Sean Morris, University of Helsinki, Finland, International Affairs 95: 6, 2019.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations and Acronyms 1 Introduction: Religious Engagement for More Responsible Governance  Beyond Sustainable Development as Oxymoron  The Evolution of Religious Shadow Summitry  Theoretical Account of the F8/F7/F20 Initiative  Theoretical Development—Why Religion? Why Now?  In Matters of Religion, Religion Matters 2 G-plus System Diplomacy  The Origins and Evolution of the G-plus System  The Rules of Governing without Government  Broadening the Dialogue  Engagement Group Recognition  Monitoring of the G-plus System 3 Governance in the Age of the Anthropocene  Primarily Human-induced Global Environmental Changes  Environmental Implications for Governance  ‘Transition Science’ Emerges to Inform Governance  Governance for a Common Future  Implications for G8/G7 and G20 Financial Deliberations  Patterned Vulnerabilities and Anti-Globalization Protests  Governance without Government  The Costs of Globalized Irresponsibility  Conclusion 4 The Return of Religion to Transnational Relations  Transnational Religious Resurgence  The Crisis of Secularization  Can Secularization be Taken Too Far?  Reimagining the Secular with ‘Cosmopolitan Solutions’   Religious Diplomacy   Cosmopiety  Conclusion 5 The F8/F7/F20 Initiative  Origins and Evolution   The F8   The F7   The F20   The Merge  Patterning after the G-plus System  Distinguishing Factors  Invitees and Organizational Representation  Phases of Development  Conclusion 6 Illuminating the Unseen  Summary Overview  Annual Initiatives   2005 United Kingdom—Civil Society Ecumenical Origins   2006 Russia—An Interfaith State Affair   2007 Germany—Consolidating the Vision   2008 Japan—Decentering Anthropocentrism   2009 Italy—A Natural Disaster   2010 Canada—Engagement and Governance   2011 France—Respecting the ‘Other’   2012 United States—Special Delivery   2013 United Kingdom—All a Twitter   2014 Australia—New Beginnings   2015 Istanbul—Consolidation   2016 China—Entering a New Phase of Dialogue   2017 Germany—Officially Engaged  Conclusion 7 Organizing Details, External Relations, and Documentation  Organizing the Summits   Leadership Rotation   The Organizing Committees   Financing   Religious Ritual   Special Events and Excursions   Aborted Events  External Relations   Heads of State   Government Advisors   Foreign Ministers   Sherpas   Members of Parliament   Mayors   Special Advisors   Civil Society   Academia   Business   Media  Conclusion 8 Reform, Assessment, and Impact  Reform   Accountability   Enduring Informality   Reflexive Engagement  Assessment   Information Technology   Influence of International Relations   Institutional Differentiation  Competing Assessments   Redundant   Replacement   Rejection   Reinforcement  Impact   G-plus System   Gender   Domestic Relations  Conclusion 9 The Golden Thread  A New Millennium  Global Ethic—Global Norm  The MDG Focal Point  F8/F7/F20 MDG Dialogue  Transition Dynamics  F20 SDG Dialogue  Non-human Agency  Conclusion 10 Collaboration for a Responsible Future  Religious Diplomacy in the Age of the Anthropocene  Tikkun Olam  Changing Times  SDG Implementation Challenges  Governance Forecasts  What an F20 Might Offer  Further Research Appendix A: Theoretical Orientation, Methodology, Documentation & Data  Methodology  Documentation  Data Appendix B: Institutional Affiliations Reference List References

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Book SynopsisGoethe in 1827 famously claimed that national literatures did not mean very much anymore, and that the epoch of world literature was at hand. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, in the so-called "transnational turn" in literary studies, interest in world literature, and in how texts move beyond national or linguistic boundaries, has peaked. The authors of the 18 articles making up Literary Transnationalism(s) reflect on how literary texts move between cultures via translation, adaptation, and intertextual referencing, thus entering the field of world literature. The texts and subjects treated range from Caribbean, American, and Latin American literature to European migrant literatures, from the uses of pseudo-translations to the organizing principles of world histories of literature, from the dissemination of knowledge in the middle ages to circulation of literary journals and series in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors include, amongst others, Jean Bessière, Johan Callens, Reindert Dhondt, César Domínguez, Erica Durante, Ottmar Ette, Kathleen Gyssels, Reine Meylaerts, and Djelal Kadir. Authors discussed comprise, amongst others, Carlos Fuentes, Ernest Hemingway, Edouard Glissant.

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Book SynopsisGathering scholars from five continents, this edited book displaces the elitist image of cosmopolitan as well as the blame addressed to aesthetic cosmopolitanism often considered as merely cosmetic. By considering aesthetic cosmopolitanism as a tool to understand how individuals and social groups appropriate the sphere of culture in a global world, the authors are concerned with its operationalization on two strongly interwoven levels, macro and micro, structural and individual. Based on the discussion of theoretical perspectives and empirically grounded research (qualitative and quantitative, conducted in many countries), this volume unveils new insights, on tourism and food, architecture and museums, TV series and movies, rock, K-pop and samba, by providing resources for making sense of aesthetic preferences in a global perspective. Contributors are: Felicia Chan, Vincenzo Cicchelli, Talitha Alessandra Ferreira, Paula Iadevito, Sukhmani Khorana, Anne Krebs, Antoinette Kujilaars, Franck Mermier, Sylvie Octobre, Joana Pellerano, Rosario Radakovich, Motti Regev, Viviane Riegel, Clara Rodriguez, Leslie Sklair, Yi-Ping Eva Shi, Claire Thoumelin and Dario Verderame.Trade ReviewAesthetic Cosmopolitanism and Global Culture offers a timely and compelling reminder that cosmopolitanism is not merely a remote geopolitical ideal but rather an embodied and everyday strategy for navigating our cultural differences alongside our common humanity. With impressive historical depth and geographical breadth, this collection illustrates in rich detail how the dynamics of globalization enter our domestic worlds through cultural forms ranging from architecture, artwork, food, and film to parenting styles, pop music, television, and dance. It should be read by anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the crucial role culture plays in a world that is both more connected and more conflicted than ever before. —Jennie Germann Molz, Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross Cosmopolitanism is usually valorized as a worthy ideal but also dismissed an being incompatible with reality. This sparkling collection of essays tell a different story. By starting from the ground of everyday cultural encounters, or by tracing the new networks of artistic practices, this book provides a new approach for understanding the existence of aesthetic cosmopolitanism. Along this journey, the authors of this collection provide both an empirical justification and open up new methodological forays into a vital concept for our contemporary world. This book will be an invaluable resource in appreciating the plurality in cultural experience. —Nikos Papastergiadis, Director of the Research Unit of Public Cultures, University of Melbourne This is a great book which makes a very much welcome contribution to understand the opportunities that our contemporary World offers for a truly global culture. Working out a very accurate and smooth transition from theoretical debates to broad empirical evidence, the gathering of studies worldwide achieves by itself what the title promises, an excellent portrait of cosmopolitan aesthetics of our societies around the Globe. Anyone working and thinking about our World today should read it. —Dr. Modesto Guillermo Gayo, Universidad Diego PortalesTable of ContentsForeword to Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism  Mike Featherstone List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: How Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Is Our Global World?  Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie Octobre and Viviane Riegel Part 1 Doing Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Studies 1 The Condition of Cultural Cosmopolitanism  Motti Regev 2 The Seven Pillars of Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism  Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Octobre 3 The ‘frame’, the ‘rhythm’, and the ‘imaginary’: Rethinking the Cosmopolitan Aesthetic Experience  Dario Verderame Part 2 Reshaping the Imaginaries of the World 4 The Politics of Cosmopolitan Architecture: Third World Modernism and the Enigmatic Signifier  Leslie Sklair 5 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in São Paulo: a Peripheral Perspective from a Global City  Viviane Riegel 6 Australians in Hanoi: When Street Food Tours are Safely Exotic  Sukhmani Khorana 7 Musical Cosmopolitanism: Analysis and Reflections on Cultural Consumption, Gender and Identities around K-pop in Argentina  Paula Iadevito Part 3 Reframing Boundaries through Aesthetics 8 Cosmopolitan Socialization: How I See Me, How They See Me  Clara Rodriguez 9 The Love for Cinema Undergoing Transformations: Internationalization and Cosmopolitanism Patterns of Uruguayan Cinephiles  Rosario Radakovich 10 The Globalization of Samba Percussion: the Reconfiguration of the Legitimate Ways of Playing  Antoinette Kuijlaars 11 Cosmopolitan Pleasures and Affects; or Why Are We Still Talking about Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Cinema?  Felicia Chan Part 4 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism as a Strategy 12 Redefining Cosmopolitanism: the Inter-Generational Transmission of Global Cultural Capital in Taiwan  Yi-Ping Eva Shih 13 Louvre Abu Dhabi: a Clash of Cosmopolitanisms?  Anne Krebs and Franck Mermier 14 São Paulo and the Brazilian Gastronomy: Field of Disputes within Globalization  Joana A. Pellerano and Talitha Alessandra Ferreira 15 Danish Television Series, a Cosmopolitan Artwork  Claire Thoumelin Afterword: A New Road toward Global Culture  Shujiro Yazawa Index

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Book SynopsisCatholicism is generally over-institutionalized and over-centralized in comparison to other religions. However, it finds itself in an increasingly interrelated and globalized world and is therefore immersed in a great plurality of social realities. The Changing Faces of Catholicism assembles an international cast of contributors to explore the consequent decline of powerful Catholic organisations as well as to address the responses and resistance efforts that specific countries have taken to counteract the secularization crisis in both Europe and the Americas. It reveals some of the strategies of the Catholic Church as a whole, and of the Vatican centre in particular, to address problems of the global era through the dissemination of spiritually progressive writing, World Youth Days, and the transformation of Catholic education to become a forum for intercultural and interreligious dialogue. The volume also reflects on the adaptation of Catholic institutions and missions as sponsored by religious communities and monastic orders.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction to The Changing Faces of Catholicism  Solange Lefebvre and Alfonso Pérez-Agote Part 1: Catholicism in Both Catholic and Pluralistic Societies 1 Religion and National Identity in Catholic Societies: The Quarrel between Religion and Culture  Jean-François Laniel 2 Popular Religiosity and Value Changes in Mexico City Youth  Jesús Antonio Serrano Sánchez, Ramiro Gómez-Arzápalo and Alejandro Gabriel Emiliano Flores 3 From a Place of Popular Religiosity to a Transnational Space of Multiple Meanings and Religious Interactions  Helena Vilaça 4 Cultural Catholics in the United States  Tricia C. Bruce Part 2: Strategies within Specific Countries to Counteract the Secularization Crisis 5 Occupying the Margins of Society: Operationalizing Minority Identity Politics among Youth within the Catholic New Evangelization  Paul L. Gareau 6 Catholic Reconquest: The Case of the Sainte Blandine Megachurch in Lyon  Valérie Aubourg 7 The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (ccr) in the Americas  Andrea Althoff and Jakob Egeris Thorsen 8 Religious Practices, Beliefs and Commitments on the Margins of the Catholic Church in Belgium  Karel Dobbelaere and Liliane Voyé Part 3: Strategies and General Attitudes of the Catholic Church, and of the Vatican Centre in Particular,in Relation to Problems of the Global Era 9 Catholicism and Eastern Religions: Spiritual Innovators and Interreligious Dialogue (de Mello and Merton)  Andrew P. Lynch 10 Religion in a Globalized Culture: Institutional Innovation and Continuity of Catholicism—The Case of World Youth Day  Sławomir Mandes and Wojciech Sadłoń 11 The Joy of Dialogue in an Intercultural World: Educational Implications from Evangelii Gaudium  Graham P. McDonough Part 4: Changes in Specific Catholic Institutions 12 Navigating the Fault Lines of Catholic Institutional Identity  Kevin Ahern 13 The Economy of Stability in Catholic Monasteries in the Czech Republic and Austria  Barbora Spalová and Isabelle Jonveaux Index

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Book SynopsisThis set of essays critically analyze global citizenship by bringing together leading ideas about citizenship and the commons in this time that both needs and resists a global perspective on issues and relations. Education plays a significant role in how we come to address these issues and this volume will contribute to ensuring that equity, global citizenship, and the common wealth provide platforms from which we might engage in transformational, collective work.Table of Contents1. Global Citizenship, Common Wealth, and Uncommon Citizenships: An Introduction  Lynette Shultz and Thashika Pillay 2. The Contradictions of International Education and International Development: Counter-Eurocentric Perspectives  Ali A. Abdi 3. Aboriginal Women, Uncommon Citizens  Marlene E. McKay 4. Cycles of Learning and Unlearning through Literary Study: Reading Marginalized Experience Narratives for Critical Global Citizenship Education  Carrie Karsgaard 5. The Scholarship of Engagement: Moving Higher Education from Isolated Islands to an Inclusive Space  Grace Rwiza and Chouaib El Bouhali 6. Seeking “Global Citizenship” in Graduate Library and Information Studies Education  Toni Samek and Christina Palech 7. The Role of Host Villages in Fostering Cosmopolitan Values among ISL Participants  Harry Smaller, Michael O’Sullivan, Xochilt Hernández and Ashley Rerrie 8. Security in a World of Strangers: Exploring the Lived Meaning of Help Giving to International Students  Derek Tannis 9. Southern Struggles over “Knowing” and Their Significance for the Politics of Global Citizenship  Crain Soudien 10. Dance for Change: Seeking Tribal Citizenship and Identity  Karen J. Pheasant-Neganigwane 11. Global Citizenship Education as a UNESCO Key Theme: More of the Same or Opportunities for Thinking ‘Otherwise’?  Karen Pashby 12. Citizenship and Education for Adult Newcomers  Sung Kyung Ahn 13. Transgressive Learning: Journey to Becoming Ecocentric  Irene Friesen Wolfstone About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis set of essays critically analyze global citizenship by bringing together leading ideas about citizenship and the commons in this time that both needs and resists a global perspective on issues and relations. Education plays a significant role in how we come to address these issues and this volume will contribute to ensuring that equity, global citizenship, and the common wealth provide platforms from which we might engage in transformational, collective work.Table of Contents1. Global Citizenship, Common Wealth, and Uncommon Citizenships: An Introduction  Lynette Shultz and Thashika Pillay 2. The Contradictions of International Education and International Development: Counter-Eurocentric Perspectives  Ali A. Abdi 3. Aboriginal Women, Uncommon Citizens  Marlene E. McKay 4. Cycles of Learning and Unlearning through Literary Study: Reading Marginalized Experience Narratives for Critical Global Citizenship Education  Carrie Karsgaard 5. The Scholarship of Engagement: Moving Higher Education from Isolated Islands to an Inclusive Space  Grace Rwiza and Chouaib El Bouhali 6. Seeking “Global Citizenship” in Graduate Library and Information Studies Education  Toni Samek and Christina Palech 7. The Role of Host Villages in Fostering Cosmopolitan Values among ISL Participants  Harry Smaller, Michael O’Sullivan, Xochilt Hernández and Ashley Rerrie 8. Security in a World of Strangers: Exploring the Lived Meaning of Help Giving to International Students  Derek Tannis 9. Southern Struggles over “Knowing” and Their Significance for the Politics of Global Citizenship  Crain Soudien 10. Dance for Change: Seeking Tribal Citizenship and Identity  Karen J. Pheasant-Neganigwane 11. Global Citizenship Education as a UNESCO Key Theme: More of the Same or Opportunities for Thinking ‘Otherwise’?  Karen Pashby 12. Citizenship and Education for Adult Newcomers  Sung Kyung Ahn 13. Transgressive Learning: Journey to Becoming Ecocentric  Irene Friesen Wolfstone About the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Dialectical Meaning of Offshored Work analyzes how offshoring investments function as a platform for intercultural encounters among corporate actors and local populations of hosting communities. The book synthesizes ethnographic research, media reviews, and policy analysis to examine how localized forms of offshoring production occur in social, political and economic processes to highlight dilemmas connected to mobility of capital, modernization, social equality and capitalist expansion. The book delineates the complex interplay between Western neoliberalism and a transforming post-socialist Europe, to show the complex ways in which offshoring production infiltrates local communities. Analyzing issues of labor, work and employment, this book engages with current scholarship on critical management, sociology, anthropology, and East European studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement Introduction: the Post-socialist Workforce in the Global Offshoring Networks  1 The Post-socialist Workforce in Global Production  2 Offshoring Studies  3 Social Reproduction and Offshoring  4 Ethnography of Foreign Investment  5 The Investor and the Region  6 The Structure of this Book 1 Romania’s Systemic Transformation: Chaos, Austerity and Imposed Neoliberal Reform  1 Ad-hoc Transition (1989–1996)  2 The Period of Market Orientation (1996–2004)  3 The Period of European Integration (2004–2009)  4 Global Economic Crisis and Neoliberal Rule (2009–2014)  5 Conclusions 2 The Arrival: Global Assemblage of Neoliberal Production  1 Nokia Village Plans  2 Factory Closure in Germany  3 The Opening 3 A Journey onto the Shop Floor: Cultural Specificity of the Offshored Plant and Workforce Adaptation  1 Joining a Capitalist Workplace  2 Cultural Specificity of the Workplace and Worker Socialisation  3 Workplace Adaptation  4 Cultural Specificity and the Offshored Workplace 4 Shop Floor Culture and Routine Production Process  1 Lubricating the Taylorist Workplace  2 Limiting Control and Political Intimacies at Work  3 Epistemic Holes, Humour and Storytelling  4 Conclusions 5 Familial Involvement in Offshored Labour  1 Prior to Investment  2 Mutual Dependencies  3 Emancipatory Forces  4 Intergenerational Exceptionalism  5 Mutual Dependency in a Broader Context 6 Employee Reactions to the Plant Closure  1 The Good Investor’s Bad Decisions  2 Social Mobilization  3 What the Plant Changed 7 Coping with Loss: Local Agency and Offshored Labour  1 The Secrecy of the Contract  2 Smartphone Controversy  3 Romania in the Global Economy  4 The New Investor  5 Discussion: National Reaction to the Issue of Relocation Conclusions: Labour Arbitrage, Modernity and the Realities of Offshored Labour Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCity Intelligible seeks to integrate a transcendental philosophical anthropology of commoditisation before industrialisation with a social and cultural, thus empirical anthropology of commodity production and exchange that is global, thus inter-cultural. It treats commodification as a singular and privileged evidence of the universal status of human reasoning, and one that grounds the translational character of human exchange throughout the early centuries, and yet that simultaneously founds ubiquitous cultural differentiation. The book constitutes, therefore, a refutation of the predominant tendency in the humanities to represent cultural difference as inhibiting the very possibility of effective intercultural translation. It treats the factors of economic history as forms of cultural expression, but determined, in their turn, by a continuum of complex societal formation from the very beginnings of intensive agricultural and social settlement. It seeks to derive evidence for the universal foundations of human reasoning through analysis of the culture of commoditisation in marrying a thoroughgoing Kantian analysis with the historical evidence, an approach aspiring to ground the very concept and possibility of a universal human cultural nature underlying all human differentiation.Table of ContentsForeword by Ravi Ahuja Acknowledgements Notice to the Reader List of Illustrations More than a Preface or Introduction!: The Transcendental Constitution of the Cultural, Historical and Empirical Object: The Problem and Task of the Two Anthropologies  1Initial Notice—an Order of Reading  2The Subject Matter and the Project  3To Constitute History and Society … the Two Taxonomies  4The Three Criticisms  5A Critical and Transcendental Anthropology of Intercultural Translatability—the Question of Method  6Final Resolution of a Dilemma: The A-Priori, at Once Universal and Empirical  7The Composition of the Book Part 1: Artifice & Nature: A Kantian and Historical Anthropology of Commoditisation before Industrialisation 1 From the Closed World to the Open Continuum  1Complexity, Language & Uncertainty  2Order, Unit & Convenience in Economic History. Language-Use as Problem  3Production and Marketing as an Issue of Complexity  4Alternative Principles of Order & Method  iThe Propositions  iiSampling as Method  iiiResources for Sampling, and a Hypothesis  ATextile Market-Censuses  BRaw Cottons  CPre-Spun Wools & Woollen Yarns  DThe Knowledge Problem  ELists of Coinages Brought to Particular Markets 2 Unpacking, Disengaging and Linking  1The Production and Marketing of Type: Phases, Extensions, Disengagements and Articulations  iThe « Raw Materials » of Production  AEmpirical Linkage  BInitial Implications  iiCloth Typologies  iiiSpeciation in Field & Market (Autonomy for Connection)  2Quality and Number  3A Second Object World  1The Continuum  iA Problem of Method  iiCommodity Nature  AAn Artificial Object World, & Its Taxonomy  BMarketisation as Communication  aMarkets & Complexity  bThe Issue of Translatability—Markets & Frontiers  cMarkets & Information  2Kant’s Tower of Babel & the Cultural Universal  iMetaphor & Construction  iiA Kantian Approach to Commoditisation & Translatability  iiiThe Universal and Cultural Difference  AThe Problem of the Very Idea of a Universal Culture and Mind  BFirst Invalid—the Biological A-Priori  CSecond Invalid—Plurality of Societies as a Priori  DAn Answer—Historical Generation of the Universal as a History of Differentiation  3Cultural and Natural Space/Times  iIntroduction. for an Explanation of Difference  iiNewtonian Space/Time & Practical Knowledge  iiiSpecies Construction and Its Transcendental Space/Time  ivExtension in Space/Time  ARephrasing the Coordinates of Choice & Limit with Respect to Reason  BNeither Closed nor Infinite, but Finite & Illimitable  aA Unity of Formative and Constructional Principle of the Exotic  bBut What Kind of Unity?  cA Poesis of the Incomparable  dNot an Infinity but Finitude  eA Finitude Closed and Bounded? or Open and Illimitable? Our Return to Kant!  fThinking the Object into Being and the Reality-Status of That Thought  gAn Edifice Built Only with Matter Accessible to Human Kind  CFurther Thoughts about the Meaning of a « Universal » Culture of Practice and Mind  vIntersubjectivity and Non-Essentialist Construction  4Postface Part 2: Taxonomy & Commodity: In Global Transfers of Plant Forms and Plant Products into Early-modern Europe (the cultural production of nature, or the foundations of early botany)  Introduction to Part 2: Plant Artifice/Plant Nature  4A General Framework  1Introduction: Artifice & Nature  2Contexts, Empirical & Intellectual  3Foundational Difficulties  iProblem Domains  iiSubstantive Discussion  AThe Continuum of Culture, Language and Systematics, and Thus Translatability  BThe Cultural Specificity of Any Grown Plant. Selection in Artificial Botanies  CMarket Determination of « Artificial » Plant Variation  DA Partial Explanation in Terms of Transmission of Cultural Universals, in the Kantian Sense  5Foundations of Botany in Western Europe  1Europe and the World: The Phases and Aspects of Botanical Taxonomy and Abstraction  iMedical Botany, Horta Botanica, Taxonomies & Pharmacopoeia  iiThe Concept of Type, Agricultural Part-Products & Market Continua  6A Postface: Narrative Style, Evolutionary Form, and the Shaping of an Early Science: Botany  Appendix 1Order in Artificial and Spontaneous Natures  Appendix 2« The Phenomenology Lesson ». A Commentary on the Illustrations  Bibliography  1Introduction: Selection and Translation  2Kant, Hegel and Husserl 54  3General Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisHow was Istanbul, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire and now the financial heart of contemporary Turkey, provisioned in the early 19th century? Tracing how the sovereign’s duty to provision the city and protect his subjects from hunger was gradually transferred to the market and became a responsibility of the subjects (later, citizens) alone, Feeding Istanbul makes a compelling case for situating food politics, and politics of urban provisioning in particular, at the centre of the way we think about the relationship between the sovereign and the political community..Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations 1 Introduction  1 Three Food Regimes  2 So, What Are Food Regimes?  3 Success vs. Failure: Scarcity, Hunger, Malnutrition, and Famine  4 The Political Economy of Urban Provisioning  5 Notes on Terms, Periodization, and Methodology  6 Chapter Outlines 2 The Hungry Capital  The Provisioning of Ottoman Istanbul  1 The Provisioning Apparatuses: Routes, Ports, and Actors  2 Shared Provisioning Apparatuses  3 Sovereignty and Kudret  4 Timelines and Macro Processes  5 Transitions: Global Wheat, Local Plum  6 The Urban Food Provisioning Food Regime 3 Unruly Transitions  1 The War Years and Republican Istanbul’s Codependent Provisioning   1.1 Years of War   1.2 Republican Istanbul  2 Urban Provisioning During Unruly Transitions  3 Scarcity in War vs. Scarcity in Peace  4 The Emerging Food Regime 4 Planned Scarcities  1 Growing Istanbul: The Pangs of Development or the Crisis of Capitalism?   1.1 The 1950s: Menderes’ Istanbul   1.2 The 1960s and 1970s: Volatile Growth  2 A Rationed Sovereignty  3 Urban Provisioning in Import Substitution  4 The Codependent Provisioning Food Regime 5 Feeding Global Istanbul  1 The 1980s: From Import Substitution to Market Liberalization  2 The 1990s: A Decade of Crises  3 The 2000s: A World City? Globalization and Istanbul  4 The Contemporary Provisioning Apparatus   4.1 In the Day of a Bazaar Vendor   4.2 At the Hal  5 A Precarious Sovereignty or the Sovereignty of Precarity?  6 The Urban Food Supply Chain Food Regime 6 Diverging Paths  1 The 2010s: From Consolidation to Domination  2 The Future of Istanbul’s Provisioning Apparatus  3 The Promise of a Different Future  4 Of the Sovereignty, Political Community, and the Central Authority  5 The Global and the Local 7 Conclusion Appendix 1 Some Early Sources on Istanbul’s Bağ, Bahçe, and Bostan Appendix 2 List of Various Foods Provisioned to Istanbul and Their Locations of Production Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisToday’s analysts of world affairs are often loosely referring to ‘geopolitics’, but do not always clearly define it. This book therefore offers a necessary introduction into the main components of geopolitical analysis, an overview of the main geopolitical schools of thought, as well as reflections on technology and geopolitics. In addition, empirical studies showcase innovative approaches.Table of ContentsBackground and acknowledgements  David Criekemans List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Need for a Renewed ‘Grounding’ of International Relations  David Criekemans PART 1: Basic Variables of Geopolitical Analysis 1 The Main Components of Geopolitical Analysis  Gyula Csurgai 2 ‘Geotechnical Ensembles’: How New Technologies Change Geopolitical Factors and Contexts in Economy, Energy and Security  David Criekemans PART 2: Theoretical Approaches to Territorially Embedded Factors and IR 3 Geopolitical Schools of Thought: A Concise Overview from 1890 till 2020, and beyond  David Criekemans 4 Where 'Geopolitics' and 'Foreign Policy Analysis' Once Met: The Work of Harold and Margaret Sprout and Its Continued Relevance Today  David Criekemans 5 Analysing Geopolitical Myths: Towards a Method for Analytic Geopolitics  Antonios Nestoras PART 3: Empirical Studies: The Enduring Relevance of Territorially Embedded Factors in IR 6 Post-Cold War NATO Enlargement and the Geopolitical Instrumentalization of ‘Liberal Peace’: Lessons from George Kennan  Alexandre Lambert 7 The Increasing Importance of Geoeconomics in Power Rivalries: From the Past to the Present  Gyula Csurgai 8 Dangers on the Edge of the Map: Geographic Mental Maps and the Emergence of the Carter Doctrine  Luis da Vinha 9 Mapping Greed as a Conflict Motivation: Evidence from Armed Conflicts in Sudan and Libya on the Complexity of Armed Groups’ Interactions with Natural Resources  Steven Spittaels 10 Regional Diplomacy: Re-Territorialisation as a Piece in the Neo-Medieval Puzzle?  Manuel Duran PART 4: Conclusions Geopolitics and International Relations: From ‘Living Apart Together’ to ‘Friends with Benefits’  David Criekemans Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores Chinese religions on a global stage so as to challenge the traditional dichotomy of the western global and the Chinese local, and to add a new perspective for understanding religious modernity globally. Contributors from four different continents aim at applying a social scientific approach to systematically researching the globalization of Chinese religions.Trade Review"This nicely edited publication is a most welcome addition to the literature on immigrant Chinese religions. It helps to complement previous research on Chinese religions in the global North that have thus far mainly focused on North America." - Ugo Dessì, University of Vienna, in: Chinese Religions going Global Volume 11, 2021

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Book SynopsisWe live in a globalized world in which a person in Burkina Faso can identify with Star Wars heroes, and in which a New York trader drinks the same Starbucks coffee as his Taiwanese counterpart. How are individuals socialized in Rome, Bombay, and Tokyo? To answer this question, a unique investigation has been carried out using two scales of analysis usually tackled separately by global studies: the scale of the cosmopolitan world and its global narratives, imaginaries, iconographies; as well as the scale of everyday life and socialization to otherness. This two-fold perspective constitutes the innovative approach of this volume that endeavors to address an operationalization of the cosmopolitan perspective and reacts to current debates and new research findings. With a Foreword by Natan Sznaider. This book was first published in 2016 as Pluriel et commun. Sociologie d'un monde cosmopolite by Les Presses de Sciences Po, Paris. Other editions: the book is also published in Italian as Plurale e comune. Sociologia di un mondo cosmopolita by Morlacchi editore, Perugia, 2018; and in Brazilian as Plural e comum. Sociologia de um mundo cosmopolita by Edições Sesc, Sao Paulo, 2018.Trade Review“Vincenzo Cicchelli’s ambitious new book Plural and Shared: The Sociology of a Cosmopolitan World is a timely and erudite addition to the wider debate on the possible contours of a sociology for cosmopolitan times.” — Camil-Alexandru Parvu, University of Bucharest, in: Sociétés Plurielles 3 (2019) [Full review] "The advance of globalization has never been smooth and always contested. At the same time, the clash between nationalism and internationalism, or national solidarity and cosmopolitanism, has reached new levels of intensity. Against this background, Vincenzo Cicchelli has written a new and much needed book. He explores people’s experiences of a shared and plural world, and the tangible, ordinary mechanisms of global society that are shaping the cultural imaginaries and the lives of individuals today. The focus is on how individuals experience the cosmopolitan world and become familiar with cultural difference. Plural and Shared is a major contribution to understanding the cultural shifts of our time and how cosmopolitanism may be understood in this context." — David Held, Professor of Sociology, Durham University "Timely and important, Plural and Shared is a well-written and meticulously researched monograph that stands as a major contribution to the growing body of literature on cosmopolitanism. It is a “must read” for anyone wanting to understand the historic and modern forces shaping our increasingly globalizing and cosmopolitan world." — Elijah Anderson, Professor of Sociology, Yale University "Professor Vincenzo Cicchelli has written a thought-provoking book about an important and timely topic: how can we come to terms with the cosmopolitan world, which we share but which is inherently plural, composed of different cultures and outlooks on life? To address that conundrum, the book lays foundations for a cosmopolitan sociology and shows how it can be applied to examining the cultural, subjective and experiential dimensions of global society. It is a must read for all interested in global studies and cosmopolitanism." — Pertti Alasuutari, Professor of Sociology, University of Tampere "Particulièrement riche en approfondissements théoriques, ce livre présente un apport certain quant aux définitions conceptuelles du cosmopolitisme. […] par la richesse du corpus théorique et la variété des outils méthodologiques présentés, constitue une base précieuse pour les futurs travaux de sociologie cosmopolite." — Robin Soyer, Vincenzo Cicchelli, Pluriel et commun. Sociologie d’un monde cosmopolite, bLectures [En ligne], 2016 "The author describes the value of an ongoing dialogue between universalism and particularism – the foundational elements of the cosmopolitanism spirit – for producing a sociological sensibility to interpret our contemporary world and its global dynamics […]." — Vulca Fidolini, International Sociology Reviews 32, no. 5 (2017): 639–641 "Its novelty is made evident in arguments in favour of a (revived) sociology of cosmopolitanism, especially in indicative calls for more empirical works, and a fresh heuristic typology […. Thanks to its sociological ambition and to its search for nuance and empirical indicators, pointing out the contemporary sociological complexities and limits of cosmopolitan ideals would be one of this book’s merits." — Jean-Francxois Laniel, European Journal of Sociology, 58, no. 3 (2017): 480–484 "Un ouvrage passionnant, qui devrait durablement figurer en bonne place dans la bibliothèque de l’honnête homme du XXIe siècle, pour les clés de compréhension qu’il donne de bien des sujets d’actualité. Et pour ses vertus pédagogiques, malgré l’érudition de son auteur." — Sylvain Allemand, Alternatives Economiques “Es preciso reconocer la originalidad del objeto de estudio y de la reflexión desarrollada en torno a un paradigma insuficientemente conocido, y el perfecto dominio de que hace gala el autor, tanto de la producción sociológica clásica y contemporánea como de la literatura en ciencias sociales y humanas, concretamente en antropología y filosofía. A su vez, la densidad de la obra no impide la solidez de la argumentación, la claridad de la exposición y la fluidez del estilo.” — Eguzki Urteaga, Universidad del País Vasco Reseñas, 54, no. 2 (2017): 565–587Table of ContentsForeword by Natan Sznaider Preface to the English Edition: Capturing Alterity: Cosmopolitan Socialization at Its Core Acknowledgements Prologue: Cosmopolitanism through Weal and Woe Introduction: the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Understanding a Shared and Plural World 1. The Matrices of Cosmopolitanism 2. The Words to Express it 3. Universalist Ethics and the Spirit of Cosmopolitanism 4. Two Tests Part 1. The Distinctive Characteristics of the Cosmopolitan World Introduction to Part 1 1. Scales of Interdependence 1. A Transnational Scalar Space 2. The Nation- State in the Cosmopolitan World 2 The Matrices of Singularity 1. The World as a Totality and Global Risks 2. Apprehending Cultural Facts in the Cosmopolitan World 3. Cosmopolitan Repertoires 3. The Place of Plurality 1. Contradictory Experiences 2. Threatened by Globalization 3. Promoting Cultural Identities 4. Hybridizations 5. Universalism from Plurality Conclusion to Part 1: The Universal and the Particular Tested by Globalization Part 2. Cosmopolitan Socialization Introduction to Part 2 4. Thinking Cosmopolitan Socialization 1. In search of Cosmopolitan Socialization  2. Two Axes of Socialization 3. Laying the Groundwork for a Hermeneutics of Alterity 5. What is a Cosmopolitan? 1. Controversies 2. An Alternative 6. The Elementary Forms of the Cosmopolitan Spirit 1. A Self- Reflexive Process  2. The Cosmopolitan Spirit in Everyday Life 3. Living as a Cosmopolitan: Four Fieldworks Conclusion to Part 2: Cosmopolitan Socialization and Ideal Human Types Conclusion: Cosmopolitan Sociology as a Project Bibliography Index

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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 SynopsisThe aim of Protests and Generations is to problematize the relations between generations and protests in the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean. Most of the work on recent protests insists on the newness of their manifestation but leave unexplored the various links that exist between them and what preceded them. Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa (Eds.) argue that their articulation relies at once on historical ties and their rejection. It is precisely this tension that the chapters of the book address in specifically documenting several case studies that highlight the generating processes by which generations and protests are connected. What the production and use of generation brings to scholarly understanding of the protests and the ability to articulate them is one of the major questions this collection addresses. Contributors are: Mark Muhannad Ayyash, Lorenzo Cini, Éric Gobe, Ratiba Hadj-Moussa, Andrea Hajek, Chaymaa Hassabo, Gal Levy, Ilana Kaufman, Sunaina Maira, Mohammad Massala, Matthieu Rey, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, and Stephen Luis Vilaseca. *Protests and Generations is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Conceptualizing Generations and Protests  Mark Muhannad Ayyash and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa Part 1: Forms of Protest and the Production of Generations 1 Palestinian Youth in Israel: A New Generational Style of Activism?  Mohammad Massalha, Ilana Kaufman and Gal Levy 2 From Student to General Struggle: The Protests against the Neoliberal Reforms in Higher Education in Contemporary Italy  Lorenzo Cini 3 Lawyers Mobilizing in the Tunisian Uprising: A Matter of ‘generations’?  Éric Gobe Part 2: Genealogies of Generational Formations 4 2003: A Turning Point in the Formation of Syrian Youth  Matthieu Rey 5 Together, but Divided: Trajectories of a Generation of Egyptian Political Activists (from 2005 to the Revolution)  Chaymaa Hassabo 6 The Gezi Protests: The Making of the Next Left Generation in Turkey  Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz Part 3: Memory, History and the “New Generation” 7 ‘Freedom is a Daily Practice’: The Palestinian Youth Movement and Jil Oslo  Sunaina Maira 8 The Double Presence of Southern Algerians: Space, Generation and Unemployment  Ratiba Hadj-Moussa 9 “We are not heiresses”: Generational Memory, Heritage and Inheritance in Contemporary Italian Feminism  Andrea Hajek 10 Echoes of Ricardo Mella: Reading Twenty-First Century Youth Protest Movements through the Lens of an Early Twentieth-Century Anarchist  Stephen Luis Vilaseca

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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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Book SynopsisYouth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives investigates the ways that young people navigate the intersections of religion and identity. As part of the Youth in a Globalizing World series, this book provides a broad discussion on the various social, cultural, and political forces affecting youth and their identities from an international comparative perspective. Contributors to this volume situate the experiences of young people in Canada, the United States, Germany, and Australia within a globalized context. This volume explores the different experiences of youth, the impact of community and processes of recognition, and the reality of ambivalence as agency. Youth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives is now available in paperback for individual customers.

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Book SynopsisGathering scholars from five continents, this edited book displaces the elitist image of cosmopolitan as well as the blame addressed to aesthetic cosmopolitanism often considered as merely cosmetic. By considering aesthetic cosmopolitanism as a tool to understand how individuals and social groups appropriate the sphere of culture in a global world, the authors are concerned with its operationalization on two strongly interwoven levels, macro and micro, structural and individual. Based on the discussion of theoretical perspectives and empirically grounded research (qualitative and quantitative, conducted in many countries), this volume unveils new insights, on tourism and food, architecture and museums, TV series and movies, rock, K-pop and samba, by providing resources for making sense of aesthetic preferences in a global perspective. Contributors are: Felicia Chan, Vincenzo Cicchelli, Talitha Alessandra Ferreira, Paula Iadevito, Sukhmani Khorana, Anne Krebs, Antoinette Kujilaars, Franck Mermier, Sylvie Octobre, Joana Pellerano, Rosario Radakovich, Motti Regev, Viviane Riegel, Clara Rodriguez, Leslie Sklair, Yi-Ping Eva Shi, Claire Thoumelin and Dario Verderame.Trade ReviewAesthetic Cosmopolitanism and Global Culture offers a timely and compelling reminder that cosmopolitanism is not merely a remote geopolitical ideal but rather an embodied and everyday strategy for navigating our cultural differences alongside our common humanity. With impressive historical depth and geographical breadth, this collection illustrates in rich detail how the dynamics of globalization enter our domestic worlds through cultural forms ranging from architecture, artwork, food, and film to parenting styles, pop music, television, and dance. It should be read by anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the crucial role culture plays in a world that is both more connected and more conflicted than ever before. —Jennie Germann Molz, Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross Cosmopolitanism is usually valorized as a worthy ideal but also dismissed an being incompatible with reality. This sparkling collection of essays tell a different story. By starting from the ground of everyday cultural encounters, or by tracing the new networks of artistic practices, this book provides a new approach for understanding the existence of aesthetic cosmopolitanism. Along this journey, the authors of this collection provide both an empirical justification and open up new methodological forays into a vital concept for our contemporary world. This book will be an invaluable resource in appreciating the plurality in cultural experience. —Nikos Papastergiadis, Director of the Research Unit of Public Cultures, University of Melbourne This is a great book which makes a very much welcome contribution to understand the opportunities that our contemporary World offers for a truly global culture. Working out a very accurate and smooth transition from theoretical debates to broad empirical evidence, the gathering of studies worldwide achieves by itself what the title promises, an excellent portrait of cosmopolitan aesthetics of our societies around the Globe. Anyone working and thinking about our World today should read it. —Dr. Modesto Guillermo Gayo, Universidad Diego PortalesTable of ContentsForeword to Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism  Mike Featherstone List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: How Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Is Our Global World?  Vincenzo Cicchelli, Sylvie Octobre and Viviane Riegel Part 1 Doing Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Studies 1 The Condition of Cultural Cosmopolitanism  Motti Regev 2 The Seven Pillars of Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism  Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Octobre 3 The ‘frame’, the ‘rhythm’, and the ‘imaginary’: Rethinking the Cosmopolitan Aesthetic Experience  Dario Verderame Part 2 Reshaping the Imaginaries of the World 4 The Politics of Cosmopolitan Architecture: Third World Modernism and the Enigmatic Signifier  Leslie Sklair 5 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in São Paulo: a Peripheral Perspective from a Global City  Viviane Riegel 6 Australians in Hanoi: When Street Food Tours are Safely Exotic  Sukhmani Khorana 7 Musical Cosmopolitanism: Analysis and Reflections on Cultural Consumption, Gender and Identities around K-pop in Argentina  Paula Iadevito Part 3 Reframing Boundaries through Aesthetics 8 Cosmopolitan Socialization: How I See Me, How They See Me  Clara Rodriguez 9 The Love for Cinema Undergoing Transformations: Internationalization and Cosmopolitanism Patterns of Uruguayan Cinephiles  Rosario Radakovich 10 The Globalization of Samba Percussion: the Reconfiguration of the Legitimate Ways of Playing  Antoinette Kuijlaars 11 Cosmopolitan Pleasures and Affects; or Why Are We Still Talking about Yellowface in Twenty-First-Century Cinema?  Felicia Chan Part 4 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism as a Strategy 12 Redefining Cosmopolitanism: the Inter-Generational Transmission of Global Cultural Capital in Taiwan  Yi-Ping Eva Shih 13 Louvre Abu Dhabi: a Clash of Cosmopolitanisms?  Anne Krebs and Franck Mermier 14 São Paulo and the Brazilian Gastronomy: Field of Disputes within Globalization  Joana A. Pellerano and Talitha Alessandra Ferreira 15 Danish Television Series, a Cosmopolitan Artwork  Claire Thoumelin Afterword: A New Road toward Global Culture  Shujiro Yazawa Index

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Book SynopsisIn China less-qualified young migrants are living in subaltern condition and young migrants graduates have strongly internalised the idea of being the "heroes". Young internal and international migrants from China produce through top-dow and bottom-up globalisation. The young Chinese migrant incarnates the Global Individual, what we labeled here as the Compressed Individual.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures, Maps and Tables Introduction: Young Chinese Migrants, the Compressed Individual and Global Condition  1 Compressed Modernity, Time and Space  2 Chinese Experience and Young Migrants  2.1 Chinese Experience and Internal Migration  2.2 Chinese Migration and Transnationalism  3 Work and “Emotional Capitalism”  4 Compressed Individual and Inequalities  5 Compressed Modernity, Subpolitics and Collective Action 1 Chinese Young Migrants, Subalternity and the Compressed Individual  1 New Urban Boundaries and Migratory Ordeals in China  2 Young Migrants and Urban Segregation  3 Labour and Subalternity  4 Employment and Social Discrimination  5 Floating Labour, Hegemonic Labour Regimes and Emotions  6 Social Conflicts, Collective Action and Dormitory Regimes  7 Multi-Compressed Modernity and Mobility  8 Compressed mobilities and Subalternity  8.1 Strong Subalternity  8.2 Integrative subalternity  8.3 Weak Subalternity 2 The Fabric of “Heroes” and Emotional Capitalism  1 Young Migrant Graduates and Employment  2 Compressed Modernities and Migratory Careers  2.1 Disaffiliative Mobility and Weak Integration  2.2 Affiliative Mobility and Strong Integration  2.3 “Alternative” Mobility and the Distancing of Compressed Modernity  3 Moral Economies and the Compressed Individual  4 “Being a Hero” and Restricted Autonomy  5 Guanxi and Professional Relationships  6 Socialist Heritage, Compressed Modernities and Work  7 Compressed Modernity and Resistance to Emotional Capitalism 3 Young Chinese Migrants, Economic Cosmopolitanism and Globalisation  1 Young Chinese Migrants and Local Cosmopolitanisms  2 Compressed society, migration and the digital economy  3 Retail Traders, Entrepreneurs and Workers  4 Inter-Ethnic Relations, Muslim Solidarity and Discrimination  5 Transmigration and Economic Assemblages 4 Young Chinese Migrants and World Society  1 Work, Employment and Young Chinese Graduates in Europe  2 Ethnic Niches, Violence and Suffering  3 Chinese Economic Elites and the Cosmopolitan Spirit  4 Discrimination, Racism and Skills  5 Ethnic Enclaves and Multiple Affiliations 5 The Compressed Individual and Polygamic Biographies  1 Social Networks, Spatial Capital and Migratory Circulations  2 Compressed Individual and Family Governmentality  3 Polygamic Biographies and the Translation of Resources  4 Multi-Compressed Modernity and the Spiral of Downward Mobility  5 Ownership, Maintenance and Loss of Self  6 Compressed Individual, Re-migration in China and to China Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe sociology of sport is a relatively new scientific discipline, which has spread rapidly and developed in different directions across the world. It investigates social behavior, social processes, and social structures in sport, as well as the relationship between sport and society. The book Introduction to the Sociology of Sport aims to give its readers a comprehensive overview of this fascinating topic. For this purpose, it shows the interrelations between sport and identity, social class, gender, socialization, social groups, (mass) communication, the economy, and politics. In addition, the book introduces a new, innovative theory that helps readers understand the social specificity and worldwide popularity of sport.Trade Review“In adopting their approach, the authors widen the lens through which to critically study sport. This more global, theoretical, and comparative approach is academically laudable”. J. R. Mitrano, in Choice Connect, 2022.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1  The subject matter of sociology 2  Sociology of sport: subject area, theoretical approaches, and different methods 3  Sport and society 3.1  Sport and culture: values in society and in sport 3.1.1  Sport and civilization 3.2  Expansion of sport, internal differentiation, and trends 4  Socialization and sport 4.1  Gender roles in sport 4.1.1  Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intergender (LGBTI) people in sport 4.2  Social stratification in sport 4.2.1  Physical habitus, somatic culture, and social distinction 4.2.2  Sports of the lower social classes 4.2.3  Sports of the upper social classes 5  Sport and the social group 5.1  Social processes in sport groups 5.1.1  Group size and group task in sport 5.1.2  Group cohesion in sport 5.2  Social facilitation 6  Sport, social recognition, and identity 6.1  Anthropological constants 6.1.1  World-openness 6.1.2  Excentricity 6.1.3  Pursuit of recognition 6.1.3.1  Durkheim’s study on suicides 6.2  Social recognition in sport 6.2.1  Recognition as a member of a group 6.2.2  Recognition in an ascribed role 6.2.3  Recognition in an achieved role 6.2.4  Recognition in a public role 6.2.5  Recognition of personal identity 6.3  African Americans in sport 6.4  Action and representation in society and in sport 6.5  Sport as a social phenomenon 7  Violence and doping in sport 8  Towards the joy of play and movement in sport 8.1  The flow experience in sport 9  Sport and communication 10  Sport spectators 10.1  Social integration 10.2  Identification 10.3  Experiencing suspense and showing intense emotions 10.4  Sport and religion 10.5  On aggression among sport spectators 10.5.1  Causes for aggressive behavior 10.5.2  History of violence in spectator sport 11  Sport and mass communication 11.1  Communicator research 11.2  Content analysis 11.2.1  Content analysis of television sport 11.2.2  Content analysis of sport reporting in newspapers 11.2.3  Sport reporting and gender 11.3  Media research 11.4  Audience research 11.4.1  Audience research in the United Kingdom 11.4.2  Audience research in the USA 11.4.3  Audience research in Australia 11.4.4  Motives for consuming media sport 11.5  Impact research 11.5.1  Theory of the omnipotence of the media 11.5.2  Theory of the relative ineffectiveness of the media 12  Sport and the economy 12.1  Sport marketing and mass media 13  Sport and politics 13.1  The power of sport: A theoretical approach 13.2  Sport, social integration, and national self-representation 13.3  Sport as a means of strengthening a nation 13.4  Sport boycotts 13.5  Sport, globalization, and Olympism

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Book SynopsisIn Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age Piotr Mazurkiewicz et al. seek to answer the question whether a possible spread of pre-totalitarian attitudes among youth may in the near future pose a threat to the contemporary liberal democratic societies. The authors offer a new approach to the study of totalitarian trends in European societies significantly different from the previous one exploring mainly the historical and institutional-procedural aspects. The book not only offers interesting conclusions drawn from empirical research but also proposes an intellectually attractive theoretical model of understanding totalitarianism that can be used for further research. The impulse for this reflection was the research work performed by the authors on a cohort of contemporary youths from seven countries of Central and Eastern Europe.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors Introduction  Miracle Collections in Their Contexts   Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Jenni Kuuliala and Iona McCleery 1 Writing Miracle Collections   Louise Elizabeth Wilson 2 Miracles in Monastic Culture   Emilia Jamroziak 3 The Canonization of Saints in the Middle Ages  Procedure, Documentation, Meanings   Roberto Paciocco 4 Practical Matters  Canonization Records in the Making   Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Jenni Kuuliala 5 Heretics, Hemorrhages, and Herrings  Miracles and the Canonizations of Dominican Saints   Donald S. Prudlo 6 Miracula and Exempla – A Complicated Relationship   Jussi Hanska 7 Rituals and Spaces of Devotion in Cistercian Everyday Religion   Marika Räsänen 8 Pilgrimage as a Feature of Miracles   Leigh Ann Craig 9 Physical Disability and Bodily Difference   Jenni Kuuliala 10 Madness, Demonic Possession, and Methods of Categorization   Sari Katajala-Peltomaa 11 Death in a Birth Chamber  Birth Attendants as Expert Witnesses in the Canonization Process of Bernardino of Siena   Jyrki Nissi 12 Escaping Justice?  The Politics of Liberation Miracles in Late Medieval Portugal   Iona McCleery 13 Protection Miracles as Evidence for the Shifting Political Landscape of Fourteenth-Century Provence   Nicole Archambeau 14 The Mobilization of Thought  A Narratological Approach to Representations of Dream and Vision in Late Medieval Miracle Collections in the Low Countries   Jonas Van Mulder 15 Miracle Types and Narratives  The Case of Saint Margaret of Hungary   Ildikó Csepregi Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDecentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World aims to go beyond the traditional criticism in comparative analysis. It wants to shed new light on the question of comparing as a form of categorizing. In this perspective, three relevant dimensions to question the naturalized categories of comparison are mobilized: ethnocentrism, the nation, and academic disciplines. Based on original empirical work, the volume proposes to use comparative categories by mixing and shifting the analytical perspectives. It brings together contributions that come to terms with the historicity of the comparative method in the social sciences. It eventually deals with the key issue of comparability of various cases, in the enlarged context of a globalizing world. Contributors are: Anna Amelina, Camille Boullier, Catherine Cavalin, Serge Ebersold, Andreas Eckert, Mouhamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, Isabel Georges, Olivier Giraud, Aïssa Kadri, Wiebke Keim, Michel Lallement, Marie Mercat-Bruns, Luis Felipe Murillo, Kiran Klaus Patel, Léa Renard, Ferruccio Ricciardi, Paul-André Rosental, Pablo Salazar-Jaramillo, Stéphanie Tawa-Lama, Nikola Tietze, Tania Toffanin, Michel Vincent and Bénédicte Zimmermann.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Decentering comparative analysis and beyond Olivier Giraud, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Michel Lallement, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Part 1. Varying the analytical scale 2. Decentering comparison, questioning holism: The multi-sited ethnographic approach Luis Felipe Murillo, University of Virginia - Charlottesville 3. Close comparison in a global world: Categorizing the quality of work in a multinational company Bénédicte Zimmermann, EHESS, Paris, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin Léa Renard, Freie Universität Berlin 4. Decentering comparative strategies in cross-border studies: Towards a comparative analysis of scale making within assemblages Anna Amelina, Universität Cottbus 5. Engaging in a dialogue - An experiment in comparative employment Law Marie Mercat-Bruns, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 6. Which decentered methodological framework is best for comparing inclusive education policies? Serge Ebersold, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 7. Spectral comparisons: universalization, generalization, and the resource curse Pablo Jaramillo, Universidad de los Andes – Bogota Part 2. Comparison: A historical phenomena and the social sciences 8. The rise of comparison and the rise of the New Deal order Kiran Klaus Patel, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich 9. Silicosis as a test case for the decentering of medical and labor history Paul-André Rosental, Science Po, CFR- EHESS, Paris Catherine Cavalin, Irisso-CNRS-Université Paris Dauphine Michel Vincent, Minapath Développement 10. Homo Africanus vs homo œconomicus: looking back and forth Mohamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, LASP-D, Saint-Louis du Sénégal 11. The rise and strength of authoritarian restoration – Constructing a comparative logic for research Wiebke Keim, Sage-CNRS, Strasbourg 12. Comparing the Social and Spatial Inscription of Women’s Work Tania Toffanin, Università degli Studi, Padova 13. Categoring difference: labor and the colonial experience Ferruccio Ricciardi, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Part 3. Building commensurable universes for comparative analysis: Opportunities and constraints 14. Comparative Research Between France and India: A View from Within Stéphanie Tawa-Lama Rewal, EHESS, Paris 15. Comparability and conditions of comparability in education. Globalization of education: economist ethnocentrism versus culturalist singularism Aïssa Kadri, Université Paris 8 16. Comparing imagined transnational communities in France and Germany, or Playing national and European categories – religion, language, territory – at their own game Nikola Tietze, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg 17. Communities, organization of work, and institutional mediation: comparing the United States and France Camille Boullier, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Michel Lallement, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 18. On the crossroads of territorialities and temporalities: the making of social politics in Brazil Isabel Georges, IRD-UMR 201 Développement et societies, Paris 19. Entangled politicizations. Democracy against the market in long-term care policies Olivier Giraud, Lise, CNRS-Cnam, Paris Concluding remarks Andreas Eckert, Humbold University Berlin

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Book SynopsisBy examining the great economic and political transformations of our time, Juan Luis Manfredi-Sánchez reveals how cities and their hinterlands have become part of globalisation. The global city has joined the group of actors who develop diplomatic, political and communicative action in a manner that is de facto and lawful. Thus, the city is involved in the formulation of foreign policy at the same time that it proposes its own political agenda, which may or may not be aligned with its own country. The city thereby becomes a source of innovation in the field of diplomacy. The Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating the political and diplomatic role of cities, which have become epicentres of prevention and response in the face of this public health crisis.Trade Review" It [the book] is valuable as a starting point for future empirical research on urban diplomacy and provides valuable teaching material for graduate courses. Its style and length make Urban Diplomacy suitable for broader audiences in the fields of urban studies and international relations. By developing a deeper understanding of city diplomacy the book can inform political practice and public policy addressing urban challenges that have global significance." - Alejandra Trejo-Nieto, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico, in Journal of Urban Affairs, 2022.Table of ContentsUrban Diplomacy: A Cosmopolitan Outlook  Juan Luis Manfredi-Sánchez Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 The Urban Planet: Demography, Connectivity and Multimodal Transport  3 What Is City Diplomacy?  4 From Ideation to Action: How Cities Carry out Their Diplomacy  5 Do City and State Diplomacy Work Together?  6 Conclusions  References

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Book SynopsisIn the immense literature on globalization, the work of Roland Robertson stands out. In particular, his insistence that globalization manifests itself primarily as glocalization, the simultaneity of the global and the local, of homogenization and heterogenization continues to influence how a wide variety of observers understand the process, including those who contest it. In honour of Robertson’s lifetime contributions, this volume brings together a set of essays that demonstrate the cogency of his approach, point out directions in which it can be further developed, and illustrate the insight it can provide in topics as varied as religion, football, wine, morality, and UFOs. Contributors include: Peter Beyer, John Boli, Didem Buhari Gulmez, Rebecca Catto, Richard Giulianotti, Ulf Hannerz, David Inglis, Paul James, Habibul Haque Khondker, Anne Sophie Krossa, Frank Lechner, Kristian Naglo, John H. Simpson, Manfred B. Steger, and George M. Thomas.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1. INTRODUCTION - GLOBALIZATION: A LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEOLOGISM Peter Beyer 2. THE GLOBAL-GLOCAL NEXUS IN WORLD SOCIETY Didem Buhari Gulmez 3. ANYWHERES, SOMEWHERES AND THE FACES OF COSMOPOLITANISM Ulf Hannerz 4. THE CHALLENGES OF PERIODIZING GLOBALIZATION Manfred B. Steger 5. GLOBALIZATION AND THE GREAT UNSETTLING Paul James 6. RELATIVIZING EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION, IMAGES OF THE GLOBAL FIELD, AND RELIGIOUS RESPONSES George M. Thomas 7. THE CHANGING WORLD OF THEORY Frank J. Lechner 8. GLOCAL POWER AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION: HOW ROBERTSON’S THEORY OF GLOBALIZATION HELPS US TO SEE BEYOND SECULARIZATION Rebecca Catto 9. A SOCIOLOGY OF BELIEF FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE John H. Simpson 10. GLOBALITY AND THE PROBLEM OF GLOBAL MORALITY Habibul Haque Khondker 11. STYLING GLOCALIZATION: GLOBAL FOOTBALL AND THE RELATIVE AUTONOMY OF PLAYING STYLES Richard Giulianotti 12. PERCEPTIONS OF INTEGRATION IN THE GLOCAL WORLD OF FOOTBALL Annie Sophia Krossa and Kristian Naglo 13. ON WINE, GLOBALIZATION, AND GLOCALIZATION: LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENTS AND PRESENT-DAY CONTROVERSIES David Inglis 14. SMALL PLANET IN THE VASTNESS OF SPACE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE PROLIFERATION OF UFOS, ALIENS, AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL THREATS TO HUMANITY John Boli BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROLAND ROBERTSON’S ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Index

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Book SynopsisMaritime spaces are socially constructed by humans and refer to seas and islands, coasts, port cities and villages, as well as ships and other human-made marine structures. Social interaction with marine environments and living beings, e.g. in a symbolic, cultural or economic manner, has led to the emergence of spatial structures which affect the knowledge, beliefs, meanings and obstinately patterns. Those structures shape mutual expectations of human beings and form the perception, imagination, or memory of inhabitants of maritime spaces. They enable or restrict human action, construct people’s everyday life, their norms and values, and are changeable. Contributors include: Jan Asmussen, Robert Bartłomiejski, Benjamin Bowles, Isabel Duarte, Eduardo Sarmento Ferreira, Rita Grácio, Marie C. Grasmeier, Karolina Izdebska, Seung Kuk Kim, Arkadiusz Kołodziej, Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś, Maciej Kowalewski, Urszula Kozłowska, Ulrike Kronfeld-Goharani, Rute Muchacho, Giacomo Orsini, Włodzimierz Karol Pessel, Célia Quico, Harini Sivalingam, Joana Sousa, Frank Sowa, Nuno Cintra Torres, and Günter Warsewa.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Thinking Maritime Spaces Sociologically: An Introduction Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś, Frank Sowa, and Marie C. Grasmeier Part One: Conceptualising Maritime Sociologies 1. Maritime Sociology in the Making Arkadiusz Kołodziej and Agnieszka Kołodziej-Durnaś 2. Toward an Ocean of Hybridisation: East Asian Connections Seung Kuk Kim Part Two: Port Cities 3. Port Cities as Urban Assemblages. Bringing Actor-Network Theory to Maritime Sociology Robert Bartłomiejski and Maciej Kowalewski 4. Maritime Identities in Western Baltic Port Cities Jan Asmussen 5. Local Culture and the Postindustrial Transformation of the Port-City Günter Warsewa 6. When The Sea Comes to the City. The Case of Polish Port Elbląg Włodzimierz Karol Pessel Part Three: Sea and Culture 7. On Maritime Culture: Interpretations, Scope of Impact, and Controversies Arkadiusz Kołodziej 8. Portuguese Sea Museums and the Communication of Maritime Heritage in the 21st Century Rita Grácio, Nuno Cintra Torres, Isabel Duarte, Célia Quico, Rute Muchacho, and Eduardo Sarmento Ferreira 9. The Specificity of Maritime Culture. Monuments and Anti-monuments of Urban Spaces a Testimony to the Maritime Character of the City of Szczecin Karolina Izdebska and Urszula Kozłowska Part Four: Water as Home and Road 10. The Linear Village? Chasing “Community” amongst Boat Dwellers on the Waterways of South East England Benjamin Bowles 11. The Ship as a Postcolonial Space Marie C. Grasmeier Part Five: Ecology, Economy and Society 12. Farming Rice at the Margins in West Africa Joana Sousa 13. The Staged World of the Cruise Ship Ulrike Kronfeld‐Goharani 14. Boat Migrants: Hyper-visible and (yet) Invisible. On Security, Racism, and Maritime Migration to Canada Giacomo Orsini and Harini Sivalingam Index

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Book SynopsisYouth studies in Latin America and Spain face numerous challenges. This book delves into youth experiences in the 21st century, shaped by complex and pressing issues: the surge of youth cultures and groups, visual images of youth throughout time, and fragmented youth experiences in radically unequal societies. It analyzes young people as precarious natives in global capitalism and labor uncertainty, juvenicide, feminist discourse, social networks, intimacy and sexual affection among young people in a context of growing claims of gender equality. Also included are rural and indigenous youth as political actors, the actions of young political activists within government administrations, the experience of youth migration and empowerment, and young people dealing with the digital world. How have youth studies approached these issues in Latin America and Spain? Which were the main developments and transformations in this research field over the past years? Where is it heading? Contributors are: Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga, Dolores Rocca, José Antonio Pérez Islas, Juan Carlos Revilla, Mariano Urraco, Almudena Moreno, Óscar Aguilera, Marcela Saá, Rafael Merino, Ana Miranda, Carles Feixa, Gonzalo Saraví, Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez, Arantxa Grau-Muñoz, José Manuel Valenzuela, Silvia Elizalde, Mónica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen, Tanja Strecker, Elisa G. de Castro, Melina Vázquez, René Unda, Daniel Llanos, Sonia Páez de la Torre, Pere Soler, Daniel Calderón, and Stribor Kuric.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors  Introduction Studying Young People’s Lives, Understanding Complex and Diverse Societies   Jorge Benedicto and Maritza Urteaga part 1 Youth Studies in Latin America and Spain: Multiple Perspectives, Multiple Contexts   Jorge Benedicto 1 Game of Glances Review of Youth Research in Latin America   José Antonio Pérez Islas 2 40 Years of Youth Studies in Spain and Their Contribution to Social Images of Youth   Juan Carlos Revilla and Mariano Urraco 3 The Current Theoretical Debates in Comparative Research on Young People A European Perspective   Almudena Moreno 4 Youth Images Visual Images, Representations and Imaginaries of Young People   Óscar Aguilera and Marcela Saá part 2 The Life of Young People in Complex and Unequal Societies   Maritza Urteaga 5 Youth as Transition Theoretical and Methodological Contributions to the Youth Study Field in Latin America and Spain   Rafael Merino and Ana Miranda 6 Youth Cultures and Identities The Surfaces of the Underground   Carles Feixa 7 The Fragmentation of Youth Experience Social Inequality and Everyday Life in Urban Latin America   Gonzalo Saraví 8 Precarious Natives New Profiles of Precarious Young People in the Flexible Economies   Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez and Arantxa Grau-Muñoz 9 Iuvenis Sacer The Systematic Murder of Young People in Latin America   José Manuel Valenzuela 10 Gender Relationships and Sexual Affection between Young People Reflections from the Argentine Case   Silvia Elizalde part 3 Diversity and Youth Agency: Young People as Actors in Society   Jorge Benedicto and Dolores Rocca 11 Young Women as Social Actors Participation in Cultural Groups and the Feminist Empowerment of Young People in Catalonia (Spain)   Mònica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen and Tanja Strecker 12 Rural Youth A Political Actor of Social Movements in Brazil and its Impact on Youth Policies   Elisa Guaraná 13 Young Political Activists in Government-Supporting Organizations Argentina from a Regional Perspective   Melina Vázquez and Dolores Rocca 14 Kichwa Indigenous Youth from Ecuador Conditions and Context of their Youth Agency   René Unda and Daniel Llanos 15 Migration and Youth Empowerment The Migration Experience of Young Latin Americans to Catalonia   Sonia Páez de la Torre and Pere Soler 16 Youth in the Digital World Dispositions and Experiences of Internet Use   Daniel Calderón and Stribor Kuric   Afterword Young People and Covid-19: Some Thoughts about a Very Near Future   Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga and Dolores Rocca Index

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Book SynopsisAre artistic engagements evolving, or attracting more attention? The range of artistic protest actions shows how the globalisation of art is also the globalisation of art politics. Here, based on multi-site field research, we follow artists from the MENA countries, Latin America, and Africa along their committed transnational trajectories, whether these are voluntary or the result of exile. With this global and decentred approach, the different repertoires of engagement appear, in all their dimensions, including professional ones. In the face of political disillusionment, these aesthetic interventions take on new meanings, as artivists seek alternative modes of social transformation and production of shared values. Contributors are: Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Sébastien Boulay, Sarah Dornhof, Simon Dubois, Shyam Iskander, Sabrina Melenotte, Franck Mermier, Rayane Al Rammal, Kirsten Scheid, Pinar Selek, and Marion Slitine.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Repertoires of Engagement in Motion  Pénélope Larzillière Part 1: Moving Repertoires of Engagement 1 Creating a Syrian Culture in Exile: The Reconfigurations of Engagement  Franck Mermier 2 The “Metamorphoses of the Political” in the Contemporary Art of Palestinian Post-Oslo Generation  Marion Slitine 3 Transnationalizing the Repertoires of Action: A Comparative View of African Rappers’ Engagements in Motion  Alice Aterianus-Owanga 4 Digital Artivism in Movement: The 2019 Lebanese Uprising’s Art on Instagram  Rayane al-Rammal Part 2: Artistic Visibilities and Political Circulations, in Diaspora 5 Presence and International Journeys of Engaged West Saharan Singers  Sébastien Boulay 6 Young Documentary Theatre on Syrian Stages: An Aesthetic of Circulation, Exile, and Engagement  Simon Dubois 7 Anatolian Musicians in Europe: Creation, Political Engagement, Transformation  Pinar Selek Part 3: Contest and Critique, in a Globalizing World 8 Palestinian Art Talk: A Local Lexicon for Global Art Production  Kirsten Scheid 9 Fictions of the Contemporary: The Shifting Spaces of the Marrakech Biennale  Sarah Dornhof 10 Focus on the Bahraini Art Scene: Centralization Processes and Social Engagement  Shyam Iskander 11 Embodying Absence: Remembering Mexico’s Missing Persons through Art  Sabrina Melenotte Index

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Book SynopsisOn a global scale, more than 40 million people make their living working directly at sea as fishers, seafarers, in aquaculture or seabed-mining, or related occupations such as dockworkers, shipbuilding, logistics, maritime administration, secondary branches of shipping, marine tourism and other maritime professions. The study of maritime labour and occupations is still under-represented in the social sciences and humanities. With the present volume, we attempt to fill this gap by representing recent research on maritime professions from a sociological perspective drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and subject matters.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Introduction: Maritime Professions as a Field of Social Research  Marie C. Grasmeier, Agnieszka Kolodziej-Durnas and Frank Sowa Part 1: Macro-Sociological and Organizational Approaches 1 Seafarers and Dockworkers: Implications for Industrial Sociology  Shaun Ruggunan 2 “Making a Ship”: Maritime Labour Regime(s) and Alienation in Norwegian Offshore Production  Camilla Mevik 3 Boundary-work, Occupational Identities and Class-experiences of Global Seafarers  Marie C. Grasmeier and Linda Beck Part 2: Gender Issues 4 The Role of Discursive Contexts in Constructing the Identity of Women at Sea: Towards Informal Dimensions of Maritime Adult Education  Iwona Królikowska and Astrid Meczkowska-Christiansen 5 Strategies and Struggle of Women Fishers for the Rescue and Conservation of a Coastal Lagoon System: “Mujeres Pescadoras del Manglar”  Nuria Jimenez Garcia 6 The Fishing Profession in Quebec: Structure, Origins and Development of a “Typically Male” Sector  Marco Alberio Part 3: Micro-Sociological Approaches 7 “Team Play”: Seafarers’ Strategies for Coping with Job Demands of Short Sea Cargo Shipping Lines  Birgit Pauksztat 8 The Role of Personality Traits, Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction in the Explanation of Seafarers’ Well-being  Ana Sliškovic 9 A Study on the Sense of Relative Deprivation of Elderly Fishers from the Perspective of Ocean Sociology: The Example of Island S and G in Zhoushan City, China  Wen Zhang and Ya Wen 10 Families of Seamen in the Period of Political Changes and Today – Homelessness Issues  Roland Dobrzeniecki-Lukasiewicz Index

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Book SynopsisDecentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World aims to go beyond the traditional criticism in comparative analysis. It wants to shed new light on the question of comparing as a form of categorizing. In this perspective, three relevant dimensions to question the naturalized categories of comparison are mobilized: ethnocentrism, the nation, and academic disciplines. Based on original empirical work, the volume proposes to use comparative categories by mixing and shifting the analytical perspectives. It brings together contributions that come to terms with the historicity of the comparative method in the social sciences. It eventually deals with the key issue of comparability of various cases, in the enlarged context of a globalizing world. Contributors are: Anna Amelina, Camille Boullier, Catherine Cavalin, Serge Ebersold, Andreas Eckert, Mouhamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, Isabel Georges, Olivier Giraud, Aïssa Kadri, Wiebke Keim, Michel Lallement, Marie Mercat-Bruns, Luis Felipe Murillo, Kiran Klaus Patel, Léa Renard, Ferruccio Ricciardi, Paul-André Rosental, Pablo Salazar-Jaramillo, Stéphanie Tawa-Lama, Nikola Tietze, Tania Toffanin, Michel Vincent and Bénédicte Zimmermann.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Decentering comparative analysis and beyond Olivier Giraud, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Michel Lallement, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Part 1. Varying the analytical scale 2. Decentering comparison, questioning holism: The multi-sited ethnographic approach Luis Felipe Murillo, University of Virginia - Charlottesville 3. Close comparison in a global world: Categorizing the quality of work in a multinational company Bénédicte Zimmermann, EHESS, Paris, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin Léa Renard, Freie Universität Berlin 4. Decentering comparative strategies in cross-border studies: Towards a comparative analysis of scale making within assemblages Anna Amelina, Universität Cottbus 5. Engaging in a dialogue - An experiment in comparative employment Law Marie Mercat-Bruns, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 6. Which decentered methodological framework is best for comparing inclusive education policies? Serge Ebersold, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 7. Spectral comparisons: universalization, generalization, and the resource curse Pablo Jaramillo, Universidad de los Andes – Bogota Part 2. Comparison: A historical phenomena and the social sciences 8. The rise of comparison and the rise of the New Deal order Kiran Klaus Patel, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich 9. Silicosis as a test case for the decentering of medical and labor history Paul-André Rosental, Science Po, CFR- EHESS, Paris Catherine Cavalin, Irisso-CNRS-Université Paris Dauphine Michel Vincent, Minapath Développement 10. Homo Africanus vs homo œconomicus: looking back and forth Mohamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, LASP-D, Saint-Louis du Sénégal 11. The rise and strength of authoritarian restoration – Constructing a comparative logic for research Wiebke Keim, Sage-CNRS, Strasbourg 12. Comparing the Social and Spatial Inscription of Women’s Work Tania Toffanin, Università degli Studi, Padova 13. Categoring difference: labor and the colonial experience Ferruccio Ricciardi, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Part 3. Building commensurable universes for comparative analysis: Opportunities and constraints 14. Comparative Research Between France and India: A View from Within Stéphanie Tawa-Lama Rewal, EHESS, Paris 15. Comparability and conditions of comparability in education. Globalization of education: economist ethnocentrism versus culturalist singularism Aïssa Kadri, Université Paris 8 16. Comparing imagined transnational communities in France and Germany, or Playing national and European categories – religion, language, territory – at their own game Nikola Tietze, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg 17. Communities, organization of work, and institutional mediation: comparing the United States and France Camille Boullier, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Michel Lallement, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 18. On the crossroads of territorialities and temporalities: the making of social politics in Brazil Isabel Georges, IRD-UMR 201 Développement et societies, Paris 19. Entangled politicizations. Democracy against the market in long-term care policies Olivier Giraud, Lise, CNRS-Cnam, Paris Concluding remarks Andreas Eckert, Humbold University Berlin

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Book SynopsisIn the immense literature on globalization, the work of Roland Robertson stands out. In particular, his insistence that globalization manifests itself primarily as glocalization, the simultaneity of the global and the local, of homogenization and heterogenization continues to influence how a wide variety of observers understand the process, including those who contest it. In honour of Robertson’s lifetime contributions, this volume brings together a set of essays that demonstrate the cogency of his approach, point out directions in which it can be further developed, and illustrate the insight it can provide in topics as varied as religion, football, wine, morality, and UFOs. Contributors include: Peter Beyer, John Boli, Didem Buhari Gulmez, Rebecca Catto, Richard Giulianotti, Ulf Hannerz, David Inglis, Paul James, Habibul Haque Khondker, Anne Sophie Krossa, Frank Lechner, Kristian Naglo, John H. Simpson, Manfred B. Steger, and George M. Thomas.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1. INTRODUCTION - GLOBALIZATION: A LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEOLOGISM Peter Beyer 2. THE GLOBAL-GLOCAL NEXUS IN WORLD SOCIETY Didem Buhari Gulmez 3. ANYWHERES, SOMEWHERES AND THE FACES OF COSMOPOLITANISM Ulf Hannerz 4. THE CHALLENGES OF PERIODIZING GLOBALIZATION Manfred B. Steger 5. GLOBALIZATION AND THE GREAT UNSETTLING Paul James 6. RELATIVIZING EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION, IMAGES OF THE GLOBAL FIELD, AND RELIGIOUS RESPONSES George M. Thomas 7. THE CHANGING WORLD OF THEORY Frank J. Lechner 8. GLOCAL POWER AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION: HOW ROBERTSON’S THEORY OF GLOBALIZATION HELPS US TO SEE BEYOND SECULARIZATION Rebecca Catto 9. A SOCIOLOGY OF BELIEF FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE John H. Simpson 10. GLOBALITY AND THE PROBLEM OF GLOBAL MORALITY Habibul Haque Khondker 11. STYLING GLOCALIZATION: GLOBAL FOOTBALL AND THE RELATIVE AUTONOMY OF PLAYING STYLES Richard Giulianotti 12. PERCEPTIONS OF INTEGRATION IN THE GLOCAL WORLD OF FOOTBALL Annie Sophia Krossa and Kristian Naglo 13. ON WINE, GLOBALIZATION, AND GLOCALIZATION: LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENTS AND PRESENT-DAY CONTROVERSIES David Inglis 14. SMALL PLANET IN THE VASTNESS OF SPACE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE PROLIFERATION OF UFOS, ALIENS, AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL THREATS TO HUMANITY John Boli BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ROLAND ROBERTSON’S ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS Index

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Book SynopsisIn China less-qualified young migrants are living in subaltern condition and young migrants graduates have strongly internalised the idea of being the "heroes". Young internal and international migrants from China produce through top-dow and bottom-up globalisation. The young Chinese migrant incarnates the Global Individual, what we labeled here as the Compressed Individual.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures, Maps and Tables Introduction: Young Chinese Migrants, the Compressed Individual and Global Condition  1 Compressed Modernity, Time and Space  2 Chinese Experience and Young Migrants  2.1 Chinese Experience and Internal Migration  2.2 Chinese Migration and Transnationalism  3 Work and “Emotional Capitalism”  4 Compressed Individual and Inequalities  5 Compressed Modernity, Subpolitics and Collective Action 1 Chinese Young Migrants, Subalternity and the Compressed Individual  1 New Urban Boundaries and Migratory Ordeals in China  2 Young Migrants and Urban Segregation  3 Labour and Subalternity  4 Employment and Social Discrimination  5 Floating Labour, Hegemonic Labour Regimes and Emotions  6 Social Conflicts, Collective Action and Dormitory Regimes  7 Multi-Compressed Modernity and Mobility  8 Compressed mobilities and Subalternity  8.1 Strong Subalternity  8.2 Integrative subalternity  8.3 Weak Subalternity 2 The Fabric of “Heroes” and Emotional Capitalism  1 Young Migrant Graduates and Employment  2 Compressed Modernities and Migratory Careers  2.1 Disaffiliative Mobility and Weak Integration  2.2 Affiliative Mobility and Strong Integration  2.3 “Alternative” Mobility and the Distancing of Compressed Modernity  3 Moral Economies and the Compressed Individual  4 “Being a Hero” and Restricted Autonomy  5 Guanxi and Professional Relationships  6 Socialist Heritage, Compressed Modernities and Work  7 Compressed Modernity and Resistance to Emotional Capitalism 3 Young Chinese Migrants, Economic Cosmopolitanism and Globalisation  1 Young Chinese Migrants and Local Cosmopolitanisms  2 Compressed society, migration and the digital economy  3 Retail Traders, Entrepreneurs and Workers  4 Inter-Ethnic Relations, Muslim Solidarity and Discrimination  5 Transmigration and Economic Assemblages 4 Young Chinese Migrants and World Society  1 Work, Employment and Young Chinese Graduates in Europe  2 Ethnic Niches, Violence and Suffering  3 Chinese Economic Elites and the Cosmopolitan Spirit  4 Discrimination, Racism and Skills  5 Ethnic Enclaves and Multiple Affiliations 5 The Compressed Individual and Polygamic Biographies  1 Social Networks, Spatial Capital and Migratory Circulations  2 Compressed Individual and Family Governmentality  3 Polygamic Biographies and the Translation of Resources  4 Multi-Compressed Modernity and the Spiral of Downward Mobility  5 Ownership, Maintenance and Loss of Self  6 Compressed Individual, Re-migration in China and to China Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisYouth studies in Latin America and Spain face numerous challenges. This book delves into youth experiences in the 21st century, shaped by complex and pressing issues: the surge of youth cultures and groups, visual images of youth throughout time, and fragmented youth experiences in radically unequal societies. It analyzes young people as precarious natives in global capitalism and labor uncertainty, juvenicide, feminist discourse, social networks, intimacy and sexual affection among young people in a context of growing claims of gender equality. Also included are rural and indigenous youth as political actors, the actions of young political activists within government administrations, the experience of youth migration and empowerment, and young people dealing with the digital world. How have youth studies approached these issues in Latin America and Spain? Which were the main developments and transformations in this research field over the past years? Where is it heading? Contributors are: Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga, Dolores Rocca, José Antonio Pérez Islas, Juan Carlos Revilla, Mariano Urraco, Almudena Moreno, Óscar Aguilera, Marcela Saá, Rafael Merino, Ana Miranda, Carles Feixa, Gonzalo Saraví, Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez, Arantxa Grau-Muñoz, José Manuel Valenzuela, Silvia Elizalde, Mónica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen, Tanja Strecker, Elisa G. de Castro, Melina Vázquez, René Unda, Daniel Llanos, Sonia Páez de la Torre, Pere Soler, Daniel Calderón, and Stribor Kuric.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors  Introduction Studying Young People’s Lives, Understanding Complex and Diverse Societies   Jorge Benedicto and Maritza Urteaga part 1 Youth Studies in Latin America and Spain: Multiple Perspectives, Multiple Contexts   Jorge Benedicto 1 Game of Glances Review of Youth Research in Latin America   José Antonio Pérez Islas 2 40 Years of Youth Studies in Spain and Their Contribution to Social Images of Youth   Juan Carlos Revilla and Mariano Urraco 3 The Current Theoretical Debates in Comparative Research on Young People A European Perspective   Almudena Moreno 4 Youth Images Visual Images, Representations and Imaginaries of Young People   Óscar Aguilera and Marcela Saá part 2 The Life of Young People in Complex and Unequal Societies   Maritza Urteaga 5 Youth as Transition Theoretical and Methodological Contributions to the Youth Study Field in Latin America and Spain   Rafael Merino and Ana Miranda 6 Youth Cultures and Identities The Surfaces of the Underground   Carles Feixa 7 The Fragmentation of Youth Experience Social Inequality and Everyday Life in Urban Latin America   Gonzalo Saraví 8 Precarious Natives New Profiles of Precarious Young People in the Flexible Economies   Antonio Santos-Ortega, David Muñoz-Rodríguez and Arantxa Grau-Muñoz 9 Iuvenis Sacer The Systematic Murder of Young People in Latin America   José Manuel Valenzuela 10 Gender Relationships and Sexual Affection between Young People Reflections from the Argentine Case   Silvia Elizalde part 3 Diversity and Youth Agency: Young People as Actors in Society   Jorge Benedicto and Dolores Rocca 11 Young Women as Social Actors Participation in Cultural Groups and the Feminist Empowerment of Young People in Catalonia (Spain)   Mònica Figueras, Mittzy Arciniega, Nele Hansen and Tanja Strecker 12 Rural Youth A Political Actor of Social Movements in Brazil and its Impact on Youth Policies   Elisa Guaraná 13 Young Political Activists in Government-Supporting Organizations Argentina from a Regional Perspective   Melina Vázquez and Dolores Rocca 14 Kichwa Indigenous Youth from Ecuador Conditions and Context of their Youth Agency   René Unda and Daniel Llanos 15 Migration and Youth Empowerment The Migration Experience of Young Latin Americans to Catalonia   Sonia Páez de la Torre and Pere Soler 16 Youth in the Digital World Dispositions and Experiences of Internet Use   Daniel Calderón and Stribor Kuric   Afterword Young People and Covid-19: Some Thoughts about a Very Near Future   Jorge Benedicto, Maritza Urteaga and Dolores Rocca Index

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Book SynopsisJapanese youth, like everywhere else, are trying to build their future despite the crises that are shaking their world, the latest being the triple disaster of Fukushima. Often considered to be more focused on a personal or even hedonistic life, they surprised the media when a student movement took the floor to criticize the Abe government's security and Self-Defense Forces bills in 2015. The so-called SEALDs movement (Student Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy) was formed some time after the Indigenous or Occupy Wall Street movements, but it shares similar concerns. Understanding the SEALDs' experience from the perspective of John Dewey's philosophy allows us to highlight once again the dangers that digital technology poses to individuals, the collective and their values.Table of ContentsA Note on Japanese Terms Abstract Keywords  Introduction: SEALDs in the Protest Movement Landscape  Part 1: The Wheels Come Off  1 Social Upheaval  2 Japanese Youth and the Crisis  Part 2: The SEALDs Movement  3 Influential Factors  4 Learning by Doing  5 SEALDs in the Japanese Political Landscape  Conclusion: What Next after SEALDs?  Appendix 1: Unusual Backgrounds of the First Students to Join SEALDs  Appendix 2: Timeline of the SEALDs Movement  Appendix 3: The SEALDs Manifesto  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisToday’s analysts of world affairs are often loosely referring to ‘geopolitics’, but do not always clearly define it. This book therefore offers a necessary introduction into the main components of geopolitical analysis, an overview of the main geopolitical schools of thought, as well as reflections on technology and geopolitics. In addition, empirical studies showcase innovative approaches.Table of ContentsBackground and acknowledgements  David Criekemans List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Need for a Renewed ‘Grounding’ of International Relations  David Criekemans PART 1: Basic Variables of Geopolitical Analysis 1 The Main Components of Geopolitical Analysis  Gyula Csurgai 2 ‘Geotechnical Ensembles’: How New Technologies Change Geopolitical Factors and Contexts in Economy, Energy and Security  David Criekemans PART 2: Theoretical Approaches to Territorially Embedded Factors and IR 3 Geopolitical Schools of Thought: A Concise Overview from 1890 till 2020, and beyond  David Criekemans 4 Where 'Geopolitics' and 'Foreign Policy Analysis' Once Met: The Work of Harold and Margaret Sprout and Its Continued Relevance Today  David Criekemans 5 Analysing Geopolitical Myths: Towards a Method for Analytic Geopolitics  Antonios Nestoras PART 3: Empirical Studies: The Enduring Relevance of Territorially Embedded Factors in IR 6 Post-Cold War NATO Enlargement and the Geopolitical Instrumentalization of ‘Liberal Peace’: Lessons from George Kennan  Alexandre Lambert 7 The Increasing Importance of Geoeconomics in Power Rivalries: From the Past to the Present  Gyula Csurgai 8 Dangers on the Edge of the Map: Geographic Mental Maps and the Emergence of the Carter Doctrine  Luis da Vinha 9 Mapping Greed as a Conflict Motivation: Evidence from Armed Conflicts in Sudan and Libya on the Complexity of Armed Groups’ Interactions with Natural Resources  Steven Spittaels 10 Regional Diplomacy: Re-Territorialisation as a Piece in the Neo-Medieval Puzzle?  Manuel Duran PART 4: Conclusions Geopolitics and International Relations: From ‘Living Apart Together’ to ‘Friends with Benefits’  David Criekemans Index

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Book SynopsisAre artistic engagements evolving, or attracting more attention? The range of artistic protest actions shows how the globalisation of art is also the globalisation of art politics. Here, based on multi-site field research, we follow artists from the MENA countries, Latin America, and Africa along their committed transnational trajectories, whether these are voluntary or the result of exile. With this global and decentred approach, the different repertoires of engagement appear, in all their dimensions, including professional ones. In the face of political disillusionment, these aesthetic interventions take on new meanings, as artivists seek alternative modes of social transformation and production of shared values. Contributors are: Alice Aterianus-Owanga, Sébastien Boulay, Sarah Dornhof, Simon Dubois, Shyam Iskander, Sabrina Melenotte, Franck Mermier, Rayane Al Rammal, Kirsten Scheid, Pinar Selek, and Marion Slitine. The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement: Beyond the Arab Uprisings is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Repertoires of Engagement in Motion  Pénélope Larzillière Part 1: Moving Repertoires of Engagement 1 Creating a Syrian Culture in Exile: The Reconfigurations of Engagement  Franck Mermier 2 The “Metamorphoses of the Political” in the Contemporary Art of Palestinian Post-Oslo Generation  Marion Slitine 3 Transnationalizing the Repertoires of Action: A Comparative View of African Rappers’ Engagements in Motion  Alice Aterianus-Owanga 4 Digital Artivism in Movement: The 2019 Lebanese Uprising’s Art on Instagram  Rayane al-Rammal Part 2: Artistic Visibilities and Political Circulations, in Diaspora 5 Presence and International Journeys of Engaged West Saharan Singers  Sébastien Boulay 6 Young Documentary Theatre on Syrian Stages: An Aesthetic of Circulation, Exile, and Engagement  Simon Dubois 7 Anatolian Musicians in Europe: Creation, Political Engagement, Transformation  Pinar Selek Part 3: Contest and Critique, in a Globalizing World 8 Palestinian Art Talk: A Local Lexicon for Global Art Production  Kirsten Scheid 9 Fictions of the Contemporary: The Shifting Spaces of the Marrakech Biennale  Sarah Dornhof 10 Focus on the Bahraini Art Scene: Centralization Processes and Social Engagement  Shyam Iskander 11 Embodying Absence: Remembering Mexico’s Missing Persons through Art  Sabrina Melenotte Index

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Book SynopsisWhile the world seems to be getting ever smaller and globalization has become the ubiquitous buzz-word, regionalism and fragmentation also abound. This might be due to the fact that, far from being the alleged production of cultural homogeneity, the global is constantly re-defined and altered through the local. This tension, pervading much of contemporary culture, has an obvious special relevance for the new varieties of English and the literature published in English world-wide. Postcolonial literatures exist at the interface of English as a hegemonic medium and its many national, regional and local competitors that transform it in the new English literatures. Thus any exploration of a globalization of cultures has to take into account the fact that culture is a complex field characterized by hybridization, plurality, and difference. But while global or transnational cultures may allow for a new cosmopolitanism that produces ever-changing, fluid identities, they do not give rise to an egalitarian ‘global village’ – an asymmetry between centre and periphery remains largely intact, albeit along new parameters. The essays collected in this volume offer readings of literary, theoretical, and filmic texts from the postcolonial world. These texts are read as attempts to articulate the global with the local from a perspective of immersion in the actual diversity of life-worlds, focusing on such issues as consumption, identity-politics, and modes of affiliation. In this sense, they are global fragments: locally refractured figurations of an experience of world-wide interconnectedness.Table of ContentsGlobal Fragments: An Introduction Glocal Identities: Mapping, Itineraries, Memories Russell WEST–PAVLOV: Contemporary Asian–Australian Identities: Hsu–Ming Teo’s Love and Vertigo Anja SCHWARZ: Mapping (Un-)Australian Identities: ‘Territorial Disputes’ in Christos Tsiolkas’ Loaded Mala PANDURANG: Understanding Departure: A Study of Select Pre-Migration Indian Female Subjectivities Frank SCHULZE–ENGLER: Black, Asian, and Other British: Transcultural Literature and the Discreet Charm of Ethnicity Consuming Globality: Performance, Difference, Desire Mita BANERJEE: Indian Diaspora Meets Indo-Chic: Fragmentation, Fashion, and Resistance in Meera Syal’s Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee Christine VOGT–WILLIAM: Bhangra Babes: ‘Masala’ Music and Questions of Identity and Integration in South Asian-British Women’s Writing Ulrike KISTNER: AIDS, Pornography, and Conspicuous Consumption: Media Strategies of an HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign in South Africa Justyna DESZCZ–TRYHUBCZAK: The Global Bidding for Dorothy Gale’s Magical Shoes: Salman Rushdie’s “At the Auction of the Ruby Slippers” as a (Self-) Reflection on the Post-Frontier Predicament Imagining Communities: Representation, Distortion, Affiliation Kerstin KNOPF: Imagining Indians: Subverting Global Media Politics in the Local Media Dieter RIEMENSCHNEIDER: Of Warriors, a Whalerider, and Venetians: Contemporary Māori Films Dirk WIEMANN: Teaming Multitudes: Lagaan and the Nation in Globality Kirsten RAUPACH: “Blanched Bones, Mouldering Graves and Potent Spells”: White Constructions of Black Diasporic Rituals in Slave Culture Silke STROH: Scotland as a Multifractured Postcolonial Go-Between? Ambiguous Interfaces between (Post-)Celticism, Gaelicness, Scottishness and Postcolonialism Constructing Common Ground: Networks, Concepts, Images Tabish KHAIR: Universal Matters; Universals Matter Frank LAY: Local Knowledge – Global Resistance: Policies of a New Technological “Enlightenment” Andreas HEPP: Networks of the Media: Media Cultures, Connectivity, and Globalization Emer O’SULLIVAN: At the Periphery of the Periphery: Children’s Literature, Global and Local Local Colour in Global English Rajend MESTHRIE: Dialect Representation versus Linguistic Stereotype in Literature: Three Examples from Indian South African English Anne SCHRÖDER: Camfranglais: A Language with Several (Sur)Faces and Important Sociolinguistic Functions Teaching New English Literatures and Cultures Liesel HERMES: Henry Lawson’s “The Drover’s Wife” and the Australian Short Story Laurenz VOLKMANN: West Meets East / East Meets West? Teaching William Sutcliffe’s Cult Novel Are You Experienced? (1997) Claudia DUPPÉ & Manfred GANTNER: Read the Texts and Let Them Speak, Too: Teaching New Zealand Poetry in the Sixth Form Gisela FEURLE: Teaching the New South Africa: The Cartoon Strip Madam & Eve NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

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Book SynopsisParceling the Globe is a study in the processes of global democracy. It offers an early answer to the question regarding our responsibility to others. Through its organization, it presents a partial understanding of the globalization process. It determines the range of global behaviors and articulates the prospects for peace in a globalizing environment.Table of ContentsWilliam C. GAY: Editorial Foreword Acknowledgements Danielle POE and Eddy SOUFFRANT: Introduction: Parceling the Globe Part One: Taming the Beast Locating Global Movements William C. GAY: Understanding and Assessing Globalization: The Role of Global Studies Nathan C. FUNK and Meena SHARIFY-FUNK: Western-Islamic Hermeneutics as a Dialogical Imperative Robert Paul CHURCHILL: Globalization and Terror Humanizing Globalization Tracey NICHOLLS: Making It Up As We Go Along Ronald J. GLOSSOP: Educating for Peace John BRYANT: A Guided Conversation on Global Ethics Part Two: Global Behaviors Terrorism and Security Joseph C. KUNKEL: Neoliberal Freedom as Oppression for The Salvadorans of Third World Richard PETERSON: Racism and the Politics of the War Against Terrorism Alienation Judith PRESLER: Weil on Power, Oppression, and Global Capitalism Lori KELEHER: Is Sen’s Approach to Development Bad for Women? Part Three: Frameworks for Peace Structures Rob GILDERT: Toward the Globalization of Restorative Justice Danielle POE: Limitless Ethics and Levinas’s Concept of Justice Andrew FITZ-GIBBON: Spiritual Practice as a Foundation for Peacemaking Liberalism and Responsibility David T. RITCHIE: Modern Constitutionalism and International Violence Charles CRITTENDEN: Liberal Political Theory, Social Movements, and Globalization Eddy SOUFFRANT: Peace, Corporate Responsibility, and Governance About the Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis"This book contains ideas to develop interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary views on economy and society. It aims to disseminate heterodox ideas on various subjects related to economics and global society. The book is organised in six parts. Part 1 contains the key lectures of Backhaus on the concept of state sciences and of Klamer on the importance of culture for economics. Parts 2- 6 contain successively contributions in the areas of economic paradigms and theories, population and society, corporate issues, environment, and international relations. Examples of the content are: - the changes of family life cycles due to the rise of non-traditional households; - subjective and objective inflation rates after the introduction of the Euro; - the economics of genetic engineering; - the contribution of foreign direct investment to the economic development of host countries; - the inaccuracy of economic models applied in places characterized by extreme income disparities; - the improvement of political and corporate governance; - evolutionary thinking and emission trading; - freedom and order in the European Union; - the reform of social policy in Europe. The book provides interesting creative multi-disciplinary ideas with respect to various topical issues concerning the contemporary global society. It is highly recommended for economists and social scientists in search of broad views on social science and society."

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