Globalization Books

Book SynopsisAfricans and Globalization: Linguistic, Literary, and Technological Contents and Discontents considers the substance and dissatisfactions of globalization on Africa and its Diaspora. Although variously framed across disciplines, globalization has generally entailed non-milieu bound interactions, which alters the existence of its participants. The concerns about the impact of globalization have been raised in relation to Africa and have related to the helpful and deleterious effects. Increasingly, industrialization (without consideration of environmental impacts) and westernization (including erosion of indigenous values) are perceived as synonymous with globalization. This multidisciplinary collection contends that in theory, globalization linked Africa with the world through trade and information sharing, thereby increasing development. This collection provides reflections based on contemporary research within the linguistic, literary, and technological areas of study. It illustrates Trade ReviewThis is a feast of ideas on how Africans are living with, domesticating, and expanding the frontiers of globalization. This work is a succinct exploration of the many roads Africans are taking to culturally translate their global experiences through the arts, language, literature, pedagogy, and technology. Written by men and women who are actually living the experience, it promises to be an excellent book to teach with on any topic dealing with culture and globalization in the global south. -- Akin Ogundiran, The University of North Carolina at CharlotteTable of ContentsContents and Discontents of Globalization on the African Continent and its Diaspora: An Introduction Akinloye Ojo, Oyinlola Longe, and Karim Traore Part I: Language and Culture Chapter 1: The Linguistic Interpretation of the Tiv Ethics of “Ya Na Anngbian,” Eat and Give Your Brother: A Synergy for Enduring Democratic Leadership in Nigeria Jija Terseer Chapter 2: The Wealth of English in Spite of the Death of its Idioms: The Nigerian Experience Oluwaseun Rachael Bello Chapter 3: Globalization and Tertiary Institutions Students’ Sexual Discourse: The Case of University Students in Lagos, Nigeria Olawunmi Oni-Buraimoh Part II: Literature Chapter 4: Teaching African Literature in the Internet Age S. A. Ogunpitan Chapter 5: Local Moods, Global Modes in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road Trilogy Abdelkader Ben Rhit Chapter 6: The State and Aesthetics in Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel Ojo O. Olorunleke Part III: Performance Arts Chapter 7: Ambiforms—the Unsaid with the Said: A Dialectical Approach to Theatric Performances Adeleke Yinka Ogunfeyimi Chapter 8: Nigerians and Globalization: Contents and Discontents of Western Education, Culture, and Film Influence Adebukunola A. Atolagbe Chapter 9: Mirroring the Message of Some Nigerian Hip-Hop Music: Show of Discontent Olufunmilola Temitayo Oladipo Chapter 10: Exhibition of Content and Discontent in a Nigerian Television Drama Oyinlola Longe Part IV: Education, Pedagogy, and Technology Chapter 11: Pedagogy and Cultural Engagement as an Antidote to Diaspora Estrangement Segun Oyeleke Oyewo Chapter 12: Extent of ICT Adoption among Secondary School Teachers in Nigeria: Influencing and Inhibiting Factors Silas Eniola Egbowon Part V: Agriculture, Nutrition, and Housing Chapter 13: Empowerment of People through Agriculture in Northern Nigeria, 1991—2012: The Kebbi State Example Atiku Abubakar Udulu Chapter 14: Nutrition and Women’s Empowerment for Human Capital Development in Mali Jack E. Houston, Helena Huguley, and Alex K. Anderson Chapter 15: A Synthesis to Housing Provision in Nigeria Mohammed O. Lawal Conclusion: A Final Word on Contentment and Restlessness Regarding Globalization in Africa and its Diaspora Akinloye Ojo, Oyinlola Longe, and Karim Traore

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Book SynopsisPinder explores how globalization has shaped, and continues to shape, the American economy, which impacts the welfare state in markedly new ways. In the United States, the transformation from a manufacturing economy to a service economy escalated the need for an abundance of flexible, exploitable, cheap workers. The implementation of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), whose generic term is workfare, is one of the many ways in which the government responded to capital need for cheap labor. While there is a clear link between welfare and low-wage markets, workfare forces welfare recipients, including single mothers with young children, to work outside of the home in exchange for their welfare checks. More importantly, workfare provides an underclass of labor that is trapped in jobs that pay minimum wage. This underclass is characteristically gendered and racialized, and the book builds on these insights and seeks to illuminate a crucial but largely Trade ReviewIn her newest book Black Women, Work, and Welfare in the Age of Globalization, Sherrow Pinder does a masterful job in showing how economic globalization and its accompanying neoliberal model of welfare as workfare has resulted in an ongoing “death-in-life” racialization of poverty among poor black women. Given the current context of rampant poverty in the Unites States, Pinder makes a persuasive and passionate argument for welfare as a fundamental social right. It is a must read for those interested in how global markets affect economic inequality and gendered racism in today’s societies. -- Monica Ciobanu, Plattsburgh State University of New YorkTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Conceptual Framework Chapter 2: Globalization, American Economy, and Restructuring of Welfare Chapter 3: A Closer Look at Workfare and Black Single Mother Welfare Recipients Chapter 4: The Social Rights of Citizenship, Welfare, and the Undeserving Poor Conclusion: Resisting the Neoliberal Workfare State References

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Book SynopsisGlobalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development focuses on the development of national agriculture of nine countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia from two different and complementary angles. One angle is the opportunities created by globalization for agricultural production and how the countries have dealt with the expansion of the world, as a consequence of the world market. The other angle is the social and economic consequences of globalization for agricultural and rural development. The case studies included in this book prove that the contradictory meanings referred above are indeed representative of different facets and features of globalization.Trade ReviewAntônio Márcio Buainain, Miguel Rocha de Sousa and Zander Navarro debate about the global agribusiness situation with lots of interesting and immersive cases of different countries around the world, giving the readers incredible lessons about competitiveness in the industry. The book brings light to some misunderstood concepts about globalization and its relations within the agribusiness industry that emerged by the complex and multidisciplinary themes related to this topic. Globalization and Agriculture: Redefining Unequal Development is obligatory reading for scholars, market professionals, and governments linked to agribusiness. -- Marcos Fava Neves, University of Sao PaoloGlobalization and Agriculture provides a penetrating analysis of agricultural development in a globalizing world. The editors have assembled an excellent team of authors with deep historical and institutional knowledge of each country. Case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America shed light on the opportunities created by globalization as well as its consequences—both positive and negative. By resisting the overly simplistic generalizations that have characterized much of the debate on globalization, the authors do justice to the complexity of the topic. Researchers and policymakers who work on agriculture in developing countries will benefit greatly from this volume. -- Steven Helfand, University of California, RiversideTable of ContentsChapter 1: Globalization and Agriculture: Some Observations and Some Questions, by Henry Bernstein Chapter 2: The Global Driving of Brazilian Agrarian Development in the New Century, Zander Navarro and Antônio Márcio Buainain Chapter 3: From Food Insecurity to a Global Food Power: Will Brazil Meet Its Potential and World Expectations? by Antônio Márcio Buainain, Alexandre Gori Maia, Junior Ruiz Garcia, and Pedro Abel Vieira Chapter 4: Globalization, Family Farming and Foreign Trade in Peru: A Preliminary Exploration, by Hector Maletta Chapter 5: The Mexican Agricultural Sector Two Decades after NAFTA: Expectations, Facts, and Policy Challenges, by Antonio Yunez-Naude and Alan Hernandez-Solano Chapter 6: The History and Development of The Modernization of Chilean Agriculture Since the 1960s: From Insulation to Globalization, by Alberto Valdes Chapter 7: Changing Relations of Production of Agriculture in China under Globalization, by Cheng Li Chapter 8: China’s Food Security Challenges and Its Foreign Trade and Investment Landscape in Agriculture, by Guo Jie Chapter 9: Modernization of Chinese Agriculture: Economic, Social and Environmental, by Peifen Zhuang, Weiwei Fu, Junlin He, and Rana Muhammad Sohail Jafar Chapter 10: Impacts Parched Souls and Desiccated Lives: What Is Pushing Indian Farmers to Suicide? by Roopinder Oberoi Chapter 11: Mozambique’s Embattled Savannah: Brazilian Cooperation and Global Agrarian Disputes, by Lídia Cabral Chapter 12: Globalization, Agribusiness, and the Liberalization of Agricultural Services in Ghana, by Kojo Amanor Chapter 13: South Africa—Apartheid, Globalization, and Agriculture, by Luís Brites Pereira, Ana Portugal Melo, Vanessa Duarte, and Miguel Rocha de Sousa

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Book SynopsisThe Dilemma of Sustainability in the Age of Globalization: A Quest for a Paradigm of Development offers an exhaustive overview of the different political, social, economic, and cultural circumstances that paved the way for the inception of sustainable development. It particularly traces the evolution of this project in an unpropitious context of neo-liberal capitalism and globalization. By means of an in-depth critical comparative analysis of the two phenomena of sustainable development and globalization, this book highlights aspects of both their divergence and convergence on issues such as development, man-nature relationship, and society. This distinctive approach pinpoints the theoretical and factual aspects of clash and affinity between globalization and sustainability and spotlights some potential harmonization between the two on different levels. On the whole, this book covers a few gaps in the contemporary literature that heightened the need for analysis of the viability of impTrade ReviewMohamed El-Kamel Bakari has made a thoughtful and powerful case for sustainability. He has also explained the difficulties—conceptual as well as practical—with making sustainability work in the current political, economic, and social environment. This is an important contribution. -- Kenneth Weisbrode, Bilkent UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: An Overview of the Contemporary Sustainability Challenges List of Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Late 20th Century Developmental Challenges and the Inception of Sustainable Development. Chapter 2: Sustainable Development in a Context of Globalization: Incompatible Paradigms Chapter 3: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Impediments to Sustainability Chapter 4: Beyond Sustainability Gridlock: a New Approach to Sustainable Development Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the leadership ethics dilemma of whether the diaspora ought to vote specifically in their homeland franchise. This quagmire becomes even more complex in the case of Africa, where some diasporas participate in their countries' elections and others don't. It implies and goes beyond the mere question of why or what are the reasons behind the fact that members of some countries vote and those of other nations do not. The analysis contained in the book deals with whether it is right or wrong (good or bad; just or unjust; virtuous or immoral, desirable or undesirable) for citizens living overseas to participate in their countries' suffrages, and for the leaders of African countries to extend the franchise rights to their diaspora. Pedagogically, the book proposes an applied methodology of leadership decision-making based on ethical dilemmas, which instructors and learners of various disciplines, particularly those in leadership ethics, as well as global leaders might find Trade ReviewA fascinating and powerful analysis of ethical leadership as applied to elections and the African Diaspora. Rich in its portrayal of cultural and political contexts, this book is a one-of-a-kind gem that benefits and enlightens anyone who has the pleasure of reading it. Bongila contributes immensely to the understanding of ethical leadership from a global perspective. -- Jacqueline A. Stefkovich, Pennsylvania State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Understanding African Diaspora Chapter 2: Describing the Dilemma Chapter 3: Diaspora Vote in Duty Ethics Chapter 4: Diaspora Vote in Utility Ethics Chapter 5: Diaspora in Virtue Ethics Chapter 6: Considering Ethical Tensions Chapter 7: Rehearsing Courses of Action Chapter 8: Re-discerning the Right to Vote Chapter 9: Working with Prudent Pragmatism Chapter 10: By Way of Conclusion References Appendix A

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Book SynopsisIn two interwoven trips around the globeone in 2010 and another in 2030this book discovers Bogotá, Cartagena, Detroit, New York, Abuja, Cairo, Dammam, Abu Dhabi, Marseille, Hanover, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur, Shenzhen, Beijing, and other cities along the way. The people and experiences along the way tell a fascinating, unique and insightful story. The 2010 trip at the height of globalization takes place against a backdrop of frenzied global development. As he travels, the author observes the pronounced social and environmental footprint of the societies he visits, the industries that support them, and the people he meets.The 2030 trip, which follows a similar flight path, occurs in a new world. On this trip the author discovers how governments, businesses and consumers are aligned around renewable energy, environmental and aesthetic balance, and respect for self, others, and the planet. A retrospective, written in 2050, explains how a different way of thinking about growth and meaTrade Review“The travel narrative is captivating and also leads the reader to important insights about growth, development, and globalization. An important book, at just the right time. I highly recommend it!” -- Christoph Bach, COO, ICARE Procurement“David Jacoby invites us on two fascinating and worldwide journeys full of crazy but loveable characters, and surreptitiously paints a hopeful and optimistic vision for life in a world that values energy efficiency and sustainable growth. The book is entertaining, meaningful, and unforgettable.” -- Fritz Troller, Groom Energy, an EDF company“David Jacoby has painted a picture of supply chains of the future that combines sound supply chain practices with innovation, incentives, and effective leadership providing a vision that is sustainable, practical, and profitable.” -- Gary A. Smith, APICS New York CityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Bogotá to Detroit Chapter 2: Cartagena to New York Chapter 3: Detroit to Abuja Chapter 4: New York to Cairo Chapter 5: Abuja to Dammam Chapter 6: Cairo to Abu Dhabi Chapter 7: Dammam to Marseille Chapter 8: Abu Dhabi to Hanover Chapter 9: Marseille to Ho Chi Minh Chapter 10: Hanover to Kuala Lumpur Chapter 11: Ho Chi Minh to Shenzen Chapter 12: Kuala Lumpur to Beijing Chapter 13: The Road Back Home Chapter 14: We Did It Chapter 15: Epilogue Chapter 16: Afterword

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the condition of religious organizations or teachings within a different culture where one or more indigenous religions are already present.Trade ReviewThematically divided into three parts dealing with Islamic, East Asian, and alternative religious encounters, this fine collection of twelve essays examines various historical and contemporary outcomes of religious encounters across the globe. By including multiple religious traditions, cultural settings, and periods, this volume helps to shed light to the different ways religious adherents have responded to interreligious contact and exchange by means of contestation, adaptation, or alteration. Thus, its specifically broad scope will catch readers' attention and will make it an important contribution for area specialists and students of religion, globalization, and processes of transculturation alike. -- Nikolas Broy, Leipzig UniversityThis volume addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: religious encounters within multi-cultural societies in which significant religious tensions have been produced by modernity and globalization. The authors offer rare insights drawn from their depth of knowledge in particular religious traditions, including Islamic, East Asian, and alternative religious encounters. I strongly recommend this book to any reader interested in understanding the dynamic forces affecting religious traditions in today’s world. -- James L. Cox, emeritus, University of EdinburghWhat happens when religion meets religion? They fight? They dialogue? They adjust? They merge? All of the above—and more. This volume takes us on a global voyage indicating something of the vast range of reactions by and to religions that find themselves encountering other religions in other cultures. A truly fascinating read. -- Eileen Barker, London School of EconomicsThis book will be a useful tool for specialists of several academic disciplines, including modern historians of Eastern and Western civilizations, historians of religions, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists. It is also to be recommended to opinion- and decision-makers as a source of information and experiences to help face phenomena which are destined to increase in the near future and need to be wisely governed in a globalized world. -- Fabio Scialpi, Sapienza, University of RomeTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables and Figures Introduction Part One: Islamic Encounters 1.An Inter-Religious Perspective: The Dialogue of Islam within Abrahamic Religions in the 21st Century Farooq Hassan 2.Who is My Neighbour?: The Laïcité-Islam Encounter in France Pauline C. H. Kollontai 3.The Cultural Muslim, Secularization and the Academic Study of Islam Milad Milani 4.Ummah vs Citizenship: Multi-religious Societies and the Question of Clash of Loyalties with Focus on Muslims of New Zealand Mortaza Shams Part Two: East Asian Religious Encounters 5.Chinese Tibetan Buddhists and the Confucian Revival in Contemporary China Joshua Esler 6.Narrative Hybridity of Folk Daoism and National Religion: Religious Imagination in Early Twentieth Century Korean Literature Sooyoun Kim 7.The Silk Letter: A Case of Transcultural Religious Conversion and Conflict Kevin N. Cawley 8.Japanese Religions Outside of Japan: A Case Study of Tenrikyo Missionary Work in Congo and Nepal Midori Horiuchi Part Three: Alternative Religious Encounters 9.The Relevance and Limits of “Hybridization” Theory: The Case of Jubus, “Jewish-Buddhists” Lionel Obadia 10.A Sethian Religious Encounter: The Astrological Cosmology of an Egyptian Gnostic Community in Tchacos Codex David W. Kim 11.World Rastafarianism and Challenges to the Status of the Rasta Women Stephen D. Glazier 12.Deus and Shangti: Chinese Rites Controversy Daniel S. H. Ahn Index List of Contributions

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Book SynopsisIn this book Ari Ofengenden examines the ways that Israel's integration into global economy has affected its main stream culture. Ofengenden uses works of Israeli film, literature, and television, from the past 30 years to conceptualize the changes in Israel's culture. He analyzes the central phenomena associated with Israel's integration into the global economy including: the demise of realism and the rise of commercial culture, the production of film, television, and novels for western audiences, and the critiques of capitalism in media. Ofengenden also explores the refiguring national identity through critique of masculinity. The book also discusses the affect globalization and marketization has had on modern narratives of the Arab-Israeli conflict.Trade ReviewThis is a timely study that offers a unique, if not outright, ignored perspective on modern Hebrew culture. While most studies on modern Hebrew culture tend to focus on the construction of national and ethnic identities, this study underscores the crucial role of economic and social processes in shaping the Israeli cultural landscape. -- Eran Kaplan, San Francisco State UniversityAri Ofengenden offers a most persuasive thesis on the ‘cultural earthquake’ that Israel is experiencing alongside its integration into the global information economy. His book shows how mainstream Israeli films and novels embody liberal ideology, while domestic culture leans toward a commodified neo-tribalism. Both trends over-shadow progressive culture, embodied in realism and modernism, that was typical to Israel in the past. This book is a tour de force of powerful interpretations of key Israeli films, novels, and television series. It explores the entanglement of the seemingly diverse cultural trends of universal liberalism and particular ethno-nationalism. A must-read for anybody seeking an updated understanding of contemporary Israeli culture. -- Uri Ram, professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; President of Israeli Sociological AssociationTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Economics and Cultural Globalization in Israel: A Historical Introduction Chapter Two: Marketization in Israeli Television, Film and Literature Chapter Three: It Ain’t Europe Here Chapter Four: Refiguring National Identity under Globalization Chapter Five: The New Discourses or the Culture of the Left Chapter Six: New Dystopias in Israeli Fiction Chapter Seven: The Conflict Beyond Nationalism: The Second Intifada in Film and Narrative Conclusion: Contextualizing Israel in a Global Knowledge-Society Bibliography About the Author

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Book SynopsisIn this book Ari Ofengenden examines the ways that Israel's integration into global economy has affected its main stream culture. Ofengenden uses works of Israeli film, literature, and television, from the past 30 years to conceptualize the changes in Israel's culture. He analyzes the central phenomena associated with Israel's integration into the global economy including: the demise of realism and the rise of commercial culture, the production of film, television, and novels for western audiences, and the critiques of capitalism in media. Ofengenden also explores the refiguring national identity through critique of masculinity. The book also discusses the affect globalization and marketization has had on modern narratives of the Arab-Israeli conflict.Trade ReviewThis is a timely study that offers a unique, if not outright, ignored perspective on modern Hebrew culture. While most studies on modern Hebrew culture tend to focus on the construction of national and ethnic identities, this study underscores the crucial role of economic and social processes in shaping the Israeli cultural landscape. -- Eran Kaplan, San Francisco State UniversityAri Ofengenden offers a most persuasive thesis on the ‘cultural earthquake’ that Israel is experiencing alongside its integration into the global information economy. His book shows how mainstream Israeli films and novels embody liberal ideology, while domestic culture leans toward a commodified neo-tribalism. Both trends over-shadow progressive culture, embodied in realism and modernism, that was typical to Israel in the past. This book is a tour de force of powerful interpretations of key Israeli films, novels, and television series. It explores the entanglement of the seemingly diverse cultural trends of universal liberalism and particular ethno-nationalism. A must-read for anybody seeking an updated understanding of contemporary Israeli culture. -- Uri Ram, professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; President of Israeli Sociological AssociationTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter One: Economics and Cultural Globalization in Israel: A Historical Introduction Chapter Two: Marketization in Israeli Television, Film and LiteratureChapter Three: It Ain’t Europe HereChapter Four: Refiguring National Identity under GlobalizationChapter Five: The New Discourses or the Culture of the LeftChapter Six: New Dystopias in Israeli FictionChapter Seven: The Conflict Beyond Nationalism: The Second Intifada in Film and NarrativeConclusion: Contextualizing Israel in a Global Knowledge-SocietyBibliographyAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisThe globalization of American style higher education is a field of study that is undergoing a significant phase with the current expansion of American branch campuses and curricula around the world. This volume contributes to the scholarship on the project of implementing and expanding U.S. influenced curricula in the Middle East and Asia. Many of the branch campus projects are only a few decades old making this a liminal moment in the translation and development of higher education worldwide that needs to be captured. What are the challenges, opportunities, and considerations faculty encounter in classrooms in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia? How do faculty translate western higher educational principles in new contexts? Projects like the multiversity international branch campuses of Education City, in Doha, Qatar, demonstrate the interest of foreign governments in western education and training. Other collaborations, like the Yale National University of Singapore College, deTrade ReviewThe authors in this volume explore how American higher education gets localized though curricular adaptation in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, thoroughly challenging claims of uniform cultural imperialism and neoliberalism. The rich case studies presented here, often based on first-hand teaching experiences, are a unique and welcome addition to the scholarship on globalized higher education. -- Neha Vora, Lafayette CollegeThis book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on the spread of American higher educational models and institutions throughout the world. Rather than theorizing abstractly about the meaning and significance of the internationalization of curricula, academic personnel and institutions, this volume provides a view from the inside out. Academics who have confronted the pedagogical and political-sociological issues associated with higher education transplantation write perceptively about their experiences. As a result, this collection provides the reader with a richly critical analysis of the promises and pitfalls associated with our present moment of higher educational transformation. -- John Willoughby, American University, Co-author of Higher Education Revolutions in the Gulf: Globalization and Institutional ViabilityMohanalakshmi Rajakumar’s edited volume takes a much-needed comparative look at the internationalization of western higher education, investigating its challenges and opportunities through both theoretical lenses and detailed pedagogical interventions. In particular, the collected essays dive deeply into the experiences of American universities in the Middle East, with three case studies of Qatar’s Education City alongside contributions from the American Universities of Beirut and Kuwait. Full of provocative and unique insights, Western Higher Education in Global Contexts invites the reader to better understand the interactive negotiations between the imported universities and the local communities they are meant to serve. -- Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, assistant professor in residence at Northwestern University, QatarTable of Contents1.Writing Centers and Academic Professionalization in the Russian Federation—Ashley Squires 2.Imported Traditions—Oana Fotache and Mircea Vasilescu 3.The Shadow of America on Japanese Higher Education—Myles Chilton Cultural Challenges in International Branch Campuses 4.Writing Program Administration, Mobility, and Locality at the American University of Beirut, 1970 to the Present— Amy Zenger 5.The Challenges of Imagining Post-Universal Education in the Arabian Gulf Region— Angelica DeAngelis 6.Developing Symbolic Competence on a North-American Branch Campus in Qatar—Krystyna Golkowska 7.Rethinking Critical Thinking in a Non-Western Educational Context—Magdalena Rostron 8.Scaffolding Literacy at a Branch Campus of an American University in the Middle East: Interdisciplinary Collaborations—Silvia Pessoa, Thomas D. Mitchell, and Ryan T. Miller

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Book SynopsisUpdike & Politics presents the first collection of essays devoted to the political aspects of Updikeâs work and showcases a variety of international perspectives.Trade ReviewThis collection of essays adds depth to our understanding of Updike as a political writer. The book is especially valuable to scholars of late-twentieth and early twenty-first century literature for its investigations of intersections between the personal and the political. It exposes Updike's nuanced perspectives on institutions such as the American presidency, and it provides thought-provoking explorations of politically charged and transformative American experiences including the War in Vietnam, the Cold War, and the attacks of September 11, 2001. -- Liliana M. Naydan, Penn State AbingtonThis collection provides a timely and much-needed perspective on Updike and political life. The editors have selected impressive essays from established Updike critics, international scholars, and some newer voices to display a rich range of interpretations. The essays are elegantly framed by the introduction, and they collectively advance an urgent critical conversation. Updike and Politics: New Considerations is an important contribution: it sharpens our understanding of an essential American writer through a crucial context. -- Quentin Miller, Suffolk UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: Updike and the American Presidency Chapter 2: “We’re None of Us Perfect”: Watergate and Adultery in John Updike’s A Month of Sundays and Memories of the Ford Administration Chapter 3: Presidential Politics as Sexual Politics: Memories of the Ford Administration Chapter 4: Updike, Obama and the Poetics of Hope Chapter 5: Updike on Demagoguery Chapter 6: ‘Love it or leave it’: America in red, gray and blue in Rabbit Redux Chapter 7: ‘Mail’ Chauvinism: John Updike’s Postal Fetish and the Unrealizable Vision of American Democracy Chapter 8: The Failure of Moderation in Buchanan Dying and Memories of the Ford Administration Chapter 9: Inside Reagan’s ‘Placid, Uncluttered Head’: Roger’s Version and the Rise of Neoliberalism Chapter 10: The Politics of Vulnerability in The Afterlife and Other Stories Chapter 11: John Updike’s Terrorist and the Politics of Hygiene Chapter 12: Updike’s Middle East: A Neoliberal Approach to Conflict Resolution Chapter 13: Updike “Third-Worlds It”: Staging The Coup as Political Satire Chapter 14: The Three Mile Island Accident and the Man from Toyota: American Cold War Cultural Politics,Ressentiment, and the Uncanny Double in Rabbit Is Rich and Rabbit at Rest Chapter 15: John Updike and the World: The Politics of Identity in Brazil

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the question of how the American continent engages with various forms of interregionalism, including how different regions within the Americas deal with other regions of the world as well as how they relate among themselves. The presence of different political, economic, and cultural sub-regions within the Americas makes the continent a perfect setting to explore differences and commonalities in the western hemisphere's relationship with other regions across the globe. Interregionalism and the Americas tackles three unifying questions. First, what type and understanding of interregionalism characterize the Americas' way to interregionalism, if any? Second, is summitry ultimately the major visible feature of interregionalism in the Americas and beyond? Third, is there anything typical or characteristic in the way in which the Americas engage with interregionalism? This book contributes both to the theoretical debates about interergionalism and to the empirical undersTrade ReviewThis rigorous and tightly edited volume leads the way into the next generation of scholarly work on interregionalism in global politics—beyond EU-dominance and Euro-centrism. -- Fredrik Söderbaum, University of Gothenburg, SwedenThis is a very timely and important book which includes many renowned scholars. It tries to capture the moving target of interregionalism by developing a new typology which is applied to the interactions of the Americas with other regions such as Europe, Southern Africa, and East Asia. A major topic is the role of summits as an instrument of interregional relations. What makes this book unique is its focus on the interregional relations of the Americas—both North America (with the United States) and Latin America—offering new insights on an evolving subfield of international relations. -- Detlef Nolte, GIGA Institute of Latin American StudiesAt a moment in the post-Cold War history when the principles of multilateralism have come under heavy attack, Interregionalism and the Americas is a timely contribution to the revived debate on regions and regionalisms. Conceptually it takes the discussion to a new level by emphasizing the numerous ways in which the various, often fuzzy "Americas" are politically and institutionally entangled with other world regions. The scope of the book is equally rich, covering security politics, trade, investment, etc. This is an important contribution to decentering the European Union as the previous centerpiece of the interregionalism debate. -- Ulf Engel, University of LeipzigTable of ContentsForeword Antonio Patriota Daniel S. Hamilton Introduction: Interregionalism and the Americas Gian Luca Gardini 1. Interregionalism and the Americas: A Conceptual Framework Gian Luca Gardini and Andrés Malamud 2. Reframing Multilevel Interregionalism between Latin America and the EU Anna Ayuso 3. EU-CELAC: A Multi-Player Interregionalism: Redefining the Atlantic Area Mario Torres Jarrín 4. The Strategic Partnership between Brazil and the EU: Motives and Consequences Miguel Müller 5. Brazil in the BRICS: Towards New Forms of Hybrid-Interregionalism Christina Stolte 6. Overlapping Interregionalism, Identities, and Transatlantic Security Governance: NATO, the EU, and the OSCE Simon Koschut 7. Interregionalism and the Trump Disruption: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: A Post-Mortem Andreas Falke 8. Trade Interregionalism between South America and Southern Africa Frank Mattheis 9. Cuba as an Example of Trans-Atlantic Conflict, Shifting Triangles, and Incomplete Hybrid Interregionalism Susanne Gratius 10. Re-mapping Latin America and East Asia Interregional Relations Gonzalo S. Paz 11. The Language of Inter-American Relations: A Sentiment Analysis Sara Ruiz Valverde Conclusion Gian Luca Gardini, Simon Koschut, and Andreas Falke About the Contributors

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Book SynopsisThrough nine ethnographic case-studies, Edges of Global Transformation explores situations where global transformations associated with neoliberalism meet local realities. The edge of transformation is characterized by uncertainty, as old patterns are consumed and new formed. The nine case studies from Africa, Europe and the Middle East shed light on how uncertainty plays an inevitable and essential role in the grey zone between macro-transformations and local responses. Despite the tremendous difference in precariousness between these cases, each contributor explores ways in which transformations are conceived and acted upon within the space of possibility that is opened and apprehended locally. The role of uncertainty as an active force is explored throughout the book. While in some cases, uncertainty has a clear restricting effect; other cases illustrate its potential as a productive force. As a contribution to understanding the dynamic of the local realities of global change, the bTrade ReviewThe seesaw between inclusion and exclusion, between nativism and cosmopolitanism, is analyzed through the dual prisms of global neoliberalism and ontological uncertainty in this excellent and eminently readable book, where the universally human and the locally unique comes together through people uncomfortably wedged between the hopes and fears of an unpredictable world. The case studies, most of them African, demonstrate the strength of the ethnographic attention to flesh and blood, detail and context, while also indicating why anthropology must go multiscale and interdisciplinary to make a difference. -- Thomas Hylland EriksenEdges of Global Transformation is a truly enlightening book. It brings together a wide variety of ethnographic studies of the neoliberal atmosphere of late capitalism and its effects in various locations in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, and provides a sharp and multidimensional analysis of heightened uncertainty. The contributing authors all demonstrate in minute detail how and why the intensification of uncertainty and vulnerability is generated, as well as how it is experienced, resisted, and absorbed in local worlds. Both the empirical and analytical insights emerging from the chapters deepen our understanding of contemporary global articulations. The book deserves a wide readership. -- Halvard Vike, University of South-Eastern NorwayTable of ContentsChapter 1: Building Creatures of Uncertainty: Crisis, Storytelling and Othering in the Norwegian Building Industry by Håkon Fyhn Chapter 2: The Perfect Subject and its Discontents: Central Europe at a Crossroad by Martin Thomassen Chapter 3: Protection as a Strategy: The Response of Bedouin Village Women to the Development of Dubai by Anne Kathrine Larsen Chapter 4: Localizing Ontologies of Uncertainty in Neoliberal Tanzania by Liv Haram Chapter 5: Aggravated Uncertainty: The Dubious Influence of a Modern Management Regime on Lake Chad Fisheries by Bjørn Arntsen Chapter 6: Vulnerability and Trust: Migrants in Search of a Better Position in Urban Northern Cameroon by Trond Waage Chapter 7: State, Peasant Society and Modernization in Ethiopia by Harald Aspen Chapter 8: Globally Designed Accountability and Local Social Inequality; A Case Study of Two Maternal Deaths in Tanzania by Siri Lange, Dorcas Mfaume and Astrid Blystad Chapter 9: Well-Being, Healthcare and Development in Turkana: Pre and Post Devolution by Marianna Betti

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Book SynopsisInternational migration has been subject to many studies, conducted by academics, students, policy makers, and in civil society. As the migration flows continue to increase amongst countries, new dynamics shape international politics, economy, and culture. In this context, the main purpose of this book is to present a contemporary understanding of international migration through an interdisciplinary analysis.The authors investigate migration and its dynamics in different perspectives (cultural, economic, political, judicial, and sociological) by considering the latest changes in the international relations agenda. This book sheds light on different minor aspects of international migration in a critical perspective.Trade ReviewThis multidisciplinary volume analyzes various key themes and topics related to migration in Turkey and beyond. It aims to inform and stimulate a series of scholarly debate, facilitate further research, and identify prominent knowledge gaps in the field. It offers various enlightening and insightful vignettes on the contemporary issues in migration studies. Consequently, it has many points that recommend it both to the specialists and a wider audience. -- Ahmet İçduygu, Koç UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Parallelism Between the Dynamics of Migration and Modernization Melih Görgün 2. The Diagnosis of International Migrations and its Economic Impact: A Different Perspective on North-South Benefits Deniz Kozanoğlu 3. A Feminist Critique: Economic Restructuring, Capital-Intensive Production, and Gender-Based Labor Migration in the Middle East Murat Yüceşahin 4. Course of Migration from Marginalization to Enemization Hüdayi Sayın 5. Migration Modeling via Higher Order Singular Value Decomposition Duygun Fatih Demirel, Melek Başak 6. Contemporary Legal Problems of Migration in Turkey: Governmental Politics and the Ramifications in Turkish Administration Hüseyin Ural Aküzüm 7. Exclusion of Criminals from Asylum System Under Turkish Law Nuray Ekşi 8. The Turkey–European Union Consensus of March 18th in the Turkish and Greek Press Gizem Çakmak Alioğlu, Selin Türkeş Kılıç 9. Dependency Theory: An Alternative Theoretical Approach to Syrian Migration? Şafak Yüca, Gökçe Bayındır Goularas 10. Identified Status and Financing of Health Service for Immigrants-Asylum Seeker and Other Foreign Visitors in Hospitals of Turkey Ferhat Sayım 11. Brain Drain and Socio-Political Integration: Case Study of High-Skilled Turkish Migrants Işıl Zeynep Turkan İpek, Ayşe Betül Nuhoğlu 12. Citizenship Practices in the Context of Political Consciousness of Turkish Immigrants in France Zeynep Demirci 13. The Innerworld of Young Generations with Turkish Descent in Germany Hasret Elçin Kürşat Coşkun Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe have gone from being among the world's most closed, autarkic economies to being some of the most export-oriented and globally integrated. While previous accounts have attributed this shift to post-1989 market reform policies, Besnik Pula sees the root causes differently. Reaching deeper into the region's history and comparatively examining its long-run industrial development, he locates critical junctures that forced the hands of Central and Eastern European elites and made them look at options beyond the domestic economy and the socialist bloc. In the 1970s, Central and Eastern European socialist leaders intensified engagements with the capitalist West in order to expand access to markets, technology, and capital. This shift began to challenge the Stalinist developmental model in favor of exports and transnational integration. A new reliance on exports launched the integration of Eastern European industry into value chains that cut across the East-West political divide. After 1989, these chains proved to be critical gateways to foreign direct investment and circuits of global capitalism. This book enriches our understanding of a regional shift that began well before the fall of the wall, while also explaining the distinct international roles that Central and Eastern European states have assumed in the globalized twenty-first century.Trade Review"Besnik Pula takes another brick off the massive wall of myths surrounding Central and Eastern Europe by kicking off the pedestal the widely shared view that this region's experience with central planning was autarchic and that industrialization was a pure liability for their turn to capitalism. Instead, Pula's superbly well-researched book shows how the socialist states' rich and complex trade, technological, and institutional interactions with the capitalist West's value and supply chains paved the way for their emergence after 1989 as some of the world's most transnationally integrated economies. This is empirically nuanced, theoretically astute, and context sensitive social science at its best." -- Cornel Ban, City * University of London *"This book offers an excellent, well-researched, and highly original analysis. Pula's sophisticated and persuasive argument provides a valuable corrective to studies that overlook or overemphasize the role of socialist legacies in shaping economic reform in Central and Eastern Europe." -- Rudra Sil * University of Pennsylvania *"Abundant with quantitative macroeconomic comparative-historical data, nuanced with numerous qualitative interviews, and addressing some tough issues with answers based on an intimate knowledge of the region and its history, and above all challenging long-held faulty assumptions of the nature and dynamics of socialist states, this book deserves the careful attention of those who are interested in the study of globalization and the evolution of transnational capital in Central and Eastern Europe."––Berch Berberoglu, Social Forces"Pula offers an original interpretation of economic development both under and after socialism that deserves to be widely read." -- Erik Jones * Survival *"[This book is] well-written and shows the author's deep knowledge of this subject....Regional scientists, especially those studying integration of the post-socialist countries in Eastern Europe, should find the book of value." -- Tuyen Pham * The Review of Regional Studies *"[What] Pula endeavored to accomplish is enormous and an enormously difficult task. Ultimately, I suggest we appreciate it as an invitation to a more agency- and practice-centered economic history, one that starts to give Eastern Europe its due in shaping global economic outcomes." -- Zsuzsa Gille * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis is an introductory chapter to the book. It highlights the book's key arguments and its organization. 1Globalization Under and After Socialism: A Comparative and Historical Perspective chapter abstractThe literature on globalization has often ignored Europe's periphery and has particularly remained silent on how the structural changes in the world economy beginning in the 1970s affected the ex-socialist world. In the late twentieth century, among the few critical theories that broke from Cold War understandings of socialist political economies was world-systems theory. While making a number of counterintuitive and provocative claims, world-systems theory and its offshoots (including the "dual dependency" perspective) failed to account for the transformations from socialism to postsocialism and took little heed of the institutional realities and contradictions of Soviet socialism by relying on system-functionalist explanations of change. This chapter proposes a framework for an historical-institutionalist account of globalization that considers both structural changes in the capitalist world economy and political and economic reform in the socialist world that prefigured Central and Eastern Europe's path of transformation after 1989. 2The Limits of Autarchy in the Periphery: Trade, Planning, and East European Industrialization, 1946-1969 chapter abstractThis chapter provides an historical overview of Central and Eastern Europe's integration into the Soviet economic sphere and its effects on patterns of industrialization and trade. It is organized in four parts. First, the chapter discusses the international context of the early Cold War, economic reconstruction and trade policies, and the formation of Comecon. The chapter then turns to the post-Stalin period, when Soviet leaders begin to increasingly see Comecon's role as a tool of regional economic integration. It examines the benefits of intra-bloc trade by comparing the region with other state socialist and developing states to demonstrate how membership in Comecon aided in facilitating rapid industrialization. Finally, it discusses the challenges Soviet and Central and East European leaders saw in expanding trade with the West. 3Upgrading Socialism: Technology, Debt, and East European Reform, 1968-1985 chapter abstractThis chapter presents a structural account of East Europe's industrial transformation during the era of reform socialism. "Reform socialism" refers to institutional reforms socialist states began introducing beginning around 1968, when economic problems like technological backwardness, low productivity and poor product quality became apparent to Communist leaderships across the region. While reforms were carried out unevenly, they are significant in that they coincide with a number of important developments in the world economy. The chapter argues that the 1970s was a crucially transformative decade for socialist economies, and especially for states on the forefront of economic reform. What proved most critical in determining the future industrial fate of socialist countries was the decentralization of trade authority away from central ministries to enterprises and Foreign Trade Organizations. The decentralization of trade authority gave enterprises direct exposure to the competitive pressures—and thus the dominant actors—of the world market. 4Socialist Proto-Globalization and Patterns of Uneven Transnational Integration after 1989 chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the rise of foreign direct investment (FDI), both as a new policy orientation, and as a process of capital flows with institutionally transformative consequences in postsocialist economies. While the previous chapters focused largely on political elites and macro-institutional change during the late socialist era, this chapter shifts attention to the impact of organizational processes at the firm level during the immediate postsocialist period in driving the transition towards globally integrated postsocialist industries. The chapter systematically examines patterns of institutional change from joint ventures to foreign direct investment across the region, and demonstrates the capacities of economies with the most diffuse experience with socialist proto-globalization in making the most rapid gains from globalization after economic liberalization post-1989. 5Transnational Integration and Specialization in the 2000s: Diverging International Market Roles chapter abstractThis chapter completes the account of trajectories of globalization by examining patterns of structural transformation and how these cumulatively led individual Central and Eastern European economies towards new international roles in world market integration during the 2000s. Over time, legacy factors matter increasingly less while the politics of adjustment came to matter much more. The chapter uses comparative data to trace patterns of structural transformation leading states to adopt one of the three distinct roles in international market integration: assembly platform, intermediate producer, and combined. The chapter defines the international market integration of small, developing states in a globalized economy as the structural position the nation's industry assumes within global production networks. The concept incorporates both the aggregate role a nation's industry holds in global value chains and the associated (national) political economy or institutional framework within which the organization of industrial activity takes place. 6Critical Junctures and the Politics of Institutional Adjustment: Explaining Divergence chapter abstractThis chapter demonstrates how political factors determined the path of postsocialist development and international market specialization in the 2000s. International market roles of individual economies built upon the cumulative advantages in transnational production Central and Eastern European economies gained during their socialist experience, but it was the political challenge of turning cumulative advantage into a sustained comparative institutional advantage that brought important gains in the capital, technological and skill base of the economy that concerned the politics of reform in the 1990s and 2000s. It was here that the interplay between industrial restructuring and reform of other institutions of the political economy came to matter. The chapter examines these policy patterns to show the divergent specialization of Hungary and Slovakia into an assembly platform, Czech Republic and Slovenia into an intermediate producer, and Bulgaria, Poland, and Romania into combined roles. Conclusion chapter abstractThe book's concluding chapter reexamines patterns of postsocialist development in light of historical opportunities and constraints and patterns of domestic political forces. It recaps the book's key claim on the importance of organizational capacities these economies built during the reform period of the 1970s in opening the path for the region's integration into the capitalist world economy after 1989. The chapter summarizes comparative paths of transformation by highlighting temporal sequences and intervening causal mechanisms during critical junctures in determining institutional developments in the region.

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Book SynopsisWar is one of the most lucrative job markets for an increasingly global workforce. Most of the work on American bases, everything from manning guard towers to cleaning the latrines to more technical engineering and accounting jobs, has been outsourced to private firms that then contract out individual jobs, often to the lowest bidder. An "American" base in Afghanistan or Iraq will be staffed with workers from places like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Turkey, Bosnia, and Nepal: so-called "third-country nationals." Tens of thousands of these workers are now fixtures on American bases. Yet, in the plethora of records kept by the U.S. government, they are unseen and uncounted—their stories untold. Noah Coburn traces this unseen workforce across seven countries, following the workers' often zigzagging journey to war. He confronts the varied conditions third-country nationals encounter, ranging from near slavery to more mundane forms of exploitation. Visiting a British Imperial training camp in Nepal, U.S. bases in Afghanistan, a café in Tbilisi, offices in Ankara, and human traffickers in Delhi, Coburn seeks out a better understanding of the people who make up this unseen workforce, sharing powerful stories of hope and struggle. Part memoir, part travelogue, and part retelling of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of workers, Under Contract unspools a complex global web of how modern wars are fought and supported, narrating war stories unlike any other. Coburn's experience forces readers to reckon with the moral questions of a hidden global war-force and the costs being shouldered by foreign nationals in our name. Trade Review"In his vivid and insightful first-person account, Noah Coburn expands the scope and impact of modern warfare by unveiling the lives of subcontractors often supplied by human trafficking networks and always trapped in a shameful maze of greed and exploitation. Under Contract puts a human face on crucial issues in the prolonged U.S. war in Afghanistan, exposing the grim underworld of migrant workers." -- Ann Hagedorn * author of The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security *"In this highly readable and disturbing account of the American war effort in Afghanistan, Noah Coburn traces the complex transnational web that has snared individuals from various countries in the conflict. A Gurkha story as well as war story, Under Contract chronicles not valor and glory, but poverty, human trafficking, and institutional racism. It will prove a useful resource for anyone interested in international relations, migration, and conflict." -- Deepak Thapa * co-author of A Kingdom under Siege: Nepal's Maoist Insurgency, 1996 to 2004 *"With a vivid eye for detail, analytic lucidity, and compassion, Noah Coburn opens up a space between anthropology and investigative journalism. His journey to understand the human ripple effects of the war in Afghanistan takes him to Nepal, India, Turkey, the Republic of Georgia, and the U.K. in search of people who, often driven by economic desperation, worked for U.S. military contractors. A disturbing picture emerges: a world governed by massive inequalities and the brute realities of chance where some profit handsomely from war while others, dead or maimed for life, are treated as cheap, disposable, and conveniently invisible casualties of American intervention. An important account of a new neoliberal mode of warfare, vital reading for anyone interested in military affairs, Afghanistan, migration, and globalization." -- Hugh Gusterson * author of Drone: Remote Control Warfare *"An irreplaceable and beautifully written book. Under Contract is one of the richest and most straightforward ethnographic accounts of war yet written. In focusing on the long and difficult paths of the contractors of the latest Afghan war, Coburn is the first to truly demonstrate the transnational and profit-driven nature of most modern war." -- Catherine Lutz * Brown University *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsPrologue: No Small War chapter abstractThis book begins with the political and economic changes brought to the area around Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan by the American invasion, comparing the author's experiences with those of a Nepali security guard who was imprisoned in Afghanistan for three years. It presents some of the less predictable consequences of the war, particularly for civilians working for the U.S. war effort. It looks at the wide range of actors who were part of the conflict in Afghanistan, from members of the NATO coalition to individual businessmen who were pulled in by the war economy, suggesting that far from a "small war," as most insurgencies are considered, the war in Afghanistan was truly a global affair. It concludes that understanding the consequences of the war in Afghanistan requires an anthropological approach and lays out the methods of the study that led to this book. 1Mercenaries, Contractors, and Other Hired Guns chapter abstractThis chapter recounts the experience of one Nepali security contractor in Afghanistan and the ways in which his experience, the money that he made, and the connections that he developed have reshaped his life. It looks at how this case is indicative of a wider trend by Western countries to outsource various aspects of war and international intervention. These practices, due largely to the secretive nature of private security firms, remain understudied and, as this chapter demonstrates, even attempting to do a census of such workers is nearly impossible. It also debunks the common myth that private security contractors are not put at the same risk that more typical military personnel are, suggesting that the wider nature of war has changed in ways that are not accounted for in most popular narratives. 2Nepalis at War chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the practice of recruitment of Nepalis into foreign militaries. The practice, which began under the East India Trade Company, eventually led hundreds of thousands of Nepalis to enlist in the British Imperial Army and, later, the Indian Army, the Singapore Police Force, and a range of other foreign bodies. This practice of relying on so-called Gurkha soldiers has shifted in recent years toward private security firms largely funded by the U.S. government. This neoliberal variation of earlier practices of labor migration has led to the commodification of the term Gurkha as these men and the symbols attached to them have been used to encourage orientalist appeals to the supposed martial nature of certain Nepali ethnic groups. 3One Blast, Many Lives chapter abstractThis chapter is the account of the 2013 suicide attack on a private security compound in Kabul through the experience of four Nepali guards who worked there. It looks at the difficulty of sorting out the details on an attack like this one, which was large enough to lead to several deaths, but since those killed were from non-Western countries, it garnered little media attention. Furthermore, the layers of contracting and subcontracting meant that the firm guarding and residing in the compound was not the same as the one that owned the compound, making liability and moral obligations difficult for those involved to sort out. The chapter explores how differently the attack affected the individuals we interviewed, with one being disabled for life with no future prospects, and another, with less severe injuries who used the compensation paid by his firm to start a new business. 4Costs and Compensation chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the various ways in which firms compensate those injured in attacks or other on-the-job injuries in conflict zones. In particular, it focuses on the U.S. Defense Base Act, which was set up to provide injured workers with compensation. While the wording of the law is expansive, many contractors from Nepal and other poor countries have struggled to take advantage of it, since they have limited legal knowledge and contracting companies often isolate them from the lawyers who could potentially help them file a claim. The chapter concludes by speculating about why attacks involving private security firms, particularly where there are non-Westerners killed, have been so easy to ignore and what this says about the current relationship between the media and the U.S. military. 5Manpower chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the process that Nepalis workers use to secure employment abroad. Usually they rely on a series of local brokers and, later, brokers in Kathmandu, who work with a labor firm to secure a contract and work permit abroad. The process has long been derided as corrupt, and most measures aimed at increasing transparency have, according to those going through the process, allowed officials and brokers to extract more bribes from potential migrants. It looks at the case of workers migrating to Afghanistan and how this practice, which was relatively limited following the initial U.S.-led invasion, rapidly expanded, attracting less reputable firms and leading to more bureaucracy. 6Two Hundred Years of Gurkhas chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the increase in employment of retired Gurkhas by international and American private security firms in the early years of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It looks particularly at the experience of two retired Gurkhas who worked at the U.S. embassy for a firm that was later charged with gross negligence. It traces how companies expanded the definition of what a "genuine" Gurkha was, first hiring from those who served in the British Army, then hiring those who had been in the Indian or Nepali armies, and eventually hiring those with no military training at all in order to save costs. It also looks at the experiences of these various groups upon returning to Nepal and the changes (or lack thereof) in their socioeconomic status. 7"Who Will Be a Gurkha?" chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on the ongoing practice of recruiting young Nepalis into the British army. It describes the selection process that choses 236 recruits from more than 6,000 applicants, and the rigorous physical tests and interviews that it includes. It looks at how the modern variation and the increased supply of young, unemployed Nepalis has given rise to an industry of training centers that charge for a variety of services. These centers rely on colonial myths about the promise of opportunities abroad, while misleading young Nepalis about the statistical improbability of success, leading many deep into debt and into the hands of manipulative brokers. 8Through the Colonial Looking Glass chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the ongoing practice of British military recruitment in Nepal and explores who this means for Britain's postcolonial relations with Nepal. It looks in particular at the Gurkha Welfare Scheme, which acts like a development organization, but instead of targeting the neediest communities, it focuses on those that tend to produce recruits for the British military. It explores the political campaign to award British citizenship to those serving in the British Army and asks what this means for young Nepalis who are successful in the selection process and those who fail, and the ways in which British practices continue to concentrate economic and political power in the hands of the Nepali elite. 9The Labor of War chapter abstractThis chapter compares and contrasts the experience of working at different companies in conflict zones, arguing that more than nationality, companies shaped the experience of war for various contractors. It looks at case studies from two of the largest contracting firms receiving U.S. funds in Afghanistan, DynCorp and Supreme, both of which hired private security contractors, but also Nepalis in a range of lesser positions, like mechanics and cooks. It tracks the hiring process of these companies and conditions that the workers experienced while in Afghanistan. Nepali workers at these companies judged them often not by using the language of Western human rights, but using more normative language that focused on day-to-day emotions, such as the perceived fairness of supervisors. 10A Protective Government? chapter abstractWas working in Afghanistan legal for Nepalis? This chapter looks at the deeply complex answer to this seemingly simple question. It examines the bureaucratic processes of securing work permits and the corruption associated with the process in both Kathmandu and Kabul. It looks at the ways in which the system was made purposely opaque, a process that helped brokers who facilitated the application for government documents and the officials who could slow down or speed up the process greatly. It explores the various ways countries supplying labor to Western countries at war have failed to protect their citizens and how donor countries have encouraged these practices. 11Of Roses and Revolutions chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the involvement of the Georgian military and Georgian civilian contractors in the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It describes the experiences of several Georgian contractors in Afghanistan. It argues that the distinction between the experience of Georgia and Nepal in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq was that the Georgian government used involvement in these conflicts primarily to strengthen their alliances with the United States and EU countries. After the disastrous war in South Ossetia, it became clear that Georgia's allies were more concerned about relations with Russia than ties with the fledgling democracy, but officials interviewed still felt that participation in the wars had strengthened more informal ties between the militaries and ultimately contributed to the increase in foreign assistance to the country. 12Economic Ottomans chapter abstractTurkey's experience of the war in Afghanistan was deeply shaped by the shared religion, cultural, and linguistic similarities. Based on interviewees with Turkish military personnel, this chapter looks at how Turkish strategy and objectives differed from those of its NATO allies. It argues that the long-term goal of the Erdoğan government to reassert influence in the region was part of Turkey's attempts to cultivate new allies and distance itself from the decreasing likelihood of EU membership. In Afghanistan, this meant that the Turkish military and diplomats had a longer time horizon for their involvement in the country. The chapter explores the resulting military cooperation and economic investment, while arguing that the close personnel ties of Turkish officers to their NATO counterparts continues to ensure strong relations. 13Turkish Engineers and Other Heroes of the Intervention chapter abstractTurkey's relatively high education standards and low cost of living meant that contracting companies in Afghanistan often looked to Turkey to provide engineers and other blue-collar workers. This chapter looks at the various contractors and Turkish businesspeople who took advantage of Turkey's position in the global economy, taking business deals that Europeans and Americans were likely to turn down. The chapter explores a case study of a Turkish designer and his life history from his early adventures abroad to his eventual extensive contracting for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Afghanistan. 14Building an Empire? chapter abstractDespite the presence of numerous Turks working in Afghanistan, the Turkish government made little effort to regulate or even promote Turkish business there. The Turkish companies that succeeded in securing contracts from the U.S. military ranged from handling tens of millions of dollars a year to small family businesses. This chapter argues that it was often the largest of these that were able to undercut their competitors, establish contacts with Afghan companies, and dominate certain industries, such as the construction of U.S. bases. It also looks at some of the lesser-studied industries that support the war in Afghanistan and link together various companies and countries across the region, such as the network of freight forwarding companies that move cargo from Europe to Afghanistan. 15Detained chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the experiences of contractors who were detained by the Afghan authorities. It argues that in contrast to the importance of company of employment in other aspects of the contracting process, nationality most clearly shaped how contractors were treated by the Afghan government. The chapter studies the case of a Nepali laborer who was imprisoned for three years on false charges and was released only after being aided by a journalist. It contrasts this man's experience with the experience of an American and Turk who were also detained. 16Kidnapped chapter abstractThis chapter focuses on the experience of one Turkish contractor who was kidnapped by the Haqqani network with a group of other contractors while working in Afghanistan and taken into Pakistan, where he was held for a month before his release. It explores his background and how he came to be working on an isolated base near the Afghan-Pakistani border. The chapter looks how his treatment compared with a Russian contractor, kidnapped at the same moment, and how his religious identity as a fellow Muslim led to better treatment. The chapter examines the confusing attempts by the Turkish and Afghan governments to secure his release and the importance of good luck and self-preservation instincts during such incidents. 17Hom Bahadur chapter abstractFor workers in Afghanistan, visas and other forms of documentation were often the difference between liberty and confinement. This chapter is an in-depth case study of a Nepali contractor who, upon arriving in Afghanistan, was kidnapped and essentially held hostage for several months by an Afghan broker, with the aid of both a Nepali broker and the Afghan police. It was only through the kindness of other laborers, connected through social media, that the worker was eventually able to secure his release. The chapter looks at how brokers are able to take particular advantage of those workers who are poorest with few political and social connections. 18The Boredom of Being Trafficked chapter abstractThis chapter looks at the importance of New Delhi as a transit point for young Nepalis and other South Asians looking for work abroad. It explores the conditions that these young people endure while waiting for brokers to arrange visas, contracts, and other documentation for them. In particular, it studies how brokers promote certain narratives about the potential economic wealth of work abroad in order to keep these young people in limbo and encourage them not to speak with other laborers. Ambiguity becomes an effective economic strategy for these brokers. The chapter asks how assumptions about the involuntary nature of trafficking shape our views and policy on the concept. 19Accountants at Wars chapter abstractThe experiences of white-collar Indians contracting in conflict zones differed greatly from the experiences of poor laborers. This chapter expands the notion of labor migration and explores the importance of Indian administrators, particularly in the human resources and accounting offices of various contracting firms. These individuals often had better educations and connections than their other South Asian counterparts, and this gave them an agency that other contractors did not have. Through a series of case studies, this chapter explores the different experiences and security threats that these individuals faced, particularly in the form of targeting by Pakistani groups. 20Classes and Genders at War chapter abstractLabor migration is largely built on the narrative of economic promise abroad, but what happens when this promise does not materialize? This chapter looks at a series of case studies of Indian and Nepali contractors in Afghanistan to argue that while employment held the promise of upward mobility, instead it tended to solidify gender norms and economic divides. The hypermasculinized world of contracting allowed women to participate, but only in specific ways that further diminished their agency. The chapter also looks at how social media and other new technologies have allowed brokers to target and exploit poor workers. While the capitalist free market language of labor migration promises upward mobility, ultimately it enriched only the ruling class that controlled the mechanisms of migration. 21Returning Abroad chapter abstractIn the 2000s, the United Kingdom began granting citizenship to Nepalis who had served in the British army. This led to a growing population of Nepalis who settled in garrison towns in England, such as Aldershot. This chapter explores these communities, the effect of the war in Afghanistan, and the increasing pull of private security contracting that led many to leave the military. At the same time, this growing population has led to questions about Britain's place in a globalizing world and the legacy of colonialism. The chapter explores the contrast between the promise of a more globalized version of Britain that citizenship for Gurkhas provides, with the discrimination and nativist rhetoric that many Nepalis in the United Kingdom face. 22When You Can't Go Home chapter abstractFollowing the targeting of Iraqi and Afghan contractors who had worked as interpreters for the U.S. military, the U.S. government designed the Special Immigrant Visa program aimed at providing former contractors in danger with visas to settle in the United States. This chapter looks at the challenges that this program has faced and the bureaucracy it has created. It also looks at the lives of several Afghan interpreters who settled in the United States. These former contractors often face challenges far different from what they expected, living in poor, segregated neighborhoods in large American cities that they are ill equipped to navigate. 23Where the War Went chapter abstractAs the United States has increasingly subcontracted aspects of its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, these practices have spread globally, with countries in the Persian Gulf, for example, increasingly relying on mercenaries to staff their militaries. This chapter looks at the potential repercussions of these aspects of the war in Afghanistan. As contracts end, the result is a demobilized army of former contractors willing to fight for anyone willing to give them a paycheck. The chapter case study is of a group of young Nepalis who ended up working as bodyguards in western Russia for a mafia boss. Particularly as new technology and the Internet marketplace make such transactions easier, this chapter asks what the future of warfare might be.

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Book SynopsisThe fall of the Berlin Wall, symbol of the bipolar order that emerged after World War II, seemed to inaugurate an age of ever fewer borders. The liberalization and integration of markets, the creation of vast free-trade zones, the birth of a new political and monetary union in Europe—all seemed to point in that direction. Only thirty years later, the tendency appears to be quite the opposite. Talk of a wall with Mexico is only one sign among many that boundaries and borders are being revisited, expanding in number, and being reintroduced where they had virtually been abolished. Is this an out-of-step, deceptive last gasp of national sovereignty or the victory of the weight of history over the power of place? The fact that borders have made a comeback, warns Manlio Graziano, in his analysis of the dangerous fault lines that have opened in the contemporary world, does not mean that they will resolve any problems. His geopolitical history and analysis of the phenomenon draws our attention to the ground shifting under our feet in the present and allows us to speculate on what might happen in the future.Trade Review"A great deal of discussion is had about borders without there being much understanding of what they are and where they came from. Manlio Graziano makes clear the role of borders as symptoms of growing disorder rather than as causes." -- Ronnie D. Lipschutz * University of California, Santa Cruz *"This short book impressively synthesizes a vast range of knowledge about borders, both historical and geographical, into a coherent, accessible, and rigorous narrative. Providing a critical perspective on the so-called return of borders in the context of decades of globalizing tendencies, Graziano outlines the paradoxes of this 'return' while showing how and why globalization and the generation of borders are mutually implicated." -- Brett Neilson * Western Sydney University *"What is a Border? serves as a useful primer that leaves us with the realization that there is much to learn if we are to create more satisfactory political and social groupings for today's world." -- Alexander Sager * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThis introduction deals with the question of whether and why the borders are topical despite the long wave of globalization and concludes that they are at the same time obsolete and topical—obsolete, because globalization has undermined them and topical because their weakening has led to a reshuffling of territories and identities. It also introduces the relative nature of borders, which are different in time and space, depending on different stages of development of countries. 1A Short History of Borders chapter abstractThis chapter provides a short history of borders, from prehistoric societies to the present. It challenges some conventional wisdom about the "natural" character of borders, as they were essentially and intrinsically linked to human nature. The chapter describes how territories were delimited at hunter-gatherer times, then when the first empires were born, then in the Middle Ages, and it shows how their modern role was born along with the principle of sovereignty. Part of the chapter is devoted to the birth of the idea of nation and its progressive implementation, to show how nation and borders grew up together. The chapter also deals with cosmopolitan, supranational, and postnational ideas and addresses the return of borders today, explicitly mentioning protectionism, Brexit, and the 2016 American elections. 2The Power of Place chapter abstractThis chapter deals with the different forms, roles, and ideas of borders in the contemporary world, starting with the uneven development of regions, resulting mass-migration movements, and reactions in the developed world. Then it introduces different forms of borders: the invisible borders within countries and societies; the religious borders, which are among the most stable borders, and therefore provide much relief to those who are constantly yearning for an identity; the electoral borders, that is, the increasing political use of borders for electoral purposes; and finally, the phantom borders, the eight states that are not recognized by the international community. 3Borders in Progress chapter abstractThis chapter examines the political role of borders in a series of specific cases. It starts with the different borders of Europe, why they are so numerous, and why they have changed so frequently. It then looks at the Middle East and Africa, where artificial borders and states are linked to political instability and war; the case of the incessantly moving borders of Russia, which is constantly in search of territorial protection; China, with a specific analysis of the buffer regions (i.e., nonethnically Chinese regions) as "natural borders," as well as the issue of its maritime borders and the disputed areas in the South China Sea; and the case of the United States, its particularly stable borders as opposed to the expansion of its frontier well beyond the limits of the Western Hemisphere and the unique openness of its borders to immigration over most of its history. 4Conclusion chapter abstractThe conclusion explains why a history of borders is so important in order to underline their relative character and identify the issue of the political comeback of borders and their likely future implication on international relations.

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Book SynopsisIn fragile states, domestic and international actors sometimes take the momentous step of sharing sovereign authority to provide basic public services and build the rule of law. While sovereignty sharing can help address gaps in governance, it is inherently difficult, risking redundancy, confusion over roles, and feuds between partners when their interests diverge. In Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States, John D. Ciorciari sheds light on how and why these extraordinary joint ventures are created, designed, and implemented. Based on extensive field research in several countries and more than 150 interviews with senior figures from governments, the UN, donor states, and civil society, Ciorciari discusses when sovereignty sharing may be justified and when it is most likely to achieve its aims. The two, he argues, are closely related: perceived legitimacy and continued political and popular support are keys to success. This book examines a diverse range of sovereignty-sharing arrangements, including hybrid criminal tribunals, joint policing arrangements, and anti-corruption initiatives, in Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Lebanon, Timor-Leste, Guatemala, and Liberia. Ciorciari provides the first comparative assessment of these remarkable attempts to repair ruptures in the rule of law—the heart of a well-governed state.Trade Review"John Ciorciari has written a wonderful work. Sovereignty sharing has been an approach that has not been given a proper name. Ciorciari not only provides excellent case studies, but he also shows why sovereignty sharing has been widely used and the limited conditions that make it likely to be successful."—Stephen D. Krasner, Stanford University"This extraordinary book combines insights and lessons for those who wish to understand the challenges of sovereignty sharing to promote the rule of law in fragile states. Meticulously researched, Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States is an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners. Highly recommended."—Richard Caplan, University of Oxford"Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States is a first-rate piece of scholarship that offers a compelling answer to an important, but perennially perplexing, question: Why do 'shared sovereignty' arrangements fail so often—and under what conditions can they succeed?"—Roland Paris, University of OttawaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1: Justifying Shared Sovereignty 2: How Political Foundations Affect Performance 3: Partnering to Prosecute War Crimes 4: Compromising on Hybrid Justice 5: Imposing a Mixed Tribunal 6: Sharing Sovereignty in the Streets 7: Contracting for Criminal Investigation 8: Cosigning to Curb Corruption 9: The Path Ahead

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Book SynopsisMore than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal education can find lucrative employment. Between Dreams and Ghosts follows their migration, taking readers to sites in India, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, from villages to oilfields and back again. Engaging all parties involved—the migrants themselves, the recruiting agencies that place them, the government bureaucrats that regulate their emigration, and the corporations that hire them—Andrea Wright examines labor migration as a social process as it reshapes global capitalism. With this book, Wright demonstrates how migration is deeply informed both by workers' dreams for the future and the ghosts of history, including the enduring legacies of colonial capitalism. As workers navigate bureaucratic hurdles to migration and working conditions in the Gulf, they in turn influence and inform state policies and corporate practices. Placing migrants at the center of global capital rather than its periphery, Wright shows how migrants are not passive bodies at the mercy of abstract forces—and reveals through their experiences a new understanding of contemporary resource extraction, governance, and global labor.Trade Review"Drawing upon extraordinarily rich fieldwork and a deep knowledge of the region, Andrea Wright brilliantly weaves the transnational connections between India and the Gulf. Between Dreams and Ghosts is a landmark contribution that pushes our understanding of oil, labor, and migrant lives in new and unexpected directions." —Adam Hanieh, author of Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East"Andrea Wright's elegantly crafted ethnography of the lived experiences of Indian migrants to the Gulf oil industry is a telling narrative of the poetics and politics of labor migration. Rich with multiple perspectives and based on extensive fieldwork, Between Dreams and Ghosts stands out as a sensitive and stunning account." —Anand Yang, author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia"Andrea Wright's compelling work shows that the oil and money on which so many studies focus is inextricably entangled with the bodies and aspirations of labor migrants. Between Dreams and Ghosts takes readers deep into the transnational swirl of moving people and objects that link the Gulf to India." —Douglas Rogers, author of The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism"Wright presents a fascinating, creatively researched study of Indian migrant workers in the oil industry of the Gulf states... Getting access to the exploiters as well as those exploited—and their ghost stories—is a tribute to the author's daring strategies of research. ... Highly recommended."—C. M. Henry, CHOICE"Even in a book that is in many ways fuelled by oil, the perspective of Wright's story is a very fresh take on the life-worlds that exist inside this massive industry. InBetween Dreams and Ghosts, we get to think about the materiality of the oil industry, and how the materiality itself takes on a transnational and even metaphysical life. The substantive contribution ofBeyond Ghosts and Dreamsto the study of migration in the Gulf is powerfully supported by the ways in which Wright 'passes the mic' and allows migrants to speak throughout, even allowing them to make their mark on the text. One gets the sense that Wright has been exceptionally faithful to her interlocutors and tells a story that would be recognisable to them."—Lindsey Stephenson, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies"In dealing with migrants' lives and the biopolitics of the Indian state at a granular level, Between Dreams and Ghosts does an excellent job at uncovering the agency embedded in labor migration networks, often concealed by a mounting neoliberal corporate logic that naturalizes both labor inequalities and state intervention."—Nelida Fuccaro, Mashriq & Mahjar"Between Dreams and Ghosts is an essential text for both undergraduate and graduate students of South Asian studies, Gulf and Middle East Studies, political economy, labor, and migration; it also provides an important intervention for a range of non- academic audiences, including policy makers, journalists, labor organizers, and human rights groups."—Neha Vora, Political and Legal Anthropology ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond Surplus and Scarcity Part I: Of Mangoes and Men One: Protecting Vulnerable Citizens Two: Cultivating Entrepreneurs Three: Building Influential Networks Part II: Connective Substances Four: Making Kin with Gold Five: The Rig and the Temple Part III: The Weight of Tradition Six: Blowing Sand Seven: The Demon of Unsafe Acts Conclusion: Enduring Debts

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Book SynopsisWhen the Berlin Wall fell, Germany united in a wave of euphoria and solidarity. Also caught in the current were Vietnamese border crossers who had left their homeland after its reunification in 1975. Unwilling to live under socialism, one group resettled in West Berlin as refugees. In the name of socialist solidarity, a second group arrived in East Berlin as contract workers. The Border Within paints a vivid portrait of these disparate Vietnamese migrants' encounters with each other in the post-socialist city of Berlin. Journalists, scholars, and Vietnamese border crossers themselves consider these groups that left their homes under vastly different conditions to be one people, linked by an unquestionable ethnic nationhood. Phi Hong Su's rigorous ethnography unpacks this intuition. In absorbing prose, Su reveals how these Cold War compatriots enact palpable social boundaries in everyday life. This book uncovers how 20th-century state formation and international migration—together, border crossings—generate enduring migrant classifications. In doing so, border crossings fracture shared ethnic, national, and religious identities in enduring ways.Trade Review"Phi Hong Su's The Border Within is a game-changing book. Using rich ethnographic data with Vietnamese refugees and former contract workers in a reunified Berlin, Su paints a vivid portrait of how national and ethnic categories play out in everyday life. Avoiding simplistic conceptions of these categories, Su takes us into the lives of her subjects as they adopt and transform national and ethnic categories to draw lines of unity and division. This book is essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand how migration, war, and changing political boundaries influence belonging."—Tomás R. Jiménez, co-author of States of Belonging"A vivid account of Vietnamese border crossings – social, national, and political – that reconceptualizes the diaspora and notions of ethnonationalism. Su's remarkable study of the diverse pathways of Vietnamese migration to the once-divided city of Berlin serves as a poignant reminder of the ways in which Cold War divisions continue to shape daily lives and raise complex questions of belonging."—Christina Schwenkel, author of Building Socialism"In this remarkable book, Phi Hong Su poignantly analyzes what it means to be Vietnamese in the context of migration between two countries that were profoundly affected by war, national division, and reunification. Having originated decades ago, the Vietnamese community in Germany today continues to confront the impact of violence, division, and reunification on community, ethnic, national, and individual identities. Su deftly unpacks how discrepant histories of borders and border crossings within a coethnic migrant group shape ethnic nationalisms through social relationships and religious practices. The book makes a groundbreaking contribution to transnational studies of Asia and the Asian diaspora."—Ann Marie Leshkowich, College of the Holy Cross"The field of postcolonial studies has long been concerned with issues of cultural hybridity, national belonging, and political sovereignty. Phi Hong Su's The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin tackles all these weighty matters with a remarkable deftness that bridges divergent interests in decolonization, global migration, [and] the Cold War.... The Border Within is a major text for anyone who wishes to grasp the social forces that delimit postcolonial and diasporic identities. This important study reveals how nations are made, unmade, and remade with an understanding that the path to independence and freedom is riddled with endless controversy."—Long T. Bui, Postcolonial Interventions"Phi Hong Su asks a question of enduring interest to migration scholars and students of nationalism: How do ordinary people, thousands of miles from their homeland, make sense of their membership in a distant nation? Su adds two absorbing, creative wrinkles to this question by using a research design that sets The Border Within apart from prior scholarship...Su is both courageous and empathetic in the way she deals with the internal politics of the Vietnamese, their notions of ethnic nationalism, and their lives in Germany...These questions point to how fascinating and generative it is to read The Border Within."—Irene Bloemraad, Social Forces"...unusually theoretically sophisticated and analytically coherent.... The resulting book is as ambitious as it is humble: it shows a tremendous understanding of multiple national contexts and never makes grand claims that do not emerge from the data itself.... These arguments complement multiple fields of scholarship, including on the inadequacy of legal labels in capturing the true range of migration pathways and experiences; on taking categories, such as ethnicity, as to be explainedrather than explanatory; on immigrants as emigrants who continue to be impacted by their homelands; on the potential encumbrance of diasporic networks; on the lingering effects of the Cold War; and on how illuminating migrants' views onto receiving societies' histories can be.... Su's writing is unfailingly elegant, clear, and accessible."—Ulrike Bialas, International Migration Review"This short yet discerning monograph gives a vivid account of the persistence of divisions—including their subtle impact on social identity and social differentiation among Vietnamese in the diaspora decades after the Vietnam War and the Cold War ended. Su achieves this by engaging in wide-ranging fieldwork, including interviews with dozens of southerners as well as northerners. It is one of the most important monographs on this subject published in the last decade, and it should be read widely."—Tuan Hoang, Journal of Vietnamese Studies"This innovative book provides a sophisticated picture of the relationship between borders and boundaries and between nationhood and nationalism, which is of interest not only to scholars in transnational migration studies and in Vietnamese studies but to all readers interested in state formation, immigration, and postconflict division and reconciliation, as well.... The Border Within is an inspiring and well-written book. I believe the book is essential for anyone who wants to understand how partition, reunification, and migration shape the nationhood and nationalism, the unity and the division, among diasporic Vietnamese people."—Nghi Truong, Journal of Asian StudiesTable of Contents1. Border Crossings 2. Making Northerners and Southerners 3. Making Refugees and Contract Workers 4. Ranking the Ethnic Nation 5. Choosing Friends and Picking Sides 6. Buddhist Meditations in Northern and Southern Accents 7. After Border Crossings

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Book SynopsisMore than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal education can find lucrative employment. Between Dreams and Ghosts follows their migration, taking readers to sites in India, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, from villages to oilfields and back again. Engaging all parties involved—the migrants themselves, the recruiting agencies that place them, the government bureaucrats that regulate their emigration, and the corporations that hire them—Andrea Wright examines labor migration as a social process as it reshapes global capitalism. With this book, Wright demonstrates how migration is deeply informed both by workers' dreams for the future and the ghosts of history, including the enduring legacies of colonial capitalism. As workers navigate bureaucratic hurdles to migration and working conditions in the Gulf, they in turn influence and inform state policies and corporate practices. Placing migrants at the center of global capital rather than its periphery, Wright shows how migrants are not passive bodies at the mercy of abstract forces—and reveals through their experiences a new understanding of contemporary resource extraction, governance, and global labor.Trade Review"Drawing upon extraordinarily rich fieldwork and a deep knowledge of the region, Andrea Wright brilliantly weaves the transnational connections between India and the Gulf. Between Dreams and Ghosts is a landmark contribution that pushes our understanding of oil, labor, and migrant lives in new and unexpected directions." —Adam Hanieh, author of Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East"Andrea Wright's elegantly crafted ethnography of the lived experiences of Indian migrants to the Gulf oil industry is a telling narrative of the poetics and politics of labor migration. Rich with multiple perspectives and based on extensive fieldwork, Between Dreams and Ghosts stands out as a sensitive and stunning account." —Anand Yang, author of Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia"Andrea Wright's compelling work shows that the oil and money on which so many studies focus is inextricably entangled with the bodies and aspirations of labor migrants. Between Dreams and Ghosts takes readers deep into the transnational swirl of moving people and objects that link the Gulf to India." —Douglas Rogers, author of The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism"Wright presents a fascinating, creatively researched study of Indian migrant workers in the oil industry of the Gulf states... Getting access to the exploiters as well as those exploited—and their ghost stories—is a tribute to the author's daring strategies of research. ... Highly recommended."—C. M. Henry, CHOICE"Even in a book that is in many ways fuelled by oil, the perspective of Wright's story is a very fresh take on the life-worlds that exist inside this massive industry. InBetween Dreams and Ghosts, we get to think about the materiality of the oil industry, and how the materiality itself takes on a transnational and even metaphysical life. The substantive contribution ofBeyond Ghosts and Dreamsto the study of migration in the Gulf is powerfully supported by the ways in which Wright 'passes the mic' and allows migrants to speak throughout, even allowing them to make their mark on the text. One gets the sense that Wright has been exceptionally faithful to her interlocutors and tells a story that would be recognisable to them."—Lindsey Stephenson, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies"In dealing with migrants' lives and the biopolitics of the Indian state at a granular level, Between Dreams and Ghosts does an excellent job at uncovering the agency embedded in labor migration networks, often concealed by a mounting neoliberal corporate logic that naturalizes both labor inequalities and state intervention."—Nelida Fuccaro, Mashriq & Mahjar"Between Dreams and Ghosts is an essential text for both undergraduate and graduate students of South Asian studies, Gulf and Middle East Studies, political economy, labor, and migration; it also provides an important intervention for a range of non- academic audiences, including policy makers, journalists, labor organizers, and human rights groups."—Neha Vora, Political and Legal Anthropology ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond Surplus and Scarcity Part I: Of Mangoes and Men One: Protecting Vulnerable Citizens Two: Cultivating Entrepreneurs Three: Building Influential Networks Part II: Connective Substances Four: Making Kin with Gold Five: The Rig and the Temple Part III: The Weight of Tradition Six: Blowing Sand Seven: The Demon of Unsafe Acts Conclusion: Enduring Debts

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Book SynopsisWhen the Berlin Wall fell, Germany united in a wave of euphoria and solidarity. Also caught in the current were Vietnamese border crossers who had left their homeland after its reunification in 1975. Unwilling to live under socialism, one group resettled in West Berlin as refugees. In the name of socialist solidarity, a second group arrived in East Berlin as contract workers. The Border Within paints a vivid portrait of these disparate Vietnamese migrants' encounters with each other in the post-socialist city of Berlin. Journalists, scholars, and Vietnamese border crossers themselves consider these groups that left their homes under vastly different conditions to be one people, linked by an unquestionable ethnic nationhood. Phi Hong Su's rigorous ethnography unpacks this intuition. In absorbing prose, Su reveals how these Cold War compatriots enact palpable social boundaries in everyday life. This book uncovers how 20th-century state formation and international migration—together, border crossings—generate enduring migrant classifications. In doing so, border crossings fracture shared ethnic, national, and religious identities in enduring ways.Trade Review"Phi Hong Su's The Border Within is a game-changing book. Using rich ethnographic data with Vietnamese refugees and former contract workers in a reunified Berlin, Su paints a vivid portrait of how national and ethnic categories play out in everyday life. Avoiding simplistic conceptions of these categories, Su takes us into the lives of her subjects as they adopt and transform national and ethnic categories to draw lines of unity and division. This book is essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand how migration, war, and changing political boundaries influence belonging."—Tomás R. Jiménez, co-author of States of Belonging"A vivid account of Vietnamese border crossings – social, national, and political – that reconceptualizes the diaspora and notions of ethnonationalism. Su's remarkable study of the diverse pathways of Vietnamese migration to the once-divided city of Berlin serves as a poignant reminder of the ways in which Cold War divisions continue to shape daily lives and raise complex questions of belonging."—Christina Schwenkel, author of Building Socialism"In this remarkable book, Phi Hong Su poignantly analyzes what it means to be Vietnamese in the context of migration between two countries that were profoundly affected by war, national division, and reunification. Having originated decades ago, the Vietnamese community in Germany today continues to confront the impact of violence, division, and reunification on community, ethnic, national, and individual identities. Su deftly unpacks how discrepant histories of borders and border crossings within a coethnic migrant group shape ethnic nationalisms through social relationships and religious practices. The book makes a groundbreaking contribution to transnational studies of Asia and the Asian diaspora."—Ann Marie Leshkowich, College of the Holy Cross"The field of postcolonial studies has long been concerned with issues of cultural hybridity, national belonging, and political sovereignty. Phi Hong Su's The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin tackles all these weighty matters with a remarkable deftness that bridges divergent interests in decolonization, global migration, [and] the Cold War.... The Border Within is a major text for anyone who wishes to grasp the social forces that delimit postcolonial and diasporic identities. This important study reveals how nations are made, unmade, and remade with an understanding that the path to independence and freedom is riddled with endless controversy."—Long T. Bui, Postcolonial Interventions"Phi Hong Su asks a question of enduring interest to migration scholars and students of nationalism: How do ordinary people, thousands of miles from their homeland, make sense of their membership in a distant nation? Su adds two absorbing, creative wrinkles to this question by using a research design that sets The Border Within apart from prior scholarship...Su is both courageous and empathetic in the way she deals with the internal politics of the Vietnamese, their notions of ethnic nationalism, and their lives in Germany...These questions point to how fascinating and generative it is to read The Border Within."—Irene Bloemraad, Social Forces"...unusually theoretically sophisticated and analytically coherent.... The resulting book is as ambitious as it is humble: it shows a tremendous understanding of multiple national contexts and never makes grand claims that do not emerge from the data itself.... These arguments complement multiple fields of scholarship, including on the inadequacy of legal labels in capturing the true range of migration pathways and experiences; on taking categories, such as ethnicity, as to be explainedrather than explanatory; on immigrants as emigrants who continue to be impacted by their homelands; on the potential encumbrance of diasporic networks; on the lingering effects of the Cold War; and on how illuminating migrants' views onto receiving societies' histories can be.... Su's writing is unfailingly elegant, clear, and accessible."—Ulrike Bialas, International Migration Review"This short yet discerning monograph gives a vivid account of the persistence of divisions—including their subtle impact on social identity and social differentiation among Vietnamese in the diaspora decades after the Vietnam War and the Cold War ended. Su achieves this by engaging in wide-ranging fieldwork, including interviews with dozens of southerners as well as northerners. It is one of the most important monographs on this subject published in the last decade, and it should be read widely."—Tuan Hoang, Journal of Vietnamese Studies"This innovative book provides a sophisticated picture of the relationship between borders and boundaries and between nationhood and nationalism, which is of interest not only to scholars in transnational migration studies and in Vietnamese studies but to all readers interested in state formation, immigration, and postconflict division and reconciliation, as well.... The Border Within is an inspiring and well-written book. I believe the book is essential for anyone who wants to understand how partition, reunification, and migration shape the nationhood and nationalism, the unity and the division, among diasporic Vietnamese people."—Nghi Truong, Journal of Asian Studies"Significant interventions of [The Border Within] include moving beyond the binary of refugee and migrant and showing the complexity of people's motivations for crossing borders beyond economic or political explanations. The work also challenges the trinity of citizen-state-territory, revealing the complex ways 'international migration allows people to carry their ideas of the nation and, at times, their national memberships with them abroad'. "The book is clearly written and compelling with its ethnographic voice and thick description. It would appeal to a lay audience and undergraduate courses focused on global and transnational sociology, international migration, and political sociology. The book is one of the few written in English in the field of sociology that focuses on stories of the Vietnamese diaspora outside the United States, France, Canada, and Australia."—Jennifer Huynh, Contemporary SociologyTable of Contents1. Border Crossings 2. Making Northerners and Southerners 3. Making Refugees and Contract Workers 4. Ranking the Ethnic Nation 5. Choosing Friends and Picking Sides 6. Buddhist Meditations in Northern and Southern Accents 7. After Border Crossings

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Book SynopsisThis book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two processes took another step in April 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a "New Health Silk Road" agenda of aid and investment that would wind through South America, extending the Eurasian-African "Belt and Road Initiative" to a series of mine, port, energy, infrastructure, and agrobusiness megaprojects in the Latin American tropics. Through thirty short essays, this volume brings together an impressive array of contributors, from economists, anthropologists, and political scientists to Black, feminist, and Indigenous community organizers, Chinese stakeholders, environmental activists, and local journalists to offer a pathbreaking analysis of China's presence in South America. As cracks in the progressive legacy of the Pink Tide and the failures of ecocidal right-wing populisms shape new political economies and geopolitical possibilities, this book provides a grassroots-based account of a post-US centered world order, and an accompanying map of the stakes for South America that highlights emerging voices and forms of resistance.Trade Review"A result of deep and probing research, The Tropical Silk Road offers new critical writings, field observations, and ideas that situate the fate of Amazonian societies in the wake of China's bid for global prominence. The diverse array of experts in fine-tuned conversation with one another makes this a truly remarkable and exciting collection."—Long Bui, University of California, Irvine"The Tropical Silk Road is both an impressively ambitious and readable volume. An international cavalcade of authors examines contemporary China's outreach into Latin America, offering an engaging balance of thoughtful, interdisciplinary perspectives with considerable heft."—Carlos Rojas, Duke University"[Tropical Silk Road] is as ambitious as it is eclectic, and its contributors bring a range of valuable insights to bear on some of the most important political and economic developments facing the region."—Matthew Abel, NACLA Report on the AmericasTable of Contents0.0 Acknowledgments —Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, María Amelia Viteri, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, and Fernando Brancoli 0.1 Introduction: China Stepping Out, the Amazon Biome, and South American Populism —Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, María Amelia Viteri, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, and Fernando Brancoli 1.1: China's State and Social Media Narratives about Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic —Li Zhang 1.2: Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project: Infrastructures and Disaster from a Masculine Vision of Development —Pedro Gutiérrez Guevara, Sofía Carpio, and Mayra Flores 1.3: Brazil and China's "Inevitable Marriage"? Post-Bolsonaro Futures and Beijing's Shift from North America to South America —Zhou Zhiwei 1.4: The China-Ecuador Relationship: From Correa's Neodevelopmentalist "Reformism" to Moreno's "Postreformism" during China's Credit Crunch (2006–2021) —Milton Reyes Herrera 1.5: China Studies in Brazil: Leste Vermelho and Innovations in South-South Academic Partnership —Andrea Piazzaroli Longobardi 1.6: Chinese Financing and Direct Foreign Investment in Ecuador: An Interests and Benefits Perspective on Relations between States through the Lens of the Win-Win Principle —David Mosquera Narváez 2.1: An Indigenous Theory of Risk: The Cosmopolitan Munduruku Analyze Chinese Megaprojects at Tapajós–Teles Pires —Luísa Pontes Molina and Alessandra Korap Silva Munduruku 2.2: Challenges for the Shuar in the Face of Globalization and Extractivism: Reflections from the Shuar Federation of Zamora Chinchipe —Jefferson Pullaguari 2.3: "Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest": Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking Beyond the National Strike of October 2019 —Julia Correa, Israel Chumapi, Paúl Ghaitai Males, Jennifer Yajaira Masaquiza, Rina Pakari Marcillo, and David Menacho 3.1: From Elusiveness to Ideological Extravaganza: Gender and Sexuality in Brazil-China Relations —Cai Yiping and Sonia Correa 3.2: The Refraction of Chinese Capital in Amazonian Entrepôts and the Infrastructure of a Global Sacrifice Zone —Gustavo Oliveira 3.3: "The Bank We Want": Chinese and Brazilian Activism around and within the BRICS New Development Bank —Laura Trajber Waisbich 3.4: Río Blanco: The Big Stumbling Block to the Advancement of China's Mining Interests in Ecuador —The Yasunidos Guapondélig Collective 3.5: Protectionism for Business, Precarization for Labor: China's Investment-Protection Treaties and Community Struggles in the Latin American and Caribbean Region —Ana Saggioro Garcia and Rodrigo Curty Pereira 4.1: A Mine, a Dam, and the Chinese-Ecuadorian Politics of Knowledge —Karolien van Teijlingen and Juan Pablo Hidalgo Bastidas 4.2: Rafael Correa's Administration of Promises and the Impact of Its Policies on the Human Rights of Indigenous Groups —Emilia Bonilla 4.3: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajós River "Logistics Corridor": A Case Study of Socioenvironmental Transformation in Brazil's Northeast —Alana Camoça and Bruno Hendler 4.4: Deforestation, Enclosures, and Militias: The Logistics "Revolution" in the Port of Cajueiro, Maranhão —Sabrina Felipe and Lucilene Raimunda Costa 5.1: Hungry and Backward Waters: Events, Actors, and Challenges Surrounding the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project in Times of COVID-19 —Sigrid Vásconez D. 5.2: Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence, and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam —Laís Forti Thomaz, Aline Regina Alves Martins, and Diego Trindade d'Ávila Magalhães 5.3: Vanity Projects, Waterfall Implosions, and the Local Impacts of Megaproject Partnerships —Consuelo Fernández-Salvador and María Amelia Viteri 5.4: "Yes We Do Exist": Ferrogrão Railway, Indigenous Voices in the Trail of Trade Corridors, and Building the Axis of "Brazilian Pragmatist Policy" toward China —Diana Aguiar 5.5: Green Marketing Extractivism in the Amazon: Imaginaries of the Ministry versus Realities of the Land —Maria Elena Rodríguez 6.1: Steel Industry's Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach —Ana Luisa Queiroz, Marina Praça, and Yasmin Bitencourt 6.2: Rio de Janeiro's Unruly Carbon Periphery: Community Entrepreneurs, Chinese Investors, and the Reappropriation of the Ruins of the COMPERJ Oil Port-and-Pipeline Megaproject —Fernando Brancoli and Wander Guerra 6.3: From Cheap Credit to Rapid Frustration: Real Estate in Rio de Janeiro —Pedro Henrique Vasques 6.4: The China-Ecuador Economic Relationship's Impact on Unemployment during the Administration of President Moreno —David F. Delgado del Hierro 7.1: Savage Factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone: Chinese Investments in the Amazon and Social Impacts on Workers —Cleiton Ferreira Maciel Brito 7.2: National Development Priorities and Transnational Workplace Inequalities: Challenges for China's State-Sponsored Construction Projects in Ecuador —Rui Jie Peng 7.3: Rio's Phantom Dubai?: Porto do Açu, Chinese Investments, and the Geopolitical Specter of Brazilian Mineral Booms —Marcos A. Pedlowski

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Book SynopsisThis book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two processes took another step in April 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a "New Health Silk Road" agenda of aid and investment that would wind through South America, extending the Eurasian-African "Belt and Road Initiative" to a series of mine, port, energy, infrastructure, and agrobusiness megaprojects in the Latin American tropics. Through thirty short essays, this volume brings together an impressive array of contributors, from economists, anthropologists, and political scientists to Black, feminist, and Indigenous community organizers, Chinese stakeholders, environmental activists, and local journalists to offer a pathbreaking analysis of China's presence in South America. As cracks in the progressive legacy of the Pink Tide and the failures of ecocidal right-wing populisms shape new political economies and geopolitical possibilities, this book provides a grassroots-based account of a post-US centered world order, and an accompanying map of the stakes for South America that highlights emerging voices and forms of resistance.Trade Review"A result of deep and probing research, The Tropical Silk Road offers new critical writings, field observations, and ideas that situate the fate of Amazonian societies in the wake of China's bid for global prominence. The diverse array of experts in fine-tuned conversation with one another makes this a truly remarkable and exciting collection."—Long Bui, University of California, Irvine"The Tropical Silk Road is both an impressively ambitious and readable volume. An international cavalcade of authors examines contemporary China's outreach into Latin America, offering an engaging balance of thoughtful, interdisciplinary perspectives with considerable heft."—Carlos Rojas, Duke University"[Tropical Silk Road] is as ambitious as it is eclectic, and its contributors bring a range of valuable insights to bear on some of the most important political and economic developments facing the region."—Matthew Abel, NACLA Report on the AmericasTable of Contents0.0 Acknowledgments —Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, María Amelia Viteri, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, and Fernando Brancoli 0.1 Introduction: China Stepping Out, the Amazon Biome, and South American Populism —Paul Amar, Lisa Rofel, María Amelia Viteri, Consuelo Fernández-Salvador, and Fernando Brancoli 1.1: China's State and Social Media Narratives about Brazil during the COVID-19 Pandemic —Li Zhang 1.2: Cracks in the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project: Infrastructures and Disaster from a Masculine Vision of Development —Pedro Gutiérrez Guevara, Sofía Carpio, and Mayra Flores 1.3: Brazil and China's "Inevitable Marriage"? Post-Bolsonaro Futures and Beijing's Shift from North America to South America —Zhou Zhiwei 1.4: The China-Ecuador Relationship: From Correa's Neodevelopmentalist "Reformism" to Moreno's "Postreformism" during China's Credit Crunch (2006–2021) —Milton Reyes Herrera 1.5: China Studies in Brazil: Leste Vermelho and Innovations in South-South Academic Partnership —Andrea Piazzaroli Longobardi 1.6: Chinese Financing and Direct Foreign Investment in Ecuador: An Interests and Benefits Perspective on Relations between States through the Lens of the Win-Win Principle —David Mosquera Narváez 2.1: An Indigenous Theory of Risk: The Cosmopolitan Munduruku Analyze Chinese Megaprojects at Tapajós–Teles Pires —Luísa Pontes Molina and Alessandra Korap Silva Munduruku 2.2: Challenges for the Shuar in the Face of Globalization and Extractivism: Reflections from the Shuar Federation of Zamora Chinchipe —Jefferson Pullaguari 2.3: "Yes, We Do Know Why We Protest": Indigenous Challenges to Extractivism in Ecuador, Looking Beyond the National Strike of October 2019 —Julia Correa, Israel Chumapi, Paúl Ghaitai Males, Jennifer Yajaira Masaquiza, Rina Pakari Marcillo, and David Menacho 3.1: From Elusiveness to Ideological Extravaganza: Gender and Sexuality in Brazil-China Relations —Cai Yiping and Sonia Correa 3.2: The Refraction of Chinese Capital in Amazonian Entrepôts and the Infrastructure of a Global Sacrifice Zone —Gustavo Oliveira 3.3: "The Bank We Want": Chinese and Brazilian Activism around and within the BRICS New Development Bank —Laura Trajber Waisbich 3.4: Río Blanco: The Big Stumbling Block to the Advancement of China's Mining Interests in Ecuador —The Yasunidos Guapondélig Collective 3.5: Protectionism for Business, Precarization for Labor: China's Investment-Protection Treaties and Community Struggles in the Latin American and Caribbean Region —Ana Saggioro Garcia and Rodrigo Curty Pereira 4.1: A Mine, a Dam, and the Chinese-Ecuadorian Politics of Knowledge —Karolien van Teijlingen and Juan Pablo Hidalgo Bastidas 4.2: Rafael Correa's Administration of Promises and the Impact of Its Policies on the Human Rights of Indigenous Groups —Emilia Bonilla 4.3: China Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation in the Tapajós River "Logistics Corridor": A Case Study of Socioenvironmental Transformation in Brazil's Northeast —Alana Camoça and Bruno Hendler 4.4: Deforestation, Enclosures, and Militias: The Logistics "Revolution" in the Port of Cajueiro, Maranhão —Sabrina Felipe and Lucilene Raimunda Costa 5.1: Hungry and Backward Waters: Events, Actors, and Challenges Surrounding the Coca Codo Sinclair Hydroelectric Project in Times of COVID-19 —Sigrid Vásconez D. 5.2: Electrification of Forest Biomes: Xingu-Rio Lines, Chinese Presence, and the Sociotechnological Impact of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Dam —Laís Forti Thomaz, Aline Regina Alves Martins, and Diego Trindade d'Ávila Magalhães 5.3: Vanity Projects, Waterfall Implosions, and the Local Impacts of Megaproject Partnerships —Consuelo Fernández-Salvador and María Amelia Viteri 5.4: "Yes We Do Exist": Ferrogrão Railway, Indigenous Voices in the Trail of Trade Corridors, and Building the Axis of "Brazilian Pragmatist Policy" toward China —Diana Aguiar 5.5: Green Marketing Extractivism in the Amazon: Imaginaries of the Ministry versus Realities of the Land —Maria Elena Rodríguez 6.1: Steel Industry's Legacies on the Outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and White Brazilian Capital-State Alliances: A Feminist Approach —Ana Luisa Queiroz, Marina Praça, and Yasmin Bitencourt 6.2: Rio de Janeiro's Unruly Carbon Periphery: Community Entrepreneurs, Chinese Investors, and the Reappropriation of the Ruins of the COMPERJ Oil Port-and-Pipeline Megaproject —Fernando Brancoli and Wander Guerra 6.3: From Cheap Credit to Rapid Frustration: Real Estate in Rio de Janeiro —Pedro Henrique Vasques 6.4: The China-Ecuador Economic Relationship's Impact on Unemployment during the Administration of President Moreno —David F. Delgado del Hierro 7.1: Savage Factories of the Manaus Free Trade Zone: Chinese Investments in the Amazon and Social Impacts on Workers —Cleiton Ferreira Maciel Brito 7.2: National Development Priorities and Transnational Workplace Inequalities: Challenges for China's State-Sponsored Construction Projects in Ecuador —Rui Jie Peng 7.3: Rio's Phantom Dubai?: Porto do Açu, Chinese Investments, and the Geopolitical Specter of Brazilian Mineral Booms —Marcos A. Pedlowski

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Book SynopsisAcross the Western world, people are angry about the inability of government to perform basic functions competently. With widespread evidence of policy failures at home and ill-conceived wars and interventions abroad, it is hardly surprising that politicians are distrusted and government is derided as a sprawling, wasteful mess. But what exactly is government supposed to do, and is the track record of Western governments really so awful? In this compelling book, leading scholar of public policy and management, Alasdair Roberts, explores what government does well and what it does badly. Political leaders, he explains, have always been obliged to wrestle with shifting circumstances and contending priorities, making the job of governing extraordinarily difficult. The performance of western democracies in recent decades is, admittedly, far from perfect but - as Roberts ably shows - it is also much better than you might think.Trade Review“This contrarian work is a welcome corrective to the doom and gloom commentary that is so common today. Not only that, it's a good read as well. It will get an intensive workout in college seminars.” Morris P. Fiorina, Stanford University “Governing, particularly in democracies, is difficult and often frustrating work. In this vital new book, Alasdair Roberts makes a convincing case that Western governments have been largely effective at addressing the challenges they face.” Stephen K. Medvic, Franklin & Marshall College"In a world dominated by narratives of democratic crisis and decline Alasdair Roberts reveals the innate complexities of modern governance and political statecraft. In a book that is as clear and accessible as it is intellectually thoughtful and provocative, Roberts offers a positive and optimistic account of contemporary politics. It offers an energising breadth of fresh air in what is otherwise a fairly gloomy scholarly space."Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics and Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is also President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom. ‘Alasdair Roberts' pithy, accessible, and refreshingly non-partisan book offers a pragmatic yet optimistic view of the benefits and future of government. While thoughtfully acknowledging a broad range of complaints about the representativeness and effectiveness of Western democracies, Roberts persuasively counters by pointing out the undeniable progress and accomplishments of these governments. His broad thesis -- that democratic institutions work because they adapt to changing circumstances, often in unexpected ways – should provide both hope and inspiration to students and readers who despair about our current situation.’Sherry Glied, Dean, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University "This book is an ideal vehicle for challenging students to look beyond current events and to reflect upon the role of government in addressing some of our society’s biggest challenges over a broad arc of history. Roberts provides a sober account of the challenges facing the United States and other western democracies today, but engages readers in the possibility that governments are up to the challenge of adapting their governing strategies to respond to these problems. The crisp, concise book will surely foster reflection and dialogue."Eric Zeemering, University of Georgia "A remarkably clear and well written book that makes a compelling argument against conventional orthodoxy. I have used it with great success in my introductory course in political science".Jonathan Rose, Queen’s UniversityTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1. WHY IS EVERYONE SO ANGRY? 2. THE LONG PEACE 3. THE RIGHT TO RULE 4. TAMING THE ECONOMY 5. BATTLE OF THE BULGE 6. HARD CHOICES AHEAD 7. PERESTROIKA FURTHER READING NOTES

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Book SynopsisAcross the Western world, people are angry about the inability of government to perform basic functions competently. With widespread evidence of policy failures at home and ill-conceived wars and interventions abroad, it is hardly surprising that politicians are distrusted and government is derided as a sprawling, wasteful mess. But what exactly is government supposed to do, and is the track record of Western governments really so awful? In this compelling book, leading scholar of public policy and management, Alasdair Roberts, explores what government does well and what it does badly. Political leaders, he explains, have always been obliged to wrestle with shifting circumstances and contending priorities, making the job of governing extraordinarily difficult. The performance of western democracies in recent decades is, admittedly, far from perfect but - as Roberts ably shows - it is also much better than you might think.Trade Review“This contrarian work is a welcome corrective to the doom and gloom commentary that is so common today. Not only that, it's a good read as well. It will get an intensive workout in college seminars.” Morris P. Fiorina, Stanford University “Governing, particularly in democracies, is difficult and often frustrating work. In this vital new book, Alasdair Roberts makes a convincing case that Western governments have been largely effective at addressing the challenges they face.” Stephen K. Medvic, Franklin & Marshall College"In a world dominated by narratives of democratic crisis and decline Alasdair Roberts reveals the innate complexities of modern governance and political statecraft. In a book that is as clear and accessible as it is intellectually thoughtful and provocative, Roberts offers a positive and optimistic account of contemporary politics. It offers an energising breadth of fresh air in what is otherwise a fairly gloomy scholarly space."Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics and Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is also President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom.‘Alasdair Roberts' pithy, accessible, and refreshingly non-partisan book offers a pragmatic yet optimistic view of the benefits and future of government. While thoughtfully acknowledging a broad range of complaints about the representativeness and effectiveness of Western democracies, Roberts persuasively counters by pointing out the undeniable progress and accomplishments of these governments. His broad thesis -- that democratic institutions work because they adapt to changing circumstances, often in unexpected ways – should provide both hope and inspiration to students and readers who despair about our current situation.’Sherry Glied, Dean, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University"This book is an ideal vehicle for challenging students to look beyond current events and to reflect upon the role of government in addressing some of our society’s biggest challenges over a broad arc of history. Roberts provides a sober account of the challenges facing the United States and other western democracies today, but engages readers in the possibility that governments are up to the challenge of adapting their governing strategies to respond to these problems. The crisp, concise book will surely foster reflection and dialogue."Eric Zeemering, University of Georgia "A remarkably clear and well written book that makes a compelling argument against conventional orthodoxy. I have used it with great success in my introductory course in political science".Jonathan Rose, Queen’s UniversityTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1. WHY IS EVERYONE SO ANGRY? 2. THE LONG PEACE 3. THE RIGHT TO RULE 4. TAMING THE ECONOMY 5. BATTLE OF THE BULGE 6. HARD CHOICES AHEAD 7. PERESTROIKA FURTHER READING NOTES

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Book SynopsisWith more than 500,000 people killed and at least half the population displaced, Syria's conflict is the most deadly of the twenty-first century. Russia's decision to join the war has broken the long military and political stalemate but it looks unlikely to deliver any of the core demands that spawned the original uprising against the Ba'athist regime. In this fully revised second edition of his acclaimed text, Samer Abboud provides an in-depth analysis of Syria's descent into civil war, the subsequent stalemate, and the consequences of Russian military involvement after 2015. He unravels the complex and multi-layered drivers of the conflict and demonstrates how rebel fragmentation, sustained regime violence, international actors, and the emergence of competing centers of power tore Syria apart in wholly irreversible ways. A resolution to the Syrian catastrophe seems to have emerged in the aftermath of Russia's intervention, but, as Abboud argues, this "authoritarian peace" contains the seeds of continued and future conflict in Syria. While the Assad regime has so far survived, the instability, violence, and insecurity that continue to shape everyday life for the Syrian people portend an uncertain future that will have repercussions on the wider Middle East for years to come.Trade Review"Samer Abboud’s Syria is an indispensable reference on the uprising and brutal conflict that has raged in Syria since 2011. Abboud is masterful in providing an account that is at once accessible, balanced and analytically sophisticated. He explains clearly how a wartime order took hold in Syria after 2011, who its key actors are, their roles in the conflict,and how the likely imposition of an ‘authoritarian peace’ under the Assad regime is unlikely to deliver either stability or security to a country ravaged by violence."—Steven Heydemann, Smith College "This second edition of Abboud’s small classic carries his valuable analysis forward. Bringing together the phases and dimensions of the Syrian conflict in a uniquely convincing and comprehensive way, Abboud explores how the failure of diplomacy left a stalemate, and how the stalemate was broken by Russian intervention, and yet today the conflict remains frozen but not resolved."Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Rise and Fall of the Ba'ath Party Chapter Two: The Syrian Uprising Chapter Three: Continued violence and the emergence of armed opposition Chapter Four: Before Aleppo--Stalemate and Fragmentation Chapter Five: After Aleppo--Breaking the Stalemate Conclusion: The Coming Authoritarian Peace References

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Book SynopsisWith more than 500,000 people killed and at least half the population displaced, Syria's conflict is the most deadly of the twenty-first century. Russia's decision to join the war has broken the long military and political stalemate but it looks unlikely to deliver any of the core demands that spawned the original uprising against the Ba'athist regime. In this fully revised second edition of his acclaimed text, Samer Abboud provides an in-depth analysis of Syria's descent into civil war, the subsequent stalemate, and the consequences of Russian military involvement after 2015. He unravels the complex and multi-layered drivers of the conflict and demonstrates how rebel fragmentation, sustained regime violence, international actors, and the emergence of competing centers of power tore Syria apart in wholly irreversible ways. A resolution to the Syrian catastrophe seems to have emerged in the aftermath of Russia's intervention, but, as Abboud argues, this "authoritarian peace" contains the seeds of continued and future conflict in Syria. While the Assad regime has so far survived, the instability, violence, and insecurity that continue to shape everyday life for the Syrian people portend an uncertain future that will have repercussions on the wider Middle East for years to come.Trade ReviewSamer Abboud’s Syria is an indispensable reference on the uprising and brutal conflict that have raged in Syria since 2011. Abboud is masterful in providing an account that is at once accessible, balanced and analytically sophisticated. He explains clearly how a wartime order took hold in Syria after 2011, who its key actors are, their roles in the conflict, and how the likely imposition of an ‘authoritarian peace’ under the Assad regime is unlikely to deliver either stability or security to a country ravaged by violence.” Steven Heydemann, Smith College “This second edition of Abboud’s small classic carries his valuable analysis forward. Bringing together the phases and dimensions of the Syrian conflict in a uniquely convincing and comprehensive way, Abboud explores how the failure of diplomacy left a stalemate, and how the stalemate was broken by Russian intervention, and yet today the conflict remains frozen but not resolved.” Raymond Hinnebusch, University of St AndrewsTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: The Rise and Fall of the Ba'ath Party Chapter Two: The Syrian Uprising Chapter Three: Continued violence and the emergence of armed opposition Chapter Four: Before Aleppo--Stalemate and Fragmentation Chapter Five: After Aleppo--Breaking the Stalemate Conclusion: The Coming Authoritarian Peace References

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Book SynopsisWith the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "crisis of democracy", the value of elections as a method for selecting by whom and how we are governed is being questioned. What are the virtues and weaknesses of elections? Are there limitations to what they can realistically achieve? In this deeply informed book world-renowned democratic theorist Adam Przeworski offers a warts-and-all analysis of elections and the ways in which they affect our lives. Elections, he argues, are inherently imperfect but they remain the least bad way of choosing our rulers. According to Przeworski, the greatest value of elections, by itself sufficient to cherish them, is that they process whatever conflicts may arise in society in a way that maintains relative liberty and peace. Whether they succeed in doing so in today's turbulent political climate remains to be seen.Trade Review"A fascinating analysis of how elections work and their impact on politics. Covering the 'nitty gritty' of who gets to vote, who stands and who gets elected through to major questions about whether elections reduce economic inequality and civil conflict, Adam Przeworski brilliantly combines historical narrative, normative theory and statistics to provide a thoughtful, insightful and highly engaging read."Stephen Fisher, University of Oxford"No one alive knows more about elections than Adam Przeworski or understands better what is at stake in them. This little book distills the hard won political wisdom of a lifetime. It could scarcely be more timely." John Dunn, University of Cambridge"Why Bother with Elections? is vintage Przeworski. Brutally realistic about what we can expect from competitive elections, yet nonetheless inspiring about their value, this book offers one of the most eloquent defences I have seen of the advantages of majoritarianism over the separation-of-powers system that many Americans regard as the bedrock of good governance." Ian Shapiro, Yale UniversityTable of Contents Contents Preface Introduction Part I How Elections Work 1 The Idea of Electing Governments 2 Protecting Property 3 Jockeying for Partisan Advantage 4 Conclusion: What Is Inherent in Elections? Part II What Elections Achieve and What Not Introduction 5 Rationality 6 Representation, Accountability, and Control over Governments 7 Economic Performance 8 Economic and Social Equality 9 Civil Peace 10 Conclusions Suggested Readings References

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Book SynopsisWith the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "crisis of democracy", the value of elections as a method for selecting by whom and how we are governed is being questioned. What are the virtues and weaknesses of elections? Are there limitations to what they can realistically achieve? In this deeply informed book world-renowned democratic theorist Adam Przeworski offers a warts-and-all analysis of elections and the ways in which they affect our lives. Elections, he argues, are inherently imperfect but they remain the least bad way of choosing our rulers. According to Przeworski, the greatest value of elections, by itself sufficient to cherish them, is that they process whatever conflicts may arise in society in a way that maintains relative liberty and peace. Whether they succeed in doing so in today's turbulent political climate remains to be seen.Trade Review"A fascinating analysis of how elections work and their impact on politics. Covering the 'nitty gritty' of who gets to vote, who stands and who gets elected through to major questions about whether elections reduce economic inequality and civil conflict, Adam Przeworski brilliantly combines historical narrative, normative theory and statistics to provide a thoughtful, insightful and highly engaging read."Stephen Fisher, University of Oxford"No one alive knows more about elections than Adam Przeworski or understands better what is at stake in them. This little book distills the hard won political wisdom of a lifetime. It could scarcely be more timely." John Dunn, University of Cambridge"Why Bother with Elections? is vintage Przeworski. Brutally realistic about what we can expect from competitive elections, yet nonetheless inspiring about their value, this book offers one of the most eloquent defences I have seen of the advantages of majoritarianism over the separation-of-powers system that many Americans regard as the bedrock of good governance." Ian Shapiro, Yale UniversityTable of Contents Contents Preface Introduction Part I How Elections Work 1 The Idea of Electing Governments 2 Protecting Property 3 Jockeying for Partisan Advantage 4 Conclusion: What Is Inherent in Elections? Part II What Elections Achieve and What Not Introduction 5 Rationality 6 Representation, Accountability, and Control over Governments 7 Economic Performance 8 Economic and Social Equality 9 Civil Peace 10 Conclusions Suggested Readings References

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Book SynopsisGlobalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a ‘globalist’ plot to undermine traditional communities, and by left-wing critics as the rule of rampaging corporations, it’s become a political punching bag around the world. In this incisive book, leading commentator Colin Crouch defends globalization against its critics to the right and left. He argues that reversing the process would mean a poorer world riven by nationalistic and reactionary antagonisms. However, globalization will only be worth saving if we institute reforms to promote social solidarity and recover pride and confidence for the cities and regions that have lost out. Crouch shows that we can therefore only save globalization from itself if we transcend the nation state and subject global economic flows to democratically responsible transnational governance. Crouch provides a much-needed riposte to the delusions that risk plunging the world back into a zero-sum game of regressive economic nationalism, combining cool-headed analysis with a visionary call for a reformed and genuinely progressive globalization.Trade Review‘A fascinating and incisive debunking of many of the globalization myths propagated by both populists and neoliberals by a genuinely distinguished scholar’.Anthony Payne, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute ‘Ranging widely across economics, sociology, culture and politics, Colin Crouch gives a muscular, fine-grained analysis of the problems of globalization – and some valuable suggestions as to how to solve them.’Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford, Guardian columnistTable of Contents1. The Issues 2. The Economy 3. Culture and Politics 4. The Future

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Book SynopsisGlobalization, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a ‘globalist’ plot to undermine traditional communities, and by left-wing critics as the rule of rampaging corporations, it’s become a political punching bag around the world. In this incisive book, leading commentator Colin Crouch defends globalization against its critics to the right and left. He argues that reversing the process would mean a poorer world riven by nationalistic and reactionary antagonisms. However, globalization will only be worth saving if we institute reforms to promote social solidarity and recover pride and confidence for the cities and regions that have lost out. Crouch shows that we can therefore only save globalization from itself if we transcend the nation state and subject global economic flows to democratically responsible transnational governance. Crouch provides a much-needed riposte to the delusions that risk plunging the world back into a zero-sum game of regressive economic nationalism, combining cool-headed analysis with a visionary call for a reformed and genuinely progressive globalization.Trade Review‘A fascinating and incisive debunking of many of the globalization myths propagated by both populists and neoliberals by a genuinely distinguished scholar’.Anthony Payne, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute ‘Ranging widely across economics, sociology, culture and politics, Colin Crouch gives a muscular, fine-grained analysis of the problems of globalization – and some valuable suggestions as to how to solve them.’Timothy Garton Ash, University of Oxford, Guardian columnistTable of Contents1. The Issues 2. The Economy 3. Culture and Politics 4. The Future

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Book SynopsisExplains how various Islamists have endorsed human rights, democracy, and justice to gain influence and mobilize supportersIslamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West. Owing largely to the threat of terrorism, political Islam is often portrayed as a monolithic movement embodying fundamentalism and theocracy, an image magnified by the rise of populism and xenophobia in the United States and Europe. Reality, however, is far more complicated. Political Islam has evolved considerably since its spectacular rise decades ago, and today it features divergent viewpoints and contributes to discrete but simultaneous developments worldwide. This is a new political Islam, more global in scope but increasingly local in action.Emmanuel Karagiannis offers a sophisticated analysis of the different manifestations of contemporary Islamism. In a context of global economic and social changes, he finds local ma

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Book SynopsisAnthropologists and ethnographers examine the global garment industry''s impact on workers'' well-beingThe 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating industry. Over the past thirty years, corporations have widely adopted labor codes on health and safety, yet too often in their working lives, garment workers across the globe encounter death, work-related injuries, and unhealthy factory environments. Disasters such as Rana Plaza notwithstanding, garment workers routinely work under conditions that not only escape public notice but also undermine workers'' long-term physical health, mental well-being, and the very sustainability of their employment.Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists an

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Book SynopsisA journey into de facto state-building based on ethnographic and archival research in the Turkish Republic of Northern CyprusWhat is de facto about the de facto state? In Sovereignty Suspended, this question guides Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay through a journey into de facto state-building, or the process of constructing an entity that looks like a state and acts like a state but that much of the world says does not or should not exist. In international law, the de facto state is one that exists in reality but remains unrecognized by other states. Nevertheless, such entities provide health care and social security, issue identity cards and passports, and interact with international aid donors. De facto states hold elections, conduct censuses, control borders, and enact fiscal policies. Indeed, most maintain representative offices in sovereign states and are able to unofficially communicate with officials. Bryant and Hatay develop the concept of the aporetic stat

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Book SynopsisInspired by recent approaches to the field, the book reexamines the field of Renaissance art history by exploring the art of this era in the light of global connections. It considers the movement of objects, ideas and technologies and its significance for European art and material culture, analysing images through the lens of cultural encounter and conflict.Trade Review‘This book offers important new insights into the history of Renaissance arts by rethinking key objects and themes through the lens of cross-culturality. Its contribution is especially welcome as it demonstrates how exactly the idea of the Renaissance was formed by its global contacts and through acculturation of arts and ideas from beyond Europe.’ Sussan Babaie, Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam, The Courtauld Institute of Art 'Art history has become increasingly engaged with global connections, but to date no study has filled the need for a synthetic overview of the early modern period. We can never again see the 'Renaissance' in the same, isolated way after reading these chapters.’ Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania‘Bringing together essays synthesizing recent scholarship on Renaissance art and material culture, Christian and Clark (both, Open Univ., UK) have created the first undergraduate-level treatment of the global nature of Renaissance art. The editors' goal is to illuminate “commonalities” between Europe and non-Western, non-Christian cultures. Two of the essays, Christian's on Renaissance altarpieces and Clark's on European collections of non-Western objects, consider indirect influences on art that came from luxury goods traded into Europe. The other two essays—one on art and architecture of Islamic, Jewish, and Christian inhabitants of Spain, and of Amer-Indians of the New World, the other on Venice as a palimpsest of Italian, Byzantine, and Islamic art and culture—are particularly successful in revealing direct connections between different cultures and the hybrid art that developed from close proximity.’ J. B. Gregory, formerly, Delaware College of Art and Design, CHOICE, Vol. 56, No. 2 (October 2018)‘This welcome volume is a textbook, and a very good one. It is first in a series of four titled Art and Its Global Histories that surveys the manifold cross-cultural influences between Western Europe and the world from the Pax Mongolica to postmodernism, supplemented by an anthology of seminal essays and primary sources for the entire period. The full series offers a suite of much-needed pedagogical materials for teaching early modern and modern art history from an inclusive, global-studies perspective […] Clear and comprehensive, it is written in a serious but lively style, appropriately theoretical without becoming abstruse or jargon ridden. The introduction and essays read like particularly pithy and eloquent class lectures, and the bibliographies following each chapter are worth the price of admission, with thorough and up-to-date coverage that provides a solid starting point for both student and scholarly researchers.’James M. Saslow, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Winter 2018) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Kathleen Christian and Leah Clark1 Renaissance altarpieces: the far in the near – Kathleen Christian2 Cultural crossings in Spain and the New World c. 1350–c.1550 – Kim Woods3 Collecting the world: art, nature, and representation – Leah Clark4 Aspects of art in Venice: encounters with the East – Paul Wood with Kathleen Christian and Leah ClarkConclusion – Kathleen Christian and Leah Clark Index

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Book SynopsisThe book explores British art in relation to British India. It examines the aesthetic interactions initiated by the Anglo-Indian colonial encounter across the disciplines of painting, print-making, design, photography and architecture. It also considers the display of Indian artefacts at exhibitions in Britain and in India and presents the art of urban elites alongside popular arts and artefacts.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Renate Dohmen1 Painting in British India – Renate Dohmen2 Indian crafts and empire – Renate Dohmen3 Photography in colonial India – Steve Edwards4 Architecture, empire and India – Elizabeth McKellarConclusion – Renate DohmenIndex

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Book SynopsisRanging from early twentieth century modernist appropriations of non-western art through to the ways in which Mexican muralists in the 1930s negotiated European avant-gardist strategies, and then up to contemporary installation and lens-based practices during the current period of globalisation, this book seeks to understand selected moments in the art of the last one hundred years through the prism of postcolonialism.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Warren Carter1 Modernism and its margins – Paul Wood 2 Mexican muralism reconsidered – Warren Carter3 Artists, institutions and the ‘global contemporary’ – Gill Perry4 Art, movement and migration since 1970 – Amy CharlesworthConclusion – Warren CarterIndex

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race – not just ethnicity – and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects critical race scholarship, global historical sociologies of ‘race in translation’ and south-east European cultural critique to show that the Yugoslav region is deeply embedded in global formations of race. In doing this, it considers the everyday geopolitical imagination of popular culture; the history of ethnicity, nationhood and migration; transnational formations of race before and during state socialism, including the Non-Aligned Movement; and post-Yugoslav discourses of security, migration, terrorism and international intervention, including the War on Terror and the present refugee crisis.Trade Review'Catherine Baker bravely focuses on what many scholars working on Yugoslavia, post-Yugoslav nations, and/or the Balkans have avoided or not been able to grapple with: race.'Sociology of Race and Ethnicity'The book is a poignant study of race and references an extensive and rich amount of literature. It fills an important gap in scholarship on Yugoslavia and Southeast Europe which often lacks a critical analysis of race. I believe it is a necessary read for those interested in Southeast and East European Studies, as well as postsocialism studies. Those interested in critical race theory, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, history, and anthropology will obtain a great deal from the text.'The Anthropology of East Europe Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: what does race have to do with the Yugoslav region? 1 Popular music and the ‘cultural archive’ 2 Histories of ethnicity, nation and migration 3 Transnational formations of race before and during Yugoslav state socialism 4 Postsocialism, borders, security and race after Yugoslavia Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race – not just ethnicity – and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects critical race scholarship, global historical sociologies of ‘race in translation’ and south-east European cultural critique to show that the Yugoslav region is deeply embedded in global formations of race. In doing this, it considers the everyday geopolitical imagination of popular culture; the history of ethnicity, nationhood and migration; transnational formations of race before and during state socialism, including the Non-Aligned Movement; and post-Yugoslav discourses of security, migration, terrorism and international intervention, including the War on Terror and the present refugee crisis.Trade Review'Catherine Baker bravely focuses on what many scholars working on Yugoslavia, post-Yugoslav nations, and/or the Balkans have avoided or not been able to grapple with: race.'Sociology of Race and Ethnicity'The book is a poignant study of race and references an extensive and rich amount of literature. It fills an important gap in scholarship on Yugoslavia and Southeast Europe which often lacks a critical analysis of race. I believe it is a necessary read for those interested in Southeast and East European Studies, as well as postsocialism studies. Those interested in critical race theory, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, history, and anthropology will obtain a great deal from the text.'The Anthropology of East Europe Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: what does race have to do with the Yugoslav region? 1 Popular music and the ‘cultural archive’ 2 Histories of ethnicity, nation and migration 3 Transnational formations of race before and during Yugoslav state socialism 4 Postsocialism, borders, security and race after Yugoslavia Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative study engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, arguing that if diaspora is to have analytical purchase, it should illuminate a specific angle of migration or migrancy. To reveal the much-needed transformative potential of the concept, the book looks specifically at how diasporas undertake translation and decolonisation. It offers various conceptual tools for investigating diaspora, with a specific focus on diasporas in the Global North and a detailed empirical study of the Kurdish diaspora in Europe. The book also considers the backlash diasporas of colour have faced in the Global North.Trade Review‘With a focus on the distinct but related concepts of translation and decolonisation, this book provides a novel approach to the study of diaspora. Here diaspora is understood as a transnational intervention producing spatial and temporal connections that critique nation-centric discourses and practices. Theoretically embedded, it is a rich empirical analysis of the Kurdish diaspora in Europe. An original contribution to the field of diaspora studies.’Avtar Brah, Professor Emerita, Birkbeck College, University of London'This book decisively shifts the focus from what diasporas are to what they do. While primarily focusing on the intriguing case of the Kurds, the author powerfully demonstrates how diasporas create new identities and shape the processes of decolonisation. In so doing, they transform a group’s consciousness and trajectory.' Robin Cohen, Professor Emeritus of Development Studies, University of Oxford'Ipek Demir's meticulously crafted Diaspora as translation and decolonisation reminds us that conceptualizations of diasporas should serve a corrective role to colonization, instead of producing intellectual spaces that benefit existing privilege in the Global North and Global South. [...] should be classified as essential reading for every graduate student and researcher with an interest in race and ethnicity, diaspora studies, and decolonization.' Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Politics, Religion & Ideology (August 2022) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Theories of diaspora and their limitations2 Diaspora as translation3 Diaspora as decolonisation: ‘making a fuss’ in diaspora and in the homeland4 Translations and decolonisations of the Kurdish diaspora5 Backlash to diaspora in the Global NorthConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists by location and exhibition. Focusing on performative, body-oriented video works by the post-1989 generation, it tests the premise of genealogical inscription and the ways in which cultural objects are attributed to the artist’s residency, homeland or citizenship rather than cultural tradition, style or practice. Acknowledging historical definitions of Chineseness, including the orientalist assumptions of the past and the cultural-mixing of the present, the book’s case studies address the paradoxes and contradictions of representation. An analysis of the historical matrix of global expositions reveals the structural connections among art, culture, capital and nation.Table of ContentsIntroduction: staging art and Chineseness1 Chineseness as a theoretical, historical and political problem in global art and exhibition2 Patty Chang and the transnational cinematic subject of Chineseness3 Environment, labor, and video: (eco) feminist interpellations of Chineseness in the work of Yuk King Tan, Cao Fei, Wu Mali4 The dialectical image of empire5 The archive of Chineseness: the global exposition and the museumIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that John Dewey should be read not as a 'local' American thinker but rather as a philosopher of globalisation. Although his work is rooted in late-nineteenth and early twentieth century America, its principal concern is with the role of the United States in a globalised world. Tracing Dewey’s emergence as a global democrat through an examination of his work from The Public and Its Problems (1927) onward, the book shows how he sets out an evolutionary form of global and national democracy, one that has not been fully appreciated even by contemporary scholars of pragmatism. In returning to and recovering this neglected dimension of Dewey's political philosophy, the book highlights how his insights about globalisation and democracy can inform present theoretical debates.Trade Review'This carefully crafted response to Dewey's critics and supporters alike presents a radical Dewey appropriate for our own time of massive economic disparity and emerging global publics. The Dewey presented here takes the measure of relations between bourgeois democracy and global democracies, between liberal capitalism and social democracy. Narayan's Dewey is edgy and exciting.' Larry A. Hickman, Director of the Center for Dewey Studies, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA'John Narayan's incisive, timely work challenges us to rethink the meaning and possibility of democracy in today's global context. Using John Dewey's ideas about democratic publics, the book probes the potentialities and limits of democracy in a globalized world rife with sharp economic inequalities, intense racial, ethnic, and religious splits, and strong anti-democratic currents. His reconstructive interpretation outlines an alternative to the dominant neoliberal regime.' Robert J. Antonio, Professor of Sociology, University of Kansas, USA‘This is an excellent and novel treatment of Dewey’s political thought.’P. R. Babbitt, Southern Arkansas University, Choice 01/08/2016 -- .Table of Contents1 Introducing the enigma of global democracy2 Creative democracy3 The global democrat4 Twenty-first century creative democracy5 Conclusion: Democracy and global justiceIndex

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Book SynopsisHow can we reconfigure our picture of modern art after the postcolonial turn without simply adding regional art histories to the Eurocentric canon? Transmodern examines the global dimension of modern art by tracing the crossroads of different modernisms in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Featuring case studies in Indian modernism, the Harlem Renaissance and post-war abstraction, it demonstrates the significance of transcultural contacts between artists from both sides of the colonial divide. The book argues for the need to study non-western avant-gardes and Black avant-gardes within the west as transmodern counter-currents to mainstream modernism. It situates transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s within the framework of anti-colonial movements and in relation to contemporary transcultural thinking that challenged colonial concepts of race and culture with notions of syncretism and hybridity.Trade ReviewThis book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate on global modernism. Enriched by wide research spanning a wide geographical area, this subtle, scholarly work, well-grounded in deep research, will become an essential textbook at educational institutions as well as provide a benchmark in future discussions on questions of global art. Partha Mitter -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Toward a postcolonial art history of contact2 In the shade of tall mango trees: art education and transcultural modernism in the context of the Indian independence movement3 Transcultural beginnings: decolonisation, transculturalism and the overcoming of race4 Trees of knowledge: anthropology, art and politics. Melville J. Herskovits and Zora Neale Hurston – Harlem circa 19305 The migrant as catalyst: Winold Reiss and the Harlem Renaissance6 Encounters with masks: counter-primitivisms in Black modernism7 Purity of art in a transcultural age: modernist art theory and the culture of decolonisation8 Painting the global history of art: Hale Woodruff’s The Art of the NegroIndex

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Book SynopsisThreads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century. It examines how the shift from artisanal production to 'fast fashion' over the past 150 years has devalued women’s textile labour and how skilled textile/ garment makers and the organizations that support them are preserving and reviving heritage traditions. It also offers examples of how socially engaged artists in Asia and the diaspora use their work to criticize labour and environmental abuses in the global fashion industry.Table of ContentsIntroduction: stitching together gender, textile and garment labor, and heritage in Asia – Melia Belli BosePart I: Fashioning identity: textiles, garments, and belonging1 Wearing a gendered tree: a new style of garments from early modern to twentieth-century China – Yuhang Li2 Women for cotton and men for wool: consuming gendered textiles in colonized Korea – Kyunghee Pyun3 Gendered blue: women’s jeans in postwar Taiwan – Ying-chen Peng4 Bhutanese women and the performance of globalization – Emma Dick5 Weaving and dyeing the ideal of reproduction among Shidong Miao in Guizhou province – Ho Zhao-huaPart II: Gendering creative agency: women fashion designers, textile makers, and entrepreneurs6 Soft power: Guo Pei and the fashioning of matriarchy – Kristen Loring Brennan7 Investigating female entrepreneurship in silk weaving in contemporary Cambodia – Magali An Berthon8 (Re)crafting distribution networks for contemporary Philippine textiles: women’s advocacy and social enterprise – B. Lynne Milgram 9 Women weaving silken identities and revitalizing various Japanese textile traditions – Millie CreightonPart III: Creative voices for change: textiles, gender, and artivism10 Entangled histories of craft and conflict: the story of phulkari textiles in The Singh Twins’s Slaves of Fashion – Cristin McKnight Sethi11 The politics of wastefulness and ‘the poetics of waste’: Ruby Chishti’s sartorial interventions – Saleema Waraich12 Made in Rana Plaza: Dilara Begum Jolly’s garment factory-themed art – Melia Belli BoseIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses the politics of borders in the era of global art by exploring the identification of Chinese artists by location and exhibition. Focusing on performative, body-oriented video works by the post-1989 generation, it tests the premise of genealogical inscription and the ways in which cultural objects are attributed to the artist’s residency, homeland or citizenship rather than cultural tradition, style or practice. Acknowledging historical definitions of Chineseness, including the orientalist assumptions of the past and the cultural-mixing of the present, the book’s case studies address the paradoxes and contradictions of representation. An analysis of the historical matrix of global expositions reveals the structural connections among art, culture, capital and nation.Table of ContentsIntroduction: staging art and Chineseness1 Chineseness as a theoretical, historical and political problem in global art and exhibition2 Patty Chang and the transnational cinematic subject of Chineseness3 Environment, labor, and video: (eco) feminist interpellations of Chineseness in the work of Yuk King Tan, Cao Fei, Wu Mali4 The dialectical image of empire5 The archive of Chineseness: the global exposition and the museumIndex

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