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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding the New Global Economy
Book SynopsisUnderstanding the New Global Economy: A European Perspective argues that globalisation is facing economic and political headwinds. A new global economic geography is emerging, cross-border relationships are changing, and global governance structures must come to terms with a new multipolar world. This book clarifies the fundamental questions and trade-offs in this new global economy, and gives readers the tools to understand contemporary debates. It presents a range of possible policy options, without being prescriptive. Following a modular structure, each chapter takes a similar approach but can also be read as a stand-alone piece. State-of-the-art academic research and historical experiences are weaved throughout the book, and readers are pointed towards relevant sources of information . This text is an accessible guide to the contemporary world economy, suited to students of international economics, political economy, globalisatTrade ReviewA comprehensive and accessible guide on global and European economic affairs; an essential text outlining the underpinnings of current debates on globalisation, digitalisation, and sustainability; a must read for students, executives, and policy makers.Iftekhar HasanUniversity Professor and E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in International Business and Finance, Fordham University, USAThis book, based on a masterful analytical survey viewed from European perspective, gives update on the structural changes in the global economy. It is a "must" reading for both specialists and nonspecialists interested in the global economy to understand the multi-polarized New Global Economy emerging in the 21st century.Kwan S. KimEmeritus Professor of Economics, Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Fellow, Liu Institute for Asian Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA.European integration is Globalisation – writ small and large. Small, though not that small, given its regional dimension. Large, since it allows for a significantly deeper integration and embedding of markets. Harald Sander, in most accessible ways, provides his readers with the data and the tools to understand what is happening around them. A most impressive achievement!Hans-Helmut KotzResident Fellow, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, USA; Former Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche BundesbankThis tour-de-force book provides an analytical framework and essential information for the readers to make their own judgement for the future of globalisation. A must read in the current uncertain world economy.Justin Yifu LinProfessor, Peking University; Former Chief Economist, the World BankTable of Contents1. Introduction, 2. Global Production, 3. Global Trade, 4. Global Investment, 5. Global Intangibles, 6. Global Money and Finance, 7. Governance in the New Global Economy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Repression Resistance and Collaboration in
Book SynopsisThis book examines how the process of remembering Stalinist repression in Romania has shifted from individual, family, and group representations of lived and witnessed experiences characteristic of the 1990s to more recent and state-sponsored expressions of historical remembrance through their incorporation in official commemorations, propaganda sites, and restorative and compensatory measures. Based on fieldwork dealing with Stalinist repression and memorialization, together with archival research on the secret police (Securitate), it adopts an interdisciplinary approach to reveal the resurfacing of particular themes. As such it draws on concepts from sociology, political science, and legal studies, related to memory, justice, redress, identity, accountability, and reconciliation. A study of competing narratives concerning the meaning of the past as part of a struggle over the legitimacy of the post-communist state, Repression, Resistance, and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania Trade Review'This study makes a significant contribution to post-communist and memory studies by enhancing the comparative dimension that can be brought to these subjects. As such, the book has interdisciplinary and international appeal at the level of university undergraduates and postgraduates in the fields of history and social sciences. At the same time, Dr Ciobanu performs a civic duty, one which will help to dispel the mists of distortion which hover in the minds of many over the Communist past of Romania.' - Dennis Deletant, Emeritus Professor, University College London, UK'Based on an astonishing variety of sources, the author skilfully weaves together the insights of both memory studies and transitional justice research to provide a fascinating account of Romania’s protracted struggles to come to terms with its painful history. I highly recommend this to everyone interested in the politics of memory and identity in Central and Eastern Europe today.' - Eva-Clarita Pettai, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany‘Ciobanu’s book poses difficult questions about a haunting past. The answers she provides are just as disturbing as the questions themselves – and this is the greatest merit of this work. As such, Ciobanu’s monograph constitutes a morally uneasy reading that refuses the hasty gesture of condemning the past without comprehending its complex intricacies and moral ambiguities. It is, at the same time, a theoretically reflexive and analytically lucid approach that sets the ground for a contextualized understanding of a troubled and still troubling past.’ - Mihai S. Rusu‘ … makes an important contribution to our understanding of the processes of memory making in post-communist Romania by focusing on several agents of memory and demonstrating how a master narrative is imposed. Moreover, the book represents a valuable resource for the scholars of the memory of communism in Eastern Europe as well as for those interested in the role-played by civil society actors in the making of memory discourses.’ - Caterina Preda, Memory StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Repression and Victimization 2. The Piteşti Project: Testimonies of Remembering 3. Vernacular and Politicized Representations of the Armed Resistance 4. Perpetrators: Indifference, Denial and Delayed Justice 5. Different Voices: The Experiences of Women and Their Representations of Repression and Resistance 6. The Past in the Present Tense: The Case of the National Peasant Christian-Democratic Party and its Leader Corneliu Coposu Concluding Remarks
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security
Book SynopsisThis new Handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of Latin American Security by a mix of established and emerging scholars. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate, taking into account that the study of Latin America's comparative and international politics has undergone dramatic changes since the end of the Cold War, the return of democracy and the re-legitimization and re-armament of the military against the background of low-level uses of force short of war. Latin America's security issues have become an important topic in international relations and Latin American studies. This Handbook sets a rigorous agenda for future research and is organised into five key parts: The Evolution of Security in Latin America Theoretical Approaches to Security in Latin America Different ''Securities''<Trade Review'This ambitious, timely handbook is strongly recommended for graduate students and comparative and international relations scholars interested in Latin America and its regional and international relations. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and faculty.' -- E. Acevedo, California State University, Los Angeles. CA, in CHOICENo reviews taken at present - will be taken after the proposal is approved. Field is top quality, as is the editor, so the main issue is getting the contributors to agree to write. Table of ContentsPreface, John Mearsheimer Introduction, David R. Mares and Arie M. Kacowicz Part I: The Evolution of Security Studies in Latin America 1. Security Studies and Security in Latin America: The First Two Hundred Years, Arie M. Kacowicz and David R. Mares Part II: Theoretical Approaches to Security in Latin America 2. Geopolitics in Latin America, Old and New, Detlef Nolte and Leslie Wehner 3. Neoliberal Institutionalism and Neo-functionalism in Latin American Security, Andres Malamud and Luis L. Schenoni 4. Who Commands, Who Obeys and Who Rebels: Latin American Security in a Peripheral-Realist Perspective, Carlos Escude 5. Securitization and the Limits of Democratic Security, Arlene B. Tickner 6. Gender in Security Studies, Marcela Donadio 7. English School and Constructivism, Federico Merke 8. Alternative Governance in Latin America, Harold Trinkunas and Anne Clunan Part III: Different 'Securities' 9. Traditional Security: War and Peace, Cameron G. Thies 10. Cooperative Security and Regional Governance, Andres Serbin and Andrei Serbin Pont 11. Citizen Security and Human Security in Latin America, Daniel M. Goldstein 12. Alterity and Security: Culture and Survival Beyond the ‘Indian Problem’, Jose Antonio Lucero 13. Military Strategy in Latin America, Gabriel Marcella 14. Pluralistic Security Communities in Latin America, Andrea Oelsner Part IV: Contemporary Regional Security Challenges 15. Relative Peace and Emerging Fault Lines: Accounting for Trends in Intrastate Conflict in Latin America, Caroline A. Hartzell 16. The Rise of Brazil: Concepts and Comparisons, Christopher Darnton 17. Guerrillas, Terrorists or Criminals? The New Face of Anti-State Violence in Latin America, Roman D. Ortiz 18. Weapons of Mass Destruction: Will Latin America Backtrack?, Carlo Patti 19. The Politics of Arms Acquisitions in South America: Trends and Research Agenda, Jorge Battaglino 20. Latin American Militaries in the 21st Century: Civil-Military Relations in the Era of Disappearing Boundaries, Deborah L. Norden 21. Interstate Disputes: Coercive Diplomacy and Peaceful Settlement, David R. Mares 22. Illicit Threats: Organized Crime, Drugs, and Small Arms, Phil Williams 23. Environmental Security and Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Blind Spot in Research, Gavin O’Toole Part V: Latin America and Contemporary International Security Challenges 24. The Impact of China on the Security Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean, R. Evan Ellis 25. The United States' Impact on Latin America's Security Environment: The Complexities of Power Disparity, David R. Mares 26. The Middle East and Latin America: Implications for Latin America’s Security, Maria Velez de Berliner 27. Latin America’s Experience with Peace Support Operations: From Peacekeeping Recipients to Peace Exporters, Arturo C. Sotomayor 28. Latin America in the New World Security Architecture, Arie M. Kacowicz
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The New European Industrial Policy
Book SynopsisThe years since the global financial crisis have seen something of a renaissance in the manufacturing industry. The United States has launched its Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, and China owes much of its spectacular economic boom in the last decades to its being the ''world''s factory''. Is there room for the EU in this landscape? This timely new book explores Europe's role in this evolving environment. It argues that on the one hand, in terms of sheer numbers, the role of the manufacturing industry in the EU is on a par with other major global economies. However, the book also states that Europe falls short of its global competitors (the USA in particular) in terms of its involvement in the most innovative manufacturing sectors. The volume therefore argues that this creates the opportunity for a new European industrial policy. Exploring the development of current EU policy, the book puts forward suggestions as to how the EU can improve in terms of the competitiveness of its tTrade Review"I think the book by Franco Mosconi can contribute to raise the awareness of the urgency of such line of policy. It gathers all the most important documents and position papers by the EU and other sources dealing with the issue; it offers a relevant statistical background in support of the arguments developed and, above all, it makes a good reading, clear and complete, for anyone who needs or wants to be acquainted with the matter."Professor Vera Zamagni, University of Bologna and Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center"This book provides a thorough overview of the European Union’s industrial and technology policies. Based on a empirical approach with relevant examples and figures, the author analyzes how European industrial champions have emerged. It also outlines the various tools that have been developed by the European authorities with the aim of fostering competitiveness and innovation capacities. A timely and essential book on a strategic issues concerning the future of Europe."Jean-Christophe Defraigne, Professor of Economics, Institute for European Studies & Louvain School of Management, UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles"The New European Industrial Policy is a readily accessible, clear and compelling argument about the connections between EU policy, state responses, and the manufacturing industries. As Franco Mosconi explains, governmental support and policies (both at EU- and state-level) matter in shaping the productive capacities of states. In particular, the book provides an excellent explanation for the rise of European Champions in the Single Market, as well as for the resilience of SMEs."Hiroshi Nakazato, Associate Professor of the Practice in International Studies and Associate Director of the International Studies Program, Boston College"At a time when industrial policy is once again a focus of policy agendas globally, this book comparatively analyses the situation in Europe from both theoretical and practical angles. One of the foremost experts in the field, Franco Mosconi, puts European industrial policy in perspective vis-à-vis competition from the USA and East Asia."Murat Yülek, Rector, OSTIM Technical University, AnkaraTable of ContentsI. The New European Industrial Policy: An Overview II. The New European Oligopoly: The Role of the "European Champions" III. Industrial Policy and "Models of Capitalism" IV. Drawing the Third Side of the Triangle: Reshaping EU "Technology Policy" V. State and Market in Today’s Europe: A Journey Across the EU and Nation-States Epilogue. The Time of Coincidence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Society Resistance and Civil Nuclear Policy in
Book SynopsisThis book explores how anti-nuclear social movements impact the state's civil nuclear policy and its implementation by presenting a historical-comparative case study of anti-nuclear movements in India.Drawing on social movement theory and empirical methods, the book demonstrates that the ability for anti-nuclear movements to impede the inception of nuclear plants a key element of India's civil nuclear policy is determined by the movement's collective action repertoires, the politicisation of nuclear power and the state's larger developmental paradigm, and the openness of state input structures. The case studies of anti-nuclear movements in Haripur, Kudankulam and Kovvada demonstrate how the implementation of civil nuclear policy is also determined by the state's technical and financial capacity and effective international collaboration.With a focus on theorisation of social movements and their impact, combined with empirical studies of anti-nuclear movements, as wellTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Methodology 3. A Review of the Literature on Anti-Nuclear Movements in India 4. Theorising the Impact of Anti-Nuclear Movements on India’s Civil Nuclear Policy 5. A History of Civil Nuclear Energy Policymaking and Implementation in India 6. Case Study 1: The Movement against the Nuclear Plant at Kudankulam 7. Case Study 2: The Movement against the Nuclear Plant at Haripur 8. Case Study 3: The Movement against the Nuclear Plant at Kovvada 9. A Comparison of Variables and Outcomes 10. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) brings together an international team of scholars to explore new interdisciplinary and comparative approaches for the study of colonialism. Using four overarching themes, the volume examines a wide array of critical issues, key texts, and figures that demonstrate the significance of Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean across national and regional traditions and historical periods. This invaluable resource will be of interest to students and scholars of Spanish and Latin American studies examining colonial Caribbean and Latin America at the intersection of cultural and historical studies; transatlantic, postcolonial and decolonial studies; and critical approaches to archives and materiality. This timely volume assesses the impact and legacy of colonialism and coloniality.Trade ReviewOne would have to look hard to find a better and more thorough, yet succinct, review of Colonial Studies in the U.S. than the one the editors of this volume provide. We are presented with a dynamic field full of tensions, contradictions—that is, alive—that have made it crucial for Latin American and Early Modern Studies, among others. From its inception to its recent connections to Latinx Studies, the writers deliver what the editors promise: a view into topics that have been the solid standard of the field, to new and promising areas. Who is an author under colonial conditions of production? What a theory of the frontiers says about colonialism? What if behind the standard language of the archive one finds Quechua, English and Muisca? To whom does this archive belong then? These pages remind us that even though we know much, we have still much to discover and that perhaps we might never know fully. The contributions to theoretical analysis are also important since, as the contributors show, the colonial field helps elucidate key concepts such as what is licit, what is an archive, extraction, extinction, the environment. Ivonne Del Valle, Associate Professor, UC BerkeleyTensed by imperial designs, colonial violence, nationalist teleologies, colonial Latin American and Caribbean Studies is a multifaceted site of cultural and political interpellations and interventions that has made this contentious field one of the most productive intellectual traditions of the Global South, producing a rich array of critical concepts for the decolonization of culture. Strategically organized in four overarching themes, The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) showcases the most progressive and innovative research in the field and draws the paths for an effective critical engagement with the traces of a colonial past that is far from settled.Luis Fernando Restrepo, University Professor, University of ArkansasTable of ContentsIntroduction: between colonialism and coloniality: colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies today PART I: Colonialism and Coloniality 1. Race and domination in colonial Latin American studies 2. Self-representation and self-governance in early Latin America 3. Mestizaje as dispositif for a paradigm shift in colonial studies 4. Race, ethnicity and nationhood in the formation of criollismo in Spanish America 5. An integrational approach to colonial semiosis 6. Latin American and Caribbean Colonial Studies and/in the Decolonial Turn 7. The ecocritical turn and the study of early colonial societies in the Caribbean: of dogs, rivers, and the environmental humanities 8. Coloniality and Cinema PART II: Knowledge Production and Networks 9. Old testament, New World: diluvialism and the Amerindian origins debate in the Enlightenment 10. The "cannibal cogito" and Brazilian antropofagia: radical heterogeneity or "family resemblance"? 11. Presumptions of empire: relapses, reboots, and reversions in the Transpacific networks of Iberian globalization 12. Imperial tension, colonial contours: Jesuits, slavery, and race within and beyond the Portuguese Atlantic 13. The Caribbean conundrum: José Antonio Saco’s Hispanic archive and the Black Atlantic PART III: Materialities and Archives 14. Material Encounters: Columbus’s Diario del primer viaje and the objects of colonial Latin American and Caribbean studies 15. It comes with the territory: indigenous materialities and western knowledge 16. Creole knowledge in colonial Mexico: religion, gender and power 17. The colonial Latin American archive: dispossession, ruins, reinvention 18. Materialities and archives 19. Port cities as sites of spatial knowledge in eighteenth-century Spanish America 20. Space, movement and writing in Colonial Río de la Plata PART IV: Language, Translation and Beyond 21. The white legend: El Dorado, Pachakuti, and Walter Raleigh’s discovery of (Latin) America 22. The agency of translation in colonial Latin America: re-thinking the roles of non-European linguistic intermediaries 23. Intercultural (mis)translations: colonial static and "authorship" in the Florentine Codex and the Relaciones geográficas of New Spain 24. Defending the indefensible: Las Casas and the exceptions to sovereignty 25. The (dis)continuities of decolonized gender and sexual identity in the Andes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reviving Indigenous Water Management Practices in
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how Morocco and other semi-arid countries can find solutions to water scarcity by rediscovering traditional methods of water resource management. The book begins by examining indigenous water heritage, considering the contribution of Islam and the mixed influences of Greek and Roman, Middle Eastern, Andalusian and Berber cultures. It then provides a thorough examination of resource management practices in Morocco throughout history, tracing the changing patterns from the instillation of agrarian capitalism in the 19th century, through the Protectorate years (19121956), to the 21st century. The book explains how reviving and modernizing traditional methods of water management could provide simple, accessible, and successful methods for addressing 21st century challenges, such as water scarcity and climate change. The work concludes by highlighting how these indigenous practices might be used to provide real-world practical solutions for improving water gTable of ContentsPART I Indigenous North African water heritage: a lesson in agro-ecology 1 Reviving indigenous water heritage; 2 A mixed heritage of traditional water management systems; PART II Paradigm shift: characteristics of “modern water management” in Morocco 3 Modernizing water management: a historical perspective; 4 Three key characteristics of Moroccan water management in the XXth c.; PART III New paths in water management: towards alternative development 5 Climate change, water stress, and the need for a new development paradigm; 6 Appropriate technologies: managing water scarcities in the XXIst c.; 7 Towards new forms of water governance; Conclusion: reviving practices, revaluing people
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The War on Corruption in China
Book SynopsisHaving engaged in an intensified war against corruption for more than four decades since the period of reform and opening up, China is now at a turning point in its anti-corruption agenda. Many believe that building government integrity has been a top-down process in China, and the anti-corruption strategies taken by the current administration seem to have confirmed it. This book challenges the view by analyzing local anti-corruption innovations in recent years and argues for the importance of bottom-up efforts in controlling corruption.The book attempts to answer the question of whether the rise of local anti-corruption innovations has helped China to pursue anti-corruption reform more effectively and, if so, why. It proceeds to analyze the major patterns of local anti-corruption innovations, the ways in which they have been initiated and implemented, and the factors influencing their success or failure. The book includes more than 400 cases of local innovative anti-corruptiTable of Contents1. Introduction: Local Anti-Corruption Innovations in China 2. Rethinking Approaches to Study: Anti-Corruption in Post-Reform China 3. Historical Overview 4. Local Anti-Corruption Innovations 5. The Jiangmen Case 6. The Qianhai and Hengqin Cases 7. The Shenzhen Case 8. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Negotiating Gender Expertise in Environment and
Book SynopsisThis book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of âgender expertsâ working in environment and development organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender equality and social equity and aligning this with visions of sustainable development.Developed through a series of conversations convened by the bookâs editors with leading practitioners from research, advocacy and donor organisations, this text explores the ways gender professionals â specialists and experts, researchers, organizational focal points â deal with personal, power-laden realities associated with navigating gender in everyday practice. In turn, wider questions of epistemology and hierarchies of situated knowledges are examined, where gender analysis is brought into fields defined as largely techno-scientific, positivist and managerialist. Drawing on insights from feminist political ecology and feminist science, technology and society studies, the authors and their collaborators reveal and reflect upon strategies that serve to mute epistemological boundaries and enable small changes to be carved out that on occasions open up promising and alternative pathways for an equitable future. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and practitioners with an interest in environment and development, science and technology, and gender and womenâs studies more broadly.The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351175180, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.Trade Review"I am recommending this book because I don’t think there is any that delves into this subject of the daily struggles and achievements of ‘gender experts’ working in environment and development organizations. As a "gender expert" myself, I think it is indeed very timely for such a collection to reveal how gender experts navigate through the challenges and professional cultures within development organisations, as "change agents" to bring about the transformation they are mandated to. Fascinating and intriguing – a much needed book to understand the workings within development organisations." -- Chanda Gurung Goodrich, PhD, Senior Gender Specialist – Gender Lead, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)"Feminist movement faces new "second generation" issues as it enters the third decade of the 21st century. Its three palpable seismic fault lines are: polarized North-South contexts, activists versus agency 'femocrats', and women professionals versus gender experts. Using polyvocal dialogues with representatives in these tectonic zones rather than monochrome essays, Resurrección and Elmhirst blend feminism's political economy, science technology studies in ecology and field activism to throw a powerful spotlight on the politicized pathways ahead. This is a book that must be read by professionals and gender experts thrown into uneasy company." -- Dipak Gyawali, former Nepali minister of water resources, leading IDRC-supported research on water-induced disasters, gender and climate change"This timely book reads like an act of solidarity, as it reviews debates around the struggles, compromises, and achievements of ‘gender experts’, and acknowledges their persistent efforts to disregard professional, personal and disciplinary boundaries. And it feels like a call to action, by reminding us that making gender justice central to addressing existential environmental threats must overcome all boundaries." -- Ines Smyth, Independent Consultant, former Senior Gender Advisor, Oxfam "At long last, a book we have been waiting for! Going past binaries of good feminists and co-opted femocrats, speaking to us directly through voices of ‘gender-experts’ and providing a sharp and reflective framework to think through their narratives, this is a book that speaks to all interested in bringing forth a more just and sustainable world. It highlights the work of the workers on the sustainability frontline, who everyday work across an epistemological interface, take charge and confront the vicissitudes of integrating, translating, embodying gender into environmental and development work, or in fact ‘genderizing a log-frame.’" -- Seema Arora-Jonsson, Professor of Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences"What happens when a marine biologist, a mechanical engineer, and a water engineer encounter gender expertise? In this exciting new book, Bernadette Resurrección and Rebecca Elmhirst help us understand how gender experts negotiate the tensions that arise from a clash of very different kinds of knowledge, that is positivist science and feminism. Effectively expanding cutting-edge feminist literatures in political ecology and science and technology studies, they shed long overdue light on mainstreaming gender into various areas of environment and development. The book is a smart exercise in feminist reflexivity and offers a stimulating firework of ideas of what happens when gender experts work with scientists on issues ranging from climate change to water insecurity, and when they insert themselves in technologies ranging from geospatial imaging to modelling futures. Highly recommended!" -- Elisabeth Prügl, Professor of International Relations, and Director, Gender Centre, Graduate Institute, Geneva"Highlighting the politics of gender, knowledge, and expertise among practitioners this volume addresses a key question—how do practitioners and professionals navigate gender-related challenges in their everyday work, and what might this suggest about the broader politics of knowledge and expertise? From fields as diverse as agrobiodiversity, disaster risk, or marine biology, exploring these dynamics represents a novel and welcome addition to ongoing debates in feminist political ecology, science studies, and the politics of environment and development. Sharing these experiences also has the potential to inspire and support those working to realize a more equitable and sustainable world." -- Leila M. Harris, Professor, University of British Columbia/ Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability"This book takes on the challenge of putting research into practice with curiosity and rigour. Through an exploration of the ‘gender expert’, the book shows the challenges of implementing conclusions from research. Gender and intersectional inequalities are well documented in development research, leading to the proliferation of ‘gender experts’ to address them. But such efforts encounter numerous obstacles at all levels of program design and implementation. By engaging the professional experiences of gender experts across a range of natural resource sectors, this book shows the importance of on-going dialogue between research and practice." -- Andrea Nightingale, Professor, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo"Understanding how change happens in environmental policy and practice in development organizations could scarcely be more urgent today. This book provides a fascinating and critical view into the world of ‘gender experts’, those who are simultaneously charged with transforming their institutions, while also coming up with policy ‘asks’, win-wins, technical fixes, and killer facts. By reflecting on their dilemmas, strategies and compromises, this book provides the inspiration and the insights that feminists need to continue chipping away at for change ‘from within.’" -- Laura Turquet, Policy Advisor, UN Women and co-founder of the UN Feminist Network "This is a stunning and original work by Bernadette Resurrección, Rebecca Elmhirst and their diverse writing collaborators, exploring the performance and organisational milieu confronting gender professionals in the pursuit of gender and environmental transformations. The gender experts’ fields of knowledge may clash with those of their professional colleagues; they themselves are often learning on the job but are expected to deliver on outsized work expectations, creating cross-cutting gender platforms and also mainstreaming gender into internal silos of environment and development work. How is it working out? Read this book and learn!" -- Meryl Williams, Chair, Gender in Aquaculture and Fisheries Section, Asian Fisheries Society"It is with great pleasure I endorse this book. Through a series of conversations with ‘gender experts’, the two eminent scholars in the field of political ecology, Bernadette Resurrección and Rebecca Elmhirst, have successfully taken on the innovative task to unravel their daily struggles and achievements in environment and development organisations." -- Ragnhild Lund, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, Norwegian University of Technology (NTNU)"This collection of essays provides a much-needed critical conversation around constraints faced by gender experts in international environment and development organizations, and how feminist scholarly engagements inform epistemological and praxis shifts to foster more equitable outcomes in policies and interventions in the Global South. Through creative and collaborative narrations and reflections, the book draws from insights of a range of practitioners and academics to shed light on important work that is being done, and showcases pathways for more meaningful and sustainable engagements going forward." -- Farhana Sultana, Associate Professor and Research Director of Environment, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA"Bernadette Resurrección and Rebecca Elmhirst explore the opportunities and challenges for gender experts to advance a ‘slow revolution to social justice’ in technical environmental and development organizations. The editors are perfectly placed to explore the contested role of the ‘gender expert’, drawing from their rich experiences in academia, policy research, development practice and women’s activism. The feminist principle of reflexivity is central to the book, as the contributors emphasize the ‘conscious self-reflection on the implications of one’s situatedness within different axes of power, privilege and affective relations."International Affairs, Oxford AcademicTable of ContentsPart 1: The Politics of Identity and Boundary Marking 1. Strategic Reflexivity in Linking Gender Equality with Sustainable Energy 2. Is Epistemic Authority Masculine? 3. Epistemic Crossings of a Marine Biologist through Gender Encounters 4. Beyond the Business Case for Gender 5. Challenges and Dilemmas of Integrating Gender in the Field of Environment and Development at SEI Part 2: The Politics of Knowledge in Environment and Development Realms 6. The Politics of Feminist Translation in Water Management 7. Embodied Engagement with Gender and Agrobiodiversity 8. Please Genderise My Log Frame 9. The Gender Professional as Ethnographer 10. Disaster Risk Governance and Gender Professionals 11. Lifting the Barriers of Gender Integration in Livestock Production 12. We Build the Power in Empowerment Part 3: The Power of Gender Champions 13. Supporting Gender Experts 14. Gender Equality Work At USAID
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Taylor & Francis The Sociality of Indigenous Dance in Alaska
Book SynopsisThis book explores indigenous dances and social relationships surrounding the dance activities among Yupik on St. Lawrence Island and IÃupiat in UtqiaÄvik, Northern Alaska. Yupik and IÃupiat proudly distinguish their indigenous styles of dance, locally called âEskimo danceâ, from Western styles of dance, such as ballroom, disco or ballet. Based on two years of intensive fieldwork and 18 years of experience living in Alaska, Ikuta sets out to understand how Yupik and IÃupiaq dances are at the centre of social relationships with the environment, among humans, between humans and animals, and between Native and the Euro-American societies. It also examines how the nature and structure of dance are connected to cultural politics, wrought by political, economic and historical events. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1 Political Landscape of St. Lawrence Island Yupik and Iñupiaq Dance; 2 Dance, Drum, and Song as Equilateral Triangle; 3 Embodied Knowledge and Relations with the Environment; 4 Dance, Happiness and Personhood; 5 Ways of Speaking and Ways of Dancing; 6 Indigenous Dance, Heritage Festivals and Reciprocity; Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Growth of Islamic Banking in Indonesia
Book SynopsisIndonesia is the most populous Muslim country in the world. Taking into account also its endowment and potential economic resources, the Islamic banking industry in Indonesia was expected to take on an important role in facilitating more financial resources and to contribute to the internationalization of the Islamic mode of financing particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. However, the reality is far from the expectation. This book aims to clarify the causes and fundamental constraints leading to the extraordinarily low level of Indonesia's Islamic financial deepening.The authors draw on the traditions of Institutional Economics which are concerned with the rules or mechanisms of creating the ''incentive'' and ''threat'' for economic players because the rules (institutions) would matter as the determinant for economic development and economic efficiency. This book offers a fairly new analytical lens by hypothesizing that Islamic banks must earn additional profit the authorsTrade Review"This important book assesses the factors affecting the growth of Indonesia’s Islamic banking sector from 2004 to 2018. Even though there is much research published in academic journals addressing this issue, the book incorporates various aspects, such as eco- nomics, finance, society, politics, government, and Sharia (religion). In addition, it compares the development and growth of Indonesia’s Islamic banking sector with that of Malaysia, Indonesia’s closest neighbor and the most developed in the field. It also investigates Asian banks more widely to gain a broader perspective.Finally, this book is highly recommended for regulators, market players, customers, suppliers, depositors, and all stakeholders because it delivers very important assessments and results on factors affecting the slower growth of Islamic banking in Indonesia. Despite some limitations in its scope and analysis, the book is quite comprehensive in answering the two puzzles noted earlier, from both economic and noneconomic perspec- tives, and both locally and internationally. International Islamic finance stakeholders can also benefit from the book, especially from its assessment of Malaysian, Bangladeshi, and other Asian banks." The Developing Economies, Volum 59, Issue 2, June 2020Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Indonesia’s Islamic banking: Shari’ah implementation, genesis, and socio-political context 3 Recent development of Indonesia’s Islamic banking: The economic realities 4 Theoretical background and review of related literature 5 Comparative study of Islamic banking regulation frameworks in Indonesia and Malaysia 6 Analyses of financial performance and stability of Asian Islamic banks 7 Analyses of the dynamic concentration and competition level of the Islamic banking sector in Indonesia 8 Comparative analysis of the operational efficiency of conventional and Islamic banks 9 Structural dilemma of Indonesia’s Islamic banking 10 A hypothesis of explaining the low penetration of Indonesia’s Islamic banks; Shari’ah-compliant benchmark and Shari’ah-based 'raf' al-haraj' benchmark on prohibition of riba 11 Epilogue – A Quarter-century journey of Islamic banking development in Indonesia: A revisited
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The British Aircraft Industry and Americanled
Book SynopsisSakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went from Empire to Europe and argues rather that, following the Second World War, the key relationship was in fact trans-Atlantic.There is a commonly accepted belief that, during the twentieth century, British manufacturing declined irreparably, that Britain lost its industrial hegemony. But this is too simplistic. In fact, in the decades after 1945, Britain staked out a new role for itself as a key participant in a US-led process of globalisation. Far from becoming merely a European player, the UK actually managed to preserve a key share in a global market, and the British defence industry was, to a large extent, successfully rehabilitated. Sakade returns to the original scholarly parameters of the decline controversy, and especially questions around post-war decline in the fields of high technology and the national defence industrial base. Using the case of the strategically critical military and civilTable of ContentsIntroduction: Britain’s ‘new role’ between Europe and the US after 1945 Part I. The Post-War British Aircraft Industry, 1943-1964 1. The origins of Anglo-American production collaboration in the first jet-age (1943-56) 2. Sandy’s Defence White Paper and the Rationalisation of the British Aircraft Industry, 1957–60 3. BOAC’s Financial Crisis and the End of the "Fly British" Policy, 1963–66 Part II. The British Dilemma. 1964-1969 4. The Cancellation of Britain’s Top Projects, 1963–65 5. The Politics Behind the Plowden Doctrine: European and American Alternatives for the British Aircraft Industry 6. The "European Technological Community" and the Anglo-German MRCA project, 1966–69 Part III. European cooperative airliner projects and Anglo–American Industrial Collaboration, 1968-1982 7. The second jet age and the bankruptcy of Rolls-Royce, 1967–71 8. Trapped in a Loveless Marriage: The Anglo-French Concorde crisis of 1974 9. Playing a Double Game: The British aircraft industry in the third jet age Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis The Swahili World
Book SynopsisThe Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban tradition found there today. Swahili towns contain monumental palaces, tombs, and mosques, set among more humble houses; they were home to fishers, farmers, traders, and specialists of many kinds. The towns have been Muslim since perhaps the eighth century CE, participating in international networks connecting people around the Indian Ocean rim and beyond. Successive colonial regimes have helped shape modern Swahili society, which has incorporated such influences into the regionâs long-standing cosmopolitan tradition.This is the first volume to explore the Swahili in chronological perspective. Each chapter offers a unique wealth of detail on an aspect of the regionâs past, written Trade ReviewWinner of the 2021 Book Prize of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists for best edited volume on any topic.“This edited volume provides a compilation of research carried out on the Swahili coast and its archaeological sites” Stéphane Pradines, Aga Khan Centre, UK, Antiquity Publications "This book is a great resource for those working along the Swahili coast and interior areas with similar archaeological deposits. Indeed, I finished reading the book with a better understanding of the history, archaeology, linguistics, and anthropology of the Swahili coast. From these perspectives, the authors have explored the Swahili coast’s history from what they consider to be the earliest settlements to the remains of complex monumental structures found there today. This unique wealth of the detail on past of the Swahili coast is the true strength of the book that Wynne-jones and LaViolette produced for us."Elgidius B. Ichumbaki, African Archeological ReviewTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesMapsPrefaceNote on TerminologyContributors1. The Swahili worldSection I: Environment, background, and Swahili historiography2. The eastern African coastal landscape3. Resources of the ocean fringe and the archaeology of the medieval Swahili4. The eastern African coast: researching its history and archaeology5. Defining the Swahili6. Decoding Swahili genetic ancestry7. Early connections8. The Swahili language and its early history9. Swahili origins10. Swahili oral traditions and chronicles11. Manda12. Tumbe, Kimimba and Bandari Kuu13. Unguja Ukuu14. Chibuene15. Urbanism16. Town and village17. Mambrui and Malindi18. Shanga19. Gede20. Mtwapa21. Pemba22. Zanzibar23. Mafia24. Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara25. Mikindani and the southern coast26. The Comoros and their early history27. The Comoros 1000 - 1350 CE28. Mahilaka29. The social composition of Swahili society30. Metalworking on Swahili sites31. Craft and industry32. Animals in the Swahili world33. Plant use and the creation of anthropogenic landscapes: coastal forestry and farming34. The progressive integration of eastern Africa into an Afro-Eurasian world-system, first-fifteenth centuries CE35. Eastern Africa and the dhow trade36. Early inland entanglement in the Swahili world, c. 750-1550 CE37. Mosaics and interconnectivity38. Links with India39.Links with China40. Currencies of the Swahili world41. Glass beads and Indian Ocean trade42. Quantitative evidence for early long-distance exchange in eastern Africa: the consumption volume of ceramic imports43. Islamic architecture of the Swahili coast44. Swahili houses45. Navigating the early modern world: Swahili polities and the continental-oceanic interface46. Zanzibar old town47. The Kilwa – Nyasa caravan route: the long-neglected trading corridor in southern Tanzania48. Islam in the Swahili world: Connected authorities49. The legacy of slavery on the Swahili coast50. Life in Swahili villages51. The modern life of Swahili stonetowns52. Identity and belonging on the contemporary Swahili coast: the case of Lamu53. Pate54. Mombasa55. The Swahili house: a historical ethnography of modernity56. The future of Swahili monuments
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Taylor & Francis AngloAmerican Imperialism and the Pacific
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection explores the confluence of American and British (neo)imperalism in the Pacific, as represented in various forms of Pacific discourse including literature, ethnography, film, painting, autobiography, journalism, and environmental discourse. It investigates the alliances and rivalries between these two colonial powers during the crucial transition period of the early-to-mid twentieth century, also exploring indigenous Pacific responses to Anglo-American imperialism during and beyond the decolonization period of the late twentieth century. While the relationship between Britain and the US has been analyzed through prominent forms of economic and cultural exchange between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, there is to date no sustained study of the relationship between British and US colonial expansion into the Pacific, which became central to ideas of developing âEuropeanâ modernity in the late eighteenth century and has played a pivotal in the history Table of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgementsForeword: Making and Unmaking the Anglo-American PacificROB WILSONIntroductionMICHELLE KEOWN, ANDREW TAYLOR AND MANDY TREAGUSPART IMilitary, Religious and Cultural Imperialism in Pacific Literature1 War and Redemption: Militarism, Religion and Anticolonialism in Pacific LiteratureMICHELLE KEOWN2 Reading Imperialism in the Pacific: The Prose of Joseph Veramu and the Poetry of Sia FigielTERESIA TEAIWA3 Slow Walking, Fast Talking: PI Poetry and ImperialismsSELINA TUSITALA MARSHPART IITransatlantic Trajectories in Pacific film, photography and the visual arts4 It’s Raining in Pago: The Body, Religion and Race in W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘Rain’ and its Film AdaptationsMANDY TREAGUS5 The Voyager’s Sublime: Kodachrome and Pacific TourismJEFFREY GEIGER6 Culture and Imperialism: John Pule’s Painting, 1990-2010NICHOLAS THOMASPART IIICross-cultural Alliances and Tensions in Pacific Discourse7 Lunchtime at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Notes on Working Friendships among Natives and Non-Natives and Imperial Anglo-Americanism in Territorial Hawai‘i (1900-1959)PAUL LYONS8 Cowboys and Coconuts: Robert Dean Frisbie in the Colonial PacificPAUL SHARRAD9 Annexation and the Environment: Writing, Reading, Reanimating ‘ĀinaSUSAN NAJITAAfterword: In Memoriam Teresia Teaiwa (1968-2017)MICHELLE KEOWN AND MANDY TREAGUSBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Strategies for Shaping Territorial
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and implementing a territorial strategy for economic development and competitiveness. There is a widespread recognition that territories need to construct strategies that focus on shaping sustainable competitive advantages. To do this they draw upon their own unique resources and capabilities alongside intelligence on existing technological and market trends. However, there is still a notorious lack of both theoretical and empirical research on this issue.The first part of this book develops a theoretical framework for understanding and analysing territorial strategy. This framework asks three questions of territorial strategy â what for, what, and how â looking closely at the key relationship between strategy and policy. The second part is dedicated to exploring this framework in practice through application to a series of unique caTrade Review‘Developing a strategy for territorial competitiveness is one of the critical issues facing policy makers and academics today. In Strategies for Shaping Territorial Competitiveness Valdaliso and Wilson have gathered an impressive array of scholars to produce a book that give us both theoretical and practical understanding of the key issues involved. I highly recommend that anyone who is interested in making "spaces" work should read this book.’ — Dan Breznitz, Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of Contents1. Strategies for shaping territorial competitiveness: an introduction Part 1: A framework for analyzing territorial strategy 2. Territorial strategy: Deepening in the ‘what’ 3. What is regional strategy? Lessons from business strategy 4. Territorial strategy: deepening in the ‘how’? 5. Reconciling territorial strategies goals and means: towards smart competitiveness policies 6. Evaluating territorial strategies Part 2: Cases in territorial strategy 7. The Basque Country: Past trajectory and path dependency in policy and strategy making 8. Regional competitiveness and Schumpeterian development: Policy evolution in Wales 9. Reflecting on ‘how’ territorial strategies form: The case of Rafaela, Argentina 10. Cross-bordering strategies for the Øresund Region: Different eras and institutional strategies, but unrevealed potentials 11. Regional social and economic development in the Okanagan, Canada: Envisioning the future to initiate a strategy 12. Constructing Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3): Lessons from practice in three European regions 13. Where next for territorial strategy? Concluding remarks and a call to arms
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Muslim Communities and Cultures of the Himalayas
Book SynopsisThis book chronicles individual perspectives and specific iterations of Muslim community, practice, and experience in the Himalayan region to bring into scholarly conversation the presence of varying Muslim cultures in the Himalaya. The Himalaya provide a site of both geographic and cultural crossroads, where Muslim community is simultaneously constituted at multiple social levels, and to that end the essays in this book document a wide range of local, national, and global interests while maintaining a focus on individual perspectives, moments in time, and localized experiences. It presents research that contributes to a broadly conceived notion of the Himalaya that enriches readers' understandings of both the region and concepts of Muslim community and highlights the interconnections between multiple experiences of Muslim community at local levels.Drawing attention to the cultural, social, artistic, and political diversity of the Himalaya beyond the better understood Table of Contents1. Diversity, Continuity, and Disjuncture: Approaching Multivocal Perspectives on Being Muslim in the Himalaya 2. Topiwalla Jinn and the Past-Times of Violence in Kashmir 3. Everyday Religiosity and Extraordinary Experiences: Nepali Muslim Narratives of Hajj 4. Portrait of an Indian Freedom Fighter: Munshi Abdul Sattar 5. Land of the Ungoverned: On the Historiography of Lawlessness at the Frontier of Empire 6. Perspectives: A Photo Essay 7. "When a Woman is Educated in Islam": Conversations with Alima of Ladakh 8. Hindu Shopkeepers, Qur'anic Verses: Intersecting Practices Between Muslims and Hindus of Nepal 9. The Social and Political Life of a Relic: The Episode of the Moi-e-Muqaddas Theft in Kashmir, 1963-1964 10. "Himalayan Ummah" as a Meeting Point Between Various Islamic Cultures: The Case of Chinese Muslim Community Trading Interactions in Amdo 11. Messy Narratives of Belonging: Hijrat and the Khache
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Humanitarianism Human Rights and Security
Book SynopsisExamining the relationship between humanitarianism, human rights, and security in the governance of borders and migration, this book analyses the case of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), challenging the common assumption that humanitarianism and human rights provide a critical basis for countering securitisation. Arguing that these are not three opposing discourses and modes of governing, the author contributes to a deeper understanding of their connections and combined effects in border governance. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and document analysis, the book offers three perspectives on Frontex's changing relationship to humanitarianism and human rights. In doing so, it provides a multifaceted account of Frontex and its gradual appropriation of what are often considered pro-migrant discourses. Combining organisational sociology with a Foucauldian analysis, the book speaks to ongoing debates on continuity and change in the security fieldTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Security Chapter 2: Frontex as a Compromise Chapter 3: Frontex as Protector of Europe, Saviour of Lives, and Promoter of Rights Chapter 4: Frontex as a Fragmented Organisation Chapter 5: The Effects of Frontex’s Re-Positioning Conclusion: Reconsidering Critique
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia
Book SynopsisThis handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives in the Asia Pacific. The chapters consider key and cross cutting themes such as populism and nationalism, religion, ethnicity and gender, as well as authoritarianism. They show how populist politics alters the way governments mediate state-society relations.The essays in this volume consider: diverse approaches in populist politics, for example, post-colonial, strategic vs ideational, growth and redistribution, leadership styles, and in what ways they are similar to, or different from, populist discourses in Europe and the United States under what social, political, economic and structural conditions populist politics has emerged in the Asia-Pacific region national case studies drawn from South, East and Southeast Asia as well as the Pacific analyzing themes such as media, religion, gender, medical populiTable of ContentsList of contributors List of tables List of figures List of graphs Acknowledgements PART I: Introduction 1 Populism’s shifting meanings and geographical diffusion PART II: Approaches and key issues 2 Populism, nationalism, and national identity in Asia 3 The strategic approach to populism 4 Between people power and state power: The ambivalence of populism in international relations 5 Growth, redistribution, and populism in Asia 6 The populist radical right, gendered enemy, and religion: Perspectives from South Asia since 2014 7 Charismatic leadership, leader democracy, and populism in Asia PART III: Cross-cutting themes 8 Populism, media, and communication in the Asia Pacific: A case study of Rodrigo Duterte and Pauline Hanson 9 Religion, secularism and populism in contemporary Asia 10 Islam and populism in the Asia Pacific 11 Medical populism in the Asia Pacific PART IV: National cases 12 ‘Inclusionary’ populism and democracy in India 13 From Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to Imran Khan: A comparative analysis of populist leaders in Pakistan 14 Variants of populism in Bangladesh: Implications of charisma, clientelism, cronyism, and corruption 15 Gender, populism, and collective identity: A feminist analysis of the Maoist movement in Nepal 16 Contemporary Sri Lanka: Nationalism meets ‘soft populism’ 17 Islamic nationalism, populism, and democratization in the Maldives 18 Democracy icon or demagogue? Aung San Suu Kyi and authoritarian populism in Myanmar (Burma) 19 The Duterte phenomenon as authoritarian populism in the Philippines 20 Gender, media, and populism: The vilification of first lady Ani Yudhoyono in the Indonesian online news media 21 Weaponizing populism: How Thailand’s civil society went from anti-populism to anti-democracy campaigns 22 South Korea: Still the ‘politics of the vortex’? A □historical analysis of party solidarities and populism 23 Patriotic songs and populism in Chinese politics 24 Taiwanese populism in the shadow of China 25 Populism in Japan: actors or institutions? 26 From populism to authoritarianism? The contemporary frame of politics in Australia 27 Man alone: Winston Peters and the populist tendency in New Zealand politics 28 Are Fiji’s two military strongmen populists? Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Islam in Historical Perspective
Book SynopsisIslam in Historical Perspective is a general introduction to Islam and the history of Muslim societies. Richly illustrated by quotations and images from Muslim scripture, historical chronicles, artistic works, and theological and juridical treatises, it invites the reader to examine this evidence and to form a comprehensive understanding of Islam's evolution from its inception in Arabia to the present day.Combining chronological and thematic principles, this book examines Muslims' political and intellectual struggles over the meaning and practical implications of their faith. Treating Islam as a language that various factions and generations of Muslims have used to express their grievances, aspirations, and personal experiences and preferences, the book shows the religion's remarkable potency as a social, political, and cultural force and source of identity. It also describes and analyses Muslim devotional practices, emotional responses to the revelation, artistic and
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Taylor & Francis Information Systems
Book SynopsisThis book captures a range of important developments that have occurred in Information Systems over the last forty years, with a particular focus on India and the developing world. Over this time, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Information Systems (IS) have come to play a critical role in supporting, complementing and automating managerial decisions, shaping and transforming industries, and contributing to deep societal and economic change. This volume examines a range of topics for those interested in the adoption and use of these technologies across varied situations. It combines empirical studies on the application and impact of IS with commentaries, debates and insights on the transformative role that IT and the IT industry have played, and continue to play, within India as well as globally. The book draws attention to issues and challenges that organizations grapple with in tech-enabled environments, and provides insights on the role of autTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword. Preface. Contributors.1. Information Systems in India: dare to Cross.Part 1 Technology in action: an Indian perspective. 2. Automation and computers: hasten slowly. 3. Information and communication yechnologies in India: outweighing negatives in development. 4. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in India: a reality check.Part 2 Adoption of technology: issues and challenges. 5. E-Government in India. 6. Internet based distribution systems: a framework for adoption. 7. Trust and its determinants in internet banking: a study of private sector banks in India. 8. Structuring IT function: imperative for the new millennium.Part 3 Behavioural issues in the IT industry. 9. Collaborative tools and virtual team effectiveness: an inductively derived approach in India’s software sector. 10. Turnover intentions amongst women BPO professionals: role of organizational and personal factors.Part 4 Systems theory-based methodologies. 11. The system dynamics paradigm. 12. The system dynamics paradigm: applications in management and policy. 13. Option trading in a fuzzy framework.Part 5 The challenges of electronic globalization. 14. Borderless bits: electronic globalization in a volatile global world. 15. The classical continuity of electronic globalization. 16. Preparing for electronic globalization.
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Latin American
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development seeks to engage with comprehensive, contemporary, and critical theoretical debates on Latin American development. The volume draws on contributions from across the humanities and social sciences and, unlike earlier volumes of this kind, explicitly highlights the disruptions to the field being brought by a range of anti-capitalist, decolonial, feminist, and ontological intellectual contributions.The chapters consider in depth the harms and suffering caused by various oppressive forces, as well as the creative and often revolutionary ways in which ordinary Latin Americans resist, fight back, and work to construct development defined broadly as the struggle for a better and more dignified life. The book covers many key themes including development policy and practice; neoliberalism and its aftermath; the role played by social movements in cities and rural areas; the politics of water, oil, and other enviroTrade Review"The scope and ambition of this volume is truly impressive. Sensitive to the profound ambivalence and ambiguity of development, the editors have coordinated a fascinatingly agile and dexterous approach to the topic, full of robust critique and alternative perspectives. For students and scholars interested in the multi-scalar processes of change - social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental - that shape Latin America, this is an essential inter-disciplinary companion." - Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK"The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development creates a profound and rich dialogue among cases that confronted and resignified notions of development not only from their critical decolonial, feminist, anti-capitalist and pluriversal perspectives but also by their interconnected multidisciplinary approaches. The editors carefully selected diverse texts that arise from local contexts and social dynamics (of indigenous, afro-descendant, peasants, migrants, urban collectivities) that bring forward new concepts of genders, sexualities, humans, non-humans, knowledges, justice and ways of living. They also include theoretical approaches and analysis that call for understanding the partial connections of social actors with economic, environmental, political and territorial socio-historical contexts in different scales, in order to open innovative critics, debates and perspectives around different notions of development." - Astrid Ulloa, Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, ColombiaTable of ContentsLatin American development: Editors’ introduction PART I Debates and provocations 1. Modernization and dependency theory 2. Culture and development in Latin America 3. Indigenous development in Latin America 4. Coloniality, colonialism and decoloniality: Gender, sexuality and migration 5. Post-development 6. Neoliberal multiculturalism 7. The rise and fall of the pink tide 8. Religion and development PART II Globalization, international relations and development 9. Post‐Neoliberalism and Latin America: Beyond the IMF, World Bank and WTO? 10. The Sustainable Development Goals 11. The war on drugs in Latin America from a development perspective 12. Diversities of international and transnational migration in and beyond Latin America 13. Regional organizations and development in Latin American 14. Latin America and the United States 15. Latin America and China 16. Latin America and the European Union PART IIIPolitical and cultural struggles and decolonial interventions 17. More-than-human politics 18. Intercultural universities and ways of learning 19. Indigenous activism in Latin America 20. Afro-Latino-América: Afro-descendant struggles and movements 21. Zapatismo: Reinventing revolution 22. Counter-mapping development PART IV Gender and sexuality, cultural politics and policy 23. Gender, poverty and anti-poverty policy 24. Gender, health and religion in a neoliberal context: Reflections from the Chilean case 25. Men and masculinities in development 26. LGBTQ Sexualities and Social Movements PART VLabour and campesino movements 27. Rural social movements 28. Labour movements 29. Labour, unions and mega-events 30. Street vendors 31. Maquila labour 32. Fairtrade certification in Latin America: Challenges and prospects for fostering development PART VI Land, resources and environmental struggles 33. Development and Nature: Modes of appropriation and Latin American extractivisms 34. Land-grabbing in Latin America: Sedimented landscapes of dispossession 35. Protected areas and biodiversity conservation 36. Mining and development in Latin America 37. Towers of indifference: Water and politics in Latin America 38. Energy violence and uneven development 39. The oil complex in Latin America: Politics, frontiers, and habits of oil rule 40. Food security and sovereignty 41. Climate change PART VII Latin American cities 42. Just another chapter of Latin American gentrification 43. Gang violence in Latin America 44. Informal settlements 45. Urban mobility in Latin America 46. Oppressed, segregated, vulnerable: Environmental injustice and conflicts in Latin American cities 47. Rethinking the urban economy: Women, protest, and the new commons
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Taylor & Francis The Role of Parties in TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisFor a long time analyses of political parties were framed within the usual context of democracy and of the historical transformation of the forms of democratic government. More recently several authors, among which eminently Peter Mair, progressively began to question the relationship between the normative definition of democratic government and the actual operation of parties. These new concerns are well epitomized by the tension between âresponsivenessâ and âresponsibilityâ that gives the title to this book.While classic democratic theory sees as desirable that parties in government (and in opposition, too) are sympathetically responsive to their supporters first and more generally to public opinion and, at the same time, responsible toward the internal and international systemic constraints and compatibilities, these two roles seem to have become more difficult to reconcile and even increasingly incompatible.The chapters of this book explTable of Contents1. Responsive and Responsible? The Role of Parties in Twenty-First Century Politics Luciano Bardi, Stefano Bartolini and Alexander H. Trechsel Section 1: The Interdependence Challenge 2. Responsible Party Government in a World of Interdependence Richard Rose 3. Testing Times: The Growing Primacy of Responsibility in the Euro Area Brigid Laffan 4. Responsible Government and Capitalism’s Cycles Dorothee Bohle Section 2: The Domestic Challenge 5. Democratic Performance of Parties and Legitimacy in Europe Hans Keman 6. The Non-Procedural Determinants of Responsiveness Leonardo Morlino and Mario Quaranta 7. The Populist Challenge Hanspeter Kriesi 8. A Question of Time: Responsive and Responsible Democratic Politics Klaus H. Goetz Section 3: Adaptation or Failure? 9. Failing Political Representation or a Change in Kind? Models of Representation and Empirical Trends in Europe Jacques Thomassen and Carolien van Ham 10. Ideology, Parties and Social Politics in Europe Maurizio Ferrera 11. ‘Stripped Down’ or Reconfigured Democracy David M. Farrell
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Taylor & Francis Camus and Fanon on the Algerian Question
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to offer a systematic comparison of the philosophies of Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon. It shows how the ethical, political, and psychological outlooks of these two influential thinkers can further our understandings of how to bring about justice in the face of deep power imbalances.The author foregrounds the bloody Algerian War of Independence in his analysis of the philosophies of Camus and Fanon. Although neither supported French colonial occupation of Algeria, they held radically different views of the conflict. Fanon supported emancipation through violence, which the author argues has been uncritically romanticized. Camus, on the other hand, supported an ethics of moderation that shunned indiscriminate violence. The author argues that Camus has been unfairly accused of being an apologist for colonialism. Finally, the author draws out the common endorsement of humanist values that drive both Camusâ and Fanonâs thought.Camus and Fanon on thTrade Review"Even as the anti-colonialism that so much drove Fanon has become a powerful force in today’s world, so too do we seem, in recent times, to have been plunged back into what is almost a replay of the events of the 1930s and 1940s that so shaped Camus’ thinking. Algeria is the landscape in which the contrast between Camus and Fanon was largely played out historically and biographically; that contrast is now being played out, in broader terms, across the world. Tabensky’s ground-breaking, rigorous, and thoughtful book is thus a timely intervention in a past debate that nevertheless remains very much alive – a book for the present and for the future." Jeff Malpas, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of Tasmania, Australia "This book puts two significant writers, Camus and Fanon, in conversation for the first time. Tabensky moves us beyond superficial or anachronistic depictions to consider the options for social change in the face of entrenched colonial structures. These two would not, and did not, agree on much apart from the necessity of foreign and racial domination to disappear, but considering the two together allows us to see the options for resistance." Bruce B. Janz, University of Central Florida, USA Table of Contents1. Introduction Part I: Fanon 2. The Pure Peasant-Warrior-Philosopher 3. Dreams, Lies and the New Man 4. "The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness" 5. The Therapeutic Function of Violence? 6. The New Man? 7. Liberation Psychiatry Part II: Camus 8. Almost Brushing Shoulders 9. Bad Faith 10. Sisyphus 11. An Unlikely Solution 12. "The Temple of Caesar" 13. "I rebel—therefore we exist": Truth, Freedom, and Communication 14. Conclusion. Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Nordic Childhoods 1700â1960
Book SynopsisThis volume strengthens interest and research in the fields of both Childhood Studies and Nordic Studies by exploring conceptions of children and childhood in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). Although some books have been written about the history of childhood in these countries, few are multidisciplinary, focus on this region as a whole, or are available in English. This volume contains essays by scholars from the fields of literature, history, theology, religious studies, intellectual history, cultural studies, Scandinavian studies, education, music, and art history. Contributors study the history of childhood in a wide variety of sources, such as folk and fairy tales, legal codes, religious texts, essays on education, letters, sermons, speeches, hymns, paintings, novels, and school essays written by children themselves. They also examine texts intended specifically for children, including text books, catechisms, newspapers, songbooks, and chilTrade Review"Nordic Childhoods 1700–1960: From Folk Beliefs to Pippi Longstocking is a rich and varied volume that seeks to unite insights from childhood studies and Nordic studies and make these accessible to an English-speaking audience....The book is an interesting, well-written, and sound contribution to the history of childhood."-Helle Strandgaard Jensen, Aarhus UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction Reidar Aasgaard and Marcia J. BungePart 1. Spheres of life: home, church, and society2. The child in Norwegian and Scandinavian folk beliefs Ørnulf Hodne3. The household code: Protestant upbringing in Denmark-Norway from the Reformation to the Enlightenment Ingrid Markussen4. "Let the little children come to me": representations of children in the confessional culture of Lutheran Norway (seventeenth-nineteenth centuries) Kristin B. Aavitsland5. Education of children in rural Finland: the roles of homes, churches, and manor houses Anu Lahtinen6. Children’s rights and duties: snapshots into the history of education and child protection in Denmark (ca. 1700–1900) Anette Faye JacobsenPart 2. Children’s development: formation, education, and work7. "A plain and cheerful, active life on earth": children, education, and faith in the works of N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783–1872, Denmark) Marcia J. Bunge8. "Educating poor, rich, and dangerous children": the birth of a segregated school system in nineteenth-century Sweden Bengt Sandin9. The child in the early nineteenth century Norwegian school system Thor Inge Rørvik10. Negotiating family, education, and labour: working-class children in Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Pirjo Markkola11. Sheep, fish, and school: conflicting arenas of childhood in the lives of Icelandic children, 1900–1970 Ólöf Garðarsdóttir12. Educational policy and boarding schools for indigenous Sami students in Norway from 1700 to the present day Hansen, Ketil Lenert13. Children and their stories of World War II: a study of essays by Norwegian school children from 1946 Ellen Schrumpf14. "In song we meet on common ground": conceptions of children in songbooks for Norwegian schools (1914–1
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Taylor & Francis Hinduism in the World
Book SynopsisThis book explores Hindu religion from a global perspective and investigates the presence of Hindu religious traditions and some of their diversity worldwide.Hindu traditions are on the move and are established in many new locations around the world and old and new traditions are continuously changing and being invented and reinvented. The chapters of the book explore these processes and some of the many forms of Hinduism found around the world due to Hindu expansions and suggest different ways of understanding these transformations. The different chapters of the book present new case studies based on historical and ethnographic research that expand on the empirical material typically used to generalize about Hinduism in the world and emphasize diversity.A timely overview and analysis of Hinduism outside India, with a focus on the diversity of Hindu traditions and their contemporary transformation in a number of different geographical settings worldwide, this book will
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Feminism and the Power of Law
Book SynopsisIn this now established text the author presents her analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist post-structuralist approach. She comments on pornography, as well as discussing recent research on rape trials and abortion legislation.Trade Review. . . an important and illuminating feminist analysis of the law . . . . It is to be highly recommended for those concerned with sociology, women's studies, law, social work, public policy and the generally socially concerned reader - Crime, Law and Social ChangeSmart's Feminism and the Power of Law represents a worthy and learned attempt to acknowledge the power of feminism to construct an alternative reality to mainstream legal discourse. This is an important and provocative book which should be read by those unafraid of differing views of jurisprudence and students of feminist legal theory - Melbourne University Law ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Power of Law 2. Rape: Law and the Disqualification of Women's Sexuality 3. A Note on Child Sexual Abuse 4. The Quest for a feminist Jurisprudence 5. Law, Power and Women's Bodies 6. Theory into Practice: The Problem of Pornography 7. The Problem of Rights Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Teratologies A Cultural Study of Cancer International Library of Sociology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bodies Exploring Fluid Boundaries Critical
Book SynopsisThis is one of the first books to introduce students to the key concepts and debates surrounding the relationship between bodily boundaries, abject materiality and spaces. The text includes original interview and focus group data informed by feminist theory on the body and uses case studies to illustrate the social construction of bodies. It will critically engage students in topical questions around sexuality, cultural differences and women''s sub-ordination to men.Table of Contents1 Bodily openings 2 ‘Corporeographies’ 3 Pregnant bodies in public places 4 Men’s bodies and bathrooms 5 Managing managerial bodies 6 Some thoughts on close(t) spaces
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Taylor & Francis Masnavi I Manavi
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Taylor & Francis The Buddhist Unconscious
Book SynopsisThis is the story of fifth century CE India, when the Yogacarin Buddhists tested the awareness of unawareness, and became aware of human unawareness to an extraordinary degree. They not only explicitly differentiated this dimension of mental processes from conscious cognitive processes, but also offered reasoned arguments on behalf of this dimension of mind. This is the concept of the 'Buddhist unconscious', which arose just as philosophical discourse in other circles was fiercely debating the limits of conscious awareness, and these ideas in turn had developed as a systematisation of teachings from the Buddha himself. For us in the twenty-first century, these teachings connect in fascinating ways to the Western conceptions of the 'cognitive unconscious' which have been elaborated in the work of Jung and Freud. This important study reveals how the Buddhist unconscious illuminates and draws out aspects of current western thinking on the unconscious mind. One of the most intriguinTrade Review'This work weaves together into one fabric yards spanning some one thousand years of Indian Buddhist thought, and will prove to be an invaluable source of information for scholars of Buddhist literature.' - East and West SeriesTable of ContentsPart I - The Background and Context of the Ãlaya-vijñãna Part II - The Abhidharma Context 15. The Abhidharma Project and its Problematic Part III - The Alaya-vijñana in the Yogacara Tradition, The Alaya-vijñana in the Early Tradition Part IV - The Alaya-Vijñana in the Mahayana-samgraha I : Bringing It All Back HomePart V - The Alaya-Vijñana in the Mahayana-samgraha II: Looking Beyond
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Taylor & Francis Iraqs Sunni Insurgency
Book SynopsisFrom 2003 to 2008, the Sunni Arab insurgency in Iraq posed a key challenge to political stability in the country and to Coalition objectives there. This paper explains the onset, composition and evolution of this insurgency. It begins by addressing both its immediate and deeper sociopolitical origins, and goes on to examine the multiple ideological strands within the insurgency and their often conflicting methods and goals. Despite organisational incoherence due to the existence of a large number of competing groups, the insurgency in Iraq sustained a particularly high tempo of operations between 2004 and 2006, causing considerable military and civilian casualties. Some insurgent groups focused on attempting to foment civil war between two of Iraqâs major communities, the Sunni and Shia Arabs and, by late 2006, they had come close to unravelling Iraq and presenting the Coalition with a major defeat. The adoption of a new approach by the US in 2007 helped reduce the levTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Origins, Causes and Composition 2. Ideology 3. Objectives and Strategy 4. Organisation, Targeting, Operational Art and Tactics 5. The Insurgency's Internal and External Problems 6. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Britain in Vietnam
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the circumstances leading to British intervention in Vietnam in 1945, and the course and consequences of this intervention. The first part of the work links French colonialism with the native communist insurgency, while examining British and Foreign Office attitudes towards French Indochina. The study then looks at the key Anglo-American wartime relationship concerning Indochina and its impact. The second half of the book focuses on the local problems faced by the British in Southern Indochina, and whether commanding general Douglas Gracey was guilty (as critics have suggested) of collusion with French colonialism. It also examines the wider problems linked to available military resources, and the controversial issues of the role of the OSS and the use of Japanese troops to preserve law and order. Finally, the book makes a groundbreaking link between British intervention and the outbreak of the French-Vietminh war in 1946. Britain in VietnamTrade Review'This book fills a gap in the coverage of the war in Indochina in that it throws the spot light on British involvement in the 1940s.'Paul Le Long, Asian Affairs Table of ContentsIntroduction. Prologue 1. A Jewel in France’s Crown 2. Japan, Britain and French Indochina 3. The Anglo–American Alliance and Indochina 4. The Japanese Coup of March 9 1945 and its Consequences 5. The August Revolution 6. The Coming of the British 7. The Death of an OSS Man 8. War with the Vietminh 9. The Last Phase 10. Gracey’s Farewell 11. The Slide to Disaster 12. A Rubicon Crossed 13. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Japan Aspects Destinies
Book SynopsisFirst published in 2007. At the turn of the twentieth century, the author spent three years in Japan, at the heart of what he saw as a revolution. The modernization of the Meiji era was well underway, but far from complete. All around him, Watson saw orientalism and feudalism jostling with the twentieth century, in strange juxtapositions that produced a melange that he found inspiring, disappointing and irritating but always interesting for, as he wrote, there had been no spectacle on earth like it since time began. While other observers of Japan wrote of the Old or the New Japan, or suggested that the transition from one to the other had been accomplished easily and gracefully, Watson set out to reveal all the contradictions, anachronisms, tragicomic consequences and peculiar manifestations of Meiji westernisation. His eye and pen are sharp, but his underlying concern is what the ultimate outcome of this enforced modernisation will be. The question always before him is - can a nation forget its origins, identity and culture? Watson prowls the material and immaterial world of Tokyo, metropolis of the revolution, alert for dissonance. The Japanese dress reform movement produces costumes of supreme inelegance; the simplicity of the Japanese home is disturbed by the discords of European 'innovations', the bathhouses are no longer mixed. As the book ends, Watson sees constitutional government in Japan losing ground â an intimation of the political events of the next half-century. This is a thought-provoking book, first for the unique account it gives of the contradictions and tensions beneath the surface of the accepted version of the Japanese modernisation narrative, and also for the questions Watson poses about the effect of westernisation of Japanese identity and nationality, as timely now as it was a century ago.Table of Contents1. A SPECTACLE OF PARADOX, 2. A FANTASY OF MYSTERY, 3. THE METROPOLIS OF A REVOLUTION, 4. TOKYO'S AUTOMATIC TELEPHONES, 5. MANNERS AND THE REVOLUTION, 6. A JAPANESE OUESTION?, 7. THE REVOLUTION CORRUPTED, 8. ON THE MARGINS OF THE SOUL, 9. PASSIVE REACTION, 10. REVOLUTION HAPPILY IMPOSSIBLE, 11. THE SYNTHETIC IN PLEASURES, 12. PARTING OF THE WAYS, 13. IN THE MACHINE SHOP, 14. THE MERCHANT AND HIS MORALS, 15. THE REVOLUTION'S MOTIF?, 16. THE COMMERCIAL IMAGINATION, 17. MEN V. FORMS IN POLITICS, 18. CONSTITUTIONAL INFANCY, 19. AN OLIGARCHY WITH EXCUSES, 20. PARTY POLITICS PRO FORMA, 21. THE GRAND EXPERIMENT, 22. CHAOS AND AN A B C POLICY, 23. A POTENTIAL DEMOCRACY?, 24. EDUCATION WITHOUT A CANON, 25. THE HIGH SCHOOL GIRL, 26. THE RECORD OF AN EXPERIENCE, 27. MlRABEAU AND RoUSSEAU, 28. WITH THE HIGH PRIESTS OF JAPANESE BUDDHISM, 29. CREEDS VIEWED OBJECTIVELY, 30. THE PSYCHIC LINK?, 31. HUMOURS OF THE TIME, 32. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE REVOLUTION, 33. SPIRIT OF THE REVOLUTION, 34. WELTPOLITIK OF THE REVOLUTION, 35. VIS A VIS THE TRADITION, 36. THE CLIMAX AND ITS PARABLE, 37. THE CRISIS
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Atlas of British History
Book SynopsisThe evolving story of the British Isles forms the central theme of this fascinating and compelling atlas, which covers England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and the expansion and gradual disintegration of Britain's overseas empire. This new edition includes: Politics from the Saxon kingdoms and the collapse of England's French Empire to the Tudors and Stuarts, the English Civil War, the Restoration, Parliamentary Reform, the Commonwealth and Europe, the European Union and the Coalition Government formed in 2010 War and conflict from Viking attacks and the Norman Invasion to the Armada, two World Wars and the end of empire, the Falklands War, the Gulf War, British forces overseas, terror at home and the wars in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq Trade and industry from the post-Norman economy and Tudor trade to industrial unrest and the opening of international tradeTrade ReviewPraise for previous editions: '...a great deal clearer than the usual atlas.' The Times Educational Supplement '...an advantage to have this mass of historical facts under the one cover, easy to find, easy to assimilate and with no irrelevances to distract the user.' Teachers World '...the maps serve as at-a-glance history in themselves, with the inclusion of dates and events: a fascinating volume.' The Northern Echo 'No student of British history should be without one.' Jewish Chronicle Table of Contents@contents:The new edition includes thirteen new and updated maps.
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Taylor & Francis Hiyaku An Intermediate Japanese Course
Book SynopsisHiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course provides a progressive intermediate course in Japanese, incorporating modern teaching methods and practicing all four language skills. Hiyaku provides content-based instruction, with authentic and semi-authentic dialogues and readings, all carefully selected to instruct and inspire students as they learn Japanese.Key features of the textbook include: highly structured chapters, beginning with warm-up exercises followed by focused practice of each of the four skills gradual introduction to increasingly authentic materials content taken from original Japanese sources such as books, TV programs, magazines, newspapers and websites extensive audio material provided as FREE MP3 files on a companion website here https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/_author/eguchi/ instructorâs materials, including PowerPoint files provided through tTable of Contents1: Japanese Festivals and Events 2: Japanese Geography and Climates 3: Languages and Cultures 4: Traditional Stories and the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter 5: Polite Speech 6: Poets and Poetry 7: Japanese History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Crisis in the Caucasus Russia Georgia and the
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by a series of academic specialists examines the crisis stemming from the Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 from a range of standpoints. The chapters probe the geopolitical and strategic dimensions of the crisis as well as the longer term military and diplomatic implications for Europe and the central Asian region. The collection will be of major importance to students of Russia and Eastern Europe, military analysts as well as journalists and politicians concerned with what some observers have termed a new cold war between Russia and the West.This book was published as a special issue of Small Wars and Insurgencies.Trade Review"[T]he book provides a very useful, comprehensive and unique combination of topics that will retain its validity for use by individuals or states seeking to engage in this crucial region in the future." - Kelly Pegus, Macquarie University, AustraliaTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Global Significance of a Small War Paul B. Rich 2. The Roots of Russian Conduct Peter Shearman and Matthew Sussex 3. Russia as a Great Power Paul B. Rich 4. From Controlling Military Information to Controlling Society: The Political Interests Involved in the Transformation of the Military Media under Putin Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski 5. Use of Force and Civil – Military Relations in Russia: An Automated Content Analysis Brandon M. Stewart and Yuri M. Zhukov 6. Pipeline Politics: Georgia and Energy Security Tracey C. German 7. The Fatal Flaw: The Media and the Russian Invasion of Georgia Margarita Akhvlediani 8. National Narratives and New Politics of Memory in Georgia Zaza Shatirishvili 9. Russia’s War in Georgia: Lessons and Consequences Carolina Vendil Pallin and Fredrik Westerlund 10. America and the Russo-Georgian War Stephen Blank 11. The Bear Came Through the Tunnel: An Analysis of Georgian Planning and Operations in the Russo-Georgian War and Implications for U.S. Policy Robert Hamilton
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Taylor & Francis The Russian Revolution of 1905
Book Synopsis2005 marks the centenary of Russiaâs âfirst revolutionâ - an unplanned, spontaneous rejection of Tsarist rule that was a response to the âBloody Sundayâ massacre of 9th January 1905. A wave of strikes, urban uprisings, peasant revolts, national revolutions and mutinies swept across the Russian Empire, and it proved a crucial turning point in the demise of the autocracy and the rise of a revolutionary socialism that would shape Russia, Europe and the international system for the rest of the twentieth century.The centenary of the Revolution has prompted scholars to review and reassess our understanding of what happened in 1905. Recent opportunities to access archives throughout the former Soviet Union are yielding new provincial perspectives, as well as fresh insights into the roles of national and religious minorities, and the parts played by individuals, social groups, political parties and institutions. This text brings together some of the best of this new research and reasTable of ContentsList of contributors, Acknowledgements, Note on style, 1. Introduction, 2. Psychohistorical approaches to 1905 radicalism, 3. 1905: the view from the provinces, 4. The 1905 Revolution in Russia’s Baltic provinces, 5. Finland in 1905: the political and social history of the revolution, 6. Revolution and revolt in the Manchurian armies, as perceived by a future leader of the White movement, 7. Retrospectively revolting: Kazan Tatar ‘conspiracies’ during the 1905 Revolution, 8. Peasant protest and peasant violence in 1905: Voronezh province, Ostrogozhskii uezd, 9. Jews and revolution in Kharkiv: how one Ukrainian city escaped a pogrom in 1905, 10. Socialists, liberals and the Union of Unions in Kyiv during the 1905 Revolution: an engineer’s perspective, 11. Kadet domination of the First Duma and its limits, 12. Lenin and the 1905 Revolution, 13. Leon Trotsky and 1905, 14. The 1905 Revolution on Tyneside, Index
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Taylor & Francis Being Middleclass in India
Book SynopsisHailed as the beneficiary, driving force and result of globalisation, Indiaâs middle-class is puzzling in its diversity, as a multitude of traditions, social formations and political constellations manifest contribute to this project. This book looks at Indian middle-class lifestyles through a number of case studies, ranging from a historical account detailing the making of a savvy middle-class consumer in the late colonial period, to saving clubs among women in Delhiâs upmarket colonies and the dilemmas of entrepreneurial families in Tamil Naduâs industrial towns.The book pays tribute to the diversity of regional, caste, rural and urban origins that shape middle- class lifestyles in contemporary India and highlights common themes, such as the quest for upward mobility, common consumption practices, the importance of family values, gender relations and educational trajectories. It unpacks the notion that the Indian middle-class can be understood in terms of public performanceTable of Contents1. Introduction Henrike Donner 2. Masculinity, advertising and the reproduction of the middle-class family in Western India, 1918-1940 Douglas E. Haynes 3. Gendered bodies, domestic work and perfect families: new regimes of gender and food in Bengali middle-class lifestyles Henrike Donner 4. ‘Keeping it in the family’: Work, education and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur’s industrial capitalists Geert De Neve 5. Cultural contractions and intergenerational relations: the construction of selfhood among middle class youth in Baroda Margit van Wessel 6. Globalisation, neoliberalism, and middle-class cultural politics in Kolkata Timothy J. Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase 7. The social transformation of the medical profession in urban Kerala: doctors, social mobility and the middle classes Caroline Wilson 8. Kitty-parties and middle-class femininity in New Delhi Anne Waldrop 9. Zara hatke (‘Somewhat different’): the new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema Rachel Dwyer
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Critical Dictionary of Sociology
Book SynopsisUnlike most other sociology or social science dictionaries, in this translation of the Critical Dictionary of Sociology, taken from the second French edition of the Dictionary and edited by the English sociologist Peter Hamilton, the critical value of this distinctive work is at last made available for a wider audience.Each entry grapples directly with an issue, whether theoretical, epistemological, philosophical, political or empirical, and provides a strong statement of what the authors think about it. The discussions are considered but argumentative. By reaffirming that a non-marxist style of critique is still possible, Boudon and Bourricaud have presented a distinctive approach to the key issues which confront the societies of the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries.For some this work will be a textbook, for others an indispensable sourcebook of sociological concepts, and for most a way of opening our eyes to new dimensions in our understanding of tTable of ContentsEntries: Action; Action (Collective); Aggregation; Alienation; Anomie; Authority; Beliefs; Bureaucracy; Capitalism; Causality; Charisma; Community; Comte, Auguste; Conformity and deviance; Crime; Culturalism and culture; Cycles; Democracy; Determinism; Development; Dialectic; Diffusion; Durkheim, Emile; Economics and Sociology; Egalitarianism; Elections; Elites; Experimentation; Family; Fuction; Functionalism; Groups; History and Sociology; Historicism; Ideologies; Knowledge; Machiavelli, Niccolo; Marx, Karl; Measurement; Methodology; Minorities; Needs; Objectivity; Power; Prediction; Professions; Prophetism; Rationality; Religion; Reproduction; Role; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Schumpeter, Joseph; Social Change; Social Control; Social Mobility; Sociobiology; Spencer, Herbert; State; Social Stratification; Structuralism; Structure; Suicide; Social symbolism; System; Teleology; Theory; de Tocqueville; Utilitarianism; Utopia; Weber, Max Thematic Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Womanist Reader
Book SynopsisComprehensive in its coverage, The Womanist Reader is the first volume to anthologize the major works of womanist scholarship. Charting the course of womanist theory from its genesis as Alice Walker's African-American feminism, through Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi's African womanism and Clenora Hudson-Weems' Africana womanism, to its present-day expression as a global, anti-oppressionist perspective rooted in the praxis of everyday women of color, this interdisciplinary reader traces the rich and diverse history of a quarter century of womanist thought. Featuring selections from over a dozen disciplines by top womanist scholars from around the world, plus several critiques of womanism, an extensive bibliography of womanist sources, and the first ever systematic treatment of womanist thought on its own terms, Layli Phillips has assembled a unique and groundbreaking compilation.Trade Review"Long overdue, Layli Phillips' The Womanist Reader is a pioneering text that illuminates the genealogy of womanism and its complex meanings. Phillips' articulation of its connections with and departures from both ‘feminism’ and ‘black feminism’ is cogent and provocative. This anthology lays the groundwork for future scholarship on this little understood analytic construct, but critically important intervention in the broad project of social justice."—Beverly Guy-Sheftall, editor of Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought and Director of the Women's Center, Spelman College "Bringing together many groundbreaking articulations of womanist thought, Layli Philips has assembled a superb collection. The Womanist Reader is essential reading for womanists, feminists, activists, and scholars in many disciplines, including women’s studies, Africana studies, African-American Studies, ethnic studies, and American Studies." —AnaLouise Keating, coeditor of this bridge we call home and Professor of Women’s Studies, Texas Woman's University"This important reader is a theoretical and methodological breakthrough in our understanding of womanist scholarship from a wide array of disciplines. This is essential reading that highlights the contributions of womanism to gender theory and praxis." —Filomina Steady, editor of The Black Woman Cross-Culturally and Professor and Chair of Africana Studies, Wellesley College "Layli Phillips' comprehensive anthology is a much-needed reader for today and for generations to come. The Womanist Reader chronicles twenty-five years of juxtapositioned insights and empowering revelations by womanists across the disciplines."—Katie G. Cannon, author of Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black CommunityTable of ContentsIntroduction. Womanism: On Its Own Layli Phillips Part 1: Birthplaces, Birthmothers: Womanist Origins Alice Walker’s Womanism Coming Apart (1979) Alice Walker. Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson (1981) Alice Walker. From In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983) Alice Walker. Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi’s African Womanism Womanism: The Dynamics of the Contemporary Black Female Novel in English (1985) Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi. Clenora Hudson-Weems’s Africana Womanism Cultural and Agenda Conflicts in Academia: Critical Issues in Africana Women’s Studies (1989) Clenora Hudson-Weems. Africana Womanism (1993) Clenora Hudson-Weems. Part 2: Womanist Kinfolk: Sisters, Brothers, Daughters, and Sons on Womanism. Sisters and Brothers: Black Feminists on Womanism What’s in a Name? Womanism, Black Feminism, and Beyond (1996) Patricia Hill Collins. A Black Man’s Place in Black Feminist Criticism (1998) Michael Awkward. Daughters and Sons: The Birth of Womanist Identity Who’s Schooling Who? Black Women and the Bringing of the Everyday into Academe, or, Why We Started the Womanist (1995) Layli Phillips & Barbara McCaskill. To Be Black, Male, and Feminist: Making Womanist Space for Black Men (1997) Gary L. Lemons. Part 3: Womanist Theory & Praxis: Womanism in the Disciplines. Literature & Literary Criticism Some Implications of Womanist Theory (1986) Sherley Anne Williams. A Womanist Production of Truths: The Use of Myths in Amy Tan (1995) Wenying Xu. Theology Womanist Theology: Black Women’s Voices (1987) Delores S. Williams. Christian Ethics and Theology in Womanist Perspective (1989) Cheryl J. Sanders, Katie G. Cannon, Emilie M. Townes, Shawn M. Copeland, bell hooks, and Cheryl Townsend Gilkes. History Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke (1989) Elsa Barkley Brown. Theatre & Film Studies Dialogic Modes of Representing Africa(s): Womanist Film (1991) Mark A. Reid. Communication & Media Studies A Womanist Looks at the Million Man March (1996) Geneva Smitherman Assessing Womanist Thought: The Rhetoric of Susan L. Taylor (2000) Janice D. Hamlet. Psychology Womanist Archetypal Psychology: A Model of Counseling Black Women and Couples Based on Yoruba Mythology (2005) Kim Váz. Anthropology Portraits of Mujeres Desjuiciadas: Womanist Pedagogies of the Everyday, the Mundane, and the Ordinary (2001) Ruth Trinidad Galván. Education Giving Voice: An Inclusive Model of Instruction – A Womanist Perspective (1994) Vanessa Sheared. A Womanist Experience of Caring: Understanding the Pegagogy of Exemplary Black Women Teachers (2002) Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant Social Work Elizabeth Ross Haynes: An African American Reformer of Consciousness, 1908-1940 (1997) Iris Carlton-LaNey. Nursing Science Womanist Ways of Knowing: Theoretical Considerations for Research with African American Women (2000) JoAnne Banks-Wallace. Sexuality Studies Kuaering Queer Theory: My Autocritography and a Race-Conscious, Womanist, Transnational Turn (2003) Wenshu Lee. Architecture/Urban Studies Critical Spatial Literacy: A Womanist Positionality and the Spatio-temporal Construction of Black Family Life (2004) Epifania Akosua Amoo-Adare. Part 4: Critiquing the Womanist Idea. The Language of Womanism: Rethinking Difference (1997) Helen (charles). Warrior Marks: Global Womanism’s Neo-colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context (2001) Inderpal Grewal & Caren Kaplan. Part 5: Womanist Resources. A Womanist Bibliography (including Internet resources)
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University of California Press The Country of Football
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Kegan Paul Population Health Nutritn In The Sahel Issues in
Book SynopsisThis collection of studies, first published in 1985, describes some contemporary problems of selected pastoral and agro-pastoral communities of the West African Sahel. Table of Contents1. Issues in the study of the Demography of Sahelian Pastoralists and Agro-pastoralists 2. The Recent Demographic Surveys in Mali and their main Findings 3. The Enumeration of Nomads and Semi-Nomads: Methodology and Selected Results from the 1976 Census of Mali 4. A Demographic Profile of the Fulani and Central Mali with Special Emphasis on Infant and Child Mortality 5. Demographic Characteristics and Trends Amongst the Nomads of Mauritania 6. Mixed Herding and the Demographic Parameters of Domestic Animals in Arid and Semi-Arid Zones of Tropical Africa 7. Land Tenure Practice and Development Problems in Mali 8. The Reluctant Spouse and the Illegitimate Slave 9. Child Mortality and the Care of Children in Rural Mali 10. Nutrition Amongst a Group of WoDaaBe Pastoralists in Niger 11. Preliminary Findings on the Diet and Nutritional Status of Some Tamasheq and Fulani groups in the Niger Delta of Central Mali 12. Assessing the Components of Seasonal Stress Amongst Fulani of the Seno-Mango, Central Mali 13. Design of a Food Intake Study in two Bambara Villages in the Segou Region of Mali with Preliminary Findings 14. The Health of Nomads and Semi-Nomads of the Malian Gourma 15. The World Fertility Survey
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Taylor & Francis Gender Sexuality and Material Objects in English
Book SynopsisAn important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England, this study analyzes female- and male-authored lyrics to illuminate how gender and sexuality inflected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets' conceptualization of relations among people and things, human and non-human subjects and objects. Pamela S. Hammons examines lyrics from both manuscript and print collectionsâincluding the verse of authors ranging from Robert Herrick, John Donne, and Ben Jonson to Margaret Cavendish, Lucy Hutchinson, and Aemilia Lanyerâand situates them in relation to legal theories, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and epics. Her approach fills a crucial gap in the conversation, which has focused upon drama and male-authored works, by foregrounding the significance of the lyric and women's writing. Hammons exposes the poetic strategies sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English women used to assert themselves as subjects of propeTrade Review'...an exceptionally strong strong study of seventeenth century British poetry and its important-even crucial-relationship to a still larger, richer discourse of subjects and obects, gifts and debts, owners and renters, sovereigns and petitioners which informed the early modern worlds of economies and politics, organized an emerging print culture, and shaped many ideas about sexuality and gender.' Elizabeth Mazzola, The City College of New York, USA and author of Women's Wealth and Women's Writing in Early Modern England 'Pamela Hammons's book is a well-researched contribution to the growing list of works that strive to understand women's position in early modern culture as well as the literary landscape of that culture.'Clio '... Hammons offers an insightful consideration of the ways that early modern male and female authors conceptualize and present their relationship to important small items and to larger possessions, such as houses or land. It illuminates our understanding of both poetry and of material culture in early modern England and offers a valuable range of texts and objects that interact in ways that will inform future scholarship.' Renaissance Studies '... this is a lovely book that repeatedly reminds us of the many and insoluble ties that early modern poetry had to England's rich material culture.' Journal of British Studies '... Hammons's study successfully reveals ways in which early modern English poetry, despite thematic and stylistic overlap, presents a definite and defining gender divide. This divide illustrates the patriarchal perspectives and anxieties regarding female agency evident in poetry by male authors, as well as the tactics of women poets to give voice to independent, subjective identities, and economic agency, or female aspiration to such dominated positions of material ownership.' Parergon '...Hammons deftly finds surprising things to say instead of just validating the quality of women's writings...Hammons' books should be laudTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: his and hers; Part I Love Tokens: Robert Herrick's gift trouble; Women's poetic portraits of love tokens in heteroerotic courtship; Women's poetic portraits of love tokens in same-sex and divine relationships. Part II Houses and Land: The gendered imagination of real property in Renaissance England; Margaret Cavendish's disguised possession; Lucy Hutchinson's polluted palaces and ekphrastic empire; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis The Banality of Denial
Book SynopsisThe Banality of Denial examines the attitudes of the State of Israel and its leading institutions toward the Armenian Genocide. Israel's view of this issue has special significance and deserves an attentive study, as it is a country composed of a people who were victims of the Holocaust. The Banality of Denial seeks both to examine the passive, indifferent Israeli attitude towards the Armenian Genocide, and to explore active Israeli measures to undermine attempts at safeguarding the memory of the Armenian victims of the Turkish persecution.Such an inquiry into attempts at denial by Israeli institutions and leading figures of Israel's political, security, academic, and Holocaust memory-preservation elite has not merely an academic significance. It has considerable political relevance, both symbolic and tangible.In The Banality of Denial--as in Auron's previous work--moral, philosophical, and theoretical questions are of paramount importance. BTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: The Holocaust in Jewish Identity and Memory; 2: Denials of the Armenian Genocide; 3: Israel-Turkey Relations; 4: Genocide and Israeli Politics; 5: The Armenian Genocide’s Recognition by States: The Israeli Aspect; 6: Genocide Education in Israel; 7: A Moralistic-Humanistic Attitude: Sarid’s Statement, 2000; 8: The Sphere of the Media; 9: The Israeli Academy and the Armenian Genocide; 10: Conclusions
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Stanford University Press The Lady of Linshui
Book SynopsisThis book is a detailed examination of a Chinese women's cult that confronts the dangers of pregnancy, childbirth, and childhood diseases.Trade Review"In the study of Chinese religion, there are very few books that concentrate so intensively on a single goddess . . . This book, therefore, enriches our understanding of Chinese religion, and I recommend it to readers interested in religious studies, anthropology, and gender studies."—Wei-Ping Lin, Journal of Religious"It is in the dense texture of Baptandier's work and her refusal to flatten categories of religious behavior, gender, or morality that I see its greatest contribution to scholarship on Chinese religion. In terms of the study of practice the work has much to offer those just entering graduate studies in Anthropology and should be required reading for anyone considering fieldwork in the Chinese cultural sphere . . . I recommend Brigitte Baptandier's The Lady of Linshui for its rich collection of mythological and ritual material and discussion of lived religious practices."—Alison R. Marshall, Journal of Chinese Religion"This work, and expanded translation of the author's La Dame-du-bord-de-l'eau, is an important addition to exploration of Chinese religion and local history through the study of cults . . . Baptandier's authority as an ethnographers of Chinese religion is impressive and her familiarity with relevant Daoist sources is unmatched."—Donald S. Sutton, American Historical Review"This book is the fruit of the author's research of many years. It is indispensable reading for anyone interested in Chinese religion, gender studies, ritual studies, and the rise and development of local cults. The book has an extensive bibliography and a helpful index . . . We should be grateful for this book which opens up new avenues for future research in so many interesting areas concerning Chinese goddesses and their cults."—Études Chinoises"The female side of Chinese religion looms so large, but has actually received very little attention from scholars. Baptandier boldly weaves a remarkable range of anthropological and sinological sources in this rich, multi-layered text, further advancing our understanding of women in Chinese society while revealing the full potential of meanings inherent in this cult to a woman."—Robert Weller, Boston University"[A]n anthropological account of a little-known cult, embedded in a rich description of its historical texts . . . The book's originality is in both the material and the way in which the author has made a complex of legends and surviving rituals available to an audience that will include all those interested in anthropology, healing, religion, and gender studies at undergraduate level and above . . . the first book, certainly in English, to provide in-depth insight into the role of women in Chinese religion."—China Quarterly"[A] powerful, brilliantly presented, and immensely rich exploration of the myth of the goddess, combined with an effective examination of roles, practices, and symbolic connections in traditional China. The Lady of Linshui is a worthy heir to the myth studies of the great pioneers."—Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations xxx Preface xxx Translator's Note xxx Introduction 1 1. Sexual Categories 000 2. The Goddess of Pregnancy Has an Abortion and Returns to Mt. L' 000 3. The Bridge of a Hundred Flowers 000 4. Cinnabar Cloud Monkey 000 5. The Thirty-six Pojie 000 6. The God of the Soil and the Lady of the Birth Register 000 7. Women and the Temple: the "Celestial Flower" 000 8. Children and the Temple: the Passes (guan) 000 9. Rituals of the Flowers and Passes 000 10. Chen Jinggu's Medium 000 Conclusion 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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Louisiana State University Press French Cajun Creole Houma
Book SynopsisMore than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identified in south Louisiana, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most famous. In this guide to the social, cultural, and linguistic variation within Louisiana's French-speaking region, Carl Brasseaux presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all the Francophone communities.
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