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Book SynopsisImagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe offers a series of studies focusing on the problems of conceptualisation of social group identities, including national, royal, aristocratic, regional, urban, religious, and gendered communities. The geographical focus of the case studies presented in this volume range from Wales and Scotland, to Hungary and Ruthenia, while both narrative and other types of evidence, such as legal texts, are drawn upon. What emerges is how the characteristics and aspirations of communities are exemplified and legitimised through the presentation of the past and an imagined picture of present. By means of its multiple perspectives, this volume offers significant insight into the medieval dynamics of collective mentality and group consciousness. Contributors are Dániel Bagi, Mariusz Bartnicki, Zbigniew Dalewski, Georg Jostkleigrewe, Bartosz Klusek, Paweł Kras, Wojciech Michalski, Martin Nodl, Andrzej Pleszczyński, Euryn Rhys Roberts, Stanisław Rosik, Joanna Sobiesiak, Karol Szejgiec, Michał Tomaszek, Tomasz Tarczyński, Przemysław Tyszka, Tatiana Vilkul, and Przemysław Wiszewski.Trade Review"The volume’s greatest strength is that it shows a multitude of detailed views on the idea of community, providing a broad overview of medieval sources, created at different times and in different socio-cultural contexts". Tomasz Pełech, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Vol. 16.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Map Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Part 1: Dynasty and Power 2 Genealogical Fictions and Chronicle Writing in Central East Europe in the 11th–13th Centuries  Dániel Bagi 3 Strategies of Creating Dynastic Identity in Central Europe in the 10th-12th Centuries  Zbigniew Dalewski 4 ‘Rex imperator in regno suo’ – An Ideology of Frenchness? Late Medieval France, Its Political Elite and Juridical Discourse  Georg Jostkleigrewe Part 2: Spirituality 5 The King and the Saint against the Scots. The Shaping of English National Identity in the 12th Century Narrative of King Athelstan’s Victory over His Northern Neighbours  Tomasz Tarczyński 6 Objects, Places, and Space in the Process of Constructing Monastic Identities: A Few Examples from the 10th, 11th and 12th Centuries  Michał Tomaszek Part 3: Social Condition and Gender 7 The Law as an Element Organizing and Identifying a Community in the Narratives of the Origins of the Kingdoms of Britain, (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Brittaniae, John of Fordun, Chronica Gentis Scottorum)  Bartosz Klusek 8 Creating the Past and Shaping Identity – Angevin Dynastic Legend (‘Gesta consulum Andegavorum’)  Karol Szejgiec 9 Creating Knightly Identities? Scottish Lords and Their Leaders in the Narratives about Great Moments in Community History (between John Barbour’s The Bruce and Blind Hary’s Wallace)  Wojciech Michalski 10 People and Boyars in the Old Russian Chronicles of the 11th-13th Centuries: Narrative Modelling of Social Identities  Tatiana Vilkul 11 The Identity of Self-Governing Groups (Guilds and Communes) in the Middle Ages and Their Collective Identity  Andrzej Pleszczyński 12 The Conceptualisation of Men and Women by the Authors of Penitentials  Przemysław Tyszka Part 4: Region 13 A Surfeit of Identity? Regional Solidarities, Welsh Identity and the Idea of Britain  Euryn Rhys Roberts 14 Region as a Fluid Social Construct in Medieval Central Europe (11th-15th C.)  Przemysław Wiszewski 15 The Shaping of Post-barbarian Identity: The Example of Pomerania in the 11th-12th Century  Stanisław Rosik Part 5: We and the Others 16 Kievan and Galician-Volodimir Chronicles in the 12th and 13th Centuries: The Ruthenian Ethnos and Foreign People  Mariusz Bartnicki 17 Czechs and Germans; Nationals and Foreigners in the Work of Czech Chroniclers: From Cosmas of Prague (12th Century) to the Chronicle of the So-called Dalimil (14th century)  Joanna Sobiesiak 18 Corporative Interests Versus Nationalism. Prague University at the Turn of the 15th Century  Martin Nodl 19 The Imagined Communities of Heretics: Constructing the Identity of the Religious Enemy in the Late Middle Ages  Paweł Kras Index

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Book SynopsisTo contend with others is to contend with ourselves. The way we “other” others, by identifying and reinforcing social distance, is more a product of who we are and who we want to be than it is about “others.” Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners questions such consolidation and polarization of identities in representations ranging from migrants and refugees, to terrorist labels, to constructions of the local. Inclusive and exclusive identities are observed through often arbitrary yet strategically ambiguous lines of class, religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, social status, and geography. However, despite any arbitrariness in definition, there are very real consequences for the emotional, physical, and psychological well-being of those constructed as “the other”, as well as legal governance implications involving human rights and wider sociopolitical ethics. From practical, professional, and political-philosophical points of view, this collection examines what it means to be, or to construct, the Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners. Contributors are David Elijah Bell, Adina Camenisch, Hanna Jagtenberg, Seraina Müller, Lana Pavić, Michelle Ryan, Marissa Sonnis-Bell and Tomasso Trilló.

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

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

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Trade Review"The authors argue that queer, black, brown, and foreign bodies, and the so-called threats they represent, such as immigration reform and same-sex marriage, have been effectively linked with terrorism. These awful conflations … are enduring and help to explain the contradictions of contemporary U.S. politics. We are far from a post post-9/11 world." – Ronald R. Sundstrom, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of San Francisco "If you want to understand how a new biopolitics of citizenship is containing bodies of the nation by re-inscribing sex and race into it and how this new biopolitics is being resisted you must read this book." – Engin F. Isin, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, The Open University, UKTable of ContentsWilliam C. Gay: Editorial Foreword Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo: Preface Introduction G. W. Bush Administration Narratives of Threat and Containment Same-Sex Marriage as “Domestic Terrorism” Bodies that Resisted Containment The Merger of Immigration, Citizenship, and Same-Sex Marriage Constructions of Threat and the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign Threatening Bodies in the Age of Obama Conclusion Works Cited About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume present a thorough re-evaluation of the idea of place for the twenty-first century, linking across theoretical interests in space and spatialisation and in motion and mobility. ‘Placing’ becomes an active process that happens in different parts of the world, and there is work here from the countries of the United Kingdom, from Ireland, the USA, Australia and mainland Europe. Placing also happens in different contexts, in the production of visual images, in translation, in performance and in poetry that is both ‘there’ and ‘here’. The range of poets under consideration matches the breadth of the range of the contributors. International in scope, and drawn from a variety of practices and processes, their combination in a single volume leads to unusual connections and new readings of their work.Trade ReviewWinner of the M. Wynn Thomas Prize in the Open Category: Dr Matt Jarvis with his paper "In/Human Place: The poetry of John Barnie" – IJWWE. "This year's M. Wynn Thomas Prize winner in the Open Category is Dr Matt Jarvis with his paper 'In/Human Place: The poetry of John Barnie'." – IJWWE and the proud reaction of the winnerTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Ian Davidson: Introduction Peter Barry: Just Looking Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese: Placing the Poem in Translation Alice Entwistle: Taking Place: Deixis, Collaboration and the Gender Politics of the Aesthetic Zoë Skoulding: Lisa Samuels: Unknown Cities Harriet Tarlo: Open Field: Reading Field as Place and Poetics Matthew Jarvis: In/human Place: The Poetry of John Barnie John Kinsella: The Movements of Yellow-Rumped Thornbills: Twittering Machines Nerys Williams: Lyric Encounters with Other Places: Juliana Spahr’s this connection of everyone with lungs and Robert Minhinnick’s ‘An Isotope dreaming’ Kaia Sand: Affording Entrance Jules Boykoff: Poets as Experimental Geographers: Mark Nowak, Kaia Sand and the Re-composition of Political-Historical Space John Wrighton: Ethnopoetics and the Performativity of Place: Jerome Rothenberg and ‘That Dada Strain’ Carol Watts: Zeta Landscape: Poetry, Place, Pastoral Index List of Illustrations

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Book SynopsisThis study presents a unique collection of essays which focus on the relationships among form, aesthetics, and transnational women’s writing produced in recent years. The essays in this volume treat literary works from diverse cultures and geographies, concentrating on the intersections of theory and literature. This results in a wide spectrum of identities and texts – including the work of Swedish poet Aase Berg, the Indian translation market, the Chicana novel, creative non-fiction by Croatian writer Dubravka Ugrešić, and multilingual hybrid texts by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha – in order to provide a framework for an overarching theory of transnationalism as it interacts with newer paradigms of gendered identity and the new forms of literature to which they contribute. Transnationalism and Resistance offers a multifaceted approach to transnational studies and constitutes a cogent analysis of the ways in which women’s writing informs contemporary global literary production. This volume is of interest for scholars in women’s studies, literature, the social sciences, cultural studies and all other fields that take an interest in writing that addresses contemporary global issues.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Adele Parker and Stephenie Young: Experience and Experiment in a Transnational Perspective Bodies of Female Experience and Experiment Flore Chevaillier: Erotics and Corporeality in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE Liamar Durán Almarza: “At Home at the Border”: Performing the Transcultural Body in Josefina Báez’s Dominicanish Johannes Göransson: “Antibody”: Aase Berg’s Grotesque Poetry and the Swedish Welfare State Trauma, Resistance, Nation Anastasia Valassopoulos: Assia Djebar’s Seductive Trails in So Vast the Prison: “A Philosopher’s Thought Experiment”? Tamara Lea Spira: Remembering Trauma, Refusing Disappearance: Corregidora, Bastard Out of Carolina, and the Transnational Labors of Memory Ruben Murillo: ¿Ser o no ser?: Where Death, Violence, and Silence Intersect in Margarita Cota-Cárdenas’ Puppet Stephenie Young: Transnational Memories and a Post-Yugoslav Writer Limits of Transnationalism Adele Parker: Writing as Mirror: Origins and Identities in the Work of Brina Svit Maria-Theresia Holub: Language Borders/Border Languages Ulrike Tancke: Beyond “Helpless Heterogeneity”: Difference and Identity in Contemporary British Women’s Fictions of Migration Epilogue: Marketing Transnationalism Pavithra Narayanan: Transcending Borders in Publishing: The Example of Mallika Sengupta, Bengali Woman Writer Notes on Contributors Index

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