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Book SynopsisThe book will raise awareness about the dramatic changes we are facing and help the reader to make sense of the future and of the importance to use future scenarios as a tool to make better decisions today. It will also be useful to understand new emerging technologies such as blockchain, AI, robotics, biotechnologies and their possible impacts on society and on our everyday life. Therefore this book can be considered as a complete guide to 2050, able to give the readers the opportunity to immerse themselves in this destination and discover all the most fascinating secrets.

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Trade Review'Ein Buch mit einer soliden und abgewogenen Diskussion der Fakten...' Peter Hertz, Gnomon, 1980. '...très stimulant et très neuf par beaucoup d'aspects...' P. le Roux, Revue des Études Anciennes, 1980.

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Trade Review'...tire parti du lieu même de sa réunion pour offrir du mithraisme un panorama romain passionant autant qu'éclairant...un instrument de travail bien conçu...' Gilles Bounoure, Revue des Etudes Grecques, 1982. 'The astronomical and astrological papers appeared very imaginative and insightful...' G. Ronald Kastner, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1982. '...einem Phänomen, dessen Erforschung noch manche wissenschaftliche Bemühungen erfordert, zu denen dieser Band einen ausgezeichneten Beitrag leistet.' Alois Kehl, Anthropos, 1981. 'Le procès-verbal détaillé des débats est une des richesses de ce copieux volume...Les résultats de la recherche interdisciplinaire consignée dans Mysteria Mithrae démontrent que tous les «séminaires» internationaux ne sont pas vains.' Robert Turcan, Revue des Études Anciennes, 1980. '...un exemple réussi de recherche interdisciplinaire.' Robert Turcan, Revue de l'Histoire des Religions, 1981.

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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of histories of various aspects of American sociology of religion. The contributions range from descriptions of early dissertations, accounts of changes in theoretical conceptualization, the evolution of studies of particular denominations, to the rise of new areas of inquiry such as globalization, feminism, new religions, and the study of the religious traditions of Latino/a Americans. Taken as a whole, the volume complements rather than duplicates commemorative issues of the relevant journals, which focused on the scholarly organizations in the field. It represents a first effort to develop an organized treatment of the fascinating history of the specialty in the U.S.A.

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Book SynopsisIn 1981, the European and World Values surveys started the empirical investigation of cultural values on a global scale. This volume builds upon the findings of these surveys and analyzes value change in a number of key countries around the globe. The authors track value change and stability in their respective countries during the last decade (the last two decades where data are available) of the 20th century. All authors have been actively involved in value surveys and have a great deal of expertise in countries that they write on. Thus, the volume is a valuable complement to studies that deal with the topic from a global perspective without providing any detail about individual societies. The countries covered are: Argentina, Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United States.

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Book SynopsisThe Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on European-African relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Factual Overview I. Sub-Saharan Africa (Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber & Klaas van Walraven) II. The United Nations and Sub-Saharan Africa (Linnea Bergholm) III. African-European Relations (Sven Grimm) IV. West Africa (Klaas van Walraven) Benin (Cédric Mayrargue) Burkina Faso (Sabine Luning) Cape Verde (Gerhard Seibert) Côte d’Ivoire (Bruno Losch) Gambia (Abdoulaye Saine) Ghana (Paul Nugent) Guinea (Mike McGovern) Guinea-Bissau (Nuno Vaz) Liberia (Stephen Ellis) Mali (Martin van Vliet & Walter van Beek) Mauritania (Claes Olsson & Helena Olsson) Niger (Klaas van Walraven) Nigeria (Heinrich Bergstresser) Senegal (Gerti Hesseling) Sierra Leone (Krijn Peters) Togo (Dirk Kohnert) V. Central Africa (Andreas Mehler) Cameroon (Piet Konings) Central African Republic (Andreas Mehler) Chad (Mirjam de Bruijn & Han van Dijk) Congo (Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga) Democratic Repulic of Congo (Denis M. Tull) Equatorial Guinea (Cord Jakobeit) Gabon (Douglas A. Yates) São Tomé and Príncipe (Gerhard Seibert) VI. Eastern Africa (Rolf Hofmeier) Burundi (Marina Rafti & An Ansoms) Comoros (Rolf Hofmeier) Djibouti (Qinisile Delwa) Eritrea (Nicole Hirt) Ethiopia (Jon Abbink) Kenya (Marcel Rutten) Rwanda (Jonas Ewald) Seychelles (Rolf Hofmeier) Somalia (Roland Marchal) Sudan (Anders Bjørkelo) Tanzania (Kurt Hirschler & Rolf Hofmeier) Uganda (Volker Weyel) VII. Southern Africa (Henning Melber) Angola (Steve Kibble) Botswana (Matthias Basedau & Christian von Soest) Lesotho (Roger Southall) Madagascar (Richard R. Marcus) Malawi (Roger Tangri & Lewis B. Dzimbiri) Mauritius (Klaus-Peter Treydte) Mozambique (Joseph Hanlon) Namibia (Henning Melber) South Africa (Ineke van Kessel) Swaziland (John Daniel & Marisha Ramdeen) Zambia (Gero Erdmann) Zimbabwe (Amin Y. Kamete) List of Authors

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Book SynopsisContemporary Africa is undergoing a period of unprecedented urban expansion, which is throwing up new challenges in the provision of essential services and contentious questions about ownership of urban spaces. This volume explores the interconnections between these processes, whilst avoiding the tendency to forget that cities are also embedded in deeper historical processes that are integral to the framing of entitlements. Histories of migrancy and the creation of urban 'stranger' communities are fundamental in deciding who lives where and what this means, materially and socially. The gated communities that are springing up are often layered across older forms of urban segregation and/or segmentation. Urban water and food supply, the management of urban land claims, inequality and popular culture are closely examined.Trade ReviewReview in: African Studies Review Vol. 53 No. 1. ‘This book offers further evidence of the increasing interconnectivity and vibrancy of African studies across Western Europe. It emerged from papers presented to a themed conference in Scotland in 2006 of the Africa–Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS), the third book in the past five years to be published in AEGIS’s book series with Brill. ….. Moreover, this book’s intellectual rigor and regional breadth—both in its stretch across sub-Saharan Africa and its blending of emergent British, French, Belgian, Portuguese, and Italian traditions of African studies— make it a welcome addition to the expanding bookcase of African urban studies’.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Figures, Tables and Maps ................................................................. vii Introduction ........................................................................................ 1 Francesca Locatelli and Paul Nugent Hinges and Fringes: Conceptualising the Peri-urban in Central Africa .......... Theodore Trefon Angolan Cities: Urban (Re)segregation? ........................................ 37 Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues Who Control the Streets? Crime, ‘Communities’ and the State in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg ........... 55 Claire Bénit-Gbaff ou African Cities: Competing Claims on Urban Land ..................... 81 Paul Jenkins Contesting for Space in an Urban Centre: The Omo Onile Syndrome in Lagos ......... 109 Rufus T. Akinyele ‘Water Wars’ in Kumasi, Ghana ...................................................... 135 Tom C. McCaskie Coping with Water Scarcity: The Social and Environmental Impact of the 1982–1992 Droughts on Makokoba Township, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe .................................................................... 157 Muchaparara Musemwa Dealing with ‘Strangers’: Allocating Urban Space to Migrants in Nigeria and French West Africa, End of the Nineteenth Century to 1960 ................................................ 187 Laurent Fourchard Beyond the Campo Cintato: Prostitutes, Migrants and ‘Criminals’ in Colonial Asmara (Eritrea), 1890–1941 ..... 219 Francesca Locatelli The Urban Melting Pot in East Africa: Ethnicity and Urban Growth in Kampala and Dar es Salaam ......... 241 Deborah Fahy Bryceson Popular Music, Identity and Politics in a Colonial Urban Space: The Case of Mwanza, Tanzania (1945–1961).. 261 Maria Suriano List of Contributors ........................................................................... 291 Index .................................................................................................... 299

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Book SynopsisSpace has been reintroduced as an analytical category to the humanities and social sciences in the early 1990s. African Studies is one of the fields of knowledge production where the so-called spatial turn has proved to be extremely fruitful. The continent provides ample evidence for complex processes of deterritorialisation (migration, globalisation, sub-nationalisms) and reterritorialisation (new regionalisms, processes of bordering, etc.). These dialectical processes are driven by a variety of actors: political elites, multinational companies, warlords, donor governments, local traders, international NGOs, etc. As a result substantial parts of Africa witness the emergence of new regimes of territoriality: re-ordered states, transnational and sub-national entities, new localities and transborder formations. This volume brings together contributions from anthropology, history, geography and political science.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction: The spatial turn in African studies ........................ 1 Ulf Engel and Paul Nugent Actors, places, regions, and global forces: An essay on the spatial history of Africa since 1700 ......... 11 Allen M. Howard State, region and space in Africa .................................................... 45 Fredrik Söderbaum and Ian Taylor Siamese twin towns and unitary concepts in border inequality .................................................................. 71 David B. Coplan Respacing for peace, security and sustainable development: The African Union Border Programme in European comparative historical perspective ............................................. 89 Anthony I. Asiwaju Staying put in moving sands. The stepwise migration process of sub-Saharan African migrants heading north .............. 113 Joris Schapendonk Reshaping Congolese statehood in the midst of crisis and transition .................................. 139 Timothy Raeymaekers and Koen Vlassenroot The neo-tribal competitive order in the borderland of Egypt and Libya ................................. 169 Thomas Hüsken List of contributors ............................................................................ 207 Index .................................................................................................... 211

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Book SynopsisMobilization against apartheid, the campaign against blood diamonds, the women's movement in Liberia where Africa's first female head of state was elected in 2005: these are all examples of socially based movements that have had a major effect on Africa's recent history. Yet the most influential theories concerning social movements worldwide have paid little heed to Africa, basing themselves more often on cases drawn from other continents. This volume draws together contributions from some leading writers on social movements in Africa, setting empirical studies alongside a couple of theoretical chapters. Africa’s social movements have distinctive features that are related to the continent’s specific history.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 1 Introduction: African social movements or social movements in Africa? Stephen Ellis & Ineke van Kessel 2 Social movement theory: Past, presence & prospects Jacquelien van Stekelenburg & Bert Klandermans 3 Speaking to global debates through a national and continental lens: South African and African social movements in comparative perspective Adam Habib & Paul Opoku-Mensah CASE STUDIES 4 African civil society, ‘Blood Diamonds’ and the Kimberley Process Lansana Gberie 5 The Islamic Courts Union: The ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement Jon Abbink 6 Liberia’s women acting for peace: Collective action in a war-affected country Veronika Fuest 7 Nurtured from the pulpit: The emergence and growth of Malawi’s democracy movement Boniface Dulani 8 Bare-foot activists: Transformations in the Haratine movement in Mauritania Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem 9 An Islamic social movement in contemporary West Africa: NASFAT of Nigeria Benjamin Soares 10 The United Democratic Front’s legacy in South Africa: Mission accomplished or vision betrayed? Ineke van Kessel 11 ‘Campus Cults’ in Nigeria: The development of an anti-social movement Stephen Ellis Bibliography List of authors

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Book SynopsisThe 2009 edition of the Korea yearbook contains concise overview articles covering domestic developments and the economy in both South and North Korea as well as inter-Korean relations and foreign relations of the two Koreas in 2008. A detailed chronology complements these articles. South Korea-related refereed articles in the 2009 edition deal with the internal politics of the Democratic Labour Party, the origins of the nuclear industry, industrial relations in the metals sector, Cheju island as a medical tourism hub, President Lee Myung-bak as seen through political cartoons, the comfort women movement's regionalisation process and perceptions of North Korean women. Additional refereed articles analyse the reliability of North Korean survey data, the migration experience of North Korean refugees, and sports-related cooperation between the two Koreas.Table of ContentsPreface Chronology of Events in the Korean Peninsula 2008 South Korea in 2008: Domestic Developments and the Economy - Patrick Köllner North Korea in 2008: Domestic Developments and Economy - Rüdiger Frank Relations Between the Two Koreas in 2008 - Sabine Burghart and James E. Hoare Foreign Relations of the Two Koreas in 2008 - James E. Hoare The South Korean Left’s ‘Northern Question’ - Joonbum Bae ‘Atoms for Sale’: From ‘Atoms for Peace’ (South Korea) to ‘Weaponized’ Plutonium (North Korea), 1955-2009 - John P. DiMoia Dynamics of Korean Industrial Relations: Challenges for Foreign Invested Companies in the Metal Sector - Peter Kloepping Cheju Island as a Medical Tourism Hub in Northeast Asia - Jürgen Mühl Scapegoat, Beggar and President for the Economy: The Image of Lee Myung-bak as Seen through Political Cartoons in Chosun Ilbo and Hankyoreh - Katharina Polley The Korean Comfort Women Movement and the Formation of a Public Sphere in East Asia - Thomas Kern and Sang-hui Nam The Social Construction of North Korean Women’s Identity in South Korea: Romanticisation, Victimisation and Vilification - Mikyoung Kim Statistical Explorations in Terra Incognita: How Reliable are North Korean Survey Data? - Daniel Schwekendiek Migration Experiences of North Korean Refugees: Survey Evidence from China - Yoonok Chang, Stephan Haggard, and Marcus Noland Playing the Game? Sport and the Two Koreas - Brian Bridges

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Book SynopsisDiverse contractual arrangements and forms of exchange established between smallholder farmers, their households and community work groups, are important to our understanding of processes of agrarian transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, little has been written in this area. Challenging portrayals of West African female farmers as a homogenous group, the present study provides an ethnographic account of the contractual relations established between female hosts and migrants, in the exchange of land and labour for agrarian production in a Gambian community. Further, it demonstrates the way in which, despite the liberalization of the economy, local cultural practices, such as that of entrustment, continue to be of significance in affecting the nature and particular character of agrarian transformation and postcolonial capitalist development.

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Book SynopsisThe settlement of the Hebrides is usually considered in terms of the state formation agenda. Yet the area was subject to successive attempts at plantation, largely overlooked in historical narrative. Aonghas MacCoinnich’s study, Plantation and Civility, explores these plantations against the background of a Lowland-Highland cultural divide and competition over resources. The Macleod of Lewis clan, ‘uncivil’, Gaelic Highlanders, were dispossessed by the Lowland, ‘civil,’ Fife Adventurers, 1598-1609. Despite the collapse of this Lowland Plantation, however, the recourse to the Mackenzie clan, often thought a failure of policy, was instead a pragmatic response to an intractable problem. The Mackenzies also pursued the civility agenda treating with Dutch partners and fending off their English rivals in order to develop their plantation.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements xi List of Illustrations xiv List of Maps xv Abbreviations xvi Conventions xx 1 The Conditions for Plantation. The Scottish Context Pre 1598 1 Introduction 1 Highlands and Lowlands – Cultural and Linguistic Divergence 3 From Barbarity to Civility 11 Hume et al & Civility 16 Winning Hearts and Minds 17 Tribalism vs Civility? The Example of the Adventurers 19 Personal Qualities 20 Civilitie and the Mackenzie Clan 23 Fisheries 25 Conclusion 27 2 The Lordship of the Macleods of Lewis 30 Introduction 30 Macleod’s Family 32 The Ewill Trowbles of the Lewis 34 The Macleods of Lewis and the Old Order 37 Rebellion, 1502–1538 45 The Extension of Royal Control and its Consequences 47 A Dysfunctional Family? Three Torcaills, 1566 and all that 57 The Wars of the ‘Bastards’? The ‘Ewill Trowbles’ of Lewis 65 The Macleods of Lewis and the Wider World 71 Trained for War? The Irish Dimension 74 Forfeiture and Plantation 80 Niall Odhar, the Brieves, Forts and Duin 83 Duin – Contexts 87 Conclusion 90 3 The Fife Adventurers and the Plantation of Lewis, 1598–1609 91 Introduction 91 The Lead-up to Plantation: From 1587 to 1598 95 ‘Natives’ and their Relations with the Planters 106 ‘Articlis to be Contracted amongst the Societie of the Lewis’ 108 Ministers, Religion and the Sabbath 112 Building a Civil Town 118 Buildings and Fortifications in the Plantation 124 1607–1609, Highland Policy & the Third Attempt 132 The Planters and the Mackenzies 137 The Working Plantation: The Potential for Success 141 Victuals, Grain and the Vulnerable Supply Line 145 Agricultural Potential 149 Relations with the Natives: Divide and Rule? 151 The Aftermath for the Planters 164 Plantation: Transferrable Skills 170 Participation, Identity and Casualty Rates? 171 Conclusion 174 4 The Mackenzies and Their Plantation of Lewis 176 Introduction 176 Civility, Plantation, Royal Policy and Clan Mackenzie 176 The Acquisition of Lewis 185 The Wider Gaelic World and the Broader Hebridean Context 188 The Mackenzies and the Settlement of the Northern Hebrides 194 The Financial Implications of Plantation 202 The Costs of Accommodation with the New Regime 209 The Last of the Free 213 Fir Innse Gall 214 Backs to the Wall – The End of the Macleods of Lewis 218 The New Order 224 Handling the Land 229 Building a Plantation 236 The Church 238 Winning Hearts and Minds? 244 Eirthir nan Iasg – the Mackenzies in Lewis after 1610 248 Conclusion 254 5 The Mackenzie and the Dutch, 1628–1631 258 Introduction 258 Highland Contacts and Networks 260 Mackenzie Commercial Initiatives & Dutch Contacts 262 Scottish Opposition to Seaforth’s Dutch Enclave 279 Lord Lorne and Scottish Opposition to Seaforth’s Schemes 283 Conclusion 287 6 The English in the Isles and the British Fishery Company 290 Introduction 290 English Antecedence in the Hebrides 291 King James and English in the Isles, 1603–1610 294 Monson, Mason and their Early Experiences in the Hebrides 298 Captain Mason and the Assize Fishing of the North Isles 299 Mason’s Career: Piracy, Plantation and Naval Procurement 302 Building a Fleet: Timber and Iron 308 The Emergence of the English interest and the British Fishery 310 Mare Liberum? 310 Ideology or Prejudice? Sir William Monson and Civility 312 English Mercantile Connections with the Netherlands? 316 English Plantation in Stornoway: Maps and Descriptions 321 The Earls of Seaforth and the English 327 Anglo-Scottish Tension in the Hebrides from 1634 329 Conclusion 334 7 Conclusion 336 Appendices 365 A1 A Description of the Lewis Fisheries, c. 1631 (Part 1) 365 A2 A Description of the Lewis Fisheries, 1631 (Part 2) 367 B1 Some Siol Torcaill Family Relationships, 1572 369 C1 The Principal Adventurers in Lewis, 1598–1609 370 C2 The Minister’s Account of the Plantation of Lewis, c. 1607 370 C3 Contract Signed by the Portioners of Lewis, 1600 381 C4 Non-‘Native’ Persons, Stornoway, 1598–1609 386 C5 The Known un-Knowns in Lewis, 1598–1609 399 C6 Some Financial Transactions of the Forrets of Fingask, 1598–1609 401 C7 Associates of and Witnesses for the Forrets of Fingask, 1598–1609 403 C8 Some Financial Transactions of James Spens of Wormiston, 1598–1609 405 C9 Witnesses and Sureties for James Spens of Wormiston, 1598–1609 407 C10 Some Debts Owed by the Learmonths of Balcomie, 1599–1606 409 C11 Some Debts of Robert Lumsden of Airdrie, 1599–1606 410 C12 Some Debts Owed by the Anstruther Family, 1598–1609 412 C13 Fish and the Economy of ‘Cost Syde’ Towns of Fife, 1569–1599 413 D1 Gaelic Poem by Alasdair mac Mhurchaidh, c. 1636 × 1643 415 D2 The Merchants and Fishers of Lewis 1632–34 420 D3 Table – Fishermen & Merchants in Lewis, 1634 421 D4 Some References to Lewis Trade in the Aberdeen Shore Work Accounts, 1623–37 422 D5 Land and People in Lewis, 1610–1718 424 D6 Fishermen, Merchants and Visitors to Lewis, 1609–1669 447D7 Merchants, Burgesses & Lewis Contacts, 1620–1642 452 D8 The Penny Lands of Lewis, c. 1754 455 E1 Commission of Factory, Seaforth to Hamilton, 1628 461 E2 Memorandum, for Dutch Negotiations, c.1628–29 462 E3 Contract, Seaforth and the Zeeland Merchants, 1629 464 E4 Dutch Fishermen in Lewis, 1629 469 E5 Conditions for the Hollanders. No Date, 1629 × 1630 470 E6 Memorandum anent the Hollanders. No Date, 1629 × 1630 473 E7 Mr Bernard Mackenzie & the Lewis Company, 1631 475 F1 Englishmen Present in Lewis, 1630–42 480 F2 Raising Stock for the Company of Lewis, n.d., c.1629–31 485 F3 The Appointment of Captain Mason, n.d., c.1629–31 487 F4 The Projected Costs of a Fishing Bus Fleet, n.d., c.1629–31 487 F5 Calculations of Profit and Loss, the Fishing Fleet, n.d., c.1629–31 489 F6 ‘Plantation of Fishing on the Islands of Scotland’ n.d., c.1629–31 489 F7 Memorandum Regarding English Strategic Interest in the Fisheries, n.d., c.1629–31 494 F8 Description of the Island of Lewis, November 1629 497 F9 Anglo-Scottish Tension at Stornoway, 1634–35 500 F10 Shareholders in the British Fishery Company, 1635 502 G1 Note on Language Choice & Nomenclature 505 G2 Glossary of Scots Gaelic and Scots Terms 507 G3 Gaelic Personal Names and their English Alias 509 Bibliography 511 Unpublished Primary Sources 511 Published Primary Sources 515 Published Secondary Sources 525 Unpublished Dissertations 549 Works of Reference 549 Index 551

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Book SynopsisAfrica abounds with examples of material and immaterial innovations that were envisaged, developed and designed elsewhere yet came to be innovatively and sometimes unexpectedly transformed in Africa. The authors in this volume explore how external innovations (products, technologies, services, institutions and processes) have been appropriated in African societies in order to be acceptable and relevant to local conditions, expectations and demands. Written from different disciplinary perspectives, the chapters demonstrate the depth and richness of innovation in Africa with, in some cases, surprising outcomes. The case studies presented are on subjects as diverse as the wine industry, trading stores, land reforms, washing powder, M-Pesa, cassava, weddings, international borders, guest houses, urban water supply, car technology, shallow wells, and railways and blacksmithing.Table of ContentsContents Maps, figures, tables, boxes and photos Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Transforming innovations in Africa; explorative studies on appropriation in African societies Jan-Bart Gewald, André Leliveld & Iva Peša 2 Who killed innovation in the Cape wine industry? The story of a stuck fermentation c. 1930-1986 Paul Nugent 3 Entrepreneurship, colonial monetary economy and the limits of creativity: Appropriating trading stores in Northern Namibia, 1925-1980 Gregor Dobler 4 Frugal innovation in Africa: Tracking Unilever’s washing-powder sachets Cees van Beers, Peter Knorringa & André Leliveld 5 Mobile cash for nomadic livestock keepers: The impact of the mobile phone innovation (M-Pesa) on Maasai pastoralists in Kenya Moses Mwangi & Marcel Rutten 6 From Gao: Sawaba and the politics of decolonization and insurrection in the Songhay Zone of Mali and Niger (1957-1964) Klaas van Walraven 7 From self-help group to water company: The Wandiege Community Water Supply Project (Kisumu, Kenya) Samuel O. Owuor & Dick Foeken 8 ‘It is time to start my own farm’: The unforeseen effects of two waves of resettlement on household formation in Zimbabwe Marleen Dekker & Bill Kinsey 9 ‘Cassava is our chief’: Negotiating identity, markets and the state through cassava in Mwinilunga, Zambia Iva Peša 10 The social cocktail: Weddings and the innovative mixing of competences in Botswana Rijk van Dijk 11 Of labradors and libraries: The transformation of innovation on a farm in Kibale, western Uganda Jan-Bart Gewald 12 Engine of change: A social history of the car-mechanics sector in the Horn of Africa Stefano Bellucci & Massimo Zaccaria 13 Water innovations among the Maasai pastoralists in Kenya: The role of outside interventions in the performance of traditional shallow wells Moses Mwangi & Marcel Rutten 14 Stealing from the railways: Blacksmiths, colonialism and innovation in Northern Nigeria Shehu Tijjani Yusuf List of authors

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Book SynopsisIn The Objects of Life in Central Africa the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 is explored. By taking consumption as a vantage point, the contributions deviate from and add to previous works which have mainly analysed issues of production from an economic and political perspective. The chapters are broad-ranging in temporal and geographical focus, including contributions on Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. Topics range from the social history of firearms to the perception of the railway and include contributions on sewing machines, traders and advertising. By looking at the socio-economic, political and cultural meaning and impact of goods the history of Central Africa is reassessed.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Material Culture and Consumption Patterns: A Southern African Revolution Robert Ross, Marja Hinfelaar and Iva Peša PART I PRE-COLONIAL TRADE AND FIREARMS Wearing Cloth, Wielding Guns: Consumption, Trade, and Politics in the South Central African Interior during the Nineteenth Century David Gordon The Role of Firearms in the Songye Region (1869–1960) Donatien Dibwe Dia Mwembu PART II MIGRANCY, MOBILITY AND INNOVATION Sipilingas: Intraregional African Initiatives and the United Methodist Church in Katanga and Zambia, 1910–1945 J. Jeffrey Hoover ‘Walking Home Majestically’: Consumption and the Enactment of Social Status among Labour Migrants from Barotseland, 1935–1965 Michael Barrett Railways, Railway Culture, and ‘Industrial Work Discipline’ in the Rhodesias Kenneth P. Vickery PART III ADVERTISING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP Advertising, Consuming Manufactured Goods and Contracting Colonial Hegemony on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1945–1964 Walima T. Kalusa Fabricating Dreams: Sewing Machines, Tailors, and Urban Entrepreneurship in Zambia Karen Tranberg Hansen PART IV TRADERS Indian Traders as Agents of Western Technological Consumption and Social Change in Mukuni: Memories of the Sharma Brothers’ Trading Store, 1950s to 1964 Friday Mufuzi The Social and Economic Impact of the Fort Jameson (Chipata) Indians on the Development of Chipata District, 1899–1973 Bizeck J. Phiri Business, Consumption and Politics: Robinson Nabulyato’s Banamwaze Store, 1949–1969 Marja Hinfelaar Buying Pineapples, Selling Cloth Traders and Trading Stores in Mwinilunga District, 1940–1970 Iva Peša Index

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Book SynopsisFifty years after the foundation of the OAU and the consolidation of most African states and institutions, the international panorama and Africa’s position in it have changed considerably. The world's geopolitical and economic configuration has evolved, with new actors appearing in a new period of globalization. In tone with ECAS 2013, this volume proposes that the experiences appearing in Africa question dominant paradigms in terms of political practice and academic reflection and thus offer a clear challenge to the academic community. The volume offers clues to answer questions such as: What is the impact of the current processes of globalization for African countries and African citizens? How should African Studies be engaged to gauge African dynamics, both at a local and global level? What interdisciplinary means and tools should be brought in to produce an epistemologically relevant view (or narrative) of the issues under analysis?Table of ContentsCONTENTS About the authors African dynamics in a multipolar world Ulf Engel and Manuel Joao Ramos Maputo home spaces: Working for a Home, Working at Home Ana Bénard da Costa and Adriano Biza Changing patterns of intimacy among young people in Africa Alcinda Honwana Listening and archiving migrant voices: How it all began Alessandro Triulzi Overcoming the cost to Africa of being a good neighbour to Denmark: Unconstrained geography as an alternative to the end of history John Davies Corporate social responsibility in Africa: New trends for development? A new field for African studies? Virginie Tallio Africa’s demographics: a threat or a bonus? Ana Pires de Carvalho Doctoral studies in sub-Saharan Africa and the planned RESSESA intervention Paulos Chanie and Paschal B. Mihyo Africa globalized? Multipolarity and the paradoxes of time-space compression Preben Kaarsholm ‘The road to Sudan, a pipe dream?’ Kenya’s new infrastructural dispensation in a multipolar world Mark Lamont The compulsion to do the right thing: Development knowledge and its limits Elisio Macamo The study of Africa in a multipolar world A perspective from within Ebrima Sall Index

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Book SynopsisThe Malagasy possess a profound religious, socio-political and economic attachment to land which connects individuals and kinship groups with the ancestors. International stakeholders value Madagascar for its biodiversity, minerals and agricultural potential, while the Malagasy state views land as the necessary platform for its economic development. This collection presents original research by established and rising scholars across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including Human Genetics, Anthropology and History. Authors focus on land as the pivotal factor underlying the economic, social and religious structures of Malagasy society and its relationship with outsiders, aiming to provide new insights into the issues underlying Madagascar’s ongoing economic and political malaise.Table of ContentsCONTENTS List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Land Competition and Human-Environment Relations in Madagascar Sandra J.T.M. Evers, Gwyn Campbell and Michael Lambek The Genetic Trail to Madagascar Himla Soodyall, Bharti Morar and Trefor Jenkins Don’t we all Want a World Filled with “Bright Faces” and “Fat-Cheeked Babies”? Creating the State and Crafting Ideology in Eighteenth Century Imerina Victor Raharijaona and Susan Kus Forest Depletion in Imperial Madagascar, c.1790–1861 � 63 Gwyn Campbell Solving Madagascar: Science, Illustrations, and the Normalizing of Fauna of Nineteenth Century Madagascar Tom Anderson Lex Loci meets Lex Fori: Merging Customary Law and National Land Legislation in Madagascar Sandra J.T.M. Evers Land Rights and Alien Plants in Dryland Madagascar Karen Middleton Parenting through Boom and Bust in a Northern Malagasy Mining Town Andrew Walsh Discourse, Development and Legitimacy: Nature/Culture Dualism of Mining Engagements in Biodiversity Offsetting and Conservation in Madagascar Caroline Seagle How the Daewoo Attempted Land Acquisition Contributed to Madagascar’ Political Crisis in 2009 Venusia Vinciguerra Index

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Book SynopsisPrint, Profit, and Perception examines the dynamic cross-cultural exchanges occurring in China and Taiwan from the first Sino-Japanese War to the mid-twentieth century. Drawing examples from various genres, this interdisciplinary volume presents nine empirically grounded case studies on the growth in the production, dissemination and consumption of texts, which lay behind a dramatic expansion of knowledge. The chapters collectively address the co-existence of globalization and localization processes in the period. By taking into account intra-Asian cultural encounters and tracing the multiple competing forces encountered by many, this book offers a fresh and compelling take on how individuals and social groups participated in transnational conceptual flows. Contributors include: Paul Bailey, Che-chia Chang, Elizabeth Emrich, Tze-ki Hon, Max K.W. Huang, Mei-e Huang, Mike Shi-chi Lan, Pei-yin Lin, and Weipin Tsai.Trade Review"Pei-yin Lin and Weipin Tsai deserve recognition for assembling a diverse and thought provoking collection of essays on the history of Chinese globalization and localization in the first half of the twentieth century. [...] the contributors to Print, Profit, and Perception cogently raise many important questions, fill in historical gaps, and open up new discursive space for early twentieth century Chinese historical and literary studies." Bert Scruggs, University of California, Irvine, MCLC "The book stands out from the rest by adopting a small-scale, niche approach to that complex period. Several core themes make it highly coherent, and the range of topics covered by its nine chapters account for its diversity and relevance to scholars with various research interests. [...] This volume is definitely worthy of consideration by scholars of modern Chinese intellectual, literary, and medical history, nationalism, global and regional cultural exchange, print and popular media, Taiwan or Japanese studies [...] it guarantees a challenging and entertaining reading experience, with new stories well integrated into a coherent frame narrative, illustrated with numerous reproductions of journal and newspaper covers, articles, advertisements, and woodblock art." Adina Zemanek, Jagiellonian University (International Journal of Taiwan Studies, 1, 2018)Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Pei-yin Lin & Weipin Tsai Chinese modernities revisited: globalization and localization Fluid modernity and ideas Print, profit and perceptions 1. CULTURAL CONNECTIONS IN A NEW GLOBAL SPACE: LI SHIZENG AND THE CHINESE FRANCOPHILE PROJECT IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY Paul J. Bailey Early years in France Sino-French cultural interaction Li Shizeng’s philosophy of work-study Conclusion 2. HEALTH AND HYGIENE IN LATE QING CHINA AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF JAPANESE TRAVELERS Che-chia Chang Networks of travelers Categories of traveler First impressions: Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! Understanding the Japanese viewpoint Conclusion 3. MODERNITY THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION: LU XUN AND THE MODERN CHINESE WOODCUT MOVEMENT Elizabeth Emrich Alternative modernities and Lu Xun’s “Grabism” Lu Xun in Shanghai and his Translations on Art Lu Xun and woodcut publications Humanism and social construction in woodblock prints Lu Xun and Woodcut Print Societies Conclusion 4. TECHNOLOGY, MARKETS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE: PRINT CAPITALISM IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA Tze-ki Hon Local initiatives and domestic factors in technology transfer Markets, circulation and profits National learning as cultural capital Professional geographers and public intellectuals Conclusion 5. MEDICAL ADVERTISING AND CULTURAL TRANSLATION: THE CASE OF SHENBAO IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA Max K. W. Huang Understanding the human body in early republican China Medical Advertising and Cultural Translation Conclusion 6. PLANET IN PRINT: THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION IN ZHENG KUNWU’S FICTION DURING TAIWAN’S COLONIAL PERIOD Mei-e Huang From astronomical reports to fiction writing Scientific fantasy and humanistic reality Between science fiction and detective story Conclusion 7. SHAPING PERCEPTION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A STUDY OF TEXTBOOKS IN TAIWAN IN THE 1940s Shi-chi Mike Lan Presentation of the War in Japanese colonial texts before 1945 The War in Chinese nationalist texts after 1945 Localizing the War in textbooks: Before and after 1945 Conclusion 8. ENVISIONING THE READING PUBLIC – PROFIT MOTIVES OF A CHINESE-LANGUAGE TABLOID IN WARTIME TAIWAN Pei-yin Lin Positioning the Chinese-language tabloids in colonial Taiwan Chinese literati-courtesan connections and Western exotica Appropriating and speculating about love From freedom of love to condemnation of unrestrained free love Alternative modernity and re-appropriation of love Conclusion 9. THE FIRST CASUALTY: TRUTH, LIES AND COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNISM IN CHINESE NEWSPAPERS DURING THE FIRST SINO-JAPANESE WAR Weipin Tsai War reporting in the West and in China in the second half of the nineteenth century Battle-ready and eager for the fight The war for readership In the newspapers’ defense Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Book SynopsisThe Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. Each year an assessment is made of new data made available since the previous issue of the yearbook.Table of ContentsContents: Preface List of Illustrations Editors and Contributors Glossary Introduction Part 1 The World by Religion Chapter 1. The World by Religion. Part 2 Religions by Region Chapter 2. Religions by Region. Part 3 Case Studies and Methods. Chapter 3. "Measuring Jewish Populations." Sergio DellaPergola Chapter 4. "Correlates of Religion and Childbearing Behavior in Nigeria." Onipede Wusu Chapter 5. "What Made Jews a Demographic Avant-Garde in Modern Europe?" Jana Vobecká Chapter 6. "The Size and Demographic Structure of Religions in Europe." Marcin Stonawski, Vegard Skirbekk, Conrad Hackett, Michaela Potančoková, and Brian Grim Chapter 7. "Integrity and the Counting of Christians in Thailand." Dwight Martin Chapter 8. "Fertility Trends by Religion in Mongolia." Thomas Spoorenberg Chapter 9. "Residential Patterns by Religion and Ethnicity in Vienna." Markus Speringer and Ramon Bauer Chapter 10. "Methodology of the Pew Research Global Religious Landscape Study." Conrad Hackett, Brian Grim, Marcin Stonawski, Vegard Skirbekk, Noble Kuriakose, and Michaela Potančoková Part 4 Data Sources Chapter 11. "Data Sources." Noble Kuriakose Index

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Book SynopsisJapan on the Silk Road provides for the first time the historical background indispensable for understanding Japan's current perspectives and policies in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Japanese diplomats, military officers, archaeologists, and linguists traversed the Silk Road, involving Japan in the Great Game and exploring ancient civilizations.The book exposes the entanglements of pre-war Japanese Pan-Asianism with Pan-Islamism, Turkic nationalism and Mongolian independence as a global history of imperialism. Japanese connections to Ottoman Turkey, India, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, and China at the same time reveal a discrete global narrative of cosmopolitanism and transnationality. The global team of scholars brings to light Japan’s intellectual and political encounters with the peoples and cultures of Asia, in particular Turks and Persians, Hindus and Muslims of India, Mongolians and the Uyghur of Inner Asia, and Muslims in China. Contributors include: Ian Nish, Christopher Szpilman, Sven Saaler, Selcuk Esenbel, Li Narangoa, Komatsu Hisao, Brij Tankha, Erdal Küçükyalcın, A. Merthan Dündar, Katayama Akio, Miyuki Aoki Girardelli, Klaus Röhborn, Mehmet Ölmez, Banu Kaygusuz, Oğuz Baykara, and Satō Masako.Trade Review'Japan on the Silk Road can be viewed as trail-blazing in the English-language literature as it brings together historiographic accounts from Western, Eurasian and Japanese authors as well as different intellectual disciplines, ranging from political history to translation studies. (...) All chapters introduce under-researched archival materials, many located in Japan, including primary and secondary sources in Japanese, German, Turkish and other languages, with a particular focus on the literary aspect of cultural exchange: literature (including travel writing), linguistics and philology. At the same time, the work succeeds in being integrative without becoming excessively eclectic and constitutes a culturally and linguistically nuanced inquiry. Moreover, given the sheer scope of the rare sources examined, the book’s unquestioned merit is in unearthing these abundant overlooked treasures and using them as the basis for a detailed synthesis.' Nikolay Murashkin, Europe-Asia Studies, 71:2, 334-336Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii List of Illustrations viii Contributors (By Order of Chapter) x Introduction - Selçuk Esenbel 1 Japan and the Great Game - Ian Nish 2 Western and Central Asia in the Eyes of the Japanese Radical Right - Christopher W.A. Szpilman 3 Fukushima Yasumasa’s Travels in Central Asia and Siberia: Silk Road Romanticism, Military Reconnaissance, or Modern Exploration? - Sven Saaler 4 Fukushima Yasumasa and Utsunomiya Tarō on the Edge of the Silk Road: Pan-Asian Visions and the Network of Military Intelligence from the Ottoman and Qajar Realms into Central Asia - Selçuk Esenbel 5 Mongolia as a Base for Central Asia and the Silk Road - Li Narangoa 6 Abdurreshid Ibrahim and Japanese Approaches to Central Asia - Komatsu Hisao 7 Exploring Asia, Reforming Japan: Ōtani Kōzui and Itō Chūta - Brij Tankha 8 Ōtani Kozui and His Vision of Asia: From Villa Nirakusō to “The Rise of Asia” Project - Erdal Küçükyalçın 9 The Effects of the Russo-Japanese War on Turkic Nations: Japan and Japanese in Folk Songs, Elegies, and Poems - A. Merthan Dündar 10 Some Notes on the Japanese Records and Information on the “Turks” - Katayama Akio 11 Tracing Origins Along the Silk Road: Japanese Architect Itō Chūta’s Travel in the Ottoman Lands -Miyuki Aoki Girardelli 12 The Beginning of Turkish Philology and Linguistics in Japan - Klaus Röhrborn 13 Appendix to the “The Beginning of Turkish Philology and Linguistics in Japan” - Mehmet Ölmez 14 F. Beato beyond Empires: Flaneur, Photo Reporter, Merchant - Banu Kaygusuz 15 Translation Practices on the Silk Road and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s “Toshishun” - Oğuz Baykara 16 Transforming an Ancient Myth into a Popular Medieval Tale - Masako Satō Index 365

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Book SynopsisChinese Research Perspectives on Society, Vol. 2 includes analyses of some important social issues in China for 2011-2013, including the urban-rural income and its reform; new development in Chinese social security; reform and development of medical and healthcare industries; living and health issues of the senior population; and employment difficulties, among others.Table of Contents1 Marching Toward a New Phase of Development: Building a Moderately Prosperous (Xiaokang) Society ——Analysis and Forecast: Chinese Society from 2011-2012 The “Analysis and Forecast of Societal Features” team, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, CHEN Guangjin 2 Chinese Urban-Rural Income and Consumption in 2012, LÜ Qingzhe 3 Problems in China’s Income Distribution and Focuses of Reform: 2012-2013, YANG Yiyong and CHI Zhenhe 4 New Development in Chinese Social Security in 2012, WANG Fayun and DING Yi 5 Report on Reforms to and Development of the Medical and Healthcare Industries in 2012, FANG Lijie 6 China’s Floating Population in 2012, TIAN Feng 7 Chinese Urban Resident Quality of Life Investigative Report 2012, YUAN Yue, ZHANG Hui, and J IANG Jianjian 8 The Chinese Senior Population’s Living Arrangements, Health, and Nursing Care Analysis of Data from the Sixth Population Census, ZHANG Yi 9 New Changes to the Employment Difficulties Experienced by University Graduates: A Longitudinal Study of Graduates of Twelve Higher Learning Institutions, LI Chunling 10 Analysis of Internet-based Public Opinion in China, 2012, ZHU Huaxin, LIU Pengfei, and SHAN Xuegang 11 Differentiation of Economic and Political Status of Chinese Private Entrepreneurs, ZHANG Houyi and LÜ Peng 12 2012 Peasant Development Report, FAN Ping 13 Labor Relations Regulations and Institutions amid Slow Economic Growth, 2012, QIAO Jian 14 Statistical Overview of Social Development, ZHANG Liping Index

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Book SynopsisDescription de l’Afrique et de l’Espagne offers a partial edition of the Arabic descriptive geography by Abu ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad al-Idrīsī (d. c. 560 AH/1165 CE) entitled Kitāb Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī’ khtirāq al-āfāq. Originally published by Brill in 1866, this edition of the Arabic text concerning Africa and the Iberian Peninsula by R. Dozy and M.J. de Goeje was based on the Paris and Oxford manuscripts. It includes a translation into French, with notes, a glossary (Arabic-French), and Index.

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Book SynopsisThe chapters in this volume variously challenge a number of long-standing assumptions regarding eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese society, and especially that society’s values, structure and hierarchy; the practical limits of state authority; and the emergence of individual and collective identity. By interrogating the concept of equality on both sides of the 1868 divide, the volume extends this discussion beyond the late-Tokugawa period into the early-Meiji and even into the present. An Epilogue examines some of the historiographical issues that form a background to this enquiry. Taken together, the chapters offer answers and perspectives that are highly original and should prove stimulating to all those interested in early modern Japanese cultural, intellectual, and social history Contributors include: Daniel Botsman, W. Puck Brecher, Gideon Fujiwara, Eiko Ikegami, Jun’ichi Isomae, James E. Ketelaar, Yasunori Kojima, Peter Nosco, Naoki Sakai, Gregory Smits, M. William Steele, and Anne Walthall.Trade Review"the volume is very well edited, and the division of the papers into four parts makes the reading comfortable.(...) The volume under review is undeniably a major publication in the field of social and cultural history of early modern and modern Japan." Annick Horiuchi, Université Paris Diderot, Monumenta NIpponica 72:1 (2017) "The collection of essays that Peter Nosco, James Ketelaar, and Yasunori Kojima have assembled in this volume will disorient most, surprise many, [End Page 139] and hopefully inspire a few.(...) The methodological eclecticism and thematic variety of this collection of essays promise to give visibility to this volume; its experimentalism is indeed an appropriate strategy to encourage young scholars to engage with "big questions" in the current predicament of theoretical inertia. (...) I ardently hope the book finds a wide readership among undergraduate and graduate students worldwide, as I am sure it will inspire new investigations and new theoretical reflections. The Nietzschean untimeliness of this project is a plea to young scholars to never shy away from big questions." Federico Marcon, Princeton University, The Journal of Japanese Studies, 45:1 (2019).

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses and challenges concepts that are widely used in research and policy related to development issues in Africa. The main rationale for such an undertaking is that the concepts that are used to understand and define the world in general and Africa in particular are not merely describing social, economic and political processes and events; they are also largely framing these very same processes. Thus, the concepts by which we structure the world will implicitly or explicitly give premises for policies and practices; limiting or favouring certain types of actions and frameworks of interpretation and understanding in various contexts. It is therefore important to challenge commonly held conceptions about framing African development. Contributors include: Deborah Fahy Bryceson, Rosalind Eyben, Amanda Hammar, Kjell Havnevik, Mats Hårsmar, Terje Oestigaard and Rune SkarsteinTable of ContentsAcknowledgement List of Contributors Chapter 1: Framing African Development – Challenging Concepts Kjell Havnevik Chapter 2: Developing the ‘Other’: Perceptions of Africans and change Terje Oestigaard Chapter 3: Misconceptions and poor understanding – The debate on poverty Mats Hårsmar Chapter 4: Debating Empowerment: A case study of knowledge practices in the Development Assistance Committee Rosalind Eyben Chapter 5: Beyond Livelihoods: Occupationality and career formation in African artisanal mining Deborah Fahy Bryceson Chapter 6: The Concept and Paradoxes of Displacement Amanda Hammar Chapter 7: Primitive Accumulation: Concept, similarities and varieties Rune Skarstein Chapter 8. From Food Security to Food Sovereignty? Kjell Havnevik Index

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Book SynopsisThe Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa – all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on African-European relations. While the articles have thorough academic quality, the Yearbook is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of target groups: students, politicians, diplomats, administrators, journalists, teachers, practitioners in the field of development aid as well as business people.Trade Review'In 2012 the Yearbook received the African Studies Association and the African Librarians Council in the United States biennial Conover – Porter Award for Africa – related reference works and stands today as one of the best reference studies for Africa. Africa Yearbook also comes up with individual volumes, dedicated to specific countries (like Mozambique or Ghana) and based on the Yearbook chapters. [...] Reading the Yearbook, one truly grasps the reality of African life and especially the roller – coaster itinerary between huge development leaps (one should always bear in mind that for some time now Africa has been the most successful in terms of economic development region of the planet) and absolute misery and poverty. The same goes for everything from democracy (where one could at the same time make the exact opposite remarks) to sustainable development to counter – terrorism and peaceful resolution of differences in international relations. All in all, the Yearbook is an extremely useful tool for anyone interested in Africa but also an extremely interesting, full in details, book.' - Sotirios S. Livas and Zoe Papadopoulou, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies Vol. 26 (2017), pp. 454-455Table of ContentsContents i. Preface ii. List of Abbreviations iii. Factual Overview I. Sub-Saharan Africa (Jon Abbink, Sebastian Elischer, Andreas Mehler and Henning Melber) II. African-European Relations (Christine Hackenesch and Niels Keijzer) IV. West Africa (Sebastian Elischer) Benin (Alexander Stroh) Burkina Faso (Daniel Eizenga) Cape Verde (Gerhard Seibert) Côte d’Ivoire (Alfred Babo) Gambia (Alice Bellagamba) Ghana (Kwesi Aning & Nancy Annan) Guinea (Anita Schroven) Guinea-Bissau (Christoph Kohl) Liberia (Lansana Gberie) Mali (Bruce Whitehouse) Mauritania (Claes Olsson & Helena Olsson) Niger (Klaas van Walraven) Nigeria (Heinrich Bergstresser) Senegal (Emmanuelle Bouilly and Marie Brossier) Sierra Leone (Krijn Peters) Togo (Dirk Kohnert) V. Central Africa (Andreas Mehler) Cameroon (Fanny Pigeaud) Central African Republic (Andreas Mehler) Chad (Ketil Fred Hansen) Congo (Brett L. Carter) Democratic Republic of the Congo (Claudia Simons) Equatorial Guinea (Joseph N. Mangarella) Gabon (Douglas A. Yates) São Tomé and Príncipe (Gerhard Seibert) VI. Eastern Africa (Jon Abbink) Burundi (Stef Vandeginste) Comoros (Rolf Hofmeier) Djibouti (Rolf Hofmeier) Eritrea (Nicole Hirt) Ethiopia (Jon Abbink) Kenya (Gabrielle Lynch) Rwanda (Susan Thomson) Seychelles (Rolf Hofmeier) Somalia (Jon Abbink) South Sudan (Daniel Large) Sudan (Laura James) Tanzania (Kurt Hirschler & Rolf Hofmeier) Uganda (Volker Weyel) VII. Southern Africa (Henning Melber) Angola (Jon Schubert) Botswana (David Sebudubudu & Keratilwe Bodilenyane) Lesotho (Roger Southall) Madagascar (Richard R. Marcus) Malawi (George Dzimbiri & Lewis Dzimbiri) Mauritius (Tor Sellström) Mozambique (Joseph Hanlon) Namibia (Henning Melber) South Africa (Sanusha Naidu) Swaziland (Marisha Ramdeen & Senzwesihle Ngubane) Zambia (Edalina Rodrigues Sanches) Zimbabwe (Amin Y. Kamete) List of Authors

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Book SynopsisThis book is a product of over ten years of work. It addresses intermarriage circles, transformations of customs, the rise and fall supernatural forces, power relations among gods, ghosts and people in “synchronic communities,” and tongxiangtongye (same hometown, same industry) economies based on rural sociocultural networks in the author’s native Sun Village in Putian. The author explores the details of microhistory by examining changes and continuities in everyday life to show the grand through the minute. This exciting book possesses important theoretical significance, including reflections on binary frameworks such as state vs. society and tradition vs. modernity or revolution, along with new arguments about commonly used concepts such as “the cultural nexus of power” and “the hollowing-out of the rural.”Table of ContentsPreface: A Village Path alongside China’s Highway of Development List of Illustrations 1 Intermarriage Spheres and Affinal Networks  Part 1: Intermarriage Spheres: Social Change and the Expansion and Contraction of Intermarriage Regions   The Rural Social Space of Sun Village   The Situation of Intermarriage and Its Revision of “Common Sense”   Why the Distance of Intermarriage is Shrinking  Part 2: Affinal Networks: Continuity and Transformation in the Conventions of Marriage and Affinal Relations   Old Conventions in the Mao Era: Protecting Traditional Core Values of Marriage and the Family   “Walking Rites”: The Goodness of Uniting Two Surnames   Changing Conventions in the “Era of Black Marriages” and Thereafter   Conclusion: From “Many Branches” to “Deep Roots” 2 The Realms of Yin and Yang  Part 1: Synchronic Communities: Gods, Ghosts, and People in a Post-revolutionary Era   From the Imperial to the Post-revolutionary Era   “We are Both Wretched Vagabonds in a Strange Land”   “Fallen to the Earth and Crushed to Dust, Only the Fragrance Remains”   When the Boundary between Yin and Yang is Breached: The Persistence of Affective Bonds between Ghosts and the Living   Synchronic Communities  Appendix to Part 1 of Chapter 2  part 2: Efficacy Depending on Faith: The Scope and Cycles of Tongji Power   The Vast Distance between Heaven and the Living   “My Identity as a Woman”   Preference for Secular over Supernatural Decision-Making   The Authority of Each Medium Lasts Two or Three Years  Part 3: Pretending that Gods Exist: Relations between People and Gods in Collective Rituals   Block Divination   Yuanxiao at Yongjin Temple   Welcoming the Gods   “Going Out to Run around the Territory”   “Running Across the Arena” and “Calming Down to Dismount”   “Selecting the Next Year’s Ritual Heads”   Distributing “Boy Biscuits”   The Utilitarianization of Supernatural Relations in Collective Rituals  Part 4: A Thin Interface: The “Balanced Rationality” among Gods, People, and Horses   Keeping Pace to Entertain Gods: From “Using Horses for Work” to “Using Horses for Ritual”   The Tracks of a Thousand Troops and Ten Thousand Horses: “Horse Agents” and “Horse-Leaders”   In the Spring, Hooves Gallop Gaily: Horse-Leaders, Horse Markets, and Clients during Yuanxiao   Those on Horseback Cannot See the Situation on the Ground: Horse-Leaders, Horses, and Gods   Society and Culture as Matrix 3 Building Roads: “The Cultural Nexus of Power”  Accounting and the State  The Weakening of Popular Authority before 1949  Political Consolidation and the Resurgence of Religious Authority (1949–1985)  The Interaction between Popular Authorities and State Brokers (1986 to the Present) 4 “Beyond the Boundary”: A Countermovement to the Hollowing-out of Rural China  Social Networks in a Peripheral Region  From Periphery to Center: The On-site Concentration of Dajin Resources  Gaining the Upper Hand through Hometown-Based Economic Networks  The Mutual Activation of Rural Social Resources and Tongxiang Tongye Economy  A Countermovement against the “Hollowing-Out” of Rural China Appendix: A Micro-History of Rural Society: Sun Village before and during the Revolutionary Period  i Livelihood  ii Epidemics  iii Clans  iv Water Resource Management  v “People’s Schools”  vi “Able-Bodied Men”  vii “Personages”  viii Modern Schools  ix Bandits  x Land Reform  xi “Fording the Famine”  xii The “Socialist Education” Campaign  xiii The Cultural Revolution Postscript Bibliography

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Book SynopsisHistorically, entrepreneurs have always played a central role in the development of nation states. Aside from rentier states, which depend extensively on the availability of mineral resource rents, most economically prosperous nations in the world have strong, innovative and competitive business enterprises and entrepreneurs as the bedrock of their economic development and prosperity. It was arguably because of the above historical fact that the World Bank in 1989 declared that entrepreneurs will play a central role in transforming African economies. Chapters in this book contribute to our understanding of the theory, structure and practice of entrepreneurship in diverse African countries. Case studies examined include: African multinational banks and businesses, female entrepreneurs, culture and entrepreneurship, finance and entrepreneurship and SMEs. Contributors include: Akinyinka Akinyoade, Kenneth Amaeshi, Crescence Marie France Okah Atenga, Ton Dietz, Françoise Okah Efogo, Emiel L. Eijdenberg, Abel Ezeoha, Yagoub Ali Gangi, Miguel Heilbron, Uwafiokun Idemudia, Nsubili Isaga, Afam Ituma, Jane N. O. Khayesi, Rebecca I. Kiconco, Jerry Kolo, Peter Knorringa, Addisu Lashitew, André Leliveld, Marta Lindvert, Nnamdi Madichie, Hesham E. Mohamed, Knowledge C. Mpofu, Albogast Kilangi Musabila, Ayodeji Olukoju, Eunice Abam Quaye, Miriam Siun, Arthur Sserwanga, Rob van Tulder, Chibuike Uche and Jaap Voeten.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Akinyinka Akinyoade, Ton Dietz and Chibuike Uche Part 1: Examination of Related Theories and Innovations 2 Methodological Challenges of Entrepreneurship Research in the Least Developed East African Countries  Emiel L. Eijdenberg 3 Africapitalism: A Management Idea for Business in Africa?  Kenneth Amaeshi and Uwafiokun Idemudia 4 Inclusive Business in Africa: Priorities, Strategies and Challenges  Addisu A. Lashitew and Rob van Tulder 5 Innovation as a Key to Success? Case Studies of Innovative Start-ups in Kenya and Nigeria  Miguel Heilbron, André Leliveld and Peter Knorringa 6 Innovation in Manufacturing smes in Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania: A Grounded View on the Research and Policy Issues  Jaap Voeten Part 2: Entrepreneurship Development, Country Studies 7 An Institutional Analysis of Entrepreneurship Development in Nigeria  Abel Ezeoha and Afam Ituma 8 Entrepreneurship Development in Africa: Insights from Nigeria’s and Zimbabwe’s Telecoms  Nnamdi O. Madichie, Knowledge Mpofu and Jerry Kolo 9 The Development of Entrepreneurship in Sudan 209  Yagoub Ali Gangi and Hesham E. Mohammed 10 Challenges to Entrepreneurship Development in Tanzania  Nsubili Isaga and Albogast Musabila 11 Institutional and Contextual Factors Effects on Entrepreneurship in Cameroon: The Case of the Transport Sector  Françoise Okah-Efogo and Crescence Marie-France Okah-Atenga Part 3: Entrepreneurship and Sectoral Considerations or Determinants 12 Dangote Cement: The Challenges of Pan-African Expansion  Akinyinka Akinyoade and Chibuike Uche 13 Culture as a Facilitator and a Barrier to Entrepreneurship Development in Uganda  Jane N.O. Khayesi, Arthur Sserwanga and Rebecca Kiconco 14 African Women Large-Scale Entrepreneurs: Cases from Angola, Nigeria and Ghana  Miriam Siun, Akinyinka Akinyoade and Ewurabena Quaye 15 Financial Barriers and How to Overcome Them: The Case of Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania  Marta Lindvert 16 Gentlemanly Capitalism and Entrepreneurial Management: Formation and Rise of Nigeria’s Guaranty Trust Bank, 1990–2002  Ayodeji Olukoju 17 Indigenous Banking Enterprises: The Rise of Nigerian Multinational Banks  Chibuike Uche

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Book SynopsisUncommon Wealths in Postcolonial Fiction engages urgently with wealth, testing current assumptions of inequality in order to push beyond reductive contemporary readings of the gaping abyss between rich and poor. Shifting away from longstanding debates in postcolonial criticism focused on poverty and abjection, the book marshals fresh perspectives on material, spiritual, and cultural prosperity as found in the literatures of formerly colonized spaces. The chapters ‘follow the money’ to illuminate postcolonial fiction’s awareness of the ambiguities of ‘wealth’, acquired under colonial capitalism and transmuted in contemporary neoliberalism. They weigh idealistic projections of individual and collective wellbeing against the stark realities of capital accumulation and excessive consumption. They remain alert to the polysemy suggested by “Uncommon Wealths,” both registering the imperial economic urge to ensure common wealth and referencing the unconventional or non-Western, the unusual, even fictitious and contrasting privately coveted and exclusively owned wealth with visions of a shared good. Arranged into four sections centred on aesthetics, injustice, indigeneity, and cultural location, the individual chapters show how writers of postcolonial fiction, including Aravind Adiga, Amit Chau-dhuri, Anita Desai, Patricia Grace, Mohsin Hamid, Stanley Gazemba, Tomson Highway, Lebogang Matseke, Zakes Mda, Michael Ondaatje, Kim Scott, and Alexis Wright, employ prosperity and affluence as a lens through which to re-examine issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and family, the cultural value of heritage, land, and social cohesion, and such conflicting imperatives as economic growth, individual fulfilment, social and environmental responsibility, and just distribution. CONTRIBUTORS Francesco Cattani, Sheila Collingwood–Whittick, Paola Della Valle, Sneja Gunew, Melissa Kennedy, Neil Lazarus, John McLeod, Eva–Maria Müller, Helga Ramsey–Kurz, Geoff Rodoreda, Sandhya Shetty, Cheryl Stobie, Helen Tiffin, Alex Nelungo Wanjala, David Waterman

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Book SynopsisThe notions of happiness and trust as cements of the social fabric and political legitimacy have a long history in Western political thought. However, despite the great contemporary relevance of both subjects, and burgeoning literatures in the social sciences around them, historians and historians of thought have, with some exceptions, unduly neglected them. In Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought, editors László Kontler and Mark Somos bring together twenty scholars from different generations and academic traditions to redress this lacuna by contextualising historically the discussion of these two notions from ancient Greece to Soviet Russia. Confronting this legacy and deep reservoir of thought will serve as a tool of optimising the terms of current debates. Contributors are: Erica Benner, Hans W. Blom, Niall Bond, Alberto Clerici, Cesare Cuttica, John Dunn, Ralf-Peter Fuchs, Gábor Gángó, Steven Johnstone, László Kontler, Sara Lagi, Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Adrian O’Connor, Eva Odzuck, Kálmán Pócza, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Peter Schröder, Petra Schulte, Mark Somos, Alexey Tikhomirov, Bee Yun, and Hannes Ziegler.Trade Review"This pioneering series of papers illuminates the hitherto little explored relationship between trust and happiness through an examination of both theory and practice over many centuries of history. Since both trust and happiness are important and topical subjects, this book will be valuable to social scientists and more generally to readers concerned about where our societies are going nowadays." Geoffrey Hosking, University College LondonTable of ContentsPreface 1 Introduction: Trust, Happiness, and the History of European Political Thought  László Kontler and Mark Somos Part 1: Trust and Happiness in Theoretical Perspective 2 Toleration, Trust and the Travails of Living Together Globally  John Dunn 3 Ptolemy of Lucca’s Distrust in Politics and the Medieval Discourse on Government  Bee Yun 4 Natural Suspicion and Reasonable Trust: Machiavelli on Trust in Politics  Erica Benner 5 Hugo Grotius on Trust, Its Causes and Effects  Hans Blom 6 Fidem Observandam Esse – Trust and Fear in Hobbes and Locke  Peter Schröder 7 The Concept of Trust in Hobbes’s Political Philosophy  Eva Odzuck 8 The Formation of Leibniz’s Mature Ethics and His Specimen Polonorum  Gábor Gángó 9 The Secularization of Happiness in Early Eighteenth-century Italian Political Thought: Revisiting the Foundations of Civil Society  Adriana Luna-Fabritius 10 Trust and Happiness in Nikolai Karamzin’s Political Philosophy  Vladimir Ryzhkov 11 Trust and Happiness in Ferdinand Tönnies’ Community and Society  Niall Bond 12 Distrust in Government: A Comparative Historical Analysis  Kálmán Pócza Part 2: Trust as a Function of Political Negotiation 13 Trust, Heresy and Rebellion: Reactions to Machiavelli in the Early Dutch Revolt (1572–1587)  Alberto Clerici 14 Privy Council Deliberations on Trust: The Holy Roman Empire around 1600  Hannes Ziegler 15 Trust as a Concept of Religious Plurality during the Thirty Years’ War  Ralf-Peter Fuchs 16 ‘No trust, no happiness’! Going beyond Locke in Seventeenth-century England  Cesare Cuttica 17 Adolf Fischhof and the National Question in the Habsburg Empire: A Problem of ‘trust’ and ‘collaboration’ amongst the Nationalities of Austria (1869–1885)  Sara Lagi Part 3: Trust and the Culture of Political Behaviour 18 Pistis and Citizens in Ancient Greece  Steve Johnstone 19 The Concept of Trust in the Political Thought of Fifteenth-century Burgundy  Petra Schulte 20 “Through the Bonds of Sentiment”: Fraternité and Politics in Revolutionary France  Adrian O’Connor 21 Trust and Distrust in a Modern Dictatorship: A Case Study of the Soviet Union  Alexey Tikhomirov Index

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Book SynopsisMagic Science Religion explores surprising intersections among the three meaning-making and world-making practices named in the title. Through colorful examples, the book reveals circuitous ways that social, cultural and natural systems connect, enabling real kinds of magic to operate. Among the many case studies are accounts of how an eighteenth-century actor gave his audience goosebumps; how painters, poets, and pool sharks use nonlinearity in working their magics; how the first vertebrates gained consciousness; how plants fine-tuned human color vision; and the necessarily magical element of activism that builds on the conviction that "another future is possible" while working to push self-fulfilling prophecy into political action.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. About this Book 1 Introduction  1 All or Nothing?  2 Kindness   ASIDE: The Two-Million-Dollar Comma   ASIDE: Sufficiently Magical Technologies   ASIDE: Our Gods  3 Cruelty   ASIDE: Ghostly Causality   ASIDE: Durable Cruelties  4 Beginning, Again   ASIDE: Chaos Invoked  5 The Freedom Not to Choose   ASIDE: No Atheists in Foxholes   ASIDE: Blake on Firm Perswasion   ASIDE: Metafictional Magic: The Writer’s Will   ASIDE: Shapely Sentences   ASIDE: Beckett Meets Twilight Zone, Glass-Half-Full Version 2 Complex Systems in a Nutshell  1 Horror Movie Reboot  2 Interpositivity   ASIDE: Interpositivity  3 Becoming a System  4 Creatures of Light   ASIDE: Transformative for Whom?   ASIDE: Plant Sorcery  5 Tornados, Whirlpools, and Fires   ASIDE: iii   ASIDE: Co-evolution  6 Leveled   ASIDE: On being born too early and dying too late   ASIDE: Up Around the Bend  7 A Personifying Universe of Stretchy Things  8 Dynamism   ASIDE: One Plus One Equals Infinity  9 Magic, but No Black Boxes   ASIDE: The T-Shirt Version  10 Wildness   ASIDE: Pet Resemblance via Social Theory 3 Magic by Example  1 Failed Magic: Modernist Heaven (and Hell)  2 Placebo Magic   ASIDE: Pregnancy via Magic   ASIDE: Following the Scent  3 Mirror Magic  4 Biting Game  5 Dog Whisperer  6 Conclusion 4 Future Perfect  1 The Gettysburg Address as a Magical Speech Act  2 Pool, Poetry, Prose, and Painting   ASIDE: Dr. Livingston’s Magical Bank-Shot Visualizer  3 Meteors, Messiahs, and Migraines   ASIDE: On This Rock I Build My Church   ASIDE: Falling Off a Log  4 Magical Militarism  5 Four Asides   ASIDE: Dr. Livingston’s Time Travel 101   ASIDE: A Somewhat Rationalizing Account of Mystical Nonviolence   ASIDE: A Somewhat Mysticizing Account of Rationalist Nonviolence   ASIDE: Four Scholars 5 What is Religion?  1 A Fuzzy Set  2 Magic, Science, and Religion Coevolve  3 Restoring the Chaos  4 Rain Dance   ASIDE: From Flow  5 Providence, via Vico   ASIDE: Systematizers Systematized 6 God 3.5B (A Nearsighted Evolutionary Panorama)  1 Salience to Sentience  2 Primordial Systemhood Membership Narratives   ASIDE: Law and Order  3 The Myth of the Acquisition-of-Consciousness Moment  4 Use of the Terms I and We  5 Cis-Systems → Trans-Systems  6 First Caveat: Characters  7 Plant and Animal Intelligence  8 Learning and Evolution from a Systems Perspective  9 Second Caveat: Plot  10 Especially Informative Postinfundibular Amphioxus Hypothalamus Neuropile  11 The Holy Grail   ASIDE: Neuro-X  12 Teamlikeness   ASIDE: Play and Teamlikeness   ASIDE: Three-Ring Circuits  13 Conclusion 7 Blake Magic  1 Famous in Heaven   ASIDE: No Success Like Failure  2 Blake Magic  3 Auguries   ASIDE: Prophecies  4 Angel Kings  5 Magic in the Current Conjuncture  6 Five Asides   ASIDE: Black Lives Matter and Judith Butler   ASIDE: An Elegant Pose   ASIDE: Ritual Retraction   ASIDE: Obscurity   ASIDE: Butterfly Tornado References Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Rhythm of Modernization, Raül Tormos analyses the pace at which belief systems change across the developed world during the modernization process. It is often assumed that value change follows the slow rhythm of generational replacement. This book, however, reports trends that contradict this assumption in the field of values. Challenging Inglehart’s modernization theory, the transition from traditional to modern values happens much quicker than predicted. Many “baby-boomers” who were church-going, morally conservative materialists when they were young, become unchurched and morally tolerant postmaterialists in their later years. Using surveys from multiple countries over many years, and applying cutting-edge statistical techniques, this book shows how citizens quickly adapt their belief systems to new circumstances throughout their lives.

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Book SynopsisIn this exciting book, Ronald Suleski introduces daily life for the common people of China in the century from 1850 to 1950. They were semi-literate, yet they have left us written accounts of their hopes, fears, and values. They have left us the hand-written manuscripts (chaoben 抄本) now flooding the antiques markets in China. These documents represent a new and heretofore overlooked category of historical sources. Suleski gives a detailed explanation of the interaction of chaoben with the lives of the people. He offers examples of why they were so important to the poor laboring masses: people wanted horoscopes predicting their future, information about the ghosts causing them headaches, a few written words to help them trade in the rural markets, and many more examples are given. The book contains a special appendix giving the first complete translation into English of a chaoben describing the ghosts and goblins that bedeviled the poor working classes.Trade Review"Suleski is to be commended for his collecting efforts, which have saved a great number of important texts that might otherwise have been relegated to the rubbish bin. In documenting and describing these materials he does a service to the field and highlights a corpus of texts that will doubtless be the source of continued research." -Nathan Vedal, Washington University, in East Asian Publishing and Society, Vol 9 (2019) p. 191-203 "The volume's greatest worth lies in its novelty: Suleski is right to note that the study of chāoběn as a means of better understanding the lives of people is a scholarly methodology that 'almost does not exist.' Those with an interest in Chinese religion, especially the late Qīng and Republican period, have much to gain from it." -Joseph Chadwin, University of Vienna, in Religious Studies Review, Vol 47 (2021), p. 125Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Contextualizing Chaoben: On the Popular Manuscript Culture of the Late Qing and Republican Period in China 2 Apologia in Chaoben 3 Written in the Margins: Reading into Texts 4 Teacher Xu: Entering a Classroom in Late Qing China 5 A Qing Dynasty Astrologer’s Predictions for the Future 6 Constructing the Family in Republican China: Shandong 1944 7 Mr. Bai and Mr. Qian Earn Their Living: Considering Two Hand-written Notebooks of Matching Couplets from China in the Late Qing and Early Republic 8 The Troublesome Ghosts: Part 1 9 The Troublesome Ghosts: Part 2 10 Concluding Remarks Appendix A. A List of Chaoben in the Author’s Personal Collection Used in This Study Appendix B. Various Categories of Chaoben Not Discussed in the Text Appendix C. Korean and Japanese Chaoben Appendix D. Full Translation of Fifty Days to Encounter the Five Spirits Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTaking society as its central focus, Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period approaches the region as one of connectivities and fluidity and investigates networks and interregional relations, stratagems adopted to shape society and social resistance to or absorption of change. From tourism to health propaganda, marriage to beauty contest, mass communication to music, this book offers a vibrant and dynamic picture of the region which goes beyond state borders. Contributors are Diana Abbani, Amit Bein, Ebru Boyar, Elizabeth Brownson, Nazan Çiçek, Kate Fleet, Ulrike Freitag, Liat Kozma, Brian L. McLaren and Emilio Spadola.Trade Review‘Due to its rich historical and interdisciplinary nature, I strongly recommend this book to students and researchers of Middle East studies who would like to deepen their understanding of not only the political but also the social and cultural dimensions of Middle East affairs.’ Mohammad Hassan Khani in Acta Via Serica 4.1 (2019), 153-156. ‘Der Sammelband gibt interessante Einblicke in die Entwicklung Südwestasiens und Nordafrikas in der Zwischenkriegszeit, die eine dynamische Region erkennen lassen, die nicht nur unter Kategorien wie Kolonialismus oder Antikolonialismus subsumierbar ist.’ Rüdiger Lohlker in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 109 (2019).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Approaching Societies in the Interwar Middle East and North Africa  Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet 2 State-Society Relations through the Lens of Urban Development  Ulrike Freitag 3 Beirut’s Musical Scene: A Narrative of Modernisation and Identity Struggles under the French Mandate  Diana Abbani 4 Tourism and Mobility in Italian Colonial Libya  Brian L. McLaren 5 The Call of Communication: Mass Media and Reform in Interwar Morocco  Emilio Spadola 6 Doctors Crossing Borders: The Formation of a Regional Profession in the Interwar Middle East  Liat Kozma 7 There She is, Miss Universe: Keriman Halis Goes to Egypt, 1933  Amit Bein 8 Taking Health to the Village: Early Turkish Republican Health Propaganda in the Countryside  Ebru Boyar 9 The Provision of Water to Istanbul from Terkos: Continuities and Change from Empire to Republic  Kate Fleet 10 Reforms or Restrictions? The Ottoman Muslim Family Law Code and Women’s Marital Status in Mandate Palestine  Elizabeth Brownson 11 Mapping Social Change through Matters of the Heart: Debates on Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in the Early Turkish Republican Era (1923–1950)  Nazan Çiçek Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century, the search for the artistic, architectural and written monuments promoted by the French State with the aim to build a unified nation transcending regional specificities, also fostered the development of local or regional identitary consciousness. In Roussillon, this distinctive consciousness relied on a basically cultural concept of nation epitomised mainly by the Catalan language – Roussillon being composed of Catalan counties annexed to France in 1659. In The Antiquarians of the Nation, Francesca Zantedeschi explores how the works of Roussillon's archaeologists and philologists, who retrieved and enhanced the Catalan specificities of the region, contributed to the early stages of a ‘national’ (Catalan) cultural revival, and galvanised the implicit debate between (French) national history and incipient regional studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Maps and Figures Introduction Part 1: Monuments 1 Tailoring the Repertoire of the French Nation  1 The Revolutionary Vandalism and the Preservation of National Heritage   1.1 The Raising Awareness of the ‘national heritage’ and Its Enhancement   1.2 The Preservation of National Heritage: The Creation of Museums  2 Searching for Ancestors: the Enthusiasm for the Middle Ages   2.1 The Romanists-Germanists Debate  3 Early Nineteenth-Century Celticism and the Celtic Origins of France   3.1 The Académie Celtique and the Beginnings of French Ethnology   3.2 The Celtophile Trend in Literature  4 Rewriting the History of the French People(s)  5 Governing the Historical and Documental Heritage   5.1 The Commission des Monuments Historiques 2Antiquarians and Archaeologists: The Retreival of Monuments in Roussillon  1 From Antiquarianism to Archaeology  2 Initial Attempts to Preserve National Monuments in Roussillon   2.1 The Enquête pour la recherche des antiquités   2.2 The Results of the Survey in the Pyrénées-Orientales Department  3 Travelling in and Discovering Medieval France   3.1 The Promotion of Romanesque Monuments   3.2 Mérimée’s Journey to Roussillon  4 Institutionalising Archaeology in Roussillon   4.1 Searching for Celtic Monuments  5 The Early rearrangements of the CTHS   5.1 The Revue des Société savantes Replaced the Bulletin  6 The Sociétés Savantes and the Recovery of Roussillon Cultural Particularities   6.1 Cultural Life in Roussillon under the July Monarchy Part 2: Language 3Vernacular Languages to be Preserved as National Heritage: Catalan  1 Catalan Language in Roussillon Prior to the Nineteenth Century  2 The Politics of Language at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century   2.1 The First Surveys on Languages  3 The Blossoming of the Romance Studies in France   3.1 The Bourgeoning Taxonomy: Grammars, Manuals, and Dictionaries  4 Romance Studies: Recovering Catalan   4.1 Early Studies on Catalan in Roussillon   4.2 Jaubert de Passa’s Historical Research on Catalan 4The Long-Standing Traditionalist Approach to Language Studies  1 A Step Further: Differentiating Catalan from Occitan   1.1 François-Romain Cambouliu’s Research  2 Romance Studies in France in the Second Half of the Century   2.1 The Consecration of National Romance Studies  3 The Resilient ‘Antiquarian’ Approach of Roussillon Philologists Part 3: Catalan Cultural Revival in Roussillon 5A Transnational Cultural Context: Occitans and Catalans  1 The Awakening of the French ‘Provinces’  2 The Occitan Cultural Revival   2.1 The Forerunners of the Provençal Literary Revival: the ‘Dialectal’ Poets  3 The Félibrige   3.1 Mistral’s Myth  4 Resurrecting the Albigensians  5 The Occitan-Catalan Friendship  6 The Recovery of the Catalan National Culture   6.1 Literary Historicism   6.2 Language   6.3 The Renaixença  7 From Cultural Revival to the First Political Ventures  8 Re-reading the Occitan-Catalan ‘Friendship’ 6Catalan Language and Literature in Roussillon, 1880–1906  1 The Troubled Dawning of the Third Republic   1.1 The Anticlerical Policies of the Third Republic  2 Vernacular Language as a Religious Rampart   2.1 Abbé Joseph Santol  3 Catalan and Roussillon ‘Germanor’   3.1 Catalan National Epics: L’Atlàntida and Canigó   3.2 The Genesis of Canigó and Its Reception in Roussillon   3.3 Celebrating Catalan Brotherhood  4 The ‘Dark Side’ of the Roussillon Linguistic and Literary Revival  5 On the Way to fin-de-siècle Regionalism   5.1 Debates on Catalan by the End of the Nineteenth Century  6 The Linguistic Standardisation of Catalan   6.1 The Primer Congrés Internacional de la Llengua Catalana (1906)   6.2 Impact of the Congress in Roussillon Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is video game culture and video games as culture? Culture at Play avoids easy answers and deceitful single definitions. Instead, the collected essays included here navigate the messy and exciting waters of video games, of culture, and of the meeting of video games and culture, and do so from four perspectives: Players: Types and Identities; The Human/The Machine: Agents, Ethics, and Affect; Compassion, Recognition, and the Interpersonal; and Learning through Play. As a form of play, video games can greatly affect our lives. As digital objects, they participate in our digital lives. As both, they have a noticeable impact on our relationships with others, with society, and with ourselves, and this is the scope of this book.Table of Contents Notes on Contributors 0 Video Games, Culture, and Everything: An Introduction  Victor Navarro-Remesal Players: Types and Identities 1 Is Your Masculinity Threatened? Then You’re Not Man Enough to Play: Robot Unicorn Attack 2 and Beyond the Gender Challenge  Peter Feer and Robin Skinner 2 We Are Smash Bros: Understanding Player Types and Ideals Through Worldwide Game Design  Bradley McAvoy-James and Bobbie Fletcher 3 Empowering Avatars: The Impact of In-Game Presence on Everyday Functioning  Marta Tymińska 4 Without so Much as a Word: Non-Verbal Performances of Masculine Identity in Adolescent Call of Duty Players  Gareth Healey The Human/The Machine: Agents, Ethics, and Affect 5 Agents in Space and Time: Fundamentals of Interactive Narrative Systems  Lindsey Joyce 6 Killswitch Engage: Ethics in Game Design  Armin Lippitz 7 Pushing the Lever: Rule-Consequentialism and Utilitarianism in Life is Strange  Patrick Goritschnig 8 Light My (Camp-)Fire: Affect and Incitement in Firewatch  René Reinhold Schallegger Compassion, Recognition, and the Interpersonal 9 Representing Interpersonal Relationships in Videogame Terms  Sarah Faber 10 Press X to recognize the Other’s Suffering: Compassion and Recognition in Games  Victor Navarro-Remesal and Ignacio Bergillos Learning through Play 11 Toward Engaging Educational Digital Games  Stephen Mallory 12 Serious Topics and Fun Games: ‘Hidden in the Zoo’  Niklas Torstensson and Tarja Susi 13 ‘You Can Deny Seriousness, but You Can’t Deny Play’: Emergent Resistance to Purposive Games  Luca Morini  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Conflict, Identity, and State Formation in East Timor 2000-2017, James Scambary analyses the complex interplay between local and national level conflict and politics in the independence period. Communal conflict, often enacted by a variety of informal groups such as gangs and martial arts groups, has been a constant feature of East Timor’s post-independence landscape. A focus on statebuilding, however, in academic discourse has largely overlooked this conflict, and the informal networks that drive Timorese politics and society. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, Scambary documents the range of different cultural and historical dynamics and identities that drive conflict, and by which local conflicts and non-state actors became linked to national conflict, and laid the foundations of a clientelist state.Trade Review"This is a book that I would hope (against hope) that external actors involved in peacebuilding and development would read, even if they do not engage with Timor-Leste. It compellingly makes the case for why a contextualised, nuanced, grounded analysis of conflicts is needed." – Henri Myrttinen, in International Quarterly for Asian Studies 52:1-2 (2021). "One of the great accomplishment of Scambary in this book was his ability to link an extremely detailed, micro level empirical research with a broader and often very abstract discussion on peacebuilding and statebuilding and clearly detailsome important gaps in the literature, while providing ways to move forward. This is not an easy task and was probably only possible due to the author’s long experience researching and working in Timor-Leste, most notably engaging with members of the community, experiencing the micro level, while also working extensively with different projects and consultancies for development agencies in the country. This is a book to be read more than once, so the reader may grasp all the amount of information provided with such rich detail." – Roberta Holanda Maschietto, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, in International PeacekeepingTable of ContentsAcronyms and Foreign Terms List of Figures and Tables 1 The Enigma of the 2006 Crisis  1 An Alternative Reading  2 Dominant Narratives   2.1 The UN Made Me Do It   2.2 Post-Crisis Representations   2.3 The Invisibility of Sub-National Conflict  3 Some Observations on the Ground   3.1 Rural-Urban Linkages  4 Normative Traditions  5 New Paradigms  6 New Critical Scholarship  7 Conceptual Approach  8 Book Structure 2 An Archaeology of Conflict  1 Historical Legacies of Conflict   1.1 The 1975 Civil War   1.2 The Indonesian Invasion   1.3 Displacement and Resettlement   1.4 The Creation of ISGS  2 The 1999 Referendum Violence   2.1 ‘Mixed with other Matters’  3 Social and Cultural Background   3.1 Language and Ethnicity   3.2 Social Organisation   3.3 Payback Traditions   3.4 Traditional and Administrative Residential Structures   3.5 Rural-Urban Migration   3.6 Conclusion 3 The 2006 Crisis in Context  1 Early Tensions  2 The April/May 2006 Crisis   2.1 Orchestrated and Inclusive Violence  3 The Second Phase  4 Patterns in Conflict  5 The Post-Crisis Period   5.1 Conclusion 4 Mystics, Messiahs and Machismo: MAGS and Veterans’ Groups  1 Group Typology  2 Veterans’ groups   2.1 Linkages and Alliances  3 Martial Arts Groups   3.1 Linkages and Alliances   3.2 Conclusion 5 Gangs or Glee Clubs? Urban Dili-Based Groups  1 Group Origins  2 Violence as a Social Construct  3 Group Typology   3.1 Youth Groups   3.2 Clandestine Groups   3.3 Gangs  4 Multiple Identities and Memberships   4.1 Conclusion 6 Conflict and Resilience in a Squatter Settlement  1 Background  2 Contested Authority   2.1 Dynamics of Communal Conflict  3 Symptoms of Alienation or Forms of Resilience?   3.1 Conclusion 7 Implications for Peacebuilding  1 Macro-Level Approaches to Peacebuilding  2 The IDP Return Process  3 mag Mediation Initiatives  4 Localised Initiatives  5 Hybrid Approaches  6 Participatory Approaches  7 Local Approaches   7.1 Conclusion   7.2 As Mac Ginty and Richmond contend 8 The Foundations of a Clientelist State  1 Politics and Elections East Timor Style  2 Emerging Clientelist Patterns  3 Centralisation of Power  4 A Culture of Informality  5 Defining Power Configurations   5.1 Conclusion 9 Conflict and State Formation: An Integrated Understanding  1 Understanding Conflict Dynamics  2 The 2006 Crisis and State-Formation  3 Postscript References Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume in honour of Stephen Ellis is a follow-up to the public presentation of his book on the history of organised crime in Nigeria This Present Darkness (Hurst, 2016) at the University of Lagos, Nigeria on 28 October 2016. In addition to four papers, and a book review presented at this colloquium, other contributions about crime in Nigeria have been added, written by Nigerian authors. In July 2015 Stephen died, and he has worked on This Present Darkness almost to his last moments, as a senior researcher of the African Studies Centre in Leiden. This book also contains a tribute to his life and work written by his wife and scholar Gerrie ter Haar. Contributors include: A.E Akintayo, Jackson Aluede, Franca Attoh, Ayodele Atsenuwa, Edmund Chilaka, Samson Folarin, Gerrie ter Haar, Ayodeji Olukoju, Abiodun Oluwadare, Paul Osifodunrin and Leo Enahoro Otoide.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction  Rufus Akinyele and Ton Dietz 1 Stephen Ellis: His Life and Work  Gerrie ter Haar 2 Theft in Early Colonial Lagos, 1861–1906  Paul Osifodunrin 3 Smuggling across the Nigeria–Benin Border and Its Impact on Nigeria’s Economic Development  Jackson A. Aluede 4 Changing Patterns of Crime and Malfeasance in Nigerian Port Environments since the 1990s  Edmund Chilaka 5 Nature and Management of Human Trafficking: The Nigerian Edo People’s Experience  Leo Otoide 6 Militancy and Criminality in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria  Abiodun Oluwadare 7 Crime at the University of Lagos: Insights from Akoka Campus  Franca Attoh 8 Reporting Crime in Contemporary Lagos  Samson Folarin 9 Currency Counterfeiting and “Substantial Justice” In Colonial Nigeria: Rex vs Tijani Ali, 1931–33  Ayodeji Olukoju 10 Class Based Criminal Justice Regime, Supermarket Courts, and Illicit Interests: The Nigerian Criminal Justice Administration System in Critical Perspective  A.E. Akintayo Book Review This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime Authored by Stephen Ellis (London: Hurst and Co, 2016)  Ayo Atsenuwa Short CV Books Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of papers from an international inter-disciplinary conference focusing on storytelling and human life. The chapters in this volume provide unique accounts of how stories shape the narratives and discourses of people’s lives and work; and those of their families and broader social networks. From making sense of history; to documenting biographies and current pedagogical approaches; to exploring current and emerging spatial and media trends; this book explores the possibilities of narrative approaches as a theoretical scaffold across numerous disciplines and in diverse contexts. Central to all the chapters is the idea of stories being a creative and reflexive means to make sense of people’s past, current realities and future possibilities. Contributors are Prue Bramwell-Davis, Brendon Briggs, Laurinda Brown, Rachel Chung, Elizabeth Cummings, Szymon Czerkawski, Denise Dantas, Joanna Davidson, Nina Dvorko, Sarah Eagle, Theresa Edlmann, Gavin Fairbairn, Keven Fletcher, Sarah Garvey, Phyllis Hastings, Tracy Ann Hayes, Welby Ings, Stephanie Jacobs, Dean Jobb, Caroline M. Kisiel, Maria-Dolores Lozano, Mădălina Moraru, Michael R. Ogden, Nancy Peled, Valerie Perry, Melissa Lee Price, Rasa Račiūnaitė-Paužuolienė, Irena Ragaišienė, Remko Smid, Paulette Stevens, Cheryl Svensson, Mary O’Brien Tyrrell, Shunichi Ueno, Leona Ungerer, Sarah White, Wai-ling Wong and Bridget Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu.Table of Contents List of Figures  Notes on Contributing Authors  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Theresa Edlmann, Tracy Ann Hayes and Laurinda Brown Part 1: Pedagogical Perspectives  Introduction to Part 1  Laurinda Brown  1 Telling True Stories: Creative Approaches to Bringing Nonfiction to Life  Dean Jobb  2 “I Like to Give Things a Story”: One Teacher’s View of Teaching Mathematics  Laurinda Brown and Maria Dolores Lozano (Lolis)  3 Learning to Play: Stories of Learning Mathematics, Language and Music  Sarah Eagle  4 “Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?”: Foundations and Methods for Revitalising Story Reading for Children  Phyllis Hastings  5 Oral History and Storytelling: Reflection on an Alternative Approach of Teaching History  Wai-ling Wong  6 Storytelling as a Research Tool in a User-centred Design Process  Denise Dantas Part 2: Media Perspectives  Introduction to Part 2  Laurinda Brown  7 Digital Storytelling on Life-Cycle Websites  Rasa Račiūnaitė-Paužuolienė  8 Digital Storytelling: Possible Applications in an Open Distance E-Learning Environment  Leona Ungerer  9 A New Horizon of Non-Fiction Storytelling: The Use of Virtual Reality and Gaming Techniques  Nina Dvorko  10 Visual Storytelling of Japaneseness in Manga, Anime and Japanese Film  Shunichi Ueno Part 3: Healing Perspectives  Introduction to Part 3  Theresa Edlmann  11 Stories from Different Sides: Reflections on Narrative-Based Dialogues in Addressing the Legacies of Apartheid Wars  Theresa Edlmann  12 Invisible Stories: Loss, Recovery and the Rhetoric of War  Welby Ings  13 The Place of Story and Storytelling in Clinical Contexts  Elizabeth Mary Cummings  14 Singing the World: Narrative Medicine and Storied Existence  Sarah Garvey and Rachel Chung  15 Can TV and Film Help Us to Understand Suicide Better?  Gavin Fairbairn Part 4: Cultural Perspectives  Introduction to Part 4  Theresa Edlmann  16 “People Insult Me – Oh my!”: Reflections on Jola Women’s Story-Songs in Rural West Africa  Joanna Davidson  17 East African Stories of Love: Challenging Perspectives  Brendon Briggs  18 Cultural Appropriation and the Telling of Wisdom Stories  Keven Fletcher  19 Eventually All of the Citrus Trees Died: Stories of Love and Loss from a Village in Cyprus  Stephanie Elisabeth Jacobs  20 Interactive/Transmedia Storytelling as Cultural Narrative: Stories of Family, Place and Identity  Melissa Lee Price and Michael R. Ogden Part 5: Biographical Perspectives  Introduction to Part 5  Tracy Ann Hayes  21 Sharing, Saving and Studying Life Stories: Diverse Perspectives  Cheryl Svensson, Paulette Stevens, Sarah White, Mary O’Brien Tyrrell and Valerie Perry  22 Telling it as it Is: Women as Protagonists in Autobiographies  Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu  23 Mothering on Kibbutz: A Personal/Communal Story  Nancy Peled  24 Narrativisation of Identity in the Poetry as Life Writing of Lithuanian Women Émigrés  Irena Ragaišienė  25 Sharing Stories: An Interactive, Interdisciplinary Approach  Tracy Ann Hayes Part 6: Historical and Spatial Perspectives  Introduction to Part 6  Tracy Ann Hayes  26 199 Years of Crossing the Atlantic: A Nineteenth-Century British Travel Writing Scholar Dialogues with Her Travellers  Caroline M. Kisiel  27 Representations of Time and Space in Advertising Stories  Mădălina Moraru  28 Narration as a Source for Studies in Ethic Systems: An Historical, Psychological Perspective  Szymon Czerkawski  29 Reinstating Narrative: The Role of Stories in Claudio Magris’s Post-postmodernist Historical Novels  Remko Smid  30 “I so Regret the Barograph…” As We Make and Use Objects, so They Form and Mould Us  Prue Bramwell-Davis  Conclusion  Looking Towards The Future And Continuing The Conversations  Tracy Ann Hayes, Theresa Edlmann and Laurinda Brown  Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present. Organized around four themes—“Parameters of Human Life,” “Formations of the Human Subject,” “Disciplining Knowledge,” and “Deciphering Health”—it scrutinizes the development of scientific knowledge and technical interest in human organization within an evolving Chinese society. Spanning the Ming-Qing, Republican, and contemporary periods, its twenty-four original, synthetic chapters ground the mutual construction of “China” and “the human” in concrete historical contexts. As a state-of-the-field survey, a definitive textbook for teaching, and an authoritative reference that guides future research, this book pushes Sinology, comparative cultural studies, and the history of science in new directions.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: A New Order of Things: Scientific Visions of the Human in China  Howard Chiang Part 1: Parameters of Human Life 1 Technology  Francesca Bray 2 Cartography  Alexander Akin 3 Ethnography  Laura Hostetler 4 Historiography  Matthew W. Mosca and Howard Chiang 5 Reproduction  Yi-Li Wu 6 Ghostly Encounters  Hsiu-fen Chen Part 2: Formations of the Modern Subject 7 Race  Frank Dikötter 8 Ethnicity  Bin Yang 9 Citizenship  Joshua Hill 10 Class  Stephen A. Smith 11 Sexuality  Howard Chiang 12 Gender  Tani Barlow Part 3: Disciplining Knowledge 13 Economics  Joyman Lee 14 Psychology  Zhipeng Gao 15 Statistics  Andrea Bréard 16 Sociology  Yung-chen Chiang 17 Anthropology  Hsiao-pei Yen 18 Political Science  John Feng Part 4: Deciphering Health 19 Anatomy  David Luesink 20 Forensic Medicine  Daniel Asen 21 Physical Hygiene  Ruth Rogaski 22 Mental Health  Wen-Ji Wang and Hsuan-Ying Huang 23 Psychiatry  Harry Yi-Jui Wu 24 Psychoanalysis  Jingyuan Zhang

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together essays that examine a vast gamut of different contemporary cultural manifestations of fear, anxiety, horror, and terror. Topics range from the feminine sublime in American novels to the monstrous double in horror fiction, (in)security at music festivals, the uncanny in graphic novels, epic heroes' Being-towards-death and authenticity, atrocity and history in Central European art, the theme of old age in absurdist literature, and iterations of the "home invasion" subgenre in post-9/11 popular culture. This diversity of insights and methodologies ensures a kaleidoscopic look at a cluster of phenomena and experiences that often manage to both be immediately and universally recognizable and defy straightforward categorization or even description. Contributors are Emily-Rose Carr, Ghada Saad Hassan, Woodrow Hood, María Ibáñez-Rodríguez, Nicole M. Jowsey, Marta Moore, Pedro Querido and Ana Romão.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 Introduction  María Ibáñez-Rodríguez and Pedro Querido 2 Both Victimizer and Victim: Terror and the Feminine Sublime in American Psycho and Fight Club  Emily-Rose Carr 3 Fearful Manifestations: a Comparative Study of the Monstrous Double in Ahmed Khaled Towfik’s Utopia  Ghada Saad Hassan 4 Music Festival (in)Security: Transgression, Transhumanism, and Immorality  Woodrow Hood 5 Myths of the Uncanny in the Contemporary Graphic Novel  María Ibáñez-Rodríguez 6 Fear, Death and Authenticity in the Hero: a Look at Heidegger, Achilleus, and Harry Potter  Nicole M. Jowsey 7 Ornaments of Pain and Survival: Central European History, Literature, and Film  Marta Moore 8 A Horror of the Vacuum: An Overview of Old Age in Absurdist Literature  Pedro Querido 9 Hospitality in Post-9/11 Representations of “Home Invasion”: Michael Haneke’s Funny Games (1997/ 2007)  Ana Romão Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is situated at the cutting edge of the political-ethical dimension of history writing. Henkes investigates various responsibilities and loyalties towards family and nation, as well as other major ethical obligations towards society and humanity when historical subjects have to deal with a repressive political regime. In the first section we follow pre-war German immigrants in the Netherlands and their German affiliation during the era of National Socialism. The second section explores the positions of Dutch emigrants who settled after the Second World War in Apartheid South Africa. The narratives of these transnational agents and their relatives provide a lens through which changing constructions of national identities, and the acceptance or rejection of a nationalist policy on racial grounds, can be observed in everyday practice.Trade ReviewRacial relations stunningly revealed in family and society "This very accessible and well-written historical work uses everyday personal experiences of German migrants in the Netherlands during World War II and of Dutch migrants in South Africa during apartheid to explore racial politics. The ethical dilemmas experienced by the migrants are contained in family documents that mediated their transnational relationships. Writing the history of racial relations comparatively (The Netherlands and South Africa), personalised and contextualised is strikingly revealing of the complexities of the mid-20th century. The book is unusual in its achievement of bringing history (mainly 'her' story) alive in a field too often dominated by dramatic national events. By focusing on the experiences and reflections of 'ordinary people' (especially housemaids and immigrant women in a fraught diasporic context), the author tells a convincing narrative of situatedness, the challenges of conflicting ethical and ideological claims and the agency of individuals in extremely racialised social settings. This is a very much needed new historical approach that prioritizes entanglements and complexities above the determination of political structures.” Kees van der Waal, Emeritus Professor in Social Anthropology of Stellenbosch University. "Barbara Henkes’s in-depth analysis of letters, stories and images of migrants who came to the Netherlands from Nazi Germany before World War II and migrants who left the Netherlands for Apartheid South Africa after the war puts flesh on the bones of a transnational historiography. By addressing the entanglements between the histories of Nazism and Apartheid her book builds on Hannah Arendt's classic thesis that the rise of totalitarianism in Europe modern overseas imperialism were two sides of the same coin. In that sense, Henkes' conceptual framework provides an impetus for further fruitful historical research into other (post-)colonial situations. In addition this book, and Henkes work in recent years, has important societal relevance : she sets out to expose racism in Dutch society, which is often downplayed or concealed. With this intervention this book engages with the public debate about the Dutch colonial past, which has been flaring up again since the spring of 2020." Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Senior Lecturer History of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam and author of War of words: Dutch pro-Boer propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012. "All in all, a rich and well-written book, bringing both these personal histories and their larger historical contexts near to the reader". Elsbeth Locher-Scholten, in Fascism 11, 2022. "In dit fraai uitgevoerde boek over transnationale verwantschapsnetwerken slaagt Henkes erin om inzichtelijk te maken hoe elkaar onderling beïnvloedende categorieën als nationaliteit, ras, klasse, geloof en gender tot soms heel verschillende politieke vertogen kunnen leiden. De combinatie van verhalen over migratie in de tijd van het nationaalsocialisme en in de apartheidstijd is niet bedoeld om een direct verband te suggereren, maar kan helpen om op beide periodes een nieuw licht te werpen en onbekende nuances bloot te leggen. Henkes schrijft met respect voor haar 'personages'. Het unieke en veelzijdige bronnenmateriaal leidt tot zes vlot leesbare, intieme en some smeuïge minibiografietjes, waarin Henkes een indringend en niet zelden ontroerend beeld van een tijd geeft." Ingrid Glorie, in: Voertaal (2020-08-31).Table of ContentsIntroduction • Family and nation as imagined communities • Race and narratives of Whiteness • A first acquaintance • Shifts in time and tongue Section 1: National Socialism across the German-Dutch border 1. ‘Will my own brother have to fight against us now?’ Safe and risky stories in a German-Dutch family • Political controversies • A German-Dutch royal family • Family and nation under pressure • Gnadengesuch (Request for exemption) • Race as the elephant in the room 2. ‘If war comes, I will be tossed to and fro’ Literature as a home for an immigrant from Germany • Longing for the ‘good’ Germany • Into the blue • A Heimat in Holland? • ‘You are no longer German’ • A sprinkling of sand in the gears • Guild and shame 3. ‘Even after the war we will stand alone ' Letters as drops in an antisemitic Ocean • Marriage certificate • Stateless • 'A man I had to protect' • Growing isolation • Terrified • Together and yet alone • ‘One cannot say: it belongs to the past’ Section 2: Apartheid across the Dutch-South African border 4. ‘Can we build a future on this?' An epistolary love affair between the stamverwante Netherlands and South Africa • The Second World War in Breukelen and Bloemfontein • Foreign and yet so familiar • A shared European origin • Emigration fever • On the way to the Promised Land • The Dutch Reformed Dopper church in South Africa • ‘A life full of grace’ 5. ‘They are so different from us’ Messages from a White women’s world • Whitening at sea • A new world in Black and White • Boers, Brits and Outlanders • Among the Dutch in Pretoria • Blank baasskap (White rule) • A servant hutch in the garden • Stay or return? • A White civilisation narrative 6. ‘I never set out to wage war against my family.’ Cinematic explorations of Whiteness • Family as a gateway to a ‘strange’ world • The ‘Other’ in the household • Apartheid at work • Contact zones • A tense family reunion • You must have been – or gone away from – there • The presence of the past Epilogue • Migration and national identifications • Implicated in racial exclusion • Touching tales Acknowledgement Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī, a three volume set, contains a fully annotated translation of the extant writings of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Yaʿqūbī, a Muslim imperial official and polymath of the third/ninth century, along with an introduction to these works and a biographical sketch of their author. The most important of the works are the History (Ta’rikh) and his Geography (Kitab al-buldan). It also contains a new translation of al-Yaʿqūbī’s political essay (Mushakalat al-nas) and a set of fragmentary texts drawn from other Arabic medieval works. Al-Yaʿqūbī’s writings are among the earliest surviving Arabic-language works of the Islamic period, and thus offer an invaluable body of evidence on patterns of early Islamic history, social and economic organization, and cultural production. Contributors: Laila Asser, Paul Cobb, Lawrence I. Conrad, Elton Daniel, Fred Donner, Michael Fishbein, Matthew S. Gordon, Sidney H. Griffith, Wadad Kadi (al-Qāḍī), Lutz Richter-Bernberg, Chase F. Robinson, Everett K. Rowson

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Book SynopsisThe Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī, a three volume set, contains a fully annotated translation of the extant writings of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Yaʿqūbī, a Muslim imperial official and polymath of the third/ninth century, along with an introduction to these works and a biographical sketch of their author. The most important of the works are the History (Ta’rikh) and his Geography (Kitab al-buldan). It also contains a new translation of al-Yaʿqūbī’s political essay (Mushakalat al-nas) and a set of fragmentary texts drawn from other Arabic medieval works. Al-Yaʿqūbī’s writings are among the earliest surviving Arabic-language works of the Islamic period, and thus offer an invaluable body of evidence on patterns of early Islamic history, social and economic organization, and cultural production. Contributors: Laila Asser, Paul Cobb, Lawrence I. Conrad, Elton Daniel, Fred Donner, Michael Fishbein, Matthew S. Gordon, Sidney H. Griffith, Wadad Kadi (al-Qāḍī), Lutz Richter-Bernberg, Chase F. Robinson, Everett K. Rowson

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Book SynopsisThe Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī, a three volume set, contains a fully annotated translation of the extant writings of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Yaʿqūbī, a Muslim imperial official and polymath of the third/ninth century, along with an introduction to these works and a biographical sketch of their author. The most important of the works are the History (Ta’rikh) and his Geography (Kitab al-buldan). It also contains a new translation of al-Yaʿqūbī’s political essay (Mushakalat al-nas) and a set of fragmentary texts drawn from other Arabic medieval works. Al-Yaʿqūbī’s writings are among the earliest surviving Arabic-language works of the Islamic period, and thus offer an invaluable body of evidence on patterns of early Islamic history, social and economic organization, and cultural production. Contributors: Laila Asser, Paul Cobb, Lawrence I. Conrad, Elton Daniel, Fred Donner, Michael Fishbein, Matthew S. Gordon, Sidney H. Griffith, Wadad Kadi (al-Qāḍī), Lutz Richter-Bernberg, Chase F. Robinson, Everett K. Rowson

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Book SynopsisIntercultural Mirrors: Dynamic Reconstruction of Identity contains (auto)ethnographic chapters and research-based explorations that uncover the ways our intercultural experiences influence our process of self-discovery and self-construction. The idea of intercultural mirrors is applied throughout all chapters as an instrument of analysis, an heuristic tool, drawn from philosophy, to provide a focus for the analysis of real life experiences. Plato noted that one could see one’s own reflection in the pupil of another’s eye, and suggested that the mirror image provided in the eye of the other person was an essential contributor to self-knowledge. Taking this as a cue, the contributors of this book have structured their writings around the idea that the view of us held by other people provides an essential key to one’s own self-understanding. Contributors are: James Arvanitakis, Damian Cox, Mark Dinnen, James Ferguson, Tom Frengos, Dennis Harmon, Donna Henson, Alexandra Hoyt, William Kelly, Lucyann Kerry, Julia Kraven, Taryn Mathis, Tony McHugh, Raoul Mortley, Kristin Newton, Marie-Claire Patron, Darren Swanson, and Peter Mbago Wakholi.Trade Review"This book is an excellent synthesis of cultural influences, and the effects of moving from one culture to another, told by those who experienced it firsthand. It is unique and original contribution to the field. Highly recommended." – Ami Rokach, Ph.D., York University (Canada) and the Centre for Academic Studies (Israel)Table of ContentsForeword  Raoul Mortley Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors 1 Expansion of Self through Intercultural Experiences  Julia Kraven 2 Hansel and Gretel Revisited: Quixotic Reflections of Online Dating  Marie-Claire Patron 3 Doni Doni Kononi Danala – Little by Little the Little Bird Builds Its Nest: Intercultural Reflections: Western Travel in Non-Western Culture  Alexandra Hoyt 4 Migration and Making Sense of Place: Against a Backdrop of Negative Media Discourse About Africa  Peter Mbago Wakholi 5 Mirror Mirror: What Culture Am I?: Using Philosophy to Reconstruct Our Images and Cultural Identities  Tom Frengos 6 Spreading Roots Globally, Losing Roots Locally: Coming to Terms with Being an Expat as an Intercultural Identity  Lucyann Kerry 7 Barceloneta as Heterotopic Mirror: A Place of Different Spaces  Tony McHugh 8 Reflection and Aspiration: Mirrors and Models in Traditional European and Chinese Thought  R. James Ferguson 9 Becoming a Person through Intercultural Communication: A White American’s Experiences in Asia and Africa  William Kelly 10 Affect Mirrors  Damian Cox 11 List Yourself: An Autoethnography of Intercultural Identity  Donna Henson 12 I’m So Normal, I Must Be Different  Taryn J. Mathis 13 The Decentred Delegate: Adapting Identity within a Model United Nations Learning Environment  Dennis Harmon II and Mark Dinnen 14 Scotland the Brave? An Exile’s Perspective on Scottish Identity from Abroad  Darren Swanson 15 Intercultural Mirrors and Cultural Humility: My Journey as an Educator  James Arvanitakis 16 Cultural Observations and a Conversation about Drawing by a Wandering Artist  Kristin Newton

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers an insight into a selection of current issues of embodiment and other related aspects, such as identity, gender, disability, or sexuality, discussed on the basis of examples from contemporary culture and social life. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of the cyborg as a transgressor of boundaries, the book examines fluidity of post-human bodies – from cyber relations to others and to self, enabled by the latest technologies, through fragmented, prostheticised, monstrous or augmented body of popular culture and lifestyles, to the dis/utopian fantasies offered by literary texts – showing how difficult it still is in current culture to let go of the stable boundaries towards the post-gender world Haraway imagines. Contributors are Dawn Woolley, Anna Pilińska, Barbara Braid, Jana Reynolds, Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca, Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodríguez, Katharina Vester, Wojciech Śmieja and Hanan Muzaffar.Table of ContentsIllustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism  Hanan Muzaffar and Barbara Braid Part 1 Streaming the Body: Digital Media and the Embodiment 1 The Iconography of Disruptive Bodies: Social Media and Medical Identities  Dawn Woolley 2 “Bodies We Obsess Upon”: Corporality and Gender Performance in The Heart Machine (2014)  Anna Pilińska Part 2 Extending the Body: Biotechnology, Fluidity, Monstrosity 3 Body Going ‘Gaga’: Lady Gaga, Disability and the Gothic body  Barbara Braid 4 “This Guy Is Such a Machine!” Gendering the Amputee Body in Fashion and Lifestyle Media  Jana Melkumova-Reynolds 5 Mexican Men Meet Cyborg Masculinity: Gendered Subjectivities in the Technology of Erection Era  Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca and Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodríguez Part 3 Body at the End of Times: Fantasising Gender 6 POISE, Miss Lane! Super-Femininity in U.S. Comic Books in the 1940s and 1950s  Katharina Vester 7 From Tannenberg Battle to Warsaw Uprising: Polish Masculinity from Human to Posthuman in Modern Polish Literature  Wojciech Śmieja 8 Margaret Atwood’s Crakers and the Posthuman Future of Humanity  Hanan Muzaffar Index

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Book SynopsisDans Identités françaises, Mame-Fatou Niang interroge la périphérisation et l’identité nationale, à travers l’étude de discours sur les banlieues françaises. L'attention sur des femmes et sur le quotidien illumine des processus qui créent citoyenneté et marginalité dans la France républicaine. In Identités françaises, Mame-Fatou Niang illuminate approaches to marginalization and national identity, through the study of discourses on the French banlieues. The focus on the quotidian and on women interrogate the processes that create citizenship and marginality in republican France.Trade Review"Mame-Fatou Niang’s Identités françaises: Banlieues, féminités et universalisme takes a fresh look at some very well-trod ground: discourses in and about the French banlieues and the place of women in these regions. While previous studies have addressed issues including gender stereotyping and family politics, Niang’s study takes an innovative approach in bringing together novels, films, print media, and online discussions in her interrogation of the many ways women shape--and talk about--their lives in France’s banlieues from the 1980s through today." - Kathryn Kleppinger (The George Washington University), H-France Review Vol. 20 (December 2020), No. 221.Table of ContentsRemerciements Abréviations Introduction 1 Des rodéos des Minguettes à Charlie Hebdo : trente-cinq ans de production médiatique de la banlieue  1 Méthodologie de l’analyse  2 La fabrique des images : médias, banlieues et représentations  3 L’été chaud des Minguettes  4 La crise de l’automne 2005  5 2015 et le tournant Charlie Hebdo  6 La Grande Borne ou la dérive d’une utopie urbaine 2 Une écriture de l’espace au féminin  1 Un conte des temps modernes : l’adolescente et le jeune (loup) de banlieue  2 Lieux et sexuation de l’urbain  3 Écriture et spatialisation du pouvoir 3 De la difficulté d’intégrer ces corps à la République  1 Penser ces textes dans la littérature française  2 Difficultés de dénomination et de classification  3 Fausse autobiographie ou vraie autofiction ? : l’écriture dans Une fille sans histoire  4 Langue et identité (nationale) 4 Mères migrantes et filles de la République : la question de la transmission identitaire  1 Écarts d’identité dans N’ba  2 Histoires de mères, histoires de France  3 Langue et Religion 5 De Bande de filles à Mariannes noires : universalisme et décolonisation des imaginaires  1 Filmer une intersection de marginalités  2 Du désir d’universalisation à la validation de stéréotypes  3 La réception critique de Bande de filles ou la canonisation d’une œuvre problématique  4 Décolonisation des imaginaires et exhortations à l’universel 6 « Replacer les périphéries au centre des productions nationales »  Filmographie Perspectives Bibliographie 303 Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the development of biographical study in African history and historiography. Consisting of 10 case studies, it is preceded by an introductory prologue, which deals with the relationship between historiography and different forms of biographical study in the context of Western history-writing but especially African (historical and anthropological) studies. The first three case studies deal with the methodological insights of biographical studies for African history. This is followed by three case studies dealing with personas living through fundamental societal transitions, and four case studies focusing on the discursive dimensions of biographical subjects (including religion, cosmology and ideology). Countries or regions discussed include South Africa, Zambia, Gold Coast, Cameroon, Tanganyika, Congo-Kinshasa and the Central African Republic in colonial times. Contributors are Lindie Koorts, Elena Moore, Iva Peša, Paul Glen Grant, Jacqueline de Vries, Duncan Money, Morgan Robinson, Eve Wong, Klaas van Walraven, Erik Kennes.Table of Contents  Acknowledgements   List of Illustrations    Notes on Contributors   Prologue: Reflections on Historiography and Biography and the Study of Africa’s Past    Klaas van Walraven Part 1: Methodological Insights  1 Human Symbols   The Biographical Pursuit and the Language of Symbolism in Contemporary South Africa    Lindie Koorts  2 ‘Your Surroundings Don’t Make You; You Must Rise above all that’   The Home in Life Histories as Site of Resistance to Racial Violence, Cape Town, South Africa    Elena Moore  3 From Life Histories to Social History   Narrating Social Change through Multiple Biographies    Iva Peša Part 2: Persons in Transitions  4 The Effervescence of Individual Life: Cornelius Badu, Born 1847 in Elmina, Gold Coast    Paul Glen Grant  5 The Leopard that Came to Laikom: Michael Timneng in Colonial Cameroon    Jacqueline de Vries  6 Underground Struggles: The Early Life of Jack Hodgson    Duncan Money Part 3: Discursive Worlds  7 Binding Words: Student Biographical Narratives and Religious Conversion    Morgan Robinson  8 A Muslim Boy in Sunday School   Abdullah Abdurahman’s Early Childhood and Education in Cape Town at the End of the Nineteenth Century    Eve Wong  9 Barthélémy Boganda between Charisma and Cosmology   Interpretive Perspectives on Biography in Equatorial African History    Klaas van Walraven  10 A Road not Taken? The Biography of Laurent Kabila (1939-2001)    Erik Kennes   Index

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