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Book SynopsisRoads through Mwinilunga provides a historical appraisal of social change in Northwest Zambia from 1750 until the present. By looking at agricultural production, mobility, consumption, and settlement patterns, existing explanations of social change are reassessed. Using a wide range of archival and oral history sources, Iva Peša shows the relevance of Mwinilunga to broader processes of colonialism, capitalism, and globalisation. Through a focus on daily life, this book complicates transitions from subsistence to market production and dichotomies between tradition and modernity. Roads through Mwinilunga is a crucial addition to debates on historical and social change in Central Africa.Trade Review'[...] I find Iva Peša’s new book praiseworthy and worthwhile reading for any scholar interested in both the larger theme of social change as well as the lesser topics that she covers." [...] Paul David Wilkin, Anthropology Southern Africa, 43:1, 61-63 '[...] Peša’s research serves as convincing proof of the nonlinear, nondirectional, and evolutionary (continuous) rather than revolutionary (intermittent) nature of the historical process, even under such seemingly punctuated developments as transitions from precolonialism to colonialism and from colonialism to postcolonialism. It is an extremely valuable conclusion that is very well grounded by Peša both in theory and in her analysis of the evidence' [...]. '[...] Peša's book promises to become a much welcome contribution not only to Zambian studies but also to fields beyond. (...) An exceptionally detailed and nuanced description of social change in concrete cultures in changing historical situations, Roads through Mwinilunga is a significant text for theorists in the social sciences who study general trends of institutional transformations.'[...] Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Published on H-Africa (November, 2020) https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=55890Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction 1 Paths to the Past: Continuity and Change in Mwinilunga, c. 1750s–1970s 2 Production: Crops, Meat, and Markets 3 Mobility 4 Consumption: Goods, Wealth, and Meaning 5 Settlements and Social Change: Continuity and Change in Village Life Conclusion Sources Index

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Book SynopsisIrit Back’s book From Sudan to South Sudan: IGAD and the Role of Regional Mediation in Africa comprehensively analyses the full achievements, shortcomings, and implications of IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) mediation efforts in Sudan and South Sudan. IGAD’s active mediation was a primary force behind the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the south and the north that eventually resulted in South Sudan’s declaration of independence in 2011. The euphoria of this historic achievement was, however, almost immediately overshadowed by internal strife, which has, since 2013, escalated to a large-scale conflict in the new-born nation that demanded IGAD’s renewed mediation efforts. The book offers readers new insights and perspectives to apply when seeking to develop a more balanced understanding of Africa’s contemporary conflicts and the efforts to resolve them. More specifically, the book will also help readers to better comprehend the potential role of regional mediation in East Africa, a region with a turbulent history in the post-Cold War era.Trade Review[...] 'A specialist in conflict management and the role of international organizations in Africa, Back (Tel Aviv Univ., Israel) here details the function of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in the long, arduous mediation process that culminated in the breakaway of Sudan's southern region and its reconstitution as the then-newly sovereign state of South Sudan in 2011. [...] 'Well-written and readable, this important case study is likely to interest mostly academic and policy specialists on conflict management in Africa and elsewhere'. A. Magid, emeritus, SUNY at Albany, in CHOICE, April 2021 [...] 'From Sudan to South Sudan is superbly written and provides a compelling case study that is at once a primer on IGAD’s role as peacemaker, and also on subregional peace mediation in Africa more generally. As such, it would be a highly suitable companion case for any curriculum in conflict management, or an excellent addition to a course on the politics of Africa or Africa’s international relations'. Christopher Day, College of Charleston, in International Journal of African Historical Studies 54, No. 2 (2021), pp. 248-249Table of Contents Acknowledgments  Acronyms Introduction 1The Emerging Role of Regional Organizations in Post-Cold War Africa 2From Ecology to Mediation: IGAD First Efforts as a Regional Mediator 3We Cannot Negotiate and Fight: IGAD’s Role in Achieving the CPA 4Spring of Hope: IGAD’s Mediation Efforts, 2005–2014 5Winter of Despair: IGAD Mediation Efforts, 2015–2018 6A Comparative View of IGAD’s Mediation in Sudan, Somalia, South Sudan, and Somaliland  Conclusion  Epilogue  Bibliography 12  Index

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Book SynopsisScientists and Poets #Resist is a collection of creative nonfiction, personal narrative, and poetry. This volume is a conversation between poets and scientists and a dialogue between art and science. The authors are poets, scientists, and poet-scientists who use the seven words—"vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based"—banned by the Trump administration in official Health and Human Service documents in December 2017 in their contributions. The contributors use the seven words to discuss their work, reactions to their work, and the creative environment in which they work. The resulting collection is an act of resistance, a political commentary, a conversation between scientists and poets, and a dialogue of collective voices using banned words as a rallying cry—Scientists and Poets #Resist—a warning that censorship is an issue connecting us all, an issue requiring a collective aesthetic response. This book can be read for pleasure, is a great choice for book clubs, and can be used as a springboard for reflection and discussion in a range of courses in the social sciences, education, and creative writing.Trade ReviewRead Sandra L. Faulkner's interview with the Napkin Poetry Review here!Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Science-Based Vulnerability Part 1 1. It Begins with Our Words  Daniela Elza 2. Rescue the Words  Norma Wilson 3. Evidence-Based  Jane Piirto 4. Notes from Indiana: The Crossroads of America, 2018  Charnell Peters 5. Late Term  Jessica Smartt Gullion 6. Before Roe vs. Wade  Sarah Brown Weitzman 7. The Double Helix Is Not Two-Faced, It Is an Embrace  Elizabyth A. Hiscox 8. That Light Bill  Samantha Schaefer Part 2 9. Kidnapping Children and Calves (of a Tender Age)  Lee Beavington 10. What Does Transgender Look Like?  Shalen Lowell 11. Woman with PCOS Lingers on the Possibilities of Science  Minadora Macheret 12. Half a Schroedinger  Karen L. Frank 13. Bubbles  Kris Harrington 14. The Ease and Difficulty of Hating and Loving One’s Self  Franklin K. R. Cline 15. Seven Thoughts about Butterflies  Ben Paulus 16. It Takes a Village  Michelle Bonczek Evory 17. The Capital of Failure  Scott M. Bade Part 3 18. Field Notes & Marginalia  Sandy Feinstein and Bryan Shawn Wang 19. =  Terri Witek 20. America, My America  Sarah Brown Weitzman 21. Expressive Writing Paradigm: An Experiment in Righting  Jessica Moore 22. To Beat the Banned  Scott Wiggerman 23. Four Years  Jennifer K. Sweeney 24. While the Offering Stales in the Calm  Mark Kerstetter 25. Photosynthesis  Susan Cohen Questions and Activities for Further Discussion Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisScientists and Poets #Resist is a collection of creative nonfiction, personal narrative, and poetry. This volume is a conversation between poets and scientists and a dialogue between art and science. The authors are poets, scientists, and poet-scientists who use the seven words—"vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based"—banned by the Trump administration in official Health and Human Service documents in December 2017 in their contributions. The contributors use the seven words to discuss their work, reactions to their work, and the creative environment in which they work. The resulting collection is an act of resistance, a political commentary, a conversation between scientists and poets, and a dialogue of collective voices using banned words as a rallying cry—Scientists and Poets #Resist—a warning that censorship is an issue connecting us all, an issue requiring a collective aesthetic response. This book can be read for pleasure, is a great choice for book clubs, and can be used as a springboard for reflection and discussion in a range of courses in the social sciences, education, and creative writing.Trade ReviewRead Sandra L. Faulkner's interview with the Napkin Poetry Review here!Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Science-Based Vulnerability Part 1 1. It Begins with Our Words  Daniela Elza 2. Rescue the Words  Norma Wilson 3. Evidence-Based  Jane Piirto 4. Notes from Indiana: The Crossroads of America, 2018  Charnell Peters 5. Late Term  Jessica Smartt Gullion 6. Before Roe vs. Wade  Sarah Brown Weitzman 7. The Double Helix Is Not Two-Faced, It Is an Embrace  Elizabyth A. Hiscox 8. That Light Bill  Samantha Schaefer Part 2 9. Kidnapping Children and Calves (of a Tender Age)  Lee Beavington 10. What Does Transgender Look Like?  Shalen Lowell 11. Woman with PCOS Lingers on the Possibilities of Science  Minadora Macheret 12. Half a Schroedinger  Karen L. Frank 13. Bubbles  Kris Harrington 14. The Ease and Difficulty of Hating and Loving One’s Self  Franklin K. R. Cline 15. Seven Thoughts about Butterflies  Ben Paulus 16. It Takes a Village  Michelle Bonczek Evory 17. The Capital of Failure  Scott M. Bade Part 3 18. Field Notes & Marginalia  Sandy Feinstein and Bryan Shawn Wang 19. =  Terri Witek 20. America, My America  Sarah Brown Weitzman 21. Expressive Writing Paradigm: An Experiment in Righting  Jessica Moore 22. To Beat the Banned  Scott Wiggerman 23. Four Years  Jennifer K. Sweeney 24. While the Offering Stales in the Calm  Mark Kerstetter 25. Photosynthesis  Susan Cohen Questions and Activities for Further Discussion Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisAfrican-Asian interactions contribute to the emergence of a decentred, multi-polar world in which different actors need to redefine themselves and their relations to each other. Afrasian Transformations explores these changes to map out several arenas where these transformations have already produced startling results: development politics, South-South cooperation, cultural memory, mobile lifeworlds and transcultural connectivity. The contributions in this volume neither celebrate these shifting dynamics as felicitous proof of a new age of South-South solidarity, nor do they debunk them as yet another instance of burgeoning geopolitical hegemony. Instead, they seek to come to terms with the ambivalences, contradictions and potential benefits entailed in these transformations – that are also altering our understanding of (trans)area in an increasingly globalized world. Contributors include: Seifudein Adem, Nafeesah Allen, Jan Beek, Tom De Bruyn, Casper Hendrik Claassen, Astrid Erll, Hanna Getachew Amare, John Njenga Karugia, Guive Khan-Mohammad, Vinay Lal, Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Jamie Monson, Diderot Nguepjouo, Satwinder S. Rehal, Ute Röschenthaler, Alexandra Samokhvalova, Darryl C. Thomas, and Sophia Thubauville.Table of Contents Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors  Afrasian Transformations: An Introduction   Ruth Achenbach, Jan Beek, John Njenga Karugia, Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel, and Frank Schulze-Engler Part 1: Translocalizing Memory 1 Futures in the Past of Africa-China Engagement   Jamie Monson 2 Indo-Mozambicans in Maputo: Oral Narratives on Identity and Migration from 1947–1992   Nafeesah Allen 3 Afrasian Sea Memories: Between Competitive and Multidirectional Remembering   John Njenga Karugia and Astrid Erll Part 2: Transregionalizing Development Politics 4 Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Assessing the Role of Southeast Asia, China, and the United States    Seifudein Adem and Darryl C. Thomas 5 The Cultural Politics and Political Sociology of Indian “Land-Grabbing” in Ethiopia   Vinay Lal 6 Dealing with Chinese Investors in Cameroon’s Mines: African Agency and Participation   Diderot Nguepjouo 7 Higher Education and Nation Branding: Malaysia’s Africa-Specific Student Recruitment Strategies   Alexandra Samokhvalova Part 3: Transfiguring South-South Cooperation 8 The Promise of Equal Partnerships in South-South Cooperation? Evidence from Brazil, India, and the PR China in Mozambique   Tom De Bruyn 9 From Poverty to Prosperity: Rural Development in South Africa with Reference to South Korea’s New Village Movement   Casper Hendrik Claassen 10 Migration of Indian Educators to Ethiopia: Between Solidarity and Global Capitalism   Sophia Thubauville and Hanna Getachew Amare Part 4: Shifting Gears in Mobile Lifeworlds and Transcultural Connectivity 11 Cybercrime between Africa and India: Doing Area and Maintaining National Borders Online  Jan Beek 12 Television Soap Operas as the New Frontier in African and Asian (Afrasian) Encounters: The Case of Filipino teleseryes in Africa   Satwinder S. Rehal 13 Original and Fake, Fake Originals, or Multiple Degrees of Quality? Chinese Manufactured Consumer Goods on Cameroonian Markets   Ute Röschenthaler 14 ‘Counterfeiting’ in the African-Asian Trade: ‘Fake,’ ‘Original,’ and Everything In-between   Guive Khan-Mohammad 15 The Late Style of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o   Pavan Kumar Malreddy  Index

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Book SynopsisNew Books Network: Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises What history and motivations make up the discourses we are taught to hold, and spread, as common sense? As a member of Brazil's upper middle class, Ana Beatriz Ribeiro grew up with the image that to be developed was to be as European as possible. However, as a researcher in Europe during her country's Workers' Party era, she kept reading that Africans should be repaid for developing Brazilian society – via Brazil's "bestowal" of development upon Africa as an "emerging power." In Modernization Dreams, Lusotropical Promises, the researcher investigates where these two worldviews might intersect, diverge and date back to, gauging relations between representatives and projects of the Brazilian and Mozambican states, said to be joined in cooperation more than others.Table of Contents Preface  Acknowledgments  List of Images, Figures and Maps  Acronyms and Abbreviations  Introduction: The “dreams” and the “promises”  Genesis  History  Definitions  Layout 1 Opinion-makers and the Making of Cooperation  1.1 Brazil-Mozambique Studies: What’s Missing?  1.2 Builders and Subjects of Lusofonia  1.3 Creating and Sculpting the Lusotropical Group  1.4 The Discursive Struggle against Lusotropicalism 2 (Luso)tropical Development as Policy in Brazil  2.1 Between the Old Empire and Nascent States  2.2 Africa in Brazil’s “Independent Foreign Policy”  2.3 Pragmatism as a Rapprochement Instrument  2.4 Channeling Slavery-era Bonds into Politics 3 Diplomats, Technocrats and Reality Checks  3.1 A Gap between “promises” and Actions?  3.2 Africa as Kindred Continent and Priority  3.3 “Demand-driven” Cooperation in Mozambique  3.4 Technical Cooperation versus Profit-seeking? 4 Aid, Agency and Extraction in Mozambique  4.1 From “donor darling” to Donor and Investor  4.2 From Colonial Endeavor to National Enterprise  4.3 History and Diplomacy of Moatize Mining  4.4 Mines Spill into Farms, Spill into Factories 5 Dependency, Development and Liberalization  5.1 Constructing Mozambique’s Modernization  5.2 A “South-South” Alliance in Public Health   5.2.1 Turning the smm Factory into Business   5.2.2 Growing Local Industry or Dependency?  5.3 A Triangular Alliance in Agricultural Production  5.4 The Uncertain Outlook of ProSavana Ambitions 6 The Enduring Legacy of Lusotropicalism  6.1 Post-colonial Self-affirmation and CPLP  6.2 Takes on 21st century “lusophone” Leadership  6.3 Brazil Memories of a Mozambican in Lisbon  Conclusion  Overarching Reflections and Findings  Further Measuring the “dreams” and “promises”  Bibliography  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.Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Factual Overview (as of 31 December 2019) List of Authors Sub-Saharan Africa  Albert Kanlisi Awedoba, Benedikt Kamski, Andreas Mehler, and David Sebudubudu African–European Relations in 2019  Benedikt Erforth and Niels Keijzer West Africa  Albert Kanlisi Awedoba Benin  Pauline Jarroux and Clarisse Tama-Imourou Burkina Faso  Daniel Eizenga Cabo Verde  Gerhard Seibert Côte d’Ivoire  Jesper Bjarnesen The Gambia  Alice Bellagamba Ghana  Jennifer Boylan Guinea  Anita Schroven Guinea-Bissau  Christoph Kohl Liberia  Ibrahim Al-Bakri Nyei Mali  Bruce Whitehouse Mauritania  Helena Olsson and Claes Olsson Niger  Klaas van Walraven Nigeria  Heinrich Bergstresser Senegal  Mamadou Bodian Sierra Leone  Krijn Peters Togo  Dirk Kohnert 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  Janosch Kullenberg Equatorial Guinea  Joseph N. Mangarella Gabon  Douglas Yates São Tomé and Príncipe  Gerhard Seibert Eastern Africa  Benedikt Kamski Burundi  Andrea Filipi and Katrin Wittig Comoros  Simon Massey Djibouti  Nicole Hirt Eritrea  Nicole Hirt Ethiopia  Jon Abbink Kenya  Nanjala Nyabola Rwanda  Erik Plänitz Seychelles  Anthoni van Nieuwkerk Somalia  Jon Abbink South Sudan  Daniel Large Sudan  Jean-Nicolas Bach and Clément Deshayes Tanzania  Kurt Hirschler and Rolf Hofmeier Uganda  Angelo Izama Southern Africa  David Sebudubudu Angola  Jon Schubert Botswana  David Sebudubudu Eswatini  Marisha Ramdeen Lesotho  Roger Southall Madagascar  Richard R. Marcus Malawi  George Dzimbiri and Lewis Dzimbiri Mauritius  Roukaya Kasenally Mozambique  Joseph Hanlon Namibia  Henning Melber South Africa  Sanusha Naidu Zambia  Edalina Rodrigues Sanches Zimbabwe  Amin Y. Kamete

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the diverse linguistic landscape of Southeast Asia’s Chinese communities. Based on archival research and previously unpublished linguistic fieldwork, it unearths a wide variety of language histories, linguistic practices, and trajectories of words. The localized and often marginalized voices we bring to the spotlight are quickly disappearing in the wake of standardization and homogenization, yet they tell a story that is uniquely Southeast Asian in its rich hybridity. Our comparative scope and focus on language, analysed in tandem with history and culture, adds a refreshing dimension to the broader field of Sino-Southeast Asian Studies.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Notes on the Language List of Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 From Ang moh 紅毛 to Phi jun 批准: The Role of Southern Min in Early Contacts between Chinese and European Languages  Picus Sizhi Ding 2 At the Periphery of Nanyang: The Hakka Community of Timor-Leste  Juliette Huber 3 Language Contact and Lexical Changes in Khmer and Teochew in Cambodia and Beyond  Joanna Rose McFarland 4 The Nature of Sinitic Lexicon in Bazaar Malay and Baba Malay in Singapore  Khin Khin Aye 5 Native Lexical Innovation in Penang Hokkien: Thinking beyond Rojak  Catherine Churchman 6 A Preliminary Study of Kaoka 高甲 Playscripts in the Philippines  Caroline Chia 7 “Do You Love China or Not?”: Late-Colonial Textbooks to Learn Mandarin through Malay  Tom Hoogervorst Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDemocracy and Electoral Politics in Zambia aims to comprehend the current dynamics of Zambia’s democracy and to understand what was specific about the 2015/2016 election experience. While elections have been central to understanding Zambian politics over the last decade, the coverage they have received in the academic literature has been sparse. This book aims to fill that gap and give a more holistic account of contemporary Zambian electoral dynamics, by providing innovative analysis of political parties, mobilization methods, the constitutional framework, the motivations behind voters’ choices and the adjudication of electoral disputes by the judiciary. This book draws on insights and interviews, public opinion data and innovative surveys that aim to tell a rich and nuanced story about Zambia’s recent electoral history from a variety of disciplinary approaches. Contributors include: Tinenenji Banda, Nicole Beardsworth, John Bwalya, Privilege Haang’andu, Erin Hern, Marja Hinfelaar, Dae Un Hong, O’Brien Kaaba, Robby Kapesa, Chanda Mfula, Jotham Momba, Biggie Joe Ndambwa, Muna Ndulo, Jeremy Seekings, Hangala Siachiwena, Sishuwa Sishuwa, Owen Sichone, Aaron Siwale, Michael Wahman.

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Book SynopsisBeginning from the notion that self is constructed, contributors in Identity Landscapes: Contemplating Place and the Construction of Self are particularly interested in how relationships with place inform identity development. Locating identity inquiry in methodologies that encourage an explicit examination of self (e.g. autoethnography, self-study, autobiographical inquiry, a/r/tography, and reflexive inquiry), authors situate themselves epistemologically and geographically as they explore where place and identity converge. Through critical, qualitative, creative, and arts-integrated approaches, this collection aims to advance thought regarding the myriad ways that place informs identity development.Table of ContentsForeword: Tethering Fragments  Jodi Latremouille 1 Contemplating How the Places We Dwell, Dwell in Us  Ellyn Lyle 2 Twilight or Obscure  David W. Jardine 3 A Sense of Place: Exploring Place and Identity through Virtual Bricolage Self-Study Research  Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan and Anastasia P. Samaras 4 France as a Conduit for Teacher Identity Development: Making Croissants  Christine L. Cho and Julie K. Corkett 5 Toward a Mi’kmaw Poetics of Place  Adrian M. Downey 6 Geographies of Self-In-Relation: Invocations of Heartlands and Hinterlands  Anita Sinner 7 Fragments of the Body, Landscape, and Identity: A Dancer/Poet’s Terroir  Celeste Snowber 8 Being and Becoming in Place: Embodied Ways of Knowing and Living Science  Margaret Macdonald, Cher Hill and Poh Tan 9 In Search of Myself  Sepideh Mahani 10 The Colour of Secrets  Valerie Triggs 11 The Conversation We Never Had: Shared Autobiography in Relation to Place and Each Other  Jennifer Markides and Derek Markides 12 Exploring Identities and Place through the Ecological Imagination  Kelly Young 13 I Am Here, They Were There: A Poetic Rumination of Familial History, Place, and the Conception of Self  Adam Vincent 14 Positioning Myself in Turtle Island: The Storied Journeying of a First-Generation Korean Immigrant-Settler to Canada  Eun-Ji Amy Kim 15 Living In-between: A Narrative Inquiry Self-Study into (Re)locating Place and Self  Carmen Schlamb 16 Beyond Ontological Autonomy: Finding One’s Self in Relations  Peter Graham, Mindy Carter, Rena Upitis and Kelann Currie-Williams 17 Living and Being in Place: An Indigenous Métissage  Vicki Kelly 18 Mindscapes and Landscapes: Rendering (of) Self through a Body of Work  Hilary Leighton 19 Teacher Identity and Agency: Learning and Becoming through Place-Conscious Pedagogy  Sharon Pelech and Darron Kelly 20 Cree Nisgaa Methodological Framework and Poetic Inquiry: Teaching Through (Re)Storying  Keri Cheechoo 21 Teaching Identities: Lessons from Aujuittuq (The Place That Never Thaws)  Heather Mcleod and Dale Vanelli 22 Third Space Identity: Dwelling in National, International, and Epistemological Bazaar  Momina Khan 23 Hospitality at the Intersection of Place, Time, and Self  Lana Parker 24 Weaving Slow and Indigenous Pedagogies: Considering the Axiology of Place and Identity  Shannon Leddy and Lorrie Miller 25 Places of the Heart  Kimberley Holmes and Carl Leggo

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Book SynopsisBeginning from the notion that self is constructed, contributors in Identity Landscapes: Contemplating Place and the Construction of Self are particularly interested in how relationships with place inform identity development. Locating identity inquiry in methodologies that encourage an explicit examination of self (e.g. autoethnography, self-study, autobiographical inquiry, a/r/tography, and reflexive inquiry), authors situate themselves epistemologically and geographically as they explore where place and identity converge. Through critical, qualitative, creative, and arts-integrated approaches, this collection aims to advance thought regarding the myriad ways that place informs identity development.Table of ContentsForeword: Tethering Fragments  Jodi Latremouille 1 Contemplating How the Places We Dwell, Dwell in Us  Ellyn Lyle 2 Twilight or Obscure  David W. Jardine 3 A Sense of Place: Exploring Place and Identity through Virtual Bricolage Self-Study Research  Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan and Anastasia P. Samaras 4 France as a Conduit for Teacher Identity Development: Making Croissants  Christine L. Cho and Julie K. Corkett 5 Toward a Mi’kmaw Poetics of Place  Adrian M. Downey 6 Geographies of Self-In-Relation: Invocations of Heartlands and Hinterlands  Anita Sinner 7 Fragments of the Body, Landscape, and Identity: A Dancer/Poet’s Terroir  Celeste Snowber 8 Being and Becoming in Place: Embodied Ways of Knowing and Living Science  Margaret Macdonald, Cher Hill and Poh Tan 9 In Search of Myself  Sepideh Mahani 10 The Colour of Secrets  Valerie Triggs 11 The Conversation We Never Had: Shared Autobiography in Relation to Place and Each Other  Jennifer Markides and Derek Markides 12 Exploring Identities and Place through the Ecological Imagination  Kelly Young 13 I Am Here, They Were There: A Poetic Rumination of Familial History, Place, and the Conception of Self  Adam Vincent 14 Positioning Myself in Turtle Island: The Storied Journeying of a First-Generation Korean Immigrant-Settler to Canada  Eun-Ji Amy Kim 15 Living In-between: A Narrative Inquiry Self-Study into (Re)locating Place and Self  Carmen Schlamb 16 Beyond Ontological Autonomy: Finding One’s Self in Relations  Peter Graham, Mindy Carter, Rena Upitis and Kelann Currie-Williams 17 Living and Being in Place: An Indigenous Métissage  Vicki Kelly 18 Mindscapes and Landscapes: Rendering (of) Self through a Body of Work  Hilary Leighton 19 Teacher Identity and Agency: Learning and Becoming through Place-Conscious Pedagogy  Sharon Pelech and Darron Kelly 20 Cree Nisgaa Methodological Framework and Poetic Inquiry: Teaching Through (Re)Storying  Keri Cheechoo 21 Teaching Identities: Lessons from Aujuittuq (The Place That Never Thaws)  Heather Mcleod and Dale Vanelli 22 Third Space Identity: Dwelling in National, International, and Epistemological Bazaar  Momina Khan 23 Hospitality at the Intersection of Place, Time, and Self  Lana Parker 24 Weaving Slow and Indigenous Pedagogies: Considering the Axiology of Place and Identity  Shannon Leddy and Lorrie Miller 25 Places of the Heart  Kimberley Holmes and Carl Leggo

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Book SynopsisChinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 offers a panoramic view of reflections on progress in modern China. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the discourses on progress shape Chinese understandings of modernity and its pitfalls. As this in-depth study shows, these discourses play a pivotal role in the fields of politics, society, culture, as well as philosophy, history, and literature. It is therefore no exaggeration to say that the Chinese ideas of progress, their often highly optimistic implications, but also the criticism of modernity they offered, opened the gateway for reflections on China’s past, its position in the present world, and its future course.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Progress, History, and Time in Chinese Discourses after the 1890s  Thomas Fröhlich Part 1: Initial Conceptual Encounters 1 The Chinese Concept of “Progress”  Kai Vogelsang 2 The Progress of Civilization and Confucianism in Modern East Asia: Fukuzawa Yukichi and Different Forms of Enlightenment  Takahiro Nakajima Part 2: Tides of Optimism 3 The Idea of Progress in Modern China: the Case of Yan Fu  Li Qiang 4 Prospect Optimism in Modern China: the Formation of a Political Paradigm  Thomas Fröhlich 5 An Anatomy of the Utopian Impulse in Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1890–1940  Peter Zarrow 6 The Optimism of Cultural Construction in the 1930s: Wholesale Westernization, Cultural Unit Theory, and Cultural Construction on a Chinese Base  Leigh Jenco 7 Fantasizing Science: the Idea of Progress in Early Chinese Science Fiction (1905–1920)  Rui Kunze Part 2: Margins of Skepticism 8 Critiques of Progress: Reflections on Chinese Conservatism  Axel Schneider 9 Playing the Same Old Tricks: Lu Xun’s Reflections on Modernity in His Essay “Modern History”  Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik Index

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume addresses the history, literature and material culture of peoples of Turkish origins in India over the eleventh to eighteenth centuries. Although many ruling dynasties and members of the elite in this period claimed Turkish descent, this aspect of their identity has seldom received much scholarly attention. The discussion is enriched by a focus on connections and comparisons with other parts of the broader Turko-Persian world, especially Anatolia. Although discussions of Turkish-Muslim rulers in India take account of their Central Asian origins and connections, links with Anatolia, stretching back to the medieval period, were also important in the formation of Turkish society and culture in India, and have been much less explored in the literature. The volume contains contributions by some of the leading scholars in the field.Trade Review"This is a valuable and accessible volume." – R.W. Zens, Le Moyne College, in Choice Connect "[...] the authors have produced a valuable collection of scholarship that promises leads and new questions to inspire a broad range of readers, whether their interests be Turkish identity, the Islamicate world, Indian history, cultural syncretism, or any of the other myriad entryways opened here." – Teoman Kenn Küçük, University of Naples Federico II, in Insight Turkey 24.1 (2022). "This volume is an important contribution and paves the way for future studies in this field." – The Muslim World Book Review 42.3 (2022).Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures A Note on Transliteration and Dates Notes on Contributors Introduction  A.C.S. Peacock and Richard Piran McClary Part 1: Turkish Origins, Identity and History in India  1 Warfare and Environment in Medieval Eurasia: Turkic Frontiers at Dandanqan, Somnath and Manzikert  George Malagaris  2 Turks, Turks and türk Turks: Anatolia, Iran and India in Comparative Perspective  Stephen Frederic Dale  3 The “Advent of the Turks” and the Question of Turkish Identity in the Court of Delhi in the Early Thirteenth Century  Blain Auer  4 Merchants, Young Heroes and Caliphs: Revisiting Maḥmūd Gāwān  Maya Petrovich  5 The Trouble with Lineage: On Why the Timurid Prince Muḥammad Zamān Mīrzā Did Not Become Emperor  Ali Anooshahr  6 Remembering Turkish Origins in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century Deccan: The Qaraqoyunlu Past in the Persian Chronicles of the Qutbshahi Dynasty  A.C.S. Peacock Part 2: Art, Material Culture, Literature and Transregional Connections  7 Transregional Connections: The “Lion and Sun” Motif and Coinage between Anatolia and India  Shailendra Bhandare  8 When Brick Met Stone: Turko-Iranian Brick Architecture and its Interaction with the Lithic Traditions of India and Anatolia  Richard Piran McClary  9 The Jami Masjid Miḥrāb of Bijapur: Inscribing Turkic Identities in a Contested Space  Sara Mondini  10 “Made in Istanbul, Delhi or Agra”: Serving Imperial and Princely Courts in the Ottoman and Mughal Worlds  Suraiya Faroqhi  11 Mapping the Boundaries of the World: India and the Indian Ocean in the Early Modern Ottoman Geographical Imagination  Pınar Emiralioğlu  12 Turki Language and Literature in Late Mughal India as Reflected in a Unique Collection of Texts  Benedek Péri Index

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Book SynopsisIn Pi (π) in Nature, Art, and Culture Marcel Danesi revisits the importance of π as a pattern in the structure of reality, fitting in with the Pythagorean view of Order. Pi has cropped up in formulas that describe natural and physical structures which, on the surface, seem to have nothing to do with a circle, but might harbor the archetype of circularity as a principle. Through π, this book thus revisits the implicit ancient Greek view that geometry was a 'hermeneutic science,' a discipline aiming to investigate the connectivity among numbers, shapes, and natural phenomena. It also examines its manifestations in aesthetic, symbolic and cultural structures, which point to an abiding fascination with the circle as an unconscious archetype. Hermeneutic geometry is ultimately about the exploration of the meanings of geometric-mathematical notions to science and human life.Trade Review"Het voortreffelijke boek laat alle lezers op fascinerende wijze kennismaken met het wonder van π. Pi, of de verhouding van de omtrek van een cirkel tot de diameter, was een van de eerste irrationele getallen die werden ontdekt." [An exccellent book which introduces the author to the wonders of Pi.] -- Jan M. Broeders, Optische Fenomenen, newsletter 405, March 2021Table of ContentsPreface 1. Discovery of π and Its Manifestations Prologue Discovery, Calculation, Proof Geometric Archetypes Manifestations of Archetypal Structure Geometry as a Hermeneutic Science Epilogue 2. Pi in Mathematics and the Physical World Prologue Pythagoreanism Uniting Arithmetic and Geometry The Planetary Orbits Natural and Physical Phenomena Topology, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Fractal Geometry Epilogue 3. Pi in Art and Architecture Prologue Pythagoreanism in Art The Circle in Art and Symbolism Pi in Art Epilogue 4. Pi in Popular Culture Prologue Mathematics in Popular Culture Pi in Popular Culture Pi-Mania Epilogue 5. Order and Chaos Prologue Cohen’s Dilemma Chaos Theory Order and Chaos Epilogue Final Remarks References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is about cultural work in torn-up societies. It narrates the establishment of an academic project in contemporary post-war Cambodia, when the country became the largest recipient of international aid. It depicts a Southeast Asian country at the crossroads of conflicting imaginaries of development through the lens of an independent organization that emerged out of the turmoil. It shows how the relations of domination of institutions from the ‘north’ effectively constrain alternative visions of action in the ‘south’ that fall outside the neo-liberal framework. The account is a reflection on past ambitions and failures of the international good-will order, and a charge to change our approach in the future. It offers a cautionary tale whose significance transcends the Cambodian case.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Part 1: The Politics of Knowledge in Cambodia 1 A Post-Colonial Nation  1 French Rule (1863–1953)  2 Independent Cambodia (1953–1970) 2 Civil War, Genocide and CEDORECK  1 The Khmer Republic (1970–75)  2 The Khmer Rouge (1975–79)  3 Rebuilding from the Ashes 3 Cambodia after UNTAC  1 UNTAC and Its Legacies  2 Education after UNTAC  3 From ‘Media to Digital Democracy’?  4 Non-Governmental Organizations Part 2: The Making of a Hybrid Academic Institution 4 The Center for Khmer Studies  1 Defining the Center’s Mission  2 Building ‘From the Bottom-Up’ 5 An Integrated Capacity-Building Program  1 Programmatic Genesis  2 The Junior Faculty Training Program (2004–10) 6 A Citizen’s Institution  1 Conservation of (and Access to) Written Materials and Artifacts  2 Expanding Creative Knowledge: Working with Artists and Craftsmen  3 Community Engagement in Siem Reap Part 3: Social Responsibilities: Scholars, Funders and Diplomats 7 Socially Engaged Scholars?  1 Involving International Scholars  2 Facilitating Special Educational Activities  3 Relations with Individual Scholars 8 Funders as ‘Stakeholders’?  1 Individual Philanthropists  2 Foundations 9 Working with International Organizations and Cultural Diplomacies  1 The World Bank  2 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)  3 Working with Diplomats Conclusion Appendix Maps and Figures Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe articulation of collective identity by means of a stereotyped repertoire of exclusionary characterizations of Self and Other is one of the longest-standing literary traditions in Europe and as such has become part of a global modernity. Recently, this discourse of Othering and national stereotyping has gained fresh political virulence as a result of the rise of “Identity Politics”. What is more, this newly politicized self/other discourse has affected Europe itself as that continent has been weathering a series of economic and political crises in recent years. The present volume traces the conjunction between cultural and literary traditions and contemporary ideologies during the crisis of European multilateralism. Contributors: Aelita Ambrulevičiūtė, Jürgen Barkhoff, Stefan Berger, Zrinka Blažević, Daniel Carey, Ana María Fraile, Wulf Kansteiner, Joep Leerssen, Hercules Millas, Zenonas Norkus, Aidan O’Malley, Raúl Sánchez Prieto, Karel Šima, Luc Van Doorslaer,Ruth WodakTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors List of Figures and Tables Introduction Jürgen Barkhoff and Joep Leerssen PART 1: History and Identity Politics 1 Confronting the Other/Perceiving the Self National Historiographies and National Stereotypes in Twentieth-Century Europe  Stefan Berger 2 Claiming a Great Ancient Imperial Past as an Identity Element of a Small Modern Nation The Case of Lithuania  Zenonas Norkus and Aelita Ambruleviit 3 The Longue durée of Brexit Politics, Literature and the British Past  Daniel Carey PART 2: Identity Politics of the Neo-Right 4 From Identity Politics to the Identitarian Movement The Europeanisation of Cultural Stereotypes?  Karel Šima 5 Re/nationalising EU-rope National Identities, Right-Wing Populism, and Border- and Body-Politics  Ruth Wodak PART 3: Strategies of Othering 6 The Camp and the Home Europe as Myth and Metaphor  Joep Leerssen 7 The EU and the East-West Paradox The Case of Greece and Turkey  Hercules Millas 8 The Image of the Wall The Antemurale Christianitatis Myth from an Imagological ­Perspective  Zrinka Blaževi PART 4: Stereotyping in the Media 9 Prime Time Nationalism Patterns of Prejudice in tv Crime Fiction  Wulf Kansteiner 10 Stereotyping by Default in Media Transfer  Luc van Doorslaer 11 The Image of Spain in the Eyes of Austrian, Flemish, French, Italian, Polish and Bulgarian Facebook Users Text-Linguistic Opinion-Mining for Detecting and Analysing National Stereotypes  Raúl Sánchez Prieto PART 5: The Economic Crisis in Literature 12 Resilient Stereotypes in Recent Crisis Novels from Spain  Ana María Fraile 13 Virtually There Spectral Ireland and European Stereotypes in the Novels of Paul Murray  Aidan O’Malley Index

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Book SynopsisThe EU today is at a crossroads: either it becomes a great supranational union or it goes back to being an array of separate independent states. Alberto Martinelli and Alessandro Cavalli draw a grand fresco of the society in which the European Union is taking shape. Long-term social and cultural trends and main current developments in economics and politics are synthetically outlined. Key questions of identity and nationalism, immigration and inequality, welfare and economic governance, are thoroughly analysed. Main cleavages, conflicts of interest and different visions of member states, as well as institutional reforms and crisis management strategies are critically discussed. A detailed proposal for advancing the process of political integration concludes the volume.Table of Contents Tables and Figures  Introduction  1The European Identity  1 Preface: Identity and Identification  2 One or Many European Identities?  3 Rationalism and Individualism/Subjectivity  4 University and Scientific Research, Market Capitalism and Industrial Enterprise, Nation State and Polyarchic Democracy  5 An Unusual and Controversial Identity  6 Changes in the Content of European Identity and the Perception of their Meaning  7 How European Citizens’ Identification with Europe has Changed  8 Identity Techniques  9 The Renewed Relevance of the European Project  2 Nationalism  1 Nationalism as the Ideology of the Modern State  2 The Double Matrix of European Nationalism and Its Relationship with Democracy  3 Main Alternatives to the Modernist Approach  4 Nationalism in the First Decades of the 21st Century  5 Nationalism and the Contradictions of European Integration  6 Main Causes of the National/Populist Upsurge in Contemporary Europe  3 Languages  1 The Distant Past  2 The Recent Past  3 Multilingualism and Plurilingualism: Europe’s Inevitable Future  4 The Linguistic Policies of the EU  5 English as Lingua Franca  6 Languages and the Culture Industry  4 Religion and Religions  1 A Look at the Past  2 Rationalization, Modernization, and Secularization  3 Europe and America – A Comparison  4 The Return of Religiousness in New Forms  5 Contemporary Fundamentalism  6 Migration and Religious Pluralism  7 Religious Pluralism and Cosmopolitanism  5 The Universities  1 Introduction  2Studium Generale in the Middle Ages  3 The Universities on the Threshold of the Modern Age  4 The Birth of the Scientific Societies  5 University Models in the Age of the Nation States  6 From University for the Elites to University for the Masses  7 The Changing Relationship between Teaching and Research  8 Current Tendencies: Where Are European Universities Going?  6 The Cities  1 From the Ancient City to the Medieval City  2 State and Industry during the Formation of the Modern City  3 The Contemporary European City  7 Population and Family Structures  1 How Many Europeans Are There and How Many Will There Be?  2 Household Units and Family Structures  3 Declining Birth Rates  4 Couples, Families, and Reproductive Decisions  5 Fewer People Die and Live Longer  6 Social Policies for the Family  8 Internal and External Migrations  1 A Challenge (Also) to the Sense of Identity  2 The Europe as an Area of Emigration and of Immigration  3 Internal and External Migrations to the EU  4 The Reasons and Causes of Migration  5 The Migration Emergency of 2015 and Subsequent Years  6 Models and Ways of Integration  7 Stages and Obstacles in the Admissions/Integration Process  8 Xenophobic Movements and Welcoming Culture  9 Necessity of and Obstacles to a European Migration Policy  9 The Dimensions of Inequality  1 Rich and Poor People in Rich and Poor Countries  2 Dualism and Territorial Inequalities  3 Beyond Economic Inequalities in the EU  4 Conclusion  10 The Political-Institutional Architecture of the European Union  1 The EU as an Example of Bold Institutional Innovation  2 The Main Phases of European Integration  3 The Basic Institutions of the European Union  4 EU Decision-making  11 Parties, Elections, Pressure Groups  1 Transnational Party Federations  2 Transnational Party Federations and European Parliament Party Groups  3 The 2019 Elections of the European Parliament: Voter Turnout  4 The 2019 Elections of the European Parliament: Results and Recognized Party Groups  5 EP Elections Results in the Largest EU Member Countries  6 President Ursula von der Leyen’s Programme Priorities and the Composition of the New Commission  7 Interest Groups and Pressure Politics  12 The European Welfare State  1 Welfare and the European Social Model  2 Welfare State Models  3 Challenges Confronting the European Welfare State  4 The European Social Model as Common Core of European Welfare Systems  5 The Three Phases of European Welfare  6 The Effects of the Global Financial Crisis and the Reaction of European Welfare Regimes  7 The Critics from Opposite Sides  8 The Reformers: The Social Investment Approach  9 The Open Method of Coordination  10 Conclusion  13 The European Economy  1 Unity and Diversity of the European Economy  2 European Economic Development since the Start of the Integration Process  3 The 1970s Regime Change in the World Economy  4 The EU in the Global Market  5 The Choice of the Euro  14 The Global Financial Crisis  1 An Interpretation of the Global Financial Crisis  2 The Financial-Economic Crisis in the EU and the Predominance of the Intergovernmental Regime of Decision-making  3 The Stages of the EU Exit Strategy  4 The Crucial Role of the European Central Bank  5 Fiscal Stringency and a Difficult Return to Economic Growth  Conclusion  1 External Constraints, Internal Cleavages, and Reform of the European Union  2 Amending the Treaties  3 Reform Proposals under Existing Treaties  4 Key Decisions for Moving Forward a Greater Union  Afterword  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisPastoralists, ranchers of European descent, conservationists, smallholders, and land investors with political influence converge on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya. Land is claimed by all - the tactics differ. Private property rights are presented, histories of presence are told, charges of immorality are applied, fences are electrified and some resort to violence. The region, marked by enclosures, is left as a tense fragmented frontier. Marie Gravesen embedded herself in the region prior to a wave of land invasions that swept the plateau leading up to Kenya’s 2017 general election. Through a rich telling of the history of Laikipia’s social, political and environmental dynamics, she invites a deeper understanding of the pre-election violence and general tensions as never done before. The manuscript is a revised version of the author's dissertation accepted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne in 2018.Trade ReviewLaikipia has seen more violence than any part of Kenya over the past 30 years. Marie Gravesen here tells us why. Political claim-making, ethnic mobilisation, and land invasions set the terms of Laikipia’s struggles, in a context marked by resource competition and diminishing livelihoods. Patient fieldwork and evocative story-telling brings Laikipia’s communities to life in this excellent book, but we also learn why the situation is unlikely to improve any time soon. This is by far the best recent study of Kenya’s violent local politics. David M Anderson, Professor of African History, University of WarwickTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction  1.1 The State of Emergency in Laikipia, 2016–17  1.2 Organisation of Chapters 2 Setting and Thematic Components  2.1 Setting the Scene  2.2 Notes on the Sensitivity to Voices in a Fragmented Setting  2.3 Case Selection and Ecological Overview  2.4 Thematic Components   2.4.1 Contested Lands   2.4.2 Ethnicity and Autochthony   2.4.3 Fragmentation and Frontiers   2.4.4 Commons and Customary Resources   2.4.5 Plural Perspectives on Sustainable Land Management  2.5 Concluding Remarks 3 Macro Perspectives: A History of Laikipia’s Contested Lands  3.1 Laikipia in the Nineteenth Century  3.2 Colonial Rule in Laikipia   3.2.1 The Kenya Land Commission, 1932–34   3.2.2 The Land Commission Questions   3.2.3 The African Reaction   3.2.4 The Emergent Urban Population and Trade  3.3 Independence Politics and the Repercussions of the Mau Mau   3.3.1 Pre-independence Mobility   3.3.2 Transition of Power and Land   3.3.3 Post-independence Politics   3.3.4 Land Reform and Resettlement Schemes  3.4 Post-colonial Land: Times of Autochthony   3.4.1 Immigration and Land-use Fragmentation   3.4.2 Violence and Political Instrumentalism  3.5 Concluding Remarks 4 Blaming the Others: Ethnic Identity and Claim-making  4.1 Historical Grievances   4.1.1 Present-day Grievances: Land, Ethnicity and Politics  4.2 Meta-Narratives of Claims and Their Repercussions in Lorien  4.3 Discursive Claims to Land   4.3.1 The Pastoralists   4.3.2 The Smallholders   4.3.3 The Ranchers   4.3.4 The Conservationists   4.3.5 The Absentees   4.3.6 Group Mobility  4.4 When Claims of Entitlement Are Acted Out   4.4.1 Encroachment and Raiding   4.4.2 Killing of Wildlife  4.5 Concluding Remarks 5 Enclosing the Land: From Common Land to Freehold Farmland and Back  5.1 The Construction of Enclosure in Laikipia: The Story of the Dykes  5.2 Towards Land Enclosures in Ol Moran and Thome   5.2.1 Symbolic Enclosures in Thome   5.2.2 Physically Enacted Enclosures in Ol Moran  5.3Present-day Enclosures in Laikipia   5.3.1 Practices of Enclosing Space: The Naming of Places   5.3.2 Physical Enclosures: Fencing  5.4 Concluding Remarks 6 Ambiguous Institutions: Twilight Actions of Land-buying Companies  6.1 All Things Come to Those Who Wait – or Do They?  6.2 The History of Land-buying Companies and Land Hunger  6.3 Institutional Pluralism and Land  6.4 The Case of Thome Farmers Company  6.5 The Power Dynamics of Land-buying Companies  6.6 Repercussions of Private Land Redistribution   6.6.1 Absentee Landlords   6.6.2 Absent Title Deeds and Vernacular Land Markets  6.7 Concluding Remarks 7 Africanisation or Invasion: Laikipia’s land-use Change  7.1 Diachronic Perspectives on Land-use Change in Three Case Study Areas   7.1.1 Lorien   7.1.2 Ol Moran   7.1.3 Thome  7.2 Historical Perceptions of the Landscape   7.2.1 Travel Writers’ Perceptions of New Land   7.2.2 Rights, Borders and Water: Land-use Practices from the 1930s   7.2.3 The Peak and Transition of European Settlement in the 1960s  7.3 Present-day Land-use Dynamics of an Africanised Landscape  7.4 Concluding Remarks 8 Conclusion  8.1 Understanding Laikipia   8.1.1 Frontiers, Fragmentation and Colonial Residue   8.1.2 Legal Pluralism and Land Rights   8.1.3 Ethnicity and the Politicisation of Land Claims   8.1.4 The Sustainablity of Land-management Practices  8.2 Resolving the State of Emergency in Laikipia, 2016–17  8.3 Final Thoughts  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThis compilation of chapters of the Africa Yearbook (2009-2018) confirms that the people of Central African Republic experienced dramatic events over a period of ten years, not only from 2013 onwards when the Séléka rebels managed to take the capital Bangui. The scattered arenas of conflict demand a differentiated look at local dynamics and actor constellations. Outside influences have interfered with domestic politics and socio-economic developments while CAR’s humanitarian crises and above all refugees and IDPs have triggered international responses on an unprecedented scale for a country that has now left the shadow zone of a typical “aid orphan”. A bibliography of recent scholarly work complements the collection of articles

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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.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction  1 The Research Problem  2 Outline of the Book 1 Theoretical Framework  1 Theories of Values   1.1 Values and Attitudes   1.2 Schools of Values   1.3 Rokeach   1.4 Schwartz   1.5 Inglehart   1.6 The Measurement of Values   1.7 Values Assumptions  2 Value Change  3 Adult Socialization   3.1 The Persistence Model   3.2 The Impressionable Years Model   3.3 The Aging-Stability Hypothesis   3.4 Lifelong Openness   3.5 Inconclusive Conclusions  4 Political Culture and Models of Learning  5 The Individual Modernity Syndrome   5.1 Modernization and Postmodernization   5.2 Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy   5.3 Gender Equality and Secularization   5.4 Cultural Evolution   5.5 Welzel’s Emancipative Values  6 Hypotheses 2 Data and Method  1 Scope of the Analysis and Data   1.1 The Eurobarometer Trend File   1.2 The wvs/evs Integrated Values Surveys  2 Disentangling Time-Related Phenomena  3 The Age, Period, and Cohort Dilemma  4 The Logic of Time-Series Analysis  5 Space and Time as Contexts in Multilevel Models   5.1 Dynamic Comparative Multilevel Models   5.2 Summary 3 Postmaterialist Values and Lifetime Learning  1 Inglehart’s Theory of Postmaterialism  2 Evidence from Repeated Cross- Section Data  3 The Counterfactual Procedure  4 A Descriptive Time-Series Analysis  5 A Multivariate Dynamic Model  6 Conclusion 4 The Pace of Secularization  1 Theories of Religious Change  2 The Age, Period and Cohort Effects Debate  3 Declining Church Attendance  4 The Belgian Case   4.1 Data and Method   4.2 Results   4.3 Concluding Remarks  5 The Importance of Religion   5.1 Main Hypotheses   5.2 Individual-Level Covariates   5.3 Time-Invariant Country-Level Covariates   5.4 Time-Varying Country-Level Covariates   5.5 Across-Country over Time Data Analysis   5.6 Country-by-Country Regressions   5.7 Dynamic Comparative Multilevel Analysis   5.8 Concluding Remarks  6 The Importance of God   6.1 Dynamic Comparative Multilevel Models   6.2 Concluding Remarks  7 Conclusion 5 A Fast Turn in Moral Norms  1 The Decline of Traditional Morality  2 Tolerance of Homosexuality: from Rejection to Acceptance  3 Modernization and Attitudes to Homosexuality  4 Alternative Conceptualizations   4.1 Tolerance, Trust, and Inequality   4.2 Sexual Prejudice   4.3 Conservative Attitudes   4.4 Determinants of Attitudes to Homosexuality   4.5 Dependent Variable   4.6 Research Questions  5 Descriptive over Time Cross-Country Analysis  6 Dynamic Comparative Multilevel Models  7 Conclusion Conclusions Bibliography Author Index Thematic 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.

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Book SynopsisIn Assessing the Landscape of Taiwan and Korean Studies in Comparison, the chapters offer a reflection on the state of the field of Taiwan and Korea Studies. For the editors, the volume’s purpose was to identify not just their similarities, but also a reflection on their differences. Both have national identities formed in a colonial period. The surrender of Japan in 1945 ignited the light of independence for Korea, but this would be ideologically split within five years. For Taiwan, that end forced it into a born-again form of nationalism with the arrival of the Chinese Nationalists. Taiwan and South Korea’s economic development illustrate a progressive transition and key to understanding this is the relationship between ‘modernization’ and ‘democracy’. By looking at Korea and Taiwan, the chapters in the volume broaden an understanding of the interconnectivity of the region.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Comparing Taiwan and Korea   J. Bruce Jacobs 2 Korean Colonial Cosmopolitanism   Michael J. Seth 3 Taiwan in Transformation  The Japanese Colonial Era   Evan Dawley 4 ROC-ROK International Fate  Decolonization, Democratization, and Pragmatism   Moises de Souza and Fabricio A. Fonseca 5 Tzu-Chi and the ‘Moonies’  New Religious Movements in Taiwan and South Korea   Niki J.P. Alsford and Nataša Visočnik 6 Park Geun-hye and Tsai Ing-wen  The First Female Presidents of South Korea and Taiwan   Young-Im Lee 7 East Asian Area Studies Teaching Programmes in the United Kingdom  A Comparative Case Study of Korean Studies at the University of Central Lancashire and Taiwan Studies at SOAS, University of London   Dafydd Fell and Sojin Lim Index

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Book SynopsisThe Evolution of the Israeli Third Sector reviews the development of the nonprofit sector in Israel and analyzes it within existing nonprofit theories. It takes a historical perspective in looking at its evolution, in light of political, social, ideological, and economic changes in the world and in the country. It discusses the development of policy and government involvement on the one hand and the unique features of Israeli philanthropy, both Jewish and Arab, on the other. It analyzes Israel’s civil society and social movements as well as social entrepreneurship and their expression in the Third Sector. The book also covers the development of research and education on the Third Sector; it includes a review of research centers, databases, journals, and specific programs that were developed by Israeli universities.

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Book SynopsisIn The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a sweeping account of post-war Japanese political economy, exploring the transition from the post-war boom to the crisis of today and the connections between these seemingly discrete periods. Carroll explores the multifarious international and domestic political, economic, social and cultural conditions that fortified Japan’s post-war hegemonic order and enabled decades of prosperity and stability. Yet since the 1990s, a host of political, economic, social and cultural changes has left this same hegemonic order out of step with the realities of the contemporary world, a contradiction that has led to three decades of crisis in Japanese society. Can Japan make the bold changes required to reverse its decline?Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF TABLE AND FIGURES 1. Introduction  Analytical approach  Outline of the argument  Outline of chapters 2. Lineages of Japanese political economy  Creative conservatism and the developmental state: Japan’s post-war boom  Institutional approaches to the study of Japanese politics  The long decline: Theorizing crisis in Heisei Japan  The welfare state and social reproduction in post-war Japan  Conclusion 3. Towards a Gramscian understanding of Japanese political economy  Historical materialist methodology  Hegemony  Hegemony and hegemonic order  Social reproduction  Conditions for hegemonic order  Historic bloc  Explaining change: Conjunctural and organic  Organic crisis  World order, forms of state, social forces  Relations of force  Caesarism, passive revolution and trasformismo  Political ecology  Towards a Gramscian feminist approach to the Japanese post-war order  Conclusion 4. The post-war hegemonic order  The post-war hegemonic order  Conditions of post-war hegemonic order   Geopolitics: The Yoshida Doctrine and the US-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo)   Global political economy: The Bretton Woods System   The electoral and party system: The rise of LDP dominance   The state form: The rise of bureaucracy-driven governance   Production and capital: Japanese developmentalism and the keiretsu   Production and labour: Enterprise unionism and lifetime employment   Production and the petit bourgeoisie: Clientelism and the old middle class   Gender and the family: Extended families and the gender division of labour   Demography and welfare: Young society, small welfare state   Nation and ideology: The pacifist nationalism of the post-war era   Environment and national resources: Cheap oil  The post-war Japanese historic bloc  Conclusion 5. Contradictions and transitions of the Shōwa era  Structural changes to world order   The Nixon shocks   The oil shocks   American trade frictions and the Plaza Accord  Structural demographic changes   The beginning of an aging society   The decline of extended families   The rise of women in the workforce  Political changes  Institutional changes   The heyday of the kōenkai   The rise of factions and the PARC   Institutional changes and continuities in Japanese business relations   Lifetime employment and the dual system   Clientelism and the construction state  Implications of these changes for hegemonic order   Economic implications   Political implications   Social implications  Conclusion 6. The organic crisis of the Heisei era  Historical background to the crisis   1989-1993: Two electoral shocks   1993-1996: Coalition governments, political reform   1996-2001: LDP’s return to power, administrative and financial reform   2001-2006: Rise of Koizumi, postal privatization   2006-2009: LDP impasse   2009-2012: Rise and fall of the DPJ  Conditions of the crisis   Geopolitics: Security Alliance in a post-Cold War world   Global political economy: Japan in a global neoliberal era   The electoral and party system: Crisis, reform, and the end of LDP rule   The state form: Institutional decay and administrative reform   Production and capital: The Americanization of Japanese capitalism?   Production and labour: Deregulation and the rise of the working poor   Production and the petit bourgeoisie: End of the pork-barrel system?   Gender and the family: The end of the male breadwinner model and shōshika   Demography and welfare: The rise of the ‘pension state’   Nation and ideology: ‘Normal country’ or tan’itsu minzoku?   Political ecology: Climate change, the nuclear turn and 3/11  Implications of the crisis   Summary of the economic accumulation crisis   Summary of the political legitimation crisis   Summary of the social reproduction crisis  Conclusion 7. Caesarism, passive revolution and the return of the LDP under Abe  Abe’s political comeback  Breaking the deadlock: The Caesarism of “Abenomics”   Breaking the deadlock through expansionary Keynesian policy   Breaking the deadlock through neoliberal economic reform   Breaking the deadlock through welfare state expansion   Implications of Caesarism under Abe  The real Abe? Passive revolution, militarism and soft authoritarianism   Asserting control over the LDP   Passive revolution in administrative reform   Passive revolution in domestic security policy   Abe’s passive revolution  Consequences of Abe’s reign for the hegemonic order   Capital accumulation   Political legitimation   Social reproduction  Conclusion 8. Whither post-Abe Japan? Four scenarios for the future  The neo-conservative option   Overview   Relations of force behind neo-conservatism   The neo-conservative solution to organic crisis   Challenges and contradictions of neo-conservatism  The neo-liberal path   Overview   Relations of force behind neo-liberalism   The neo-liberal solution to organic crisis   Challenges and contradictions of neo-liberalism  Back to the future? Neo-communitarianism   Overview   Relations of force behind neo-liberalism   The neo-liberal solution to organic crisis   Challenges and contradictions of neo-liberalism  Counter-hegemony and a democratic socialist future   Overview   Relations of force behind democratic socialism   The democratic socialist solution to organic crisis   Challenges and contradictions of democratic socialism  Conclusion 9. Conclusion  Contradictions for hegemonic order: Political legitimation  Contradictions for hegemonic order: Capital accumulation  Contradictions for hegemonic order: Social reproduction  Overarching theoretical implications of the argument BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume offers new insights into the inner life of the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) and introduces scholars of African security dynamics to innovative epistemological, conceptual and methodological approaches. Based on intellectual openness and an interest in transdisciplinary perspectives, the volume challenges existing orthodoxies, poses new questions and opens a discussion on actual research practice. Drawing on Global Studies and critical International Studies perspectives, the authors follow inductive approaches and let the empirical data enrich their theoretical frameworks and conceptual tools. In this endeavor they focus on actors, practices and narratives involved in African Peace and Security and move beyond the often Western-centric premises of research carried out within rigid disciplinary boundaries. Contributors are Michael Aeby, Yvonne Akpasom, Katharina P.W. Döring, Ulf Engel, Fana Gebresenbet Erda, Linnéa Gelot, Amandine Gnanguênon, Toni Haastrup, Jens Herpolsheimer, Alin Hilowle, Jamie Pring, Lilian Seffer, Thomas Kwasi Tieku, Antonia Witt, Dawit Yohannes WondemagegnehuTrade Review[...] '„The book’s focus on methods may be one of its more enduring contributions. Long after more empirical and policy-orientated studies have moved on to focus on emergent developments and other cases, this book’s invitation to be more methodologically transparent, reflexive, and creative, is one many other researchers could heed'. Aly Verjee, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, in African Security Review (2022)

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection are written to make readers (re)consider what is possible in Africa. The essays shake the tree of received wisdom and received categories, and hone in on the complexities of life under ecological and economic constraints. Yet, throughout this volume, people do not emerge as victims, but rather as inventors, engineers, scientists, planners, writers, artists, and activists, or as children, mothers, fathers, friends, or lovers – all as future-makers. It is precisely through agents such as these that Africa is futuring: rethinking, living, confronting, imagining, and relating in the light of its many emerging tomorrows.

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Book SynopsisThe EU today is at a crossroads: either it becomes a great supranational union or it goes back to being an array of separate independent states. Alberto Martinelli and Alessandro Cavalli draw a grand fresco of the society in which the European Union is taking shape. Long-term social and cultural trends and main current developments in economics and politics are synthetically outlined. Key questions of identity and nationalism, immigration and inequality, welfare and economic governance, are thoroughly analysed. Main cleavages, conflicts of interest and different visions of member states, as well as institutional reforms and crisis management strategies are critically discussed. A detailed proposal for advancing the process of political integration concludes the volume.Table of Contents Tables and Figures  Introduction  1The European Identity  1 Preface: Identity and Identification  2 One or Many European Identities?  3 Rationalism and Individualism/Subjectivity  4 University and Scientific Research, Market Capitalism and Industrial Enterprise, Nation State and Polyarchic Democracy  5 An Unusual and Controversial Identity  6 Changes in the Content of European Identity and the Perception of their Meaning  7 How European Citizens’ Identification with Europe has Changed  8 Identity Techniques  9 The Renewed Relevance of the European Project  2 Nationalism  1 Nationalism as the Ideology of the Modern State  2 The Double Matrix of European Nationalism and Its Relationship with Democracy  3 Main Alternatives to the Modernist Approach  4 Nationalism in the First Decades of the 21st Century  5 Nationalism and the Contradictions of European Integration  6 Main Causes of the National/Populist Upsurge in Contemporary Europe  3 Languages  1 The Distant Past  2 The Recent Past  3 Multilingualism and Plurilingualism: Europe’s Inevitable Future  4 The Linguistic Policies of the EU  5 English as Lingua Franca  6 Languages and the Culture Industry  4 Religion and Religions  1 A Look at the Past  2 Rationalization, Modernization, and Secularization  3 Europe and America – A Comparison  4 The Return of Religiousness in New Forms  5 Contemporary Fundamentalism  6 Migration and Religious Pluralism  7 Religious Pluralism and Cosmopolitanism  5 The Universities  1 Introduction  2Studium Generale in the Middle Ages  3 The Universities on the Threshold of the Modern Age  4 The Birth of the Scientific Societies  5 University Models in the Age of the Nation States  6 From University for the Elites to University for the Masses  7 The Changing Relationship between Teaching and Research  8 Current Tendencies: Where Are European Universities Going?  6 The Cities  1 From the Ancient City to the Medieval City  2 State and Industry during the Formation of the Modern City  3 The Contemporary European City  7 Population and Family Structures  1 How Many Europeans Are There and How Many Will There Be?  2 Household Units and Family Structures  3 Declining Birth Rates  4 Couples, Families, and Reproductive Decisions  5 Fewer People Die and Live Longer  6 Social Policies for the Family  8 Internal and External Migrations  1 A Challenge (Also) to the Sense of Identity  2 The Europe as an Area of Emigration and of Immigration  3 Internal and External Migrations to the EU  4 The Reasons and Causes of Migration  5 The Migration Emergency of 2015 and Subsequent Years  6 Models and Ways of Integration  7 Stages and Obstacles in the Admissions/Integration Process  8 Xenophobic Movements and Welcoming Culture  9 Necessity of and Obstacles to a European Migration Policy  9 The Dimensions of Inequality  1 Rich and Poor People in Rich and Poor Countries  2 Dualism and Territorial Inequalities  3 Beyond Economic Inequalities in the EU  4 Conclusion  10 The Political-Institutional Architecture of the European Union  1 The EU as an Example of Bold Institutional Innovation  2 The Main Phases of European Integration  3 The Basic Institutions of the European Union  4 EU Decision-making  11 Parties, Elections, Pressure Groups  1 Transnational Party Federations  2 Transnational Party Federations and European Parliament Party Groups  3 The 2019 Elections of the European Parliament: Voter Turnout  4 The 2019 Elections of the European Parliament: Results and Recognized Party Groups  5 EP Elections Results in the Largest EU Member Countries  6 President Ursula von der Leyen’s Programme Priorities and the Composition of the New Commission  7 Interest Groups and Pressure Politics  12 The European Welfare State  1 Welfare and the European Social Model  2 Welfare State Models  3 Challenges Confronting the European Welfare State  4 The European Social Model as Common Core of European Welfare Systems  5 The Three Phases of European Welfare  6 The Effects of the Global Financial Crisis and the Reaction of European Welfare Regimes  7 The Critics from Opposite Sides  8 The Reformers: The Social Investment Approach  9 The Open Method of Coordination  10 Conclusion  13 The European Economy  1 Unity and Diversity of the European Economy  2 European Economic Development since the Start of the Integration Process  3 The 1970s Regime Change in the World Economy  4 The EU in the Global Market  5 The Choice of the Euro  14 The Global Financial Crisis  1 An Interpretation of the Global Financial Crisis  2 The Financial-Economic Crisis in the EU and the Predominance of the Intergovernmental Regime of Decision-making  3 The Stages of the EU Exit Strategy  4 The Crucial Role of the European Central Bank  5 Fiscal Stringency and a Difficult Return to Economic Growth  Conclusion  1 External Constraints, Internal Cleavages, and Reform of the European Union  2 Amending the Treaties  3 Reform Proposals under Existing Treaties  4 Key Decisions for Moving Forward a Greater Union  Afterword  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisWhy have Asian states – colonial and independent – imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps? How have detainees experienced the long months and years of captivity? And what does the creation of camps and the segregation of people in them mean for society as a whole? This ambitious book surveys the systems of detention camps set up in Asia from the beginning of the 20th century in The Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Malaya, Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam, Timor, Korea and China.

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Book SynopsisEvil women, who are they really? What are their motives, and how are they remembered and constructed within our culture? Evil Women: Representations within Literature, Culture and Film seeks to interrogate the nature and construction of evil women in the above fields. Through literature, poetry, history, ballads, film and real-life culture, scholars explore how the evil woman has been constructed and, in some cases, erased; the punishment and treatment of evil women; and the way evil women have been portrayed on and off screen through character, narrative and behind the camera development.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction   Robyn Muir part 1 Representation of Evil Women in Literature 1 The Domina: Early Psychological Perspectives on the Female Sadist   Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers 2 Missing Lady Macbeth Kierkegaard’s Allusions to Macbeth for Concepts of Sin, Gender, and Despair   Wendy M Bustamante 3 ‘Her Stocking Hanging Evilly’: Naomi’s Grotesque Body in ‘Kaddish’ by Allen Ginsberg   Nicola Scholes 4 ‘In a Halo of Snakes’: Avatars of Medusa in Contemporary British Women’s Poetry   Elena Nistor part 2 Representation of Evil Women in Culture 5 The Perceived Evil of Female Bacchants and Their Subsequent Persecution by the Roman Government in 186 bce   Heather Moser 6 Strange, Evil, and Hard Hearted An Analysis of the Morality of Women in Appalachian Ballads   Heather Beltz and Kathryn Mann 7 The Hoodoo That You Do: Roots of Contemporary Management Practice   Alisea Williams McLeod 8 Sexual Homicide by Females   Theresa Porter and Charles Dike part 3 Representation of Evil Women in Film 9 ‘They Thrive on the Dark and the Cold’: Evil Females, Femininity and Feminism in Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak (2015)   Marine Galiné 10 In Conversation with K. Pervaiz Transforming the Monstrous-Feminine Archetype in Black Lake (2020)   Amy Harris and K Pervaiz 11 Evil Queens and Wicked Women Female Disney Villains and the Construction of Femininity   Robyn Muir    Index

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

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Book SynopsisEvery month tons of green tea travel from China to West Africa in a movement that largely thrives beyond the attention of Western observers. In this trade, Malian merchants assumed a central role. They travel to China, visit family gardens and the factories, which process and package the product. Together with their Chinese suppliers, they select the tea leaves and create their brand. On Bamako’s largest market, the Grand Marché, more than a hundred different tea brands are found, whose packages have colourfully, often eye-catching designs with brand-names such as Gazelle, Tombouctou, Arafat and Obama. This book explores the unique tea culture that celebrates with its brands the strength of desert animals, the fading glory of trading places, the excitement of social events and the accomplishments of admired politicians.

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Book SynopsisA Liberian academic and former government official accounts for and reflects upon half a century of work and experience. An important Liberian political memoir, the book is at once Dunn’s critical exposition on his country and an attempt to explain how Liberia came to be what it is today. In 26 captivating chapters he recounts careers as academic, and services as aide to slain Liberian President Tolbert and consultant to former President Johnson Sirleaf. Between government service in crisis times (late 1970s) and in hopeful times (early 2000s) is positioned more than three decades of University teaching and research.Trade Review[...] 'The memoir is wrapped in the author’s belief, clearly deeply held, that Liberians must emphasize commonality, and stop focusing on the dichotomies of the nation, even as we recognize our differences. Dr. Dunn views commonalty and communality as central to writing true Liberian history and nation-building' [...]. 'As you read Dunn’s inspiring memoir, the ever hopeful and optimistic theme (even in the face of disappointments and failures regarding Liberia) affects you and leaves an especial meaningful impression. This is definitively his country’s story integrated into his story'. Mohamedu F. Jones, Esq, in The Liberian Observer, published 04/25/2022Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Early Years My Ancestors 3 Early Education 4 Post-secondary Education Formation 5 Career Initiation One Year at Department of State/1965 6 Student in France 7 From Lyon to Washington, D.C. 8 Graduate Student in USA American University 9 Seton Hall, 1970–1974 Academic Career Launched 10 Marriage in 1971 11 Government Service Foreign Ministry, 1974–1977 12 Government Service Executive Mansion, 1977–1980  1 The April 14 Crisis  2 The Brownell Commission  3 Cabinet and the Report  4 Appointment Minister of State for Presidential Affairs  5 Some Policy Issues and Me  6 Sole Report as Chairman of the Cabinet  7 Envoy to Zimbabwe 13 Return Home, April 22, 1980 14 Uncertainty & Consultancy at Foreign Ministry 15 Stint at University of Liberia (June – Dec. 1980) 16 Transition back to USA 17 Back in the USA – Seeking Permanent Residency 18 Sewanee Materialized Summer 1981 19 Highlights of My Sewanee Career 20 Return to Academia 21 My Scholarship 22 Liberia Engagement, 1981–2012 (and beyond) 23 Summary of Academic Career 24 Focus on Rebuilding Post Civil War Liberia  1 Looking toward Liberia’s Post-Conflict Future  2 Rescuing and Preserving Priceless Liberian Records  3 Investigating Corruption  4 Delivering the National Oration in 2012  5 The Constitution Review Committee  6 National Symbols Review  7 Liberia National History Project  8 Governance Reform and Vision 2030 25 The Center for Policy Studies 26 Reflections on the Consultancy 27 Final Reflections/Epilogue Appendices Appendix 1 Chronology of Key Events Appendix 2 Defining the National Purpose of Liberia, a National Oration by D. Elwood Dunn on the 132nd Independence Anniversary of Liberia, July 26, 1979 Appendix 3 The University of the South Resolution of Appreciation Appendix 4 Renewing Our National Promise an Address Delivered by D. Elwood Dunn on the Occasion of the One Hundred and Sixty-fifth Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Liberia, Centennail Memorial Pavilion, Monrovia, Republic of Liberia July 26, 2012 Appendix 5 Reflections on Research Challenges as the Liberian Studies Association Turns Fifty Appendix 6 Partial List of Articles and Other Publications Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisConsidering the important impact of Asian cultures on international relations, we conducted a multifaceted analysis and authentic summary of the Asian experiences and patterns of dealing with foreign relations from an Asian insider’s perspective, aiming to find out where the diverging or converging diplomatic ways of the West and the East came from and what the positive diplomatic values and practices originated from Asian traditions are. Focusing on China, volume one thoroughly analyses the nature, political culture and mechanism of the tribute system from ancient time to the modern era within and beyond China. Volume two studies the culture and diplomacy of various individual Asian nations except for China, both in general and in particular cases, with an interdisciplinary approach. 考慮到亞洲文化對國際關係之影響的特殊重要性, 我們從一個亞洲局内人的角度, 對亞洲處理對外關係的經歷和模式進行了多方面的分析和真實可信的總結, 以發現在哪裏東西方的外交方式出現了分歧或聚合, 以及什麽是源於亞洲傳統的具有積極意義之外交價值觀. 卷一集中于中國, 徹底分析了朝貢體系的本質, 政治文化及其從古至近代以及在中國境外的延申和演變. 卷二以跨學科的方式, 探討了除中國以外亞洲各國不同的文化和外交, 既有綜合分析, 也有個案研究.Table of ContentsContents Notes on Contributors Introduction: Asian Experiences Seen from Asian Perspectives  C. X. George Wei Part 1: The Tribute System within the Domestic Context: Essence, Paradigm and Variables 1 The Suzerain-Vassal System as East Asian Security System and Structure: Its Origin, Essence, Evolution and Features  C. X. George Wei and Zhijiang Wei 2 Bridle and Tame: The Evolution of the Tributary System of Ancient China’s Borderland Minorities – Centered on the Borderland Minorities of Northeast China  Cheng Nina Part 2: The Tribute System within the Global Context: Conflict, Transition and Transplantation 3 The Fundamental Features of the Tribute System during the Song Dynasty  Huang Chunyan 4 The Chinese Rites Controversy: The Whole Story of the Kangxi’s Envoy Joseph-Antoine Provana’s Mission to Rome  Tang Kaijian 5 New Light on the Asian Tribute Trade and the Tokugawa Invention of a Japan-Centered International Order  Geoffrey C. Gunn Part 3: From the Tribute System to Modern Diplomacy: Challenge, Transformation and Adaptation 6 From the Bridle Doctrine to Treaty Diplomacy  Li Yuming 7 The “Two Paralleled Systems” of the Joseon Dynasty in the Nineteenth Century: The Cultural and Diplomatic Background  Quan Hexiu 8 The “New Opium War” of Republican China under the League of Nations: Distrust and Contention between the Chinese Government and the League  Li Jing and C. X. George Wei Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisF. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent Film recalibrates the celebrated author’s early career and brings fresh understanding to the life of one of America’s truly great literary figures. Scholars have previously focused on Fitzgerald’s connection with Hollywood when he worked in Tinseltown as a screenwriter in the 1930s. However, this ground-breaking research reveals the key role that Silent Hollywood played in establishing Fitzgerald’s burgeoning reputation in the early to mid-1920s. Vividly written and drawing on a wealth of new sources, this book documents Martina Mastandrea’s exciting discovery of the first film ever adapted from a work by Fitzgerald.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Rediscovering The Chorus Girl’s Romance: “Head and Shoulders” on the Silver Screen 2. Myra Meets the Silver Screen: Howard M. Mitchell’s The Husband Hunter 3. “She Kissed Him Softly in the Adaptation”: “The Offshore Pirate” on the Silent Screen 4. “Thousands Have Read the Book, Millions Will See the Film”: The Beautiful and Damned from the Page to the Silver Screen 5. Adapting Fitzgerald’s Irish Legacy: “The Camel’s Back” from Paper to Celluloid 6. “Dreams of the Old Days”: “Memories” of the Silent Gatsby and its “Music Score” 7. “Savor of Anti-climax”: “The Pusher-in-the-Face” and the End of the “Good Old Silent Days” Conclusion Filmography Works cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast Asia. Drawing inspiration from case studies spanning Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and New Caledonia, the volume rethinks the place of the sea in coastal cities, through a mobility-inspired understanding of urbanity itself. How might conceptualisations of contemporary coastal urbanisms be approached from the sea, in ways that complicate singularly terrestrial, fixed framings of the city? What connections, contradictions, and dissonances can be found between sea change and urban change? While addressing these questions, the authors re-centre more marginal voices of those who dwell and work in islanded metropoles, offering new insights on the futures and contested nature(s) of littoral urban transformation.Trade Review"Breaking down the lines that falsely separate land and sea, city and shore, wet and dry, this carefully collated, beautifully curated text provides critical scholars researching coasts, islands, seas and cities a deep reflection of the intersections, relations and entanglements of these spaces: how the urban and the ocean coalesce, crash, creep, collide and create worlds anew – on and offshore and the spaces between. A must-read text at a moment of climate crisis, rising seas, ecological decline and human response – this volume offers profoundly necessary empirical and theoretical contributions to understanding complex social ecologies in the context of postcolonial histories. It presents a myriad of perspectives often marginalised by mainstream western scholarship, for better grasping, understanding, resisting and struggling against environmental changes in the littoral zones where land and sea meet, mix and meld in urbanities. It also offers empirical specificity to Southeast Asia but is absolutely not a book only for scholars interested in this world region. It is a reminder of the importance of this part of the world, its global reverberations and echoes, and its situated significance. The book cuts across disciplinary lines and perspectives, career stages, institutional geographies, and brings in voices from beyond the conventional academy." – Kimberley Peters, Marine Governance, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Germany "Science, technology, and society (STS) work carried out in archipelagic countries should focus more on theorizing littoral spaces. This book is a rare and much needed attempt at theorizing life that is both oceanic and terrestrial, the life that dominates and characterizes human and more-than-human assemblages in archipelagic countries. Maritime STS work in Southeast Asia and elsewhere would, therefore, benefit from this book when it needs to examine the limits and porosity of the maritime world, and the material traffics between the ocean and the hinterland." – Fadjar I. Thufail, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia "This volume charts a significant and vital contribution to the understanding of contemporary urban lifeworlds by the sea. Assembling original scholarship on coastal cities in Southeast Asia, it allows to rethink urbanity through the lens of the coastal." – Lukas Ley, University of Heidelberg, Germany

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Book SynopsisHow did South Sudan become one of the most striking examples of state-building failure and state collapse after years of international support? What went wrong in the state-building enterprise? How did external intervention overlap and intertwine with local processes of accumulation of power and of state formation? This book addresses these questions analysing the intersection between international and local actors and processes. Based on original ethnographic and archival data, it provides a unique account of how state-building resources were captured and manipulated by local actors at various levels, contributing to the deepening of ethnic fragmentation and the politicization of ethnicity.

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Book SynopsisThis first and only English translation of Rong Xinjiang’s The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges Between East and West is a collection of 28 papers on the history of the Silk Road and the interactions among the peoples and cultures of East and Central Asia, including the so-called Western Regions in modern-day Xinjiang. Each paper is a masterly study that combines information obtained from historical records with excavated materials, such as manuscripts, inscriptions and artefacts. The new materials primarily come from north-western China, including sites in the regions of Dunhuang, Turfan, Kucha, and Khotan. The book contains a wealth of original insights into nearly every aspect of the complex history of this region.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures, Maps and Tables Translators part 1: The Silk Road 1 The Silk Road and Ancient Xinjiang  Translated by Sally K. Church 2 The Anxi Protectorate and the Silk Road in the Tang Period, with a Focus on the Documents Excavated at Turfan  Translated by Sally K. Church 3 Beiting on the Silk Road (7th–10th Centuries)  Translated by Li Huawei 李華偉 4 The City of Tongwan and the History of Sino-Western Communications in the Medieval Period  Translated by Sally K. Church 5 Gaochang in the Second Half of the 5th Century and its Relations with the Rouran Qaghanate and the Kingdoms of the Western Regions  Translated by Sally K. Church part 2: Cultural Exchange and Interaction 6 Persian and Chinese: The Integration of Two Cultures in the Tang Dynasty  Translated by Li Huawei 李華偉 and Zheng Chunhua 鄭春華 7 New Evidence on the History of Contacts between the Tang Dynasty and the Abbasid Caliphate: Yang Liangyao’s Embassy  Translated by Sally K. Church 8 Cultural Contacts between China and India from the Late Tang to the Early Song in Light of the Dunhuang Manuscripts  Translated by Zhou Liqun 周利群 and Zhu Chenfeng 朱陳鋒 9 Historical Evidence for Cultural Exchanges between the Tang and Silla: The Inscription for the Meditation Cloister at the Dayun Monastery in Haizhou  Translated by Li Huawei 李華偉 10 Diplomatic Relations in East Asia in the 8th Century and Japanese Embassies to Tang China  Translated by June Manjun Zhang 張嫚雋 11 The Official Reception of Japanese Envoys during the Tang Dynasty as Seen from the Epitaph of I no Manari  Translated by June Manjun Zhang 張嫚雋 part 3: The Westward Spread of Chinese Culture 12 The Network of Chinese Buddhist Monasteries in the Western Regions under Tang Control  Translated by June M. Zhang 張嫚雋 13 The Circulation of Chinese Texts in the Region of Kucha in the Tang Dynasty: The German Turfan Collection  Translated by Sally K. Church 14 The Transmission of Chan Buddhism to the Western Regions in the Tang Dynasty  Translated by Mia Ye Ma 馬也 15 The “Lanting xu” in the Western Regions  Translated by James Kunling He 何坤靈 16 The Transmission of Wang Xizhi’s “Shang xiang Huang Qi tie” in the Western Regions  Translated by James Kunling He 何坤靈 17 Reception and Rejection: The Transmission of Chinese Texts into the Western Regions during the Tang Dynasty  Translated by Sally K. Church part 4: Contributions to China of Foreign Material Culture 18 Sogdian Merchants and Sogdian Culture on the Silk Road  Translated by Flavia Xi Fang 方希 19 Currency on the Silk Road and the Sogdian Merchants  Translated by Sally K. Church 20 The Life of a Sogdian Leader on the Silk Road – A Rough Summary of the Images on Shi Jun’s Sarcophagus  Translated by Tong Yangyang 同楊陽 21 Khotanese Felt and Sogdian Silver: Foreign Gifts to Buddhist Monasteries in 9th and 10th Century Dunhuang  Translated by Sarah Fraser 22 The Exchange of Silk Textiles between Dunhuang and Khotan during the 10th Century  Translated by Sally K. Church part 5: The Transmission of the Three Foreign Religions 23 The Colophon of the Manuscript of the Golden Light Sutra Excavated in Turfan and the Transmission of Zoroastrianism to Gaochang  Translated by Li Huawei 李華偉 24 Buddhist Images or Zoroastrian Deities? Religious Syncretism on the Silk Road as Seen from Khotan  Translated by Flavia Xi Fang 方希 25 Further Discussion of the Mixing of Religions on the Silk Road: A New View of the Buddhist Murals in Khotan  Translated by Mia Ye Ma 馬也 26 Jingjiao Christians as Heretics in the Eyes of Buddhists and Daoists of the Tang Dynasty  Translated by Flavia Xi Fang 方希 27 The Authenticity of Some Jingjiao Texts from Dunhuang  Translated by Sun Jicheng 孫繼成 28 The Western Regions: The Last Paradise of Manichaeism  Translated by Sally K. Church Epilogue  Translated by Sally K. Church Appendix: Introduction to Converting Chinese Dates into Western Dates

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Book SynopsisEthnic Minorities in Socialist China: Development, Migration, Culture, and Identity, edited by Dr. Han Xiaorong and translated into English by Zeng Qiang, presents nine articles written by Chinese scholars about the transformation of China’s ethnic minority groups in the socialist era. Focusing on seven of the 55 ethnic minorities in China, the nine articles cover four major themes: development, migration, culture and identity. These case studies are based on both fieldwork and written sources, and most authors make connections between their case studies and relevant social scientific theories. Peoples and places studied include the autonomous regions of Tibet and Inner Mongolia; the Hanni, Dai, and Bai peoples of Yunnan Province; Miao farmers of Yangjiang in Guangdong; and the Yi people of the Pearl River Delta region. These studies, which originally appeared in Open Times (开放时代), broadly reflect the concerns, interests and perspectives of the Chinese scholars involved in the study of China’s ethnic minorities.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Ethnic Minorities in Socialist China: Development, Migration, Culture, and Identity  Xiaorong Han 1 How Has Wheat Gotten on the Dining Tables of the Tibetans? The Modernization of Tibet and the Evolution of the Tibetan Food Culture  Qiang Ge (强舸) 2 A Contemporary Expression of Progress and Development: Grassland Ecology and Social Development in Alxa, Inner Mongolia  Ma Guoqing (麻国庆) and Zhang Liang (张亮) 3 The Rubber Cultivation of the Akha People as a Cultural Practice  Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁) 4 Taking Root Far from Home: Land Transactions and Home-Building among the Miao Contract Farmers of Yangjiang  Wen Shixian (温士贤) 5 Evolving Traditions: Reconstruction by the Yi People of Their Lineage System in the Pearl River Delta Region  Liu Dongxu (刘东旭) 6 Demonstration and Significance of Villagism: A Case Study of the Hani People  Ma Chongwei (马翀炜) 7 Inventing a Tradition: A Study on the Water Splashing Festival and Related Discourses on the New Year of the Dai People  Chu Jianfang (褚建芳) 8 Inventing a Shared Destiny: A Case Study of the Consultative Forum on the Ethnonym of the Bai People  Liang Yongjia (梁永佳) 9 Searching for a Home: A Tibetan Girl’s Media Journey  Zheng Xin (郑欣) and Tsering Choezom (次仁群宗) Index

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Book SynopsisParadise Lost. Race and Racism in Post-apartheid South Africa is about the continuing salience of race and persistence of racism in post-apartheid South Africa. The chapters in the volume illustrate the multiple ways in which race and racism are manifested and propose various strategies to confront racial inequality, racism and the power structure that underpins it, while exploring, how, through a renewed commitment to a non-racial society, apartheid racial categories can be put under erasure at exactly the time they are being reinforced.Trade Review[...] Paradise Lost is an essential read for understanding South Africa’s inextricable and heartbreaking entanglement with its deep history of racist colonial and apartheid systems. Throughout each book chapter, each author strives to outline solutions or ways forward within their particular sites of research—from the possibilities and limits of Ubuntu and decoloniality (citing Ndlovy-Gatsheni), to calls for African knowledge production and raciolinguistic decolonial thinking, to the necessity of radical democratic politics. These essays culminate in Modimowarbarwa Kanyane’s thoughtful elaborations of the ways South Africans need to work towards decolonizing both white and black minds to create substantive equality, social justice, and national reconciliation. The strength of this collection, however, is in giving us the realities of both past and present as a platform for reimagining what South Africa could be. Ultimately, the paradox that Paradise Lost reveals is that South Africa must think with race in mind or the country will never move through or beyond racism. Kathryn Mathers, Duke University, in Research Africa Reviews Vol. 7 No. 1, April 2023, pp. 60-63

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Book SynopsisThe Khoisan of the Cape are widely considered virtually extinct as a distinct collective following their decimation, dispossession and assimilation into the mixed-race group ‘coloured’ during colonialism and apartheid. However, since the democratic transition of 1994, increasing numbers of ‘Khoisan revivalists’ are rejecting their coloured identity and engaging in activism as indigenous people. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Cape Town, this book takes an unprecedented bottom-up approach. Centring emic perspectives, it scrutinizes Khoisan revivalism’s origins and explores the diverse ways Khoisan revivalists engage with the past to articulate a sense of indigeneity and stake political claims.Trade Review[...] With the acts of identity reclamation—specifically Khoisan ethnic self-assertion—reverberating in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia, this monograph is timely and pertinent. It will appeal to academics and students of history, heritage studies, ethnicity and/or subaltern studies, and postcolonial theory. Khoisan Conscious is a particularly invaluable resource for San studies and explorations of the notion of indigeneity. It will be of interest to researchers working in the space of race and ethnic identification, memory and memorialization, and emic historicization. Connie Rapoo, University of Botswana, in Research Africa Reviews Vol. 7 No. 1, April 2023, pp. 53-55Table of ContentsForeword Preface List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Defining a Phenomenon, Navigating a Field Studying Khoisan Revivalism through Reflexive Ethnography  1.1 Ethnography and the Interpretation of Emic Perspectives  1.2 Gathering Data on an Elusive Phenomenon: Heterogeneous Interlocutors, Reflexive Methods, and Eclectic Sources  1.2.1 Sources  1.2.2 Methods and Wider Implications of the Research part 1 Lost in Categorization? The Khoisan Extinction Discourse, and the Intellectual Roots and Aspirations of Khoisan Revivalism 2 (Re)Thinking the ‘Khoisan’ The Fate of a People, the Career of a Concept  2.1 Dispossession, Assimilation, and the ‘vanishing native’: A Brief Overview of Khoisan History  2.1.1 Dutch Colonialism Settles on South African Shores: Frontier Settlers and Expendable Natives (1652–1806)  2.1.2 British Colonialism, Assimilation, and Salvage Ethnography (1795–1910)  2.1.3 Union, Apartheid, and Coloured Citizens (1910–1970s)  2.2 Black Consciousness, Khoisan Revisionist Historiography, and the Origins of Khoisan Revivalism (1970s–1997)  2.2.1 Black Consciousness and the Reinvention of Coloured Identity in the Anti-apartheid Struggle  2.2.2 Henry Bredekamp and Khoisan revisionistRevisionist Historiography  2.2.3 Towards a New Khoisan Agenda in the Post-apartheid Era 3 The Political Accommodation and Diversification of Post-apartheid Khoisan Revivalism  3.1 Joseph Little, Traditional Leadership, and the Politicization of Khoisan identityIdentity (1997–2012)  3.1.1 From the Cape Cultural Heritage Development Council to the National Khoisan Council: Traditional Leadership and Indigenous Rights on the Agenda  3.1.2 Khoisan politicsPolitics in the Aftermath of the 2001 National Khoisan Consultative Conference: From Peak to Stagnation  3.2 Khoisan Revivalism in the 2010s: Towards a Broad-Based Identity Movement?  3.2.1 A New Cohort of Khoisan Revivalists  3.2.2 Land Reform, the Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act, and the Advent of a Broad-Based Identity Movement part 2 Ethnographic Encounters with Khoisan Revivalism in Cape Town 4 The Khoisan Identity Discourse (i) Reclaiming History and Remedying the ‘identity crisis’  4.1 ‘Khoisan forever, Coloured never’: Khoisan Identity as the Answer to the Identity Crisis  4.1.1 Identities Lost and Found: Khoisan Identity as a Spiritual Experience  4.1.2 An Eye-Opening Experience: Diagnosing and Healing the Identity Crisis  4.2 Reclaiming Khoisan History: Coloured Indigeneity and Indigenous Colouredness  4.2.1 Khoisan Revivalist Perspectives on the Past: Exposing Historical Continuity  4.2.2 Rewriting the Khoisan Past  4.2.3 Recuperating Khoisan Heroes: The Case of Krotoa 5 The Khoisan Identity Discourse (ii) Entitlement, Land Claims, and Traditional Leadership  5.1 Empowerment, Discursive Land Claims, and the Boundaries of Khoisan Indigeneity  5.2 On Khoisan Revivalist Traditional Leadership 6 Reviving Khoisan Culture Between Continuity and Change  6.1 ‘Like stepping into a time machine’  6.1.1 Plants, Rituals, and Inspiration from the North  6.1.2 Tourism, Mending the ‘broken string’, and Reviving Khoekhoegowab  6.2 21st Century Interpretations of Khoisan Culture: Hip-hop, Jazz, and Fashion part 3 Theoretical Perspectives on Khoisan Revivalism 7 Khoisan Revivalism and the Therapeutics of Emic History  7.1 Therapeutic History, Heritage, and the Case of Khoisan Revivalism  7.2 Subverting ‘repressive authenticity’? The Khoisan Revivalist Guide to Reclaiming History and Authenticity  7.2.1 Authenticity after Colonialism: Repressive Authenticity and the Khoisan Extinction Discourse  7.2.2 ‘Subversive authenticity’: Repressive Authenticity Turned Inside Out?  7.3 Closing Reflections on the Therapeutics of Emic History  Conclusion Khoisan Consciousness and Its Discontents in a Post-transitional South Africa Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThrough an innovative interdisciplinary reading and field research, Igor Chabrowski analyses the history of the development of opera in Sichuan, arguing that opera serves as a microcosm of the profound transformation of modern Chinese culture between the 18th century and 1950s. He investigates the complex path of opera over this course of history: exiting the temple festivals, becoming a public obsession on commercial stages, and finally being harnessed to partisan propaganda work. The book analyzes the process of cross-regional integration of Chinese culture and the emergence of the national opera genre. Moreover, opera is shown as an example of the culture wars that raged inside China’s popular culture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Plates, Table and Maps Introduction PART 1: Opera in Qing-Era Sichuan 1 Development of Opera in Qing-Era Sichuan  1 The Role of Opera in Qing Society  2 Opera and Construction of the Community  3 The Nineteenth-Century Flourishing: The Role of Opera in Shaping Local Religious Practice  4 Opera and Shaping of the Material and Social Landscape  5 A Market Town: A Temple-Centered Society, An Opera-Centered Society  6 The Big City Perspective  7 Opera between the Elites and the Commoners  8 Opera, Officials, and the Social (Dis)Order  9 Concluding Remarks PART 2: The New Institutionalization: Law, Market, Politics, and Culture of Commercialized Art, 1902–1937 2 A Transformed Relationship: Theater and Power after the Qing New Policies  1 The Three Forces of Change: Destruction of Temples, Commercialization, and the New Legal Order  2 New Policies and a Novel Way of Doing Business in Sichuan  3 The Protecting Power of Official Greed: Republican Commercial Theater  4 Taxing  5 Helping Hand  6 Women on the Show  7 Rectifying Opera 3 Commercial Opera: Shaping the City and Shaping the Actors  1 Theaters and Urban Zoning: Researching the Social Background of the Audiences  2 Early Transformation in the Social and Spatial Geography of Opera  3 Republican Theaters and Urban Zoning: Crystallization of the Opera’s Public  4 Commercial Theater and Actors’ Careers  5 Concluding Remarks 4 The Culture of the Commercial Opera  1 The Methods of Studying Opera: Troupes, Talent, and Repertoires  2 Watching the Commercial Show: How Was It Served?  3 Favorite Plays and the Cultural Universe of Sichuan Audiences  4 Gods, Emperors, Heroes…  5 Time and Place  6 Concluding Remarks Illustration Quire PART 3: Creating the New World 5 The Divide: Local Intellectuals and the Cultural Conflict  1 Commercial Daily’s Explorations and Experimentations with New Drama  2 Dissatisfaction, Estrangement, Elitism, and a Turn to the Left  3 Radicalization and Rejection  4 Concluding Remarks 6 The Times of the Nationalists (1937–1949) and the War  1 Performing Arts Culture  2 Military Emergency and China’s Migration to the Southwest  3 Inventing the Wartime Theater  4 Putting Words into Action  5 Living through Frustration: Playwrights and the War  6 An All Too Visible Context: Sichuan Opera and the War  7 Concluding Remarks 7 Revolution: Communist “People’s Art”  1 Communist Conquest of Sichuan: A New Political Context  2 Political and Ideological Basis of the Opera Reform  3 Breaking the “Superstitious” Opera  4 Adjusting to the New Party-State Policies  5 Seizing Control over the Opera Companies  6 Opera Becomes Useful to the Communist State  7 Policy in Action: Chongqing, 1951–1952  8 Concluding Remarks 8 Conclusion Bibliography 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.

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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 SynopsisAlready in 1854, Henry David Thoreau had declared in Walden that “Most men appear never to have considered what a house is” (225). Like Thoreau, many other renowned American writers have considered what houses are and, particularly, what houses do, and they have created fictional dwellings that function not only as settings, but as actual central characters in their works. The volume is specifically concerned with the structure, the organization, and the objects inside houses, and argues that the space defined by rooms and their contents influences the consciousness, the imaginations, and the experiences of the humans who inhabit them. Winner of the Spanish Association for American Studies’ Javier Coy Award 2022 for best edited volume. Contributors are: Cristina Alsina Rísquez, Rodrigo Andrés, Vicent Cucarella-Ramon, Arturo Corujo, Mar Gallego, Ian Green, Michael Jonik, Wyn Kelley, Cynthia Lytle, Carme Manuel, Paula Martín-Salván, Elena Ortells, Eva Puyuelo-Ureña, Dolores Resano, and Cynthia Stretch.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 American Houses, American Literature  Rodrigo Andrés PART 1: Houses: Queer Affiliations and Temporalities 2 The House as Alternative to Familial Space and Time in Herman Melville’s “I and My Chimney”  Rodrigo Andrés 3 Paths Well-Trodden and “Desire Lines” in Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House  Cristina Alsina Rísquez 4 Queering the American Family Home: The Aesthetics of Place and the Ethos of Domesticity in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic  Elena Ortells PART 2: The Legacy of the House Divided 5 Cape Coast Castle in the Sky: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the Im/possibility of the American Dream  Cynthia Lytle 6 The Haunted Plantation: Ghosts, Graves, and Transformation as Resistance in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman  Ian Green 7 A House is a House is a House: Toni Morrison’s Politics of Domesticity, Redemption and Healing in Beloved and Home  Mar Gallego 8 The Politics of Affect with/in the African American Mansion in Stephanie Powell Watts’s No One Is Coming to Save Us  Vicent Cucarella-Ramon 9 “A Lot More Deadly”: Gender and the Black Spatial Imaginary in U.S. Prison Writings  Eva Puyuelo Ureña PART 3: Troubled Boundaries of the Domestic Space 10 Thoreau’s Unhoused  Michael Jonik 11 Too Tight for Comfort: Shipboard Distance as the Prerequisite for Personal Intimacy in Herman Melville’s White-Jacket  Arturo Corujo 12 “Maybe There’s Nobody to Shoot”: The Disappearing Landlord in 20th-Century U.S. Fiction  Cynthia Stretch 13 Woody Guthrie’s House of Earth: A Manifesto in Adobe as a Response to Houselessness and Domicide in Post-Depression Years  Carme Manuel 14 The Arrivant in Toni Morrison’s Paradise: Deviation, Iteration, Intersection  Paula Martín-Salván 15 “A house at odds with itself”: Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered  Dolores Resano 16 Afterword: In a Fictional House  Wyn Kelley Index

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Book SynopsisAbolitionist Cosmopolitanism redefines the potential of American antislavery literature as a cultural and political imaginary by situating antislavery literature in specific transnational contexts and highlighting the role of women as producers, subjects, and audiences of antislavery literature. Pia Wiegmink draws attention to locales, authors, and webs of entanglement between texts, ideas, and people. Perceived through the lens of gender and transnationalism, American antislavery literature emerges as a body of writing that presents profoundly reconfigured literary imaginations of freedom and equality in the United States prior to the Civil War.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures 1 Introduction 2 Mapping the Field  1 Abolitionist Literature Matters  2 Transnational American Antislavery Literature  3 Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism 3 Friends of Freedom: Female Editorship and Transatlantic Communities of Affection in The Liberty Bell  1 Abolitionist Print Culture and Gift-Giving  2 The Gift Book as Chronicle of Transatlantic Affective Communities  3 Fundraising for the Cause: The Annual Boston Antislavery Fair 4 Gendered Global Geographies of American Antislavery Literature in The Liberty Bell  1 Haiti: Edmund Quincy’s “Two Nights in St. Domingo” (1843)  2 Egypt: Maria Lowell’s “Africa” (1849)  3 The United States: Elizabeth Barret Browning’s “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” (1848) 5 Travelling Beyond the Slave Narrative: African American Women’s Autobiography  1 Revisiting the Slave Narrative: Discourses of Travel in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)  2 Reports From Russia and Jamaica: Nancy Prince’s Narrative of the Life and Times of Mrs. Nancy Prince (1850)  3 Interlude: Nancy Prince’s Travel Account The West Indies (1841)  4 Reversing Slave Itineraries: Eliza Potter’s A Hairdresser’s Experience in High Life (1859) 6 Travelling Letters of Antislavery: African American Women’s Epistolary Writing  1 Sarah Parker Remond’s Epistolary Writing on Black Freedom of Movement  2 Harriet Jacobs’s First Public Letter (1853) and Women’s Transatlantic Antislavery Epistolary Battles 7 Antislavery, Immigration, and German American Women’s Literature  1 Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Schutz’ “True Americanism” (1859), and German American Abolitionist Self-Fashioning  2 German Antislavery Sentiments and the Cult of German Womanhood in America: Talvj’s The Exiles (1852)  3 German American Utopian Communities: Mathilde Franziska Anneke’s “Uhland in Texas” (1866)  4 Coda: Ottilie Assing’s Writings on Frederick Douglass 8 Conclusion Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a new perspective on the making of Afro-Brazilian, African-American and African studies through the interrelated trajectory of E. Franklin Frazier, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Frances and Melville Herskovits in Brazil. The book compares the style, network and agenda of these different and yet somehow converging scholars, and relates them to the Brazilian intellectual context, especially Bahia, which showed in those days much less density and organization than the US equivalent. It is therefore a double comparison: between four Americans and between Americans and scholars based in Brazil.

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

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Book SynopsisChina, Laos, and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety, especially for their large rural populations. Contributors to this edited volume demonstrate the diverse ways in which rural people build futures in this unique policy landscape and how their aspirations and desires are articulated as projects involving both citizens and the state. This produces a politics of development that happens through and around the state as people navigate discourses of betterment to imagine and make new futures at individual and collective levels.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future  Phill Wilcox, Jonathan Rigg and Minh Nguyen 2 Risk Perception and Lowland Rice Farming Change in Savannakhet Province, Southern Laos  Ian G. Baird, Santi Piyadeth and Chanthavisouk Ninchaluene 3 Hmong Christianisation, the Will to Improve and the Question of Neoliberalism in Vietnam’s Highlands  Seb Rumsby 4 Staying or Moving  Government Compliance in Post-Zomian Laos  Guido Sprenger 5 Good Baby, Good Life  Exploring a New Akha Way of Life Free from Abnormal Birth  Ruijing Wang 6 Single Mothers’ Livelihoods in Rural North Central Vietnam: Struggles for a Good Life  Tuan Anh Nguyen, Cam Ly Thi Vo and Binh Minh Thi Vu 7 Rural Schooling and a Good Life in Late Socialist Laos: Articulations, Sketches and Moments of Good Time  Roy Huijsmans and Mr Piti 8 Translocal Households and Family Visions in Contemporary Vietnam: A Neoliberal Shift?  Hy V. Luong 9 Making a Good Life by Building a Good House: A Case Study of Baikou New Village in Southeastern China  Lan Wei 10 A Good Life Postponed: Working in the Countryside, Retiring in the City in Contemporary China  Catrina Schwendener 11 Tradition, Habitat, and Well-Being: Polygamous Marriage in a Tibetan Village  Li Zhi-nong and He Shu-qing Index

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