Society and culture: general Books
Columbia University Press On the Sovereignty of Mothers
Book Synopsis
£79.20
Columbia University Press Politics and Privilege
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£87.20
Columbia University Press Politics and Privilege
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£25.20
Columbia University Press The Unbuilt Bench
Book Synopsis
£93.60
Columbia University Press The Unbuilt Bench
Book Synopsis
£27.00
Columbia University Press Fire Craft Art Body and World Among Glassblowers
Book Synopsis
£73.60
Columbia University Press Ambitious and Anxious
Book Synopsis
£19.00
Columbia University Press Aging with Agility
£73.60
Columbia University Press Progress from the Margins Human Rights and Disability Internationalism Since the 1960s
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£87.20
Columbia University Press LGBTQ Runaway and Homeless Youth
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£96.80
Columbia University Press LGBTQ Runaway and Homeless Youth
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£27.00
Columbia University Press Our Viral Futures A Political Ecology of Microbes
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£93.60
University of Illinois Press Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 13
Table of ContentsCoverTitle PageContentsIntroductionErratumSymbols and AbbreviationsDocumentsBibliographyIndex
£67.15
MO - University of Illinois Press The Origins of the Welfare State
Book SynopsisWomen workers and the revolutionary origins of the modern welfare stateTrade Review"Lisa Dicaprio's long-anticipated book was worth the wait. . . . Dicaprio demonstrates concretely an important set of insights into the political economy of the labor process, the possibilities for the political mobilization of women during the French Revolution, and the emergence of new conceptions and new ways of implementing of the interrelationships of charity, welfare and the state."--H-France Review"Dicaprio's book offers a fascinating look at public works projects for women in 18th-century France. . . . Recommended."--Choice
£31.50
MO - University of Illinois Press Ghost Stories for Darwin
Book SynopsisIn a stimulating interchange between feminist studies and biology, the author explores how her dissertation on flower color variation in morning glories launched her on an intellectual odyssey that engaged the feminist studies of sciences in the experimental practices of science by tracing the central and critical idea of variation in biology.Trade ReviewLudwik Fleck Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science, 2016. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2015. "Ghost Stories for Darwin offers a road map for how to bridge science and the humanities and conduct research that is reflective of our nonbinary, nondisciplinary world. . . . Ghost Stories for Darwin is a remarkable and uncommon journey into understanding science and the scientific process, and it will be useful to a range of scholars across disciplines, as well as to all who wish to understand the practice of science as a social enterprise."--Journal of the History of Sexuality"This monograph's style will most likely astonish readers new to Subramaniam's signature, lyrical approach to mediating disciplinary trench warfare. Through inventive genre and style remixes, she deftly interweaves forgotten social and political histories about morning glory flowers, autobiographical testimonies, parables, and 'fictional sciences,' media and narrative analyses, focus group findings, and experimental field biology results. . . . Throughout, there are many moments of revelatory friction, enough potentially to start a fiery revolution."--Asian Biotechnology and Development Review"Ghost Stories for Darwin is simultaneously a brilliant piece of scholarship and a series of beautifully written stories of natureculture. Evolutionary biologist and feminist science studies scholar Banu Subramaniam provides us a vision for interdisciplinary research that integrates natural sciences expertise with methodologies of the humanities and generates complex, multidimensional, and historicized knowledges that are ultimately just."--Chikako Takeshita, author of The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies"Trained as a plant biologist with a deep interest in feminist science studies, Prof. Subramanian has produced a brave and novel book about the intersections of these fields through the lens of her study of variation in flower color in morning glories. She takes the reader on a fascinating personal journey through nature and culture to illuminate the complexities of diversity and difference in science and society. This is an important work that should appeal to a wide audience interested in interdisciplinary science studies."--Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University"A provocative and revelatory work that examines important aspects of the racialized and gendered logics haunting contemporary debates about inclusion/exclusion in the sciences and society . . . Subramaniam makes a persuasive argument that scientists and women's studies scholars must take each other's work more seriously by combining sound scientific practice and transnational feminist social justice principles to imagine a vivid alternative 'futureworld' of science. Subramaniam's incisive critique and engaging vision of an alternative future are invaluable for everyone interested in producing socially responsible science."--Carole McCann, coeditor of Feminist Theory Reader: Local and Global Perspectives"Morning glories and feminists are transported in this book from separate planets to cohabit in the dangerous asteroid belts of co-shaped diversity, variation and difference. Introduced to the bumptious players in Subramaniam’s astute histories of sciences of eugenics, biogeography and variation, we hear the ghost stories Darwin enabled, as well as those he might have told but couldn’t quite. Perhaps not so strangely, a kinship of concepts, narratives, traps, and potentials for richer knowledges that are necessary both to evolutionary biology and to women’s studies shapes these tales of traveling aliens and natives, suggesting something else that is neither. Nature is culture; culture is nature; science tells us so especially in the currencies of gender and race. Tuned to women in science in many senses, Subramaniam’s Ghost Stories for Darwin destabilizes the old exchange rates and proposes instead a wealth of narratives and experimental conceptual and laboratory practices for finally doing evolutionary biology, ecology and women’s studies together. Learning to inherit a haunted past but not stopping with critique, Ghost Stories proposes practices for academic sciences to take up in all their variety, among the fields of morning glories planted for diverse, differently powerful, less ravaged naturecultures."--Donna J. Haraway, author of When Species Meet"This monograph's style will most likely astonish readers new to Subramaniam's signature, lyrical approach to mediating disciplinary trench warfare. Through inventive genre and style remixes, she deftly interweaves forgotten social and political histories about morning glory flowers, autobiographical testimonies, parables and 'fictional sciences,' media and narrative analyses, focus group findings, and experimental field biology results. . . . Throughout, there are many moments of revelatory friction, enough potentially to start a fiery revolution."--Asian Biotechnology and Development Review"Subramaniam uses a combination of personal reflections, cultural parables, and scientific case studies to present an engaging, thought-provoking discussion about the assumptions that shape how science is done. Essential."--Choice "Ghost Stories for Darwin is a radically interdisciplinary feminist treatment of the scientific concept of 'variation' and the social and political concept of 'diversity.' . . . The book is, among other things, an invitation to feminism to engage science's proper objects."--hypatia reviews online
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Digital Rebellion
Book SynopsisBegins with the rise of the Zapatistas in the mid-1990s, and how aspects of the movement - network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent - became essential parts of Indymedia and all Cyber Left organizations.Trade Review"Makes an original contribution through the depth of the empirical case studies of Cyber Left organization. . . . I cannot think of another book that puts so much of the story of the U.S. left's experiments with the creation of an 'electronic fabric of struggle' within a single volume. . . . The author's knowledge, thoughtfulness, and political passion is evident."--Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games"Combining the passion of an activist and the reasoned arguments of a scholar, Wolfson wonderfully details the emergence of the Cyber Left. In Digital Rebellion he not only celebrates its political potential but also, and more importantly, provides a lucid critique of the forms it has taken thus far."--Michael Hardt, co-author of Declaration and Empire"A major contribution. . . . Eminently readable, Digital Rebellion is a mixture of reporting and theory all designed to move beyond the horizontal-vertical duality and achieve a synthesis that draws from the best of both worlds."--Counterpunch"The first book to chart the intellectual and technological history of the Indymedia network and to place that history within the theoretical debate about social movement organization and politics. This is an important chapter in contemporary social movement activism and Todd Wolfson does an excellent job charting the rise of the Independent Media Center and the theoretical implications of this model for left political organizing."--Andy Opel, author of Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Play and the Human Condition
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This work will help shape and unify the field of play studies. I have not read its equal; in fact, there is nothing elsewhere quite like it." --Scott G. Eberle, vice president for play studies at The Strong National Museum of Play"Play and the Human Condition is a book as ambitious as its title… An erudite reading of the vast tradition of play studies, from sociology and psychology to cultural anthropology. It is also an original contribution to understanding play--provocative, informative and enlightening."--American Journal of Play "Profound and reasonable, accessible and well-written, and wide-ranging while confident of the details of past scholarship and current theory over a range of disciplines. This work will help shape and unify the field of play studies. I have not read its equal; in fact, there is nothing elsewhere quite like it."--Scott G. Eberle, vice president for play studies at The Strong National Museum of Play"Thomas Henricks provides us with a completely new way of looking at children's play. He skillfully separates out the existing theories and then brings them back together to provide his own unique perspective. This book makes the most significant contribution to the field of play theory since Brian Sutton-Smith's seminal work, The Ambiguity of Play. It is stimulating and challenging, but at the same time most enjoyable to read."--Fraser Brown, author of Rethinking Children's Play"Students across disciplines will find here a thoughtful analysis of physiological, environmental, psychological, cultural, and social theories about how play changes and sustains people across generations. This timely work addresses the rapidly expanding knowledge and promise of play as well as trends such as consumerism and computer play that potentially diminish the spirit of play and quality of life across societies."--Joe L. Frost, author of Play and Child Development
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Cape Verde Lets Go
Book SynopsisMusicians rapping in kriolu--a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the kriolu language but its culture and history. Drawing on fieldwork and archival research in Portugal and Cape Verde, Derek Pardue introduces Lisbon's kriolu rap scene and its role in challenging metropolitan Portuguese identities. Pardue demonstrates that Cape Verde, while relatively small within the Portuguese diaspora, offers valuable lessons about the politics of experience and social agency within a postcolonial context that remains poorly understood. As he argues, knowing more about both Cape Verdeans and the Portuguese invites clearer assessments of the relationship between the experience and policies of migration. That in turn allows us to better gauge citizenship as a balance of individual achievTrade Review"Cutting edge. While plenty of books have raised issues of cultural practice and citizenship, few--if any--focus on expressive culture. Pardue has already established himself as a scholar of hip-hop and he brings a depth and richness of experience from his earlier work on Brazil to see the full challenge that Cape Verdean rappers pose not just to Portugal but to Europe and Europeanness."--Marissa Moorman, author of Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times"A compelling interdisciplinary study of identity and citizenship among Cape Verdean rappers based in contemporary Lisbon. Building upon his groundbreaking work on Brazilian hip-hop, Pardue shifts his focus across the Atlantic by incorporating nodal points of the Lusophone triangle (Portugal, Cape Verde, and Brazil) that share common histories based on colonialism and slavery, where hybrid cultures have emerged and complex postcolonial entanglements continue to evolve."--Fernando Arenas, author of Utopias of Otherness: Nationhood and Subjectivity in Portugal and Brazil"A sharp analysis. The author makes an accurate diagnosis of the poetics of production of political-cultural and identity-related statements, revealing a politics of difference radically permeated by the weight of the postcolonial memory and history in the contemporary Cape Verdean and Portuguese contexts."--Víctor Barros, University of Coimbra"Cape Verde, Let's Go! is an interesting and worthwhile study of diasporic racial, linguistic, and musical identity. . . . The book's greatest value. . . . is in bringing attention to an area of Europe--and to European colonial system--that is often eclipsed by focus on England, France, and Spain."--Anthropology Review Database
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Painting the Gospel
Book SynopsisInnovative and lavishly illustrated, Painting the Gospel offers an indispensable contribution to conversations about African American art, theology, politics, and identity in Chicago. Kymberly N. Pinder escorts readers on an eye-opening odyssey to the murals, stained glass, and sculptures dotting the city''s African American churches and neighborhoods. Moving from Chicago''s oldest black Christ figure to contemporary religious street art, Pinder explores ideas like blackness in public, art for black communities, and the relationship of Afrocentric art to Black Liberation Theology. She also focuses attention on art excluded from scholarship due to racial or religious particularity. Throughout, she reflects on the myriad ways private black identities assert public and political goals through imagery. Painting the Gospel includes maps and tour itineraries that allow readers to make conceptual, historical, and geographical connections among the works. <Trade Review"This work offers a contribution to conversations about African American art, theology, politics, and identity in Chicago, Illinois."--Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies "A beautifully written, in depth examination of the creation and nature of black religious art in Chicago."--Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"Pinder's book is incredibly rich in its interdisciplinarity, and it is broadly relevant to larger discussions of African American art, literature, music, and activism (to name a few realms) outside of Chicago."--College Art Association"A valuable, well-researched survey of Afrocentric Christian art... Recommended."--Choice"Pinder has provided a rigorously researched guide to black public art in Painting the Gospel. The value of this text, and its attention to the attendant folklore, will only deepen with time."--Journal of Folklore Research"Painting the Gospel is an excellent interdisciplinary study of black Christian imagery within a specific locale, and the factors that helped shape it."--Art and Theology"In a day when aging urban churches are faced with demolition on the one hand and inattention from scholars on the other, art historian Kymberly Pinder steps in to rescue overlooked African American religious art from this fate of double-oblivion. With estimable care and resourceful historical analysis, she explores work that conveys the cultural politics and religious ideals of black congregations in early twentieth-century Chicago. Paintings, murals, mosaics, stained glass, songs, and poetry spring to life to deliver one more time their testimony to Protestant and Catholic religious communities and to a vibrant black history that needs telling."--David Morgan, author of The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling"Kymberly Pinder's Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago is an immensely important volume. Her bold and insightful study of local urban religious practices of 'empathetic realism' and 'tragic space' fills an inexcusable chasm in the scholarly literatures. In demonstrating the multi-media visual, material, sonic, and performative cultures of religion mobilized by her African American subjects, she illuminates not only the significant particularities of twentieth-century artistic and political history in Chicago but also invites her readers to consider larger national implications of race and religion, far beyond any one city's geographical boundaries. This is a stellar contribution."--Sally M. Promey, Yale University "An exciting examination of the ways in which a variety of black denominations have visualized Christ in their own images throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."--Kristin Schwain, author of Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age "Painting the Gospel points out the significance of the visual within African American religious thought and practice. Pushing against the typical dominance of the written text, this volume, using Chicago as a case study, provides an intriguing discussion of how visual culture within public spaces offers significant insight into the thought and practice of African American religiosity. In so doing, Painting the Gospel offers an interesting take on the idea 'seeing is believing.'"--Anthony B. Pinn, author of The End of God-Talk: An African American Humanist Theology
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Against Citizenship
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This thoughtful, energizing, and inspiring work should be commended for scholars and activists alike who are engaged in sociopolitical critique."--H-Net Reviews"Recommended."--Choice"Against Citizenship will be regarded as one of the most important books in queer and feminist theory of its generation. Broad in its intellectual scope, Brandzel's deft skill at bridging feminist and queer studies with critical ethnic studies and critical Indigenous studies offers a model for the kind of intersectional analysis required to understand and challenge the violence of normativities. It is a powerful read."--Karma Chávez, author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities"Amy Brandzel reaches broadly across and deeply into queer, feminist, indigenous and critical race studies to expose the irredeemable violences of U.S. citizenship. By bringing together case studies rarely considered within the same frame, Brandzel enacts the kind of intersectional alliance-building towards which Brandzel urges readers. This book energized me, and I look forward to using Brandzel's ideas as a springboard for building coalitions that reject faith in citizenship and instead create other kinds of affinities and attachments."--Noelani Goodyear-Ka’opua, coeditor of A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty"This provocative book is a must-read for scholars and activists engaged in political critique and projects that are invested in challenging the limits of inclusion lodged within the normative frameworks of U.S. law. Brandzel skillfully documents the violence of anti-intersectional politics, epistemologies, and citizenship practices within cases of hate crime legislation, same-sex marriage, and the tensions between civil rights and indigenous rights to effectively argue that the politics of alliance requires activisms against US citizenship as it is constructed through a process of human devaluing. As an ethical alternative, the author offers a dynamic methodology for engaging in a politics of responsibility and accountability for those committed to queer studies and liberatory coalition building."--J. K?haulani Kauanui, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity"Brandzel's humility and care are refreshing and significant, bringing nuance and reflection at every turn to the application of various critical tools to moments of purported inclusion that reveal vital insights about the shape and operations of US citizenship. Brandzel convincingly argues that citizenship is an exclusionary product, and the efforts at including more types of people in it inevitably reify its exclusive nature and undermine opportunities to practice coalition among populations targeted for exclusion."--Feminist FormationsTable of ContentsPreface: A Politics of Presence for the Present ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: The Violence of the Normative 1 1 The Specters of Citizenship: Hate Crimes and the Fear of the Repressed 31 2 Intersectionalities Lost and Found: Same-Sex Marriage Law and the Monstrosities of Alliance 70 3 Legal Detours of U.S. Empire: Locating Race and Indigeneity in Law, History, and Hawai'i 100 Conclusion: In and Out of Time 137 Notes 149 Bibliography 181 Index 203
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Manhood on the Line
Book SynopsisStephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one''s dignity while doing hard work in hard world. Trade ReviewBook of the Year, International Labor History Association, 2016 "Richly detailed. . . . The strength of Manhood on the Line is its unvarnished examination of the power of masculinity."--The Annals of Iowa"Meyer has produced an important work—a readable, revealing, well-researched, insightful piece of history."--Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"Manhood on the Line does an excellent job, helping the reader to understand the importance of the emergence of white working-class masculinity in the automotive factory through an examination of the complex relations between labor, race, and gender, during the twentieth century."--Men and Masculinities"A well-reasoned, thoroughly researched history that makes an important contribution to masculinity and gender studies, the sociology of work, labor history, and industrial relations. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"An incredibly rich social history."--The Michigan Historical Review"In the scholarly study of masculinity, the history of working class masculinity has often been neglected in favor of more accessible middle-class men's stories. Stephen Meyer's book is a valuable . . . contribution to the work being done to rectify this omission."--Kansas History"A richly textured, highly readable study, which should have a significant impact on the writing of a more complicated history of the working class in all advanced capitalist societies."--Labour"A landmark of twentieth-century U.S. history. The research is extraordinary; the argument compelling. It is about our century and nation, and the many blue-collar men who worked in lousy, tough jobs and figured out ways to make a living, and also remain a man."--Roger Horowitz, author of Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, and Transformation "This important and thoughtful book should remove any remaining doubts about the significance of creating a men's history that takes gender seriously."--Ava Baron, author of Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor "Represents a kind of coming of age for labor history after decades of exciting scholarship. Attentive to the power of gender and race in shaping working-class experience, it navigates the difficult terrain between the rough and respectable cultures of working-class men in the auto industry. It's also a terrific read. A master craftsman of working class history, Meyer compellingly shows us how automation, economic crisis, and the presence of women and African American workers reshaped the shop floor and working-class white men’s identity and politics. Finally, Manhood on the Line addresses the difficult questions of sexual harassment and racism in the industrial heartland and illuminates the social worlds of white and black working-class men and women in the twentieth century."--Elizabeth Faue, author of Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915–1945 "In both argument and evidence, Manhood on the Line is among the richest studies of U.S. working class history. Meyer explores the intersections of gender and class with great clarity and subtlety."--David Roediger, author Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Table Talk
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book provides many examples, stories and cultural comparisons that are fascinating and thought-provoking in the exploration of the potential for democracy and community-building over the dinner table. It is a highly readable addition to the literature."--Social Anthropology "This is a great book--comprehensive, full of sharp observations, and provocative. Flammang shows convincingly how politics infuses and constitutes civil society through the domestic and how far the quotidian features of domestic life present opportunities for the cultivation of specific virtues essential to a healthy civic community."--John Finn, author of Peopling the Constitution"A keenly intelligent, deeply resonant, and well-researched book that demonstrates the foundational role played by the domestic sphere in the formation of a democratic civic life. Every citizen and politician should read this book, a commanding sequel to the author's stunning The Taste for Civilization ."--Judith Newton, author of Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen"Flammang's works have been breakthrough in the field in that she examines food at the micro level: the dinner table where not only do children learn manners, but we learn the skills of political engagement in a civil democratic society. A powerful and important statement that must be heeded."--Ken Albala, Director of Food Studies, University of the Pacific
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Reading Together Reading Apart
Book SynopsisOften thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with literary culture represents a particularly integral facet of identity formation--and serves as an expression of a sense of belonging--within the South Asian diaspora in the United States. Tamara Bhalla blends a case study with literary and textual analysis to illuminate this phenomenon. Her fascinating investigation considers institutions from literary reviews to the marketplace and social media and other technologies, as well as traditional forms of literary discussion like book clubs and academic criticism. Throughout, Bhalla questions how her subjects' circumstances, shared race and class, and desires limit the values they ascribe to reading. She also examines how ideology circulating around a body of literature or a self-selected, imagined community of readers shapes reading itself and influences South Asians' powerful, if contradictory, rTrade ReviewBhalla offers a multi-layered, interdisciplinary treatment on the possibilities (and limitations) involved in both the act of reading and formation of ethnic identities. This thoughtful and thought-provoking book deserves its own reading club.--Pawan Dhingra, author of Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream"Bhalla's nuanced, sensitive analysis illuminates how nonacademic readers grapple with issues of authenticity, class, and gender as they engage with transnational South Asian literature. This rigorously-researched book significantly enhances discussions of the consumption and marketing of ethnic literatures and identities."--Megan Sweeney, author of The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Claiming Neighborhood
Book Synopsis
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Remaking the Urban Social Contract
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A provocative and enlightening vision of our rapidly changing societal expectations for energy, environment, and health, the foundations of the social contract we implicitly make with government, corporate, and entrepreneurial leaders."--George W. Crabtree, Director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
£77.35
University of Illinois Press The Public Infrastructure of Work and Play
Book SynopsisA city's infrastructure influences the daily life of residents, neighborhoods, and businesses. But uniting the hard infrastructure of roads and bridges with the soft infrastructure of parks and public art creates significant political challenges. Planners at all stages must work at an intersection of public policy, markets, and aesthetics--while also accounting for how a project will work in both the present and the future. The latest volume in the Urban Agenda series looks at pressing infrastructure issues discussed at the 2017 UIC Urban Forum. Topics include: competing notions of the infrastructure ideal; what previous large infrastructure programs can teach the Trump Administration; how infrastructure influences city design; the architecture of the cities of tomorrow; who benefits from infrastructure improvements; and evaluations of projects like the Chicago Riverwalk and grassroots efforts to reclaim neighborhood parks from gangs. Contributors: Philip Ashton, Beverly S. Bunch, BiTrade Review"When a word such as 'infrastructure' means everything to everyone's hopes for jobs, urban progress, and quality of life it is time to be very careful, to dig deeper. That is exactly what this book does. It leads us to soberly reflect upon real meanings and true potentials."--Henry Cisneros, cofounder and chairman, CityView"In today's urban environment the distinction between the infrastructure needed to support services; production, work, and the physical foundation devoted to tourism; entertainment; and leisure has all but vanished. The essays in this volume explain the far-reaching consequences of this development."--Dennis Judd, coauthor of City Politics: Private Power and Public Policy
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Disruptive Archives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Groundbreaking in terms of methodology . . . Disruptive Archives affirms the power of women's storytelling and memory as they participate as actors, narrators, and politically militant protagonsists. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice"MacManus offers a deft contribution to the study of Latin American political repression by keeping women's participation in resistance struggles at the center of her feminist intertextual analyses of oral histories and literary and audiovisual pieces."--Pascha Bueno-Hansen, author of Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional JusticeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. “All of Latin America Is Sown with the Bones of [its] Forgotten Youth”: Hemispheric State Terror and Latin American Feminist Theories of Justice Chapter One. Critical Latin American Feminist Perspectives and the Limits and Possibilities of Human Rights Reports Chapter Two. Sexual Necropolitics, Survival, and the Gender of Betrayal Chapter Three. “Ghosts of Another Era”: Gendered Haunting and the Legacy of Women’s Armed Resistance Chapter Four. Gendered Memories, Collective Subjectivity, and Solidarity Practices in Women’s Oral Histories Epilogue. The Legacy of State-Sanctioned Violence and Specters of the Dirty War’s Radical Women Notes Bibliography Index
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Care Activism
Book SynopsisCare activism challenges the stereotype of downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational community of care workers and their families. Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists goes beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures. Through practices of subversive friendships and being there for each other, care activism acts as an extension of the daily work that caregivers do, oftentimes also instilling practices of resistance and critical hope among care workers. At the same time, the communities created by care activism help migrant caregivers survive and even thrive in the face of arduous working and living conditions and the pains surrounding family separation. As Tungohan shows, care activism also unifies caregivers to resist society's legal and economic devaluations of care and domestic work byTrade Review"In this poignant and imperative volume, Ethel Tungohan explores how deeply and distinctly migrant worker communities care for themselves and one another. In so doing, they demonstrate radical resistance and critical hope." --Ms. Magazine“Ethel Tungohan argues that social movement organizations succeed because their members care not only about the issues but also about each other. Drawing upon extensive global observation, she details how domestic workers cultivate critical hope and press for greater justice.” --Joan C. Tronto, author of Who Cares? How to Reshape a Democratic Politics“A fascinating read. The way the author tells the stories, braiding histories and contemporary resonances together, creates an imaginative and successful narrative of care activism in Canada and transnationally. Tungohan underscores that, regardless of the vision and underlying motives of migrant care worker movements, they are invested in caring for one another. Her book shows us that perhaps activism isn’t at all separate from caring and that perhaps radical care can and should be a part of radical movement building.”--Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, author of The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital AgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Care Activism and Communities of Care Contextualizing Care Activism Care Activism within Migrant Advocacy Organizations Transnational Activism--Scaling Up Care Activism in Transnational Spaces Care Activism in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Singapore Everyday Care Activism Conclusion: Towards a Politics of Critical Hope and Care Notes References Index
£77.35
MO - University of Illinois Press Contented among Strangers Rural GermanSpeaking
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the Missouri Conference on History Book Prize, 1997.
£23.39
University of Illinois Press MotherWork
Book SynopsisEarly in the twentieth century, maternal and child welfare evolved from a private family responsibility into a matter of national policy. Molly Ladd-Taylor explores both the private and public aspects of child-rearing, using the relationship between them to cast new light on the histories of motherhood, the welfare state, and women's activism in the United States.Ladd-Taylor argues that mother-work, women's unpaid work of reproduction and caregiving, motivated women's public activism and maternalist ideology. Mothering experiences led women to become active in the development of public health, education, and welfare services. In turn, the advent of these services altered mothering in many ways, including the reduction of the infant mortality rate.Trade Review"The essential guide to the politics of motherhood during a crucial period in the history of American women and the incipient welfare state."--Sonya Michel, editor of Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare StatesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1 Mother-Work at Home 1. The Work of Mothering 17 Part Two Mother-Work in the Community 2. "When the Birds Have Flown the Nest, the Mother-Work May Still Go On", Sentimental Maternalim and the National Congress of Mothers 43 3. "The Welfare of Mothers and Babies Is a Dignified Subject of Political Discussion", Progressive Materinalism and the Children's Bureau 74 4. "How Cruelly Unjust to Handicap All Women", Feminism and the Abandonment of Motherhood Rhetoric 104 Part Three Mothers and the State 5. "Every Mother Has a Right", The Movement for Mothers' Pensions 135 6. "We Mothers Are So Glad the Day Has Come", Mothers' Work and the Sheppard-Towner Act 167 Conclusion 197 Index 207
£19.79
University of Illinois Press Being Chinese Becoming Chinese American
Book SynopsisInvestigates how Chinese immigrants to the United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans during the period between 1911 and 1927. This study also documents the emergence of permanent Chinese American communities, or Chinatowns.Trade Review"Chen's groundbreaking examination of the birth of a Chinese American identity is rich in detail and provides a vivid picture of the difficult historical circumstances that Chinese immigrants faced and the creative ways they fought for their rights in a strange land that eventually would become their home. This book is certain to become a classic in its field."--Asian Affairs"Offers a fascinating portrait of Chinese America."--The Historian"Once I started reading this book, I could not put it down. Shehong Chen has accurately portrayed the dynamics of the factors involved in the transformation of the Chinese American identity."--Sue Fawn Chung, author of Chinese in the Woods Logging and Lumbering in the American West
£21.59
University of Illinois Press Puyo Runa
Book SynopsisThe Andean nation of Ecuador derives much of its revenue from petroleum that is extracted from its vast Upper Amazonian rain forest, which is home to ten indigenous nationalities. This book presents a trenchant ethnography of history, ecology, imagery, and cosmology to focus on shamans, ceramic artists, myth, ritual, and political engagements.Trade Review"If there is a single book that is capable of condensing and addressing all of the issues of exchange, articulation with global economies, and ethnogenesis in Amazonia, it is Whitten and Whitten's book Puyo Runa.--Ethnohistory "As a convincing and accessible account of one people's struggle to comprehend and overcome the challenges of colonial history and a tumultuous geopolitical moment, Puyo Runa stands as a powerful argument for the essential perspective that only long-term, rigorous, and imaginative ethnography can provide."--Anthropological Quarterly "This career capstone volume will be broadly useful for all social scientists as well as Latin Americanists. . . . Highly recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements ix Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation xxi Notes on Pronouns, People, and Pseudonyms xxv 1. Puyo Runa and Nayapi Llacta 1 2. Cultural Reflexivities, Images, and Locality 30 3. Empowerment, Knowledge, and Vision 59 4. Connections: Creative Expressions of Canelos Quichua Women Dorothea Scott Whitten 90 5. Imagery and the Control of Power 119 6. Cultural Performance 140 7. Aesthetic Contours: History, Conjuncture, and Transformation Dorothea Scott Whitten and Norman Whitten 167 8. Return of the Yumbo: The Caminata from Amazonia to Andean Quito Norman Whitten, Dorothea Scott Whitten, and Alfonso Chango 200 9. Causaunchimi!: Processes of Empowerment 231 Glossary 259 References 271 Index 293
£19.79
University of Illinois Press Made from Bone
Book SynopsisPrimordial, mythic narratives from the indigenous Wakuénai of South America, available in English for the first time everTrade Review“Interlacing worldview and myth with song and story, [Hill] conveys on various levels his detailed knowledge of Wakuenai ways. . . . Enticing and evocative.”--Journal of Folklore Research"A great achievement. The clear text allows readers to comprehend the complexity of the Made-from-Bone trickster, a figure that represents the principles of the Wakuénai culture itself. Hill shows that myth is not mere 'folklore' or 'text' but something deeper, a field of unseen forces and powers by which people experience the world through dynamic, shifting forms."--Michael Uzendoski, author of The Napo Runa of Amazonian Ecuador"An absorbing journey through the mythic history and musicscapes of the Wakuénai people. Jonathan D. Hill masterfully captures the sensuous and poetic dimensions of Wakuénai narratives while highlighting their enduring engagement with the events, struggles, and uncertainties of modern life. This is a painstakingly assembled Amerindian bible complete with its own hardcore exegesis."--Fernando Santos-Granero, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
£18.04
MO - University of Illinois Press The Political Use of Racial Narratives School Desegregation in Mobile Alabama 195497
Book SynopsisExploring who benefits and who pays when different narratives of race compete for acceptanceTrade Review"A splendid analysis of how racial narratives can influence the public's support for or opposition to school desegregation. . . . Pride's work is a virtually flawless product of painstaking research. Moreover, his innovative examination of the impact of narratives makes his book valuable for students and researchers in the social sciences."--American Historical Review"A rich and interesting account of local political struggles in Mobile, Alabama, starting in 1954, against federally imposed school desegregation. . . . This book is a valuable contribution to the field both conceptually in terms of our understanding of the political power of the narrative, and in terms of historical detail."--Ethnic and Racial Studies
£19.79
University of Illinois Press Citizens in the Present
Book SynopsisThis innovative comparative study provides nuanced accounts of the personal experiences of young people who care deeply about their communities and are actively engaged in a variety of public issuesTrade Review"Investigating the experience of young activists, their motivations, and the forms of their engagement, this innovative book presents a refreshingly optimistic picture of dedicated and engaged young people."--Anne B. Smith, coeditor of Advocating for Children: International Perspectives on Children's Rights"A much needed and timely contribution that celebrates the commonalities among youth leaders on a hemispheric scale. The book offers a unified voice that rejects the fragmentation of difference, and with thought-provoking youth interviews, convincingly articulates today's concept of youth leadership. These authors help their readers, whether scholars, educators or activists, effectively situate and challenge their own ideas of youth leaders."--Latino Studies
£19.94
University of Illinois Press Global Homophobia
Book SynopsisExplanations, and effects on how sexualities are understood and experienced in a range of national contexts.Trade ReviewScholar Award, LGBTQA Caucus of the International Studies Association, 2015. "A cohesive yet complex account of the phenomenon of global homophobia. This impressive scholarship will be useful for scholars and students in LGBT studies, women's and gender studies, comparative political science, and political history."--Susan Burgess, author of The New York Times on Gay and Lesbian Issues"This is a timely and significant collection that will further our understanding of both the national political reasons for homophobia and how these relate to an emerging transnational homophobic movement. The conceptualization of political homophobia as a state and global strategy represents a real advance in contemporary debates about the globalization of LGBT politics."--Momin Rahman, coauthor of Gender and Sexuality: Sociological Approaches
£19.94
University of Illinois Press Digital Rebellion
Book SynopsisBegins with the rise of the Zapatistas in the mid-1990s, and how aspects of the movement - network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent - became essential parts of Indymedia and all Cyber Left organizations.Trade Review"Makes an original contribution through the depth of the empirical case studies of Cyber Left organization. . . . I cannot think of another book that puts so much of the story of the U.S. left's experiments with the creation of an 'electronic fabric of struggle' within a single volume. . . . The author's knowledge, thoughtfulness, and political passion is evident."--Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games"Combining the passion of an activist and the reasoned arguments of a scholar, Wolfson wonderfully details the emergence of the Cyber Left. In Digital Rebellion he not only celebrates its political potential but also, and more importantly, provides a lucid critique of the forms it has taken thus far."--Michael Hardt, co-author of Declaration and Empire"A major contribution. . . . Eminently readable, Digital Rebellion is a mixture of reporting and theory all designed to move beyond the horizontal-vertical duality and achieve a synthesis that draws from the best of both worlds."--Counterpunch"The first book to chart the intellectual and technological history of the Indymedia network and to place that history within the theoretical debate about social movement organization and politics. This is an important chapter in contemporary social movement activism and Todd Wolfson does an excellent job charting the rise of the Independent Media Center and the theoretical implications of this model for left political organizing."--Andy Opel, author of Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future
£21.59
University of Illinois Press Play and the Human Condition
Book SynopsisIn Play and the Human Condition, Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and communitas. Focusing on five contexts for play--the psyche, the body, the environment, society, and culture--Henricks identifies conditions that instigate play, and comments on its implications for those settings. Offering a general theory of play as behavior promoting self-realization, Henricks articulates a conception of self that includes individual and social identity, particular and transcendent connection, and multiple fields of involvement. Henricks also evaluates play styles from history and contemporary life to analyze the relationship between play and human freedom. Imaginative and stimulating, Play and the Human Condition shows how play allows us to learn about our qualities and those of the world around us--and in so doing make sense of ourselves.Trade Review"This work will help shape and unify the field of play studies. I have not read its equal; in fact, there is nothing elsewhere quite like it." --Scott G. Eberle, vice president for play studies at The Strong National Museum of Play "Play and the Human Condition is a book as ambitious as its title… An erudite reading of the vast tradition of play studies, from sociology and psychology to cultural anthropology. It is also an original contribution to understanding play--provocative, informative and enlightening."--American Journal of Play "Profound and reasonable, accessible and well-written, and wide-ranging while confident of the details of past scholarship and current theory over a range of disciplines. This work will help shape and unify the field of play studies. I have not read its equal; in fact, there is nothing elsewhere quite like it."--Scott G. Eberle, vice president for play studies at The Strong National Museum of PlayTable of ContentsCoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Variations on a Theme2. Play Compared to Other Behaviors3. Play as Sense-Making4. The Psychology of Play5. Play's Nature6. Play and the Physical Environment7. The Social Life of Play8. Cultural Play9. The Play of PossibilityReferencesIndex
£999.99
University of Illinois Press Cape Verde Lets Go
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Cutting edge. While plenty of books have raised issues of cultural practice and citizenship, few--if any--focus on expressive culture. Pardue has already established himself as a scholar of hip-hop and he brings a depth and richness of experience from his earlier work on Brazil to see the full challenge that Cape Verdean rappers pose not just to Portugal but to Europe and Europeanness."--Marissa Moorman, author of Intonations: A Social History of Music and Nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to Recent Times"A compelling interdisciplinary study of identity and citizenship among Cape Verdean rappers based in contemporary Lisbon. Building upon his groundbreaking work on Brazilian hip-hop, Pardue shifts his focus across the Atlantic by incorporating nodal points of the Lusophone triangle (Portugal, Cape Verde, and Brazil) that share common histories based on colonialism and slavery, where hybrid cultures have emerged and complex postcolonial entanglements continue to evolve."--Fernando Arenas, author of Utopias of Otherness: Nationhood and Subjectivity in Portugal and Brazil"A sharp analysis. The author makes an accurate diagnosis of the poetics of production of political-cultural and identity-related statements, revealing a politics of difference radically permeated by the weight of the postcolonial memory and history in the contemporary Cape Verdean and Portuguese contexts."--Víctor Barros, University of Coimbra"Cape Verde, Let's Go! is an interesting and worthwhile study of diasporic racial, linguistic, and musical identity. . . . The book's greatest value. . . . is in bringing attention to an area of Europe--and to European colonial system--that is often eclipsed by focus on England, France, and Spain."--Anthropology Review Database
£17.99
MO - University of Illinois Press Painting the Gospel
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This work offers a contribution to conversations about African American art, theology, politics, and identity in Chicago, Illinois."--Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies "A beautifully written, in depth examination of the creation and nature of black religious art in Chicago."--Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"Pinder's book is incredibly rich in its interdisciplinarity, and it is broadly relevant to larger discussions of African American art, literature, music, and activism (to name a few realms) outside of Chicago."--College Art Association"A valuable, well-researched survey of Afrocentric Christian art... Recommended."--Choice"Pinder has provided a rigorously researched guide to black public art in Painting the Gospel. The value of this text, and its attention to the attendant folklore, will only deepen with time."--Journal of Folklore Research"Painting the Gospel is an excellent interdisciplinary study of black Christian imagery within a specific locale, and the factors that helped shape it."--Art and Theology"In a day when aging urban churches are faced with demolition on the one hand and inattention from scholars on the other, art historian Kymberly Pinder steps in to rescue overlooked African American religious art from this fate of double-oblivion. With estimable care and resourceful historical analysis, she explores work that conveys the cultural politics and religious ideals of black congregations in early twentieth-century Chicago. Paintings, murals, mosaics, stained glass, songs, and poetry spring to life to deliver one more time their testimony to Protestant and Catholic religious communities and to a vibrant black history that needs telling."--David Morgan, author of The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling"Kymberly Pinder's Black Public Art and Religion in Chicago is an immensely important volume. Her bold and insightful study of local urban religious practices of 'empathetic realism' and 'tragic space' fills an inexcusable chasm in the scholarly literatures. In demonstrating the multi-media visual, material, sonic, and performative cultures of religion mobilized by her African American subjects, she illuminates not only the significant particularities of twentieth-century artistic and political history in Chicago but also invites her readers to consider larger national implications of race and religion, far beyond any one city's geographical boundaries. This is a stellar contribution."--Sally M. Promey, Yale University "An exciting examination of the ways in which a variety of black denominations have visualized Christ in their own images throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."--Kristin Schwain, author of Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age "Painting the Gospel points out the significance of the visual within African American religious thought and practice. Pushing against the typical dominance of the written text, this volume, using Chicago as a case study, provides an intriguing discussion of how visual culture within public spaces offers significant insight into the thought and practice of African American religiosity. In so doing, Painting the Gospel offers an interesting take on the idea 'seeing is believing.'"--Anthony B. Pinn, author of The End of God-Talk: An African American Humanist Theology
£21.59
University of Illinois Press Table Talk
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book provides many examples, stories and cultural comparisons that are fascinating and thought-provoking in the exploration of the potential for democracy and community-building over the dinner table. It is a highly readable addition to the literature."--Social Anthropology "This is a great book--comprehensive, full of sharp observations, and provocative. Flammang shows convincingly how politics infuses and constitutes civil society through the domestic and how far the quotidian features of domestic life present opportunities for the cultivation of specific virtues essential to a healthy civic community."--John Finn, author of Peopling the Constitution"A keenly intelligent, deeply resonant, and well-researched book that demonstrates the foundational role played by the domestic sphere in the formation of a democratic civic life. Every citizen and politician should read this book, a commanding sequel to the author's stunning The Taste for Civilization ."--Judith Newton, author of Tasting Home: Coming of Age in the Kitchen"Flammang's works have been breakthrough in the field in that she examines food at the micro level: the dinner table where not only do children learn manners, but we learn the skills of political engagement in a civil democratic society. A powerful and important statement that must be heeded."--Ken Albala, Director of Food Studies, University of the Pacific
£17.99
University of Illinois Press Reading Together Reading Apart
Book SynopsisOften thought of as a solitary activity, the practice of reading can in fact encode the complex politics of community formation. Engagement with literary culture represents a particularly integral facet of identity formation--and serves as an expression of a sense of belonging--within the South Asian diaspora in the United States. Tamara Bhalla blends a case study with literary and textual analysis to illuminate this phenomenon. Her fascinating investigation considers institutions from literary reviews to the marketplace and social media and other technologies, as well as traditional forms of literary discussion like book clubs and academic criticism. Throughout, Bhalla questions how her subjects' circumstances, shared race and class, and desires limit the values they ascribe to reading. She also examines how ideology circulating around a body of literature or a self-selected, imagined community of readers shapes reading itself and influences South Asians' powerful, if contradictory, rTrade ReviewBhalla offers a multi-layered, interdisciplinary treatment on the possibilities (and limitations) involved in both the act of reading and formation of ethnic identities. This thoughtful and thought-provoking book deserves its own reading club.--Pawan Dhingra, author of Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream"Bhalla's nuanced, sensitive analysis illuminates how nonacademic readers grapple with issues of authenticity, class, and gender as they engage with transnational South Asian literature. This rigorously-researched book significantly enhances discussions of the consumption and marketing of ethnic literatures and identities."--Megan Sweeney, author of The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading
£18.89
MO - University of Illinois Press Claiming Neighborhood
£19.79
University of Illinois Press Remaking the Urban Social Contract
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A provocative and enlightening vision of our rapidly changing societal expectations for energy, environment, and health, the foundations of the social contract we implicitly make with government, corporate, and entrepreneurial leaders."--George W. Crabtree, Director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
£15.19
University of Illinois Press The Public Infrastructure of Work and Play
Book SynopsisTrade Review"When a word such as 'infrastructure' means everything to everyone's hopes for jobs, urban progress, and quality of life it is time to be very careful, to dig deeper. That is exactly what this book does. It leads us to soberly reflect upon real meanings and true potentials."--Henry Cisneros, cofounder and chairman, CityView"In today's urban environment the distinction between the infrastructure needed to support services; production, work, and the physical foundation devoted to tourism; entertainment; and leisure has all but vanished. The essays in this volume explain the far-reaching consequences of this development."--Dennis Judd, coauthor of City Politics: Private Power and Public Policy
£15.19
University of Illinois Press Visualizing Black Lives
Book SynopsisA new generation of Afro-Brazilian media producers have emerged to challenge a mainstream that frequently excludes them. Reighan Gillam delves into the dynamic alternative media landscape developed by Afro-Brazilians in the twenty-first century. With works that confront racism and focus on Black characters, these artists and the visual media they create identify, challenge, or break with entrenched racist practices, ideologies, and structures. Gillam looks at a cross-section of media to show the ways Afro-Brazilians assert control over various means of representation in order to present a complex Black humanity. These images--so at odds with the mainstream--contribute to an anti-racist visual politics fighting to change how Brazilian media depicts Black people while highlighting the importance of media in the movement for Black inclusion. An eye-opening union of analysis and fieldwork, Visualizing Black Lives examines the alternative and activist Black media and the people creating it Trade Review"A provocative book. Through rich ethnographic interviews and analysis, Reighan Gillam queries the relationship between black representation in the media and black cultural formation in the contemporary moment. Gillam's engagement with everything from graffiti art to YouTube series gives us a glimpse into a new generation of black politics and social formation in Brazil."--Christen Smith, author of Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in BrazilTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction 11 Mediating Resistance: Afro-Brazilian Media and Movements 172 TV da Gente and Controlling the Means of Media Production 313 Animating Racism: Irony and Images of Dissent 534 Independent Lenses: Learning to See in Afro-Brazilian Film 75Conclusion: Antiracist Visual Politics 103Notes 109Works Cited 117Index 133
£18.89
Indiana University Press UNESCO on the Ground Local Perspectives on
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAll in all, this important new volume sheds welcome light on issues that have been adumbrated in the academic literature regarding UNESCO and the safeguarding of intangible heritage * International Journal of Intangible Heritage *[T]his is an excellent and useful book for both individual and classroom learning.Vol. 11.1 2017 * Museum Anthropology Review *The prose is engaging, focused, tightly edited, and although theoretically nuanced, includes abundant ethnographic examples making it approachable for undergraduates. * Western Folklore *UNESCO on the Ground provides valuable insights into local perspectives on UNESCO and ICH nomination processes that help in understanding the interplay between local contexts and global heritage regimes. it is an intriguing read for scholars in the field of cultural heritage because it discusses debates about cultural heritage from an 'on- the- ground' and comparative perspective. * Journal of American Folklore *This volume constitutes an important resource for those who would like to study—and especially to teach—how the concept of "intangible cultural heritage" has been deployed internationally in the twenty-first century * Journal of Folklore Research *ICH safeguarding programmes and scholarship studiously avoid the word 'folklore', typically eliding folklore studies and public folklore. This volume demonstrates through empirically rich case studies how folklorists are uniquely equipped to illuminate the transformations of form, practice, and social functions through ICH, as well as ambiguous consequences of these transformations. * Folklore *The book is important for researchers and curators alike in that it provides insightful examples and critical discussions within an overarching framework. * Asian Ethnology *Table of Contents1 IntroductionMichael Dylan Foster[Section: Local Studies]2 Voices on the Ground: Kutiyattam, UNESCO, and the Heritage of HumanityLeah Lowthorp3 The Economic Imperative of UNESCO Recognition: A South Korean Shamanic RitualKyoim Yun4 Demonic or Cultural Treasure? Local Perspectives on Vimbuza, ICH, and UNESCO in MalawiLisa Gilman5 Imagined UNESCOs: Interpreting ICH on a Japanese IslandMichael Dylan Foster6 Macedonia, UNESCO, and Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Challenging Fate of TeshkotoCarol Silverman7 Shifting Actors and Power Relations: Contentious Local Responses to the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary ChinaZiying You[Section: Critical Discussion]8 Understanding UNESCO: The Importance of Understanding the Organization in Evaluations of Its ICH ProgramsAnthony Seeger9 Learning to Live with ICH: Diagnosis and TreatmentValdimar Tr. Hafstein10 Cultural Forms, Policy Objects, Local AgendasDorothy Noyes
£21.59
Indiana University Press Kinsey
Book Synopsis
£13.29
