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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd An ABC of Indian Culture
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Tulika Print Communication Services Heterogeneities – Identity Formations in Modern
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Studio Orientalia A Sketch of Assam: With Some Account of the Hill
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AVI Publishers Bodoland
Book SynopsisThe Bodo, an ancient ethnic group of Northeast India, has been resorting to a movement for autonomy. A section of the Bodo educated youth being thoroughly disillusioned with constitutional safeguards, like autonomy arrangements, joined a secessional struggle, which has not only radically transformed the character and substance of the Bodo assertion from autonomy to secession in terms of goals, but also the methods of achieving it, by showing preference to violence. Tracing the historical background of the Bodos, this book seeks to analyse the emergence of the NDFB, its support base, its demands and strategies to achieve them. It also examines the factors that persuaded the NDFB to adopt extremist methods for achieving its goals.
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Tulika Books Agrarian Relations in the Lower Cauvery Delta A
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Tulika Books Fighting Free to Become Unfree Again The Social
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Cappelen Damm Akademisk CSR & Beyond: A Nordic Perspective
Book SynopsisFollowing the neoliberal turn in the 1980s, leading global companies have established an influential trend in business through adoption of the doctrine of corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSR). This book critically explores the new megatrend and its varying interpretations and presents overviews of several fields of CSR practice: governance, business ethics, SRI/ESG investment, communication, reporting, labour relations/HR, supply chain management, life cycle analysis, climate strategy, innovation, leadership and public policy. The book also presents visions of CSR development going forward. While the book contributes to the international research frontier, it also reflects its Nordic context, both with respect to authorship and empirical focus. Chapters on leading companies and on state CSR initiatives illustrate how the Nordic tradition has fostered pioneering CSR positions both in business and public policy. In the final chapter the book engages in the broader international debate on CSR, democracy, and value creation, with leading international critical thinkers in dialogue with industrial strategists.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Faces of Identity and Memory – The Cultural
Book SynopsisAcross central and eastern Europe, the traces of vanished cultures remain. Empty, devastated synagogues, Orthodox, Greek and Roman Catholic churches serving as warehouses, fallen mansions, abandoned homes. Alongside the majority groups, there once lived minority and stateless communities, ultimately torn apart by totalitarian regimes. Yet the fall of communism has allowed for the memory of the missing to surface, triggering efforts to rescue their tangible and intangible heritage.This book joins in these efforts by public, independent, private, and non-profit institutions, as well as local activists, to preserve a fading past. It makes clear how tragic it would be to let the minority history and collective memory of this region disappear.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Is the Body the Temple of the Soul? – Modern Yoga
Book SynopsisThis book interprets the social significance of yoga in a world that emphasizes corporeality and the body. Immersing himself in the social world of hatha yoga participants, from an urban studio to a mountain retreat, the author's personal experience with positions and techniques, group meditation, and joint mantra is juxtaposed against interviews, photographs, video recordings on the social meaning of yoga, and philosophical analyses of where the physical and spiritual meet. This book's use of empirical qualitative research and participant observation allows for close analysis, even outright experiencing of the participants' world.Trade ReviewAn original work that brings new findings to the sociology of culture and sociology of religion. It is based on deep empirical research and diagnoses a phenomenon that is new and increasingly significant, not only in Poland. -- Grazyna Woroniecka, University of Warsaw
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Essays on Archaeology and Ethnology of Peruvian
Book SynopsisThis volume contains revised and updated editions of articles by Andrzej Krzanowski coming from different periods of his forty-year-long research activities in Peru, from the first expedition to the Huaura Valley up to the most recent research on the Central Coast. Krzanowski is the first Pole to have conducted archaeological research in the Andes and led the 1978–1987 Polish Scientific Expedition to the Andes, which carried out interdisciplinary research (archaeology, geography, ethnography) on settlements in the high mountain region of Huaura-Checras. Since 2009, he has been focusing on pre-Columbian fortifications on the Peruvian Central Coast.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Visible and Invisible – Nuclear Energy, Shale Gas
Book SynopsisVisible and Invisible analyzes the mechanisms of the creation and functioning of media discourses on selected energy-related problems. The volume attempts to diagnose the communicative dimension of the public sphere in terms of its operation as a space of deliberation, with particular consideration for mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion of social actors, topics, and arguments.The individual chapters result from research dating from the 1980s through 2014. They demonstrate the dynamic of changes based on consistent tracking of the fields of nuclear and wind energy and shale gas. These types of energy were chosen deliberately instead of coal, the most obvious form in Poland, since they represent technologies that were seen as innovative.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Poverty and Social Exclusion During and After
Book SynopsisThis book is about poverty in Poland during the transition to capitalism and in the decade that followed as documented in the life courses of women living in the disadvantaged neighborhoods in the post-industrial city. The authors analyze the life histories of four generations of women. The oldest are former workers in state-owned factories in which they worked until retirement and who used to be the leaders of the female working class during the socialist period. Their daughters, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters became redundant on the capitalist labor market and survived on social benefits. The book goes beyond the feminization of poverty as traditionally considered in monetary terms. It searches for the causes that drive and maintain poverty that are embedded in changes in industrial relations, welfare regimes, and family structures and relations. It also discusses women' efforts and capabilities to cope with disadvantages.Trade ReviewIn this important book about poverty and social exclusion, the authors apply the biographical method to get to know the life history and experiences of the members of extended families. The dynamic approach as presented in the book is unique and covers a period of almost a century. Of great theoretical importance is their revealing factors contributing to pauperization of subsequent generations ("daughters" and "grandchildren") by tracking changes in the social structure due to shifts in the global economy and the emergence of a new social class specified as precariat, of which a significant segment are the children of former workers. The book can count on a broad range of interest in academia and beyond, including local authorities, social workers, and non-for-profit organizations. -- Danuta Duch-Krzystoszek, the Maria Grzegorzewska University in Warsaw
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Servicio de Publicaciones y DivulgaciÃn CientÃfica de la Universidad de MÃlaga Los otros emigrantes
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UCOPress, Editorial Universidad de Crdoba Comer cultura Estudios de cultura alimentaria
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Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U Mujeres quebradas: la Inquisición y su violencia
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Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgacin Cientfica de la Universidad de Mlaga Falsedad y comunicación
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Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgacin Cientfica de la Universidad de Mlaga Feminismos en las dos orillas
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Museum Tusculanum Press Nuussuarmiut: Hunting Families on the Big
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Museum Tusculanum Press The Byways of the Poor: Organizing Practices and
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Aarhus University Press Religion, Tradition & Renewal
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Aarhus University Press Learning Activity & Development
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Museum Tusculanum Press Ethnologia Europaea vol. 30:2
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Museum Tusculanum Press Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities
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Aarhus University Press Youth & Youth Culture in the Contemporary Middle
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Aarhus University Press Democratisation in the Middle East: Dilemmas &
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Brill Wars of Position? Marxism Today, Cultural
Book SynopsisInspired by Raymond Williams’ cultural materialism, H.F. Pimlott explores the connections between political practice and cultural form through Marxism Today’s transformation from a Communist Party theoretical journal into a ‘glossy’ left magazine. Marxism Today’s successes and failures during the 1980s are analysed through its political and cultural critiques of Thatcherism and the left, especially by Stuart Hall and Eric Hobsbawm, innovative publicity and marketplace distribution, relationships with the national UK press, cultural coverage, design and format, and writing style. Wars of Position offers insights for contemporary media activists and challenges the neglect of the left press by media scholars.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface List of Tables and Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: The Left, Cultural Form and Political Practice 1 Sign(ifier) of the Times? 2 The Production of the ‘Marketplace of the Ideas’ 3 Overview of the Book 1 Marxism Today’s Story: An Historical Narrative of a Cultural Form 1 The Left, Cultural Form and Political Practice 2 The Party and the Party Paper: Leninist Communication Practices 3 Leninist Communication Practices: The Party as a Medium of Communication 4 The CPGB’s Practice of ‘Democratic Centralism’ 5 Leninist Communication Practices: Agitation and Propaganda 6 Leninist Communication Practices: The Party Paper 7 A Basic Typology of Communist Party Publications 8 The Beginnings of Postwar Reconstruction and Periodical Developments 9 Precursors: The Commission on Party Journals 1953 10 Precursors: Marxist Quarterly (1954–57) 11 Precursors: The Commission on Inner Party Democracy 1957 12 Marxism Today: ‘The First Generation’: 1957–77 13 A Party of Two Wings 14 The Brief Rise of ‘Eurocommunism’ 15 Marxism Today’s Transformation: ‘Caution & Compromise’, 1977–83 16 ‘Reaction & Realignment’ 1983–87 17 ‘The Tail Wags the Dog’: 1987–89 18 ‘New Times’, 1989–91 19 Conclusion 2 From ‘New Left’ to ‘New Labour’: Marxism Today’s Political Project and the ‘Retreat from Class’ 1 ‘Forward March of Labour Halted?’ 2 ‘Thatcherism’ 3 Thatcherism: Critiques 4 Separation of ‘The Economic’ 5 Alternate Political Explanations 6 Elections, Polling and Public Opinion 7 ‘Common Sense’ 8 Thatcherism’s Theoretical Underpinnings: The ‘Wrong’ Gramsci? 9 ‘Ideology’ vs. ‘Discourse’ 10 ‘Hegemony’ 11 Social Production of Ideologies 12 The Hegemonic Apparatus 13 ‘New Times’: From New Left to New Labour? 14 Part II: ‘From Wars of Position to Cultural Politics’ 15 ‘Popular Politics’ 16 Feminism and the New Social Movements 17 ‘Municipal Socialism’ 18 The Communist Party, Popular Culture and Marxism Today 19 From ‘Rock Against Racism’ to ‘Designer Socialism’ 20 Conclusion 3 The Party Line versus the Bottom Line? The Political Economy of Left Magazine Production 1 ‘Passive’ and ‘Active’ Editorships, 1957–91 2 ‘Editorial Control’ or ‘Cultural Circle’? 3 ‘Who Pays the Piper, Calls the Tune?’ Financing Marxism Today 4 Advertising 5 ‘Private Enterprise or Political Commitment?’ Printing and Subscriptions 6 ‘A Little Help From My Friends’: The Process of Magazine Production 7 The Production Process 8 Conclusion 4 From the Party Line to the Politics of Design: Marxism Today’s Cultural Transformation 1 The Theory of the Periodical and Magazine Design in the 1980s 2 Format: ‘From a Journal into a Magazine’ 3 The First Format: 1957–79 4 The Second Format: 1979–86 5 The Third Format: 1986–91 6 Front covers 7 Visual Communication, Advertising and Design 8 Editorial Sections: Features 9 Features: Alternative Modes of Presentation 10 Modes of/for Discussion 11 Other Editorial Sections 12 Cultural Coverage: From ‘Reviews’ to ‘Channel Five’ 13 The Politics of Form and the Form of Politics 14 Conclusion 5 From the Margins to the Mainstream: Publicity, Promotion and Distribution in the Marketplace of Ideas 1 Party Distribution 2 ‘Out-of-Party’ Distribution 3 In the Marketplace of Left Periodicals 4 ‘Cadres to Consumers’: Changes in Readership, 1957–91 5 Contributors 6 Book Publishing 7 ‘The Art of Talking’: Discussion Groups, Talks, Events, Conferences 8 Promotion 9 Publicity 10 National Press Coverage 11 ‘Thinking the Unthinkable’ 12 Conclusion 6 Write Out of the Margins: Communist Ideology and Accessibility, Rhetoric and Writing Style 1 Twentieth-Century Communist Rhetoric 2 Accessibility 3 Marxism Today’s Defensive Rhetorical Strategy 1957–77 4 ‘Solidification’ 5 Principles of Good Style 6 Language 7 Plain Style 8 Marxism Today’s Top Two Contributors: Eric Hobsbawm and Stuart Hall 9 Eric Hobsbawm and the Rhetorical Style of ‘Realistic Marxism’ 10 Rhetorical Strategy and Writing Style 11 Stuart Hall: Socialist Public Intellectual and Polemical Rhetorician 12 Stuart Hall’s Rhetorical Techniques and Writing Style 13 Qualification and Conditionality 14 Unity and Division on the Left: From ‘Common Sense’ to Caricature? 15 Tropes and Metaphors 16 Stuart Hall’s ‘Realism’ 17 Conclusion 7 W(h)ither the Party Paper? What Lessons for the Left Press 1 A Perennial Question 2 Epilogue Illustrations References Index
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Brill Youth Identities and Social Transformations in
Book SynopsisYouth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia addresses current struggles and opportunities facing Indonesia’s youth across the archipelago. Contributions to this volume delve into youth aspirations and their everyday lives - education; friendship; work; leisure; sexuality; religion - described through the lens of the young people themselves.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Preface: Being Young in Indonesia, Kathryn Robinson Section 1: Studying Indonesia’s Youth: The Big Picture Chapter 1: Generation and Social Change: Indonesian Youth in Comparative Perspective, Ben White Chapter 2: Contemporary Indonesian Youth Transitions: Trends and Inequalities, Pam Nilan, Lyn Parker, Kathryn Robinson and Linda Bennett Section 2: Education—Securing Youth Futures? Chapter 3: Teenage Experiences of School, Work, and Life in a Javanese Village, Ben White and C. Ugik Margiyatin Chapter 4: Educational Aspirations and Inter-generational Relations in Sorowako, Kathryn Robinson Section 3: Friendship, Growing up, and Peer Surveillance Chapter 5: Pouring out One’s Heart: Close Friendships among Minangkabau Young People, Lyn Parker Chapter 6: Pramuka: Scouting Days of Fun, Pujo Semedi Section 4: Performing Youth in Space and Time Chapter 7: Dwindling Space and Expanding Worlds for Youth in Rural and Urban Yogyakarta, Patrick Guinness Chapter 8: Local Modernities: Young Women Socializing Together, Pam Nilan Section 5: Performing Masculinity, Claiming the Street Chapter 9: Streetwise Masculinity and Other Urban Performances of Postwar Ambon: A Photo-Essay, Patricia Spyer Chapter 10: Violent Activism, Islamist Ideology, and the Conquest of Public Space among Youth in Indonesia, Noorhaidi Hasan Section 6: “Moral Panics” and the Health of the Nation Chapter 11: The Ongoing Culture Debate: Female Youth and Pergaulan (Bebas) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Tracy Wright Webster Chapter 12: Young Sasak Mothers—“Tidak Manja Lagi”: Transitioning from Single Daughter to Young Married Mother in Lombok, Eastern Indonesia, Linda Rae Bennett Index
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Brill Daniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of the
Book SynopsisDaniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of Revolution to the Melancholic Wager is the first systematic full-length study of Bensaïd’s renovation of Marxism. Bensaïd, a student leader during the May '68 revolt and founder of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire, was an exemplar of a creative and open liberatory Marxism, leaving a vast oeuvre for a new generation of Marxists to explore. Much of Bensaïd’s writing remains untranslated into English, and Roso’s volume offers a comprehensive critical overview.Table of ContentsForeword Foreword: The Power of Imagination Acknowledgements Introduction: Fitting the Bow for the Renewal of Marxism Part 1 Bensaïd Encounters Lenin in the Early Years 1 Bensaïd Encounters Lenin 2 Revolution and Power 3 The Dark Years of Readjustment Part 2 New Inventions and Illuminations 4 History Has Two Faces 5 Marx from Beneath the Ruins 6 Ready to Roll the Dice? Part 3 Open-ended Conjunctural Judgements 7 The Return of the Social Question 8 Who Is the Judge? 9 Smile of the Frightful Hobgoblin Part 4 Bensaïd and His Contemporaries 10 Althusser: Trapped in Stalin’s Glass Jar 11 Negri: The Dissolution of Politics into Violence 12 Badiou: A Distant Companion 13 Derrida: Fellow Marrano Part 5 Strategic Thinking to Break the Reproduction of Fetishism and Domination 14 Praising the Profane 15 Commodity Fetishism Conclusion: Pointing Towards Spaces of Liberation Appendix: Daniel Bensaïd’s Melancholic Wager Jury D’habilitation 2005 (by Way of an Introduction) Michael Löwy References Index
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Brill Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the
Book SynopsisTaking society as its central focus, Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period approaches the region as one of connectivities and fluidity and investigates networks and interregional relations, stratagems adopted to shape society and social resistance to or absorption of change. From tourism to health propaganda, marriage to beauty contest, mass communication to music, this book offers a vibrant and dynamic picture of the region which goes beyond state borders. Contributors are Diana Abbani, Amit Bein, Ebru Boyar, Elizabeth Brownson, Nazan Çiçek, Kate Fleet, Ulrike Freitag, Liat Kozma, Brian L. McLaren and Emilio Spadola.Trade Review‘Due to its rich historical and interdisciplinary nature, I strongly recommend this book to students and researchers of Middle East studies who would like to deepen their understanding of not only the political but also the social and cultural dimensions of Middle East affairs.’ Mohammad Hassan Khani in Acta Via Serica 4.1 (2019), 153-156. ‘Der Sammelband gibt interessante Einblicke in die Entwicklung Südwestasiens und Nordafrikas in der Zwischenkriegszeit, die eine dynamische Region erkennen lassen, die nicht nur unter Kategorien wie Kolonialismus oder Antikolonialismus subsumierbar ist.’ Rüdiger Lohlker in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 109 (2019).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Approaching Societies in the Interwar Middle East and North Africa Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet 2 State-Society Relations through the Lens of Urban Development Ulrike Freitag 3 Beirut’s Musical Scene: A Narrative of Modernisation and Identity Struggles under the French Mandate Diana Abbani 4 Tourism and Mobility in Italian Colonial Libya Brian L. McLaren 5 The Call of Communication: Mass Media and Reform in Interwar Morocco Emilio Spadola 6 Doctors Crossing Borders: The Formation of a Regional Profession in the Interwar Middle East Liat Kozma 7 There She is, Miss Universe: Keriman Halis Goes to Egypt, 1933 Amit Bein 8 Taking Health to the Village: Early Turkish Republican Health Propaganda in the Countryside Ebru Boyar 9 The Provision of Water to Istanbul from Terkos: Continuities and Change from Empire to Republic Kate Fleet 10 Reforms or Restrictions? The Ottoman Muslim Family Law Code and Women’s Marital Status in Mandate Palestine Elizabeth Brownson 11 Mapping Social Change through Matters of the Heart: Debates on Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in the Early Turkish Republican Era (1923–1950) Nazan Çiçek Bibliography Index
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Brill Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies:
Book SynopsisThis volume showcases a variety of innovative approaches to the study of Muslim societies and cultures, inspired by and honouring Gudrun Krämer and her role in transforming the landscape of Islamic Studies. With contributions from scholars from around the world, the articles cover an extraordinarily wide geographical scope across a broad timeline, with transdisciplinary perspectives and a historically informed focus on contemporary phenomena. The wide-ranging subjects covered include among others a “men in headscarves” campaign in Iran, an Islamic call-in radio programme in Mombassa, a refugee-related court case in Germany, the Arab revolutions and aftermath from various theoretical perspectives, Ottoman family photos, Qurʾān translation in South Asia, and words that can’t be read.Table of ContentsPreface of the Editors Dale F. Eickelman: The Underneath of Academic Life: Gudrun Krämer and Islamic Studies Today 1) Islamic Studies Inside Out Alexander Knysh: Between Europe and Asia: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Imperial Russia Reinhard Schulze: Kairo 1869 – Eine historische Collage 2) Empires, Corporations, and Nations Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk: Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā’s Reformist Project to Establish a True Caliphate: Prospects and Challenges Johann Büssow and Astrid Meier: Ottoman Corporatism, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries: Beyond the State-Society Paradigm in Middle Eastern History Elke Hartmann: Family Portraits: Visual Sources for a Social History of the Late Ottoman Empire M. Sait Özervalı: The Position of Philosophy in the Late Ottoman Educational Reforms 3) Islam, Ethics, and Languages Mutaz al Khatib: The Emerging Field of Ethics in the Context of Modern Egypt Abdou Filali-Ansary: Pratique religieuse et comportement moral Abdulkader Tayob: Religion as Discourse: Conversion and Commitment to Jihād in South Africa 4) Media Perspectives and Material Approaches Alina Kokoschka: Reading between the Lines: Arabic Script, Islamic Calligraphy, and the Question of Legibility Muhammad Qasim Zaman: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, his Successors, and the Qurʾān Bettina Gräf: From the Pocket Book to Facebook: Maktabat Wahba, Publishing, and Political Ideas in Cairo since the 1940s Kai Kresse: Dimensions of “Giving Voice”: Discursive Agency and Intellectual Practice on Swahili Islamic Radio, in Mombasa 2005-2006 5) The Politics of Body and Gender Birgit Krawietz: On Coming to Grips with Turkish Oil Wrestling: Conceptualising Muscular Islam and Islamic Martial Arts Katajun Amirpur: #ItsMensTurn: Of Hashtags and Shīʿī Discourses in Iran Bettina Dennerlein: Contested Genderscapes: Islamic Languages of Women’s Rights in the Arab Region 6) Dominant Minorities and Dominant Majorities Hamit Bozarslan: Domination, Resilience, and Power: Religious Minorities in the Imperial and Post-Imperial Middle East Dorothea Schulz: Carving Out a Space for Equal Political Citizenship? Muslim Politics of Remembrance in Uganda 7) Arab Revolutions and Their Impact on Research about the Middle East Muriel Asseburg: Understanding Transformation, Elite Change, and New Social Mobilisation in the Arab World: An Actor-Centred and Policy-Oriented Research Project Cilja Harders: Understanding Politics in Egypt “From Below” 8) Muslims Inside Out Schirin Amir-Moazami: Recognition and Its Traps in Liberal Secular Conditions: The Case of Muslims in Europe Ruth Mas: The Refugee and the Dog
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Brill Feminist Critique and the Museum: Educating for a
Book SynopsisThousands of diverse museums, including art galleries and heritage sites, exist around the world today and they draw millions of people, audiences who come to view the exhibitions and artefacts and equally importantly, to learn from them about the world and themselves. This makes museums active public educators who imagine, visualise, represent and story the past and the present with the specific aim of creating knowledge. Problematically, the visuals and narratives used to inform visitors are never neutral. Feminist cultural and adult education studies have shown that all too frequently they include epistemologies of mastery that reify the histories and deeds of ‘great men.' Despite pressures from feminist scholars and professionals, normative public museums continue to be rife with patriarchal ideologies that hide behind referential illusions of authority and impartiality to mask the many problematic ways gender is represented and interpreted, the values imbued in those representations and interpretations and their complicity in the cancellation of women’s stories in favour of conventional masculine historical accounts that shore up male superiority, entitlement, privilege, and dominance. Feminist Critique and the Museum: Educating for a Critical Consciousness problematises museums as it illustrates ways they can be become pedagogical spaces of possibility. This edited volume showcases the imaginative social critique that can be found in feminist exhibitions, and the role that women’s museums around the world are attempting to play in terms of transforming our understandings of women, gender, and the potential of museums to create inclusive narratives.Table of ContentsIntroduction Kathy Sanford, Darlene Clover, Nancy Taber and Sarah Williamson PART 1: Stories Museums Tell: Language, Discourse and Representation 1 Toward a Racialised Gendered Museum Literacy Lisa R. Merriweather 2 Infinitely Obscure Lives: Depictions of Women at a US Historic Site Micki Voelkel and Shelli Henehan 3 Fashioning Women, Defrocking Patriarchy: Exhibition Stories Darlene Clover and Kathy Sanford 4 Hacking Language: Critical Engagement with Curatorial Statements Kathy Sanford and Darlene Clover 5 An Exploration of Discourses on Niagara Falls: Feminist Praxis in the Exhibition 1779 Ash Grover 6 Signs Images Words from 1968: From Duoethnographic Enquiry to a Dialogic Pedagogy Laura Formenti, Silvia Luraschi and Gaia Del Negro PART 2: On War, Peace and Human Rights: Feminist Perspectivising 7 Whose (Military) Heritage? A Feminist Antimilitarist Analysis of Military Heritage Sites in Canada, England, and Europe Nancy Taber 8 The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace: Pedagogies of Possibility of Social and Historical Justice for “Comfort Women” Sachiyo Tsukamoto and Sara C. Motta 9 Familiar Brushstrokes, Different Narratives: Re-Framing Embodiment and the Futurist Free-Word Aesthetic with Stories from Female Veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces Lauren Spring 10 Courage and Passion and World War Women: Interpreting Two Exhibitions on Women in Canada’s National Museums Jennifer Thivierge 11 From Darkness to Light? Problematising Transformative Learning at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Monica Drenth PART 3: Illumination, Provocation, Imagination 12 ‘ArtActivistBarbie’: The A/r/tographic Re-Deployment of Barbie in Museums and Galleries as a Feminist Activist and Pedagogue Sarah Williamson 13 The Critical Advocacies and Pedagogies of Women’s Museums Astrid Schönweger and Darlene E. Clover 14 A Room of Her Own: Interrogating Gender in a Historic House Museum Mary Pinkoski and Lianne McTavish 15 Cultures of Headscarves: Feminist Intercultural Adult Education through a Challenging Exhibition Gaby Franger and Darlene E. Clover 16 The Invisibility Cloak: Unveiling the Absence of Women Artists in the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea Emília Ferreira, Joana d’Oliva Monteiro and Sílvia Prazeres Moreira Index
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Brill Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World: Essays in
Book SynopsisDynamics of Islam in the Modern World scrutinizes and analyzes Islam in context. It posits Muslims not as independent and autonomous, but as relational and interactive agents of change and continuity who interplay with Islamic(ate) sources of self and society as well as with resources from other traditions. Representing multiple disciplinary approaches, the contributors to this volume discuss a broad range of issues, such as secularization, colonialism, globalization, radicalism, human rights, migration, hermeneutics, mysticism, religious normativity and pluralism, while paying special attention to three geographical settings of South Asia, the Middle East and Euro-America.Trade Review‘The multiple engagements of Islam—Muslim actors and texts, collectivities and institutions—within the folds of modernity are boldly charted in this book. It is a volume that all will welcome.’ Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University ‘This collection of essays is an important and welcome contribution to scholarship on the dynamic forces that shape the ways in which contemporary Muslim communities interpret and engage with Islam. Multidisciplinary in its approaches, it examines, through case studies from South Asia, the Middle East and Euro-America, the impact of Western hegemony as well as ideologies such as secularism, scientism and nationalism on modern Muslim thought, practices and institutions.’ Ali S. Asani, Harvard University ‘This volume treats us to a kaleidoscopic prism refracting the tensions and richness through which Muslim life and Islamic ideas are weaved into the fabric of global society. Offering us multiple windows into the intellectual legacy of Jamal Malik, it diagnoses multiple historical aporias inherited by the global age we are living through, squeezed between the unrelenting surges of Western normative hubris and the epistemic fragility of dialogic openings.’ Armando Salvatore, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Transliteration List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World, Ali Altaf Mian Part 1: Islam, Modernity and Science 1. Islam and the Global History of Secularity, Reinhard Schulze 2. Negotiating Modernity Through Constructions of History in Modern Muslim Religious Thought, Armina Omerika 3. Between Science and Mysticism: Sabir Multani and the Reform of Humoral Medicine in Pakistan, Stefan Reichmuth Part 2: Islamic Activism and Radicalism 4. Peaceful and Militant Interpretations of Jihad: A Comparative Study of Contemporary South Asian Exegetes, Tariq Rahman 5. The Word of God for the Indian Muslim of Today: Abul Kalam Azad’s Tarjuman al-Qurʾan, Jan-Peter Hartung 6. Post-Migrant Dynamics of Islam: Muslim Youth and Salafism in Germany, David Yuzva Clement Part 3: Islamic Normativity and Shariʿa 7. Islam and Human Rights: Breaks and Continuity in a Complex Debate, Mouez Khalfaoui 8. Islamic Law: The Struggle Against Time, Reik Kirchhof 9. Negotiating Everyday Lived Islam: A Case Study of Pakistani Diaspora in Canada, Syed FurrukhZad Part 4: Islamic Mysticism and Globalization 10. Prophetic Descent in the Early Modern Tariqa Muhammadiyya Khalisa, Soraya Khodamoradi 11. Dynamics of Mystical Islam in the American Space: Ahmed Abdur Rashid’s “Applied Sufism”, Michael E. Asbury and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh 12. “Transplanted” Sufism: Complications of a Category, Marcia Hermansen Part 5: Islamic Pluralism and Dialogue 13. Discourses of Tolerance and Dialogue in Contemporary Islam, Itzchak Weismann 14. Religious Pluralism and Religious Plurality in Pakistan, Hasnain Bokhari Afterword: Dynamics of Islam in Context, Pnina Werbner Honoring Jamal Malik Tabula Gratulatoria Jamal Malik’s Publication List Index
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Brill Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism:
Book SynopsisIt is often asserted that postmodernism emerged from 'leftist' Nietzsche-interpretations, but it is rarely explored. This book investigates how Deleuze and Foucault read Nietzsche and apply a hermeneutics of innocence to his philosophy that erases the elitist, anti-democratic, and anti-socialist dimensions. This misreading also affects their own theory and impairs the claim to develop a radical critique. The late Foucault’s turn to self-care techniques merges a neo-Nietzschean approach with the ideologies of neoliberalism. Rehmann’s critique is not directed against the endeavor to take suggestions from some of Nietzsche’s astute intuitions, but rather against the conformism to use him as a symbolic capital without revealing his hierarchical obsession. This book is an updated and extended version of Postmoderner Links-Nietzscheanismus: Deleuze & Foucault. Eine Dekonstruktion, originally published in German by Argument Verlag GmbH, 2004, 978-3-88619-298-4.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Deleuze and the Construction of a Plural-Differential Image of Nietzsche 1. Plural Differences Instead of Dialectical Contradictions 2. Deleuze's Combination of Hume's Empiricism and Bergson's Vitalism 3. Nietzsche as Anti-Dialectician? 4. The Birth of the Postmodern 'Difference' out of the 'Pathos of Distance' 5. The Debate About the 'Will to Power': Metaphysical or Plural? 6. Nietzsche's Combination of Decentring and Hierarchisation 7. Flattening out the Late Nietzsche’s Departure from Spinoza 8. The Confusion of Spinoza’s Power to Act with Nietzsche’s Power of Domination 9. Will to Power as Desire Production 10. Primitive Inscriptions and State-Imperial Overcodings 11. Faire de la pensée une machine de guerre Part II. The Death of Man and the Eternal Recurrence 1. Survey of the Terrain: Uncritical Replication, Normative Critique, Leftist Helplessness 2. The 'Age of History' and the 'Anthropological Sleep' 3. Borrowings from Heidegger's Critique of Humanism 4. The Reductionist Construction of an 'Anthropological' Age 5. The Overcoming of Marxian Utopia by the Overman 6. Excursus: Nietzsche's Reworking of Cultural Protestant Anti-Judaism - the Example of Wellhausen 6.1 Wellhausen's Anti-Judaic Construction 6.2 Nietzsche's Adoption and Modification of Anti-Judaism 6.3 Anti-Semitism, Anti-Anti-Semitism - Revisiting a Stalled Debate 7. Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence as Religion 8. Postmodern Reading of Nietzsche as Pious Retelling Part III. The Introduction of a Neo-Nietzschean Concept of Power and Its Consequences 1. New Coordinates 2. Survey of the Terrain: The Overcoming of Ideology Critique through the 'Diversity' and the 'Productivity' of Power 3. The Dissolution of Ideology into 'Knowledge' 4. The Neo-Nietzschean Alternative: 'Everything is Fake' 5. Power as Dissimulation Machine 6. Nietzsche's 'Genealogy', or: the Violent Construction of an ‘Alternative Nietzsche’ 6.1 'Ursprung' versus 'Herkunft' with Nietzsche? 6.2. Points of Support for the Foucauldian Interpretation in the 'Middle' Nietzsche 6.3. The late Nietzsche's Verticalisation and its Suppression by Foucault 7. The Affiliation with Left-Wing Radicalism in Paris 8. The Enigmatic Issue of Power and its Anchorage in War 9. Outlook: The Suppression of the Structurally Anchored Power Relations Part IV. From Prison to the Modern Soul - 'Discipline and Punish' Revisited 1. An (All Too) Cursory Meeting with 'Critical Theory' 2. The Socio-Historical Approach of Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer 3. Advancement or Abandonment of a Social History of the Penitentiary System? 3.1. From Function to Aspects of Functioning 3.2. A Neo-Nietzschean Framework 3.3. The Abstraction from Forced Labour 3.4. A Narrowed-Down Genealogy of the Prison 3.5. Foucault’s Elimination of Contradictions 3.6. The Fixation of Critique on the Social-Pedagogisation of the Penal System 3.7. Foucault’s ‘Dispositif’ and the 'Political Economy' of the Body' 4. The Panoptical Nucleus of the Disciplinary Society 4.1. The Panopticon as Diagram of Modern Hegemony? 4.2. The Levelling of Repressive and Consensual Socialisation 4.3. The Real-Imaginary of the Panopticon 4.4. 'Economy ought to be the prevalent consideration' (Bentham) 4.5. Bentham as Visionary of ‘Disciplinary Neoliberalism’ 5. Foucault’s Disciplinary Power in a Double-Bind Between 'Microphysics' and Omnipresent 'Phagocytic Essence' (Poulantzas) 5.1. The Hidden Contradiction 5.2. The Diversity of Power and the Problem of its Accumulation 5.3. 'The Limits of Social Disciplining' (Peukert) 5.4. The Removal of the ‘Topography’ from the Theory of Society (Althusser) 6. Foucault’s Metaphorisation of the Prison and the Reality of Neoliberal Hyperincarceration Part V. Forays into the Late Foucault 1. Biopolitics -- A New Power Enters the Stage 2. Foucault’s Distinction Between Techniques of Domination and Techniques of the Self 3. The Mysterious Concept of ‘Governmentality’ 4. A Sharp Turn Against Socialism 5. Marx as Stalinism’s ‘Truth’ 6. Foucault’s Affiliation with Neoliberalism 6.1. Survey of the Terrain: Ambiguities and Opposite Interpretations 6.2. Foucault’s Contribution to a Critical Analysis of Neoliberalism 6.3. Fascinated by Neoliberalism’s ‘Post-Disciplinary’ Governmentality 6.4. The Assault on the Fordist Welfare State 6.5. Foucault’s Self-Techniques as Part of a Neoliberal Transvaluation Appendix: Governmentality Studies, or the Reproduction of Neoliberal Ideology Bibliography Name Index Subject Index
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Brill The Shariatisation of Indonesia: The Politics of
Book SynopsisThis book is a succinct and critical account on the shariatisation of Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world. It is the first book in English to uncover and explain the shariatisation of Indonesia in a comprehensive way. With the abundant primary and secondary sources, this book is a reference for other scholars who conduct research on the inclusion of sharia into legal and public sphere of Indonesia. It comes with an important conclusion that the change of such a non-theocratic state like Indonesia into a theocratic state is highly possible when its law is penetrated by those who want to change the state system.Table of Contents1Acknowledgements A Note on Transliterations Abbreviations 1 The Politics of Shariatisation in Indonesia 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Shariatisation from Local and Global Perspectives 1.3 Shariatisation and Islamisation in Indonesia 1.4 Theoretical Framework 1.5 Methodology, Sources of Research and Structure of the Book 2 MUI and the History of the Sharia Trajectory in Indonesia 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Shariatisation of MUI and Indonesia’s State Ideology 2.3 Discourse on Indonesia’s State Ideology and MUI’s Response 2.4 The Institutionalisation of the Ulama 2.5 The Genesis of MUI 2.6 Leadership of MUI Senior Ulama 2.7 The Reform Era: The Changing Role of MUI 2.8 Internal Dynamism 3 A Living Organisation: Pre-existing Conditions and the Organisational Vehicle of Shariatisation 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Internal Causes of Shariatisation 3.3 Institutional Vehicles for Shariatisation 3.4 Conclusion 4 Sharia Activism: Opportunity Structure, Frame, and Mobilisation 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Legal and Political Structure of Indonesia 4.3 Framing Shariatisation 4.4 The Mobilisation of Sharia 4.5 Conclusion 5 Regional Shariatisation: The Presence of MUI in Aceh, Bulukumba and Cianjur 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Aceh 5.3 Bulukumba, South Sulawesi 5.4 Cianjur, West Java 5.5 Conclusion 6 MUI’s Discourse and Its Relevance for Shariatisation: Case Studies of Fatwa 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Deviant Groups and Islamic Worship 6.3 Compliance and Social Resistance 7 The Dilemma of Electoral Politics and the Politics of the Umma: MUI’s Trajectory of Shariatisation in the Era of Joko Widodo’s Presidency 7.1 Introduction 7.2 MUI and Electoral Politics 7.2.5 The 2019 Presidential Elections: Jokowi’s Reconciliation with MUI through Maʾruf Amin 7.3 The Umma and Islamic Discourse in Indonesian Conceptualisation 7.4 MUI and Its Political Dilemma 7.5 Conclusion 8 Concluding Reflections References Index
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Brill Lives in Solidarity: BDS Activism among Europe's
Book SynopsisLives in Solidarity is an intimate and compelling description of BDS activism among Muslims living in two different cultural contexts, England and Bosnia. Unlike public discussions of BDS activism that tend to lack nuance, it explores both why Muslims engage in BDS activism and how they weave it into their daily lives. Not only is this a thoughtful ethnography of a critical but often ignored dimension of BDS activism, it is also an important corrective to scholarship that treats affective, ethical, and passionate attachments as inconsequential to politics.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Note on Transcription 1 Introduction 2 Palestinian Resistance and the Muslim Boycott 3 Europe, Islam, and the New Political Landscape 4 Private Lives, Public Duties, and the Generational Gap 5 European Hopes, Nationalist Desires, and the Urban–Rural Divide 6 Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill What Was Bolshevism?
Book SynopsisHow did the Bolsheviks see themselves? What grand narrative gave meaning to their revolutionary aspirations? The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, answers these questions in the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Sharply focused case studies allow individual leaders – Lenin, Stalin, Bukharin, Trotsky, Zinoviev – to come alive and speak in their own voices, with surprising results that challenge conventional narratives left and right. What Was Bolshevism? uses novels, plays, literary criticism, photographs, statues, poetry, history textbooks, songs, and film to paint an indispensable self-portrait of Soviet civilization.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Original Publication Introduction: What Was Bolshevism? Part 1 Overview 1 Ordinary Miracles: Lenin’s Call for Revolutionary Ambition 2 The Soviet Union and the Path to Communism Part 2 Deferred Dreams: Against the Myth of ‘War Communism’ (1918–1921) 3 Tsiurupa’s White Beard 4 The Mystery of the ABC 5 Vlast from the Past: Stories Told by Bolsheviks Part 3 Time of Troubles: Policies (1914–1921) 6 Grain Monopoly and Agricultural Transformation: Ideals and Necessities 7 Bolshevik Razverstka and War Communism 8 Bolsheviks at Work: The Sowing Committees of 1920 Part 4 Time of Troubles: Outlook (1914–1921) 9 Bolshevism’s ‘Services to the State’: Three Voices 10 ‘Our Position Is in the Highest Degree Tragic’: Trotsky and Bolshevik ‘Euphoria’ in 1920 11 Zinoviev: Populist Leninist Part 5 NEP (1921–1930) 12 Political Testament: Lenin, Bukharin and the Meaning of NEP 13 Bukharin on Bolshevik ‘Illusions’: ‘War Communism’ vs. NEP Part 6 Stalin Era (1925–1953) 14 Stalin at Work: Introduction to Stalin’s Letters to Molotov 15 Bukharin’s Bolshevik Epic: The Prison Writings 16 Show Trials in the Stalin Era: On Stage and In Court 17 Vertigo: Masks and Lies in Stalin’s Russia 18 Who Is Stalin? What Is He? Part 7 Perestroika (1984–1991) 19 Perestroika Looks Back Bibliography Index
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Brill The Poetry of Class: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and
Book SynopsisIn the early 19th century, a new social collective emerged out of impoverished artisans, urban rabble, wandering rural lower classes, bankrupt aristocrats and precarious intellectuals, one that would soon be called the proletariat. But this did not yet exist as a unified, homogeneous class with affiliated political parties. The motley appearance, the dreams and longings of these figures, torn from all economic certainties, found new forms of narration in romantic novellas, reportages, social-statistical studies, and monthly bulletins. But soon enough, these disorderly, violent, nostalgic, errant, and utopian figures were denigrated as reactionary and anarchic by the heads of the labour movement, since they did not fit into their grand linear vision of progress. In this book, Patrick Eiden-Offe tells their story, tracing the making of the proletariat in Vörmarz Germany (1815–1848) through the writings of figures like Ludwig Tieck, Moses Hess, Wilhelm Weitling, Georg Weerth, Friedrich Engels, Louise Otto-Peters, Ernst Willkomm, and Georg Büchner, and in so doing, revealing a striking similarity to the disorderly classes of today.Table of ContentsTranslator’s Note Introduction 1 Class and Classification, Proletariat and Proletarianisation 2 The Proletariat: a Non-identical Subject 3 Romantic Anti-capitalism 4 Historiography of Rescue 5 Proletarian Identity: Openness and (Self-)Enclosure 6 Inverse Relevance of the Vormärz 7 Literary History as Social History: Class as Figure 1 Small Masters and Journeymen: from Guild to Movement 1 Romantic Anti-capitalism: Ludwig Tieck’s The Young Master Carpenter 2 Journeymen Culture and the Workers’ Movement: Wilhelm Weitling 3 Georg Weerth and the Break with Guild Traditions 2 ‘We? Tricky Question!’ on the Search for Class Identity in Proletarian Journals 1 Negations: ‘Bourgeois’ and ‘Intellectual Prolatarians’ 2 Ascension: ‘We’ Want to Be Bürger 3 Activation: What ‘We’ Should Be 4 Affirmation: ‘We’ Who Raise Our Voices 3 Counting the People: Class Statistics 1 Statistics and Social Agitation: The Hessian Messenger 2 Statistics in the Service of Revolution: Gesellschaftsspiegel 4 Miserabilism and Critique: from the Poverty of Literature to the Poverty of Theory 1 Ludwig Tieck and the Wolves of London 2 German Misery, German Verse: Engels as Narrative Theorist 3 Striking Stereotypes: Ernst Dronke’s ‘Rich and Poor’ 4 The Family Romance of the Proletarian 5 Relentlessness 6 Mystères – Misère 7 Misery in Relations: Production, World Market, Needs 8 Poverty and Quality of Life: Disposable Time 5 Wage Labour and Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of Freedom 1 Allegories of Class: ‘Steam King’ and ‘White Slaves’ 2 Point of Comparison: Weitling’s ‘Politics of Slavery’ 3 The ‘Semblance of Liberty’ and Real Slavery: Engels 4 Class Slavery 5 Why ‘White Slaves’? 6 Theory as Mystification: the Cult of the Industrial Worker and Global Critique 7 The Universality of Proletarianisation 6 Representing the ‘Labouring Poor’ 1 The Possibilities of Literature: Ernst Willkomm’s White Slaves or the Sufferings of the People 2 Engels and the Invention of Social Reportage 3 The Reporter in the Field: ‘The Great Towns’ 7 Class in Struggle 1 Witches’ Sabbath as Early Modern Class Struggle: Tieck 2 The Witches’ Sabbath of the Class Struggles in France: Börne 3 Social War on Lake Zurich: Weitling 4 Primitive Rebels in Lower Lusatia: Willkomm 5 Rescuing the Rebels 6 Revenge and Class 7 The Machine Breakers 8 Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite? 9 Towards a Pure Strike: Georg Weerth’s Fragment of a Novel 10 The Struggle for the Family Wage, the Feminisation of Factory Work and the Masculinisation of the Workers’ Movement Conclusion: the Return of Romantic Anti-capitalism Epilogue: Romantic ‘Anti-capitalism’ from Above Bibliography Index
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Brill Writings of Larisa Reisner
Book SynopsisThe six books by legendary Russian revolutionary, diplomat, espionage agent and journalist Larisa Reisner, published here together for the first time in translation, set the story of her life against the world-changing events of 1917, and accompany Brill’s publication of Cathy Porter’s Larisa Reisner: A Biography, published as volume 266 in the Historical Materialism book series.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Timeline Introduction Cathy Porter The Front Afghanistan Berlin, October 1923 Hamburg at the Barricades Coal Iron and Living People In Hindenburg’s Country Index
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Brill The Sung Home. Narrative, Morality, and the
Book SynopsisThe Sung Home tells the story of Kurdish singer-poets (dengbêjs) in Kurdistan in Turkey, who are specialized in the recital singing of historical songs. After a long period of silence, they returned to public life in the 2000s and are presented as guardians of history and culture. Their lyrics, life stories, and live performances offer fascinating insights into cultural practices, local politics and the contingencies of state borders. Decades of oppression have deeply politicized and moralized cultural and musical production. Through in-depth ethnographic analysis Hamelink highlights the variety of personal and social narratives within a society in turmoil. Set within the larger global stories of modernity, nationalism, and Orientalism, this study reflects on different ideas about what it means to create a Kurdish home.Trade Review"...an excellent bridge between the Kurdish past and the current state of social reorganization, taking place amid the impact of modernity, artfully discerned from the songs, laments, and stories sung/narrated by the dengbêj. It captures some crucial historical, social, political, and cultural dynamics that have shaped the collective Kurdish experience." Ozan Aksoy in Bustan Vol. 8, No. 2 , 2017.Table of ContentsList of participating performers List of songs discussed List of figures, maps and tables List of terms and abbreviations Notes on language use and translation Acknowledgements Introduction i.1 The Sung Home 2 i.2 Some notes on the dengbêj art 17 i.3 Folklore, nationalism, and (self-)Orientalism in Turkey 31 i.4 Narrative and morality 50 i.5 Engaged writing 56 i.6 Chapter outline 58 Part I Songs and Performance Chapter 1. ‘My heart is on fire.’ Singing a Kurdish past. Introduction 63 1.1 The kilams and the corpus 69 1.2 Time, place, and figures 1.3 Women and men 73 1.4 Elite and commoners 86 1.5 Armenians 90 1.6 Local leaders in battle songs 96 1.7 A Kurdish geography: place names and landscape marks 108 1.8 Kurdish rebels and the Turkish state 111 1.9 Evdalê Zeynikê: the dengbêj as a figure 122 Conclusion 126 Chapter 2. ‘It would disappear in a moment.’ Performing tradition. 131 Introduction 132 2.1 The empersonment of Kurdishness 135 2.2 The Diyarbakır Dengbêj House and its dengbêjs 138 2.3 Performing the village 145 2.4 Tribes and battles 154 2.5 Rebellions and tribes in performance 159 Conclusion 179 Part II Life stories 183 Chapter 3. ‘A language is a life, and art is a bracelet.’ A landscape of silence. 184 Introduction 185 Life story 1: Politicization of Kurdish language and culture 191 Life story 2: A female dengbêj 201 Life story 3: Landlords and support 214 Life story 4: Armenian voices 222 Life story 5: The religious class 236 Life story 6: Turkish experiences 245 Life story 7: The prohibition on musical instruments 251 Conclusion 262 Part III Conflict and Activism 266 Chapter 4. ‘Decorate your heart with the voice of the dengbêjs.’ Cultural activism. 267 Introduction 268 4.1 Kurdish television in Europe 278 4.2 Zana Güneş and TV activism 285 4.3 The Dengbêj House in Diyarbakır 291 4.4 Zeki Barış and activism in the House 298 4.5 Individual dengbêjs referring to political narratives 302 4.6 Istanbul, a market for dengbêjs 312 Conclusion 320 Chapter 5. Songs crossing borders: musical memories of a family on the run. 324 Introduction 325 5.1 Context and history 331 5.2 Experiencing borders 356 5.3 The embodied experience of singing songs 365 5.4 Resignifying cultural memory and redefining the position of women 367 Conclusion 377 Bibliography 396 General index
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Brill The Negative of Capital
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Brill Buddhism and Islam
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European Interuniversity Press Deceiving (Dis)Appearances: Analyzing Current
Book SynopsisThe impact of recent shifts in global geopolitics and economic markets has led to the re-conceptualization of national borders. Scholars have shifted their analysis away from the narrow idea of borders, and moved their attention towards the wider view of borderlands, border regions, and border zones, thus, leading to the conceptual re-definition of border politics. These recent approaches have identified border areas as socially constructed territories that demonstrate many of the characteristics of independent polities. Border communities seem to have come to life, creating a degree of autonomy and separation from central state actors. While the rich literature in border studies identifies important changes in local political and economic systems, it does not necessarily identify the mechanisms that create these changes: Why has integration occurred in some border regions while others are being reinforced? Why has integration failed in some cases where opportunity structures are positive, while it has succeeded in others saddled with more limited constraints? The essays in this volume address such fundamental questions.
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Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes Figures of Authority: Contributions towards a
Book SynopsisThis book is about authority, more precisely, about figures of authority. The editors have put together an international group of renowned scholars to discuss the emergence of modern notions of authority from different angles. Modern authority is no longer legitimated by status and social position, but rather by institutional affiliation and performance. To research the genealogy and intricacies of this kind of authority, the chapters in this volume cast a closer look at the various institutional actors on whom authority has been bestowed. The authors use a case study approach to look at the instances in which modern authority emerged, was ridiculed, contested, or even failed. Taken together, the individual contributions shed new light on the intricate relationship between the subjects and their organisations; they challenge any Whig historiography of rationalisation and modernisation, and they help us to rethink the inter-relationship between modern and even postmodern institutional arrangements on the one hand, and their subjects on the other.
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Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes Europe 2020: Towards a More Social EU?
Book SynopsisHow can Europe 2020, the EU's new Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, lead to a stronger Social EU with less poverty and greater social cohesion? This book by a number of eminent scholars and experts is the first to attempt to answer this question.The adoption in June 2010 by EU leaders of a target to lift at least 20 million people out of the risk of poverty and exclusion by 2020 is an important step forward. However, delivering on this and the Union's four other mutually reinforcing targets, and achieving the EU's ambitious social objectives, raises many political and technical challenges. These are examined in depth in this book.A key objective of the book is to take a critical look at and draw lessons from the past, 20002010 Lisbon Strategy. Another important objective is to explore the format and role of EU coordination and cooperation in the social field in the new EU governance framework, in a context marked by slow recovery after the global economic crisis. Finally, the book also makes proposals for the further reinforcement of this coordination and cooperation and for the improvement of the different instruments available at EU, national and sub-national levels.The analysis and concrete proposals presented in the book will be invaluable to policy-makers, researchers and other stakeholders interested in contributing to building a more Social EU. They will help to encourage new ideas and innovative approaches.
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Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes Intercultural Dialogue and Multi-level Governance
Book SynopsisThis book offers an interdisciplinary and in-depth analysis of the relationship between intercultural dialogue and multi-level governance, seen from a human rights-based perspective. It brings together papers that were originally presented at international workshops organised by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the University of Padua in 2010-2011 with some additional contributions. The authors deal with a broad and diversified framework of concepts, policy approaches and linkages between multi-level governance and intercultural dialogue, particularly in the fields of education and civil society participation. The volume follows a multi-disciplinary approach and presents these readings and reflections for an audience of scholars, as well as individuals and organisations interested in issues around human rights, governance, education and civil society. Its innovative approach addresses the complex issues of today's societies, which are in need of sustainable, coherent and responsible answers at both the conceptual and the policy level. In short, the book proposes a reading of interconnecting trajectories from governance building, education and civil society to intercultural dialogue in Europe. It is grounded in a human rights perspective and responds to the need for a policy-oriented but value-driven European future.
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Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes A Value-Driven European Future
Book SynopsisComprising a well structured, interdisciplinary view of culturally founded and value driven reflections on Europe's future this volume brings together a number of papers from an international workshop organised by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the University of Padua on October 2011 with some additional contributions. The essays are posed within a policy-oriented, institutional and international law of human rights framework, following a non-conventional but inspiring approach. This book provides a valuable resource for European scholars, policy-makers and interested and critical citizens committed to the idea of Europe. It proposes a reading of the complexities of transforming realities, oriented towards a common destiny of sustainable and cohesive societies in a globalised world, providing a human-centric outline for Europe's future development.
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The Nordic Africa Institute From Water to World-Making: African Models and
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