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Author:   Carol Gluck ,  Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9780822345367

ISBN 10:   0822345366
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   04 December 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Words in Motion / Carol Gluck 3 Works in Motion / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 11 Words with Shadows Segurança/Security in Brazil and the United States / Itty Abraham 21 Adat/Indigenous: Indigeneity in Motion / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 40 Words That Expand Ada/Custom in the Middle East and South Asia / Mona Abaza 67 Sekinin/Responsibility in Modern Japan / Carol Gluck 83 Words Unspoken Ilmaniyya, Laïcité, Secularisme/Secularism in Morocco / Driss Maghraoui 109 Saburaimu/Sublime: A Japanese Word and Its Political Afterlife / Alan Tansman 129 Words That Cover Aqalliyya/Minority in Modern Egyptian Discourse / Seteney Shami 151 Hijâb/Headscarf: A Political Journey / Claudia Koonz 174 Fear Words Injury: Incriminating Words and Imperial Power / Lydia H. Liu 199 Conjuracion/Conspiracy in the Philippine Revolution of 1896 / Vicente L. Rafael 219 Terrorism: State Sovereignty and Militant Politics in India / Partha Chatterjee 240 Words That Set Standards Komisyon/Commission and Kurul/Board: Words that Rule / Huri Islamoglu 265 Chumchon/Community in Thailand / Craig J. Reynolds 286 Thammarat/Good Governance in Glocalizing Thailand / Kasian Tejapira 306 Notes on Contributors 327 Index 329

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I can think of no better field-guide to how 'globalization' works on-the-ground than this pioneering and remarkable collection of studies of how words and concepts move across the globe, old meanings turning into evolving new meanings as they shift from Britain to Asia, from Egypt to Indonesia, from the worlds of the past in Turkey and Japan into their new ages. This book should henceforth be part of any reading list on global history. --Eric Hobsbawm, fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Moving from North Africa through Europe to East and Southeast Asia, ranging from colonial discourse through national liberation movements into postcoloniality and globalization, this meticulously researched collection of stellar essays shows the politics of meaning-change as words cross boundaries from North to South and back, through the politics of gender and class. I am already using it in my teaching! --Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

Author Information

Carol Gluck is George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of Thinking with the Past: Modern Japan and History and Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period, and editor of Asia in Western and World History. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen: Marginality in an Out-of-the-way Place and an editor of Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia, also published by Duke University Press.

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