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Failed and Failing States
The Challenges to African Reconstruction
State collapse is a major threat to peace, stability, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. A collapsed state can no longer perform its basic security and development functions. This volume brings together key essays on these critical issues.
State collapse is a major threat to peace, stability, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. A collapsed state can no longer perform its basic security and development functions. This volume brings together key essays on these critical issues.
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Crossing Places
New Research in African Studies
A new generation of scholars offers fresh approaches to African history and culture. This collection explores themes of crossing through time and space, encounters across generations, and the renegotiation of identity, with a geographical range from Algeria to Zimbabwe.
A new generation of scholars offers fresh approaches to African history and culture. This collection explores themes of crossing through time and space, encounters across generations, and the renegotiation of identity, with a geographical range from Algeria to Zimbabwe.
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How Writing Touches
An Intimate Scholarly Collaboration
Five scholars began an experiment in autoethnography, exploring intimacy and connection through collaborative writing. This book offers stories of how writing touches and writes bodies into being—an affecting, radical work on love as a messy, complex methodology.
Five scholars began an experiment in autoethnography, exploring intimacy and connection through collaborative writing. This book offers stories of how writing touches and writes bodies into being—an affecting, radical work on love as a messy, complex methodology.
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500 years after the first colonial borders were drawn, new boundaries are still being created in Latin America. This volume examines how the concept of the border has expanded beyond political lines to include those constructed by art, gender, and social policy.
500 years after the first colonial borders were drawn, new boundaries are still being created in Latin America. This volume examines how the concept of the border has expanded beyond political lines to include those constructed by art, gender, and social policy.
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Meštrović provides critical insights into the defining questions of our age, tracing the imbalance between market globalisation and society to contradictions within capitalism. He searches for a new commons and a movement towards freedom beyond the market's restrictions.
Meštrović provides critical insights into the defining questions of our age, tracing the imbalance between market globalisation and society to contradictions within capitalism. He searches for a new commons and a movement towards freedom beyond the market’s restrictions.
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Overlapping Territories
Asian Voices on Culture and Civilization
In a chaotic, interdependent world, traditional categories of identity and culture are called into question. The Asian voices in this book use Western philosophy to find their Asian positions, and Asian reality to problematize the Western framework.
In a chaotic, interdependent world, traditional categories of identity and culture are called into question. The Asian voices in this book use Western philosophy to find their Asian positions, and Asian reality to problematize the Western framework.
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The Fictional North
Ten Discussions of Stereotypes and Icons Above the 53rd Parallel
The North is not one place but an imaginative frontier defined by storytelling. The Fictional North examines stereotypes and iconic images of “Northerness,” offering interdisciplinary insights into the circumpolar world’s past and present.
The North is not one place but an imaginative frontier defined by storytelling. The Fictional North examines stereotypes and iconic images of “Northerness,” offering interdisciplinary insights into the circumpolar world’s past and present.
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Chinese Ancestor Worship
A Practice and Ritual Oriented Approach to Understanding Chinese Culture
This book is a new approach to understanding China. It challenges the master narrative of Confucianism and shows that ancestor worship has underpinned Chinese culture, providing a more efficacious paradigm through which Chinese culture may be viewed.
This book is a new approach to understanding China. It challenges the master narrative of Confucianism and shows that ancestor worship has underpinned Chinese culture, providing a more efficacious paradigm through which Chinese culture may be viewed.
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Portraying the Other in International Relations
Cases of Othering, Their Dynamics and the Potential for Transformation
International scholars analyze how "othering" shapes global politics, legitimating behaviour in interstate relations and counterterrorism. This volume explores the dynamics of self-other constructions and presents ways they may be transformed for peace.
International scholars analyze how “othering” shapes global politics, legitimating behaviour in interstate relations and counterterrorism. This volume explores the dynamics of self-other constructions and presents ways they may be transformed for peace.
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Irish Studies
Geographies and Genders
This collection of essays explores the intersection of gender, sexuality, and geography in Irish studies. From Magdalen laundries and prisons to the domestic garden, it examines the local and human contexts of identity formation and performance.
This collection of essays explores the intersection of gender, sexuality, and geography in Irish studies. From Magdalen laundries and prisons to the domestic garden, it examines the local and human contexts of identity formation and performance.
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Syllable Structure of Bangla
An Optimality-Theoretic Approach
This study analyzes the structure of Bangla syllables in terms of phonology and morphology. It examines consonant clusters and verbal inflections using the frameworks of Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology to understand the language's unique structure.
This study analyzes the structure of Bangla syllables in terms of phonology and morphology. It examines consonant clusters and verbal inflections using the frameworks of Optimality Theory and Distributed Morphology to understand the language’s unique structure.
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European Culture in a Changing World
Between Nationalism and Globalism
In an era of European Unification and Globalism, what will happen to the rich mosaic of National European Cultures? This volume brings together essays by leading scholars to shed light on these issues of national identity and cultural creativity.
In an era of European Unification and Globalism, what will happen to the rich mosaic of National European Cultures? This volume brings together essays by leading scholars to shed light on these issues of national identity and cultural creativity.
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Sustainable Livelihoods of Tribal Communities in Odisha, India
The Case of Mayurbhanj
Trapped in a vicious circle of exploitation, India's tribal communities face social unrest which can be prevented by meaningful development. This book explores these crucial issues and is useful for policy makers dealing with livelihood, social exclusion, and tribal development.
Trapped in a vicious circle of exploitation, India’s tribal communities face social unrest which can be prevented by meaningful development. This book explores these crucial issues and is useful for policy makers dealing with livelihood, social exclusion, and tribal development.
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Latin American Buen Vivir and Rights of Nature
Law, Human Rights and Sustainable Development
This book challenges the UN's development goals with Ecuador's "Good Living." It champions the indigenous, biocentric worldview: "Let Mother Earth lead." Human governance must follow the laws of the earth. A provocative and essential read for a world seeking a new path.
This book challenges the UN’s development goals with Ecuador’s “Good Living.” It champions the indigenous, biocentric worldview: “Let Mother Earth lead.” Human governance must follow the laws of the earth. A provocative and essential read for a world seeking a new path.
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Africana Methodology
A Social Study of Research, Triangulation and Meta-theory
This volume critically examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an Afrocentric perspective. It provides readers with a compilation of essays that evaluate the Africana experience from a methodological perspective.
This volume critically examines the collection, interpretation, and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from an Afrocentric perspective. It provides readers with a compilation of essays that evaluate the Africana experience from a methodological perspective.
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Signs, Codes, Spaces, and Arts
Papers on General and Spatial Semiotics
This book delves into general and spatial semiotics, introducing the “sign prism,” an integrative model of sign connection. It focuses on spatial semiotics and its visual codes, applying these concepts to research the structures and historical changes of visual arts.
This book delves into general and spatial semiotics, introducing the “sign prism,” an integrative model of sign connection. It focuses on spatial semiotics and its visual codes, applying these concepts to research the structures and historical changes of visual arts.
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Cultural Studies Theorists on Power, Psyche and Society
The Political Animal
This cultural studies analysis of politics argues that power manifests in all human relationships, not just government. Drawing on over 50 thinkers from Aristotle to Bourdieu, it considers topics from raising children to cultural codes of behavior.
This cultural studies analysis of politics argues that power manifests in all human relationships, not just government. Drawing on over 50 thinkers from Aristotle to Bourdieu, it considers topics from raising children to cultural codes of behavior.
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Japanese Sensibility and Oriental Wisdom
In Search of a New Lifestyle in the New Era
Drawing on a 40-year career as a diplomat, this book demystifies Japanese culture. It is the first in English to examine the twin concepts of Japanese sensibility and Oriental wisdom, arguing for their vital role in fostering closer cooperation between East and West.
Drawing on a 40-year career as a diplomat, this book demystifies Japanese culture. It is the first in English to examine the twin concepts of Japanese sensibility and Oriental wisdom, arguing for their vital role in fostering closer cooperation between East and West.
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Opposing Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Turbo-Nationalism
Rethinking the Past for New Conviviality
This volume explores how racism and nationalism are shaped by collective amnesia. Essays connect disparate genocides, from Belgian colonialism to Bosnia, to show how nation-states are built on practices of oblivion, demanding we critically rethink the past for a new future.
This volume explores how racism and nationalism are shaped by collective amnesia. Essays connect disparate genocides, from Belgian colonialism to Bosnia, to show how nation-states are built on practices of oblivion, demanding we critically rethink the past for a new future.
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High-Tech Pan-Materialism and Humanist Ethics
From a Chinese-Western Historical Perspective
While science has advanced our material civilization, our spiritual stamina has weakened. This book argues for a reorganized human sciences, centered on humanistic ethics, to balance the dominance of technology and guide us toward a new era of enlightenment.
While science has advanced our material civilization, our spiritual stamina has weakened. This book argues for a reorganized human sciences, centered on humanistic ethics, to balance the dominance of technology and guide us toward a new era of enlightenment.
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