Words in Motion (eBook, PDF)

Toward a Global Lexicon
Redaktion: Carol Gluck, Gluck

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Produktbeschreibung

On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously tracking specific words in specific settings frequently leads in unexpected directions and alters conventional depictions of global modernity.Such words as security in Brazil, responsibility in Japan, community in Thailand, and hijab in France changed the societies in which they moved even as the words were changed by them. Some words threatened to launch wars, as injury did in imperial Britain's relations with China in the nineteenth century. Others, such as secularism, worked in silence to agitate for political change in twentieth-century Morocco. Words imposed or imported from abroad could be transformed by those who wielded them to oppose the very powers that first introduced them, as happened in Turkey, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Taken together, this selection of fourteen essays reveals commonality as well as distinctiveness across modern societies, making the world look different from the interdisciplinary and transnational perspective of "e;words in motion."e;Contributors. Mona Abaza, Itty Abraham, Partha Chatterjee, Carol Gluck, Huri Islamoglu, Claudia Koonz, Lydia H. Liu, Driss Maghraoui, Vicente L. Rafael, Craig J. Reynolds, Seteney Shami, Alan Tansman, Kasian Tejapira, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822391104
• Artikelnr.: 54927425

Autorenporträt

Carol Gluck and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

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