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Words in Motion
Toward a Global Lexicon
Taschenbuch von Carol Gluck (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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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 hij¿b 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 "words in motion."
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
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 hij¿b 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 "words in motion."
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
Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft, Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780822345367
ISBN-10: 0822345366
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Carol Gluck
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Redaktion: Gluck, Carol
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Carol Gluck (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2009
Gewicht: 0,513 kg
Artikel-ID: 101556911
Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Genre: Allg. & vergl. Sprachwissenschaft, Importe
Rubrik: Sprachwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780822345367
ISBN-10: 0822345366
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Carol Gluck
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Redaktion: Gluck, Carol
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Carol Gluck (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2009
Gewicht: 0,513 kg
Artikel-ID: 101556911
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