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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780822345190
- Subject Area
- Political Science, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
- Publication Name
- Words in Motion : Toward a Global Lexicon
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Item Length
- 9.8 in
- Subject
- Communication Studies, Globalization, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World, Translating & Interpreting, Linguistics / General
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 277 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822345196
ISBN-13
9780822345190
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73177516
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
277 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Words in Motion : Toward a Global Lexicon
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Communication Studies, Globalization, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, World, Translating & Interpreting, Linguistics / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2009-013115
Reviews
“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, ". . . [T]his book offers many things to open-minded readers. The unpredictability at times can be refreshing, as we see when words imposed on the powerless become a double-edged sword ('terrorists' becoming 'freedom fighters' in India, for example). Also, the words-in-motion project highlights the contributions of 'critical public intellectuals who shape ideas and institutions not just in their home nations but also between and beyond national space' (16). All the authors in this collection write with originality, wit, and flair, and deserve a wide audience." - James Stanlaw, Anthropos, "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, "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, " Words in Motion is a highly original and exciting exploration of the global movements, transformations and social impacts of words which I expect will be welcomed and expanded upon by scholars in the fields of global and area studies. It is a recommended read for anyone with an interest in global history, conceptual history or translation studies." - Michael Facius, H-Soz-u-Kult, "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, [T]his book offers many things to open-minded readers. The unpredictability at times can be refreshing, as we see when words imposed on the powerless become a double-edged sword ('terrorists' becoming 'freedom fighters' in India, for example). Also, the words-in-motion project highlights the contributions of 'critical public intellectuals who shape ideas and institutions not just in their home nations but also between and beyond national space' (16). All the authors in this collection write with originality, wit, and flair, and deserve a wide audience., "Here is a collection of essays that all students of history, especially those with an interest in its political, social, and ethnographic dimensions will find intriguing. . . . [T]he book provides an ideal text for any interdisciplinary study that blends history, sociology, and international affairs. It may also be of some interest to semanticists." - Claire Wyckoff, Publishing Research Quarterly, "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, "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
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
306.44
Table Of Content
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 Hij'b /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
Synopsis
A collection of essays on keywords from political discourse, including secularism, security, indigineity, and terrorism, 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 "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
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P119.3.W58 2009
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