Such words as "security" in Brazil, "responsibility" in Japan, "community" in Thailand, and "hijāb" 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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Such words as "security" in Brazil, "responsibility" in Japan, "community" in Thailand, and "hijāb" 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
Imprint | Duke University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | December 2009 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | December 2009 |
Editors | Carol Gluck, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing |
Dimensions | 234 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 346 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-4536-7 |
Barcode | 9780822345367 |
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LSN | 0-8223-4536-6 |