Gluck / Tsing Words in Motion

Toward a Global Lexicon
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9110-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

A collection of essays on keywords from political discourse, including secularism, security, indigineity, and terrorism

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gluck, Carol

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt

Weitere Mitwirkende

Abraham, Itty

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.