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    Seeds of mobilization : the authoritarian roots of South Korea's democracy (2024)
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    ISBN: 9780472904037
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 253 Seiten) , Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Emerging democracies
    Keywords: Politics & government ; Political structures: democracy
    Abstract: South Korea is sometimes held as a dream case of modernization theory, a testament to how economic development leads to democracy. Seeds of Mobilization takes a closer look at the history of South Korea to show that Korea's advance to democracy was not linear. Instead, while Korea's national economy grew dramatically under the regimes of Park Chung Hee (1961–79) and Chun Doo Hwan (1980–88), the political system first became increasingly authoritarian. Because modernization was founded on industrial complexes and tertiary education, these structures initially helped bolster the authoritarian regimes. In the long run, however, these structures later facilitated the anti-regime protests by various social movement groups - most importantly, workers and students - that ultimately brought democracy to the country. By using original subnational protest event datasets, government publications, oral interviews, and publications from labor and student movement organizations, Joan E. Cho takes a long view of democratization that incorporates the decades before and after South Korea's democratic transition. She demonstrates that Korea’s democratization resulted from a combination of factors from below and from above, and that authoritarian development itself was a hidden root cause of democratic development in South Korea. Seeds of Mobilization shows how socioeconomic development did not create a steady pressure toward democracy but acted as a "double-edged sword" that initially stabilized autocratic regimes before destabilizing them over time.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 215-240, Register , Introduction : re-examining South Korea's democratization , Industrialization as a (de)stabilizing force , Manufacturing protests : ecology of industrial complexes and development of the labor movement , Learning to dissent : education and authoritarian resilience , From college campuses to ballot boxes : mobilizing for democratic reforms , Beyond the democratic transition : democratization and generational divide in South Korea , Conclusion : development, democracy, and authoritarian legacy , English
    DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12738649
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    China as number one? : the emerging values of a rising power (2024)
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    ISBN: 9780472903733
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 221 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: China understandings today
    Keywords: Politics & government
    Abstract: One of the most significant global events in the last forty years has been the rise of China - economically, technologically, politically, and militarily. The question on people's minds for decades has been whether China will replace the United States as a superpower in the near future. But for China, this power must be comprehensive - having strong economic and militant forces are only two pieces of the puzzle. China must also possess soft power, such as attractive ideologies, values, and culture. China as Number One? explores China’s soft powers through the eyes of Chinese citizens. Utilizing data from the World Values Survey, the contributors to this collection analyze the potential soft power of a rising China by examining its residents' social values. A comprehensive study of changes and continuities in the political and social values of Chinese citizens, the book examines findings in the context of evolutionary modernization theory and cross-national comparison.
    Note: Literaturangaben, Register , Democratic authoritarianism : a study of Chinese political orientations , Political Participation in China , Postmaterialism in China , Contained emancipative values : waves of conservative and liberal trends in China , The rise and fall of trust in transitional China , Attitudes toward religion, science and technology in China , English
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    None of the above : protest voting in Latin American democracies (2024)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472904280
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 251 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Emerging democracies
    Keywords: Politics & government ; Elections & referenda ; Invalid vote, blank vote, spoiled vote, null vote, protest vote, political protest, invalid vote campaign, null vote campaign, blank vote campaign, against-all campaign, none of the above, NOTA, Latin America, Peru, democracy, democratic backsliding, political behavior, elections, voting, voting behavior, WCED, presidential elections, Arequipa, Mexico, election intimidation
    Abstract: Around the world each year, millions of citizens turn out to vote but leave their ballots empty or spoil them. Increasingly, campaigns have emerged that promote "invalid" votes like these. Why do citizens choose to cast blank and spoiled votes? And how do campaigns mobilizing the invalid vote influence this decision? None of the Above answers these questions using evidence from presidential and gubernatorial elections in eighteen Latin American democracies. Author Mollie J. Cohen draws on a broad range of methods and sources, incorporating data from electoral management bodies, nationally representative surveys, survey experiments, focus groups, semi-structured interviews, and news sources. Contrary to received wisdom, this book shows that most citizens cast blank or spoiled votes in presidential elections on purpose. By participating in invalid vote campaigns, citizens can voice their concerns about low-quality candidates while also expressing a preference for high-quality democracy. Campaigns promoting blank and spoiled votes come about more often, and succeed at higher rates, when incumbent politicians undermine the quality of elections. Surprisingly, invalid vote campaigns can shore up the quality of democracy in the short term. None of the Above shows that swings in blank and spoiled vote rates can serve as a warning about the trajectory of a country's democracy.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 223-240, Register , Invalid ballots as a protest signal , Campaigning for no-one : invalid vote campaigns in Latin America , Public approval of invalid vote campaigns , Predicting the electoral success of invalid vote campaigns , A tale of two departments : tracing the success of invalid vote campaigns in Peru , The downstream consequences of invalid vote campaigns , English
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    Greenland in Arctic security : (de)securitization dynamics under climatic thaw and geopolitical freeze (2024)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472904396
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 369 Seiten) , Diagramme, 2 Karten
    Keywords: Politics & government ; International relations ; Warfare & defence ; Regional studies
    Abstract: Greenland has increasingly captivated imaginations around the globe. Yet, while it is central to the Arctic region, its role has been poorly understood. Greenland in Arctic Security delivers a comprehensive overview of how security dynamics unfold in and in relation to Greenland. Each individual chapter analyzes specific discourses and dynamics pertaining to hard or soft security questions. These span from great power interests in geostrategic infrastructure to domestic debates centered on promoting and protecting Greenland identity when engaging with the outside world. In addition, the book offers perspectives on other security questions that have been catalyzed by the effects of climate change. By combining these different analyses, Greenland in Arctic Security provides new, theoretically informed discussions on how security politics can manifest across different scales and territorial borders. At times, these politics can have consequences beyond their original intent.
    Note: Dangerous ice : exploring the scales of climate change macrosecuritization through the Greenland Ice Sheet4hKristian Søby Kristensen and Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard , Security transfigurations across sectors : animals, climate, and self-determination in Greenland , From Peary to Pompeo : the history of United States' securitizations of Greenland , (De)securitizing discourse and action in political talk and media presentation : the announcement of the Russian Honorary Consul's appointment in Greenland , How China left Greenland : mutually reinforcing securitization policies and Chinese mining plans in Greenland , Denmark's security perspectives on USA, China, and Russia in Greenland : how great power threats made Danish politicians talk about independent Greenlandic agency , Greenland's desecuritization of security and defense , Infrastructural (re)configurations and processes of (de)securitization : the fluctuating roles and positions of airports in Greenland , (De)securitization, independence, and normal politics in Kalaallit Nunaat and Inuit Nunangat , English
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    Decisiveness and fear of disorder : political decision-making in times of crisis (2024)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903399
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 195 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Configurations$dcritical studies of world politics
    Keywords: Decisiveness, order, political action, representation, crisis, Germany, parliamentary democracy, decision-making, Hobbes, political theory, social theory, emotions, affect, federalism, symbolic interactionism, interpretative methods, meaning-making, refugee crisis, irregular migration, European Sovereign Debt Crisis, Green New Deal, crisis of democracy, Configurations ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies ; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LND Constitutional and administrative law: general::LNDA Citizenship and nationality law
    Abstract: Decisiveness and Fear of Disorder examines how democratic representatives make decisions in crisis situations. By analyzing parliamentary asylum debates from Germany's Asylum Compromise in 1992-1993 and the 2015-2016 refugee crisis, Julius Rogenhofer identifies representatives' ability to project decisiveness as a crucial determinant for whether the rights and demands of irregular migrants were adequately considered in democratic decision-making. Both crisis situations showcase an emotive dimension to the parliamentary meaning-making process. As politicians confront fears of social and political disorder, they focus on appearing decisive in the eyes of the public and fellow representatives, even at the expense of human rights considerations and inclusive deliberation processes. Rogenhofer shows how his theoretical approach allows us to reinterpret a range of crisis situations beyond the irregular migration context, including democracies’ initial responses to Covid-19, the European Sovereign Debt Crisis, and United States climate politics. These additional case studies help position concerns with decisiveness amid the challenges that populism and technocracy increasingly pose to representative democracies.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 169-191, Register , A pluralistic conception of laws as social institutions , Upholding appearances in times of crisis , Germany's asylum-compromise , From sacred order to a constitutional amendment , The "refugee crisis" , From welcome culture to loss of control , Discussion , Decisiveness, rights and irregular migration , Decisiveness in contemporary democratic politics , Decisiveness and the crisis of democracy , English
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    Chasing greatness : on Russia's discursive interaction with the West over the past millennium (2024)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472904389
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 272 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Configurations$dcritical studies of world politics
    Keywords: Politics & government ; International relations ; Marxism & Communism ; Russia, great power, discourse analysis, Russia and the West, Historical International Relations, conceptual history, genealogy, Russia as a great power, Russian Empire, Soviet Union, USSR, Muscovy, Kievan Rus', Westernizers and Slavophiles, religion and politics, tsar and people, origins of political concepts, political greatness, diplomatic history, constructivism, critical history of modernity, discursive evolution, Putin's Russia, post-Soviet Russia, postcommunism, Configurations
    Abstract: Over the last two decades, it has become clear that Russia insists on its great power status, even at considerable cost. Chasing Greatness provides an interpretive explanation of the tacit rules that shape Russia's great power identity today. Anatoly Reshetnikov argues that this never-ending chase for greatness is a result of how Russia and its predecessors - including the USSR, Russian Empire, Muscovy, and Kievan Rus' - historically interacted with its neighbors to the east, the south, and particularly the west. By analyzing an extensive amount of original source material, including primary sources that have not been previously translated into English, he is able to reconstruct a millennial history of the Russian concepts that express political greatness. He also traces numerous encounters between Russia and the West, as well as Russia's troubled integration into the European society of states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to show how these concepts have affected Russia's interaction with international society. Despite its substantive historical depth, Chasing Greatness is not a book of history. Rather, it is a synthesizing social science work inspired by the continental tradition of the critical history of modernity. As such, the book is more about the present than about the past. Its main aim is to expose and explain the rich conceptual baggage behind Russia’s unceasing great power rhetoric (domestic and international) and how this rhetoric drives the current international crises involving Russia.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 243-267, Register , Introduction : great power vs. velikaya derzhava , Absolute greatness : origins and early evolution , Theatrical greatness : from majesty to glory , Troubled encounter : back to absolute? , Failed synthesis : modernization through self-revelation , A world apart : the rise and fall of international socialist greatness , Conclusion : uses, legacies, and traps of greatness in post-Soviet Russia , English
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    StarCraft : legacy of real-time strategy (2024)
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    ISBN: 9780472904457 , 0472904450
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 145 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Landmark video games
    DDC: 793.932
    Keywords: StarCraft History and criticism ; Fantasy games History and criticism ; Video games History and criticism
    Abstract: StarCraft (Blizzard Entertainment, 1998) is a real-time strategy video game, placing the player in command of three extraterrestrial races fighting against each other for strategic control of resources, terrain, and power. Simon Dor examines the game's unanticipated effect by delving into the history of the game and the two core competencies it encouraged: decoding and foreseeing. Although StarCraft was not designed as an e-sport, its role in developing foreseeing skills helped give rise to one of the earliest e-sport communities in South Korea. Apart from the game's clear landmark status, StarCraft offers a unique insight into changes in gaming culture and, more broadly, the marketability and profit of previously niche areas of interest. The book places StarCraft in the history of real-time strategy games in the 1990s--Dune II, Command & Conquer, Age of Empires--in terms of visual style, narrative tropes, and control. It shows how design decisions, technological infrastructures, and a strong contribution from its gaming community through Battle.net and its campaign editor were necessary conditions for the flexibility it needed to grow its success. In exploring the fanatic clusters of competitive players who formed the first tournaments and professionalized gaming, StarCraft shows that the game was key to the transition towards foreseeing play and essential to competitive gaming and e-sports
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    Instrument of memory : encounters with the Wandering Jew (2024)
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    ISBN: 9780472903955 , 0472903950
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lampert-Weissig, Lisa Instrument of memory
    Keywords: Wandering Jew in literature ; Wandering Jew in art ; Wandering Jew Influence ; Memory in literature ; Juif errant (Légende) dans la littérature ; Juif errant (Légende) dans l'art ; Juif errant (Légende) - Influence ; Mémoire dans la littérature ; Memory in literature ; Wandering Jew in art ; Wandering Jew in literature ; HISTORY / General
    Abstract: How can immortality be a curse? According to the Wandering Jew legend, as Jesus made his way to Calvary, a man refused him rest, cruelly taunting him to hurry to meet his fate. In response, Jesus cursed the man to wander until the Second Coming. Since the medieval period, the legend has inspired hundreds of adaptations by artists and writers. Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew, the first English-language study of the legend in over fifty years, is also the first to examine the influence of the legend's medieval and early modern sources over the centuries into the present day. Using the lens of memory studies, the work shows how the Christian tradition of the legend centered the memory of the Passion at the heart of the Wandering Jew's curse. Instrument of Memory also shows how Jewish artists and writers have reimagined the legend through Jewish memory traditions. Through this focus on memory, Jewish adaptors of the legend create complex renderings of the Wandering Jew that recognize not only the entanglement of Jewish and Christian memory, but also the impact of that entanglement on Jewish subjects. This book presents a complex, sympathetic, and more fully realized version of the legend while challenging the limits of the presentism of memory studies
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index
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    Chasing greatness : on Russia's discursive interaction with the West over the past millennium (2024)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472904389 , 0472904388
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv,, 267 pages)
    Series Statement: Configurations: critical studies of world politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 327.47
    Keywords: Russia (Federation) Foreign relations ; Russia (Federation) Politics and government ; Russia Foreign relations ; Russia Politics and government ; Soviet Union Foreign relations ; Soviet Union Politics and government ; URSS - Relations extérieures ; URSS - Politique et gouvernement
    Abstract: Over the last two decades, it has become clear that Russia insists on its great power status, even at considerable cost. Chasing Greatness provides an interpretive explanation of the tacit rules that shape Russia's great power identity today. Anatoly Reshetnikov argues that this never-ending chase for greatness is a result of how Russia and its predecessors--including the USSR, Russian Empire, Muscovy, and Kievan Rus'--historically interacted with its neighbors to the east, the south, and particularly the west. By analyzing an extensive amount of original source material, including primary sources that have not been previously translated into English, he is able to reconstruct a millennial history of the Russian concepts that express political greatness. He also traces numerous encounters between Russia and the West, as well as Russia's troubled integration into the European society of states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to show how these concepts have affected Russia's interaction with international society. Despite its substantive historical depth, Chasing Greatness is not a book of history. Rather, it is a synthesizing social science work inspired by the continental tradition of the critical history of modernity. As such, the book is more about the present than about the past. Its main aim is to expose and explain the rich conceptual baggage behind Russia's unceasing great power rhetoric (domestic and international) and how this rhetoric drives the current international crises involving Russia
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    Seeking a future for the past : space, power, and heritage in a Chinese city (2024)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903764
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 272 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Additional Information: Supplement (work) Demgenski, Philipp Seeking a future for the past
    Series Statement: China understandings today
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 307.3/4160951
    Keywords: Urban renewal ; Rénovation urbaine - Chine - Qingdao ; Qingdao (China) Politics and government ; Qingdao (China) Social aspects
    Abstract: Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of the slow, fragmented, and contentious transformation of Dabaodao--an area in the city's former colonial center--from a place of common homes occupied by the urban poor into a showcase of architectural heritage and site for tourism and consumption. The ethnography provides a nuanced account of the diverse experiences and views of a range of groups involved in, shaping, and being shaped by the urban renewal process--local residents, migrant workers, preservationists, planners, and government officials-- and particularly foregrounds the voices and experiences of marginal groups, such as migrants in the city. Unpacking structural reasons for urban developmental impasses, it paints a nuanced local picture of urban governance and political practice in contemporary urban China. Seeking a Future for the Past also weighs the positives and negatives of heritage preservation and scrutinizes the meanings and effects of "preservation" on diverse social actors. By zeroing in on the seemingly contradictory yet coexisting processes of urban stagnation and urban destruction, the book reveals the multifaceted challenges that China faces in reforming its urbanization practices and, ultimately, in managing its urban future
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    Singing the land : Hebrew music and early Zionism in America (2024)
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    ISBN: 9780472904310
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sperling, Eli Singing the land
    Keywords: Jews Music ; History and criticism ; Zionism Songs and music ; History and criticism ; Jews Music ; History and criticism ; Zionism History 20th century ; Zionism Songs and music ; History and criticism ; Jews Social life and customs 20th century ; Juifs - États-Unis - Musique - Histoire et critique ; Juifs - États-Unis - Mœurs et coutumes - 20e siècle ; Zionism - Songs and music ; Zionism ; Jews - Social life and customs ; Jews - Music ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; United States
    Abstract: Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America examines the proliferation and use of popular Hebrew Zionist music amongst American Jewry during the first half of the twentieth century. This music--one part in a greater process of instilling diasporic Zionism in American Jewish communities--represents an early and underexplored means of fostering mainstream American Jewish engagement with the Jewish state and Hebrew national culture as they emerged after Israel declared its independence in 1948. This evolutionary process brought Zionism from being an often-polemical notion in American Judaism at the turn of the twentieth century to a mainstream component of American Jewish life by 1948. Hebrew music ultimately emerged as an important means through which many American Jews physically participated in or 'performed' aspects of Zionism and Hebrew national culture from afar. Exploring the history, events, contexts, and tensions that comprised what may be termed the 'Zionization' of American Jewry during the first half of the twentieth century, Eli Sperling analyzes primary sources within the historical contexts of Zionist national development and American Jewish life. Singing the Land offers insights into how and why musical frameworks were central to catalyzing American Jewry's support of the Zionist cause by the 1940s, parallel to firm commitments to their American locale and national identities. The proliferation of this widespread American Jewish-Zionist embrace was achieved through a variety of educational, religious, economic, and political efforts, and Hebrew music was a thread consistent amongst them all
    Description / Table of Contents: Stephen S. Wise, The Jewish Institute of Religion, Abraham Wolf Binder, and New Palestinean folk songs in America -- Solomon Schechter, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Goldfarbs, and Harry Coopersmith -- Mordechai and Judith Kaplan, Avraham Zvi Idelsohn, and Moshe Nathanson : voices of Palestine -- The Jewish National Fund : land purchases in Palestine, fundraising in America, and Hebrew music.
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    The dynamics of European integration : causes and consequences of institutional choices (2024)
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    ISBN: 9780472221639 , 9780472904716 , 047290471X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als König, Thomas, 1961- Dynamics of European integration
    Keywords: European Union Politics and government ; European Union Politics and government 20th century ; European Union Politics and government 21st century ; European Union ; 1900-2099 ; European federation ; Construction européenne ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics ; HISTORY / Europe / Western ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; European federation ; Politics and government
    Abstract: In Europe's recent history, there have been several challenges to the strength of the European Union-Brexit, COVID, financial crises, and global tensions-bringing an increased need to understand the ways that the European Union (EU) could successfully stay together or fall apart. In examining how the European Union has changed since 1993, important puzzles have emerged, including how national government functions are transferred to the EU without reforming the EU, how increased transparency is announced while decisions are approved in informal meetings, and how the effects of the polarizing rise of Euroscepticism can be managed to still promote the formation of solidarity and trust among Europeans. To understand these puzzles, Thomas KoÌ⁸nig introduces a new theory of (supra)national partyism to help explain the causes and consequences of choices made by political leaders for Europe. He uses a game-theoretical perspective to look at how conditions for leaders change through accessions of new members, shocks, and crises, and separates institutional choices into two different games played by office- and policy-seeking political leaders-the interstate summit game and the national game of party competition. The Dynamics of European Integration reveals how the reorganization of electoral systems can harness dissensus and polarization among diverse national constituencies to enable the promotion of solidarity and trust in the EU
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    After disruption : a future for cultural memory (2024)
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    ISBN: 9780472904365 , 0472904361
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Owens, Trevor After disruption
    Keywords: Culture ; Collective memory ; Digital preservation ; Information services ; Preservation of materials ; Disruptive technologies ; Mémoire collective ; Services d'information ; Conservation des matériaux ; Technologie de rupture ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / Archives & Special Libraries ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
    Abstract: The digital age is burning out our most precious resources and the future of the past is at stake. In After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory, Trevor Owens warns that our institutions of cultural memory-libraries, archives, museums, humanities departments, research institutes, and more-have been "disrupted," and largely not for the better. He calls for memory workers and memory institutions to take back control of envisioning the future of memory from management consultants and tech sector evangelists. After Disruption posits that we are no longer planning for a digital future, but instead living in a digital present. In this context, Owens asks how we plan for and develop a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for cultural memory. The first half of the book draws on critical scholarship on the history of technology and business to document and expose the sources of tech startup ideologies and their pernicious results, revealing that we need powerful and compelling counter frameworks and values to replace these ideologies. The second half of the book makes the case for the centrality of maintenance, care, and repair as interrelated frameworks to build a better future in which libraries, archives, and museums can thrive as sites of belonging and connection through collections."
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    Presidential accountability in wartime : President Bush, the treatment of detainees, and the laws of war (2023)
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    ISBN: 9780472076499 , 9780472056491
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 285 Seiten)
    Keywords: Politics & government ; Central government ; Human rights ; Constitution: government & the state
    Abstract: The American presidency has long tested the capacity of the system of checks and balances to constrain executive power, especially in times of war. While scholars have examined presidents starting military conflicts without congressional authorization or infringing on civil liberties in the name of national security, Stuart Streichler focuses on the conduct of hostilities. Using the treatment of war-on-terror detainees under President George W. Bush as a case study, he integrates international humanitarian law into a constitutional analysis of the repercussions of presidential war powers for human rights around the world. Putting President Bush's actions in a wider context, Presidential Accountability in Wartime begins with a historical survey of the laws of war, with particular emphasis on the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the Nuremberg Tribunal. Streichler then reconstructs the decision-making process that led to the president's approval of interrogation methods that violated Geneva's mandate to treat wartime captives humanely. While taking note of various accountability options - from within the executive branch to the International Criminal Court - the book illustrates the challenge in holding presidents personally responsible for violating the laws of war through an in-depth analysis of the actions taken by Congress, the Supreme Court, and the public in response. In doing so, this book not only raises questions about whether international humanitarian law can moderate wartime presidential behavior but also about the character of the presidency and the American constitutional system of government.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 253-272, Register , The law of war , The new paradigm , Congress and an unchecked presidency , The court versus the commander in chief , The torture debate , English
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    Paris and the Art of Transposition : Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters (2023)
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    ISBN: 9780472903924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (227 p.)
    Series Statement: China Understandings Today
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; History of art / art & design styles
    Abstract: A brief stay in France was, for many Chinese workers and Chinese Communist Party leaders, a vital stepping stone for their careers during the cultural and political push to modernize China after World War I. For the Chinese students who went abroad specifically to study Western art and literature, these trips meant something else entirely. Set against the backdrop of interwar Paris, Paris and the Art of Transposition uncovers previously marginalized archives to reveal the artistic strategies employed by Chinese artists and writers in the early twentieth-century transnational imaginary and to explain why Paris played such a central role in the global reception of modern Chinese literature and art. While previous studies of Chinese modernism have focused on how Western modernist aesthetics were adapted or translated to the Chinese context, Angie Chau does the opposite by turning to Paris in the Chinese imaginary and discussing the literary and visual artwork of five artists who moved between France and China: the painter Chang Yu, the poet Li Jinfa, the art critic Fu Lei, the painter Pan Yuliang, and the writer Xu Xu. Chau draws the idea of transposition from music theory where it refers to shifting music from one key or clef to another, or to adapting a song originally composed for one instrument to be played by another. Transposing transposition to the study of art and literature, Chau uses the term to describe a fluid and strategic art practice that depends on the tension between foreign and familiar, new and old, celebrating both novelty and recognition—a process that occurs when a text gets placed into a fresh context
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    Disruptions as opportunities : governing Chinese society with interactive authoritarianism (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903306
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 283 Seiten) , Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: China Understandings Today
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sun, Taiyi Disruptions as opportunities
    DDC: 349.51
    Keywords: Asian history ; Asiatische Geschichte ; HISTORY / Asia / China ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative ; Rechtsordnungen ; Systems of law ; China ; China
    Abstract: Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism addresses the long-standing puzzle of why China outlived other one-party authoritarian regimes with particular attention to how the state manages an emerging civil society. Drawing upon over 1,200 survey responses conducted in 126 villages in the Sichuan province, as well as 70 interviews conducted with Civil Society Organization (CSO) leaders and government officials, participant observation, and online research, the book proposes a new theory of interactive authoritarianism to explain how an adaptive authoritarian state manages nascent civil society. Sun argues that when new phenomena and forces are introduced into Chinese society, the Chinese state adopts a three-stage interactive approach toward societal actors: toleration, differentiation, and legalization without institutionalization. Sun looks to three disruptions-earthquakes, internet censorship, and social-media-based guerilla resistance to the ride-sharing industry-to test his theory about the three-stage interactive authoritarian approach and argues that the Chinese government evolves and consolidates its power in moments of crisis
    Description / Table of Contents: AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresList of TablesIntroductionChapter 1: Governing the Nascent Civil Society in China: Background and Key playersChapter 2: Stage I: Authoritarian Tolerance of Civil Society ActivitiesChapter 3: Stage II: Differentiation - Outsourcing Responsibility for GovernanceChapter 4: Stage III: Legalization without InstitutionalizationChapter 5: Case I: The Sichuan Earthquakes and the Governance of the Rising CSOsChapter 6: Case II: The Dynamic, Decentralized, and Multi-Layered Internet CensorshipChapter 7: Case III: Internet-facilitated Guerrilla Resistance of the Ride-Sharing NetworksChapter 8: Conclusion: Governing as an Interactive Authoritarian StateAppendix: Eight Useful Tips of Conducting Fieldwork on ChinaBibliography
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    In defense of free speech in universities : a study of three jurisdictions (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903795 , 0472903799
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lai, Amy Tak-Yee, 1977- In defense of free speech in universities
    Keywords: Academic freedom ; Education, Higher Political aspects ; Freedom of speech ; Freedom of speech ; Freedom of speech ; Freedom of speech ; Academic freedom ; Education, Higher - Political aspects ; Freedom of speech ; EDUCATION / General ; EDUCATION / Administration / Higher ; LAW / Constitutional ; Canada ; Great Britain ; United States
    Abstract: Amy Lai examines the current free speech crisis in Western universities. She studies the origin, history, and importance of freedom of speech in the university setting, and addresses the relevance and pitfalls of political correctness and microaggressions on campuses, where laws on harassment, discrimination, and hate speech are already in place, along with other concepts that have gained currency in the free speech debate, including deplatforming, trigger warning, and safe space. Looking at numerous free speech disputes in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, the book argues for the equal application of the free speech principle to all expressions to facilitate respectful debates. All in all, it affirms that the right to free expression is a natural right essential to the pursuit of truth, democratic governance, and self-development, and this right is nowhere more important than in the university
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    Transforming Vòdún : musical change and postcolonial healing in Benin's jazz and brass band music (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903283 , 0472903284
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Musics in motion series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Politz, Sarah Transforming Vòdún
    Keywords: Vodou music Social aspects ; Jazz Social aspects ; Brass band music Social aspects ; Music Social aspects ; Vodou Social aspects ; Postcolonialism and music ; MUSIC / Ethnomusicology ; RELIGION / General ; Jazz - Social aspects ; Music - Social aspects ; Postcolonialism and music ; MUSIC / General ; Benin
    Abstract: Transforming Vòdún examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin's cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of vòdún and its musical repertoires, as part of the process of healing postcolonial trauma through music and ritual. Based on fieldwork in Benin, France, and New York City, Sarah Politz uses historical ethnography, music analysis, and participant observation to examine three case studies of brass band and jazz musicians from Benin. The multi-sited nature of this study highlights the importance of mobility, and diasporic connections in musicians' professional lives, while grounding these connections in the particularities of the African continent, its histories, its people, and its present
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    Congo style : from Belgian art nouveau to African independence (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903887 , 0472903888
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: African perspectives
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sacks, Ruth, 1977- Congo style
    DDC: 111/.8509675112
    Keywords: 1900-1999 ; Modernism (Aesthetics) ; Art and state ; Architecture and state ; Art and society ; Architecture and society ; Architecture ; Architecture, Colonial ; Art, Colonial ; Art, Congolese (Democratic Republic) ; History ; Kinshasa (Congo) Buildings, structures, etc ; Congo (Democratic Republic)
    Abstract: Congo Style presents a postcolonial approach to discussing the visual culture of two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II's Congo Colony and the state sites of Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaïre. Readers are brought into the living remains of sites once made up of ambitious modernist architecture and art in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the total artworks of Art Nouveau to the aggrandizing sites of post-independence Kinshasa, Congo Style investigates the experiential qualities of man-made environments intended to entertain, delight, seduce and impress. In her study of visual culture, Ruth Sacks sets out to reinstate the compelling wonder of nationalist architecture from Kinshasa's post-independence era, such as the Tower of the Exchange (1974), Gécamines Tower (1977), and the artworks and exhibitions that accompanied them. While exploring post-independence nation-building, this book examines how the underlying ideology of Belgian Art Nouveau, a celebrated movement in Belgium, led to the dominating early colonial settler buildings of the ABC Hotels (circa 1908-13). Congo Style combines Sacks's practice as a visual artist and her academic scholarship to provide an original study of early colonial and independence-era modernist sites in their African context
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    Making endless war : the Vietnam and Arab-Israeli conflicts in the history of international law (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903191 , 0472903195
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 303 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Law, meaning, and violence
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Making endless war
    Keywords: 1961-1975 ; War (International law) ; World politics 20th century ; World politics 21st century ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 ; Arab-Israeli conflict ; Internationales Recht ; Verrechtlichung ; Rechtsquelle ; Rechtsanwendung ; Nahostkonflikt ; LAW / International ; HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine ; Arab-Israeli conflict ; War (International law) ; United States Politics and government 21st century ; Erde ; USA
    Abstract: Making Endless War is built on the premise that any attempt to understand how the content and function of the laws of war changed in the second half of the twentieth century should consider two major armed conflicts, fought on opposite edges of Asia, and the legal pathways that link them together across time and space. The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli conflicts have been particularly significant in the shaping and attempted remaking of international law from 1945 right through to the present day. This carefully curated collection of essays by lawyers, historians, philosophers, sociologists, and political geographers of war explores the significance of these two conflicts, including their impact on the politics and culture of the world's most powerful nation, the United States of America. The volume foregrounds attempts to develop legal rationales for the continued waging of war after 1945 by moving beyond explaining the end of war as a legal institution, and toward understanding the attempted institutionalization of endless war.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , The transformation of international law and war between the Middle East and Vietnam , From retaliation to anticipation : reconciling reprisals and self-defense in the Middle East and Vietnam, 1949-1965 , Public discourses of international law : US debates on military intervention in Vietnam, 1965-1967 , Legality of military action by Egypt and Syria in October 1973 , Revolutionary war and the development of international humanitarian law , The war against the people and the people's war : Palestine and the additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions , "The third world is a problem" : arguments about the laws of war in the United States after the fall of Saigon , Operationalizing international law : from Vietnam to Gaza , From Vietnam to Palestine : peoples' tribunals and the juridification of resistance , War and the shaping of international law : from the Cold War to the war on terror
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    Administering justice : placing the Chief Justice in American state politics (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903696 , 0472903691
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 161 pages) , illustrations
    Keywords: Judges States ; Powers and duties ; Judges States ; Leadership ; Judicial power States ; State courts ; Justice, Administration of States ; State governments ; LAW / General
    Abstract: Administering Justice examines the leadership role of chief justices in the American states, including how those duties require chief justices to be part of the broader state political environment. Vining and Wilhelm focus extensively on the power of chief justices as public spokespersons, legislative liaisons, and reform leaders. In contrast to much existing research on chief justices in the states, this study weighs their extrajudicial responsibilities rather than intracourt leadership. By assessing the content of State of the Judiciary remarks delivered over a period of sixty years, Vining and Wilhelm are able to analyze the reform agendas advanced by chief justices and determine what factors influence the likelihood of success. These analyses confirm that chief justices engage with state politics in meaningful ways and that reactions to their proposals are influenced by ideological congruence with other political elites and the scope of their requests. Administering Justice also examines the chief justice position as an institution, provides a collective profile of its occupants, and surveys growing diversity among court leaders
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1. The Chief Justice as Institution -- 2. The Chief Justice as Individual -- Part 2 -- 3. The Chief Justice as Administrator -- 4. The Chief Justice as Advocate -- 5. The Chief Justice as Politician -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
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    Listening with a feminist ear : soundwork in Bombay cinema (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903665
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 263 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Keywords: Listening ; Social aspects ; Feminism and motion pictures ; India ; Mumbai ; Sound in motion pictures ; Voice in motion pictures ; Motion pictures ; Social aspects ; India ; Mumbai
    Abstract: Listening with a Feminist Ear is a study of the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema. Eschewing ocularcentric and siloed disciplinary formations, the book takes seriously the radical theoretical and methodological potential of listening. It models a feminist interpretive practice that is not just attuned to how power and privilege are materialized in sound, but that engenders new, counter-hegemonic imaginaries. Focusing on mainstream Bombay cinema, Sundar identifies singing, listening, and speaking as key sites in which gendered notions of identity and difference take form. Charting new paths through seven decades of film, media, and cultural history, Sundar identifies key shifts in women's playback voices and the Islamicate genre of the qawwali. She also conceptualizes spoken language as sound, and turns up the volume on a capacious, multilingual politics of belonging that scholarly and popular accounts of nation typically render silent. All in all, Listening with a Feminist Ear offers a critical sonic sensibility that reinvigorates debates about the gendering of voice and body in cinema, and the role of sound and media in conjuring community.
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    The persistence of dance : choreography as concept and material in contemporary art (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903894 , 0472903896
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Brannigan, Erin Persistence of dance
    Keywords: 1900-2099 ; Art and dance ; Choreography History 20th century ; Choreography History 21st century ; Modern dance History 20th century ; Modern dance History 21st century ; Art et danse ; Chorégraphie - Histoire - 20e siècle ; Chorégraphie - Histoire - 21e siècle ; Art and dance ; Choreography ; Modern dance ; PERFORMING ARTS / General ; History
    Abstract: There is a category of choreographic practice with a lineage stretching back to mid-20th century North America that has re-emerged since the early 1990s: dance as a contemporary art medium. Such work belongs as much to the gallery as does video art or sculpture and is distinct from both performance art and its history as well as from theater-based dance. The Persistence of Dance: Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art explores this history by looking at the continuities and differences between the second-wave dance avant-garde in the 1950s-1970s and the third-wave starting in the 1990s. Through close readings of key artists such as Maria Hassabi, Sarah Michelson, Boris Charmatz, Meg Stuart, Philip Gehmacher, Adam Linder, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Shelley Lasica and Latai Taumoepeau, The Persistence of Dance traces the relationship between the third-wave and gallery-based work. Looking at these artists highlights how the discussions and practices associated with 'conceptual dance' resonate with the categories of conceptual and post-conceptual art as well as with the critical work on the function of visual art categories. Brannigan concludes that within the current post-disciplinary context, there is a persistence of dance and that a model of post-dance exists that encompasses dance as a contemporary art medium
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    Bits and pieces : screening animal life and death (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903573 , 0472903578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 187 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 791.43662
    Keywords: Animals in motion pictures ; Animals on television ; Hunting in motion pictures ; Human-animal relationships in motion pictures
    Abstract: Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death gathers pivotal and more mundane moments, dispersed across a predominantly Western history of moving images, in which animals materialize in movies and TV shows, from iconic scenes of cattle slaughter in early Soviet montage to quandaries over hunting trophies in recent home-renovation reality TV series, to animals in Black horror films. Sarah O'Brien carefully views these fragments in dialogue with germinal texts at the intersection of animal studies, film and television studies, and cultural studies. She explores the capacity of moving images to unsettle the ways in which audiences have become habituated to viewing animal life and death on screens, and, more importantly, to understanding these images as more and less connected to the "production for consumption" of animals that is specific to modern industrialization. By looking back at films and TV series in which the places and practices of killing or keeping animals enter, occupy, or slip from the foreground, Bits and Pieces takes seriously the idea that cinema and television have the capacity not only to catch but to challenge and change viewers' regard for animals
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    Ohio under COVID : lessons from America's heartland in crisis (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903061 , 0472903063
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 327 pages) , illustrations (some color), color maps
    Keywords: COVID-19 (Disease) ; COVID-19 (Disease) Social aspects ; COVID-19 (Disease) Political aspects ; COVID-19 (Disease) Moral and ethical aspects ; COVID-19 (Disease) ; COVID-19 (Disease) - Political aspects ; COVID-19 (Disease) - Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Ohio
    Abstract: In early March of 2020, Americans watched with uncertain terror as the novel coronavirus pandemic unfolded. One week later, Ohio announced its first confirmed cases. Just one year later, the state had over a million cases and 18,000 Ohioans had died. What happened in that first pandemic year is not only a story of a public health disaster, but also a story of social disparities and moral dilemmas, of lives and livelihoods turned upside down, and of institutions and safety nets stretched to their limits. Ohio under COVID tells the human story of COVID in Ohio, America's bellwether state. Scholars and practitioners examine the pandemic response from multiple angles, and contributors from numerous walks of life offer moving first-person reflections. Two themes emerge again and again: how the pandemic revealed a deep tension between individual autonomy and the collective good, and how it exacerbated social inequalities in a state divided along social, economic, and political lines. Chapters address topics such as mask mandates, ableism, prisons, food insecurity, access to reproductive health care, and the need for more Black doctors. The book concludes with an interview with Dr. Amy Acton, the state's top public health official at the time COVID hit Ohio. Ohio under COVID captures the devastating impact of the pandemic, both in the public discord it has unearthed and in the unfair burdens it has placed on the groups least equipped to bear them
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    Lobbying the autocrat : the dynamics of policy advocacy in nondemocacies (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903221 , 0472903225
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lobbying the autocrat
    Keywords: Authoritarianism ; Lobbying Case studies ; Political planning ; Public interest groups ; Social action ; Government, Resistance to ; Authoritarianism ; Government, Resistance to ; Lobbying ; Political planning ; Public interest groups ; Social action ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Case studies
    Abstract: Although authoritarian countries often repress independent citizen activity, lobbying by civil society organizations is actually a widespread phenomenon. Using case studies such as China, Russia, Belarus, Cambodia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Turkey, and Zimbabwe, Lobbying the Autocrat shows that citizen advocacy organizations carve out niches in the authoritarian policy process, even influencing policy outcomes. The cases cover a range of autocratic regime types (one-party, multi-party, personalist) on different continents, and encompass different systems of government to explore citizen advocacy ranging from issues such as social welfare, women's rights, election reform, environmental protection, and land rights. They show how civil society has developed adaptive capacities to the changing levels of political repression and built resilience through 'tactful contention' strategies. Thus, within the bounds set by the authoritarian regimes, adaptive lobbying may still bring about localized responsiveness and representation. However, the challenging conditions of authoritarian advocacy systems identified throughout this volume present challenges for both advocates and autocrats alike. The former are pushed by an environment of constant threat and uncertainty into a precarious dance with the dictator: just the right amount of acquiescence and assertiveness, private persuasion and public pressure, and the flexibility to change quickly to suit different situations. An adaptive lobbyist survives and may even thrive in such conditions, while others often face dire consequences. For the autocrat on the other hand, the more they stifle the associational sphere in an effort to prevent mass mobilization, the less they will reap the informational benefits associated with it. This volume synthesizes the findings of the comparative cases to build a framework for understanding how civil society effectively lobbies inside authoritarian countries
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Introduction -- Part 2. Mobilization and Maintenance -- Part 3. Interest Communities -- Part 4. Strategies -- Part 5. Outcomes -- Part 6. Conclusion.
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    The Dybbuk century : the Jewish play that possessed the world (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903856 , 0472903853
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dybbuk century
    Keywords: An-Ski, S ; An-Ski, S Influence ; Dibeḳ (An-Ski, S.) ; 1900-1999 ; Yiddish drama History and criticism 20th century ; Hebrew drama History and criticism 20th century ; Hebrew drama ; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) ; Yiddish drama ; PERFORMING ARTS / General ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Abstract: A little over a hundred years ago, the first production of An-sky's The Dybbuk opened in Warsaw. In the century that followed, The Dybbuk became a theatrical conduit for a wide range of discourses about Jews, belonging, and modernity. This timeless Yiddish play about spiritual possession beyond the grave would go on to exert a remarkable and unforgettable impact on modern theater, film, literature, music, and culture. The Dybbuk Century collects essays from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the play's original Yiddish and Hebrew productions and offer critical reflections on the play's enduring influence. The collection will appeal to scholars, students, and theater practitioners, as well as general readers
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    Jamming the classroom : musical improvisation and pedagogical practice (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903757 , 0472903756
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Music and social justice
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Heble, Ajay, 1961- Jamming the classroom
    Keywords: Improvisation (Music) ; Music Instruction and study ; Music Social aspects ; Improvisation (Music) ; Music - Instruction and study ; Music - Social aspects ; MUSIC / General
    Abstract: Drawing on original interviews with improvising musicians, on critical pedagogy and cultural studies, and on the authors' personal histories with improvised music as a form of activism, community-based pedagogy, Jamming the Classroom examines how the teaching and learning of improvisational musical practices can be understood as vital and publicly resonant acts that generate new forms of knowledge, new understandings of identity and community, and new imaginative possibilities. The book takes its cue not just from the learning in conventional classrooms and credentialing institutions but also from the work that happens in and through broader communities of practice. Heble and Stewart ask how the improvisational practices of artists and the internal educational endeavors within community groups model--and enact--new forms of community-making and critical thinking, as well as what it means to theorize the pedagogy of improvised music in relation to public programs of action, debate, and critical practice and the context of material practices and struggles for institutional authority
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    Book of the disappeared : the quest for transnational justice (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903252
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 349 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: Ethnic conflict
    Series Statement: studies in nationality, race, and culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Book of the disappeared
    DDC: 323.49
    Keywords: Disappeared persons (International law) ; Disappeared persons Legal status, laws, etc ; Victims of state-sponsored terrorism Legal status, laws, etc ; Human rights ; Genocide ; Transitional justice ; Disappeared persons ; Disappeared persons Case studies ; Genocide Case studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights ; Disappeared persons ; Genocide ; Case studies ; Case studies
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Latin America's Contributions to the Development of Institutional Responses to Enforced Disappearances / , The Impact of Enforced Disappearance on Women / , Between Two Rivers / , Iraq : Enforced Disappearance as a Tool of War / , Extraordinary Rendition : a Human Rights Analysis / , Abu Ghraib / , Lives in Limbo : Afghanistan's Epidemic of Disappearances / , Vanishing Nation : Enforced Disappearances in Syria / , Do Not Forget Us, La Tanssana / , Politics of Silence and Denial : 1988 Enforced Disappearances and Executions in Iran / , The Eyes / , The Legacy of Wartime Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina / , Genocide of the Rohingya / , The Elephant and the Pond of Blood / , The Khmer Rouge Bureaucrats : Counting the Missing / , Lynch Fragments / , Our Resilient Bodies : the Role of Forensic Science and Medicine in Restoring the Disappeared to History / , In Between/Underneath (Entremedio/Por Debajo) / , Retributive or Restorative Justice : Gacaca Courts' Contribution to Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Genocide Rwanda / , MIA : Disappearing Political Analysis in Transnational Justice / , Stolen / , Story as Portal : Healing, Regeneration, and Possibility After Genocide / , The Psychology of Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Heroic Helpers /
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    Queer livability : German sexual sciences and life writing (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472902668
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 255 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
    DDC: 306.760893
    Keywords: Electronic books ; Deutschland ; Österreich ; Schweiz ; LGBT ; Sexualwissenschaft ; Geschlechterforschung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: This book brings together an exciting new archive of queer and trans voices from the history of sexual sciences in the German-speaking world. A new language to express possibilities of gender and sexuality emerged at the turn of the twentieth century, from Sigmund Freud's theories of homosexuality in Vienna to Magnus Hirschfeld's "third sex" in Berlin. Together, they provided a language of sex and sexuality that is still recognizable today. Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing shows that individual voices of trans and queer writers had a significant impact on the production of knowledge about gender and sexuality during this time and introduces lesser known texts to a new readership. It shows the remarkable power of queer life writing in imagining and creating the possibilities of a livable life in the face of restrictive legal, medical, and social frameworks.
    Abstract: Queer Livability: German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about LGBTQ+ history and literature. It also provides a fascinating insight into the historical roots for our thinking about gender and sexuality today. The book will be of relevance to an academic readership of students and faculty in German studies, literary studies, European history, and the interdisciplinary fields of gender and sexuality studies, medical humanities, and the history of sexuality.
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    The Fourth Amendment : original understandings and modern policing (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903719
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 420 Seiten)
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    Keywords: Jurisprudence & general issues ; Constitutional & administrative law ; Human rights ; Local government law ; USA Verfassung Amendment 4 1787
    Abstract: Police are required to obey the law. While that seems obvious, courts have lost track of that requirement due to misinterpreting the two constitutional provisions governing police conduct: the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Fourth Amendment forbids ""unreasonable searches and seizures"" and is the source of most constitutional constraints on policing. Although that provision technically applies only to the federal government, the Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in the wake of the Civil War, has been deemed to apply the Fourth Amendment to the States. This book contends that the courts’ misinterpretation of these provisions has led them to hold federal and state law enforcement mistakenly to the same constitutional standards. The Fourth Amendment was originally understood as a federalism, or “states’ rights,” provision that, in effect, required federal agents to adhere to state law when searching or seizing. Thus, applying the same constraint to the States is impossible. Instead, the Fourteenth Amendment was originally understood in part as requiring that state officials (1) adhere to state law, (2) not discriminate, and (3) not be granted excessive discretion by legislators. These principles should guide judicial review of modern policing. Instead, constitutional constraints on policing are too strict and too forgiving at the same time. In this book, Michael J.Z. Mannheimer calls for a reimagination of what modern policing could look like based on the original understandings of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments
    DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12158575
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    The medieval constitution of liberty : political foundations of liberalism in the West (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903351 , 0472903357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Salter, Alexander William Medieval constitution of liberty
    Keywords: Liberalism History ; Nation-state History ; Constitutional history ; Constitutional history ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Constitutional history ; Liberalism ; Nation-state ; History ; Europe ; Europe - Holy Roman Empire
    Abstract: Salter and Young point to the constitutional order that characterized the High Middle Ages. They provide a historical account of how this constitutional order evolved following the fall of the Western Roman Empire. This account runs from the settlements of militarized Germanic elites within the imperial frontiers, to the host of successor kingdoms in the sixth and seventh centuries, and through the short lived Carolingian empire of the late eighth and ninth centuries and the so called feudal anarchy that followed its demise
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. The Historical Backdrop -- Part 2. The Medieval Constitution: Theory and History -- Part 3. The Medieval Institutions of Liberty -- Part 4. The Rise of the Nation-State.
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    Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian medieval romance (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472220991
    Language: English
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    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism ; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
    Abstract: Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance offers a broad disciplinary, linguistic, and national focus by analyzing the literary depiction of Iberia in two European vernaculars that have rarely been studied together. Emily Houlik-Ritchey employs an innovative comparative methodology that integrates the understudied Castilian literary tradition with English literature. Intentionally departing from the standard "influence and transmission" approach, Imagining Iberia challenges that standard discourse with modes drawn from Neighbor Theory to reveal and navigate the relationships among three selected medieval romance traditions. This welcome volume uncovers an overemphasis in prior scholarship on the relevance of "crusading" agendas in medieval romance, and highlights the shared investments of Christians and Muslims in Iberia's political, creedal, cultural, and mercantile networks in the Mediterranean world
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    Walking the gendered tightrope : Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi as legislative leaders (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472076345 , 9780472056347
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 273 Seiten)
    Series Statement: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Haussman, Melissa, 1959 - Walking the gendered tightrope
    Keywords: Politics & government ; Comparative politics ; Management: leadership & motivation ; Gender studies, gender groups
    Abstract: Walking the Gendered Tightrope analyzes the gendered expectations for women in high offices through the examples of British Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Even at their highest positions, and while completing their greatest achievements, both May and Pelosi faced gendered critiques and intraparty challenges to their leadership. While other books have analyzed the barriers to higher office that women face, this book reveals how women in positions of power are still forced to balance feminine stereotypes with the perception of power as masculine in order to prove their legitimacy. By examining intraparty dynamics, this book offers a unique comparison between a majoritarian presidential and Westminster parliamentary system. While their parties promoted Pelosi and May to highlight their progressive values, both women faced continually gendered critiques about their abilities to lead their caucuses on difficult policy issues, such as the Affordable Care Act and two Trump impeachment votes for Nancy Pelosi, or finishing Brexit for Theresa May. Grounded in the legislative literature from the United States and Britain, as well as historical accounts and personal interviews, Walking the Gendered Tightrope contributes to the fields of gender and politics, legislative studies, American politics, and British politics
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    Rejuvenating Communism : Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780472902941
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (207 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Series Statement: China Understandings Today Series
    DDC: 305.2350951
    Keywords: Electronic books
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    Accustomed to obedience? : classical Ionia and the Aegean World, 480–294 BCE (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903870
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 270 Seiten) , Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nudell, Joshua P. Accustomed to obedience?
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    Keywords: Humanities ; Ancient history: to c 500 CE ; European history ; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval ; Griechenland ; Ionien ; Ägäis ; Geschichte 480-294 v. Chr.
    Abstract: Many histories of Ancient Greece center their stories on Athens, but what would that history look like if they didn’t? There is another way to tell this story, one that situates Greek history in terms of the relationships between smaller Greek cities and in contact with the wider Mediterranean. In this book, author Joshua P. Nudell offers a new history of the period from the Persian wars to wars that followed the death of Alexander the Great, from the perspective of Ionia. While recent scholarship has increasingly treated Greece through the lenses of regional, polis, and local interaction, there has not yet been a dedicated study of Classical Ionia. This book fills this clear gap in the literature while offering Ionia as a prism through which to better understand Classical Greece. This book offers a clear and accessible narrative of the period between the Persian Wars and the wars of the early Hellenistic period, two nominal liberations of the region. The volume complements existing histories of Classical Greece. Close inspection reveals that the Ionians were active partners in the imperial endeavor, even as imperial competition constrained local decision-making and exacerbated local and regional tensions. At the same time, the book offers interventions on critical issues related to Ionia such as the Athenian conquest of Samos, rhetoric about the freedom of the Greeks, the relationship between Ionian temple construction and economic activity, the status of the Panionion, Ionian poleis and their relationship with local communities beyond the circle of the dodecapolis, and the importance of historical memory to our understanding of ancient Greece. The result is a picture of an Aegean world that is more complex and less beholden narratives that give primacy to the imperial actors at the expense of local developments
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    Security. Cooperation. Governance : The Canada-United States open border paradox (2023)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903054 , 0472903055
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Security. Cooperation. Governance
    Keywords: Border security ; Border security ; Border security ; Sécurité frontalière - Région frontalière canado-américaine ; Sécurité frontalière - Canada ; Border security ; International relations ; Politics and government ; Security systems ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; United States Commerce ; Security measures ; Canada Commerce ; Security measures ; Canadian-American Border Region Security measures ; Canadian-American Border Region Politics and government ; United States Relations ; Canada Relations ; United States Commerce ; Security measures ; Canada Commerce ; Security measures ; Région frontalière canado-américaine - Sécurité - Mesures ; Canada - Relations - États-Unis ; États-Unis - Commerce - Canada - Sécurité - Mesures ; Canada - Commerce - États-Unis - Sécurité - Mesures ; Canada ; North America - Canadian-American Border Region ; United States
    Abstract: "Historically, national borders have evolved in ways that serve the interests of central states in security and the regulation of trade. This book explores the Canada and US border and security policies that have evolved from successive trade agreements since the 1950s, punctuated by new and emerging challenges to security in the twenty-first century. The sectoral and geographical diversity of crossborder interdependence of what remains the world's largest bilateral trade relationship makes the US and Canada border a living laboratory for studying the interaction of trade, security, and other border policies that challenge traditional centralized approaches to national security. The book's findings show that border governance straddles multiple regional, sectoral, and security scales in ways rarely documented in such detail. These developments have precipitated an Open Border Paradox: extensive, regionally varied flows of trade and people have resulted in a series of nested but interdependent security regimes that function on different scales and vary across economic and policy sectors. These realities have given rise to regional and sectoral specialization in related security regimes. For instance, just-in-time automotive production in the Great Lakes region varies considerably from the governance of maritime and intermodal trade (and port systems) on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, which in turn is quite different from commodity-based systems that manage diverse agricultural and food trade in the Canadian Prairies and U.S. Great Plains"--
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    Sōjiji : discipline, compassion, and enlightenment at a Japanese Zen temple (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472075362 , 9780472055364
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 300 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies Number 94
    Series Statement: Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Irizarry, Joshua Aaron, 1979- Sojiji
    DDC: 294.3/9270952
    Keywords: Sōjiji (Yokohama-shi, Japan) Case studies Social aspects ; Sōjiji (Yokohama-shi, Japan) History ; Zen Buddhism ; Monastic and religious life ; HISTORY / Asia / Japan ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General ; Sōji-ji ; Sōtō-Schule ; Tempel ; Ritus ; Alltag ; Religionsethnologie
    Abstract: Introduction: Sōjiji, the Forest for a Thousand Years -- Chapter 1. The History of Sōjiji -- Chapter 2. The Training of a Sōtō Zen Novice -- Chapter 3. Bearing the Mantle of Priesthood -- Chapter 4. Struggling for Enlightenment (While Keeping Your Day Job) -- Chapter 5. Performing Compassion Through Goeika Music -- Chapter 6. Making Ancestors Through Memorial Rituals -- Conclusion: For a Thousand Years -- Epilogue: In Perpetuity -- Afterward: Writing Sōjiji -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.
    Abstract: "Sōjiji is one of the two head temples of Sōtō Zen, the largest sect of Japanese Buddhism. The temple is steeped in centuries of culture and tradition, but it is very much rooted in the present and future, performing functions and catering to needs that reflect the changing demographic, social, and religious landscapes of contemporary Japan. Based on more than fifteen years of fieldwork, interviews, and archival research, Sōjiji: Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple immerses the reader in the lives and experiences of the different groups that comprise Sōjiji's contemporary religious community. Through clear and accessible prose, ethnographically-grounded analysis, and emotionally compelling stories, the reader will explore the rich pastiche of daily life and ritual activity at a major Japanese Zen temple in institutional, historical, and social context through the lived practices of its community of clergy, practitioners, parishioners, and visitors."
    Note: Includes glossary with terminology romanized and in Japanese script (pages 248-254) , Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-291) and index
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    New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia : Welcome to the Twenty-First Century (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472075232 , 9780472055234 , 9780472129973
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (364 p.)
    Keywords: Politics & government ; Urban & municipal planning ; Urban communities
    Abstract: New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century proposes new visions of global cities and regions historically considered “secondary” in the international context. The arguments are not only based on material progress made by these metropolises, but also on the growing social difficulties experienced (e.g., organized crime, drug trafficking, slums, economic inequalities). The book illustrates the growth of cities according to these problems arising from the modernity of the new century, comparing Latin American and Asian cities. This book analyzes the complex relationships within cities through an interdisciplinary approach, complementing other research and challenging orthodox views on global cities. At the same time, the book provides new theoretical and methodological tools to understand the progress of “Third World” cities and the way of understanding “globality” in the 21st century by confronting the traditional views with which global cities were appreciated since the 1980s. Pablo Baisotti brings together researchers from various fields who provide new interpretative keys to certain cities in Latin America and Asia
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    Normalization in world politics (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472129775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Visoka, Gëzim Normalization in world politics
    Keywords: Political stability ; International relations ; World politics ; Great powers Foreign relations ; Political ethics ; Stabilité politique ; Relations internationales ; Politique mondiale ; Grandes puissances - Relations extérieures ; Morale politique ; international relations ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European ; Diplomatic relations ; Great powers - Foreign relations ; Political ethics ; Developing countries Foreign relations ; Developing countries
    Abstract: As we face new challenges from climate change and the rise of populism in Western politics and beyond, there is little doubt that we are entering a new configuration of world politics. Driven by nostalgia for past certainties or fear of what is coming next, references to normalcy have been creeping into political discourse lately, with people either vying for a return to a past normalcy or coping with the new normal. The normal and quest of normalcy thus are emerging as central features of how GeÌ⁸zim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-He̹bert make sense of the world , but there has been little explicit effort to conceptualize and unpack their meanings in practice. This book traces main discourses and practices associated with normalcy in world politics. Visoka and Lemay-He̹bert mostly focus on how dominant states and international organizations try to manage global affairs through imposing normalcy over fragile states, restoring normalcy over disaster-affected states, and accepting normalcy over suppressive states. They show how discourses and practices come together in constituting normalization interventions and how in turn they play in shaping the dynamics of continuity and change in world politics
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    Collecting lives : critical data narrative as modernist aesthetic in early twentieth-century U.S. literatures (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472902637 , 0472902636
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Digital culture books
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rodrigues, Elizabeth Collecting lives
    Keywords: American literature Data processing 20th century ; American literature Research 20th century ; Methodology ; Modernism (Literature) Aesthetics 20th century ; Littérature américaine - 20e siècle - Recherche - Méthodologie ; American literature - Research - Methodology ; Biography - Data processing ; Biography - Research - Methodology ; LITERARY CRITICISM / General ; United States Biography 20th century ; Data processing ; United States Biography 20th century ; Research ; Methodology ; United States
    Abstract: On a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms draw from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting and shaping the paths of our lives. Data is commonly assumed to bring us closer to objectivity, but the narrative paths these algorithms assign seem, more often than not, to replicate biases about who an individual is and could become. While the social effects of such algorithmic logics seem new and newly urgent to consider, Collecting Lives looks to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century US to provide an instructive prehistory to the underlying question of the relationship between data, life, and narrative. Rodrigues contextualizes the application of data collection to human selfhood in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century US in order to uncover a modernist aesthetic of data that offers an alternative to the algorithmic logic pervading our sense of data's revelatory potential. Examining the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Rodrigues asks how each of these authors draw from their work in sociology, history, psychology, and journalism to formulate a critical data aesthetic as they attempt to answer questions of identity around race, gender, and nation both in their research and their life writing. These data-driven modernists not only tell different life stories with data, they tell life stories differently because of data
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    Mortal kombat : games of death (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472902620 , 0472902628
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Landmark video games
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Church, David, 1982- Mortal kombat
    Keywords: Mortal Kombat (Game) ; Video games Social aspects ; Video games History ; Jeux vidéo - Aspect social - États-Unis ; Jeux vidéo - États-Unis - Histoire ; Mortal Kombat (Game) ; Video games ; Video games - Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; United States
    Abstract: Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway's Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent "fatality" moves performed by photorealistically rendered characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series directly inspired the creation of an industrywide rating system for video games and became a referendum on the wide popularity of 16-bit home consoles. Along the way, it became one of the world's most iconic fighting games, and a transmedia franchise that continues to this day. This book traces Mortal Kombat's history as an American product inspired by both Japanese video games and Chinese martial-arts cinema, its successes and struggles in adapting to new market trends, and the ongoing influence of its secret-strewn narrative world. After outlining the specific elements of gameplay that differentiated Mortal Kombat from its competitors in the coin-op market, David Church examines the various martial-arts films that inspired its Orientalist imagery, helping explain its stereotypical uses of race and gender. He also posits the games as a cultural landmark from a moment when public policy attempted to intervene in both the remediation of cinematic aesthetics within interactive digital games and in the transition of public gaming spaces into the domestic sphere. Finally, the book explores how the franchise attempted to conquer other forms of media in the 1990s, lost ground to a new generation of 3D games in the 2000s, and has successfully rebooted itself in the 2010s to reclaim its legacy
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    Vidding : a history (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472902590 , 0472902598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Coppa, Francesca Vidding
    Keywords: Internet videos Production and direction ; Internet videos Social aspects ; Fans (Persons) ; Vidéos sur Internet - Aspect social ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Fans (Persons)
    Abstract: "Vidding is a well-established remix practice where fans edit an existing film, music video, TV show, or other performance and set it to music of their choosing. Vids emerged forty years ago as a complicated technological feat involving capturing footage from TV with a VCR and syncing with music-and their makers and consumers were almost exclusively women, many of them queer women. The technological challenges of doing this kind of work in the 1970s and 80s when vidding began gave rise to a rich culture of collective work, as well as conventions of creators who gathered to share new work and new techniques. While the rise of personal digital technology eventually made vids simple to create, the collective aspect of the culture grew even stronger with the advent of YouTube, Vimeo, and other channels for sharing work. Vidding: A History emphasizes vidding as a critical, feminist form of fan practice. Working outward from interviews, VHS liner notes, convention programs, and mailing list archives, Coppa offers a rich history of vidding communities as they evolved from the 1970s through to the present. Built with the classroom in mind, the open-access electronic version of this book includes over one-hundred vids and an appendix that includes additional close readings of vids"--
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    International security in a world of fragile states : Islamic states and Islamist organizations (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472902897 , 047290289X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ibrahimi, Yaqub International security in a world of fragile states
    Keywords: Qaida (Organization) ; IS (Organization) ; IS (Organization) ; Qaida (Organization) ; Terrorism ; Terrorism Religious aspects ; Islam ; Security, International ; Terrorisme - Aspect religieux - Islam ; Terrorisme - Pays musulmans ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Terrorism ; Terrorism - Religious aspects - Islam ; Islamic countries
    Abstract: Following the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, DC, there has been an increasing interest among scholars, students, and the interested public to study and learn about the Islamist-oriented terrorist organizations called Jihadi Salafi Groups (JSGs). Considering that these organizations emerged in highly fragile states, S. Yaqub Ibrahimi asks: how and why is state fragility linked to the emergence of JSGs?Ibrahimi bases his study on three events: the establishment of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 1998, the rise of international security in the post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, and the failed al-Qaeda effort to establish a base in Saudi Arabia in 2003. These case studies contain major aspects and features of the rise of JSGs and, together, explain the contribution of state fragility to the process of the formation and expansion of these terrorist organizations.International Security in a World of Fragile States stands out as a pivotal work on the interconnection between the root causes of JSGs and state fragility conditions and their amalgamated role in the formation and evolution of these organizations. It fills the gap by developing a comprehensive but readily understandable narrative of the rise of JSGs in Islamic countries, and examining them in an analytical framework in which their root causes are categorized on individual, group, and international levels
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    Torture, Humiliate, Kill : Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472132966 , 9780472039043 , 9780472129928
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (276 p.)
    Keywords: Politics & government ; War crimes ; Human rights ; European history
    Abstract: Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak Muslim and Bosnian Croat neighbors to torture, abuse, and killing. Foreign journalists exposed the horrors of the camps in the summer of 1992, sparking worldwide outrage. This exposure, however, did not stop the mass atrocities. Hikmet Karčić shows that the use of camps and detention facilities has been a ubiquitous practice in countless wars and genocides in order to achieve the wartime objectives of perpetrators. Although camps have been used for different strategic purposes, their essential functions are always the same: to inflict torture and lasting trauma on the victims. Torture, Humiliate, Kill develops the author’s collective traumatization theory, which contends that the concentration camps set up by the Bosnian Serb authorities had the primary purpose of inflicting collective trauma on the non-Serb population of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This collective traumatization consisted of excessive use of torture, sexual abuse, humiliation, and killing. The physical and psychological suffering imposed by these methods were seen as a quick and efficient means to establish the Serb “living space.” Karčić argues that this trauma was deliberately intended to deter non-Serbs from ever returning to their pre-war homes. The book centers on multiple examples of experiences at concentration camps in four towns operated by Bosnian Serbs during the war: Prijedor, Bijeljina, Višegrad, and Bileća. Chosen according to their political and geographical position, Karčić demonstrates that these camps were used as tools for the ethno-religious genocidal campaign against non-Serbs. Torture, Humiliate, Kill is a thorough and definitive resource for understanding the function and operation of camps during the Bosnian genocide
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    (Post-)colonial Archipelagos : Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472133161 , 9780472038848
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (382 p.)
    Keywords: Politics & government ; Colonialism & imperialism ; History of the Americas ; European history
    Abstract: "The Puerto Rican debt crisis, the challenges of social, political, and economic transition in Cuba, and the populist politics of Duterte in the Philippines—these topics are typically seen as disparate experiences of social reality. Though these island territories were colonized by the same two colonial powers—by the Spanish Empire and, after 1898, by the United States—research in the fields of history and the social sciences rarely draws links between these three contexts. Located at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from the US, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines to examine the colonial legacies of the three island nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Instead of focusing on the legacies of US colonialism, the continuing legacies of Spanish colonialism are put center-stage. The analyses offered in the volume yield new and surprising insights into the study of colonial and postcolonial constellations that are of interest not only for experts, but also for readers interested in the social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines during Spanish colonization and in the present. The empirical material profits from a rigorous and systematic analytical framework and is thus easily accessible for students, researchers, and the interested public alike."
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    The development of political institutions : power, legitimacy, democracy (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472129652 , 0472129651 , 0472902784 , 9780472902781
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ferrara, Federico Development of political institutions
    Keywords: Political development History ; Political development Psychological aspects ; Political development Cross-cultural studies ; Développement politique - Histoire ; Développement politique - Aspect psychologique ; Développement politique - Études transculturelles ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Political development ; Geschiedenis ; Democratie ; Cross-cultural studies ; History
    Abstract: "While the literature on "new institutionalism" explains the stability of institutional arrangements within countries and the divergence of paths of institutional development between countries, Federico Ferrara improves upon existing explanations of the development of political institutions, taking a "historical institutionalist" approach to theorize dynamic processes of institutional reproduction, institutional decay, and institutional change. With regard to each of these outcomes, Ferrara synthesizes "power-based" or "power-distributional" explanations and "ideas-based" "legitimation explanations." Among his more significant contributions, he specifies the psychological "microfoundations" of processes of institutional development, drawing heavily from the findings of experimental psychology to ensure that the explanation is grounded in clear and realistic assumptions regarding human motivation, cognition, and behavior. Aside from being of interest to scholars and graduate students in political science and other social-scientific disciplines whose research concentrates on the genesis of political institutions, their evolution over time, and/or their impact on the stability of political order and the quality of governance, the book may feature as required reading in graduate courses and seminars in comparative politics where the study of institutions and their development ranks among the subfield's most important subjects"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Institutional Development: The Dynamics of Power and (De)legitimation -- Institutional Reproduction: Path Dependence and the Dynamic Stability of Politics -- Institutional Decay: The Logic of Self-Undermining Processes -- Institutional Change: The Incremental Logic of Political Development -- Institutional Engineering: The Purposive Design of Political Institutions.
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    Normalization in World Politics (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472132898 , 9780472039012 , 9780472129775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 p.)
    Keywords: Politics & government ; International relations
    Abstract: The imposition of normalcy on fragile states and crises and its implications for world politics
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    Compound Containment : A Reigning Power's Military-Economic Countermeasures against a Challenging Power (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472132980 , 9780472039005 , 9780472129942
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (212 p.)
    Keywords: Diplomacy ; Warfare & defence
    Abstract: When does a reigning great power of the international system supplement military containment of a challenging power by restricting its economic exchanges with that state? Scholars of great power politics have traditionally focused on examining a reigning power’s military containment of a challenging power. In direct contrast, Compound Containment demonstrates that these conventional studies are flawed without a sound understanding of the multilayered aspects of containment strategy in great power politics. Since economic capacity and military power are intimately linked to one another, countering a challenging power requires addressing both economic and military dimensions. Nonetheless, this nexus of security and economy in a reigning power’s response to a challenging power cannot be explained by traditional theories that dominate research in international security. Author Dong Jung Kim fills a gap in the scholarship on great power competition by investigating when a reigning power will make its military containment of a challenging power “compound” by simultaneously employing restrictive economic measures. Its main theoretical claims are corroborated by an analysis of key historical cases of reigning power-challenging power competition. This book also offers policy prescriptions for the United States by examining whether the United States is in a position to complement military containment of China with restrictive economic measures
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    International security in a world of fragile states : Islamic states and Islamist organizations (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472902897
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 219 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Terrorismus ; Terrorist ; Dschihadismus ; Militanz ; Islam ; Fundamentalismus ; Gruppenbildung ; Gründung ; Einrichtung ; Personenvereinigung ; Failed State ; Begrenzte Staatlichkeit ; Politics & government ; International relations ; Islamische Staaten
    Abstract: Following the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington, DC, there has been an increasing interest among scholars, students, and the interested public to study and learn about the Islamist-oriented terrorist organizations called Jihadi Salafi Groups (JSGs). Considering that these organizations emerged in highly fragile states, S. Yaqub Ibrahimi asks: how and why is state fragility linked to the emergence of JSGs? Ibrahimi bases his study on three events: the establishment of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 1998, the rise of Islamic State in the post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, and the failed al-Qaeda effort to establish a base in Saudi Arabia in 2003. These case studies contain major aspects and features of the rise of JSGs and, together, explain the contribution of state fragility to the process of the formation and expansion of these terrorist organizations. International Security in a World of Fragile States stands out as a pivotal work on the interconnection between the root causes of JSGs and state fragility conditions and their amalgamated role in the formation and evolution of these organizations. It contributes to IR and international security debates by developing a comprehensive but readily understandable narrative of the rise of JSGs in Islamic countries, and examining them in an analytical framework in which their root causes are categorized on individual, group, and international levels.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 189-211, Register , Fragile states and Jihadi Salafi Groups in the Islamic world , Root causes of al-Qaeda , Condition of the rise of al-Qaeda , Root causes of IS , Condition of the rise of IS , Causes of al-Qaeda revolt in Saudi Arabia , Conditions of Al-Qaeda revolt , English
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    Struggles for political change in the Arab world : regimes, oppositions, and external actors after the Spring (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472902965
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 467 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Struggle for Political Change in the Arab World (Veranstaltung : 2019 : Stanford, Calif.) Struggles for political change in the Arab world
    Keywords: Politischer Wandel ; Demokratisierung ; Herrschaft ; Politische Mobilisierung ; Politischer Konflikt ; Innenpolitik ; Außenpolitik ; Einflussnahme ; Politics & government ; Political structures: democracy ; Political control & freedoms ; Arabische Staaten
    Abstract: The advent of the Arab Spring in late 2010 was a hopeful moment for partisans of progressive change throughout the Arab world. Authoritarian leaders who had long stood in the way of meaningful political reform in the countries of the region were either ousted or faced the possibility of political if not physical demise. The downfall of long-standing dictators as they faced off with strong-willed protesters was a clear sign that democratic change was within reach. Throughout the last ten years, however, the Arab world has witnessed authoritarian regimes regaining resilience, pro-democracy movements losing momentum, and struggles between the first and the latter involving regional and international powers. This volume explains how relevant political players in Arab countries among regimes, opposition movements, and external actors have adapted ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring. It includes contributions on Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen, and Tunisia. It also features studies on the respective roles of the United States, China, Iran, and Turkey vis-à-vis questions of political change and stability in the Arab region, and includes a study analyzing the role of Saudi Arabia and its allies in subverting revolutionary movements in other countries.
    Note: Literaturangaben, Register , Regime strategies of control , Authoritarian narratives and practices in Egypt , The people vs. the palace : power and politics in Morocco since 2011 , Kuwait's changing landscape : palace projects and the decline of rule by consensus , The decay of family rule in Saudi Arabia , Syria's repressive peace , Opposition mobilization strategies and obstacles to reform , Mobilization without movement : opposition and youth activism in Jordan , Cycles of contention in Lebanon , Algeria : anatomy of a revolutionary situation , The nexus of patronage, petrol, and population in Iraq , Understanding the roots, dynamics, and potential of an "impossible" revolution : the prospects and challenges of democratization in Sudan , Tunisia : the challenges of party consolidation and the specter of authoritarian reversal , Examining Yemen's post-2011 trajectory : from reform to war to many Yemens , Transnational influences , U.S. influence on Arab regimes4dfrom reluctant democracy supporter to authoritarian enabler , Chinese soft power projection in the Arab world : from the Belt and Road Initiative to global pandemic response , Iran's culture wars in the Arab world , The Arab counter-revolution : the formation of a regional alliance to undermine the Arab Spring , Myths of expansion : Turkey's changing policy in the Arab world , English
    DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12237894
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    Governing abroad : coalition politics and foreign policy in Europe (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472075409 , 9780472055401 , 9780472220267
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 237 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Koalition ; Außenpolitik ; Innenpolitik ; Politisches System ; Einflussgröße ; Partei ; Politische Einstellung ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Fallstudie ; Politics & government ; Political parties ; International relations ; Europa
    Abstract: From Austria to New Zealand, coalition governments often pave the road to foreign policy. In Western Europe, nearly 90 percent of postwar governments include two or more political parties. Israel, the Middle East's only consolidated democracy according to many, has never experienced single-party rule in its history. Even the United Kingdom, known for its long streak of single-party rule, now navigates multiparty cabinets. Coalitions are everywhere, but we still have little understanding of how they act in foreign affairs. History shows that coalitions can sometime engage in powerful international commitments such as participating in military operations, but at other times, they postpone their decisions, water down their policy positions, or promise to do less than they otherwise would. What explains these differences in behavior? Governing Abroad unpacks the little-known world of coalition governments to find out. Oktay argues that the specific constellation of parties in government explains why some coalitions can make more assertive foreign policy decisions than others. Building on the rich literature in political science on coalitions, legislatures, and voting behavior, the book weaves together sophisticated statistical analyses of foreign policy events across thirty European countries alongside in-depth case studies from Denmark, the Netherlands, and Finland. It brings political parties back into the study of foreign policy, demonstrating that the size of the coalition, the ideological proximity of the governing parties, and their relationship with the parliamentary opposition together influence the government's ability to act in the international arena. This book challenges our existing perceptions about the constraints and weaknesses of coalition governments. It sheds new light on the conditions that allow them to act decisively abroad.
    Note: Why study coalition governments in foreign policy? , The constraints and opportunities of coalition foreign policy , From parties to coalitions , Reaching across the aisle , When foreign policy spills over , Loyal to whom? : Finland's decision to join the Eurozone , English
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    First nationalism then identity : on Bosnian Muslims and their Bosniak identity (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | New York, NY : JSTOR
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    ISBN: 9780472902880 , 0472902881
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Ethnic conflict
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kriještorac, Mirsad First nationalism then identity
    DDC: 305.6970949742
    Keywords: Muslims Ethnic identity ; Muslims History ; Nationalism ; Group identity ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / European Studies ; Ethnic relations ; Group identity ; Muslims ; Muslims - Ethnic identity ; Nationalism ; Politics and government ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; History ; Bosnia and Herzegovina Ethnic relations ; History ; Bosnia and Herzegovina Politics and government ; Bosnia and Herzegovina ; History.
    Abstract: First Nationalism Then Identity focuses on the case of Bosnian Muslims, a rare historic instance of a new nation emerging. Although for Bosnian Muslims the process of national emergence and the assertion of a new salient identity have been going on for over two decades, Mirsad Kriještorac is the first to explain the significance of the whole process and how the adoption of their new Bosniak identity occurred. He provides a historical overview of Yugoslav and Bosnian Slavic Muslims' transformation into a full-fledged distinct and independent national group as well as addresses the important question in the field of nationalism studies about the relationship between and workings of nationalism and identity. While this book is noteworthy for ordinary readers interested in the case of Bosnian Muslims, it is an important contribution to the scholarly debate on the role of nationalism in the political life of a group and adds an interdisciplinary perspective to comparative politics scholarship by drawing from anthropology, history, geography, and sociology...
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    First nationalism then identity : on Bosnian Muslims and their Bosniak identity (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472075508 , 9780472055500
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 330 Seiten) , Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Ethnic conflict$dstudies in nationality, race, and culture
    Keywords: Bosnier ; Muslim ; Identität ; Gruppenidentität ; Identitätsentwicklung ; Nationalismus ; Gesellschaft ; Entwicklung ; Bevölkerungsgruppe ; Staat ; Diaspora ; Politics & government ; Nationalism ; Bosnien-Herzegowina
    Abstract: First Nationalism Then Identity focuses on the case of Bosnian Muslims, a rare historic instance of a new nation emerging. Although for Bosnian Muslims the process of national emergence and the assertion of a new salient identity have been going on for over two decades, Mirsad Kriještorac is the first to explain the significance of the whole process and how the adoption of their new Bosniak identity occurred. He provides a historical overview of Yugoslav and Bosnian Slavic Muslims' transformation into a full-fledged distinct and independent national group as well as addresses the important question in the field of nationalism studies about the relationship between and workings of nationalism and identity. While this book is noteworthy for ordinary readers interested in the case of Bosnian Muslims, it is an important contribution to the scholarly debate on the role of nationalism in the political life of a group and adds an interdisciplinary perspective to comparative politics scholarship by drawing from anthropology, history, geography, and sociology.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 286-323, Register , Nationalism, nation, maybe state … and identity : theorizing nationalism and its relation to a group's salient idenity , A short history of Bosnian Muslim groupness , The three pillars of Bosnian Muslim nationalism , Mapping the Bosnian Muslim diaspora sample , Analysis of U.S. Bosnian Muslim diaspora survey data : frequencies and distributions , Results of the test of interactions between nationalism and desired salient identity , English
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    Governing abroad : coalition politics and foreign policy in Europe (2022)
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    ISBN: 0472902857 , 9780472902859
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Oktay, Sibel Governing abroad
    Keywords: Since 1945 ; Coalition governments ; Political parties ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Coalition governments ; Diplomatic relations ; Political parties ; Europe Foreign relations 1945- ; Europe - Relations extérieures - 1945- ; Europe
    Abstract: From Austria to New Zealand, coalition governments often pave the road to foreign policy. In Western Europe, nearly 90 percent of postwar governments include two or more political parties. Israel, the Middle East's only consolidated democracy according to many, has never experienced single-party rule in its history. Even the United Kingdom, known for its long streak of single-party rule, now navigates multiparty cabinets. Coalitions are everywhere, but we still have little understanding of how they act in foreign affairs. History shows that coalitions can sometime engage in powerful international commitments such as participating in military operations, but at other times, they postpone their decisions, water down their policy positions, or promise to do less than they otherwise would. What explains these differences in behavior?Governing Abroad unpacks the little-known world of coalition governments to find out. Oktay argues that the specific constellation of parties in government explains why some coalitions can make more assertive foreign policy decisions than others. Building on the rich literatures in political science on coalitions, legislatures, and voting behavior, the book weaves together sophisticated statistical analyses of foreign policy events across thirty European countries alongside in-depth case studies from Denmark, the Netherlands, and Finland. It brings political parties back into the study of foreign policy, demonstrating that the size of the coalition, the ideological proximity of the governing parties, and their relationship with the parliamentary opposition together influence the government's ability to act in the international arena. This book challenges our existing perceptions about the constraints and weaknesses of coalition governments. It sheds new light on the conditions that allow them to act decisively abroad
    Description / Table of Contents: Why Study Coalition Governments in Foreign Policy? -- The Constraints and Opportunities of Coalition Foreign Policy: Moving beyond the Dichotomy -- From Parties to Coalitions: Explaining Foreign Policy Commitments in Post Cold War Europe -- Reaching across the Aisle: Danish Commitments during the 1990 and 2003 Wars in Iraq -- When Foreign Policy Spills Over: Dutch Support for the 2003 Iraq War -- Loyal to Whom? Finland's Decision to Join the Eurozone -- Governing Together, Abroad: Conclusions and Implication.
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    The repoliticization of the welfare state (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 0472902865 , 9780472902866
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als McManus, Ian P Repoliticization of the welfare state
    Keywords: 2000-2099 ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Political aspects ; Welfare state History 21st century ; Recessions History 21st century ; Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009 - Aspect politique - Europe ; État providence - Pays de l'Union européenne - Histoire - 21e siècle ; Récessions - Europe - Histoire - 21e siècle ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Recessions ; Welfare state ; History ; Europe ; European Union countries
    Abstract: "The Repoliticization of the Welfare State grapples with the evolving nature of political conflict over social spending after the Great Recession. While the severity of the economic crisis encouraged strong social spending responses to protect millions of individuals, governments have faced growing pressure to reduce budgets and make deep cuts to the welfare state. Whereas conservative parties have embraced fiscal discipline and welfare state cuts, left-wing parties have turned away from austerity in favor of higher social spending. These political differences represent a return of traditional left-right beliefs over social spending and economic governance. This book is one of the first to systematically compare welfare state politics before and after the Great Recession, arguing that a new and lasting post-crisis dynamic has emerged where political parties once again matter for social spending. At the heart of this repoliticization are intense ideological debates over market regulation, social inequality, redistribution, and the role of the state. The book analyzes social spending dynamics for 28 countries before and after the crisis. It also includes in-depth country case studies representing five distinct welfare state types: Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, and the Czech Republic"
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-219) and index , The Realignment of Welfare State Politics , Crisis and the Politics of Social Spending , The European Union , Germany: Continental European Welfare State , United Kingdom: Liberal Welfare State , Sweden: Nordic Welfare State , Spain: Southern European Welfare State , -Czech Republic: Eastern European Welfare State , Conclusion.
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    The language(s) of politics : multilingual policy-making in the European Union (2022)
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    ISBN: 9780472902736
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 264 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Ringe, Nils, 1977 - The language(s) of politics
    DDC: 306.446094
    Keywords: European Union Language ; European Union ; Multilingualism Political aspects ; Political planning ; Translating and interpreting Political aspects ; Language and languages ; Multilingualism ; Political aspects ; Political planning ; Politics and government ; Translating and interpreting ; Political aspects ; European Union countries Politics and government ; European Union countries ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Europäische Union ; Politisches System ; Politische Planung ; Mehrsprachigkeit
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    Delegating responsibility : international cooperation on migration in the European Union (2022)
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    ISBN: 9780472902798
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 232 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Micinski, Nicholas R. Delegating responsibility
    DDC: 304.840090512
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    Queer voices in hip hop : cultures, communities, and contemporary performance (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472903016
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    Series Statement: Tracking pop
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    Keywords: Geschlechtsidentität ; Hip-Hop ; Rapmusiker ; LGBT ; Geschlechterforschung ; USA ; USA ; Rapmusiker ; Rapmusiker ; Hip-Hop ; LGBT ; Geschlechtsidentität ; Geschlechterforschung
    DOI: 10.3998/mpub.11306619
    DOI: 10.1353/book.103295
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    Queer voices in hip hop : cultures, communities, and contemporary performance (2022)
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    ISBN: 9780472055685 , 9780472075683
    Language: English
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    Keywords: Geschlechtsidentität ; Hip-Hop ; Rapmusiker ; LGBT ; Geschlechterforschung ; USA ; Rap (Music) / History and criticism ; Hip-hop / History and criticism ; Gay musicians / United States ; Lesbian musicians / United States ; Transgender musicians / United States ; African American gays ; African American lesbians ; African American bisexuals ; African American transgender people ; Gender-nonconforming people / United States ; Queer musicology ; Gender identity in music ; Queer theory ; USA ; Rapmusiker ; Rapmusiker ; Hip-Hop ; LGBT ; Geschlechtsidentität ; Geschlechterforschung
    Abstract: "Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapper as a Black, masculine, heterosexual, cisgender man who enacts a narrative of struggle and success. In Queer Voices in Hip Hop, Lauron Kehrer turns our attention to openly queer and trans rappers and positions them within a longer Black queer musical lineage. Combining musical, textual, and visual analysis with reception history, this book reclaims queer involvement in hip hop by tracing the genre's beginnings within Black and Latinx queer music-making practices and spaces, demonstrating that queer and trans rappers draw on Ballroom and other cultural expressions particular to queer and trans communities of color in their work in order to articulate their subject positions. By centering the performances of openly queer and trans artists of color, Queer Voices in Hip Hop reclaims their work as essential to the development and persistence of hip hop in the United States as it tells the story of the of hip hop's queer roots"
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. "I don't have any secrets I need kept anymore": Out in hip-hop -- Hip-hop's queer roots: Disco, house, and early hip-hop -- Queer articulations in ballroom rap -- "The bro code"" Black queer women and female masculinity in rap -- "Nice for what": New Orleans bounce and disembodied queer voices in the mainstream -- Outro. "Call me by your name": Demarginalizing queer hip-hop
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    For the culture : Hip-Hop and the fight for social justice (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472132867
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 334 Seiten , Diagramme (schwarz-weiß)
    Series Statement: Music and social justice
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.48424
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Rap ; Politische Bewegung ; Hip-Hop ; Rap (Music) / Political aspects ; Rap (Music) / Social aspects ; Social justice ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hip-Hop ; Rap ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Politische Bewegung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: "For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice documents and analyzes the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods, the contributors in this volume demonstrate that rap music can positively influence political behavior and fight to change social injustices, and then zoom in on artists whose work has accomplished these ends. The volume explores topics including education and pedagogy; the Black Lives Matter movement; the politics of crime, punishment, and mass incarceration; electoral politics; gender and sexuality; and the global struggle for social justice. Ultimately, the book argues that hip hop is much more than a musical genre or cultural form: hip hop is a resistance mechanism.
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    Empire and environment : ecological ruin in the Transpacific (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472902996
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (323 pages cm)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Empire and environment
    DDC: 809/.933582
    Keywords: American literature Asian American authors ; History and criticism ; Pacific Island literature History and criticism ; American literature Asian American authors ; History and criticism ; Ecocriticism in literature ; Environmentalism in literature ; Postcolonialism in literature ; Decolonization in literature ; Literary criticism ; Essays
    Abstract: "Empire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the ecological work of activists, artists, and intellectuals across the transpacific region. Taking a postcolonial, ecocritical approach to confronting ecological ruin in an age of ecological crises and environmental catastrophes on a global scale, the collection demonstrates how Asian North American, Asian diasporic, and Indigenous Pacific Island cultural expressions critique a de-historicized sense of place, attachment, and belonging. In addition to its thirteen body chapters from scholars who span the Pacific, each part of this volume begins with a poem by Craig Santos Perez. The volume also features a foreword by Macarena Gómez-Barris and an afterword by Priscilla Wald"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Out of the ruins / Macarena Gómez-Barris -- Introduction: Confronting ecological ruination in the transpacific / Jeffrey Santa Ana, Heidi Amin-Hong, Rina Garcia Chua, and Zhou Xiaojing -- Part I. (Framing) postcolonial ecocritical approaches to the Asia-Pacific -- Excerpt from "Family Trees" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez -- Transpacific queer ecologies: ecological ruin, imperialist nostalgia, and indigenous erasure in Han Ong's The Disinherited / Jeffrey Santa Ana -- Cycas wadei and enduring white space / Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez -- Rust and recovery: a study of South Indian goddess films / Chitra Sankaran -- "If we return we will learn": empire, poetry, and biocultural knowledge in Papua New Guinea / John Charles Ryan -- Part II. Militarized Environments -- "Nuclear Family" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez -- Environmental violence and the Vietnam War in lê thi diem thúy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For / Emily Cheng -- Toxic waters: Vietnamese ecologies in the afterlives of empire / Heidi Amin-Hong -- Haunted by empires: Micronesian ecopoetry against colonial ruination / Zhou Xiaojing -- Part III. Decolonizing the transpacific: settler colonialism and indigenous resistance -- "Praise Song for Oceania" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez -- Risk and resistance at Pōhakuloa / Rebecca H. Hogue -- "Disentrancing" the rot of colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry / Rina Garcia Chua -- Representing postcolonial water environments in contemporary Taiwanese literature / Ti-Han Chang -- Part IV. Climate Justice and Ecological Futurities -- "Age of Plastic" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez -- Climate justice in the transpacific novel / Amy Lee -- Rising like waves: drowning settler colonial rhetoric with Aloha / Emalani Case -- Imperial debris, vibrant matter: plastic in the hands of Asian American and Kanaka Maoli artists / Chad Shomura -- Afterword: "A New Way beyond the Darkness" / Priscilla Wald -- Contributors -- Index.
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    Radicalization in theory and practice : understanding religious violence in Western Europe (2022)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472902835
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 286 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.625094
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; Electronic books
    DOI: 10.3998/mpub.12202059
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    Lawyers beyond borders : advancing international human rights through local laws and courts (2021)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472038855 , 9780472132560
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 247 Seiten , Diagramme
    Keywords: Human rights advocacy ; Human rights ; Civil rights lawyers Cases ; Lawyers, Foreign ; International law ; Menschenrechtsverletzung ; Advocacy ; Menschenrecht ; Schutz ; Strafverfolgung ; Strafverfahren ; Erde
    Note: Tabelle, Literaturverzeichnis Seite 213-234, Literaturhinweise Seite 163-211, Index , Lawyers beyond borders : introduction and overview , The seeds of a rights revolution , Litigation as recovery : the birth of the Center for Justice and Accountability , The Burmese connection , Rights and redress in a "war on terror" , Private military profits and the search for justice , The new impunity , The globalization of justice , Retrauma and resilience : the dynamics of clients and counsel , The making, unmaking, and remaking of a rights revolution
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    Secular power Europe and Islam : identity and foreign policy (2021)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472132539 , 9780472128884
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 185 Seiten , 23 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wolff, Sarah, 1982 - Secular power Europe and Islam
    DDC: 323.38297094
    Keywords: Religion and international relations ; Secularism ; Diplomacy ; Religion ; Islam ; Politik ; Kollektive Sicherheit ; Vorstellung ; Europe Foreign relations ; Islamic countries Foreign relations ; Naher Osten ; Mittlerer Osten ; Nordafrika
    Abstract: Secular Power Europe and Islam argues that secularism is not the central principle of international relations but should be considered as one belief system that influences international politics. Through an exploration of Europe's secular identity, an identity that is seen erroneously as normative, author Sarah Wolff shows how Islam confronts the EU's existential anxieties about its security and its secular identity. Islam disrupts Eurocentric assumptions about democracy and revolution and human rights. Through three case studies, Wolff encourages the reader to unpack secularism as a bedrock principle of IR and diplomacy. This book argues that the EU's interest and diplomacy activities in relation to religion, and to Islam specifically, is shaped by the insistence on a European secular identity, which should be reconsidered in areas of religion and foreign policy.
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    Theater as data : computational journeys into theater research (2021)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472128631 , 0472128639
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Escobar, Miguel Theater as data
    DDC: 792.072/7
    Keywords: Theater Research ; Data processing ; Theater Research ; Methodology ; Computers in the theater ; Computers in the theater
    Abstract: "In Theater as Data, Miguel Escobar Varela explores the use of computational methods and digital data in theater research. He considers the implications of these new approaches, and explains the roles that statistics and visualizations play. Reflecting on recent debates in the humanities, the author suggests that there are two ways of using data, both of which have a place in theater research. Data-driven methods are closer to the pursuit of verifiable results common in the sciences; and data-assisted methods are closer to the interpretive traditions of the humanities. The book surveys four major areas within theater scholarship: texts (not only playscripts but also theater reviews and program booklets); relationships (both the links between fictional characters and the collaborative networks of artists and producers; motion (the movement of performers and objects on stage); and locations (the coordinates of performance events, venues, and touring circuits). Theater as Data examines important contributions to theater studies from similar computational research, including in classical French drama, collaboration networks in Australian theater, contemporary Portuguese choreography, and global productions of Ibsen. This overview is complemented by short descriptions of the author's own work in the computational analysis of theater practices in Singapore and Indonesia. The author ends by considering the future of computational theater research, underlining the importance of open data and digital sustainability practices, and encouraging readers to consider the benefits of learning to code. A web companion offers illustrative data, programming tutorials, and videos"--
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    Brushed in light : calligraphy in East Asian cinema (2021)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472902439 , 0472902431 , 9780472128914 , 0472128914
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Nornes, Markus Brushed in light
    Keywords: Calligraphy in motion pictures ; Motion pictures History ; Credit titles (Motion pictures, television, etc.) ; Motion pictures Aesthetics ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Calligraphy ; Motion pictures ; History ; East Asia
    Abstract: Introduction -- Shufa/Seoye/Shodo -- Transformations -- Defining Calligraphy -- Force and Form -- A Prop unlike Any Other -- The Shimmering Smudge -- Brushed in Light.
    Abstract: "Brushed in Light examines how the brushed word appears in films and in film cultures of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and PRC cinemas. This includes silent era intertitles, subtitles, title frames, letters, graffiti, end titles, and props. Professor Nornes also looks at the role calligraphy plays in film culture at large, from gifts to correspondence to advertising. The book begins with a historical dimension, tracking how calligraphy is initially used in early cinema and how it is continually rearticulated by transforming conventions and the integration of new technologies. It then considers how cinematic writing presents the peculiarities of calligraphy as resources for innovative screenwriters and filmmakers. These chapters ask how calligraphy creates new meaning in cinema, as well as providing a demonstration of how this all works in a single film. The last part of the book moves to other regions of theory, particularly questions surrounding the cinematization of the handwritten word"--
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    Saving new sounds : podcast preservation and historiography (2021)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472901241 , 0472901249
    Language: English
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Saving new sounds
    Keywords: Podcasts Conservation and restoration ; Podcasts Archival resources ; Podcasting History ; Digital audio broadcasting ; Podcasting ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; History
    Abstract: "Over seventy-five million Americans listen to podcasts every month, and the average weekly listener spends over six hours tuning into podcasts from the more than thirty million podcast episodes currently available. Yet despite the excitement over podcasting, the sounds of podcasting's nascent history are vulnerable and they remain mystifyingly difficult to research and preserve. Podcast feeds end abruptly, cease to be maintained, or become housed in proprietary databases, which are difficult to search with any rigor. Podcasts might seem to be highly available everywhere, but it's necessary to preserve and analyze these resources now, or scholars will find themselves writing, researching, and thinking about a past they can't fully see or hear. This collection gathers the expertise of leading and emerging scholars in podcasting and digital audio in order to take stock of podcasting's recent history and imagine future directions for the format. Essays trace some of the less amplified histories of the format and offer discussions of some of the hurdles podcasting faces nearly twenty years into its existence. Using their experiences building and using the PodcastRE database-one of the largest publicly accessible databases for searching and researching podcasts-the volume editors and contributors reflect on how they, as media historians and cultural researchers, can best preserve podcasting's booming audio cultures and the countless voices and perspectives podcasting adds to our collective soundscape"--
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    European-Russian power relations in turbulent times (2021)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472128358 , 0472128353 , 9780472902538 , 0472902539
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als European-Russian power relations in turbulent times
    Keywords: POLITICAL SCIENCE ; General ; International relations ; Europe Relations ; Russia (Federation) Relations ; Europe ; Russia (Federation)
    Abstract: "The Russia-Europe relationship is deteriorating, signaling the darkest era yet in security on the continent since the end of the Cold War. In addition, the growing influence of the Trump administration has destabilized the transatlantic security community, compelling Europe-especially the European Union-to rethink its relations with Russia. The volume editors' primary goal is to illuminate the nature of the deteriorating security relationship between Europe and Russia, and the key implications for its future. While the book is timely, the editors and contributors also draw out long-term lessons from this era of diplomatic degeneration to show how increasing cooperation between two regions can devolve into rapidly escalating conflict. While it is possible that the relationship between Russia and Europe can ultimately be restored, it is also necessary to understand why it was undermined in the first place. The fact that these transformations occur under the backdrop of an uncertain transatlantic relationship makes this investigation all the more pressing. Each chapter in this volume addresses three dimensions of the problem: first, how and why the power status quo that had existed since the end of the Cold War has changed in recent years, as evidenced by Russia's newly aggressive posturing; second, the extent to which the EU's power has been enabled or constrained in light of Russia's actions; and third, the risks entailed in Europe's reactive power-that is, the tendency to act after-the-fact instead of proactively toward Russia-in light of the transatlantic divide under Trump"--
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    Being human during COVID (2021)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472902507 , 0472902504
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 411 pages) , illustrations (some color)
    Series Statement: Michigan humanities collaboratory
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Being human during COVID
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- Social aspects ; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- ; Human beings Philosophy ; Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020- - Aspect social ; Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020- ; Homme - Philosophie ; Human beings - Philosophy ; Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; essays ; Essays ; Essais ; Essay ; Essay
    Abstract: Science has taken center stage during the COVID-19 crisis; scientists named and diagnosed the virus, traced its spread, and worked together to create a vaccine in record time. But while science made the headlines, the arts and humanities were critical in people's daily lives. As the world went into lockdown, literature, music, and media became crucial means of connection, and historians reminded us of the resonance of the past as many of us heard for the first time about the 1918 influenza pandemic. As the twindemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice, embodied in mass protests following the death of George Floyd and other police-committed violence, tore through the United States, a contested presidential race unfolded, which one candidate described as "a battle for the soul of the nation." Being Human During COVID' documents the first year of the pandemic in real time, bringing together humanities scholars from the University of Michigan to address what it feels like to be human during the COVID-19 crisis. Over the course of the pandemic, the questions that occupy the humanities-about grieving and publics, the social contract and individual rights, racial formation and xenophobia, ideas of home and conceptions of gender, narrative and representations and power-have become shared life-or-death questions about how human societies work and how culture determines our collective fate. The contributors in this collection draw on scholarly expertise and lived experience to try to make sense of the unfamiliar present in works that range from traditional scholarly essays, to personal essays, to visual art projects. The resulting book is shot-through with fear and dread and frustration and prejudice, and, on a few occasions, with a thrilling sense of hope
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    Sound changes : improvisation and transcultural difference (2021)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472132423
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 271 Seiten , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Improvisation ; Sozialisation ; Interkulturalität ; Improvisation (Music) / Social aspects ; Improvisation (Music) / Cross-cultural studies ; Music / Social aspects ; MUSIC / History & Criticism ; Improvisation (Music) ; Music / Social aspects ; Cross-cultural studies ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Improvisation ; Sozialisation ; Interkulturalität
    Abstract: "Sound Changes responds to a need in improvisation studies for more work that addresses the diversity of global improvisatory practices and argues that by beginning to understand the particular, material experiences of sonic realities that are different from our own, we can address the host of other factors that are imparted or sublimated in performance. These factors range from the intimate affect associated with a particular performer's capacity to generate a distinctive "voicing," or the addition of an unexpected sonic intervention only possible with one particular configuration of players in a specific space and time. Through a series of case studies drawn from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania, Sound Changes offers readers an introduction to a range of musical expressions across the globe in which improvisation plays a key role and the book demonstrates that improvisation is a vital site for the production of emergent social relationships and meanings. As it does this work, Sound Changes situates the increasingly transcultural dimensions of improvised music in relation to emergent networks and technologies, changing patterns of migration and immigration, shifts in the political economy of music, and other social, cultural, and economic factors. Improvisation studies is a recently developed, but growing, interdisciplinary field of study. The discipline-which has only truly come into focus in the early part of the twenty-first century-has been building a lexicon of key terms and developing assumptions about core practices. Yet, the full breadth of improvisatory practices has remained a vexed, if not impossibly ambitious, subject of study. This volume offers a step forward in the movement away from critical tendencies that tend to homogenize and reduce practices and vocabularies in the name of the familiar"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface. Field Notes on Cultural Difference in Improvised Music / John Corbett -- Introduction. Sound Changes : Improvisation and Transcultural Difference / Daniel Fischlin and Eric Porter -- Grooving with the Gnawa : Jazz, Improvisation, and Transdiasporic Collaboration / Jason Robinson -- Improvisation and the Politics of Nueva Canción Activism / Kirstie Dorr -- "We Are the Ones Who Are Impatient" : Improvising Resistance and Resilience in Jordanian Hip-Hop and Rap / Beverley Milton-Edwards -- Nomadic Improvising and Sites of Difference / Sally Macarthur and Waldo Garrido -- "That Which Exceeds Recognition" : Sound and Gesture in Hassan Khan's Dom Tak and Jewel / Jemm a DeCristo -- Improvising Mythoi and Difference in the Asian/Woman More-Than-Tinge / Mike Heff ley -- Upaj : Improvising within Tradition in Kathak Dance / Monica Dalidowicz -- Ode B'kongofon / Hafez Modirzadeh -- Afterword. Sound Changes : The Future Is Dialogue / Daniel Fischlin and Eric Porter
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    Embodied Archive : Disability in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production (2021)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press | Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE
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    ISBN: 9780472128846 , 9780472038503 , 9780472902422
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)
    Series Statement: Corporealities: discourses of disability
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    Keywords: Racism 20th century ; Race in mass media ; People with disabilities Social conditions ; People with disabilities in mass media ; Social conditions ; Racism ; Race in mass media ; People with disabilities Social conditions ; People with disabilities in mass media ; Mexico Social conditions 20th century ; Mexico ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "Embodied Archive focuses on perceptions of disability and racial difference in Mexico's early post-revolutionary period, from the 1920s to the 1940s. In this period, Mexican state-sponsored institutions charged with the education and health of the population sought to strengthen and improve the future of the nation, and to forge a more racially homogeneous sense of collective identity and history. Influenced by regional and global movements in eugenics and hygiene, Mexican educators, writers, physicians, and statesmen argued for the widespread physical and cognitive testing and categorization of schoolchildren, so as to produce an accurate and complete picture of "the Mexican child," and to carefully monitor and control forms of unwanted difference, including disability and racialized characteristics. Differences were not generally marked for eradication-as would be the case in eugenics movements in the US, Canada, and parts of Europe-but instead represented possible influences from a historically distant or immediate reproductive past, or served as warnings of potential danger haunting individual or collective futures. Weaving between the historical context of Mexico's post-revolutionary period and our present-day world, Embodied Archive approaches literary and archival documents that include anti-alcohol and hygiene campaigns; projects in school architecture and psychopedagogy; biotypological studies of urban schoolchildren and indigenous populations; and literary approaches to futuristic utopias or violent pasts. It focuses in particular on the way disability is represented indirectly through factors that may have caused it in the past or may cause it in the future, or through perceptions and measurements that cannot fully capture it. In engaging with these narratives, the book proposes an archival encounter, a witnessing of past injustices and their implications for the disability of our present and future"--...
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    Sex, identity, aesthetics : the work of Tobin Siebers and disability studies (2021)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    DDC: 305.908
    Keywords: Siebers, Tobin Criticism and interpretation ; Siebers, Tobin ; Disability studies ; Sex (Psychology) ; Identity (Philosophical concept) ; Aesthetics ; Aesthetics ; Disability studies ; Identity (Philosophical concept) ; Sex (Psychology) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "The late Tobin Siebers was a pioneer of, and one of the most prominent thinkers in, the field of disability studies. His scholarship on sexual and intimate affiliations, the connections between structural location and coalitional politics, and the creative arts has shaped disability studies and continues to be widely cited. Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies uses Siebers' work as a launchpad for thinking about contemporary disability studies. The editors provide an overview of Siebers' research to show how it has contributed to humanistic understandings of ability and disability along three key axes: sex, identity, and aesthetics. The first section of the book explores how disability provides a way for scholars to theorize a wider range of intimacies and relationalities, arguing that disabled people seek sexual access and revolution in ways that transgress heteronormative dictates on sexual propriety. The second part of the book works outward from Siebers' work to looks at how disability broadens our concepts of social location and political affiliations. The final section examines how disability challenges traditional notions of artistic beauty and agency. Rather than being a strictly commemorative collection meant to mark the end of a major scholar's career, this collection shows how Siebers' foundational work in disability studies remains central to and continues to inspire scholars in the field today"--
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    Listening to the Lomax Archive : the sonic rhetorics of African American folksong in the 1930s (2021)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472038558
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 240 Seiten , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1940 ; Volkslied ; Afroamerikanische Musik ; Schwarze ; USA ; Lomax, John A. / Jr / (John Avery) / 1907-1974 ; Lomax, Alan / 1915-2002 ; African Americans / Music / History and criticism ; Folk songs, English / United States / History and criticism ; Folk songs, English / United States / Texts / History and criticism ; African American prisoners / Songs and music / History and criticism ; United States / History / 1933-1945 ; Lomax, Alan / 1915-2002 ; Lomax, John A. / Jr / (John Avery) / 1907-1974 ; African Americans / Music ; Folk songs, English ; United States ; 1933-1945 ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; USA ; Schwarze ; Volkslied ; Afroamerikanische Musik ; Geschichte 1930-1940
    Abstract: In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record the folksong of the "American Negro" in several southern African-American prisons. Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s asks how the Lomaxes' field recordings-including their prison recordings and a long-form oral history of jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton-contributed to a new mythology of Americana for a nation in the midst of financial, social, and identity crises. Jonathan W. Stone argues that folksongs communicate complex historical experiences in a seemingly simple package, and can thus be a key element-a sonic rhetoric-for interpreting the ebb and flow of cultural ideals within contemporary historical moments. He contends that the Lomaxes, aware of the power folk music, used the folksongs they collected to increase national understanding of and agency for the subjects of their recordings (including the reconstitution of prevailing stereotypes about African American identity) even as they used the recordings to advance their own careers. Listening to the Lomax Archive gives readers the opportunity to listen in on these seemingly contradictory dualities, demonstrating that they are crucial to the ways that we remember and write about the subjects of the Lomaxes archive and other repositories of historicized sound
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    The truth machines : policing, violence, and scientific interrogations in India (2020)
    Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
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    ISBN: 9780472074396 , 9780472054398 , 9780472126477
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 250 Seiten
    Series Statement: Law, meaning, and violence
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lokaneeta, Jinee The truth machines
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    Keywords: Police ; Police questioning ; Lie detectors and detection ; Forensic sciences ; Torture Goverment policy ; Violence Government policy
    Abstract: "Using case studies and the results of extensive fieldwork, this book considers the nature of state power and legal violence in liberal democracies by focusing on the interaction between law, science, and policing in India. The postcolonial Indian police have often been accused of using torture in both routine and exceptional criminal cases, but they, and forensic psychologists, have claimed that lie detectors, brain scans, and narcoanalysis (the use of "truth serum," Sodium Pentothal) represent a paradigm shift away from physical torture; most state high courts in India have upheld this rationale. The Truth Machines examines the emergence and use of these three scientific techniques to analyze two primary themes. First, the book questions whether existing theoretical frameworks for understanding state power and legal violence are adequate to explain constant innovations of the state. Second, it explores the workings of law, science, and policing in the everyday context to generate a theory of state power and legal violence, challenging the monolithic frameworks about this relationship, based on a study of both state and non-state actors. Jinee Lokaneeta argues that the attempt to replace physical torture with truth machines in India fails because it relies on a confessional paradigm that is contiguous with torture. Her work also provides insights into a police institution that is founded and refounded in its everyday interactions between state and non-state actors. Theorizing a concept of Contingent State, this book demonstrates the disaggregated, and decentered nature of state power and legal violence, creating possible sites of critique and intervention"--
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    Music on the move (2020)
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    ISBN: 9780472126781 , 0472126784 , 9780472901289 , 0472901281
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 308 pages) , illustrations (some color), maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fosler-Lussier, Danielle, 1969- Music on the move
    Keywords: Music Social aspects ; Dissemination of music ; Music and globalization ; Dissemination of music ; Music and globalization ; Music ; Social aspects ; MUSIC / General
    Abstract: Migration. Colonialism in Indonesia : Music Moving with an Occupying Force ; The Romani Diaspora in Europe : Mutual Influences ; The African Diaspora in the United States : Appropriation and Assimilation -- Mediation. Sound Recording and the Mediation of Music ; Music and Media in the Service of the State -- Mashup. Composing the Mediated Self ; Copyright, Surveillance, and the Ownership of Music ; Localizations : Mediated Selves Mixing Musics -- Conclusion: Violence, Difference, and Peacemaking in a Globalized World.
    Abstract: "Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding, and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. Above all, music continually changes as it crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation. With its innovative multimodal approach, Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music's travels-with or without its makers-including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music. Over one hundred audiovisual examples throughout the book demonstrate the application of particular concepts, and six interactive digital maps visually present music's global reach"--
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    Scriptures, shrines, scapegoats, and world politics : religious sources of conflict and cooperation in the modern era (2020)
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    ISBN: 9780472126439 , 0472126431 , 9780472901234 , 0472901230
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Maoz, Zeev Scriptures, shrines, scapegoats, and world politics
    Keywords: Religion and international relations ; Religion and politics ; World politics ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; Religion and international relations ; Religion and politics ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Religion and world politics -- theory and evidence -- Scholarship on religion and world politics : a critical review of the literature -- Religion and world politics : an integrated theoretical perspective -- The religious landscape of the world 1945-2010 -- Religion and international conflict -- Religion and international cooperation -- Religion and civil war -- Religion and quality of life -- Conclusion: The complex role of religion in world politics.
    Abstract: "The effect of religious factors on politics has been a key issue since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent rise of religious terrorism. However, the systematic investigations of these topics have focused primarily on the effects of religion on domestic and international conflict. Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics offers a comprehensive evaluation of the role of religion in international relations, broadening the scope of investigation to such topics as the relationship between religion and cooperation, religion and conflict, and the relationship between religion and the quality of life. Religion is often manipulated by political elites to advance their principal goal of political survival. Zeev Maoz and Errol A. Henderson find that no specific religion is either consistently more bellicose or consistently more cooperative than other religions. However, religious similarity between states tends to reduce the propensity of conflict and increase the opportunity for security cooperation. The authors find a significant relationship between secularism and human security"--
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    Transformations of Sensibility : The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature (2020)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (375 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies. Covering an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (1868–1912), it presents sophisticated analyses of the ways that experiments in literary language produced multiple new—and sometimes revolutionary—forms of sensibility and subjectivity. Along the way, Kamei Hideo carries on an extended debate with Western theorists such as Saussure, Bakhtin, and Lotman, as well as with such contemporary Japanese critics as Karatani Kojin and Noguchi Takehiko. Transformations of Sensibility deliberately challenges conventional wisdom about the rise of modern literature in Japan and offers highly original close readings of works by such writers as Futabatei Shimei, Tsubouchi Shoyo, Higuchi Ichiyo, and Izumi Kyoka, as well as writers previously ignored by most scholars. It also provides a new critical theorization of the relationship between language and sensibility, one that links the specificity of Meiji literature to broader concerns that transcend the field of Japanese literary studies. Available in English translation for the first time, it includes a new preface by the author and an introduction by the translation editor that explain the theoretical and historical contexts in which the work first appeared
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    The Kagero Diary : A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan (2020)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (433 p.)
    Keywords: Sociology & anthropology
    Abstract: Japan is the only country in the world where women writers laid the foundations of classical literature. The Kagero Diary commands our attention as the first extant work of that rich and brilliant tradition. The author, known to posterity as Michitsuna’s Mother, a member of the middle-ranking aristocracy of the Heian period (794–1185), wrote an account of 20 years of her life (from 954–74), and this autobiographical text now gives readers access to a woman’s experience of a thousand years ago. The diary centers on the author’s relationship with her husband, Fujiwara Kaneie, her kinsman from a more powerful and prestigious branch of the family than her own. Their marriage ended in divorce, and one of the author’s intentions seems to have been to write an anti-romance, one that could be subtitled, “I married the prince but we did not live happily ever after.” Yet, particularly in the first part of the diary, Michitsuna’s Mother is drawn to record those events and moments when the marriage did live up to a romantic ideal fostered by the Japanese tradition of love poetry. At the same time, she also seems to seek the freedom to live and write outside the romance myth and without a husband. Since the author was by inclination and talent a poet and lived in a time when poetry was a part of everyday social intercourse, her account of her life is shaped by a lyrical consciousness. The poems she records are crystalline moments of awareness that vividly recall the past. This new translation of the Kagero Diary conveys the long, fluid sentences, the complex polyphony of voices, and the floating temporality of the original. It also pays careful attention to the poems of the text, rendering as much as possible their complex imagery and open-ended quality. The translation is accompanied by running notes on facing pages and an introduction that places the work within the context of contemporary discussions regarding feminist literature and the genre of autobiography and provides detailed historical information and a description of the stylistic qualities of the text
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    Central Documents and Politburo Politics in China (2020)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (217 p.)
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    Abstract: Virtually every analysis of Chinese politics views the Politburo as the nerve center of the system, but questions abound as to how this center governs itself and how it interacts with the system around it. Specifically, how much consultation occurs during the drafting of major Politburo documents, and who is brought into this process? How is information channeled up to this body, and what are the rules that govern the access of the Politburo members themselves to data generated by the bureaucracies? How are the political strategies of individual leaders and political factions attuned to this system of information channeling? What types of decisions are reached by the Politburo? To whom are they communicated? How rigidly must they be followed? How institutionalized is this entire decision making system, and has it become more—or less—institutionalized over the years? How has the factional legacy of the Cultural Revolution affected its mode of operations? Indeed, in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, how much in control of the system has the Politburo itself been? Central Documents in Politburo Politics in China seeks to better understand these questions by analyzing a particular stream of largely bureaucratic communications in the Chinese system: the so-called “Central Documents” (CDs). This is a series of documents through which the top Party leadership directly communicates with the rest of the political system. [1]
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    Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History : The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft (2020)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (373 p.)
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    Abstract: While following the probes of foreign individuals into various obscure parts of Southeast Asia over the centuries is a diverting and entertaining pastime, the purpose of this volume is to investigate this past with the mind, to question and postulate upon the historical patterns that have developed from earlier study of the area, and to bring concepts from other areas and disciplines to bear on the existing information. The product of this effort, as it is encompassed in this volume, is not an attempt at the definitive study of any of the topics. It is rather a series of speculations on the directions feasible for the further study of the Southeast Asian past. As such, the answers proposed in these essays are really questions. Are the ideas presented here true within the specific historical contexts for which they have been developed? If so, can we use these ideas, or variations of them, to interpret the history of other parts of Southeast Asia? If not, what other ideas may be brought to bear on these situations in order to understand them? The ultimate aim of this volume is thus a challenge to the profession at large not only to criticize what we have done, but also to go beyond our postulations and create new ones. [xi]
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    Conversations with Shotetsu (2020)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (237 p.)
    Keywords: Literature: history & criticism
    Abstract: Shotetsu monogatari was written by a disciple of Shotetsu (1381–1459), whom many scholars regard as the last great poet of the courtly tradition. The work provides information about the practice of poetry during the 14th and 15th centuries, including anecdotes about famous poets, advice on how to treat certain standard topics, and lessons in etiquette when attending or participating in poetry contests and gatherings. But unlike the many other works of that time that stop at that level, Shotetsu’s contributions to medieval aesthetics gained prominence, showing him as a worthy heir—both as poet and thinker—to the legacy of the great poet-critic Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241). The last project of the late Robert H. Brower, Conversations with Shôtetsu provides a translation of the complete Nihon koten bungaku taikei text, as edited by Hisamatsu Sen'ichi. Steven D. Carter has annotated the translation and provided an introduction that details Shôtetsu’s life, his place in the poetic circles of his day, and the relationship of his work to the larger poetic tradition of medieval Japan. Conversations with Shotetsu is important reading for anyone interested in medieval Japanese literature and culture, in poetry, and in aesthetics. It provides a unique look at the literary world of late medieval Japan
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    Nineteenth-Century China : Five Imperialist Perspectives (2020)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (83 p.)
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    Abstract: Materials from the past that wrongly anticipate the future, or present information or judgments that are later proved misleading or erroneous, are sometimes overlooked in reconstructing the past. Yet such documents are as legimiate, and perhaps as important, as those that are vindicated by events or continue to share perspectives with later generations. The five documents reproduced in Nineteenth-Century China are typical of the periods from which they come, but each was overtaken or contradicted by events. Collected with a belief in the legitimacy of attempting to see every period as much as possible in its own terms, these texts offer a glimpse of what China looked like and suggested to Englishmen on the spot in Canton and Hong Kong in the first half of the nineteenth century, and how they viewed their own country and its role vis-à-vis the China they observed. The first two texts in Nineteenth-Century China exemplify the imperialist mind's eagerness to explore the world, to get a picture of all of its parts, and as rapidly as possible to "open" all areas to the benificent influence of the West, notably through an expanded commerce that would enrich its Western masters. Samuel Ball's "Observations" (1817) show how much detailed information was available to Westerners and what the mercantile British were after, and an anonymous dissertation (1838) provides an example of the dream of the China as El Dorado: an immense population of eager traders, hard workers, and willing buyers. The third text (1845) is an early foreshadowing by a colonial official, R. M. Martin, of Western imperial arguments, rationalizations, and attitudes that would become common fifty years later. The fourth selection consists of an exchange of correspondence in 1847 about British access to and use of land in the vicinity of Canton. A short statement of purpose (1848) from the Morrison Education Society, demonstrating a missionary enterprise combining Christian evangelism and English education, concludes the book
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    Aryan and Non-Aryan in India (2020)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (329 p.)
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    Abstract: In holding the January 1981 auto conference, the Center took it as their task to begin addressing the critical issues facing the industry, with particular, but not exclusive, attention to examining the role of the Japanese auto industry. They had in mind not to simply conduct a rational discussion of the trade issue but to probe the sources of Japanese competitive strength, especially those features whose study might profit them
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    The Ming Dynasty : Its Origins and Evolving Institutions (2020)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (119 p.)
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    Abstract: In the latter half of the fourteenth century, at one end of the Eurasian continent, the stage was not yet set for the emergence of modern nation-states. At the other end, the Chinese drove out their Mongol overlords, inaugurated a new native dynasty called Ming (1368–1644), and reasserted the mastery of their national destiny. It was a dramatic era of change, the full significance of which can only be perceived retrospectively. With the establishment of the Ming dynasty, a major historical tension rose into prominence between more absolutist and less absolutist modes of rulership. This produced a distinctive style of rule that modern students have come to call Ming despotism. It proved a capriciously absolutist pattern for Chinese government into our own time. [1, 2 ,3]
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    A Translation of Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching and Wang Pi’s Commentary (2020)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (231 p.)
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    Abstract: During the Spring-Autumn period (722–420 BCE) and the time of the Warring States (480–222 CE), China was in great turmoil. Intellectuals and social reformers sifted through their wisdom and knowledge of China’s experiences up to then, attempting to find a solution to their situation. The Tao Te Ching, one of the foremost products of the era, is a metaphysical book, a source of the highest political thought. Many readers have found in it representations of the highest ideals of human endeavors. Yet given its likely oral origin and the technological limitations of its early textual transmission, the Tao Te Ching raises numerous questions related to authorship, date of origin, internal organization, textual coherence, and editorial history. Of the scores of translations of the Tao Te Ching, the great majority are based on the edition prepared by the third-century scholar Wang Pi. Wang’s profound commentary is itself a deeply influential text in the development of Taoist thought. Paul Lin presents the commentary, otherwise unavailable in English, in the form of footnotes accompanying his meticulous rendition of the Taoist classic
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    Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan (2020)
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    Abstract: For centuries, scholars have wondered what daily life was like for the common people of Japan, especially for long bygone eras such as the ancient age (700–1150). Using the discipline of historical demography, William Wayne Farris shows that for most of this era, Japan’s overall population hardly grew at all, hovering around six million for almost five hundred years. The reasons for the stable population were complex. Most importantly, Japan was caught up in an East Asian pandemic that killed both aristocrat and commoner in countless numbers every generation. These epidemics of smallpox, measles, mumps, and dysentery decimated the adult population, resulting in wide-ranging social and economic turmoil. Famine recurred about once every three years, leaving large proportions of the populace malnourished or dead. Ecological degradation of central Japan led to an increased incidence of drought and soil erosion. And war led soldiers to murder innocent bystanders in droves. Under these harsh conditions, agriculture suffered from high rates of field abandonment and poor technological development. Both farming and industry shifted increasingly to labor-saving technologies. With workers at a premium, wages rose. Traders shifted from the use of money to barter. Cities disappeared. The family was an amorphous entity, with women holding high status in a labor-short economy. Broken families and an appallingly high rate of infant mortality were also part of kinship patterns. The average family lived in a cold, drafty dwelling susceptible to fire, wore clothing made of scratchy hemp, consumed meals just barely adequate in the best of times, and suffered from a lack of sanitary conditions that increased the likelihood of disease outbreak. While life was harsh for almost all people from 700 to 1150, these experiences represented investments in human capital that would bear fruit during the medieval epoch (1150–1600)
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    State of Empowerment : Low-Income Families and the New Welfare State (2020)
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    Keywords: Politics & government ; Central government
    Abstract: On weekday afternoons, dismissal bells signal not just the end of the school day but also the beginning of another important activity: the federally funded after-school programs that offer tutoring, homework help, and basic supervision to millions of American children. Nearly one in four low-income families enroll a child in an after-school program. Beyond sharpening students’ math and reading skills, these programs also have a profound impact on parents. In a surprising turn—especially given the long history of social policies that leave recipients feeling policed, distrusted, and alienated—government-funded after-school programs have quietly become powerful forces for political and civic engagement by shifting power away from bureaucrats and putting it back into the hands of parents. In State of Empowerment Carolyn Barnes uses ethnographic accounts of three organizations to reveal how interacting with government-funded after-school programs can enhance the civic and political lives of low-income citizens
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    American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54 (2020)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (311 p.)
    Keywords: Politics & government ; Diplomacy
    Abstract: Between December 1953 and June 1954, the elite think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) joined prominent figures in International Relations, including Pennsylvania’s Robert Strausz-Hupé, Yale’s Arnold Wolfers, the Rockefeller Foundation’s William Thompson, government adviser Dorothy Fosdick, and nuclear strategist William Kaufmann. They spent seven meetings assessing approaches to world politics—from the “realist” theory of Hans Morgenthau to theories of imperialism of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin—to discern basic elements of a theory of international relations. The study group’s materials are an indispensable window to the development of IR theory, illuminating the seeds of the theory-practice nexus in Cold War U.S. foreign policy. Historians of International Relations recently revised the standard narrative of the field’s origins, showing that IR witnessed a sharp turn to theoretical consideration of international politics beginning around 1950, and remained preoccupied with theory. Taking place in 1953–54, the CFR study group represents a vital snapshot of this shift This book situates the CFR study group in its historical and historiographical contexts, and offers a biographical analysis of the participants. It includes seven preparatory papers on diverse theoretical approaches, penned by former Berkeley political scientist George A. Lipsky, followed by the digest of discussions from the study group meetings. American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953–54 offers new insights into the early development of IR as well as the thinking of prominent elites in the early years of the Cold War
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    The Matrix of Lyric Transformation : Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry (2020)
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    Abstract: Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism in the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties, traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic poetry as a leading poetic type and to compile various comprehensive anthologies of it. The Matrix of Lyric Transformation enriches this tradition, using modern analytical methods to explore issues of self-expression and to trace the early formal, thematic, and generic developments of this poetic form. Beginning with a discussion of the Yüeh-fu and ku-shih genres of the Han period, Cai Zong-qi introdues the analytical framework of modes from Western literary criticism to show how the pentasyllabic poetry changed over time. He argues that changing practices of poetic composition effected a shift from a dramatic mode typical of folk compositions to a narrative mode and finally to lyric and symbolic modes developed in literati circles
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    Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia (2020)
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    Abstract: Ecologists have long based their conceptual frameworks in the natural sciences. Recently, however, they have acknowledged that ecosystems cannot be understood without taking into account human interventions that may have taken place for thousands of years. And for their part, social scientists have recognized that human behavior must be understood in the environment in which it is acted out. Researchers have thus begun to develop the area of "human ecology." Yet human ecology needs suitable conceptual frameworks to tie the human and natural together. In response, Cultural Values and Human Ecology uses the framework of cultural values to collect a set of highly diverse contributions to the field of human ecology. Values represent an important and essential aspect of the intellectual organization of a society, integrated into and ordained by the over-arching cosmological system, and constituting the meaningful basis for action, in terms of concreteness and abstraction of content as well as mutability and permanence. Because of this balance, values lend themselves to the kinds of analyses of ecological relationships conducted here, those that demand a reasonable amount of specificity as well as historical stability. The contributions to Cultural Values and Human Ecology are exceedingly diverse. They include abstract theoretical discussions and specific case studies, ranging across the landscape of Southeast Asia from the islands to southern China. They deal with hunting-gathering populations as well as peasants operating within contemporary nation-states, and they are the work of natural scientists, social scientists, and humanists of Western and Asian origin. Diversity in the backgrounds of the authors contributes most to the varied approaches to the theme of this volume, because differences in cultural background and academic tradition will lead to different research interests and to differences in the empirical approaches chosen to pursue given problems
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    Paninian Studies : Professor S. D. Joshi Felicitation Volume (2020)
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    Abstract: Pa?ini’s grammar is the oldest surviving grammar of Sanskrit, dating back to the fifth century BCE. In its completeness of coverage of linguistic elements and its theoretical and analytical sophistication, Pa?ini’s grammar is surprisingly modern. It has long provided inspiration for many ideas in modern linguistics, and continues to attract scholars’ attention in the fields of Sanskrit and linguistics. Pa?inian Studies collects seventeen essays on Pa?inian linguistics in a single volume dedicated to Professor S. D. Joshi, a stalwart scholar of Pa?inian grammar. The contributors, all scholors of international acclaim and students and friends of Professor Joshi, include Ashok Aklujkar, Pandit V. B. Bhagwat, Saroja Bhate, Gopikamohan Bhattacharya, Johannes Bronkhorst, George Cardona, Achyutananda Dash, Madhav M. Deshpande, Peter Edwin Hook, Daniel H. H. Ingalls, V. N. Jha, Dinabandhu Kar, Paul Kiparsky, Bimal Krishna Matilal, G. B. Palsule, K. Kunjunni Raja, and J. A. F. Roodbergen. Taken together, their contributions encompass the wide range of interests and specializations within the field of Pa?inian studies
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    Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China (2020)
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    Abstract: Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China began with two symposia held in 1977 and 1978. The first, a workshop on “The Pursuit of Interest in China,” was held in August 1977 at the University of Michigan, and was organized by Michel Oksenberg and Richard Baum. It was supported by a grant from the Joint Committee on Contemporary China of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, using funds provided by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Its principal goal was to use detailed case studies to explore the relevance of interest group approaches to the study of Chinese politics. The second, a panel organized by the editor for the 1978 Chicago meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, sought to apply participatory approaches to the role of social groups in the Chinese political process. The striking degree of overlap in the focus, methodology, and participants in both meetings suggested to a number of the paper writers that there was a need for a more eclectic approach which would focus simultaneously on individual and group actors. The recognition that a volume based on such an approach might serve the needs of students and scholars seeking to examine the dynamics of informal influence and power in China was the stimulus for publishing the studies presented here in book form. [ix]
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    An Index to Reproductions of Paintings by Twentieth-Century Chinese Artists (2020)
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    Abstract: In the second half of the twentieth century, studies in Chinese painting history have been greatly aided by several major lists of Chinese artists and their works. Published between 1956 and 1980, these lists were limited to Imperial China. The current index covers the period from 1912 to around 1980. It includes the names of approximately 3,500 traditional-style artists along with lists of their works, reproduced in some 264 monographs, books, journals, and catalogs published from the 1920s to around 1980. With a few exceptions, artists working after 1949 outside continental China are excluded. Revised Edition, 1998; first published by the Asian Studies Program, University of Oregon, 1984
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    Chinese Paintings in Chinese Publications, 1956–1968 : An Annotated Bibliography and Index to the Paintings (2020)
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    Abstract: This bibliography includes publications issued between 1956 and August 1968 that reproduce Chinese paintings now in Chinese public or private collections. The great majority of these publications were produced in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Japan. Each publication included in the bibliography has been provided with a detailed physical description of the publication itself: the amounts of text , the number of plates in color and in monochrome, and a general evaluation of the quality of the reproductions. The title by which each work is referred to in the index is included at the end of each entry
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    Automobiles and the Future : Competition, Cooperation, and Change (2020)
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    Abstract: At the time of the U.S.-Japan auto conferences in March 1983, the hoped-for economic recovery as manifested in auto sales had revealed itself quite modestly. Three months later, the indicators were more robust and certainly long overdue for those whose livelihood depends on the health of the industry--some of whom are university professors. With Japanese import restrictions in place until March 1984 and drastically reduced break-even points for domestic manufactures, rising consumer demand holds great promise for the industry. The rapidly rising stock prices of the auto-makers captures well the sense of heightened optimism, as do the various forecasts for improved profits. While the news is certainly welcome, it nevertheless should be greeted with caution. As Mr. Perkins noted at the conference, "we have a tendency to forget things very quickly. If we have a boom market this year, there is a good chance that a lot of things we learned will be forgotten." To put the matter differently and more bluntly, with growing prosperity there is the risk that management will fall back into old habits, making impossible the achievement of sustained quality and productivity improvement. Similarly, the commitment to develop cooperative relations with workers and suppliers will weaken. The union will be under membership pressure to retrieve concessions rather than to take the longer-term view. This longer-term view recognizes that "up-front increases" and adherence to existing work rules increasingly come at the sacrifice of future job security. Government policymakers will turn their attention away from the industry. This may not mean a great deal given how weakly focused their attentions has been during the last three years and how mixed and contradictory government auto policies have been for over a decade
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    Ethnic Diversity and the Control of Natural Resources in Southeast Asia (2020)
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    Abstract: The authors consider the ways in which the high degree of ethnic diversity within the region is related to the nature of tropical Asian environments, on the one hand, and the nature of Southeast Asian political systems and the ways in which they manipulate natural resources, on the other. Rather than focus on defining the phenomenon of ethnicity, this book examines the different social evolutionary contexts in which the phenomenon is manifested. Companion volume to Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia (Michigan Papers no. 27)
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    Karawitan : Source Readings in Javanese Gamelan and Vocal Music, Volume 2 (2020)
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    Abstract: The twentieth century has spawned a great interest in Indonesian music, and now books, articles, and manuscripts can be found that expound exclusively about karawitan (the combined vocal and instrumental music of the gamelan). Scholar Judith Becker has culled several key sources on karawitan into three volumes and has translated them for the benefit of the Western student of the gamelan tradition. The texts in her collection were written over a forty-five-year time period (ca 1930–1975) and include articles by Martopangrawit, Sumarsam, Sastrapustaka, Gitosaprodjo, Sindoesawarno, Poerbapangrawit, Probohardjono, Warsadiningrat, Purbodiningrat, Poerbatjaraka, and Paku Buwana X. The final volume also contains a glossary of technical terms, an appendix of the Javanese cipher notations (titilaras kepatihan), a biographical listing, and an index to the musical pieces (Gendhing)
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    The Japanese Automotive Industry : Model and Challenge for the Future? (2020)
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    Abstract: As the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies reflected on the deteriorating position of the domestic auto industry in the fall of 1980, and the strong competitive threat being posed by the Japanese automakers, we were struck by the extraordinary low quality of the public discussion of these critical issues. The national importance of the issues seemed only matched by the superficiality of the analyses being offered. The tendency to think in terms of scapegoats was particularly evident. The Japanese as the basic cause of our problems has been a particularly notable theme. To be sure, cooperation with the Japanese in formulating a rational overall trade policy may be an important part of the solution. It has also been fashionable to blame it all on American auto industry management for not concentrating on the production of small cars when "everyone knew" that was the thing to do. Alternatively, government meddling was blamed for all our problems. Clearly, the complex problem we faced required more penetrating analyses. It seemed therefore, that the time was ripe for a public seminar which moved beyond the rhetoric of the moment and probed some of the deeper causes of our problems and possible directions for future policy
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    Compadre Colonialism : Studies in the Philippines under American Rule (2020)
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    Abstract: This volume is a manifestation of the continuing interest of scholars at the University of Michigan in Philippine studies. Written by a generation of post-colonial scholars, it attempts to unravel some of the historical problems of the colonial era. Again and again the authors focus on the relationship of the ilustrados and the Americans, on the problems of continuity and discontinuity, and on the meaning of “modernization” in the Philippine context. As part of the Vietnam generation, these authors have looked at American imperialism with a new perspective, and yet their analysis is tempered, not strident, and reflective, not dogmatic. Perhaps the most central theme to emerge is the depth of the contradiction inherent in the American colonial experiment. [vi-vii]
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