Abstract: Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration as well as various aspects of integration, social and political life, public debate, and art. This volume focuses on immigration and the concept of diaspora through the experiences of women living in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Through a variety of case studies, the authors approach the multifaceted nature of interactions between these women and their adopted countries, considering both the local and the global. The text examines the "making of the Scandinavian" and the novel ways in which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation state

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- -- Introduction: Reasserting the Centrality of Women in Diasporas -- Haci Akman -- -- PART I: BARGAINING AND NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES -- -- Chapter 1. Art as Political Expression in the Diaspora -- Haci Akman -- -- Chapter 2. Islamic Identity in Third Space: Muslim Women Negotiating Subjectivity in Sweden -- Pia Karlsson Minganti -- -- Chapter 3. Political Muslim Women in the News Media -- Rikke Andreassen -- -- Chapter 4. Finding Their Own Way Between Revolutionary Adult Feminism and Well-behaved Veiled Girlhood – Female Migrants in Denmark -- Malene Fenger-Grøndahl -- -- Chapter 5. Being a Kurdish Woman in Sweden: Diaspora, Gender and Politics of Belonging -- Minoo Alinia -- -- PART II: HOME POLITICS, HOST POLICIES AND RESISTANCE -- -- Chapter 6. Kurdish Women of the Diaspora and Political Participation -- Kariane Westrheim -- -- Chapter 7. Territorial Stigmatisation, Inequality of Schooling and Identity Formation Among Young Immigrants -- Bolette Moldenhawer -- -- Chapter 8. The Absence of Strategy and the Absence of Bildung – When Integration Policy Cannot Succeed -- Tina Kallehave -- -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

Abstract: Combining ethnographic and historical research conducted in Angola, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, A Prophetic Trajectory tells the story of Simão Toko, the founder and leader of one of the most important contemporary Angolan religious movements. The book explains the historical, ethnic, spiritual, and identity transformations observed within the movement, and debates the politics of remembrance and heritage left behind after Toko's passing in 1984. Ultimately, it questions the categories of prophetism and charisma, as well as the intersections between mobility, memory, and belonging in the Atlantic Lusophone sphere

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- -- Introduction: prophetic territories and temporalities -- -- PART I: ITINERARIES -- -- Chapter 1. Trajectories: a prophetic biography, part I -- Chapter 2. Trajectories: a prophetic biography, part II -- -- PART II: HERITAGES -- -- Chapter 3. Transmission: word, action and mediation -- Chapter 4. Trepidation: spirits, memories and disputed heritage -- Chapter 5. Transcendence: Tokoist diasporas -- -- Conclusion -- -- Primary sources -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors to this volume highlight the growing disconnect between labor struggles and the advancement of the greater common good, a phenomenon that has grown since the 1980s. The collection illustrates the defeat and unmaking of particular working classes, and it develops a comparative perspective on the uneven consequences of and reactions to this worldwide project. In Blood and Fire charts a course within global anthropology to address the widespread precariousness and the prevalence of insecure and informal labor in the twenty-first century

Abstract: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor -- August Carbonella and Sharryn Kasmir -- Chapter 1. Fragmented Solidarity: Political Violence and Neoliberalism in Colombia -- Lesley Gill -- Chapter 2. Labor in Place/Capitalism in Space: The Making and Unmaking of a Local Working Class on Maine's "Paper Plantation" -- August Carbonella -- Chapter 3. Flexible Labor/Flexible Housing: The Rescaling of Mumbai into a Global Financial Center and the -- Fate of its Working Class -- Judy Whitehead -- Chapter 4. Structures without Soul and Immediate Struggles: Rethinking Militant Particularism in Contemporary Spain -- Susana Narotzky -- Chapter 5. The Saturn Automobile Plant and the Long Dispossession of US Autoworkers -- Sharryn Kasmir -- Chapter 6. "Worthless Poles" and Other Dispossessions: Toward an Anthropology of Labor in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe -- Don Kalb -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

Abstract: Nighttime for many new parents in the United States is fraught with the intense challenges of learning to breastfeed and helping their babies sleep so they can get rest themselves. Through careful ethnographic study of the dilemmas raised by nighttime breastfeeding, and their examination in the context of anthropological, historical, and feminist studies, this volume unravels the cultural tensions that underlie these difficulties. As parents negotiate these dilemmas, they not only confront conflicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding and solitary infant sleep, but also larger questions about cultural and moral expectations for children and parents, and their relationship with one another

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Embodied Cultural Dilemmas: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep -- Chapter 2. Struggles Over Authoritative Knowledge and "Choice" in Breastfeeding and Infant Sleep in the U.S. -- Chapter 3. Making Breastfeeding Parents in Childbirth Education Courses -- Chapter 4. Dispatches from the Moral Minefield of Breastfeeding -- Chapter 5. Breastfeeding as Men's "Kin Work" -- Chapter 6. Breastfeeding Babies in the Nest: Producing Children, Kinship, and Moral Imagination in the House -- Chapter 7. Time to Sleep: Nighttime Breastfeeding and Capitalist Temporal Regimes -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: In an era cross-cut with various agendas and expressions of national belonging and global awareness, "the nation" as a collective reference point and experienced entity stands at the center of complex identity struggles. This book explores how such struggles unfold in practice at a highly symbolic battlefield site in the Danish/German borderland. Comprised of an ethnography of two profoundly different institutions – a conventional museum and an experience-based heritage center – it analyses the ways in which staff and visitors interfere with, relate to, and literally "make sense" of the war heritage and its national connotations. Borders of Belonging offers a comparative, in-depth analysis of the practices and negotiations through which history is made and manifested at two houses devoted to the interpretation of one event: the decisive battle of the 1864 war in which Otto von Bismarck, on his way to uniting the new German Empire, led the Prussian army to victory over the Danish. Working through his empirical material to engage with and challenge established theoretical positions in the study of museums, modernity, and tourism, Mads Daugbjerg demonstrates that national belonging is still a key cultural concern, even as it asserts itself in novel, muted, and increasingly experiential ways

Abstract: List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: Borders of Belonging: Investigating Landscapes of Danishness Today -- -- Chapter 1. Dybbøl and the Danish Nation: History and Context -- Chapter 2. Out of sight: Reconsidering the High Modern Museum -- Chapter 3. The Banalities of Being Danish: National Identity at the Castle Museum -- Chapter 4. Sensing 1864 at the Battlefield Centre -- Chapter 5. The Fate of the Nation at the Battlefield Centre -- Chapter 6. Danish Heritage Today: Cosmopolitan Nationalism and the Reappearance of the Romantic -- -- Conclusion: Paradoxes of modern belonging: Reassembling Heritage, Nation and Experience -- -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space. Mass demonstrations have become a new global political form, grounded in the localization of globalizing processes, institutions, and relationships. This volume delves beneath the seemingly chaotic nature of events to explore the structural dynamics underpinning popular resistance and their support or suppression. It moves beyond what has usually been defined as Arab Spring nations to include critical views on Bahrain, the Palestinian territories, and Turkey. The research and analysis presented explores not just the immediate protests, but also the historical realization, appropriation, and even institutionalization of these critical voices, as well as the role of international criminal law and legal exceptionalism in authorizing humanitarian interventions. Above all, it questions whether the revolutions have since been hijacked and the broad popular uprisings already overrun, suppressed, or usurped by the upper classes

Abstract: Introduction: The Arab Spring: Revolutions or 1848 Reaction? -- Kjetil Fosshagen -- Chapter 1. Tahrir as Heterotopia: Spaces and Aesthetics of Egyptian Revolution -- Paola Abenante -- Chapter 2. Beyond the Arab Spring: The Aesthetics and Poetics of Popular Revolt and Protest, 2010-2012 -- Pnina Werbner, Martin Webb and Kathryn Spellman-Poots -- Chapter 3. Emergency Law and Hypergovernance: Human Rights and Regime Change in the Arab Spring -- Michael Humphrey -- Chapter 4. The Promises and Limitations ­­of Economic Protests in the West Bank -- Sohbi Samour -- Chapter 5. Stability or Democracy? The Failed Uprising in Bahrain and the Battle for the International Agenda -- Thomas Fibiger -- Chapter 6. The Turkish Model for the Arab Spring: The Corporate Moralist State -- Kjetil Fosshagen -- Notes on Contributors --

Abstract: Charting the experiences of internally or externally migrant communities, the volume examines social transformation through the dynamic relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. The chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are not only embedded in their own unique health worldviews, but also influenced by the history, policy, and politics of the wider state systems. The research among migrant communities an understanding of how ideas of reproduction and "cultures of health" travel, how healing, birth and care practices become a result of movement, and how health-related perceptions and reproductive experiences can define migrant belonging and identity

Abstract: Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Migration and the Politics of Reproduction and Health: Tracking Global Flows through Ethnography -- Sunil K. Khanna and Maya Unnithan-Kumar -- Chapter 1. Migration, Belonging and the Body that Births: Pakistani Women in Britain -- Kaveri Qureshi -- Chapter 2. To Be or Not To Be?: Cape Verdean Student Mothers in Portugal -- Elizabeth P. Challinor -- Chapter 3. 'Good Women Stay at Home. Bad Women Go Everywhere': Agency, Sexuality and Self in Sri Lankan Migrant Narratives -- Sajida Z. Ally -- Chapter 4. 'No That's not a Religious Thing, That's a Cultural Thing': Culture in the Provision of Health Services for Bangladeshi Mothers in East London -- Laura Griffith -- Chapter 5. Health Inequalities and Perceptions of Place: Migrant Mothers' Accounts of Birth and Loss in Northwest India -- Maya Unnithan-Kumar -- Chapter 6. Acculturation and Experiences of Postpartum Depression amongst Immigrant Mothers -- Mirabelle E. Fernandes-Paul -- Chapter 7. 'A Mother who Stays but Cannot Provide is not as Good': Migrant Mothers in Hanoi, Vietnam -- Catherine Locke, Nguyen Thi Ngan Hoa and Nguyen Thi Thanh Tam -- Chapter 8. 'A "City-Walla" Prefers a Small Family': Son Preference and Sex Selection among Punjabi Migrant Families in Urban India -- Sunil K. Khanna -- Chapter 9. Restoring the Connection: Aboriginal Midwifery and Relocation for Childbirth in First Nation Communities in Canada -- Rachel Olson -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: Strategies or decisions aimed at affecting, in a manner considered to be positive, the genetic heritage of a child in the context of human reproduction are increasingly being accepted in contemporary society. As a result, unnerving similarities between earlier selection ideology so central to the discredited eugenic regimes of the 20th century and those now on offer suggest that a new era of eugenics has dawned. The time is ripe, therefore, for considering and evaluating from an ethical perspective both current and future selection practices. This inter-disciplinary volume blends research from embryology, genetics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history. In so doing, it constructs a thorough picture of the procedures emerging from today's reproductive developments, including a rigorous ethical argumentation concerning the possible advantages and risks related to the new eugenics

Abstract: Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- -- Introduction -- -- Chapter 1. The History of Eugenics -- Chapter 2. General Introduction to Eugenic Procedures -- Chapter 3. General Ethical Discussion -- Chapter 4. Arguments Supporting the New Eugenics -- Chapter 5. Arguments Opposing the New Eugenics -- -- Conclusion -- -- Appendix I: Past and Present Personalities Supporting Eugenic Policies -- Appendix II: Scottish Council on Human Bioethics Recommendations on Eugenics -- -- Glossary of Terms -- Bibliography --

Abstract: Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York and Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York and Dakar, which in turn shed light on different aesthetics and understandings of dance, as well as different ways of learning, in each context. Pointing to a loose network of teachers and students who travel between New York and Dakar around the practice of West African dance forms, the author discusses how this movement is maintained, what role the imagination plays in mobilizing participants and how the 'cultural flow' of the dances is 'punctuated' by national borders and socio-economic relationships. She explores the different meanings articulated around Sabar's transatlantic movement and examines how the dance floor provides the grounds for contested understandings, socio-economic relationships and broader discourses to be re-choreographed in each setting

Abstract: List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Map of Senegal in Africa -- -- Introduction -- -- Chapter 1. Trans-Atlantic Travels of West African Dance -- Chapter 2. The New York Dance Floor -- Chapter 3. Navigating Trans-Atlantic Flows -- Chapter 4. Re-Choreographing Sabar -- Chapter 5. The Kinaesthetic of Sabar -- Chapter 6. Hearing Movements, Seeing Rhythms -- -- Conclusion -- -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: As seen in military documents, medical journals, novels, films, television shows, and memoirs, soldiers' invisible wounds are not innate cracks in individual psyches that break under the stress of war. Instead, the generation of weary warriors is caught up in wider social and political networks and institutions-families, activist groups, government bureaucracies, welfare state programs-mediated through a military hierarchy, psychiatry rooted in mind-body sciences, and various cultural constructs of masculinity. This book offers a history of military psychiatry from the American Civil War to the latest Afghanistan conflict. The authors trace the effects of power and knowledge in relation to the emotional and psychological trauma that shapes soldiers' bodies, minds, and souls, developing an extensive account of the emergence, diagnosis, and treatment of soldiers' invisible wounds

Abstract: List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: Weary Warriors Walk Among Us: Combat, Knowledge Circulation, and Naming Traumatized Soldiers -- -- Chapter 1. Ravished Minds and Ill Bodies: Power, Embodiment, Dispositifs -- -- Chapter 2. Unsettling Notions: War Neuroses, Soldiering, and Broken Embodiments -- Chapter 3. Classifying Bodies through Diagnosis: Knowledges, Locations, and Categorical Enclosures -- Chapter 4. Managing Illness through Power: Regulation, Resistance and Truth Games -- Chapter 5. Cultural Accounts of the Soldier as Subject: Folds, Disclosures and Enactments -- Chapter 6. Fixing Soldiers: The Treatment of Bodies, Minds, and Souls -- Chapter 7. The Soldier in Context: Psychiatric Practices, Military Imperatives, and Masculine Ideals -- Chapter 8. Soldiering On: Care of Self, Status Passages, and Citizenship Claims -- Chapter 9. Military Bodies and Battles Multiple: Embodied Trauma, Ontological Politics, and Patchwork Warriors -- -- References -- Index --

Abstract: Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images. In the aftermath of the explosive event, which Sissons terms the Polynesian Iconoclasm, hundreds of architecturally innovative churches - one the size of two football fields - were constructed. At the same time, Christian leaders introduced oppressive laws and courts, which the youth resisted through seasonal displays of revelry and tattooing. Seeking an answer to why this event occurred in the way that it did, this book introduces and demonstrates an alternative "practice history" that draws on the work of Marshall Sahlins and employs Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, improvisation and practical logic

Abstract: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Exploding History -- Chapter 1.The Seasonality of Life -- Chapter 2.The Moʻorean Iconoclasm -- Chapter 3. Pomare's Iconoclasm as Seasonal Sacrifice -- Chapter 4. More Distant Emulations -- Chapter 5. Re-consecrating the World -- Chapter 6. Re-binding Societies -- Chapter 7. New Tabus and Ancient Pleasures -- Chapter 8. History, Habitus and Seasonality -- Appendix -- References --

Abstract: More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East - and how the filling of previous absences and the absence of previous presence - creates the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and historical narration and preservation.

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Gwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-Prei -- PART I: GROUNDWORK -- Chapter 1. Preserving the Past Before and After the Wende: A Case Study of Quedlinburg -- Heike Alberts -- Chapter 2. No Man's Land: Fiction and Reality in Buddy Giovinazzo's Potsdamer Platz -- Christopher Jones -- PART II: PROJECTIONS -- Chapter 3. Cinematic Reflections of Germany's Postunification Woes: Architecture and Urban Space of Frankfurt (Oder) in Halbe Treppe, Lichter, and Kombat Sechzehn -- Sebastian Heiduschke -- Chapter 4. Reclaiming the Thuringian Tuscany: The Touristic Appeal of Bad Sulza and its Toskana Therme -- Erika Nelson -- Chapter 5. Berlin through the Lens: Space and (National) Identity in the Postunification Capital -- Susanna Miller, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Tamara Nadolny, Heidi Manicke, Flavia Zaka, Trevor Blakeney, and Jude Hirman -- Chapter 6. The Amputated City: The Voids of Hoyerswerda -- Gwyneth Cliver -- PART III: THEORIES -- Chapter 7. Sounding out Erfurt: Does the Song Remain the Same? -- Heiner Stahl -- Chapter 8. Restoration and Redemption: Defending Kultur and Heimat in Eisenach's Cityscape -- Jason James -- Chapter 9. The Bauwerk in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility: Historical Reconstruction, Pious Modernism, and Dresden's "süße Krankheit" -- Rob McFarland with Elizabeth Guthrie -- Afterword -- Rolf J. Goebel -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

Abstract: In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in the number of national and international institutions dealing with environmental health issues, problems surrounding contaminants and their effects on health have never appeared so important, sometimes to the point of appearing insurmountable. This calls for a reconsideration of the roles of scientific knowledge and expertise in the definition and management of toxic issues, which this book seeks to do. It looks at complex historical, social, and political dynamics, made up of public controversies, environmental and health crises, economic interests, and political responses, and demonstrates how and to what extent scientific knowledge about toxicants has been caught between scientific, economic, and political imperatives

Abstract: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- -- Introduction: Greatness and Misery of Science in a Toxic World -- Soraya Boudia and Nathalie Jas -- -- PART I : KNOWLEDGE, EXPERTISE AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS IN REGULATORY SYSTEMS -- -- Chapter 1. Precaution and the History of Endocrine Disruptors -- Nancy Langston -- -- Chapter 2. The Political Life of Mutagens: A History of the Ames Test -- Angela N. H. Creager -- -- Chapter 3. DES, Cancer and Endocrine Perturbation: Ways of Regulating, Chemical Risks and Public Expertise in the United States -- Jean-Paul Gaudillière -- -- Chapter 4. Managing Scientific and Political Uncertainty. Environmental Risk Assessment in an Historical Perspective -- Soraya Boudia -- -- PART II : ACTIVISM AND NON-ACTIVISM: ALTERNATIVE USES OF KNOWLEDGE -- -- Chapter 5. Work, Bodies, Militancy: the "Class Ecology" Debate in 1970s Italy -- Stefania Barca -- -- Chapter 6. What Kind of Knowledge is Needed about Toxicant- Related Health Issues? Some Lessons Drawn from the Seveso Dioxin -- Laura Centemeri -- -- Chapter 7. From Suspicious Illness to Policy Change in Petrochemical Regions: Popular Epidemiology, Science and the Law in the U.S. and Italy -- Barbara Allen -- -- Chapter 8. Guinea Pigs go to Court. Epidemiology and Class Actions in Taiwan -- Paul Jobin and Yu-Hwei Tseng -- -- PART III: PUTTING KNOWLEDGE, IGNORANCE, AND REGULATIONN INTO PERSPECTIVE -- -- Chapter 9. Reckless Laws, Contaminated People: Science Reveals Legal Shortcomings in Public Health Protections -- Carl Cranor -- -- Chapter 10. Untangling Ignorance in Environmental Risk Assessment -- Scott Frickel and Michelle Edwards -- -- Chapter 11. Low Dose Toxicology: Narratives from the Science-Transcience Interface -- Sheldon Krimsky -- -- Chapter 12. Unruly Technologies and Fractured Oversight: Towards a Model for Chemical Control for the Twenty First Century -- Jody A. Roberts -- -- List of Contributors -- Index --

Abstract: The Cold War was fought between "state socialism" and "the free market." That fluctuating relationship between public power and private money continues today, unfolding in new and unforeseen ways during the economic crisis. Nine case studies -- from Southern Africa, South Asia, Brazil, and Atlantic Africa – examine economic life from the perspective of ordinary people in places that are normally marginal to global discourse, covering a range of class positions from the bottom to the top of society. The authors of these case studies examine people's concrete economic activities and aspirations. By looking at how people insert themselves into the actual, unequal economy, they seek to reflect human unity and diversity more fully than the narrow vision of conventional economics

Abstract: Preface: The Human Economy Project -- Keith Hart and John Sharp -- Introduction -- Keith Hart and John Sharp -- Chapter 1. After the Big Clean-up: Street Vendors, the Informal Economy and Employment Policy in Zimbabwe -- Busani Mpofu -- Chapter 2. Immoral Accumulation and the Human Economy of Death in Venda -- Fraser McNeill -- Chapter 3. 'Letting Money Work for Us': Self-organization and Financialization from Below in an All-male Savings Club in Soweto -- Detlev Krige -- Chapter 4. Market, Race and Nation: History of the White Working Class in Pretoria -- John Sharp -- Chapter 5. Negotiating Inequality: the Contemporary Black Middle Classes in Salvador, Brazil -- Doreen Gordon -- Chapter 6. Live Music in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Cape Verde -- Juliana Braz Dias -- Chapter 7. Congo-Gauteng: Congolese Migrants in South Africa -- Saint-José Inaka and Joseph Trapido -- Chapter 8. Neither Nationals nor Cosmopolitans: the Political Economy of Belonging for Mozambican Indians -- Jason Sumich -- Chapter 9. Marwari Traders between Hindu Neoliberalism and Democratic Socialism in Nepal -- Mallika Shakya -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

Abstract: Since the end of the Pinochet regime, Chilean public policy has sought to rebuild democratic governance in the country. This book examines the links between the state and civil society in Chile and the ways social policies have sought to ensure the inclusion of the poor in society and democracy. Although Chile has gained political stability and grown economically, the ability of social policies to expand democratic governance and participation has proved limited, and in fact such policies have become subordinate to an elitist model of democracy and resulted in a restrictive form of citizen participation

Abstract: List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Introduction: The Question of Democracy in a Democratic Society -- Chapter 1. Construction of Democracy, Public Policies and Participation of Civil Society -- Chapter 2. Chile: Top-Down Modernization and Low Intensity Re-Democratization -- Chapter 3. Social Policy Agendas in the Transition to Democracy -- Chapter 4. Civil Society, Public Policy Networks and Participatory Initiatives -- Chapter 5. From the Civil Society to the State: A New Elite is Born? -- Conclusion: Participation and Public Policies in the Chilean Democratic Process -- References -- Index --

Abstract: Anyone who has heard of chiasmus is likely to think of it as no more than a piece of rhetorical playfulness, at times challenging, though useful for supplying a memorable sententious note or for performing a pirouette of syntax and thought. Going beyond traditional rhetoric, this volume is concerned with the possibility of using the figure of chiasmus to model a broad array of phenomena, from human relations to artistic creation. In the process, it provides the first book-length study not of chiasmus, the rhetorical figure, but of chiastic thought. The contributors are concerned with chiastic inversion and its place in social interactions, cultural creation, and more generally human thought and experience.They explore from a variety of angles what the unsettling logic of chiasmus (from the Greek meaning "cross-wise"), has to tell us about the world, human relations, cultural patterns, psychology, and artistic and poetic creation

Abstract: Introduction -- Anthony Paul and Boris Wiseman -- -- PART I: THE PATHOS OF CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 1. From stasis to ek-stasis: four types of chiasmus -- Anthony Paul -- -- Chapter 2. What is a Chiasmus? Or, Why the Abyss Stares Back -- Robert Hariman -- -- Chapter 3. Chiasmus and Metaphor -- Ivo Strecker -- -- PART II: EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 4. Chiasm in Merleau-Ponty, metaphor or concept? -- Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel -- -- Chapter 5. Chiasmi figuring difference -- Stephen Tyler -- -- Chapter 6. Forking: Rhetoric χ Rhetoric -- Phillipe-Joseph Salazar -- -- PART III: SENSUOUS EXPERIENCE MEDIATED BY CHIASMUS -- -- Chapter 7. Chiasm in suspense in psychoanalysis -- Alain Vanier -- -- Chapter 8. Quotidian Chiasmus in Montaigne -- Phillip John Usher -- -- Chapter 9. 'Travestis, Michês' and Chiasmus -- Ben Bollig -- -- PART IV: CHIASTIC STRUCTURES IN RITUAL AND MYTHO-POETIC TEXTS -- -- Chapter 10. Parallelism and Chiasmus in Ritual Oration -- Douglas Lewis -- -- Chapter 11. Chiasmus, mythical creation and H.C. Andersen's The Shadow followed by a "Response" from Lucien Scubla -- Boris Wiseman -- -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on the individual level. The main argument emerging from this collection is that suicide should not be understood as a separate realm of pathological behavior but as a form of human action. As such it is always dependent on the decision that the individual makes in a cultural, ethical and socio-economic context, but the context never completely determines the decision. This book also argues that cultural narratives concerning suicide have a problematic double function: in addition to enabling the community to make sense of self-inflicted death, they also constitute a blueprint depicting suicide as a solution to common human problems

Abstract: List of Figures and Tables -- -- Introduction: Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition -- Marja-Liisa Honkasalo and Miira Tuominen -- -- PART I: SUICIDE: CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES -- -- Chapter 1. The Construction of the Suicidal Self in Phenomenological Psychology -- Charles J-H Macdonald and Jean Naudin -- -- Chapter 2. When it is Worth the Trouble to Die: The Cultural Valuation of Suicide -- María Cátedra -- -- PART II: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL APPROACHES TO SUICIDE -- -- Chapter 3. "Tell Him to Follow Me as Quickly as Possible" – Plato's Phaedo (60c–63c) on Self-Killing -- Miira Tuominen -- -- Chapter 4. Free Philosophers and Tragic Women – Stoic Perspectives on Suicide -- Malin Grahn -- -- Chapter 5. Moral Philosophical Arguments against Suicide in the Middle Ages -- Virpi Mäkinen -- -- PART III: MORALITY, POLITICS, AND VIOLENCE - SUICIDE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES -- -- Chapter 6. "She Kissed Death with a Smile": The Politics and Moralities of the Female Suicide Bomber -- Susanne Dahlgren -- -- Chapter 7. "When We Stop Living, We also Stop Dying" – Men, Suicide, and Moral Agency -- Marja-Liisa Honkasalo -- -- Afterword -- Arthur Kleinman -- -- Notes on Contributors --

Abstract: Inuit hunting traditions are rich in perceptions, practices and stories relating to animals and human beings. The authors examine key figures such as the raven, an animal that has a central place in Inuit culture as a creator and a trickster, and qupirruit, a category consisting of insects and other small life forms. After these non-social and inedible animals, they discuss the dog, the companion of the hunter, and the fellow hunter, the bear, considered to resemble a human being. A discussion of the renewal of whale hunting accompanies the chapters about animals considered 'prey par excellence': the caribou, the seals and the whale, symbol of the whole. By giving precedence to Inuit categories such as 'inua' (owner) and 'tarniq' (shade) over European concepts such as 'spirit 'and 'soul', the book compares and contrasts human beings and animals to provide a better understanding of human-animal relationships in a hunting society

Abstract: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Theoretical Perspectives -- Chapter 2. The Animals and Their Environment -- Chapter 3. Becoming A Good Hunter -- Life and Death -- Chapter 4. The Raven, The Bringer of Light -- Chapter 5. Qupirruit, Masters of Life And Death -- Fellow Hunters -- Chapter 6. The Dog, Partner of The Hunter -- Chapter 7. The Bear, A Fellow Hunter -- Prey -- Chapter 8. The Caribou, The Lice of The Earth -- Chapter 9. Seals, The Offspring of The Sea Woman -- Chapter 10. The Whale, Representing The Whole -- Comparison and Conclusions -- Appendix I: Inuit Elders -- Glossary of Inuktitut Words -- References -- Index --

Abstract: The highland region of the republic of Georgia, one of the former Soviet Socialist Republics, has long been legendary for its beauty. It is often assumed that the state has only made partial inroads into this region, and is mostly perceived as alien. Taking a fresh look at the Georgian highlands allows the author to consider perennial questions of citizenship, belonging, and mobility in a context that has otherwise been known only for its folkloric dimensions. Scrutinizing forms of identification with the state at its margins, as well as local encounters with the erratic Soviet and post-Soviet state, the author argues that citizenship is both a sought-after means of entitlement and a way of guarding against the state. This book not only challenges theories in the study of citizenship but also the axioms of integration in Western social sciences in general

Abstract: List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transcription -- -- Introduction -- -- Chapter 1. A Mobile Field -- Chapter 2. Hidden Treasures in the Mountains and a State that Comes and Goes -- Chapter 3. Reborn Citizens in a Post- Soviet Landscape -- Chapter 4. Three Ways to Be a State -- Chapter 5. Triple Winning and Simple Losing -- -- Conclusion -- -- Appendix -- -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world's resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. This volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident. The Gulf relies on non-renewable oil and gas exports to supply the world's insatiable CO2 emitting energy demands, and has built unsustainable conurbations with water supplies dependent on energy hungry desalination plants and deep aquifers pumped beyond natural replenishment rates. Sustainable Development has an interdisciplinary focus, bringing together university faculty and government personnel from the Gulf, Europe, and North America -- including social and natural scientists, environmentalists and economists, architects and planners -- to discuss topics such as sustainable natural resource use and urbanization, industrial and technological development, economy and politics, history and geography.

Abstract: List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Forward -- Shaikha Al-Misnad -- Introduction: Sustainable Development in the Gulf: Some Introductory Remarks -- Paul Sillitoe -- Chapter 1. Societal Change and Sustainability within the Central Plateau of Iran: An Archaeological Viewpoint -- Mark Manuel, Robin Coningham, Gavin Gillmore and Hassan Fazeli -- PART I: PLANNING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT -- Chapter 2. Qatar National Vision 2030: Advancing Sustainable Development -- Trudy Tan, Aziza Al-Khalaqi and Najla Al-Khulaifi -- Chapter 3. The Qatar National Master Plan -- Khondker Rahman -- Chapter 4. The State of Qatar: Along the Way to Sustainable Development -- Bahaa Darwish -- Chapter 5. Charting the Emergence of Environmental Legislation in Qatar: A Step in the Right Direction or Too Little Too Late? -- Wesam Al Othman and Sarah F. Clarke -- PART II: ENERGY AND ECONOMIC ISSUES -- Chapter 6. Sustainable Energy: What Futures for Qatar? -- Thomas Henfrey -- Chapter 7. Money Rain: The Resource Curse in Two Oil and Gas Economies -- Emma Gilberthorpe, Sarah F. Clarke and Paul Sillitoe -- Chapter 8. Islam and Sustainable Economic Development -- Rodney Wilson -- PART III: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES -- Chapter 9. Linking Local and Global in the Sustainable Development of Biodiversity Conservation -- Ben Campbell -- Chapter 10. Conservation and Sustainable Development: the Qatari and Gulf Region Experience -- Paul Sillitoe with Ali Alshawi -- Chapter 11. Promoting Sustainable Development in Marine Regions -- James Howard -- Chapter 12. Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainability: Friends or Enemies? -- Nobuyuki Yamaguchi -- PART IV: URBAN AND HEALTH ISSUES -- Chapter 13. From Pearling to Skyscrapers: The Predicament of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism in Contemporary Gulf Cities. -- Ali A. Alraouf and Sarah F. Clarke -- Chapter 14. How the City Grows: Urban Growth and Challenges to Sustainable Development in Doha, Qatar -- Andrew M. Gardner -- Chapter 15. Sustainable Waste Management in Qatar: Charting the Emergence of an Integrated Approach to Solid Waste Management -- Sarah Clarke with Salah Almannai -- Chapter 16. Sustainable Development and Health: From Global to Local Agenda -- Mylène Riva, Catherine Panter-Brick and Mark Eggerman -- PART V: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES -- Chapter 17. Exploring Collaborative Research Methodologies in the Pursuit of Sustainable Futures -- Gina Porter -- Chapter 18. On the Importance of Culture in Sustainable Development -- Serena Heckler -- Chapter 19. People, Social Groups, Cultural Practices: From Venn Diagrams to Alternative Paradigms for Sustainable Development -- Fadwa El Guindi -- Chapter 20. Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Values: Environmental Contradictions in Qatari Society -- Kaltham Al-Ghanim -- Conclusion: A Doha Undeclaration, Puzzling over Sustainable Development with Indigenous Knowledge -- Paul Sillitoe -- List of Contributors -- Index --

Abstract: If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: "Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves." This book examines how collective memory and material culture are used to support present political and ideological needs in contemporary society. Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the creation of public memorials. In particular, these groups have sifted through the past to propose "official" collective narratives of national identification, historical legitimation, and moral justifications for violence

Abstract: List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword by Hastings Donnan -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Memorials as Silent Extras or Scripted Actors? -- -- Book Outline -- -- Chapter 1. Collective Memory and the Politics of Memorialisation: a Theoretical Overview -- -- Memory in the Social World: Collectiveness versus Individuality -- The Shaping of Collective Memory: Present versus Past -- Lieux de Mémoireas Conveyors of Social Memory -- Politicised Remembering: the Nexus between Memory and Power -- -- The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration -- -- The Memory Makers and the Projection of Narratives about the Past -- Methodological Framework -- -- Database of Memorials -- Survey of Local Population -- Interviews -- Commemorations -- -- -- Chapter 2. The Armalite and the Paintbrush: a Brief History of Memorialization of the Troubles in Northern Ireland -- -- Commemorating during the Troubles -- -- Funerals and Communal Burials -- Annual Commemorations -- -- The Mural Painting Tradition in Northern Ireland -- -- The Early Years -- Armed Struggle and Party-political Murals -- Post-ceasefire and Peace Process Murals -- -- The 1998 Agreement and the 'Boom' of Permanent Memorialization -- -- Post-Agreement Murals -- -- Permanent Memorials -- -- Memorials to Paramilitary Combatants -- Memorials to Civilian Casualties -- Memorials to Security Forces -- Memorials in Government Buildings, Party Offices, Workplaces and Churches -- Commemorative Banners and Memorial Bands -- Memorial Publications, Commemorative Pamphlets and Oral History Projects -- Memorial Prizes, Awards and Trophies -- -- Post-conflict Commemorations -- Peace or Cross-community Memorials -- -- Chapter 3. The 'Landscape of Memorialization' in Belfast: Spatial and Temporal Reflections -- -- 'New' Cultural Geography and the Concept of Landscape as 'Text' -- Belfast and the Ethnicization of Space -- The Spatial Dimension of Memorialization -- -- Memorials as Territorial Markers -- Memorials as Aide-Mémoires -- Memorials as Sacred Places -- -- The Temporal Dimension of Memorialization -- -- Memorials: End of the War or Continuation through Different Means? -- Memorials: still here or never again? -- Memorials as Identity 'Crutches' -- -- -- Chapter 4. The 'Memory Makers' and the Projection of Narratives of the Troubles -- -- Individual 'Stories' versus the Collective 'History' of the Troubles: the Power of the Narrative -- Republican and Loyalist Memorials: the Projection of Opposing Narratives of The Troubles -- -- Two Imagined Communities: Creating a Symbolic National Identification -- -- Cherry-picking from History: Opposing Versions of a Shared Past -- -- Ancestries of Resistance: Manufacturing Genealogies -- Forgetting to Remember: Social Amnesia and Euphemization -- Delegitimizing the Enemy: Demonization and Stigmatization -- -- Talkative Dead Bodies: the Politics of Commemorations -- -- Chapter 5. The Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden: Constructing a Dominant Republican Narrative -- -- The 1998 Agreement and the Prisoners' 'Issue': the Formation of Ex-prisoners' Groups -- -- The Greater Clonard Ex-Prisoners' Association -- -- Enlisting the 'Unsung Heroes' in the Republican Narrative: Local History and Memorial Projects -- The Clonard Martyrs Memorial GardeN -- -- Planning Permission and Relationship with Local Authorities -- Funding, Building Materials and Manpower -- -- Construction of a Successful Dominant Narrative: Iconography, Language and Historical Selection -- Perpetuating Collective Memory: Periodic cCommemorations in Clonard -- -- Chapter 6. The IRSP/INLA Teach Na Fáilte Memorial Committee: Constructing a Sectional Republican Narrative -- -- The IRSP/INLA Teach Na Fáilte Memorial Committee -- Reclaiming a Place in History for the INLA: the 1981 Hunger Strike -- Advancing a Sectional Narrative of the Troubles: the Belfast Teach Na Fáilte's Memorial Programme -- -- Unveiling ceremonies -- -- Provisional Republican and Republican Socialist Commemorations -- Opposing the Dominant Republican Narrative: Post-1998 Republican Socialist Rhetoric -- -- Chapter 7. The 1913 UVF and the Myth of the Somme: Constructing a Loyalist 'Golden Age' -- -- 'Lest We Forget': Loyalist Landscape of Memorialization -- 'From the Battlefields of the Somme to the Barricades of the Shankill': Borrowing Legitimacy -- -- Mainstream Unionism, Republicanism and the Modern UVF Narrative -- -- Disraeli Street: an Iconic Cluster of Memory -- -- Loyalist Commemorations in Memory of Paramilitary Casualties -- -- Changing with the History Tune: the Evolution of the UVF Narrative -- -- Chapter 8. The UDA Sandy Row Memorial Garden: Attempting a Narrative of Symbolic Accretion -- -- 'You Are now Entering Loyalist Sandy Row' -- Tiptoeing through History in Search of Illustrious 'Forefathers' -- The Sandy Row Memorial Garden: Attempting to Appropriate the Myth of the Somme -- -- Lay Out and Iconography -- -- Role of Families in the Memorial Process -- Remembrance Day -- 'What the World Needs now Is Love, Sweet love': 2007 UDA Remembrance Sunday -- 'Awakening the Sleeping Giant': Macro and Micropolitics at Commemorations -- -- Chapter 9. Dissecting Consensus: Memory Receivers and the Narrative's 'Hidden Transcript' -- -- Paramilitary Groups and Local Communities: a Complex Relationship -- Coexisting in Ambivalence: Memorials and Local Residents -- -- Consultation and 'Ownership' -- Cohabiting the Same Space -- -- Reasons behind Memorialization -- -- Social Memory -- Territorialization -- Historical Change -- Politico-ideological Exercise -- -- -- Chapter 10. The Memory of the Dead: Seeking Common Ground? -- -- At Last, a Common Ground in Northern Ireland? -- -- Appendix A: List of Memorials -- Appendix B: Emblems and Flags -- Bibliography -- Index --

Abstract: Ideas about health are reinforced by institutions and their corresponding practices, such as donning a patient's gown in a hospital or prostrating before a healing shrine. Even though we are socialized into regarding such ideologies as "natural" and unproblematic, we sometimes seek to bypass, circumvent, or even transcend the dominant ideologies of our cultures as they are manifested in the institutions of health care. The contributors to this volume describe such contestations and circumventions of health ideologies, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries, on the basis of case studies from India, the South Asian Diaspora, and Europe, focusing on relations between body, mind, and spirit in a variety of situations. The result is not always the "live and let live" medical pluralism that is described in the literature

Abstract: Introduction: Entangled Epistemes -- Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack & William Sax -- -- Chapter 1. Medicines of the Imagination: Cultural Phenomenology, Medical Pluralism and the Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism -- Laurence J. Kirmayer -- -- Chapter 2. Porous Dividuals? Complying to a Healing Temple (Balaji) and a Psychiatric Out-patient Department (OPD) -- Johannes Quack -- -- Chapter 3. Medical Individualism and the Dividual Person -- Francis Zimmermann -- -- Chapter 4. My Vaidya and my Gynecologist: Agency, Authority and Risk in Quest of a Child -- Harish Naraindas -- -- Chapter 5. Davaa and Duaa: Negotiating Psychiatry and Ritual Healing of Madness -- Helene Basu -- -- Chapter 6. A Healing Practice in Kerala -- William Sax and Hari Bhaskar -- -- Chapter 7. Ayurveda in Britain: The Twin Imperatives of Professionalisation and Spiritual Seeking -- Maya Warrier -- -- Notes on Contributors --

Abstract: Contemporary forms of capitalism and the state require close analytic attention to reveal the conditions of possibility for effective counter-politics. On the other hand the practice of collective politics needs to be studied through historical ethnography if we are to understand what might make people's actions effective. This book suggests a research agenda designed to maximize the political leverage of ordinary people faced with ever more remote states and technologies that make capitalism increasingly rapacious. Gavin Smith opens and closes this series of interlinked essays by proposing a concise framework for untangling what he calls "the society of capital" and subsequently a potentially controversial way of seeing its contemporary features. This book tackles the political conundrums of our times and asks what roles intellectuals might play therein

Abstract: Acknowledgements -- -- Introduction -- -- PART I: INTELLECTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE -- -- Chapter 1. Capital: structural, phenomenological, financial -- -- PART II: SCALES OF HISTORY AND POLITICS -- -- Chapter 2. The scales of ethnography: periodizing spatial coherence in early twentieth-century, Spain -- Chapter 3. Popular struggle, dissident intellectuals and perspectives in realist history: a case from late twentieth-century Peru -- Chapter 4. History's absent presence in the everyday politics of contemporary rural Spain -- Chapter 5. On the threshold between everyday practice and historical praxis -- -- PART III: POLITICS' EDGE -- -- Chapter 6. Conditions of possibility: dominant blocs and changing contours of the hegemonic field -- -- Conclusion: Between reflexivity and engagement: tensions in the praxis of intellectuals -- -- References Cited -- Index --

Abstract: Integrating theoretical perspectives with carefully grounded ethnographic analyses of everyday interaction and experience, Living Translation examines the worlds of international translators as well as U.S. teachers and students of Chinese medicine, focusing on the transformations that occur as participants engage in a "search for resonance" with foreign terms and concepts. Based on a close examination of heated international debates as well as specific texts, classroom discussions, and interviews with publishers, authors, teachers, and students, Sonya Pritzker demonstrates the "living translation" of Chinese medicine as a process unfolding through interaction, inscription, embodied experience, and clinical practice. By documenting the stream of conversations that together constitute this process, the book thus traces the translation of Chinese medicine from text to practice with an eye towards the social, political, historical, moral, and even personal dimensions involved in the transnational production of knowledge about health, illness, and the body

Abstract: Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: In Search of Resonance -- Note on the Text: Transcription Conventions -- -- Chapter 1. The Real Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 2. Ideas about Words, and Words about Ideas -- Chapter 3. Living Inscription in Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 4. Interaction in the Living Translation of Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 5. Embodied Experience in the Living Translation of Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 6. Living Translation in and into Practice -- -- Conclusion: Learning to Listen -- -- References -- Index --