Black Participatory Research explores research partnerships that disrupt inequality, create change, and empower racially marginalized communities. Through presenting a series of co-reflections from professional and community researchers in different locations, this book explores the conflicts and tensions that emerge when professional interests, class and socio-economic statuses, age, geography…
This book examines Latin America's history of engagement with cosmopolitanisms as a manner of asserting a genealogy that links cultural critique in Latin America and the United States. Cosmopolitanism is crucial to any discussion of Latin America, and Latin Americanism as a discipline. Reinaldo Arenas and Diamela Eltit become nodal points to discuss a wide range of issues that include the pedag…
Part A: Asian Higher Education in the Era of Contemporary Globalization -- Introduction—Collins, Hawkins, Lee, Neubauer -- Chapter 1: John N. Hawkins, “Education in the Asia/Pacific Region: Historical Context” -- Chapter 2: Sheng Ju Chan “A Journey Back to the Center: Asian Higher Education in Global Context” -- Chapter 3: Anthony Welch, “Asian Higher Education: Achievements, Challe…
Introduction: Reconsidering Japanese food; Andreas Niehaus and Tine Walravens -- Part I: Inventing Japanese Food Identities -- 2.“They should be called gluttons and be despised”: Food, Body and Ideology in Kaibara Ekiken’s Yōjōkun (1713); Andreas Niehaus -- 3. ‘Sweets Reimagined’: The Construction of Confectionary Identities, 1890-1930; Mitsuda TatsuyaFor Gluttons, Not Housewives: J…
Introduction -- 1. Multiculturalism, Australian Style: Official Multiculturalism from Whitlam to Fraser -- 2. Multiculturalism as Social Justice: The Hawke and Keating Governments -- 3. Enduring in Practice if not in Name? Official Multiculturalism During and Beyond the Howard Government -- 4. Multiculturalism and Australian National Identity -- 5. Aboriginal and Multicultural Imaginaries: Tens…
1. Introduction and Conceptual Issues -- 2. The genealogy and the discursive themes of the uncommodified blackness image -- 3. The wizardry of whiteness in OZ -- 4. The whiteness regimes of multiculturalism in Australia -- 5. Technologies of the ‘Kiwi’ selves -- 6. Africans on an ‘English farm in the Pacific’ -- 7. Conclusion.This book is a study of the lived experience of African men i…
1. Introduction -- 2. Theories of Migrancy and Media -- 3. Memory -- 4. Race -- 5. Green Movement -- 6. Conclusion.This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles—the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora—as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web platforms are …
1. Introduction: The Persistence of Banal Nationalism; Marco Antonsich & Michael Skey -- Part I: Critical reflections on the Banal Nationalism Thesis -- 2. The rhetoric of nationalism; Craig Calhoun -- 3. The Universality of Banal Nationalism, or can the flag hand unobtrusively outside a Serbian post office?; Ivana Spasić -- 4. Banal Nationalism in the Internet Age: Rethinking the Relationship…
1. Citizenship for Muslim French Citizens: political integration during the “long decade” 2005-15 -- 2. Citizenship as a field: a theoretical framework for analysing the civic and political integration of MFC -- 3. The two dimensions of ontological citizenship: Horizontal vs Vertical -- 4. Civic integration vs political integration: the behaviours and attitudes of MFCs as individuals -- 5…
Introduction -- 1. A New Dawn. A New Day: Dialectical Materialism -- 2. All Together Now! The Rise of British Nationalism -- 3. When Will The Revolution Be Televised? The Decline of the Trades Unions and the Rise of the Consumer -- 4. We Don’t Need No Education. (Unless You’re Black). De-Colonised Education as a Tool for Political Activism -- 5. We Are The World. Racial Capitalism and its l…