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…
Human-Environmental Relations -- Ethnicity, Identity and Conflict -- Dayak Religion and Animism .This volume provides a balanced picture of change and continuity within Dayak societies from an anthropological perspective by exploring diverse ways in which certain kinds of knowledge, performances and practices continue within the context of rapid and profound change. The contributions cover a br…