Words in motion : toward a global lexicon
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Words in motion : toward a global lexicon
Duke University Press, 2009
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On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously tracking specific words in specific settings frequently leads in unexpected directions and alters conventional depictions of global modernity.Such words as security in Brazil, responsibility in Japan, community in Thailand, and hijab in France changed the societies in which they moved even as the words were changed by them. Some words threatened to launch wars, as injury did in imperial Britain's relations with China in the nineteenth century. Others, such as secularism, worked in silence to agitate for political change in twentieth-century Morocco. Words imposed or imported from abroad could be transformed by those who wielded them to oppose the very powers that first introduced them, as happened in Turkey, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Taken together, this selection of fourteen essays reveals commonality as well as distinctiveness across modern societies, making the world look different from the interdisciplinary and transnational perspective of "words in motion."
Contributors. Mona Abaza, Itty Abraham, Partha Chatterjee, Carol Gluck, Huri Islamoglu, Claudia Koonz, Lydia H. Liu, Driss Maghraoui, Vicente L. Rafael, Craig J. Reynolds, Seteney Shami, Alan Tansman, Kasian Tejapira, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Table of Contents
Introduction
Words in Motion / Carol Gluck 3
Works in Motion / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 11
Words with Shadows
Seguranca/Security in Brazil and the United States / Itty Abraham 21
Adat/Indigenous: Indigeneity in Motion / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 40
Words That Expand
Ada/Custom in the Middle East and South Asia / Mona Abaza 67
Sekinin/Responsibility in Modern Japan / Carol Gluck 83
Words Unspoken
Ilmaniyya, Laicite, Secularisme/Secularism in Morocco / Driss Maghraoui 109
Saburaimu/Sublime: A Japanese Word and Its Political Afterlife / Alan Tansman 129
Words That Cover
Aqalliyya/Minority in Modern Egyptian Discourse / Seteney Shami 151
Hijab/Headscarf: A Political Journey / Claudia Koonz 174
Fear Words
Injury: Incriminating Words and Imperial Power / Lydia H. Liu 199
Conjuracion/Conspiracy in the Philippine Revolution of 1896 / Vicente L. Rafael 219
Terrorism: State Sovereignty and Militant Politics in India / Partha Chatterjee 240
Words That Set Standards
Komisyon/Commission and Kurul/Board: Words that Rule / Huri Islamoglu 265
Chumchon/Community in Thailand / Craig J. Reynolds 286
Thammarat/Good Governance in Glocalizing Thailand / Kasian Tejapira 306
Notes on Contributors 327
Index 329
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