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Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon

Carol Gluck

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Description for Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon Paperback. A collection of essays on keywords from political discourse, including secularism, security, indigineity, and terrorism. Editor(s): Gluck, Carol; Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. Num Pages: 352 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: CFB; CFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
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 hijāb in France changed ... Read more

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

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Paperback

Publication date

2009

Publisher

Duke University Press United States

Number of pages

352

Condition

New

Number of Pages

352

Place of Publication

North Carolina, United States

ISBN

9780822345367

SKU

V9780822345367

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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days

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About Carol Gluck

Carol Gluck is George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of Thinking with the Past: Modern Japan and History and Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period, and editor of Asia in Western and World History. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is ... Read more

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“Words in Motion is a highly original and exciting exploration of the global movements, transformations and social impacts of words which I expect will be welcomed and expanded upon by scholars in the fields of global and area studies. It is a recommended read for anyone with an interest in global history, conceptual history or translation studies.” - Michael Facius, ... Read moreH-Soz-u-Kult “. . . [T]his book offers many things to open-minded readers. The unpredictability at times can be refreshing, as we see when words imposed on the powerless become a double-edged sword (’terrorists’ becoming ‘freedom fighters’ in India, for example). Also, the words-in-motion project highlights the contributions of ‘critical public intellectuals who shape ideas and institutions not just in their home nations but also between and beyond national space’ (16). All the authors in this collection write with originality, wit, and flair, and deserve a wide audience.” - James Stanlaw, Anthropos “I can think of no better field-guide to how ‘globalization’ works on-the-ground than this pioneering and remarkable collection of studies of how words and concepts move across the globe, old meanings turning into evolving new meanings as they shift from Britain to Asia, from Egypt to Indonesia, from the worlds of the past in Turkey and Japan into their new ages. This book should henceforth be part of any reading list on global history.”—Eric Hobsbawm, fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences “Moving from North Africa through Europe to East and Southeast Asia, ranging from colonial discourse through national liberation movements into postcoloniality and globalization, this meticulously researched collection of stellar essays shows the politics of meaning-change as words cross boundaries from North to South and back, through the politics of gender and class. I am already using it in my teaching!”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University “Moving from North Africa through Europe to East and Southeast Asia, ranging from colonial discourse through national liberation movements into postcoloniality and globalization, this meticulously researched collection of stellar essays shows the politics of meaning-change as words cross boundaries from North to South and back, through the politics of gender and class. I am already using it in my teaching!”—Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University "[T]his book offers many things to open-minded readers. The unpredictability at times can be refreshing, as we see when words imposed on the powerless become a double-edged sword (’terrorists’ becoming ‘freedom fighters’ in India, for example). Also, the words-in-motion project highlights the contributions of ‘critical public intellectuals who shape ideas and institutions not just in their home nations but also between and beyond national space’ (16). All the authors in this collection write with originality, wit, and flair, and deserve a wide audience.”
James Stanlaw
Anthropos
“Words in Motion is a highly original and exciting exploration of the global movements, transformations and social impacts of words which I expect will be welcomed and expanded upon by scholars in the fields of global and area studies. It is a recommended read for anyone with an interest in global history, conceptual history or translation studies.”
Michael Facius
H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews
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