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Unique in its global and interdisciplinary scope, this collection will bring together comparative insights across European, Ottoman, Japanese, and US imperial contexts while spanning colonized spaces in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and East and Southeast Asia. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from cultural, intellectual and political history, anthropology, law, gender and sexuality studies, and literary criticism, The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism combines regional and historiographic overviews with detailed case studies, making it the key reference for up-to-date scholarship on the intimate dimensions of colonial rule. Comprising more than 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into five parts: Directions in the study of sexuality and colonialism Constructing race, controlling reproduction Sexuality in law Subjects, souls, and selfhood Pleasure and violence. The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism is essential reading for students and researchers in gender, sexuality, race, global studies, world history, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.
This book shows how twenty-first-century writing about Northern England imagines alternative democratic futures for the region and the English nation, signalling the growing awareness of England as a distinct and variegated political formation. The 2016 Brexit vote intensified ongoing constitutional tensions throughout the UK since the devolution of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland in 1997. At the same time, British devolution developed a distinctively cultural registration as a surrogate for parliamentary representation and an attempt to disrupt the status of London as Britain's cultural epicentre. Rewriting the North shifts this debate in a new direction, examining Northern literary preoccupation with devolution's constitutional implications. Through close readings of six contemporary authors - Sunjeev Sahota, Sarah Hall, Anthony Cartwright, Adam Thorpe, Fiona Mozley, and Sarah Moss - this book argues that literary engagement with the North emphasises the limits of devolution as regional political agency, calling instead for an urgent abandonment of the British centralised state form.
Like most 19th and 20th century national movements, culture played a focal role in the shaping of Jewish-Israeli national identity, and with Zionism being the secular movement that it is, culture became the effective prism through which religious and historical notions of Jewish nationalism were filtered. As Israel reaches its 50th year of statehood, Israeli society faces a deepening crisis of identity. This is particularly evident in Israeli culture which, for quite some time, has been effectively disintegrating into several simultaneous sub-cultures. This process has gained momentum during the 1990s due to a relaxation of national cohesiveness following the Arab-Israeli peace negotiations on the one hand, and the growing post-modern influences on Israeli culture, on the other. This, in turn, has brought to the fore a whole range of questions which have hitherto been ignored, not least the inter-relationship between the Hebrew and Jewish aspects of Israeli culture.
The Philippines play a major role in expanding the international
Filipino community through its promotion of international labor
migration-Filipinos can currently be found in over 130 countries
throughout the world. As the first major work to conceive of
Filipino immigration as a diaspora, this study analyses the
diasporic nature of Filipino relations, identities, and communities
and shows how these transnational phenomena are socially
constructed by the everyday actions and activities of Filipino
Americans. Instead of focusing on an ethnic minority and its
relation to its host society, a diasporic perspective places
emphasis on the transnational relations created and maintained
among that minority, its homeland, and other diasporic communities.
Transnational ties are evident in the movement of people, money,
consumer goods, information, and ideas.
"Food and Gender: identity and power" marks the inaugural volume in the "Food in history and culture" book series. The series will anthologize articles originally published in the journal "Food and foodways". This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food centred activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. "Food and gender: identity and power" examines how each gender's relationship to food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy. This relationship is considered through two central questions. How does control of food production, distribution, and consumption contribute to men's and women's power and social position? and how does food symbolically connote maleness and femaleness and establish the social value of men and women?;Other issues discussed include evaluating men's and women's attitudes about their bodies and the legitimacy of their appetites.
This book engages with the classic philosophical question of mind and matter, seeking to show its altered meaning and acuteness in the era of the Anthropocene. Arguing that matter, and, more broadly, the natural world, has been misconceived since Descartes, it explores the devastating impact that this has had in practice in the West. As such, alternatives are needed, whether philosophical ones such as those offered by figures such as Whitehead and Nagel, or posthumanist ones such as those developed by Barad and Latour. Drawing on recent anthropological work ignored by philosophers and sociologists alike, the author considers a radical alternative cosmology: animism understood as panpsychism in practice. This understanding of mind and matter, of culture and nature, is then turned against present-day posthumanist critiques of what the Anthropocene amounts to, showing them up as philosophically misguided, politically mute, and ethically wanting. A ground-breaking reconceptualization of the natural world and our treatment of it, Cosmologies of the Anthropocene will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory, philosophy and anthropology with interests in our understanding of and relationship with nature.
This text looks at the ways in which women as mothers are positioned in society in terms of ethnicity, social class and marital status. Using case study material the author expands her assessment to analyze the way women's educational experience influences their involvement in their children's schooling. The book examines the support of the mother in her child's schooling to reveal the part she plays in social reproduction and to recognize her centrality to an understanding of social class. The book should be of interest to undergraduates in the sociology of education, gender studies, and to those studying PGCE primary education.
This study analyzes legislation governing black life in New York,
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The years from 1664 to 1712 witnessed
the formative era of slavery in the middle colonies, and by the
beginning of the 18th century, specific laws governing African
Americans were passed. The long range effects of the Insurrection
of 1712 (which took the lives of nine whites and critically wounded
five others) and the "Negro Conspiracy of 1741" produced extensive
slave codes in New York and New Jersey. Pennsylvania took the more
subtle approach of high tariffs, starting a tariff war against
slavery.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Professor Jarvie examines the nature of the revolution in social anthropology in order to investigate its results. Working within Karl Popper's radical view of the nature of science, he argues that the subject is one of the oldest and most fundamental of all studies and suggests it can easily be traced back to Plato and Aristotle, not merely as a matter of historical curiosity, but as having fruitful results for the understanding of Malinowski and the revolution.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1998. This is Volume V of eight in the Sociology of Religion series and includes part two which looks at the sociology of Sectarian Religion in Christendom, exploring the origin and social cause, nature, variety and decay of sects.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1998. This is Volume VII of a nine volume library of Sociology on the Sociology of Culture and includes a study on the sociology of literary taste. The idea underlying the book is that the concordance of liking evoked by certain works of art, called taste, is due to something other than a simple excellence inherent in the quality of the work itself; rather it is the product of a complex process in which a range of forces- some ideological, some material, content with one another and produces something that is far immune from the actions chance.
First Published in 1998. This is Volume VIII, of nine in the Sociology of Culture series and discusses how to approach the area of a sociology of music, looking at scope, definition, evaluation methods such as philosophical, idealist and aestheticism and then looking at socio-musical groups, their behaviours and functions.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
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