Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. It is also a time when harsh assessments can be made about colleagues’ intellectual abilities and their capacity as a scholar and fieldworker. The assessors’ reports were often disturbingly personal, laying bare their likes and dislikes that could determine the futures of peers and colleagues. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process, and includes accounts of the appointments of famous anthropologists such as Raymond Firth and Alexander Ratcliffe-Brown.

This book argues that transpacific history cannot be comprehended without including "vertical" connections; namely, those between the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere. It explores such connections by uncovering small histories of ordinary people's attempts at evenements which they undertake by means of uneven, unlevel, and multidirectional mobilities. In this way, this book goes beyond the usual notion of transpacific history as a matter of Northern Hemisphere-centric connections between the United States and Asian countries, and enables us to imagine a transpacific space as a more dynamic and multi-faceted world of human mobilities and connections. In this book, both eminent and burgeoning historians uncover the stories of little-known, myriad encounters in various parts of the Asia-Pacific region. By exploring cases whose actors include soldiers, missionaries, colonial administrators, journalists, essayists, and artists, the book highlights the significance of "vertical" perspectives in understanding complex histories of the region.

Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories. There is increasing interest in the "home front" during the Second World War, including issues such as how people coped with rationing, how women worked to contribute to the war effort, and how civilian morale fluctuated over time. Most studies on this subject are confined to Britain, or to a single other colonial territory, neglecting the fact that Britain controlled a large Empire and that there were numerous "home fronts", each of which contributed greatly to the war effort but each in slightly different ways. This book considers "home fronts" from an overall imperial perspective and in a broad array of territories - Australia, India, South Africa, Ceylon, Palestine and Kenya aswell as Britain. It examines many aspects of wartime life - food, communications, bombing, volunteering, internment and more, and discusses important themes including identity, gender, inequality, and the relationship between civilians and the state. Besides case studies outlining the detail of the situation in different territories and in different areas of life, the book assesses "home fronts" across the Empire in a comprehensive way, setting the case studies in their wider context, and placing the subject in, and advancing, the historiography. MARK J. CROWLEY is Associate Professor of History at Wuhan University, China. SANDRA TRUDGEN DAWSON is an Instructor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland. Contributors: NUPUR CHAUDHURI, MARK J. CROWLEY, SANDRA TRUDGEN DAWSON, NADJA DURBACH, ASHLEY JACKSON, RITIKA PRASAD, LINSEY ROBB, SHERENE SEIKALY, JEAN SMITH,ANDREW STEWART, PETER THORSHEIM, CHRISTINE WINTER

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Deutsch - Deutsch als Fremdsprache / Zweitsprache, Note: 1,3, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache /IWK ), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: ...] Ich stelle eine Frage, schaue in die Runde. Zwanzig Studenten, keine Antwort. Ich wiederhole die Frage. Keine Reaktion. Niemand hebt die Hand. Niemand antwortet. Auf keinem Gesicht spiegelt sich Verstehen wider. Ich wiederhole die Frage. Ich modifiziere die Frage. ...]Und so stehe ich da vorn vor der Tafel, habe 20 Studenten vor mir, deren Gesichter, deren Korper kein Signal geben. Sie sitzen still, sie schwatzen nicht, sie sehen mich an, sie zeigen keine Langeweile, kein Interesse, keine Freude, keinen Arger. Oder vielleicht zeigen sie es doch. Nur kann ich an ihrer stillen Art der Kommunikation nicht teilnehmen. Ich weiss es nicht, bin ratlos, erschopft, mutlos, gehe aus dem Unterricht und beginne an mir zu zweifeln ...]. (HOFMAN 1992: 57) In diesem Zitat beschreibt Gerlinde Hofman die Lerner, wie sie diese wahrend ihrer Lektorentatigkeit an einer japanischen Universitat wahrgenommen hat. Die Schweigsamkeit und allgemeine Passivitat der Studenten lasst viele muttersprachliche Lehrende haufig an ihren eigenen Fahigkeiten zweifeln; Enttauschung, Resignation und Frustration sind die Folgen. In der vorliegenden Magisterarbeit wird der Frage nachgegangen, warum die Kommunikation zwischen deutschen Lehrern und japanischen Lernern derart kompliziert ist. Die Beobachtungen, die deutsche Lehrkrafte im universitaren Deutschunterricht gemacht haben, werden auf die tiefenstrukturellen, von aussen nicht wahrnehmbaren kulturellen Ursachen hin untersucht. Von Interesse sind hierbei soziopsychologische, soziokulturelle, linguistische und kognitive Faktoren. Weiterhin wird das Augenmerk auf das japanische Bildungssystem sowie die dadurch bedingten Lehr- und Lerntraditionen gerichtet und deren Relevanz fur die Erwartungshaltungen der Studenten an den Ablauf des F