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"Gender Ironies of Nationalism" provides a unique social science
reading on the construction of nation, gender and sexuality and on
the interactions among them.
Including international case studies including the US, the
Caribbean, Indonesia, Ireland, former Yugoslavia, Liberia, Sri
Lanka, Australia, Turkey, China, and India, contributors offer both
the masculine and feminine perspective on exploring gender in
Jewish and Chinese nationalism, and the anger of white men, just to
name a few. They expose how nations are comprised of sexed bodies,
and exploring the gender ironies of nationalism and how sexuality
plays a key role in nation building and in sustaining national
identity. The contributors conclude that control over access to the
benefits of belonging to the nation is invariably gendered:
nationalism becomes the language through which sexual control and
repression is justified masculine prowess is expressed and
exercised. While it is men who claim the prerogatives of nation and
nation building it is, for the most part, women who actually accept
the obligation of nation and nation building.
This book provides a unique social science reading on the construction of nation, gender and sexuality and on the interactions among them. It includes international case studies from Indonesia, Ireland, former Yugoslavia, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Australia, the USA, Turkey, China, India and the Caribbean. The contributors offer both the masculine and feminine perspective, exposing how nations are comprised of sexed bodies, and exploring the gender ironies of nationalism and how sexuality plays a key role in nation building and in sustaining national identity. The contributors conclude that control over access to the benefits of belonging to the nation is invariably gendered; nationalism becomes the language through which sexual control and repression is justified masculine prowess is expressed and exercised. Whilst it is men who claim the prerogatives of nation and nation building it is, for the most part, women who actually accept the obligation of nation and nation building.
This book centres the voices and agency of migrants by refocusing
attention on the diversity and complexity of human mobility when
seen from the perspective of people on the move; in doing so, the
volume disrupts the binary logics of migrant/refugee, push/pull,
and places of origin/destination that have informed the bulk of
migration research. Drawn from a range of disciplines and
methodologies, this anthology links disparate theories, approaches,
and geographical foci to better understand the spectrum of the
migratory experience from the viewpoint of migrants themselves. The
book explores the causes and consequences of human displacement at
different scales (both individual and community-level) and across
different time points (from antiquity to the present) and
geographies (not just the Global North but also the Global South).
Transnational scholars across a range of knowledge cultures advance
a broader global discourse on mobility and migration that centres
on the direct experiences and narratives of migrants themselves.
Both interdisciplinary and accessible, this book will be useful for
scholars and students in Migration Studies, Global Studies,
Sociology, Geography, and Anthropology.
This book explores the experiences, causes, and consequences of
food insecurity in different geographical regions and historical
eras. It highlights collective and political actions aimed at food
sovereignty as solutions to mitigate suffering. Despite global
efforts to end hunger, it persists and has even increased in some
regions. This book provides interdisciplinary and historical
perspectives on the manifestations of food insecurity, with case
studies illustrating how people coped with violations of their
rights during the war-time deprivation in France; the neoliberal
incursions on food supply in Turkey, Greece, and Nicaragua; as well
as the consequences of radioactive contamination of farmland in
Japan. This edited collection adopts an analytical approach to
understanding food insecurity by examining how the historical and
political situations in different countries have resulted in an
unfolding dialectic of food insecurity and resistance, with the
most marginalized people-immigrants, those in refugee camps, poor
peasants, and so forth-consistently suffering the worst effects,
yet still maintaining agency to fight back. The book tackles food
insecurity on a local as well as a global scale and will thus be
useful for a broad range of audiences, including students,
scholars, and the general public interested in studying food
crises, globalization, and current global issues.
This book explores the experiences, causes, and consequences of
food insecurity in different geographical regions and historical
eras. It highlights collective and political actions aimed at food
sovereignty as solutions to mitigate suffering. Despite global
efforts to end hunger, it persists and has even increased in some
regions. This book provides interdisciplinary and historical
perspectives on the manifestations of food insecurity, with case
studies illustrating how people coped with violations of their
rights during the war-time deprivation in France; the neoliberal
incursions on food supply in Turkey, Greece, and Nicaragua; as well
as the consequences of radioactive contamination of farmland in
Japan. This edited collection adopts an analytical approach to
understanding food insecurity by examining how the historical and
political situations in different countries have resulted in an
unfolding dialectic of food insecurity and resistance, with the
most marginalized people-immigrants, those in refugee camps, poor
peasants, and so forth-consistently suffering the worst effects,
yet still maintaining agency to fight back. The book tackles food
insecurity on a local as well as a global scale and will thus be
useful for a broad range of audiences, including students,
scholars, and the general public interested in studying food
crises, globalization, and current global issues.
Water scarcity is not simply the result of what nature has to offer
but always involves power relations and political decisions. This
volume discusses the politics of the freshwater crisis,
specifically how access to water is determined in different regions
and historical periods, how conflict is constructed and managed,
and how identity and efforts to control water systems, through
development, technologies, and institutions, shape one another. The
book analyzes responses to the water crisis as efforts to mitigate
water insecurity and as expressions of collective identity that
legitimate, resist, or seek to transform existing inequalities. The
chapters focus on different processes that contribute to freshwater
scarcity, including land use decisions, pollution, privatization,
damming, climate change, discrimination, water management
institutions and technology. Case studies are included from North
and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and New Zealand.
Water scarcity is not simply the result of what nature has to offer
but always involves power relations and political decisions. This
volume discusses the politics of the freshwater crisis,
specifically how access to water is determined in different regions
and historical periods, how conflict is constructed and managed,
and how identity and efforts to control water systems, through
development, technologies, and institutions, shape one another. The
book analyzes responses to the water crisis as efforts to mitigate
water insecurity and as expressions of collective identity that
legitimate, resist, or seek to transform existing inequalities. The
chapters focus on different processes that contribute to freshwater
scarcity, including land use decisions, pollution, privatization,
damming, climate change, discrimination, water management
institutions and technology. Case studies are included from North
and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe and New Zealand.
Since the economic and financial crisis of 2008, the proportion of
unemployed young people has exceeded any other group of unemployed
adults. This phenomenon marks the emergence of a laborscape. This
concept recognizes that, although youth unemployment is not
consistent across the world, it is a coherent problem in the global
political economy. This book examines this crisis of youth
unemployment, drawing on international case studies. It is
organized around four key dimensions of the crisis: precarity,
flexibility, migration, and policy responses. With contributions
from leading experts in the field, the chapters offer a dynamic
portrait of unemployment and how this is being challenged through
new modes of resistance. This book provides cross-national
comparisons, both ethnographic and quantitative, to explore the
contours of this laborscape on the global, national, and local
scales. Throughout these varied case studies is a common narrative
from young workers, families, students, volunteers, and activists
facing a new and growing problem. This book will be an imperative
resource for students and researchers looking at the sociology of
globalization, global political economy, labor markets, and
economic geography.
Jerusalem, the holy city of three faiths, has been the focus of
competing historical, religious, and political narratives from
Biblical chronicles to today's headlines. With an aura that
transcends the boundaries of time and place, the city itself
embodies different levels of reality - indeed, different realities
altogether - for both observers and inhabitants. There is the real
Jerusalem, a place of ancient streets and monuments, temples and
coffee-houses, religious discourse and political argument. But
there is also the imaginary and utopian city that exists in the
minds of believers, political strategists, and artists. The study
of this multifaceted city poses complex questions that range over
several fields of inquiry. The multidisciplinary studies in
Jerusalem offer insights into this complexity. Chapters by leading
scholars examine the significant issues that relate to the
perception, representation, and status of the city at the
historical, religious, social, artistic, and political levels.
Together they provide an essential resource for anyone interested
in the paradoxes that Jerusalem offers.
Jerusalem, the holy city of three faiths, has been the focus of
competing historical, religious, and political narratives from
Biblical chronicles to today's headlines. With an aura that
transcends the boundaries of time and place, the city itself
embodies different levels of reality - indeed, different realities
altogether - for both observers and inhabitants. There is the real
Jerusalem, a place of ancient streets and monuments, temples and
coffee-houses, religious discourse and political argument. But
there is also the imaginary and utopian city that exists in the
minds of believers, political strategists, and artists. The study
of this multifaceted city poses complex questions that range over
several fields of inquiry. The multidisciplinary studies in
Jerusalem offer insights into this complexity. Chapters by leading
scholars examine the significant issues that relate to the
perception, representation, and status of the city at the
historical, religious, social, artistic, and political levels.
Together they provide an essential resource for anyone interested
in the paradoxes that Jerusalem offers.
The state of Israel and the Palestinian nation are at an historic
juncture. Respective representatives have recognized each other's
right to exist, learning to conceive of a new "other". Both have a
chance to claim a new future, but more than a quarter of a century
of occupation has left a permanent mark on all societies. Israel's
occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip created a
relationship which, similar to that between colonizer and
colonized, placed Israeli Jews in the position of the powerful, and
Palestinians of the Occupied Territories, in the position of the
powerless. This dichotomy of more than 26 years of occupation, has
significant social, political, economic, cultural, psychological
and moral ramifications for both men and women, both Israelis and
Palestinians. This text analyzes the impact of the
occupier/occupied unequal relationship on the lives of Palestinian
and Jewish women. Exposing a set of previously unarticulated
internal conflicts and differences, it also discusses those
existing loyalties which have been reinforced as different groups
of women have moved into public political action.
Since the economic and financial crisis of 2008, the proportion of
unemployed young people has exceeded any other group of unemployed
adults. This phenomenon marks the emergence of a laborscape. This
concept recognizes that, although youth unemployment is not
consistent across the world, it is a coherent problem in the global
political economy. This book examines this crisis of youth
unemployment, drawing on international case studies. It is
organized around four key dimensions of the crisis: precarity,
flexibility, migration, and policy responses. With contributions
from leading experts in the field, the chapters offer a dynamic
portrait of unemployment and how this is being challenged through
new modes of resistance. This book provides cross-national
comparisons, both ethnographic and quantitative, to explore the
contours of this laborscape on the global, national, and local
scales. Throughout these varied case studies is a common narrative
from young workers, families, students, volunteers, and activists
facing a new and growing problem. This book will be an imperative
resource for students and researchers looking at the sociology of
globalization, global political economy, labor markets, and
economic geography.
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