Words in motion
Subtitle: toward a global lexicon
By: edited by Carol Gluck and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.
Contributors: Gluck, Carol, 1941-; Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780822345190; 9780822345367
Subjects: Language and languages -- Political aspects; Language and culture -- Political aspects; Intercultural communication; Globalization
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Words in motion / Carol Gluck; title: Worlds in motion / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing; title: Segurança/security in Brazil and the United States / Itty Abraham; title: Adat/indigenous : indigeneity in motion / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing; title: 'Ada/custom in the Middle East and Southeast Asia / Mona Abaza; title: Sekinin/responsibility in modern Japan / Carol Gluck; title: 'Ilmaniyya, laïcité, secularisme/secularism in Morocco / Driss Maghraoui; title: Saburaimu/sublime : a Japanese word and its political afterlife / Alan Tansman; title: 'Aqalliyya/minority in modern Egyptian discourse / Seteney Shami; title: Ḥijāb/headscarf : a political journey / Claudia Koonz; title: Injury : incriminating words and imperial power / Lydia H. Liu; title: Conjuracion/conspiracy in the Philippine revolution of 1896 / Vicente L. Rafael; title: Terrorism : state sovereignty and militant politics in India / Partha Chatterjee; title: Komisyon/commission and kurul/board : words that rule / Huri Islamoglu; title: Chumchon/community in Thailand / Craig J. Reynolds; title: Thammarat/good governance in glocalizing Thailand / Kasian Tejapira.