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Area studies in the global age : community, place, identity /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Clowes, Edith W. (Editor), Bromberg, Shelly Jarrett (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: DeKalb : NIU Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Area studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Area studies after several "turns" / Edith W. Clowes and Shelly Jarrett Bromberg
  • Reclaiming the national narrative : Authority and liminal identities
  • Understanding Taiwan's colonial past : using history to define Taiwan's 21st century identity / J. Megan Greene
  • Patriot or saint? The resurrection of a Soviet hero and post-Soviet identity / Adrienne M. Harris
  • History and memory in an African context : a case study of Robben Island / Elizabeth MacGonagle
  • "Ten million trujillos is all we are" : Dominican identity beyond the Trujillato / Shelly Jarrett Bromberg
  • Borders within : regional communities and resistant identities
  • Urbanization and urban villages : institutional factors and social identity in urban China / Dan Chen and John James Kennedy
  • Place, scale, and self-reliance : Issues of identity and community in contemporary Siberia / Edith W. Clowes
  • The post-Soviet North Caucasus : factors of contemporary ethno-national identity and community / Austen Thelen
  • Civil society and its discontents : freedom of religion, human rights, and free speech
  • The multiple faces of Islamic rebirth in Central Asia / Marita Y. Omelicheya
  • Solidarity, human rights, and the poetics of connection : articulating community in Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and her children and Lynn Nottage's Ruined / Marike Janzen
  • The art of making community : Lia Perjovschi's CAA/CAA (Contemporary Art Archive/Center for Art Analysis) and the Knowledge Museum / Corina Apostol
  • Street art contra police abuse : exposing police power in post-Soviet Russia / Patrick Callen
  • Legacies of empire and shifting North-South communities
  • Community, identity, and space in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Sarah L. Smiley
  • The United States confronts a new Latin American community after the Cold War / Walt Vanderbush
  • Ozbekchilik as an ethno-symbolist construct : articulating the ethnie in Uzbekistan / Reuel R. Hanks
  • Afterword: Creating a community of Area studies in a changing world / Ayșe Zarakol.