http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/gaia_gaia_books/rss Recent eScholarship items from GAIA Books Fri, 15 May 2026 13:14:20 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73c5c0cg Modern Peoplehood: On Race, Racism, Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73c5c0cg Fri, 10 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Lie, John https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gs6r186 No Alternative? examines education in South Korea beyond daytime K-16 schooling—an escalating phenomenon in an increasingly neoliberal and globalizing society. Ethnographic portraits of private after-schooling, alternative schooling, home schooling, and adult distance education reveal that education producers and consumers often reject mainstream education while simultaneously seeking or embracing its symbolic value. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gs6r186 Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Abelmann, Nancy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/325303qz In eighteenth-century Britain, the appearance of “savages” from the New World provoked intense fascination. Though such people had been arriving periodically for decades, it was only then that the “savage visit” became a sensation. Using a wealth of sources, Kate Fullagar shows why the phenomenon grew and how it related to bitter debates over the morality of imperial expansion. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/325303qz Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Fullagar, Kate https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05g4n84c In just three decades, Great Britain’s place in world politics was transformed. In 1945, it was the world’s preeminent imperial power with global interests. By 1975, Britain languished in political stasis and economic recession, clinging to its alliance with the United States and membership in the European Community. Amid this turmoil, British intellectuals struggled to make sense of their country’s decline and the transformed world in which they found themselves. This book assesses their responses to this predicament and explores the different ways British thinkers came to understand the new international relations of the postwar period. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05g4n84c Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Hall, Ian https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0026695h When the U.S.-Korea military alliance began to deteriorate in the 2000s, many commentators blamed "anti-Americanism" and nationalism, especially among younger South Koreans. Challenging these assumptions, this book argues that Korean activism around U.S. relations owes more to transformations in domestic politics, including the decentralization of government, the diversification and politics of civil society organizations, and the transnationalization of social movements. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0026695h Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Moon, Katharine H. S. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mq6q2c0 Gossip and anecdote may be “idle talk,” but they also serve to knit together individuals in society and to provide the materials through which literary culture and historical memory are constructed. This groundbreaking book provides a cultural history of gossip and anecdote in traditional China, beginning with the Han dynasty and ending with the Qing. The ten essays, along with the introduction and postface, address the verification, transmission, and interpretation of gossip and anecdote across literary and historical genres.Contributors: Sarah M. Allen, Beverly J. Bossler, Jack W. Chen, Ronald Egan, Dore J. Levy, Stephen Owen, Graham Sanders, David Schaberg, Anna M. Shields, Richard E. Strassberg, Xiaofei Tian https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mq6q2c0 Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Chen, Jack W https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6043g6g9 This book explores the important connections between medicine and political culture that often have been overlooked. In response to the French revolution and British radicalism, political propagandists adopted a scientific vocabulary and medical images for their own purposes. New ideas about anatomy and pathology, sexuality and reproduction, cleanliness and contamination, and diet and drink migrated into politics in often startling ways, and to significant effect. These ideas were used to identify individuals as normal or pathological, and as “naturally” suitable or unsuitable for public life. This migration has had profound consequences for how we measure the bodies, practices and abilities of public figures and ourselves. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6043g6g9 Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Wagner, Corinna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4h74v49p In 221 BCE the state of Qin vanquished its rivals and established the first empire on Chinese soil, starting a millennium-long imperial age in Chinese history. Hailed by some and maligned by many, Qin has long been an enigma. In this pathbreaking study, the authors integrate textual sources with newly available archeological and paleographic materials, providing a boldly novel picture of Qin’s cultural and political trajectory, its evolving institutions and its religion, its place in China’s history, and the reasons for its success and for its ultimate collapse. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4h74v49p Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Pines, Yuri https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xr9f9dk This book examines the role of translation—the rendering of texts and ideas from one language to another, as both act and trope—in shaping attitudes toward nationalism and colonialism in Korean and Japanese intellectual discourse between the time of Japan’s annexation of Korea in 1910 and the passing of the colonial generation in the mid-1960s. Drawing on Korean and Japanese texts ranging from critical essays to short stories produced in the colonial and postcolonial periods, it analyzes the ways in which Japanese colonial and Korean nationalist discourse pivoted on such concepts as language, literature, and culture. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xr9f9dk Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Suh, Serk-Bae https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30c576h7 This volume examines the significant role population science played in British colonial policy in the twentieth century as the imperial state attempted to control colonial populations using new agricultural and public health policies, private family planning initiatives, and by imposing limits over migration and settlement.A Problem of Great Importance traces British imperial efforts to engage metropolitan activists who could improve its knowledge of colonial demography and design programs to influence colonial population trends. While imperial population control failed to achieve its goals, British institutions and experts would be central to the development of postcolonial population programs. Researchers, scholars, and historians of British history will gain greater perspective into the effects of demography on imperial governance and colonial and postcolonial British views of their place in the world. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30c576h7 Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Ittman, Karl https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qs2w3rb This book explores philosophical, sociological, and democratic approaches to organization. Bevir offers a humanist and historicist perspective, arguing that people creatively make and remake organizations in particular contexts. By highlighting the meaningful and contingent nature of action, he reexamines the concepts of state, nation, network, and market, and he calls for democratic innovations. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qs2w3rb Thu, 5 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Bevir, Mark https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4zp9f66p <p>“Presents a compelling and novel argument: that collective efforts to combat climate change have actually contributed to less sustainable modes of industrial growth. Much work has looked at the details of national and international climate change policy, but no one has addressed whether any of this effort is likely to make a real difference, and what the broader factors are that account for policy changes. . . . Will be attractive both for scholars of climate change and for policy makers.” Peter Haas, University of Massachusetts, Amherst</p><p>Climate change is a global phenomenon that requires a global response, and yet climate change governance depends on the ability of individual states to respond to a long-term, uncertain threat. Although states are routinely criticized for their inability to respond to such threats, the problems that arise from their attempts to respond are frequently overlooked. Focusing on the experiences of India, Spain, and Australia, Hayley Stevenson... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4zp9f66p Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Stevenson, Hayley https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2tp0d3gp <p>“Quietly dazzling. . . . In this gripping account of welfare’s postcolonial history, Jordanna Bailkin throws the archives wide open and invites us to walk through them with new eyes—and with renewed appreciation for the intimate connections between empire and metropole in the making of contemporary Britain. The Afterlife of Empire challenges us to reimagine how we think and teach the twentieth century in Britain and beyond.” Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign</p><p>“A brilliant contribution to the history of twentieth-century Britain. It does what no other book has done: narrating the end of empire and the rise of the postwar welfare state together, while placing the stories of ordinary people—children, adolescents, parents, husbands, and wives—at the heart of this account. With this book, Bailkin transforms our understanding of how some of the most critical issues of twentieth-century British history were not just perceived, but lived.” stephen j.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2tp0d3gp Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Bailkin, Jordanna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w56p2zj <p>“This ambitious, very important project defines no less than a new field of inquiry, one that scarcely could have been attempted in the past. The essays in this volume add enormously to the documentation of what late-period Chinese art learned from Japan, and begin to formulate conclusions that will enrich future accounts of both Japanese and Chinese art.” James Cahill, University of California, Berkeley</p><p>The modern histories of China and Japan are inexorably intertwined. Their relationship is perhaps most obvious in the fields of political, economic, and military history, but it is no less true in cultural and art history. Yet the traffic in artistic practices and practitioners between China and Japan remains an understudied field. In this volume, an international group of scholars investigates Japan’s impact on Chinese art from the mid-nineteenth century through the 1930s. Individual essays address a range of perspectives, including the work of individual Chinese and... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0w56p2zj Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Fogel, Joshua A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fd5v9cc <p>“In this highly original work, Ruth Barraclough makes it absolutely clear that marginalized and degraded forms of literary expression, like those in which the factory girl figures, are fundamental to the definition and self-understanding of working women’s subjectivity. Written in a lively and highly accessible style, her book will be of great value to scholars of Korea but also a broad array of literary critics, social and labor historians, and women’s studies scholars.” Paula Rabinowitz, author of <em>Labor and Desire: Women’s Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America</em> </p><p>“Bringing together labor history and literary criticism in the most innovative ways, <em>Factory Girl Literature</em> admirably explores cultural and literary representations to illuminate a complex subject that would be inaccessible via more conventional sources. Barraclough astutely illustrates how the crucial matrix of sexuality and the experience of various kinds of violence was an integral... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fd5v9cc Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Barraclough, Ruth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5626s1fw <p>“Set against one of the most horrible atrocities of the early twentieth century, the ethnic cleansing of Western Anatolia and the burning of the city of Izmir, <em>Smyrna’s Ashes</em> is an important contribution to our understanding of how humanitarian thinking shaped British foreign and military policy in the Late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean. Based on rigorous archival research and scholarship, well written, and compelling, it is a welcome addition to the growing literature on humanitarianism and the history of human rights.” Keith David Watenpaugh, University of California, Davis</p><p>“Tusan shows vividly and compassionately how Britain’s attempt to build a ‘Near East’ in its own image upon the ruins of the Ottoman Empire served as prelude to today’s Middle East of nation-states.” Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge</p><p>“Traces an important but neglected strand in the history of British humanitarianism, showing how its efforts to aid Ottoman Christians were inextricably... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5626s1fw Sun, 7 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Tusan, Michelle https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6354g2xv <p>“This volume is unique in its comprehensive investigation of the changing face of public health in East and Southeast Asia. The region’s countries have experienced major challenges resulting from colonialism, conflicts, economic and technological development, varying levels of government stability, widening disparities between social classes, uneven distribution of wealth, emerging epidemics, chronic diseases, occupational hazards, and changing health services. All of these issues are ably addressed by the authors, firsthand experts in their respective countries and fields. With its useful summaries and wealth of international sources, it will be an excellent resource for scholars and practitioners seeking an introduction to the region’s complex context and development.” Chitr Sitthi-amorn, former president, International Epidemiological Association</p><p><em>Public Health in East and Southeast Asia</em> presents an overview of the state of public health across this vast region... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6354g2xv Fri, 5 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Detels, Roger Sullivan, Sheena G. Tan, Chorh Chuan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13w4k8d4 <p>In <em>Daoism in the Twentieth Century,</em> an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the social history and anthropology of Daoism from the late nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the evolution of traditional forms of practice and community, as well as modern reforms and reinventions both within China and on the global stage. Essays investigate ritual specialists, body cultivation and meditation traditions, monasticism, new religious movements, state-sponsored institutionalization, and transnational networks.</p><p>“This pioneering work not only explores the ways in which Daoism was able to adapt and reinvent itself during China’s modern era, but sheds new light on how Daoism helped structure the development of Chinese religious culture. The authors also demonstrate Daoism’s role as a world religion, particularly in terms of emigration and identity. The book’s sophisticated approach transcends previous debates over how to define the term ‘Daoism,’ and should... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13w4k8d4 Fri, 3 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Palmer, David A. Liu, Xun https://escholarship.org/uc/item/07s1h1rf <p>Addressing the problem of the ‘Han’ ethnos from a variety of relevant perspectives—historical, geographical, racial, political, literary, anthropological, and linguistic—<em>Critical Han Studies</em> offers a responsible, informative deconstruction of this monumental yet murky category. It is certain to have an enormous impact on the entire field of China studies.” Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania</p><p>“This deeply historical, multidisciplinary volume consistently and fruitfully employs insights from critical race and whiteness studies in a new arena. In doing so it illuminates brightly how and when ideas about race and ethnicity change in the service of shifting configurations of power.” David Roediger, author of <em>How Race Survived U.S. History</em> </p><p>“A great book. By examining the social construction of hierarchy in China,Critical Han Studiessheds light on broad issues of cultural dominance and in-group favoritism.” Richard Delgado, author of <em>Critical... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/07s1h1rf Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Mullaney, Thomas S. Leibold, James Gros, Stéphane Vanden Bussche, Eric https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wj6r222 <p>In this wide-ranging volume, leading scholars across several disciplines—history, literature, sociology, and cultural studies—investigate the nature of liberalism and modernity in imperial Britain since the eighteenth century. They show how Britain’s liberal version of modernity (of capitalism, democracy, and imperialism) was the product of a peculiar set of historical circumstances that continues to haunt our neoliberal present.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wj6r222 Fri, 4 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Gunn, Simon Vernon, James https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55z8q83k <p>“Clear, coherent, richly documented, and highly persuasive. I know of no other source devoted exclusively to the topic of Chinese women’s biographies, and I am confident that this book will have a ready audience in the China field and beyond.” Paul Ropp, Clark University</p><p>“In addition to Liu Xiang’s <em>Lienü zhuan,</em> the <em>Urtext</em> of Chinese women’s biography, this rich trove of essays explores previously unexamined biographical genres and mines literary texts for their biographical potential. It will be of great value to scholars interested in women’s history, life-writing, and biography, both in the China field and in comparative contexts.” Grace S. Fong, McGill University</p><p>This volume develops new strategies for reading, contextualizing, and interpreting the long Chinese tradition of women’s biography. Drawing upon a vast array of sources—from formal biography to poetry, letters, and oral interviews—the authors examine how women’s biography served particular... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55z8q83k Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Judge, Joan Hu, Ying https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n74x461 <p>Foreword by Bruce Cumings. Translated by Kim Myung-hwan, Sol June-Kyu,Song Seung-cheol, and Ryu Young-joo, with the collaboration of the author.</p><p>Paik Nak-chung is one of Korea’s most incisive contemporary public intellectuals. By training a literary scholar, he is perhaps best known as an eloquent cultural and political critic. This volume represents the first book-length collection of his writings in English.</p><p>Paik’s distinctive theme is the notion of a “division system” on the Korean peninsula, the peculiar geopolitical and cultural logic by which one nation continues to be divided into two states, South and North. Identifying a single structure encompassing both Koreas and placing it within the framework of the contemporary world-system, Paik shows how this reality has insinuated itself into virtually every corner of modern Korean life.</p><p>“A remarkable combination of scholar, author, critic, and activist, Paik Nak-chung carries forward in our time the ancient... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n74x461 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Nak-chung, Paik https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24b027x0 <p>The description of Africa as a continent in perpetual crisis, ubiquitous in the popular media and in policy and development circles, is at once obvious and obfuscating. This collection by leading ethnographers moves beyond the rhetoric of African crisis to theorize people's everyday practices under volatile conditions not of their own making. From Ghanaian hiplife music to the U.S. "diversity lottery" in Togo, from politicos in Côte d'Ivoire to squatters in South Africa, the essays in Hard Work, Hard Times uncover the imaginative ways in which African subjects make and remake themselves and their worlds, and thus make do, get by, get over, and sometimes thrive.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24b027x0 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Makhulu, Anne-Maria Buggenhagen, Beth A. Jackson, Stephen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89t5v399 <p>While debate about immigration rages within the United States, people worldwide are moving across national borders with unprecedented intensity. In this timely volume, leading scholars in sociology, anthropology, history, and law examine how the actions of the United States as a global leader are increasing pressures on people to migrate, while simultaneously degrading migrant rights from East Asia to Mexico. Uniting such diverse issues as market reform, drug policy, and terrorism under a common framework of human rights, the book constitutes a call for a new vision on immigration more comprehensive than anything yet imagined in the U.S. immigration debate. The volume includes essays by Susan M. Akram, Alexia Bloch, Leo R. Chavez, Christopher Dole, Tricia Gabany-Guerrero, Scott Harding. Julia Meredith Hess, Josiah McC. Heyman, Kevin R. Johnson, Kathryn Libal, Samuel Martínez, Douglas S. Massey, Carole Nagengast, Nancy A. Naples, María Teresa Restrepo-Ruiz, and J. C. Salyer.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89t5v399 Mon, 3 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Martínez, Samuel https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tf697pk <p>The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears to have resulted in a catastrophic “misshaping” of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many reverberations worldwide. Journalists and scholars are now trying to understand what happened, and this volume explores the role of culture and rhetoric in this process of geopolitical transformation. What difference do cultural concepts and values make to the cognitive and emotional weather of which, at various levels, international politics is both consequence and perceived corrective? The distinguished scholars in this multidisciplinary volume bring the tools of cultural analysis to the profound ongoing debate about how geopolitics is mapped and what determines its governance. The volume includes essays by Eileen Boris, Richard Falk, Giles Gunn, Mark Juergensmeyer, Lisa Lowe, Simon Ortiz, David... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tf697pk Mon, 3 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Gunn, Giles Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0q65z7q9 <p>This book vividly traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early twentieth century, during Korea's colonization by Japan. Hyaeweol Choi's shows that what it meant to be a "modern" Korean woman was deeply bound up in such diverse themes as Korean nationalism, Confucian gender practices, images of the West and Christianity, and growing desires for selfhood. Her historically specific, textured analysis sheds new light on the interplay between local and global politics of gender and modernity.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0q65z7q9 Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Choi, Hyaeweol https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n17g0n0 <p>After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. But oil extraction--both on- and offshore--is a toxic remedy for the country's economic ills, with devastating effects on both the environment and traditional livelihoods. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Kristin Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0n17g0n0 Sun, 1 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Reed, Kristin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12h450zf <p>This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, labor, and national modernity. In the process, Hershatter offers keen analytic insights and judgments about the works themselves and the evolution of related academic fields. The result is both a practical bibliographic tool and a thoughtful reflection on how we approach the past.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/12h450zf Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Hershatter, Gail https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jn4j8cf <p>The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. Chinese Religiosities explores the often vexed relationship between the modern Chinese state and religious practice. The essays in this comprehensive, multidisciplinary collection cover a wide range of traditions, including Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Confucianism, Protestantism, Falungong, popular religion, and redemptive societies.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jn4j8cf Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bq66424 <p>More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today—the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field of diaspora studies to understand the complicated history, identity, and status of the Korean minority in Japan. An international group of scholars explores commonalities and contradictions in the Korean diasporic experience, touching on such issues as citizenship and belonging, the personal and the political, and homeland and hostland.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bq66424 Wed, 1 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Ryang, Sonia Lie, John https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qr1c5x7 <p>This book traces the origins and transformations of a people—the Zainichi, migrants from the Korean peninsula to Japan and their descendants. Using a wide range of arguments and evidence—historical and comparative, political and social, literary and pop-cultural—John Lie reveals the social and historical conditions that gave rise to Zainichi identity, while simultaneously demonstrating its complex, fractured, even ephemeral nature.</p><p>Key to understanding Zainichi ideology are, for Lie, the nationalist yearnings it expressed from a condition of diaspora and discrimination. Lie’s nuanced treatment acknowledges both the tragic and triumphant qualities embedded in this formulation, while resisting the essentialism it implies. Rather, he embraces the vicissitudes of the lived experience of Koreans in Japan, shedding light on the vexing topics of diaspora, migration, identity, and group formation.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qr1c5x7 Sat, 1 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Lie, John https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z63n6xr <p>Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. Some advocate on behalf of the communities they study; others incorporate the knowledge and leadership of their informants directly into the process of knowledge production. What ethical, political, and practical tensions arise in the course of such work? In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholar-activists map the terrain on which political engagement and academic rigor meet.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z63n6xr Thu, 1 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Hale, Charles R. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87j6v1qc <p>Contrary to popular myth, Britain does have a constitution, one that is uncodified and commanded little political interest for most of the twentieth century. In the late 1990s, Tony Blair's New Labour Government launched a program of reform that was striking in its ambition. Reinventing Britain tells the story of Britain's constitutional reform and weighs its long-term significance, with essays both by officials who worked on the reforms and by other leading commentators and academics from Britain and North America.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87j6v1qc Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000 McDonald, Andrew https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8z59t0x6 <p>Human rights is all too often the first casualty of national insecurity. How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rights? This timely volume compares the lessons of the United States and Israel with the "best-case scenarios" of the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, and Germany. It demonstrates that threatened democracies have important options, and democratic governance, the rule of law, and international cooperation are crucial foundations for counterterror policy.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8z59t0x6 Mon, 1 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Brysk, Alison Shafir, Gershon https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6034c01b <p>Throughout Spain's tumultuous twentieth century, women writers produced a dazzling variety of novels, popular theater, and poetry. Their work both reflected and helped to transform women's gender, family, and public roles, carving out new space in the literary canon. This multilingual collection of essays by both scholars and creative artists explores the diversity of Spanish women's writing, both celebrated and forgotten.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6034c01b Sat, 1 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Bergmann, Emilie L. Herr, Richard https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dd7p4w1 <p>Transboundary natural resources pose particular problems for the international community, and the community of African States presents no exception. The peaceful management and utilization of these resources is a universal aspiration, but the principles and norms governing international cooperation over natural resources are often just as contested as the ownership of the resource itself. In Part One, the emergent practices, norms and principles applicable to transboundary freshwater and petroleum are reviewed, along with the possibility of further development of these norms through the current mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Shared Natural Resources, Ambassador Chusei Yamada. The history of the UN Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses is reviewed, with an emphasis upon the foundational principles which it contains. The emergence of the petroleum Joint Development Agreement is also analyzed, again emphasizing the fundamental norms... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dd7p4w1 Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Haile, Zewdineh B. Wadley, Ian L. G. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7f01m0zn Impersonal Markets and Personal Communities? Wildlife, Conservation, and Development in Botswana https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7f01m0zn Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Hoon, Parakh N. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7p71m14j <p>This article is part of a forthcoming volume: "The Evolution of American and French Industrial Societies Since the 1850s" edited by Monique J. Borrel. The other chapters will be posted on this site as they are completed.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7p71m14j Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Borrel, Monique J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hc6x8hp Revitalizing Bulgarian Dialectology https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hc6x8hp Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000 Alexander, Ronelle Zhobov, Vladimir https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13x9v6ms Africa's Changing Markets for Health and Veterinary Services: The New Institutional Issues https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13x9v6ms Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Leonard, David K. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59n2d2n1 The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies and the Disciplines https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59n2d2n1 Thu, 8 May 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Szanton, David L https://escholarship.org/uc/item/09p4k433 Migration, Development, and Gender in Morocco https://escholarship.org/uc/item/09p4k433 Tue, 6 May 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Ennaji, Moha https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61z790df Gender, Citizenship, and Human Rights in the Middle East: Agendas for Research and Reflections on Lebanon https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61z790df Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Joseph, Suad https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9g15x848 Anti-Modernist Islam: Understanding Taliban Treatment of Women https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9g15x848 Tue, 8 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Goodson, Larry https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fd390b0 The Struggle of Bedouin-Arab Women in a Transitional Society https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fd390b0 Tue, 8 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0000 al-Krenawi, Alean https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0611197h Women's Employment in Lebanon and its Impact on their Status https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0611197h Tue, 8 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Khalaf, Mona https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6q8147tq <p>This chapter provides an overview of the effects of research on women and gender in the Islamic world, as it relates to the study of Islamism (Muslim fundamentalism, or political Islam), and Islamization. Most of the literature on this phenomenon overlooks women altogether, or reduces their import to the question of modesty and Islamic dress. The gendering of the "political" sphere continues, while the scholars of women and gender in the region debate other issues and develop new research agendae in their own intellectual ghetto.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6q8147tq Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0000 Zuhur, Sherifa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8847z9w6 Globalization and Hazardous Waste Management: From Brown to Green? https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8847z9w6 Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 O'Neill, Kate https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48m825nw Globalization of Environmental Management Standards: Barriers and Incentives in Europe and the United States https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48m825nw Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Delmas, Magali A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4qf1c74d <p>The research project which produced this volume of essays grew out of the central issue addressed in Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy by David Vogel, namely the impact of economic globalization on national regulatory policies. While popular opinion tends to assume that global economic competition produces a “race to the bottom,” virtually all scholars who have examined this issue challenge this claim. Vogel goes a step further, arguing for the existence of a “California effect,” e.g. a “race to the top” or toward stringency. This introductory essay reviews the extensive scholarly literature on this subject and then summarizes and analyzes the contributions of the ten essays in this volume to this debate as well as to the related question of the impact of globalization on regulatory convergence/divergence. On balance, these essays report both continued regulatory divergence as well as movement in the direction of more stringent standards.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4qf1c74d Wed, 24 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0000 Vogel, David Kagan, Robert A.