Julia Adams: 41 books
Salt in the Sand
Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
Salt in the Sand is a compelling historical ethnography of the interplay between memory and state violence in the formation of the Chilean nation-state. The historian and anthropologist Lessie Jo Frazier focuses on northern Chile, which figures prominently in the nation’s history as a site of military...
Disciplining Statistics
Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830–1885
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
In Disciplining Statistics Libby Schweber compares the science of population statistics in England and France during the nineteenth century, demonstrating radical differences in the interpretation and use of statistical knowledge. Through a comparison of vital statistics and demography, Schweber describes...
Beyond Belief
India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2007
Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in 1947, Srirupa Roy explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, subjects into citizens, and...
Nostalgia for the Modern
State Secularism and Everyday Politics in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
As the twentieth century drew to a close, the unity and authority of the secularist Turkish state were challenged by the rise of political Islam and Kurdish separatism on the one hand and by the increasing demands of the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank on the other....
Native Sons
West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
For much of the twentieth century, France recruited colonial subjects from sub-Saharan Africa to serve in its military, sending West African soldiers to fight its battles in Europe, Southeast Asia, and North Africa. In this exemplary contribution to the “new imperial history,” Gregory Mann argues...
The Cunning of Recognition
Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2002
The Cunning of Recognition is an exploration of liberal multiculturalism from the perspective of Australian indigenous social life. Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues that the multicultural legacy of colonialism perpetuates unequal systems of power, not by demanding that colonized subjects identify with...
American Empire and the Politics of Meaning
Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive...
Ruling Oneself Out
A Theory of Collective Abdications
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
What induces groups to commit political suicide? This book explores the decisions to surrender power and to legitimate this surrender: collective abdications. Commonsensical explanations impute such actions to coercive pressures, actors’ miscalculations, or their contamination by ideologies at odds...
Affective Communities
Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy. Forster’s epigrammatic manifesto, where the idea of the “friend” stands as a metaphor for dissident...
States of Imagination
Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2001
The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking to explore the postcolonial state. Contributors focus on...
Liberalism without Democracy
Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922–1936
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2006
The history of Western intervention in the Middle East stretches from the late eighteenth century to the present day. All too often, the Western rationale for invading and occupying a country to liberate its people has produced new forms of domination that have hindered rather than encouraged the...
Creating Market Socialism
How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In the midst of China’s post-Mao market reforms, the old status hierarchy is collapsing. Who will determine what will take its place? In Creating Market Socialism, the sociologist Carolyn L. Hsu demonstrates the central role of ordinary people—rather than state or market elites—in creating new...
The Remains of War
Bodies, Politics, and the Search for American Soldiers Unaccounted For in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2005
The ongoing effort of the United States to account for its missing Vietnam War soldiers is unique. The United States requires the repatriation and positive identification of soldiers’ bodies to remove their names from the list of the missing. This quest for certainty in the form of the material,...
by Seungsook Moon, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
This pathbreaking study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Moon examines the ambitious effort by which South Korea transformed itself into a modern industrial and militarized nation. She demonstrates that the...