Stanford University: 1318 books
Black Autonomy
Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionately impoverished, underserved, policed, and incarcerated. In Nicaragua, Afrodescendants have mobilized to confront this state of siege through the politics...
Raising Global Families
Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Public discourse on Asian parenting tends to fixate on ethnic culture as a static value set, disguising the fluidity and diversity of Chinese parenting. Such stereotypes also fail to account for the challenges of raising children in a rapidly modernizing world, full of globalizing values. In Raising...
Paradise Redefined
Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since China's one-child policy was introduced in 1979. Her book Only Hope left readers with a picture of stressed, ambitious adolescents for whom elite status...
The Souls of Mixed Folk
Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
The Souls of Mixed Folk examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders...
Patterns of Protest
Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Asked to name an activist, many people think of someone like Cesar Chavez or Rosa Parks—someone uniquely and passionately devoted to a cause. Yet, two-thirds of Americans report having belonged to a social movement, attended a protest, or engaged in some form of contentious political activity. Activism,...
Flowers That Kill
Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Flowers are beautiful. People often communicate their love, sorrow, and other feelings to each other by offering flowers, like roses. Flowers can also be symbols of collective identity, as cherry blossoms are for the Japanese. But, are they also deceptive? Do people become aware when their meaning...
Islamism
Contested Perspectives on Political Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
As America struggles to understand Islam and Muslims on the world stage, one concept in particular dominates public discourse: Islamism. References to Islamism and Islamists abound in the media, in think tanks, and in the general study of Islam, but opinions vary on the differences of degree and kind...
by Giorgio Agamben
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
What is at stake in literature? Can we identify the fire that our stories have lost, but that they strive, at all costs, to rediscover? And what is the philosopher's stone that writers, with the passion of alchemists, struggle to forge in their word furnaces? For Giorgio Agamben, who suggests that...
Emotions in the Field
The Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2010
As emotion is often linked with irrationality, it's no surprise researchers tend to underreport the emotions they experience in the field. However, denying emotion altogether doesn't necessarily lead to better research. Methods cannot function independently from the personalities wielding them, and...
As Light Before Dawn
The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2009
As Light Before Dawn explores the mystical thought of Isaac ben Samuel of Akko, a major medieval kabbalist whose work has until now received relatively little attention. Through consideration of an extensive literary corpus, including much that still remains in manuscript, this study examines an array...
The Barber of Damascus
Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
This book is about a barber, Shihab al-Din Ahmad Ibn Budayr, who shaved and coiffed, and probably circumcised and healed, in Damascus in the 18th century. The barber may have been a "nobody," but he wrote a history book, a record of the events that took place in his city during his lifetime....
Contested Conversions to Islam
Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
This book explores how Ottoman Muslims and Christians understood the phenomenon of conversion to Islam from the 15th to the 17th centuries. The Ottomans ruled over a large non-Muslim population and conversion to Islam was a contentious subject for all communities, especially Muslims themselves. Ottoman...
Disquieting Gifts
Humanitarianism in New Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan's education to be in the same category as international humanitarian aid, both acts are linked by the desire to give. Many studies focus on the outcomes of humanitarian work, but the impulses that inspire people to engage in the first place...
Mediating the Global
Expatria's Forms and Consequences in Kathmandu
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Transnational business people, international aid workers, and diplomats are all actors on the international stage working for organizations and groups often scrutinized by the public eye. But the very lives of these global middlemen and women are relatively unstudied. Mediating the Global takes up...