Cornell University Press Asian Studies Catalog 2018

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Resurrecting Nagasaki Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives Chad Diehl

In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl examines the reconstruction of Nagasaki City after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945. Diehl illuminates the genesis of narratives surrounding the bombing by following the people and groups who contributed to the city’s rise from the ashes and shaped its postwar image in Japan and the world. Municipal officials, survivor-activist groups, the Catholic community, and American occupation officials interpreted the destruction and envisioned the reconstruction of the city from different and sometimes disparate perspectives. Each group’s narrative situated the significance of the bombing within the city’s postwar urban identity in unique ways, informing the discourse of reconstruction as well as its physical manifestations in the city’s revival. Diehl’s analysis reveals how these atomic narratives shaped both the way Nagasaki rebuilt and the ways in which popular discourse on the atomic bombings framed the city’s experience for decades. Chad R. Diehl is Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. You can follow him @ProfDiehlLoyola.

“Diehl immerses the reader deeply in the look, sound, and feel of the city via his ‘social cartography’ of reconstruction in the first twenty-five years after the bombing. He makes the city and its inhabitants come to life by showing the interactions of real people, the dovetailing of unlikely interests and interpretations, indeed the collusions that produced Nagasaki’s relationship with its atomic past in ways that are significantly different from Hiroshima’s.” —Franziska Seraphim, Boston College “Diehl poses a deceptively simple question and, in answering it, succeeds in telling a stimulating and complex history of responses to the bomb in Nagasaki in the broader context of postwar Japan.” —Lori Watt, Washington University in St. Louis

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The Teahouse under Socialism The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–2000 Di Wang

To understand a city fully, writes Di Wang, we must observe its most basic units of social life. In The Teahouse under Socialism, Wang does just that, arguing that the teahouses of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, are some of the most important public spaces—perfect sites for examining the social and economic activities of everyday Chinese. Wang looks at the transformation of these teahouses from private businesses to collective ownership and how state policy and the proprietors’ response to it changed the overall economic and social structure of the city. He uses this transformation to illuminate broader trends in China’s urban public life from 1950 through the end of the Cultural Revolution and into the post-Mao reform era. In doing so, The Teahouse under Socialism charts the fluctuations in fortune of this ancient cultural institution and analyzes how it survived, and even thrived, under bleak conditions. Throughout, Wang asks such questions as: Why and how did state power intervene in the operation of small businesses? How was “socialist entertainment” established in a local society? How did the well-known waves of political contestation and struggle in China change Chengdu’s teahouses and public life? In the end, Wang argues, the answers to such questions enhance our understanding of public life and political culture in the Communist state. Di Wang is Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of History, University of Macau. Among his many books are The Teahouse: Small Business, Everyday Culture, and Public Politics in Chengdu, 1900–1950 and Street Culture in Chengdu: Public Space, Urban Commoners, and Local Politics, 1870–1930.

“Di Wang’s latest book puts his exceptional research skills on display. The Teahouse under Socialism makes a vital contribution to PRC and urban history. Since Wang layers his narration with beautiful details and personal stories, it should be widely assigned in undergraduate and graduate classes.” —Fabio Lanza, author of The End of Concern “The Teahouse under Socialism affirms Di Wang’s position as an authority on China’s social and cultural history. His book should be read by anyone studying modern Chinese history, anthropologists working on China, and urban historians working on cities around the world.” —Aminda Smith, author of Thought Reform and China’s Dangerous Classes

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Mr. X and the Pacific George F. Kennan and American Policy in East Asia Paul J. Heer

George F. Kennan is well known for articulating the strategic concept of containment, which would be the centerpiece of what became the Truman Doctrine. During his influential Cold War career he was the preeminent American expert on the Soviet Union. In Mr. X and the Pacific, Paul J. Heer explores Kennan’s equally important impact on East Asia. Heer chronicles and assesses Kennan’s work in affecting US policy toward East Asia. By tracing the origins, development, and bearing of Kennan’s strategic perspective on the Far East during and after his time as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff from 1947 to 1950, Heer shows how Kennan moved from being an ardent and hawkish Cold Warrior to, by the 1960s, a prominent critic of American participation in the Vietnam War. Mr. X and the Pacific provides close examinations of Kennan’s engagement with China (both the People’s Republic and Taiwan), Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Country-by-country analysis paired with considerations of the ebb and flow of Kennan’s global strategic thinking result in a significant extension of our estimation of Kennan’s influence and a deepening of our understanding of this key figure in the early years of the Cold War. In Mr. X and the Pacific Heer offers readers a new view of Kennan, revealing his importance and the totality of his role in East Asia policy, his struggle with American foreign policy in the region, and the ways in which Kennan’s legacy still has implications for how the United States approaches the region in the twenty-first century. Paul J. Heer is Adjunct Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. He is a veteran analyst of East Asia and spent three decades within the US intelligence community.

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“Paul Heer has made an important contribution to Kennan-ology and the study of American statecraft in the early Cold War. As the United States approaches present-day problems of Asia-Pacific security, US officials would benefit from reading this book for an insightful take on the origins of America’s postwar primacy in the region.” —Hal Brands, author of Making the Unipolar Moment “This fascinating book by Paul Heer is a must-read for anyone interested in American foreign policy. Heer provides invaluable insights into the thought processes of George Kennan, one of America’s most renowned strategic thinkers.” —J. Stapleton Roy, former US Ambassador to China “Until Mr. X and the Pacific, no historian has adequately examined Kennan’s beliefs and strategies about East Asia. Paul J. Heer has impressively addressed that need. This is a necessary book for readers interested in the Cold War in Asia as well as Kennan’s interests beyond the Soviet Union.” — Frank Costigliola, editor of The Kennan Diaries


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LABOR

Border Capitalism, Disrupted Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone Stephen Campbell

Border Capitalism, Disrupted presents an insightful ethnography of migrant labor regulation at the Mae Sot Special Border Economic Zone on the Myanmar border in northwest Thailand. By bringing a new deployment of workerist and autonomist theory to bear on his fieldwork, Stephen Campbell highlights the ways in which workers’ struggles have catalyzed transformations in labor regulation at the frontiers of capital in the global south. Looking outwards from Mae Sot, Campbell engages extant scholarship on flexibilization and precarious labor, which, typically, is based on the development experiences of the global north. Campbell emphasizes the everyday practices of migrants, the police, employers, NGOs, and private passport brokers to understand the “politics of precarity” and the new forms of worker organization and resistance that are emerging in Asian industrial zones. Focusing, in particular, on the uses and effects of borders as technologies of rule, Campbell argues that geographies of labor regulation can be read as the contested and fragile outcomes of prior and ongoing working-class struggles. Border Capitalism, Disrupted concludes that with the weakened influence of formal unions, understanding the role of these alternative forms of working-class organizations in labor-capital relations becomes critical. With a broad data set gleaned from almost two years of fieldwork, Border Capitalism, Disrupted will appeal directly to those in anthropology, labor studies, political economy, and geography, as well as Southeast Asian studies.

“Border Capitalism, Disrupted is rich ethnographically, intelligent theoretically, deals with an important topic, and is well written. Stephen Campbell’s work will be of interest to scholars of borderlands, migration, police, and corruption, NGOs, anthropology of work, and global assembly industries.” —Josiah Heyman, University of Texas, El Paso

Stephen Campbell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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Remembering the Present Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia J. L . Cassaniti

What is mindfulness, and how does it vary as a concept across different cultures? How does mindfulness find expression in practice in the Buddhist cultures of Southeast Asia? What role does mindfulness play in everyday life? J. L. Cassaniti answers these fundamental questions and more in her engaged ethnographic investigation of what it means to “remember the present” in a region strongly influenced by Buddhist thought. Focusing on Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar, Remembering the Present examines the meanings, practices, and purposes of mindfulness. Using the experiences of people in Buddhist monasteries, hospitals, markets, and homes in the region, Cassaniti shows how an attention to memory informs how people live today and how mindfulness is intimately tied to local constructions of time, affect, power, emotion, and self hood. By looking at how these people incorporate Theravada Buddhism into their daily lives, Cassaniti provides a signal contribution to the psychological anthropology of religious experience. Remembering the Present heeds the call made by researchers in the psychological sciences and the Buddhist side of mindfulness studies for better understandings of what mindfulness is and can be. Cassaniti addresses fundamental questions about self hood, identity, and how a deeper appreciation of the many contexts and complexities intrinsic in sati (mindfulness in the Pali language) can help people lead richer, fuller, and healthier lives. Remembering the Present shows how mindfulness needs to be understood within the cultural and historical influences from which it has emerged. J. L . Cassaniti is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Washington State University. She is the author of Living Buddhism: Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community.

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“Remembering the Present is a wonderfully interesting book. In addition to the religious studies audience, anthropologists will find much to engage with, offering a rare comparative study that provides provocative examples ripe for further engagement.” —Felicity Aulino, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “This remarkably original and fascinating ethnography of mindfulness (sati) in Thailand, Burma, and Sri Lanka looks at traditional and modern(ist) Buddhism, western-derived scientific psychotherapy, and the everyday discourses of monks and laity. It should be read by Buddhists, scholars of Buddhism, and all modern practitioners and advocates of mindfulness training.” —Steven Collins, University of Chicago “This is an important and fascinating book. The author is an outstanding scholar who explores mindfulness as understood—and lived and practiced—in individual lives and in Theravadan religious traditions, throwing invaluable light on its meaning and therapeutic aspects.” — Devon Hinton, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School


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The Battle for Fortune State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China Charlene Makley

In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans’ encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology’s qualitative approach to personhood, power and space to rethink the premises and consequences of economic development campaigns in China’s multiethnic northwestern province of Qinghai. Charlene Makley considers Tibetans’ encounters with development projects as first and foremost a historically situated interpretive politics, in which people negotiate the presence or absence of moral and authoritative persons and their associated jurisdictions and powers. Because most Tibetans believe the active presence of deities and other invisible beings has been the ground of power, causation, and fertile or fortunate landscapes, Makley also takes divine beings seriously, refusing to relegate them to a separate, less consequential, “religious” or “premodern” world. The Battle for Fortune therefore challenges readers to grasp the unique reality of Tibetans’ values and fears in the face of their marginalization in China. Makley uses this approach to encourage a more multidimensional and dynamic understanding of state-local relations than mainstream accounts of development and unrest that portray Tibet and China as a kind of yin-and-yang pair for models of statehood and development in a new global order. Charlene Makley is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College. She is author of The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China.

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“The analysis in The Battle for Fortune is fresh, original, and packed with insights. It is based on fieldwork in a region that is very difficult to work in, conducted during an extremely politically sensitive time. This book also makes significant interventions into inquiries on development, capitalism, and anthropological inquiry writ large.” —Emily T. Yeh, University of Colorado at Boulder “The Battle for Fortune conveys a wealth of new insights about the deeply ambivalent, contradictory, and precarious experiences of Tibetan life in the contemporary PRC. Charlene Makley’s rich ethnography and brilliant use of theory will change the way we think of Tibet in these tumultuous early decades of the twenty-first century.” —Ralph Litzinger, Duke University “Suturing rich ethnographic narrative with deft theoretical analysis, Charlene Makley’s latest work is a timely excavation of neoliberal development practices. Rigorous and legible, this book is an urgent read for anyone keen to deepen their engagement with pressing contemporary quandaries of globalization.” — Sam Smith, Freelance Editor, Brooklyn, NY

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TERRORISM

Why Terrorists Quit The Disengagement of Indonesian Jihadists Julie Chernov Hwang

Why do hard-line terrorists decide to leave their organizations and quit the world of terror and destruction? This is the question for which Julie Chernov Hwang seeks answers in Why Terrorists Quit. Over the course of six years Chernov Hwang conducted more than one hundred interviews with current and former leaders and followers of radical Islamist groups in Indonesia. Using what she learned from these radicals, she examines the reasons they rejected physical force and extremist ideology, slowly moving away from, or in some cases completely leaving, groups such as Jemaah Islamiyah, Mujahidin KOMPAK, Ring Banten, Laskar Jihad, and Tanah Runtuh. Why Terrorists Quit considers the impact of various public initiatives designed to encourage radicals to disengage and follows the lives of five radicals from the various groups, seeking to establish trends, ideas, and reasons for why radicals might eschew violence or quit terrorism. Chernov Hwang has, with this book, provided a clear picture of why Indonesians disengage from jihadist groups, what the state can do to help them reintegrate into nonterrorist society, and how what happens in Indonesia can be more widely applied beyond the archipelago. Julie Chernov Hwang is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Goucher College. She is the author of Peaceful Islamist Mobilization in the Muslim World.

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“Julie Chernov Hwang has given us an intelligent, sensitive, nuanced, and persuasive analysis of the process through which Indonesian jihadis are disengaging from violence. Why Terrorists Quit will help shape U.S., Indonesian, and other governments’ policies toward disengagement and reintegration of terrorists into society.” —R. William Liddle, The Ohio State University “Chernov Hwang has produced a superb analysis that should be required reading for anyone interested in countering violent extremism. Highly readable and full of insights from interviews with former terrorists, the book is a model of good research with clear policy applications.” —Sidney Jones, Director, Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict


POLITICAL SCIENCE

Participation without Democracy Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia Garry Rodan

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without Democracy, Garry Rodan breaks new conceptual ground in examining the social forces that underpin the emergence of these innovations in Southeast Asia. Rodan explains that there is, however, a central paradox in this recalibration of politics: expanded political participation is serving to constrain contestation more than to enhance it. Participation without Democracy uses Rodan’s long-term fieldwork in Singapore, the Philippines, and Malaysia to develop a modes of participation (MOP) framework that has general application across different regime types among both early-developing and late-developing capitalist societies. His MOP framework is a sophisticated, original, and universally relevant way of analyzing this phenomenon. Rodan uses MOP and his case studies to highlight important differences among social and political forces over the roles and forms of collective organization in political representation. In addition, he identifies and distinguishes hitherto neglected non-democratic ideologies of representation and their influence within both democratic and authoritarian regimes. Participation without Democracy suggests that to address the new politics that both provokes these institutional experiments and is affected by them we need to know who can participate, how, and on what issues, and we need to take the non-democratic institutions and ideologies as seriously as the democratic ones. Garry Rodan is Professor of Politics and International Studies and Director of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University. He is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and is, most recently, coauthor of The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia.

“This exceptional book makes an outstanding contribution to the literature on democratization, authoritarian resilience, and Asian politics. Rodan has developed his ‘modes of participation’ framework to its explanatory peak, making Participation without Democracy essential reading for students of democratization everywhere.” —Lee Jones, Queen Mary University of London “Garry Rodan’s book is theoretically innovative, empirically rich, and overall a pleasure to read. Rodan’s biggest contribution is the development of the twin concepts of Ideologies of Political Representation and Modes of Participation. These new tools help us understand why states facing similar pressures from capitalist development opt for different combinations of formal and informal institutions.” —Allen Hicken, University of Michigan

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VIETNAM

Traders in Motion Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace edited by Kirsten W. Endres and Ann Marie Leshkowich

With essays covering diverse topics from street vendors in Hanoi to the waste-trading community in the Red River Delta, Traders in Motion covers the fields of anthropology, political science, and development sociology in Southeast Asia. Focusing on small-scale traders, editors Kirsten W. Endres and Ann Marie Leshkowich demonstrate how the emerging capitalist market in Vietnam is formed and transformed by everyday interactions among traders, suppliers, customers, family members, neighbors, and officials. The contributions shed light on the micropolitics of local-level economic agency in the paradoxical context of Vietnam’s socialist orientation and its contemporary neoliberal economic and social transformation. The essays examine how Vietnamese traders experience, reflect on, and negotiate state policies and regulations that affect the traders’ lives and work. The contributors show how trading experiences shape individuals’ notions of self and personhood not just as economic actors but also in terms of gender, region, and ethnicity. Traders in Motion affords rich comparative insight into how markets form and transform and what those changes mean. Kirsten W. Endres heads the research group Traders, Markets, and the State in Vietnam at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Ann Marie Leshkowich is Professor of Anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross. Contributors Lisa Barthelmes, Christine Bonnin, Gracia Clark, Annuska Derks, Kirsten W. Endres, Chris Gregory, Caroline Grillot, Erik Harms, Esther Horat, Gertrud Hüwelmeier, Ann Marie Leshkowich, Hy Van Luong, Minh T. N. Nguyen, Nguyen Thi Thanh Bình, Linda J. Seligmann, Allison Truitt, Sarah Turner

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“Traders in Motion is well conceived, well organized, and well written. The essays provide an impressive empirical snapshot of the social, political, and economic changes taking place in Vietnam.” —Sheri Lynn Gibbings, Wilfred Laurier University “The chapters in this volume reflect the lively and bustling informal sector of modern Vietnam through the eyes of observers and the voices of insiders. Traders in Motion demonstrates a profound understanding and close observation of socioeconomic changes in Vietnam. This book is a substantial contribution to the study of modern markets in Vietnam. It is a comprehensive book.” —Anh Tran, Indiana University


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SOCIO LOGY

JA PA N

Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan Mat thew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed

Combining history with comparative politics, Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed take on political corruption and scandals, and the reforms designed to counter them, in post–World War II Japan. Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan makes sense of the scandals that have plagued Japanese politics for more than half a century and attempts to show how reforms have evolved to counter the problems. What causes political corruption to become more or less serious over time? they ask. The authors examine major political corruption scandals beginning with the early postwar period until the present day as one way to make sense of how the nature of corruption changes over time. They also consider bureaucratic corruption and scandals, violations of electoral law, sex scandals, and campaign finance regulations and scandals. In the end, Carlson and Reed write, though Japanese politics still experiences periodic scandals, the political reforms of 1994 have significantly reduced the levels of political corruption. The basic message is that reform can reduce corruption. The causes and consequences of political corruption in Japan, they suggest, are much like those in other consolidated democracies. Mat thew M. C arlson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Vermont. He is author of Money Politics in Japan. Steven R. Reed is Professor of Policy Studies at Chuo University. He is author of many books, including Making Common Sense of Japan.

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“Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan breaks ground in new and interesting areas of analysis in Japanese politics and comparative corruption. Carlson and Reed have a practicality and clarity in both their writing and their insights.” —Raymond Christensen, Brigham Young University “A very creative analysis of political scandals and corruption in a country with a bad reputation for them. Carlson and Reed have produced an excellent systematic study of corruption and scandal and how to deal with it.” —Ellis Kraus, University of California, San Diego “What’s either the most significant or just your personal favorite Japanese political scandal? Either way, the competition is pretty fierce. Matthew M. Carlson and Steven R. Reed have an important argument here: even as scandals have become more prominent in Japanese politics, corruption has been reduced as politicians and parties learn to avoid scandal-provoking behavior.” — Robert J. Pekkanen, University of Washington

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KO R E A

From Miracle to Mirage The Making and Unmaking of the Korean Middle Class, 1960–2015 Myungji Yang

Myungji Yang’s From Miracle to Mirage is a critical account of the trajectory of state-sponsored middle-class formation in Korea in the second half of the twentieth century. Yang’s book offers a compelling story of the reality behind the myth of middle-class formation. Capturing the emergence, reproduction, and fragmentation of the Korean middle class, From Miracle to Mirage traces the historical process through which the seemingly successful state project of building a middle-class society resulted in a mirage. Yang argues that profitable speculation in skyrocketing prices for Seoul real estate led to mobility and material comforts for the new middle class. She also shows that the fragility inherent in such developments was embedded in the very formation of that socioeconomic group. Taking exception to conventional views, Yang emphasizes the role of the state in producing patterns of class structure and social inequality. She demonstrates the speculative and exclusionary ways in which the middle class was formed. Domestic politics and state policies, she argues, have shaped the lived experiences and identities of the Korean middle class. From Miracle to Mirage gives us a new interpretation of the reality behind the myth. Yang’s analysis provides evidence of how in cultural and objective terms the country’s rapid, compressed program of economic development created a deeply distorted distribution of wealth. Myungji Yang, a Brown alumna, is Assistant Professor in the political science department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

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“From Miracle to Mirage makes an important contribution to our understanding of social class formation and contemporary Korean society by bringing together structural and socio-cultural analysis into the study of the middle class. Yang’s book carefully traces the making and unmaking of the Korean middle class, a subject that has traditionally received less scholarly attention than the working class or large conglomerates in the field of Korean political economy.” —Yoonkyung Lee, University of Toronto


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URBAN STUDIES

The Geopolitics of Spectacle Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia Natalie Koch

Why do autocrats build spectacular new capital cities? In The Geopolitics of Spectacle, Natalie Koch considers how autocratic rulers use “spectacular” projects to shape state-society relations, but rather than focus on the standard approach—on the project itself—she considers the unspectacular “others.” The contrasting views of those from the poorest regions toward these new national capitals help her develop a geographic approach to spectacle. Koch uses Astana in Kazakhstan to exemplify her argument, comparing that spectacular city with others from resource-rich, nondemocratic nations in Central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia. The Geopolitics of Spectacle draws new political-geographic lessons and shows that these spectacles can be understood only from multiple viewpoints, sites, and temporalities. Koch explicitly theorizes spectacle geographically and in so doing extends the analysis of governmentality into new empirical and theoretical terrain. With cases ranging from Azerbaijan to Qatar and Myanmar, and an intriguing account of reactions to the new capital of Astana from the poverty-stricken Aral Sea region of Khazakhstan, Koch’s book provides food for thought for readers in human geography, anthropology, sociology, urban studies, political science, international affairs, and post-Soviet and Central Asian studies. Natalie Koch is Associate Professor of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. She has published numerous articles in journals such as Political Geography, Central Asian Survey, IJMES, and Geoforum.

“The Geopolitics of Spectacle is extremely rich and thought provoking. Natalie Koch has woven together complex theories and deep case studies to reveal something genuinely fresh with regard to the notion of urban spectacle, authoritarian governance, and behaviors/technologies uncommonly acknowledged to exist across the political spectrum. Koch’s book is a major contribution on several fronts, including within the fields of urban studies, architecture and design, political geography, international relations, geopolitics, cultural studies, and social geography.” —Alexander C. Diener, University of Kansas “The Geopolitics of Spectacle is a significant contribution to our understanding of autocratic rule. Koch’s book explodes the democratic-authoritarian binary and demonstrates the wide variations that exist not only among autocratic states, but also among autocratic states that build spectacular cities.” —Eric Max McGlinchey, George Mason University

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Hamka and Islam Cosmopolitan Reform in the Malay World Khairudi Aljunied

Since the early twentieth century, Muslim reformers have been campaigning for a total transformation of the ways in which Islam is imagined. Islam in the Malay world has a long list of innovative Muslim reformers. The author Haji Abdullah Malik Abdul Karim Amrullah, commonly known as “Hamka,” is one of the most influential. In Hamka and Islam, Khairudin Aljunied employs the term “cosmopolitan reform” to describe Hamka’s attempt to harmonize the many streams of Islamic and Western ideologies in the Malay world while posing solutions to the various challenges facing Muslims. Among the major themes explored by Aljunied are reason and revelation, moderation and extremism, social justice, the state of women in society, and Sufism in the modern age, as well as the importance of history in reforming the minds of modern Muslims. Aljunied argues that Hamka demonstrated intellectual openness and inclusiveness toward a whole range of thoughts and philosophies to develop his own vocabulary of reform, attesting to Hamka’s unique ability to function as a conduit for competing Islamic and secular groups. Hamka and Islam pushes the boundaries of the expanding literature on Muslim reformism and reformist thinkers by grounding its analysis within the Malay world experience and offering a novel attempt to build a concept—“cosmopolitan reform”—that will be of service to researchers across the world. Khairudin Aljunied is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore. He was Professor and Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia, Georgetown University.

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Svay A Khmer Village in Cambodia May Mayko Ebihar a Edited by Andrew Mertha With an introduction by Judy Ledgerwood

May Mayko Ebihara (1934–2005) was the first American anthropologist to conduct ethnographic research in Cambodia. Svay provides a remarkably detailed picture of individual villagers and of Khmer social structure and kinship, agriculture, politics, and religion. The world Ebihara described would soon be shattered by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge. Seventy percent of the villagers perished in the reign of terror, including those who had been Ebihara's adoptive parents and grandparents during her fieldwork. Never before published as a book, Ebihara’s dissertation served as the foundation for much of our subsequent understanding of Cambodian history, society, and politics. The late May Mayko Ebihar a was Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Lehman College. Andre w Mert h a is Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is the author of Brothers in Arms, also from Cornell. Judy Ledgerwood is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University. She is the editor of A Tale of Two Temples, a collection of essays in honor of May Ebihara.

“Scholars of Cambodia have long regarded May Ebihara's beautiful, meticulously researched thesis as a fundamental work on the country. Making it available in book form to a larger public is a great gift to Cambodian studies.” —John Marston, editor of Anthropology and Community in Cambodia “This book is a finally published foundation of Cambodian ethnography. May Ebihara’s careful observation and clear writing imbue the work with clarity and force.” —Erik W. Davis, Macalester College, author of Deathpower

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

H I S TO RY

PHILIPPINES

A Duterte Reader Critical Essays on Rodrigo Duterte’s Early Presidency Edited by Nicole Cur ato

A critical analysis of one of the most media-savvy authoritarian rulers of our time, this collection of essays offers an overview of Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to power and actions of his early presidency. With contributions from leading experts on the society and history of the Philippines, The Duterte Reader is necessary reading for anyone needing to contextualize and understand the history and social forces that have shaped contemporary Philippine politics. Nicole Cur ato holds the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellowship at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. She is the associate editor of Political Studies.

“With essays by leading experts in diverse fields, A Duterte Reader offers a penetrating portrait of a volatile administration poised between a troubled past and an uncertain future. The research is thorough; the writing eloquent; and the insights myriad. This is critical reading for anyone who wishes to understand this perplexing moment in the ever-changing, everfascinating politics of the Philippines.” —Alfred W. McCoy, author of In the Shadows of the American Century “This book offers timely, incisive, and well-grounded analyses of the rise of Rodrigo Duterte from child of a crisisprone postcolony to long-time mayor of Davao and first Mindanaoan president of the Philippines.” —Caroline S. Hau, author of Elites and Ilustrados in Philippine Culture “The irony doesn’t escape us: A Duterte Reader packs a lot of rigorous thinking into its pages to give coherence to a man who eschews rigor and downgrades facts.” —Marites D. Vitug, author of Shadow of Doubt

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Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641–1699 Sher Banu A. L . Khan

In Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom, Sher Banu A. L. Khan provides a fresh perspective on the women who ruled in succession in Aceh for half the seventeenth century. Khan draws fresh evidence about the lives and reigns of the sultanahs from contemporary indigenous texts and the archives of the Dutch East India Company. The long reign of the sultanahs of Aceh is striking in a society where women rulers are usually seen as unnatural calamities, a violation of nature, or even forbidden in the name of religion. Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom demonstrates how the sultanahs’ rule was legitimized by both Islam and adat (indigenous customary laws). Khan provides original insights on the women’s style of leadership and their unique relations with the male elite and foreign European envoys who visited their court. This book calls into question received views on kingship in the Malay world and shows how an indigenous polity responded to European companies in the age of early East–West encounters during Southeast Asia’s age of commerce. Sher Banu A. L . Khan is Assistant Professor of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore.

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Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia Submerged Genealogy and the Legacy of Coastal Capture Jennifer L . Gaynor

Intertidal History in Island Southeast Asia shows the vital part maritime Southeast Asians played in struggles against domination of the seventeenth-century spice trade by local and European rivals. Looking beyond the narrative of competing mercantile empires, it draws on European and Southeast Asian sources to illustrate Sama sea people’s alliances and intermarriage with the sultanate of Makassar and the Bugis realm of Boné. Contrasting with later portrayals of the Sama as stateless pirates and sea gypsies, this history of shifting political and interethnic ties among the people of Sulawesi’s littorals and its land-based realms, along with their shared interests on distant coasts, exemplifies how regional maritime dynamics interacted with social and political worlds above the high-water mark. Jennifer L . Gaynor is Assistant Professor of History at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.

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“Gaynor provides a useful reminder that outsiders were not necessarily the leading figures in the maritime life of this region. The product of extensive research and thought, this book is valuable for scholars of Southeast Asia and its rich maritime life. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, specialists.” —J. C. Perry, Tufts University


H I S TO RY

L AW

THAILAND

The Palace Law of Ayutthaya and the Thammasat Law and Kingship in Siam Tr ansl ated by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit

This book contains the first academic translations of key legal texts from the Ayutthaya era (1351–1767), along with an essay on the role of law in Thai history. The legal history of Southeast Asia has languished because few texts are accessible in translation. The Three Seals Code is a collection of Thai legal manuscripts surviving from the Ayutthaya era. The Palace Law, probably dating to the late fifteenth century, was the principal law on kingship and government. The Thammasat, a descendant of India’s dharmasastra, stood at the head of the Code and gave it authority. Here these two key laws are presented in English translation for the first time, along with detailed annotations and analyses of their content. The coverage of family arrangements, court protocol, warfare, royal women, and ceremonial conduct in the Palace Law presents a detailed portrayal of Siamese kingship, reaching beyond terms such as devaraja, thammaraja, and cakravartin. Close analysis of the Thammasat questions the assumption that this text has a long-standing and fundamental role in Thai legal practice. Royal lawmaking had a large and hitherto unappreciated role in the premodern Thai state. This book is an important contribution to Thai history, Southeast Asian history, and comparative legal studies. Chris Baker formerly taught Asian history at Cambridge University and has lived in Thailand for more than thirty years. Pasuk Phongpaichit is Professor of Economics at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

CAMBODIA

Cambodia’s Second Kingdom Nation, Imagination, and Democracy Astrid Nor én-Nilsson

Cambodia’s Second Kingdom is an exploration of the role of nationalist imaginings, discourses, and narratives in Cambodia since the 1993 reintroduction of a multiparty democratic system. Competing nationalistic imaginings are shown to be a more prominent part of party political contestation in the Kingdom of Cambodia than typically believed. For political parties, nationalistic imaginings became the basis for strategies to attract popular support, electoral victories, and moral legitimacy. Astrid Norén-Nilsson uses uncommon sources, such as interviews with key contemporary political actors, to analyze Cambodia’s postconflict reconstruction politics. This book exposes how nationalist imaginings, typically understood to be associated with political opposition, have been central to the reworking of political identities and legitimacy bids across the political spectrum. Norén-Nilsson examines the entanglement of notions of democracy and national identity and traces out a tension between domestic elite imaginings and the liberal democratic framework in which they operate. Astrid Norén-Nilsson is a political science consultant, contributing author, and political and security analyst for various international concerns. She is Vice President of the Cambodian Institute for Strategic Studies (CISS), Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and former research fellow for KITLV, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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“Using a multidisciplinary approach and diverse sources, including elite interviews, Cambodia’s Second Kingdom provides a novel analysis of nationalist imaginings of Cambodia by different political parties in the context of post–international democratic intervention electoral competition.” — Kheang Un, Northern Illinois University “Cambodia’s Second Kingdom provides unique insight into the dynamics of Cambodian elites’ representations of their respective visions for the nation in multiparty politics after the United Nations-sponsored general election in 1993. . . [t]his book offers an excellent example of discourse analysis and will be a good reference on Cambodia’s domestic politics for years to come.” — BRILL


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VIETNAM

Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967–1975) Edited by K. W. Taylor

The Republic of South Vietnam is commonly viewed as a unified entity throughout the two decades (1955–75) during which the United States was its main ally. However, domestic politics during that time followed a dynamic trajectory from authoritarianism to chaos to a relatively stable experiment in parliamentary democracy. The stereotype of South Vietnam that appears in most writings, both academic and popular, focuses on the first two periods to portray a caricature of a corrupt, unstable dictatorship and ignores what was achieved during the last eight years. The essays in Voices from the Second Republic of South Vietnam (1967–1975) come from those who strove to build a constitutional structure of representative government during a war for survival with a totalitarian state. Those committed to realizing a noncommunist Vietnamese future placed their hopes in the Second Republic, fought for it, and worked for its success. This book is a step in making their stories known.

“This volume is a welcome addition to a growing scholarly literature about South Vietnam. Its personal testimonies provide key details not only about the political and military history of that country but also about the complex backgrounds and worldviews of the men who governed it. It is a record of the hopes and hardships of a group of South Vietnamese who sought to build a stable, prosperous society in a time of decolonization and civil war.” —Charles Keith, Michigan State University

Keith W. Taylor is Professor of Vietnamese Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of A History of the Vietnamese.

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VIETNAM

Cauldron of Resistance Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam Jessica M. Chapman

Jessica M. Chapman contends in Cauldron of Resistance that the standard historical narrative grossly oversimplifies the complexity of South Vietnam’s domestic politics and, indeed, Diem’s own political savvy. Chapman offers a detailed account of three crucial years, 1953–1956, during which a new Vietnamese political order was established in the south. It is, in large part, a history of Diem’s political ascent as he managed to subdue the former Emperor Bao Dai, the armed Hoa Hao and Cao Dai religious organizations, and the Binh Xuyen crime organization. It is also an unparalleled account of these same outcast political powers, forces that would reemerge as destabilizing political and military actors in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Chapman shows Diem to be an engaged leader whose personalist ideology influenced his vision for the new South Vietnamese state, but also shaped the policies that would spell his demise. Washington’s support for Diem because of his staunch anticommunism encouraged him to employ oppressive measures to suppress dissent, thereby contributing to the alienation of his constituency, and helped inspire the organized opposition to his government that would emerge by the late 1950s and eventually lead to the Vietnam War. Jessic a M. Chapman is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College.

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“While many aspects of the Vietnam War remain controversial, there is consensus that the United States intervened in Vietnam without much understanding of its enemy or ally. This gap in knowledge of Vietnam and its players, particularly of the noncommunist side, also exists in the historiography. Fortunately, scholars are beginning to address this gap. Jessica M. Chapman’s solidly researched monograph makes a valuable contribution to this endeavor. . . . This is an excellent book that provides insight into the history of Vietnam and its war. I highly recommend its use in upper-level and graduate classes on the war.” —Journal of American History “Skillfully argued, Cauldron of Resistance marks an impressive advancement in the study of Ngo Dinh Diem and the Republic of Vietnam. Historians in particular will appreciate the author’s recreation of the political landscape of southern Vietnam during the formative years of Diem’s rise to power. All libraries are incomplete without this book.” —H-War


ECONOMIC S

POLITICS

CHINA

Chinese Economic Statecraft Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control William J. Norris

In Chinese Economic Statecraft, William J. Norris introduces an innovative theory that pinpoints how states employ economic tools of national power to pursue their strategic objectives. Norris shows what Chinese economic statecraft is, how it works, and why it is more or less effective. Norris provides an accessible tool kit to help us better understand important economic developments in the People’s Republic of China. He links domestic Chinese political economy with the international ramifications of China’s economic power as a tool for realizing China’s strategic foreign policy interests. He presents a novel approach to studying economic statecraft that calls attention to the central challenge of how the state is (or is not) able to control and direct the behavior of economic actors. Norris identifies key causes of Chinese state control through tightly structured, substate and crossnational comparisons of business-government relations. These cases range across three important arenas of China’s grand strategy that prominently feature a strategic role for economics: China’s efforts to secure access to vital raw materials located abroad, Mainland relations toward Taiwan, and China’s sovereign wealth funds. Norris spent more than two years conducting field research in China and Taiwan during which he interviewed current and former government officials, academics, bankers, journalists, advisors, lawyers, and businesspeople. The ideas in this book are applicable beyond China and help us to understand how states exercise international economic power in the twenty-first century. William J. Norris is an Assistant Professor in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.

“Chinese Economic Statecraft is a timely, compelling, first-rate piece of scholarship. William J. Norris’s argument, which will be widely read and discussed among political scientists, economists, and scholars of Asian studies, is presented in a way that will also engage policy-oriented observers and laypeople interested in the factors shaping China’s economic behavior.” —Thomas G. Moore, author of China in the World Market “Chinese Economic Statecraft is very timely and addresses a gaping hole in the academic and policy literature. China is not shy in using its growing economic clout for national goals, and this book provides ample evidence of this. Moreover, William J. Norris’s analytical approach is novel and correct in focusing on the domestic dynamics of state control as the key driver.” —Tai Ming Cheung, University of California, San Diego “This is timely scholarship at its best.” —Avery Goldstein, University of Pennsylvania

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P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E   •   H I S T O R Y   •   M I L I TA R Y

The End of Grand Strategy US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-first Century Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski

In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America’s military actually does, day to day. They argue that a series of fundamental recent changes in the global system, the inevitable jostling of bureaucratic politics, and the practical limitations of field operations combine to ensure that each presidential administration inevitably resorts to a variety of strategies. Proponents of different American grand strategies have historically focused on the pivotal role of the Navy. In response, Reich and Dombrowski examine six major maritime operations, each of which reflects one major strategy. One size does not fit all, say the authors—the attempt to impose a single overarching blueprint is no longer feasible. Reich and Dombrowski declare that grand strategy, as we know it, is dead. The End of Grand Strategy is essential reading for policymakers, military strategists, and analysts and critics at advocacy groups and think tanks. Simon Reich is Professor of Global Affairs and Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark. He is the author of Global Norms, American Sponsorship and the Emerging Patterns of World Politics and coauthor most recently of Good-bye Hegemony!. Peter Dombrowski is Professor in the Strategic Research Department at the Naval War College. He is the coeditor of The Indian Ocean Region in US Grand Strategy and Regional Missile Defense from a Global Perspective.

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“The End of Grand Strategy is a superb, incredibly rich book. It is a major, and innovative, original contribution to thinking about U.S. grand strategy.” —Andrew L. Ross, editor of The Political Economy of Defense “The End of Grand Strategy will be useful in the classroom because it offers a broad range of strategies and sub-strategies. The conception of the Sponsorship Strategy is especially valuable and makes this book stand out.” —Frank Hoffman, author of Decisive Force “An instant classic with a 360-degree view of the maritime world and the importance of sea power to the United States. In an era of high speed change, utter transparency, and accelerating technology, this volume proves that thoughtful strategic analysis matters, providing a realistic view of the tactical and operational opportunities that emerge.” — Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret), author of Sea Power


M E D I C I N E   •   H E A LT H C A R E   •   I N D I A

India and the Patent Wars Pharmaceuticals in the New Intellectual Property Regime Murphy Halliburton

India and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on access under stringent patent laws, showing how activists and drug companies in low-income countries seize agency and exert influence over these processes. Murphy Halliburton contributes to analyses of globalization within the fields of anthropology, sociology, law, and public health by drawing on interviews and ethnographic work with pharmaceutical producers in India and the United States. India has been at the center of emerging controversies around patent rights related to pharmaceutical production and local medical knowledge. Halliburton shows that Big Pharma is not all-powerful, and that local activists and practitioners of ayurveda, India’s largest indigenous medical system, have been able to undermine the aspirations of multinational companies and the WTO. Halliburton traces how key drug prices have gone down, not up, in low-income countries under the new patent regime through partnerships between US- and India-based companies, but warns us to be aware of access to essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries going forward.

“In India and the Patent Wars, Murphy Halliburton addresses the question of how IP law and trade agreements should deal with sophisticated knowledge systems organized by principles quite unlike those of the West. Halliburton convincingly challenges the conventional view that pits Big Pharma and allopathic medicine against local knowledge-keepers and holistic healing.” —Michael F. Brown, author of Who Owns Native Culture?

Murphy Halliburton is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of Mudpacks and Prozac.

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Secession and Security Explaining State Strategy against Separatists Ahsan I. But t

In Secession and Security, Ahsan I. Butt argues that states, rather than separatists, determine whether a secessionist struggle will be peaceful, violent, or genocidal. He investigates the strategies, ranging from negotiated concessions to large-scale repression, adopted by states in response to separatist movements. Variations in the external security environment, Butt argues, influenced the leaders of the Ottoman Empire to use peaceful concessions against Armenians in 1908 but escalate to genocide against the same community in 1915; caused Israel to reject a Palestinian state in the 1990s; and shaped peaceful splits in Czechoslovakia in 1993 and the Norway-Sweden union in 1905. Using more than one hundred interviews and extensive archival data, Butt focuses on two main cases—Pakistani reactions to Bengali and Baloch demands for independence in the 1970s and India’s responses to secessionist movements in Kashmir, Punjab, and Assam in the 1980s and 1990s. Butt’s deep historical approach to his subject will appeal to policymakers and observers interested in the last five decades of geopolitics in South Asia, the contemporary Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and ethno-national conflict, separatism, and nationalism more generally. Ahsan I. But t is Assistant Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

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“This thought-provoking and empirically well-grounded study makes an important conceptual intervention in assessing variations in state responses to subnational movements. Instead of only focusing on the internal causes of schism and strife, Ahsan I. Butt foregrounds the role of geostrategic politics in state responses to nationalist civil wars. Secession and Security is an excellent addition to the scholarly literature on subnational movements, both past and present, offering a range of insights to policymakers across the globe.” —Ayesha Jalal, author of The Struggle for Pakistan “With judicious use of empirical evidence and rich case studies, Ahsan I. Butt makes a compelling case that states’ responses to secessionist movements turn to a considerable degree on their external security environments.” —S. Paul Kapur, author of Jihad as Grand Strategy


POLITICAL SCIENCE

A NTH RO P O LOGY

SOCIO LOGY

Order at the Bazaar Power and Trade in Central Asia Regine A. Spector

Order at the Bazaar delves into the role of bazaars in the political economy and development of Central Asia. Bazaars are the economic bedrock for many throughout the region—they are the entrepreneurial hubs of Central Asia. However, they are often regarded as mafia-governed environments that are largely populated by the dispossessed. By immersing herself in the bazaars of Kyrgyzstan, Regine A. Spector learned that some are rather best characterized as islands of order in a chaotic national context. Spector draws on interviews, archival sources, and participant observation to show how traders, landowners, and municipal officials create order in the absence of a coherent government apparatus and bureaucratic state. Merchants have adapted Soviet institutions, including trade unions, and pre-Soviet practices, such as using village elders as the arbiters of disputes, to the urban bazaar by building and asserting their own authority. Spector’s findings have relevance beyond the bazaars and borders of one small country; they teach us how economic development operates when the rule of law is weak. Regine A. Spector is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

“Order at the Bazaar is an excellent book. Regine A. Spector uses bazaars to provide a fascinating ethnography of postcommunism and Central Asia.” —Scott Radnitz, author of Weapons of the Wealthy “Order at the Bazaar is an informative and innovative analysis of the political economy of bazaar markets in Kyrgyzstan. It will appeal to students, scholars of the region, and political scientists concerned with weak and/or failing states.” —Michele E. Commercio, author of Russian Minority Politics in Post-Soviet Latvia and Kyrgyzstan

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Humanitarian Hypocrisy Civilian Protection and the Design of Peace Operations Andrea L . Everet t

In Humanitarian Hypocrisy, Andrea L. Everett maps the often glaring differences between declared ambitions to protect civilians in conflict zones and the resources committed for doing so. Examining how powerful governments contribute to peace operations and determine how they are designed, Everett argues that ambitions-resources gaps are a form of organized hypocrisy. Her book shows how political compromises lead to disparities between the humanitarian principles leaders proclaim and what their policies are designed to accomplish. When those in power face strong pressure to protect civilians but are worried about the high costs and dangers of intervention, Everett asserts, they allocate insufficient resources or impose excessive operational constraints. The ways in which this can play out are illustrated by Everett’s use of original data and indepth case studies of France in Rwanda, the United States in Darfur, and Australia in East Timor and Aceh. Humanitarian Hypocrisy has a sad lesson: missions that gesture toward the protection of civilians but overlook the most pressing security needs of affected populations can worsen suffering even while the entities who doom those missions to failure assume the moral high ground. This is a must-read book for activists, NGO officials, and policymakers alike. Andrea L . Everet t is Visiting Scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University.

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“Humanitarian Hypocrisy makes a substantial contribution to the literature on peace operations.” —Katharina Coleman, author of International Organisations and Peace Enforcement “Humanitarian Hypocrisy is well conceived, well organized, and well written. Andrea L. Everett addresses an important topic and develops a novel theory and examining implications of the theory using both quantitative analysis based on new data collected by the author and detailed case studies.” —David E. Cunningham, author of Barriers to Peace in Civil War


H I S TO R Y   •  A N T H R O P O LO G Y   •  S O C I O LO G Y   •  C H I N A

Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness Political Exile and Re-education in Mao’s China Ning Wang

After Mao Zedong’s Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957–58, Chinese intellectuals were subjected to “re-education” by the state. In Banished to the Great Northern Wilderness, Ning Wang draws on labor farm archives, interviews, and memoirs to provide a remarkable look at the suffering and complex psychological world of these banished Beijing intellectuals. Wang’s use of newly uncovered Chinese-language sources challenges the concept of the intellectual as renegade martyr, showing how exiles often declared allegiance to the state for self-preservation. While Mao’s campaign victimized the banished, many of those same people also turned against their comrades. Wang describes the ways in which the state sought to remold the intellectuals, and he illuminates the strategies the exiles used to deal with camp officials and improve their chances of survival. Ning Wa ng is Associate Professor of History at Brock University.

“In this important, nuanced, and humane account of life within Chinese penal camps, Ning Wang complicates our picture of banished intellectuals by portraying them as complex human beings forced by circumstances to make some very difficult moral compromises.” —Frank Dikötter, author of Mao’s Great Famine “This is the best scholarly book I’ve read about the experiences of those banished to penal camps in Mao’s China. Wang reveals the dynamic interplay between rightists, camp guards, camp officials, and local and central authorities. He also illuminates the long-term human toll of banishment in all of its complexity.” —Jeremy Brown, coeditor of Maoism at the Grassroots

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A Colonial Affair Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India Danna Agmon

A Colonial Affair traces the 1716 conviction of Nayiniyappa, a Tamil commercial agent employed by the French East India Company, for tyranny and sedition, and his subsequent public torture, the loss of his wealth, the exile of his family, and his ultimate exoneration. Danna Agmon’s gripping microhistory is a vivid guide to the “Nayiniyappa Affair” in the French colony of Pondicherry, India. The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the basis of this story of global mobilization, which is replete with merchants, missionaries, local brokers, government administrators, and even the French royal family. Agmon’s compelling account draws readers into the social, economic, religious, and political interactions that defined the European colonial experience in India and elsewhere. Her portrayal of imperial sovereignty in France’s colonies as it played out in the life of one beleaguered family allows readers to witness interactions between colonial officials and locals. Students and scholars of the history of colonialism, religion, capitalism, and law will find Agmon’s narrative of European imperialism of great interest. Danna Agmon is Assistant Professor of History and ASPECT at Virginia Tech.

“Highly readable and just the perfect length for a course book. It will generate fruitful discussions not just of substance, such as the respective natures of colonies and empires, but also of method.” —Catherine Desbarats, McGill University “A compelling illustration of the ways in which insights from other disciplines, in this case anthropology, can deepen our understanding of the nature and dynamics of the colonial experience in India and elsewhere.” —Richard B. Allen, author of European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850 “A lively microhistory founded in legal records, A Colonial Affair animates and analyzes the larger problem of imperial authority in an intricate and often overlooked corner of empire. An informative and engaging read!” —Sue Peabody, author of “There Are No Slaves in France”

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Hearing Allah’s Call Preaching and Performance in Indonesian Islam Julian Millie

Hearing Allah’s Call changes the way we think about Islamic communication. In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, sermons are not reserved for mosques and sites for Friday prayers. Muslim speakers are in demand for all kinds of events, from rites of passage to motivational speeches for companies and other organizations. Julian Millie spent fourteen months sitting among listeners at such events, and he provides detailed contextual description of the everyday realities of Muslim listening as well as preaching. In describing the venues, the audience, and preachers—many of whom are women—he reveals tensions between entertainment and traditional expressions of faith and moral rectitude. The sermonizers use in-jokes, double entendres, and mimicry in their expositions, playing on their audiences’ emotions, triggering reactions from critics who accuse them of neglecting listeners’ intellects. Millie focused specifically on the listening routines that enliven everyday life for Muslims in all social spaces—imagine the hardworking preachers who make Sunday worship enjoyable for rural as well as urban Americans—and who captivate audiences with skills that attract criticism from more formal interpreters of Islam. The ethnography is rich and full of insightful observations and details. Hearing Allah’s Call will appeal to students of the practice of anthropology as well as all those intrigued by contemporary Islam.

“Innovative and illuminating, Hearing Allah’s Call is an excellent account of Muslim oratorical practice in West Java.” —Bill Watson, author of Of Self and Nation “One of the most important features of recent Indonesian history has been the astonishing growth of interest in and activity revolving around Islam. Analysis by a well-informed and sympathetic observer, as Julian Millie clearly is, of any aspect of this phenomenon is very valuable.” —Ward Keeler, author of Javanese Shadow Puppets

Julian Millie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Monash University. He is the author of Bidasari and Splashed by the Saint.

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Cities for Profit The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics Gavin Shatkin

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asia—massive, privately built planned urban developments that have captured the imagination of politicians, policymakers, and citizens across the region. These controversial projects, embraced by elites, occasion massive displacement and have extensive social and economic impacts. Gavin Shatkin finds commonalities and similarities in dozens of such projects in Jakarta, Kolkata, and Chongqing. Shatkin is at the vanguard of urban studies in his focus on real estate. Just as cities are increasingly defined and remapped according to the value of the land under their residents’ feet, the lives of city dwellers are shaped and constrained by their ability to keep up with rising costs of urban life. Scholars and policy and planning professionals alike will benefit from Shatkin’s comprehensive research. Cities for Profit contains insights from more than 150 interviews, site visits to projects, and data from government and nongovernmental organization reports, urban plans, architectural renderings, annual reports and promotional materials of developers, and newspaper and other media accounts. Gavin Shatkin is Associate Professor of Architecture at Northeastern University.

“In this meticulously researched, methodologically elegant study, Gavin Shatkin offers an essential guide to state-led but profit-driven transformations of urban land, property, governance, and space in Asian cities.” —Neil Brenner, author of Critique of Urbanization “Cities for Profit breaks new conceptual ground in the study of global urbanism at the start of the new millennium. The writing is clear, the analysis is pathbreaking, and the approach is innovative.” —Martin Murray, author of Taming the Disorderly City “This excellent comparative study of real-estate-based urban development in Asia is essential reading for all urbanists. Cities for Profit should change how urban scholars and practitioners, residents and policymakers think about and engage in the politics of making urban futures.” — Jennifer Robinson, author of Ordinary Cities

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Promiscuous Media Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926–1945 Hik ari Hori

In Promiscuous Media, Hikari Hori makes a compelling case that the visual culture of Showa-era Japan articulated urgent issues of modernity rather than serving as a simple expression of nationalism. Hori makes clear that the Japanese cinema of the time was in fact almost wholly built on a foundation of Russian and British film theory as well as American film genres and techniques. Hori provides a range of examples that illustrate how maternal melodrama and animated features, akin to those popularized by Disney, were adopted wholesale by Japanese filmmakers. Emperor Hirohito’s image, Hori argues, was inseparable from the development of mass media; he was the first emperor whose public appearances were covered by media ranging from postcards to radio broadcasts. Worship of the emperor through viewing his image, Hori shows, taught the Japanese people how to look at images and primed their enjoyment of early animation and documentary films alike. Promiscuous Media links the political and the cultural closely in a way that illuminates the nature of twentieth-century Japanese society. Hik ari Hori is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Letters at Toyo University. She is coeditor of Censorship, Media and Literary Culture in Japan.

“This book is a tour de force of enthralling historical scholarship that covers an astonishing array of texts, events, people, and issues. Hikari Hori’s work is a refreshing and timely reminder of the staggering breadth and depth of visual media culture in Japan’s wartime empire as well as how it might have been received by its intended audiences.” —Michael Baskett, author of The Attractive Empire “Promiscuous Media puts the film culture of World War II Japan in an entirely new light. It will be an important resource for Japan scholars in various disciplines and for film studies and visual culture scholars who are not in the Japan field.” —Sharalyn Orbaugh, author of Propaganda Performed

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My Nuclear Nightmare Leading Japan through the Fukushima Disaster to a Nuclear-Free Future Naoto K an Tr ansl ated by Jeffrey S. Irish

On March 11, 2011, a massive undersea earthquake off Japan’s coast triggered devastating tsunami waves that in turn caused meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Ranked with Chernobyl as the worst nuclear disaster in history, Fukushima will have lasting consequences for generations. Until 3.11, Japan’s Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, had supported the use of nuclear power. His position would undergo a radical change, however, as Kan watched the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima No. 1 Power Plant unfold and came to understand the potential for the physical, economic, and political destruction of Japan. In My Nuclear Nightmare, Kan offers a fascinating day-by-day account of his actions in the harrowing week after the earthquake struck. In the book, first published in Japan in 2012, Kan also explains his opposition to nuclear power: “I came to understand that a nuclear accident carried with it a risk so large that it could lead to the collapse of a country.” When Kan was pressured by the opposition to step down as prime minister in August 2011, he agreed to do so only after legislation had been passed to encourage investments in alternative energy. As both a document of crisis management during an almost unimaginable disaster and a cogent argument about the dangers of nuclear power, My Nuclear Nightmare is essential reading. Naoto K an is the former Prime Minister of Japan. He is an adviser on renewable energy for Japan’s Technical Committee on Renewable Energy. Jeffrey S. Irish is Associate Professor of Economics at the International University of Kagoshima. He is the translator of books including The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore.

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“Naoto Kan, who was prime minister of Japan when the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster began, has become a ubiquitous and compelling voice for the global antinuclear movement. In a now famous phone call from Tepco, when the company asked to pull all their personnel from the out-of-control Fukushima site for their own safety, Kan told them no. The workforce must stay. The few would need to make the sacrifice to save the many. His insistence that the Tepco workforce remain at Fukushima was perhaps one of the most unsung moments of heroism in the whole sorry saga.” —The Ecologist “This worthwhile account of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was written by former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who served during that time. . . . This excellent work provides thorough detail about the Fukushima disaster from the eyes of a political leader. To any individual who thinks governing is easy or that lack of governance is possible in the modern world, this book is a necessary revelation. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers.” —Choice


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