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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466899503321

Titolo

Area studies in the global age : community, place, identity / / edited by Edith W. Clowes and Shelly Jarrett Bromberg ; book and cover design by Shaun Allshouse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

DeKalb, [Illinois] : , : NIU Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-60909-187-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

Area studies

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; PART I - Reclaiming the National Narrative; Understanding Taiwan's Colonial Past; Patriot or Saint?; History and Memory in an African Context; "Ten Million Trujillos Is All We Are"; PART I I - Borders Within; Urbanization and Urban Villagers; Place, Scale, and Self-Reliance; The Post-Soviet North Caucasus; PART I I I - Civil Society and Its Discontents; The Multiple Faces of Islamic Rebirthin Central Asia; Solidarity, Human Rights, and the Poeticsof Connection; The Art of Making Community

Street Art contra Police AbusePART I V - Legacies of Empire and Shifting; Community, Identity, and Space in Dar esSalaam, Tanzania; The United States Confronts a New LatinAmerican Community after the Cold War; Ozbekchilik as an Ethno-Symbolist Construct; Afterword; Annotated Bibliography; Contributors; Index