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Memory on the Boundaries of Empire: Narrating Place in the Early Modern Local Historiography of Yazd (2012)
Thesis
Mancini-Lander, D. Memory on the Boundaries of Empire: Narrating Place in the Early Modern Local Historiography of Yazd. (Thesis). University of Michigan

This dissertation traces the evolution of premodern historical writing about Yazd, Iran, in order to explore the changing function and utility of local history writing as a key means of engagement in imperial affairs. Yazd had been an important intel... Read More about Memory on the Boundaries of Empire: Narrating Place in the Early Modern Local Historiography of Yazd.

Introduction to Special Issue: Learning, Livelihoods and Social Mobility (2012)
Journal Article
Froerer, P., & Portisch, A. (2012). Introduction to Special Issue: Learning, Livelihoods and Social Mobility. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 43(4), 332-343. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1492.2012.01188.x

This special issue explores a variety of learning and educational strategies, their local meanings and relevance, and how these articulate with livelihood options within changing politico-economic conditions. By considering diverse ethnographic conte... Read More about Introduction to Special Issue: Learning, Livelihoods and Social Mobility.

Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble (2012)
Book
Gerteis, C., George, T. S., Hein, L. E., Dusinberre, M., Obermiller, D. T., Hastings, S. A., Fujiwara, T., Carlile, L. E., Aronson, B., Takahashi, S., Yano, C., Shimoda, H., & Vlastos, S. (2012). C. Gerteis, & T. S. George (Eds.). Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble. Bloomsbury

The fifteen multidisciplinary essays that comprise this book examine the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan’s postwar and post-industrial trajectories. Unique for their integration of gender, class and ethnicity within four themat... Read More about Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble.

Revisiting the History of Postwar Japan (2012)
Book Chapter
Gerteis, C., & George, T. S. (2012). Revisiting the History of Postwar Japan. In C. Gerteis, & T. S. George (Eds.), Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble (1-9, 67). Bloomsbury

Philology, education, democracy (2012)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2012). Philology, education, democracy. The Journal of Aesthetic Education, 46(4), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.5406/jaesteduc.46.4.0057

This essay examines recent arguments for a return to philology as the basis of humanistic inquiry and liberal-arts education. It considers how philology’s disciplinary heritage is inflected by economic and racial privileges and explores avenues for t... Read More about Philology, education, democracy.

Zionism (2012)
Book Chapter
Shindler, C. (2012). Zionism. In J. Peters, & D. Newman (Eds.), Routledge handbook on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Routledge

Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies (2012)
Book
Khalili, L. (2012). Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804783972

Time in the Shadows examines the counterinsurgencies of our time, tracing their ancestry, to offer a critical reading of the mechanisms by which today's counterinsurgents—foremost the United States and Israel—reproduce illiberal regimes of domination... Read More about Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies.

Islamic Law (2012)
Book Chapter
Edge, I. (2012). Islamic Law. In C. Cutbill, A. Paines, & M. Hallam (Eds.), International Charitable Giving. Oxford University Press

Achieving Accountability for Human Rights Violations by Non-state Actors: Challenging Sexual Violence and Creating Paths to Peace (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Heathcote, G. (2012, November). Achieving Accountability for Human Rights Violations by Non-state Actors: Challenging Sexual Violence and Creating Paths to Peace. Paper presented at 21st Congress of the International Federation of Women in Legal Career, Dakar, Senegal

This paper considers the measures developed under Security Council resolution 1960 for the listing, naming, shaming and instigation of targeted sanctions against non-state actors who are known to have committed human rights violations during conflict... Read More about Achieving Accountability for Human Rights Violations by Non-state Actors: Challenging Sexual Violence and Creating Paths to Peace.

Unpacking finiteness (2012)
Book Chapter
Nikolaeva, I. (2012). Unpacking finiteness. In G. Corbett, D. Brown, & M. Chumakina (Eds.), Canonical morphology and syntax. Oxford University Press

Delhi (2012)
Book Chapter
Kumar, S. (2012). Delhi. In G. Böwering (Ed.), Princeton encyclopedia of Islamic political thought (126-127). Princeton University Press

The Ephemeral as Transcultural Aesthetic: a Contextualization of the Early Films of Ozu Yasujiro (2012)
Journal Article
Standish, I. (2012). The Ephemeral as Transcultural Aesthetic: a Contextualization of the Early Films of Ozu Yasujiro. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 4(1), 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1386/jjkc.4.1.3_1

This paper argues that through the privileging functions of camera lenses both fragmenting and highlighting, and through the formal processes of camera movement and editing, cinema is the material manifestation of an aesthetics of the ephemeral of mo... Read More about The Ephemeral as Transcultural Aesthetic: a Contextualization of the Early Films of Ozu Yasujiro.