Joshua Karton
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198716723
- eISBN:
- 9780191785337
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198716723.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter provides a cultural account of how and why international commercial arbitration has emerged as a form of global governance. After justifying its sociologically informed approach, it ...
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This chapter provides a cultural account of how and why international commercial arbitration has emerged as a form of global governance. After justifying its sociologically informed approach, it explains how a legal culture can emerge in a heterogeneous, transnational professional community such as that of international arbitration practitioners. Finally, it describes some aspects of international arbitration culture that are most relevant to international arbitration’s emergence as a form of global governance. In particular, it argues that arbitrators are driven to establish international arbitration as an autonomous, global system of governance due to a shared dedication to internationalism for its own sake and also to a belief that internationalism serves the interests of commercial parties.Less
This chapter provides a cultural account of how and why international commercial arbitration has emerged as a form of global governance. After justifying its sociologically informed approach, it explains how a legal culture can emerge in a heterogeneous, transnational professional community such as that of international arbitration practitioners. Finally, it describes some aspects of international arbitration culture that are most relevant to international arbitration’s emergence as a form of global governance. In particular, it argues that arbitrators are driven to establish international arbitration as an autonomous, global system of governance due to a shared dedication to internationalism for its own sake and also to a belief that internationalism serves the interests of commercial parties.
Michele Monserrati
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781789621075
- eISBN:
- 9781800341197
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789621075.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in ...
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This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan’s relations with the West. Drawing from the fields of Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, analysis of these texts explores one central question: what does it mean to imagine Japanese culture as contributing to Italian culture? Each author shares in common an attempt to disrupt ideas about dichotomies and unbalanced power relationships between East and West. Proposing the notion of ‘relational Orientalism,’ this book suggests that Italian travelogues to Japan, in many cases, pursued the goal of building imaginary transnational communities, predicated on commonalities and integration, by claiming what they perceived as ‘Oriental’ as their own. In contrast with a long history of Western representations of Japan as inferior and irrational, Searching for Japan identifies a positive overarching attitude toward the Far East country in modern Italian culture. Expanding the horizon of Italian transnational networks, normally situated within the Southern European region, this book reinstates the existence of an alternative Euro-Asian axis, operating across Italian history.Less
This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan’s relations with the West. Drawing from the fields of Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, analysis of these texts explores one central question: what does it mean to imagine Japanese culture as contributing to Italian culture? Each author shares in common an attempt to disrupt ideas about dichotomies and unbalanced power relationships between East and West. Proposing the notion of ‘relational Orientalism,’ this book suggests that Italian travelogues to Japan, in many cases, pursued the goal of building imaginary transnational communities, predicated on commonalities and integration, by claiming what they perceived as ‘Oriental’ as their own. In contrast with a long history of Western representations of Japan as inferior and irrational, Searching for Japan identifies a positive overarching attitude toward the Far East country in modern Italian culture. Expanding the horizon of Italian transnational networks, normally situated within the Southern European region, this book reinstates the existence of an alternative Euro-Asian axis, operating across Italian history.
Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824835941
- eISBN:
- 9780824871574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824835941.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This book examines the impact of digital technology on Japanese cinema from the 1990s to the present by focusing on the salient film genres or media networks: horror, documentary-style fiction, ...
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This book examines the impact of digital technology on Japanese cinema from the 1990s to the present by focusing on the salient film genres or media networks: horror, documentary-style fiction, animation, transnational cinema, and ethnic cinema. Through analyses of the works by filmmakers such as Nakata Hideo and Sai Yoichi, as well as animation artists like Oshii Mamoru and Yamamura Koji, the book explores the ongoing contestations and negotiations between cinema and digital media, the national and the transnational, and global cinema and Japanese local culture. It also considers Japan's conflicting desires toward transnational culture, marketing, and viewership, as well as the strategic rationale behind the transnational cinema in both the film industry and recent critical paradigms, by drawing on Koichi Iwabuchi's work, Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism.Less
This book examines the impact of digital technology on Japanese cinema from the 1990s to the present by focusing on the salient film genres or media networks: horror, documentary-style fiction, animation, transnational cinema, and ethnic cinema. Through analyses of the works by filmmakers such as Nakata Hideo and Sai Yoichi, as well as animation artists like Oshii Mamoru and Yamamura Koji, the book explores the ongoing contestations and negotiations between cinema and digital media, the national and the transnational, and global cinema and Japanese local culture. It also considers Japan's conflicting desires toward transnational culture, marketing, and viewership, as well as the strategic rationale behind the transnational cinema in both the film industry and recent critical paradigms, by drawing on Koichi Iwabuchi's work, Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism.
Ahmed Afzal
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479855346
- eISBN:
- 9781479851638
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479855346.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter studies Muslim American gay men of Pakistani descent to illustrate the heterogeneity of the Pakistani population in Houston along the axis of sexuality. Though stigmatized, criminalized, ...
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This chapter studies Muslim American gay men of Pakistani descent to illustrate the heterogeneity of the Pakistani population in Houston along the axis of sexuality. Though stigmatized, criminalized, marginalized, racialized, and homogenized, Pakistani Muslim American gay men narrate their lived experience in terms of invocations of South Asian epistemologies of same-sex sexual eroticism and relationships and narrative traditions, a religiously conceived transnationality, and appropriations of Western epistemologies of gay identity. Their narratives are a corrective to the heterosexual transnational Muslim population movements and community formations typically represented in scholarship on Muslim Americans. The complex intersections of race, religion, sexuality, and transnationalism in “transnational Muslim American sexual cultures” advance the exploration of heterogeneity of the Pakistani immigrant experience and guide the inquiry in this chapter.Less
This chapter studies Muslim American gay men of Pakistani descent to illustrate the heterogeneity of the Pakistani population in Houston along the axis of sexuality. Though stigmatized, criminalized, marginalized, racialized, and homogenized, Pakistani Muslim American gay men narrate their lived experience in terms of invocations of South Asian epistemologies of same-sex sexual eroticism and relationships and narrative traditions, a religiously conceived transnationality, and appropriations of Western epistemologies of gay identity. Their narratives are a corrective to the heterosexual transnational Muslim population movements and community formations typically represented in scholarship on Muslim Americans. The complex intersections of race, religion, sexuality, and transnationalism in “transnational Muslim American sexual cultures” advance the exploration of heterogeneity of the Pakistani immigrant experience and guide the inquiry in this chapter.
Alberto Gabriele
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781789620351
- eISBN:
- 9781789623901
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781789620351.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter examines the author’s function in Walter Besant’s Herr Paulus (1888) and Armorel of Lyonesse (1890). It places the representation of literary and artistic creation in Walter Besant’s ...
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This chapter examines the author’s function in Walter Besant’s Herr Paulus (1888) and Armorel of Lyonesse (1890). It places the representation of literary and artistic creation in Walter Besant’s novels within the transnational context of the debates on international copyright and the nationalist restructuring of the trade that followed copyright legislation. Both aspects were covered in the pages of the periodical The Author directed by Besant in the same period, thus making a transnational approach in the study of Victorian fiction all the more necessary. The novels provide a poignant critique of the misleading power of make-belief that sustained several forms of literary, economic and social fictions, thus redefining the notion of literary value against the rhetoric adopted by the proponents of the triumphant and often unfair practices of monopolistic liberalism. Walter Besant’s fiction takes aim at the remnants of the Romantic ideology that clouded a materialist assessment of the author’s value in the marketplace, problematizing the Platonist theory of creativity, that was rather counterproductive to the affirmation of the author’s advancement as independent force in the marketplace, the goal of Besant’s reformism.Less
This chapter examines the author’s function in Walter Besant’s Herr Paulus (1888) and Armorel of Lyonesse (1890). It places the representation of literary and artistic creation in Walter Besant’s novels within the transnational context of the debates on international copyright and the nationalist restructuring of the trade that followed copyright legislation. Both aspects were covered in the pages of the periodical The Author directed by Besant in the same period, thus making a transnational approach in the study of Victorian fiction all the more necessary. The novels provide a poignant critique of the misleading power of make-belief that sustained several forms of literary, economic and social fictions, thus redefining the notion of literary value against the rhetoric adopted by the proponents of the triumphant and often unfair practices of monopolistic liberalism. Walter Besant’s fiction takes aim at the remnants of the Romantic ideology that clouded a materialist assessment of the author’s value in the marketplace, problematizing the Platonist theory of creativity, that was rather counterproductive to the affirmation of the author’s advancement as independent force in the marketplace, the goal of Besant’s reformism.
Simidele Dosekun
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043215
- eISBN:
- 9780252052095
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043215.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter introduces the book’s new conceptual and methodological understanding of postfeminism as performative and transnational cultural, including by way of critique of the broader literature ...
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This chapter introduces the book’s new conceptual and methodological understanding of postfeminism as performative and transnational cultural, including by way of critique of the broader literature on postfeminism for its predominant Eurocentricism, superficial attention to racial difference, and failure to attend to globalization. It reflects, too, on the intellectual politics and seeming ahistoricism of applying the concept of postfeminism to the global South, where the Western feminist histories upon which the concept is premised do not apply.Less
This chapter introduces the book’s new conceptual and methodological understanding of postfeminism as performative and transnational cultural, including by way of critique of the broader literature on postfeminism for its predominant Eurocentricism, superficial attention to racial difference, and failure to attend to globalization. It reflects, too, on the intellectual politics and seeming ahistoricism of applying the concept of postfeminism to the global South, where the Western feminist histories upon which the concept is premised do not apply.
Eva Illouz (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239185
- eISBN:
- 9781846313219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853239185.003.0011
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter examines suffering as a form of collective identity, where transnational culture contains not only utopian possibilities but also makes a spectacle of private and public grief. It ...
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This chapter examines suffering as a form of collective identity, where transnational culture contains not only utopian possibilities but also makes a spectacle of private and public grief. It analyses the Oprah Winfrey Show, which exposes American sufferings and misfortunes in the public sphere. The chapter also discusses the ways in which the Oprah Winfrey Show represents a uniquely American phenomenon and has invented a cultural form that offers an example of ‘infra-globalization’, or ‘globalization from within’.Less
This chapter examines suffering as a form of collective identity, where transnational culture contains not only utopian possibilities but also makes a spectacle of private and public grief. It analyses the Oprah Winfrey Show, which exposes American sufferings and misfortunes in the public sphere. The chapter also discusses the ways in which the Oprah Winfrey Show represents a uniquely American phenomenon and has invented a cultural form that offers an example of ‘infra-globalization’, or ‘globalization from within’.
Simidele Dosekun
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043215
- eISBN:
- 9780252052095
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043215.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This book concerns young, class-privileged women in the Nigerian city of Lagos who dress in a “spectacularly feminine” style characterised by the extravagant use and combination of normatively ...
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This book concerns young, class-privileged women in the Nigerian city of Lagos who dress in a “spectacularly feminine” style characterised by the extravagant use and combination of normatively feminine technologies of dress: cascading hair extensions, false eyelashes and nails, heavy and immaculate makeup, and so on. Based on interviews with such stylized women, the book offers a critical consideration of the kinds of feminine subjectivities that they are performing and desiring. Tracing the repertoires of individualist choice, pleasure, entitlement and “can do” that run through the women’s talk, it argues that they subscribe passionately to the notion, or what the book frames more specifically as the “postfeminist promise,” that immaculate and spectacularized feminine beauty now constitutes and signals feminine power. Seeing themselves as “already empowered,” then, what the women do not see is the need for cultural critique, nor for feminism in the form of collective political struggle. The first book on postfeminism both as a cultural formation in the global South and as it interpellates black women, the work offers a groundbreaking new understanding of the culture as performative and transnationally mobile, and a richly theorised account of how women live, embody, and to some extent suffer it, in the flesh.Less
This book concerns young, class-privileged women in the Nigerian city of Lagos who dress in a “spectacularly feminine” style characterised by the extravagant use and combination of normatively feminine technologies of dress: cascading hair extensions, false eyelashes and nails, heavy and immaculate makeup, and so on. Based on interviews with such stylized women, the book offers a critical consideration of the kinds of feminine subjectivities that they are performing and desiring. Tracing the repertoires of individualist choice, pleasure, entitlement and “can do” that run through the women’s talk, it argues that they subscribe passionately to the notion, or what the book frames more specifically as the “postfeminist promise,” that immaculate and spectacularized feminine beauty now constitutes and signals feminine power. Seeing themselves as “already empowered,” then, what the women do not see is the need for cultural critique, nor for feminism in the form of collective political struggle. The first book on postfeminism both as a cultural formation in the global South and as it interpellates black women, the work offers a groundbreaking new understanding of the culture as performative and transnationally mobile, and a richly theorised account of how women live, embody, and to some extent suffer it, in the flesh.
Simidele Dosekun
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043215
- eISBN:
- 9780252052095
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043215.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
The chapter concerns how the women position themselves as simultaneously and authentically black, Nigerian and cosmopolitan subjects. The first part of the chapter addresses the racial politics of ...
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The chapter concerns how the women position themselves as simultaneously and authentically black, Nigerian and cosmopolitan subjects. The first part of the chapter addresses the racial politics of the women’s habitual consumption of, and deep attachments to, weaves and wigs. It proposes a new theoretical understanding of these beauty technologies as “unhappy” for black women but not, therefore, centered on whiteness. The second part of the chapter argues that Lagos and Nigeria are not merely backdrops to the women’s spectacularly feminine self-stylization but rather enter into its very fabric and logics.Less
The chapter concerns how the women position themselves as simultaneously and authentically black, Nigerian and cosmopolitan subjects. The first part of the chapter addresses the racial politics of the women’s habitual consumption of, and deep attachments to, weaves and wigs. It proposes a new theoretical understanding of these beauty technologies as “unhappy” for black women but not, therefore, centered on whiteness. The second part of the chapter argues that Lagos and Nigeria are not merely backdrops to the women’s spectacularly feminine self-stylization but rather enter into its very fabric and logics.
Robyn Citizen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781781380383
- eISBN:
- 9781781381557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781380383.003.0012
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Science fiction presents radically other socio-cultural contexts and bodily states of being as part of its generic horizon of expectations, yet visions of the future, and whom we imagine as agents of ...
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Science fiction presents radically other socio-cultural contexts and bodily states of being as part of its generic horizon of expectations, yet visions of the future, and whom we imagine as agents of change in it, are circumscribed by past and present social history. This chapter examines the depictions of black femininity in the science fiction films Alien vs. Predator (dir. Paul W.S. Anderson, 2004), Children of Men (dir. Alfonso Cuarón, 2006), and Les Saignantes (dir. Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 2005) to determine whether science fiction is better able to accommodate a wider range of roles for black women than genres that rely more on cultural verisimilitude. The respective universal, global and national upheavals depicted in these films are a unique opportunity to recast black femininity in new terms, to consider the black female characters in their shifting relationships to transnational cultures, whiteness, and the concept of Other within the genre.Less
Science fiction presents radically other socio-cultural contexts and bodily states of being as part of its generic horizon of expectations, yet visions of the future, and whom we imagine as agents of change in it, are circumscribed by past and present social history. This chapter examines the depictions of black femininity in the science fiction films Alien vs. Predator (dir. Paul W.S. Anderson, 2004), Children of Men (dir. Alfonso Cuarón, 2006), and Les Saignantes (dir. Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 2005) to determine whether science fiction is better able to accommodate a wider range of roles for black women than genres that rely more on cultural verisimilitude. The respective universal, global and national upheavals depicted in these films are a unique opportunity to recast black femininity in new terms, to consider the black female characters in their shifting relationships to transnational cultures, whiteness, and the concept of Other within the genre.
Robyn Citizen
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781781380383
- eISBN:
- 9781781381557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781380383.003.0012
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Science fiction presents radically other socio-cultural contexts and bodily states of being as part of its generic horizon of expectations, yet visions of the future, and whom we imagine as agents of ...
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Science fiction presents radically other socio-cultural contexts and bodily states of being as part of its generic horizon of expectations, yet visions of the future, and whom we imagine as agents of change in it, are circumscribed by past and present social history. This chapter examines the depictions of black femininity in the science fiction films Alien vs. Predator (dir. Paul W.S. Anderson, 2004), Children of Men (dir. Alfonso Cuarón, 2006), and Les Saignantes (dir. Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 2005) to determine whether science fiction is better able to accommodate a wider range of roles for black women than genres that rely more on cultural verisimilitude. The respective universal, global and national upheavals depicted in these films are a unique opportunity to recast black femininity in new terms, to consider the black female characters in their shifting relationships to transnational cultures, whiteness, and the concept of Other within the genre.Less
Science fiction presents radically other socio-cultural contexts and bodily states of being as part of its generic horizon of expectations, yet visions of the future, and whom we imagine as agents of change in it, are circumscribed by past and present social history. This chapter examines the depictions of black femininity in the science fiction films Alien vs. Predator (dir. Paul W.S. Anderson, 2004), Children of Men (dir. Alfonso Cuarón, 2006), and Les Saignantes (dir. Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 2005) to determine whether science fiction is better able to accommodate a wider range of roles for black women than genres that rely more on cultural verisimilitude. The respective universal, global and national upheavals depicted in these films are a unique opportunity to recast black femininity in new terms, to consider the black female characters in their shifting relationships to transnational cultures, whiteness, and the concept of Other within the genre.