Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, vol. 1, no. 1 (2012)

ARTICLES

Territoriality and Space Production in China

Editor’s Introduction
Guest Editor You-tien Hsing (University of California, Berkeley), 1

Analyses of the local state in China in the past three decades have made a major contribution to the theorization of the state. … [W]e have learned that the local state can no longer be treated as a passive agent, subordinate to the principality of the central state …. A growing number of studies on the unprecedented pace and scale of urban expansion in China since the 1980s have been undertaken in parallel with the theorization of the local state. … The key role of the local state is made plain in this body of research, as most changes are invariably dominated by the state and its policies. Continue reading “Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, vol. 1, no. 1 (2012)”

Biography, vol. 35, no. 1 (2012): (Post)Human Lives

Biography Vol. 35, issue 1 coverEDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

Post-ing Lives
Gillian Whitlock, v

This special issue of Biography may seem exotic. It engages with a series of concepts that are unusual in studies of life narrative: beginning with zoegraphy and ending with the anthropocene. It turns to scenes of auto/biographical expression that may seem bizarre: animalographies, bioart, narratives of chronic pain, autobiogeography. It embraces creatures, critters, produsers, and avatars. Its critical canon is not traditionally associated with studies of life narrative: Bruno Latour, Deleuze and Guattari, Cary Wolfe, Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Jane Bennett, Neil Badmington, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben. The critical issues, concepts, and contexts we engage with in this issue, however, are anything but exotic. To the contrary: what it means to be human is a question that is fundamental to autobiographical narrative, and embedded in the history of autobiography in western modernity. Around posthumanism an assemblage of work is emerging that is important for critical work on life narrative now, and the essays in this special issue suggest why this is so.
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Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 51, no. 1 (2012)

ARTICLES

Investigating Motion Events in Austronesian Languages
D. Victoria Rau, Chun-Chieh Wang, and Hui-Huan Ann Chang, 1

S. Huang and M. Tanangkingsing found that six Western Austronesian languages share the common property of giving greater attention to path information than to manner. They proposed that Proto-Austronesian was probably path-salient. In order to ascertain the validity of their hypothesis, this study compares the motion events in a Yami Frog story with six Western Austronesian languages, followed by a research design using VARBRUL (a logistic regression analysis program) to analyze the factors that account for the variation between path and manner verbs in 20 Yami texts. Continue reading “Oceanic Linguistics, vol. 51, no. 1 (2012)”

Journal of World History, vol. 23, no. 1 (2012)

SPECIAL ISSUE: GLOBAL CHINA

ARTICLES

Global China: Material Culture and Connections in World History
Anne Gerritsen and Stephen McDowall, 3

The multidisciplinary articles in this special issue were developed in conjunction with a research project on the cultures of porcelain in global history, hosted by the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick. These articles all situate porcelain within wider contexts of material and visual culture. This approach reveals the complexities of the processes involved in the appropriation of Chinese ceramics in England and Iran and in the diffusion of Chinese-style ceramics in the western Indian Ocean, and explores the ways in which ideas about Chineseness were formed, and a global visual culture on the theme of porcelain production emerged.

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Biography, vol. 34, no. 4 (2011)

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EDITORS’ NOTE

ARTICLES

“My Eyes Ended Up At My Fingertips”: Antoine, Autobiographical Documentary, and the Cinematic Depiction of a Blind Child Subject
Isabel Pedersen and Kristen Aspevig, 639

Antoine, an independent film by Canadian Laura Bari, gives voice to a blind, five-year-old boy, Antoine Houang, who narrates his life with stories, memories, and imaginative compositions. We argue that because of its basis in collaboration, Antoine extends the genre of autobiographical documentary. It is an autobiography by Houang, but it is also a documentary by Bari. The film uses tactics of each genre to construct a portrait of a blind subject that is enabling rather than constraining. Ultimately, Antoine affords both Houang and Bari the opportunity to create a film that pushes the boundaries of these genres to portray the life of a differently-abled subject who might have been barred from such a practice.

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Pacific Science, vol. 66, no. 2 (2012)

Pacific Science Vol. 66 Issue 2
In Appreciation of Professor Dieter Mueller-Dombois
Peter Vitousek and Donald Drake, 117-118

Plant Introductions: Historical Sketches
Michael Kiehn, 119-125

Plant species, their parts, and derivatives have been transferred by humans since the beginning of history: unintentionally (e.g., with propagules adhering to clothes) or intentionally (e.g., when species or parts of them were used for food or as sources of tools). Continue reading “Pacific Science, vol. 66, no. 2 (2012)”

Biography, vol. 34, no. 3 (2011)

Bio 34-3 Cover

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

Introductory Notes: Performing Queer Lives
Francesca T. Royster, v

How are life writing and queer theory at odds with what we’ve come to expect in autobiographical narratives? The essays in this collection intervene in the traditional project of autobiography by taking as their subject the process of queered meaning making. Continue reading “Biography, vol. 34, no. 3 (2011)”

The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 24, no. 1 (2012)

The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 24, no. 1

The Pacific Islands, v

About the Artist: Andy Leleisi‘uao, vii

ARTICLES

‘I Hē Koe? Placing Rapa Nui
Forrest Wade Young, 1

Abstract: In August 2010, conflict between indigenous Rapa Nui people and the Chilean state in “Easter Island” escalated as Rapa Nui occupied institutions and lands claimed by the Chilean state. Continue reading “The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 24, no. 1 (2012)”

Pacific Science, vol. 66, no. 1 (2012)

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Aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae and Adelgidae) of Hawai‘i: Annotated List and Key to Species of an Adventive Fauna
Robert G. Foottit, H. E. L. Maw, K. S. Pike, and R. H. Messing, 1-30

We provide a comprehensive compilation of 105 species of Aphidoidea adventive to the Hawaiian Islands based on literature records and a taxonomic analysis of available specimens. Continue reading “Pacific Science, vol. 66, no. 1 (2012)”

Philosophy East and West, vol. 62, no. 1 (2012)

ARTICLES

Parasitism and Disjunctivism in Nyāya Epistemology
Matthew R. Dasti, 1

This article examines a number of arguments I collectively term arguments from parasitism, which Nyāya employs to illustrate that rational reflection, the institution of language, and even error itself presuppose a ground-level basis of veridical cognitive interaction with the world. It further suggests that by such arguments, coupled with its stress on the inerrancy of pramāṇas, Nyāya anticipates and supports the contemporary philosophical movement known as (epistemological) disjunctivism.

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