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Verlagsinfo: What can creative methods offer our understanding of military power and militarised cultures? What constitutes 'creative research' in military studies? And, what are some of the challenges of this type of work? This edited volume brings together authors working at the cutting edge of creative research in military studies, to explore how creativity and creative practice can shed new light on often taken for granted concepts in critical military research. In twelve empirically and conceptually rich chapters, authors from a diverse range of disciplinary fields draw on theatre, model-making, songwriting, dance, spoken word, paper making, and more, to question what military research can and should look like. As a collection, the book explores topics of central concern in military studies such as militarism, military experience, and militarised cultures, as well as more practical questions around ethics, positionality, and research relationships. This path-breaking new volume considers what exactly constitutes creativity in critical military research, while offering the tools for researchers to think anew about big questions in the field.

De-globalization is one of the pivotal but seriously under-studied challenges of our time. Using case studies from Malaysia, this volume offers timely and invaluable insights into how de-globalization is taking place and its consequences for world peace and prosperity. ----Amitav Acharya, Distinguished Professor, American University, Washington DC This book focuses on the discourse of de-globalisation in Malaysia by looking at the implications of this process politically, economically, socially, and environmentally.The rise of right-wing political parties and a decline in global economic interdependence have rapidly fuelled the de-globalisation process by creating conflicts and uncertainties in many parts of the world. The battle against the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred a great challenge among the global community, thus becoming a catalyst in the de-globalising process worldwide. While there have been contested opinions on whether we are now in the temporary phase of de-globalisation, what is clear is that the pandemic adds momentum to the trend. Now that the world has entered the post-Covid-19 phase, is the discourse of de-globalisation still relevant? Since the emergence of this pandemic, Malaysia has been facing not only a change of government but also a rapid decline in its economy, a rise in unemployment and living costs, with the human rights situation deteriorating as the State of Emergency was imposed. All of these add up to a shift toward de-globalisation. Chapters in this book, therefore, engage with this issue from different perspectives, such as conventional warfare, bio-constitutional implications to the right to health, labour, migrants and refugees, digital education, indigenous people and so forth. Khoo Ying Hooi is an associate professor at Universiti Malaya. She specialises in human rights, power politics, democratisation and civil society in Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia and Timor-Leste. Kavitha Ganesan is a senior lecturer at Universiti Malaysia Sabah, with a primary interest in Malaysian literature in English, specifically female life-writings and postcolonial indigenous studies. Anantha Raman Govindasamy is an associate professor in politics at Universiti Malaysia Sabah. His research focuses on Malaysian politics, specifically the ethnic Indian minority and East Malaysian politics

This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining changing understandings of the physical human body from a variety of anthropological perspectives. In doing so, it interrogates how the body has been and continues to be conceptualised, experienced and interacted with. After an introductory appraisal of recent approaches to understanding the body, the book provides empirically rich accounts from East and Southeast Asia of how cultural, environmental and social norms shape human physicality. The contributions are organised in four broad themes. Part I, Body and Space, offers two contrasting case studies from Malaysia, both of which examine gender norms associated with marriage and pregnancy, including the taboos associated with these rites of passage. Part II, Imperfect Bodies: Communication and the Body as Media, analyses two case studiesDeaf people in Japan and masked theatre performance in Bali, Indonesia, to reflect on changing attitudes towards disability, which reflect broader social norms and cultural beliefs about the nature of disability and its place in society. Part III, The Body and Image, provides a pair of case studies from Singapore, on male fans of the popular manga boys love genre and on ways that the Chinese zodiac system is determined from birth and continues to be spiritually embedded in the body of a Chinese individual through ritual practices. Part IV, The Body as Container: Taming the Bodies?, presents a single case study from Thailand of spirit possession among schoolchildren. Though wide-ranging, all the case studies posit that the body is a site of constant negotiation. The way the body is presented and the way it is seen are shaped by a complex array of social, cultural, political and ideational factors. Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body is a valuable interdisciplinary work for advanced students and researchers interested in representations of the body in East and Southeast Asia and for those with wider interests in the field of critical anthropology

Women's agency in conflict: A description of theory and methodology -- (Un)Gendered Political History of Swat Region: Arrival of Yousafzais, Religion and State Building and the Rise of Taliban -- Social Structures of Swat Region: Intersection of Religion, Ethnicity, Class and Gender with Women's Agency -- Women in Conflict: In-Between Victimhood and Agency (2005-2007) -- Women's Sufferings, Resistance and Resilience (2007-2009) -- Epilogue.

Ethische Probleme in Politik und Wirtschaft, Ökologie und Medizin gewinnen zusehends an Bedeutung und werden in der Öffentlichkeit zum Teil heftig diskutiert. Hierzu ist dieses bewährte Lexikon ein informierender und zugleich kritischer Ratgeber. Kompetente Autoren erläutern alle wichtigen Begriffe, Richtungen und Traditionen. Sie erörtern ihren Zusammenhang, die zugrundeliegenden Probleme und machen auf Schwierigkeiten und Lösungsvorschläge aufmerksam. Die philosophische Ethik findet sich dort, wo überkommene Lebensweisen und Institutionen ihre selbstverständliche Geltung verlieren. Das gilt genauso für ihre Anfänge im Griechenland des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. wie für die zeitgenössischen Gesellschaften. Angesichts einer solchen Situation kann die Philosophie nicht einfach einen verlorengegangenen Konsens über sittlich-politische Werte wiederherstellen. Sie kann jedoch auf methodischem Weg - und ohne eine letzte Berufung auf politische und religiöse Autoritäten als solche oder auf das von alters her Gewohnte und Bewährte - Aussagen über die menschliche Existenz versuchen, die an der leitenden Idee eines humanen Lebens, eines Zusichselbstkommens der Menschen, orientiert sind. 30.000 verkaufte Exemplare Ein gründliches Update des Klassikers

"Global Marx is a collective research on Marx's account of capital's domination through his critique of disciplinary languages, investigation of political structures and analysis of specific political spaces within the world market. His discourse appears here as global not only because global is the geography of the world market but also because Marx redefined the relationships between the spaces on which capital exerts its command. Global Marx proves that Marx's texts do not identify any global working class, nor a centre of power to be conquered, but show that, within and against the world market, there is a social movement that is irreducible to any identity or to a single space from whose perspective one can write a universal history of class struggle. Contributors are: Luca Basso, Michele Basso, Matteo Battistini, Eleonora Cappuccilli, Michele Cento, Luca Cobbe, Isabella Consolati, Niccolò Cuppini, Roberta Ferrari, Michele Filippini, Giorgio Grappi, Maurizio Merlo, Mario Piccinini, Fabio Raimondi, Maurizio Ricciardi, Paola Rudan, and Federico Tomasello"--