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"Milk Craze uses the production and consumption of indigenous water buffalo milk and Western-style cow milk in South China and discusses how the industrialization of milk has affected the production of scientific medical knowledge, bodily management, and parenthood in modern Chinese societies. The story of milk in China illuminates how the functions of milk can go beyond bodily benefits, creating hopes for people and the State as a means of handling modern social and political problems. Although the primary message of milk promotion may be to improve health, the process of nutrition knowledge development by the medical institutions and pharmaceutical companies, and teaching people to consume dairy products inevitably involves shaping certain kinds of subjects and citizens, and shoring up the identity and social boundaries of Chinese people by redefining the concept of health in the risk society. Consuming milk products in China too often obscures structural, political, and social stresses and constraints, while naturalizing the dubious redefinition of health as individual, especially the mothers' responsibility and imperative. This study provides a starting point from which to rethink food choice, body management, and eating/feeding rights as social duty, moral measure, and a form of power worthy of our critical thinking"--

"Part play-by-play, part op-ed, The Game Is Not a Game is an illuminating and unflinching examination of the good and evil in the sports industry. Liberating and provocative, with sharp wit and generous humor, Jackson's essays explore the role that sports plays in American society and the hypocritical standards by which the athletes are often judged. The Game Is Not a Game is distinctly intended to challenge accepted ideology and to push the boundaries of mainstream sports media beyond the comfort zone. Chapters expose "Our Miseducation of LeBron James," "#ThemToo: The UnRespected Worth of the Woman Athlete," the duplicity of the NFL in its treatment of Colin Kaepernick and the anthem protests, the cultural bias of analytics, and the power of social activism versus the power and politics of professional sports ownership-all from the sharp, savvy, and self-critical perspective of one of the leading voices for social justice in sports media"--

Démarrée en 2013 avant de s'ensabler au Sahara, l'intervention de l'armée française au Sahel, d'abord au Mali, puis dans les pays voisins, a jeté une lumière crue sur la résilience de groupes djihadistes qui sont également actifs au Nigeria, au Mozambique, à la frontière de l'Ouganda et dans la Corne de l'Afrique. La lutte contre le terrorisme a alors amené la communauté internationale à s'interroger sur la dérive d'un continent menacé par l'État islamique et gangrené par les idées subversives d'un salafisme d'origine saoudienne. La perception de la radicalisation et de la politisation d'un islam influencé par l'évolution de la situation au Moyen-Orient méconnaît cependant les spécificités de la religion musulmane au sud du Sahara. Historiquement, l'Afrique a connu de nombreux djihads qui n'étaient pas moins violents qu'aujourd'hui, du califat de Sokoto au Nigeria jusqu'à l'Empire toucouleur du Mali en passant par la Mahdiyya au Soudan ou l'insurrection du « mollah fou » en Somalie. Quant aux confréries soufies, il leur est aussi arrivé de revendiquer l'application d'une charia dont le rigorisme n'avait rien à envier au puritanisme du wahhabisme de l'Arabie saoudite... Spécialiste des conflits armés de la région, Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos démonte une à une, à l'aune de l'histoire et des études de terrain les plus récentes, ces idées fausses qui nous empêchent de comprendre les risques géopolitiques auxquels se trouve aujourd'hui confrontée une bonne partie de l'Afrique

"Since the beginning of the Meiji period when Japan evolved into a modern and powerful nation-state, ideas of empire and constitution imbued Japanese rule and progress. In Empire and Constitution in Modern Japan, Junji Banno expertly analyses how these conflicting concepts operated together in Japan from the 1868 until 1937. By 'empire', Banno means the Japanese impetus to create its own empire; by 'constitution', he identifies Japanese efforts to create a constitutional government. In this book, Banno discusses the complicated relationship between these two concepts, ranging from incompatibility in some periods to symbiosis in others. Furthermore, understanding the complex and competing nature of these ideals, he persuasively reasons, is key to our understanding of why Japan and China went to war in 1937, leading to Pearl Harbor just four years later. Translated by eminent scholar Arthur Stockwin, this book is the first accessible English-language account of Banno's life works. It provides an engaging survey of imperialism and constitutionalism in modern Japan, which will be of vital importance to all scholars of modern Japanese history"

"The life of Roger Ascham (1515/16 to 1568) coincided with the reigns of four Tudor monarchs, the rise and death of Luther, the Council of Trent and the wholesale division of Christendom. He operated in arenas including Cambridge University, the Court, the Continent and the capital, and his works engaged with the most important intellectual concerns of his age, including humanism, educational reform, religion and politics. In this volume historians, literary specialists and classicists have worked together both to re-evaluate more familiar territory in Ascham's life and work and to illuminate previously untapped sources. Their essays reveal Ascham as a considerably more significant figure than previous scholarship has suggested. Two appendices provide valuable further biographical and bibliographical material"--

"This volume looks at how the issues of textiles and gender intertwine across three millennia in antiquity and examines continuities and differences across time and space - with surprising resonances for the modern world. The interplay of gender, identity, textile production and use is notable on many levels, from the question of who was involved in the transformation of raw materials into fabric at one end, to the wearing of garments and the construction of identity at the other. Textile production has often been considered to follow a linear trajectory from a domestic (female) activity to a more 'commercial' or 'industrial' (male-centred) mode of production. In reality, many modes of production co-existed and the making of textiles is not so easily grafted onto the labour of one sex or the other. Similarly, textiles once transformed into garments are often of 'unisex' shape but worn to express the gender of the wearer. As shown by the detailed textual source material and the rich illustrations in this volume, dress and gender are intimately linked in the visual and written records of antiquity. The contributors show how it is common practice in both art and literature not only to use particular garments to characterize one sex or the other, but also to undermine characterizations by suggesting that they display features usually associated with the opposite gender"--