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For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more "modern" places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies -- of Arabic children's magazines, Pokémon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurants -- Mark Allen Peterson describes the social practices that create class identiti

For members of Cairo's upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to other, more "modern" places. In a series of thickly described and carefully contextualized case studies -- of Arabic children's magazines, Pokémon, private schools and popular films, coffee shops and fast-food restaurants -- Mark Allen Peterson describes the social practices that create class identities. He traces these processes from childhood into adulthood, examining how taste and style intersect with a changing educational system and economic liberalization. Peterson reveals how uneasy many cosmopolitan Cairenes are with their new global identities, and describes their efforts to root themselves in the local through religious, nationalist, or linguistic practices

Media and Tribal Development. Jaganath Pati. New Delhi: Concept Publishing, 2004. 275 pp.

The mandate for journalists is to "get" the story from sources with diverse, sometime inimical interests. Most news stories are negotiated in defined social contexts among many different actors, including sources, journalists, editors and press agents. Much of this negotiation occurs in an unwriteable register. Such discourse is thus a key site for looking at interpretive agency in newswriting. Speech labeled "off-the-record" is but one of several modes of discourse that are unwriteable in journalistic practice. In this article I examine a case study of journalistic practice, and the efforts I, as a journalist, engaged in to "get" the story from political actors who shift on and off the record while seeking to further their own practical agendas. I follow the conversations with situated political actors, both on and off the record, as the journalist attempts to move, both socially and textually, from unwriteable speech to a writeable story.

Introduction -- Part One: The Disciplines of International Studies -- Chapter 1: The Past in the Present: Historical Interpretation in International Conflict -- Chapter 2: Peoples, Places, and Patterns: Geography in International Studies -- Chapter 3: Anthropology and Intercultural Relations -- Chapter 4: Economics and International Development -- Chapter 5: Power, Conflict, and Policy: The Role of Political Science in International Studies -- Part Two: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Regional and International Topics -- Chapter 6: North America and International Studies -- Chapter 7: Europe and the Modern World -- Chapter 8: East Asia and International Studies: Demography and Development -- Chapter 9: South/Central Asia and International Studies: Environment and Population -- Chapter 10: Sub-Saharan Africa and the International Community -- Chapter 11: The Middle East and North Africa -- Chapter 12: Latin America -- Part Three: Contemporary Global Issues -- Chapter 13: International Terrorism -- Chapter 14: The Global Refugee Crisis -- Chapter 15: The Syrian Civil War and the Rise of the Islamic State -- Chapter 16: The Veil Controversy -- Chapter 17: Global Population Projections -- Chapter 18: Global Climate Change -- Chapter 19: The globalization of Modern Sports -- Conclusion

About the authors -- List of photos -- List of maps -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part one: the disciplines of international studies -- The past in the present: historical interpretation in international studies -- Peoples, places, and patterns: geography in international studies -- Anthropology and intercultural relations -- Economics and international development -- Political science and international studies -- Part two: interdisciplinary approaches to regional and international topics -- North America and international studies -- Europe and the modern world -- East Asia, the Pacific, and international studies: demography and development -- South and Central Asia and international studies: environment and population -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- The Middle East and North Africa -- Latin America and international studies -- Global issue: global climate change -- International terrorism -- Media, sovereignty and cybersecurity -- Global issue: sustainable development --The global refugee crisis -- Conclusion.

Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this volume explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems