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""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Maps""; ""Introduction""; ""Disputes and disagreements: from regional to global""; ""Beijing sets the tone""; ""Southeast Asian states matter too""; ""The US as monitor and arbiter""; ""Prospects and implications""; ""The South China Sea and the regional disorder""; ""Chapter One Mapping the history""; ""The law and the sea""; ""Clarifying the claims today""; ""Understanding where these claims come from""; ""Chapter Two Beijing's multifaceted approaches""; ""How 'assertive'?""

"China?s rise casts a vast and uncertain shadow over the regional balance of power in the Asia Pacific, and nowhere is this clearer than in the South China Sea. The significance of the fraught territorial disputes in this potentially resource-rich sea extends far beyond the small groupings of islands that are at their heart, and into the world of great-power politics. As the struggle for hegemony between the US and China intersects with the overlapping aspirations of emerging, smaller nations, the risk of escalation to regional conflict is real. Christian Le Mi? and Sarah Raine cut through the complexities of these disputes with a clear-sighted, and much-needed, analysis of the assorted strategies deployed in support of the multiple and competing claims in the SCS. They make a compelling case that the course of these disputes will determine whether the regional order in Southeast Asia is one of cooperation, or one of competition and even conflict."--Provided by publisher.

China's relations with African nationals have changed dramatically over the past decade. African oil now accounts for more than 30% of China's oil imports, and China is Africa's second-largest single-country trading partner, as well as a leading lender and infrastructure investor on the continent. Yet these developments are bringing challenges, not only for Africa and the West, but for China as well. This book examines these challenges, considering Africa as a testing ground, both for Chinese companies 'going global' and for a Chinese government that is increasingly having to deal with issues beyond its shores and immediate control. What does China need to do to protect and develop its African engagements, concerns from Western actors in Africa, and the rival presence of other emerging actors? How sustainable is the momentum that China has established in its African ventures? China's adaptations to the challenges it is facing in Africa are examined and assessed, as are the implications of these changes for China, Africa and the West. China's African engagements are certainly changing Africa, but could they also be changing China?

This chapter draws on a three-year ethnographic study of the British northern soul scene. It explores how the past enters into experience of the present scene and how this past is used in claims to membership by younger members of a music scene that values 'original' participation in the 1970s. Through ethnographic observations, I reveal how personal and shared engagements with the past and with the passing of time are encoded into the rituals of the "all-nighter" event and how "soul time" is organised through the stories of northern soul nights, told and retold by an older generation of scene participants in their claim to authentic participation. These recollections of the past are for, and listened to by, a younger generation of scene members. For the individuals that declare to be part of a shared history and a shared present, these stories both create a collective understanding of time and offer a means to claim to have experienced these important times, or to understand the past through considered and empathetic knowledge. Drawing on the work of Nicholas Gebhardt and Hayden White, I interpret these activities as cultural processes of "patching up" through which this younger generation build an experience of the past from an assortment of materials. The version of the past created by younger members of the scene in their claims to belong notably distils different political and cultural experience and reference points from those who take centre stage in the official history. This chapter explores how these emerging discourses of a new northern soul are encoded into the material culture of young scene members and in their negotiations of the dominant narrative of the scene's history.

AbstractThe narrative turn in the social sciences has affected a variety of disciplines and inspired interest in narrative analysis from a range of methodological perspectives. This article provides an overview of the narrative turn, summarizing historic narrative trends in the social sciences which led to the current interest in narrative analysis across a variety of disciplines. I discuss general concerns of narrative definition, data collection and the researcher's voice in presentation before outlining various frameworks for categorizing approaches to narrative analysis. Examples of a variety of narrative analysis perspectives and methods are provided to support this discussion. While the subjective emphasis of narrative analysis has particular relevance for anthropologists, the strength of the field lies in its ability to bring together perspectives and insights from a wide range of fields.