On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously tracking specific words in specific settings frequently leads in unexpected directions and alters conventional depictions of global modernity.

 

An outcome of an SSRC working group on the subject, this book reveals commonality as well as distinctiveness across modern societies, making the world look different from the interdisciplinary and transnational perspective of “words in motion.”

Publication Details

Title
Words in Motion
Authors
Gluck, Carol, Tsing, Anna
Publisher
Duke University / Duke University Press
Publish Date
2009
ISBN
978-0-8223-4519-0
Citation
Gluck, Carol, Tsing, Anna, Words in Motion (Duke University / Duke University Press, 2009).
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