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"For more than fifty years a dynamic modern literature has been developing in the Kiswahili language. The political weight that Kiswahili carries as the emerging national and pan-national language of many East African countries places this literature, much of it in the form of novels, at the centre of heated literary debates on the social function of literature in the context of rapid global social change. Garnier provides new insights into the Swahili novel form with all its vibrancy and capacity for experimentation. Its obsession with social issues relates to larger, all-pervasive political debates running through East Africa: in its press, its streets, its public and private places. The novels both record and provoke these debates. Based on the study of more than 175 Swahili novels by almost 100 authors, Garnier brings to light a body of work much neglected by African literary critics, but which looks outwards to the wider world." -- Publisher's description

Swahili fiction --- Swahili fiction. --- History and criticism. --- Swahili literature --- East African Countries. --- Globalized World. --- Literary Debates. --- Minor Literature. --- Social Function of Literature. --- Swahili Novel. --- Xavier Garnier.

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This paper lays out a comparative framework for assessing the potential, limitations and challenges of a variety of emerging institutional innovations in globalized regulation. The framework highlights two dimensions of effectiveness-the comprehensiveness of coverage, and the credibility of the regulatory regime. Performance in relation to these two dimensions is assessed for three distinctive approaches to globalized regulation: i) Government-centric approaches, including treaties, extra-territorial regulation and government networks-seven examples are assessed in the paper. ii) Civil regulation, including both joint initiatives by private firms and civil society, and wholly private self-regulatory approaches-with eight examples assessed. iii) Hybrid approaches, involving multiple governmental and non-governmental stakeholders-with three examples assessed. Overall, the assessment points to an abundance of innovation-but a seeming failure of the many innovations to deliver more than, at best, partial successes in meeting the credibility and comprehensiveness criteria for effectiveness. The paper concludes by suggesting ways in which the distinct elements of different approaches might be combined so that the whole can be more, rather than less, than the sum of its parts. The way forward is likely to be incremental and cumulative, bottom-up as well as top down-transcending a too neat, and ultimately unhelpful, bifurcation between civil society advocacy and technocratic rule-making.

Anti-corruption regulation --- Civil regulation --- Civil society advocacy --- Globalized regulation --- Government-centric approaches --- Labor Policies --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Poverty Reduction --- Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures --- Public Sector Development --- Public Sector Regulation --- Regulatory Regimes --- Social Accountability

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The book consists of a selection of papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Research Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities. It contains essays on current legal issues in law and justice, and their role and transformation in a globalizing world. Topics covered include human rights, criminal law, good governance, democracy, foreign investment, and regional integration. The conference focused on Asia and the Pacific, two regions where law has taken an important position in creating and shaping the regional integrations, new legal institutions, and norms. This reconfirms the idea that the legal system is extremely important in the global world. This book provides new insights and new horizons on how law and justice took part in globalizing human interaction, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.

Law --- Law and globalization --- Justice, Administration of --- Administration of justice --- Globalization and law --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Law and legislation --- Courts --- Globalization --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- law --- globalized world --- justice --- Human rights --- Indonesia --- Indonesian language --- Islamic banking and finance --- Sharia --- Waqf

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This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization. At the heart of much of their writing lay the ideological project of nation-building. Hence discourses around periodization – such as the mythicizing of certain periods, the invention of historical continuity and the assertion of national specificity – contributed strongly to identity construction. Central to the book’s approach is a transnational exploration of how the art histories of the region not only interacted with established Western periodizations but also resonated and ‘entangled’ with each other. In their efforts to develop more sympathetic frameworks that refined, ignored or hybridized Western models, they sought to overcome the centre–periphery paradigm which equated distance from the centre with temporal belatedness and artistic backwardness. The book thus demonstrates that the concept of periodization is far from neutral or strictly descriptive, and that its use in art history needs to be reconsidered. Bringing together a broad range of scholars from different European institutions, the volume offers a unique new perspective on Central and Eastern European art historiography. It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, historiography and European studies.

Art --- Historiography. --- art history --- Baltic --- Bulgaria --- Byzantine --- Central Europe --- Croatia --- Eastern Europe --- East Central Europe --- Estonia --- European studies --- globalisation --- globalised --- globalization --- globalized --- Hungary --- histoire croisee --- histoire croisée --- historiography --- nationalism --- nation building --- Poland --- periodization --- Romania --- Russia --- research --- socialism --- Transylvania --- transnational --- western --- Europe, Central --- Europe, Eastern --- History --- Periodization. --- East Europe

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Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stage for globalized spice trade. Traveling along four prominent trade routes-the Silk Road, the Frankincense Trail, the Spice Route, and the Camino Real (for chiles and chocolate)-Nabhan follows the caravans of itinerant spice merchants from the frankincense-gathering grounds and ancient harbors of the Arabian Peninsula to the port of Zayton on the China Sea to Santa Fe in the southwest United States. His stories, recipes, and linguistic analyses of cultural diffusion routes reveal the extent to which aromatics such as cumin, cinnamon, saffron, and peppers became adopted worldwide as signature ingredients of diverse cuisines. Cumin, Camels, and Caravans demonstrates that two particular desert cultures often depicted in constant conflict-Arabs and Jews-have spent much of their history collaborating in the spice trade and suggests how a more virtuous multicultural globalized society may be achieved in the future.  

Spice trade. --- Spice trade --- Spice industry --- Plant products industry --- History. --- History --- E-books --- adventure. --- adventures. --- arabian peninsula. --- central asia. --- condiment cooking. --- cooking. --- culinary imperialism. --- culinary. --- cultural diffusion. --- diverse cuisines. --- engaging. --- food and drink. --- food prep. --- food writing. --- food. --- gastronomy essays. --- geopolitics. --- global trade. --- globalized spice trade. --- herbs. --- history of food. --- history. --- horticulture. --- itinerant spice merchants. --- middle east. --- remote places. --- semitic peoples. --- spice traders. --- spices. --- the camino real. --- the frankincense trail. --- the silk road. --- the spice route. --- trade routes. --- trade. --- travel. --- villages.