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Description:Editorial NoteSince its beginning in 2010, Transcultural Studies has developed into an interdisciplinary voice for the broad field of transcultural research, welcoming articles with new theoretical and methodological openings and exploring novel formats for the dissemination of cutting-edge knowledge. This issue continues our exploration by featuring five essays, and—as a new feature—our first “Report from the Field.”The issue opens with Rudolf Wagner’s study of the history of the Chinese term guafen 瓜分 (cutting up like a melon). Having studied the translingual and transcultural migration of the conceptual metaphor of China as a nation “asleep” and “awakened” in issue 2011.1 of our journal, the author now turns his attention to the genealogy and the use(s) of a metaphor that stands for the cutting up of China by foreign powers. The essay follows guafen’s startling semantic trajectory from a rather “dead” metaphor in the pre-modern era to the rediscovery of its metaphorical value as a translation of the Western legal concept of partition in the mid-nineteenth century, and finally to its development into a highly articulate concept to express a foreign threat to the Chinese nation. Wagner leads the reader through a vast body of Chinese and foreign printed media pertinent to the partition discourse, revealing the significance of Poland’s fate as the origin of the Chinese partition narrative. In a next step, he shows why the intrinsically neutral term guafen acquired negative connotations as the Chinese equivalent of a foreign legal concept and how it was later (ab)used first by the reformers and revolutionaries in the political discourse on the danger of China’s partition by the Powers, and most recently in the PRC’s foreign propaganda. By demonstrating the virulent power of transcultural and transmedial flows for the different platforms of conceptual expression, the article makes a strong argument against a nation-and-language-bound history of concepts as proposed by Reinhart Kosseleck and other scholars who limit the study of concepts to a single-language environment.The next four essays are closely related and based on contributions to the workshop “Transregional Crossroads of Social Interaction” of the BMBF-funded Crossroads Asia Competence Network that took place at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, on March 21, 2014. They explore emerging notions of identity and belonging in South-Central Asian borderlands. Their topics cover the activities of South Asian Muslim networks in the context of transregional interaction with actors and institutions from Post-Soviet Central Asia (Reetz); the transregional character of the Panj and Amu river regions in Eastern Bukhara and the increased leeway coming with marginality (Dağyeli); processes of territorialisation in Gilgit-Baltistan by the Pakistani state and the counter-force of local responses (Bouzas); and the history of the Soviet Union’s engagement in northern Afghanistan as a turn of the region from a socialist borderscape to a “postcolony” (Nunan).The study by Dietrich Reetz, “Mediating Mobile Traditions: The Tablighi Jama’at and the International Islamic University between Pakistan and Central Asia” explores connections between South and Central Asia in an alternative to or contestation of globalization. These connections, argues Reetz, are an attempt to revive or maintain Islamic practices and values while accepting the market economy and the political changes of the post-Soviet environment. Reetz supports his argument with two case studies based on qualitative interviews and written records of the institutions involved while drawing methodological inspiration from Norbert Elias’s concept of “figurations.” The article shows how the original agendas of the Tablighi and the International Islamic University in Islamabad were re-configured through their local adaptation, their adaptability being the condition for their mobility. The actors and institutions studied here operated on both a transregional and a local scale. They did so in an environment characterized by dramatic change, which reframed inter-state relations as much as it impacted local governments and communities: the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the re-emergence of older connections between South and Central Asia, the introduction of market economies, and the rising concerns about radical Islam. As new challenges and opportunities emerged, with shifting power asymmetries influencing the depths of the former and the range of the latter, the religious actors and institutions in Reetz’ study adjusted their strategies. At the same time, they all claimed to represent the only true Islam, rejected other teachings, kept a distance from governments with their security and stability concerns, and remained critical of local communities with their traditions and ethnic tensions. The globalization that went with this environmental shift in terms of the economy, secular government, an...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Transcultural Studies journal, vol 8 no 1 (2017). To get started finding Transcultural Studies journal, vol 8 no 1 (2017), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Editorial NoteSince its beginning in 2010, Transcultural Studies has developed into an interdisciplinary voice for the broad field of transcultural research, welcoming articles with new theoretical and methodological openings and exploring novel formats for the dissemination of cutting-edge knowledge. This issue continues our exploration by featuring five essays, and—as a new feature—our first “Report from the Field.”The issue opens with Rudolf Wagner’s study of the history of the Chinese term guafen 瓜分 (cutting up like a melon). Having studied the translingual and transcultural migration of the conceptual metaphor of China as a nation “asleep” and “awakened” in issue 2011.1 of our journal, the author now turns his attention to the genealogy and the use(s) of a metaphor that stands for the cutting up of China by foreign powers. The essay follows guafen’s startling semantic trajectory from a rather “dead” metaphor in the pre-modern era to the rediscovery of its metaphorical value as a translation of the Western legal concept of partition in the mid-nineteenth century, and finally to its development into a highly articulate concept to express a foreign threat to the Chinese nation. Wagner leads the reader through a vast body of Chinese and foreign printed media pertinent to the partition discourse, revealing the significance of Poland’s fate as the origin of the Chinese partition narrative. In a next step, he shows why the intrinsically neutral term guafen acquired negative connotations as the Chinese equivalent of a foreign legal concept and how it was later (ab)used first by the reformers and revolutionaries in the political discourse on the danger of China’s partition by the Powers, and most recently in the PRC’s foreign propaganda. By demonstrating the virulent power of transcultural and transmedial flows for the different platforms of conceptual expression, the article makes a strong argument against a nation-and-language-bound history of concepts as proposed by Reinhart Kosseleck and other scholars who limit the study of concepts to a single-language environment.The next four essays are closely related and based on contributions to the workshop “Transregional Crossroads of Social Interaction” of the BMBF-funded Crossroads Asia Competence Network that took place at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, on March 21, 2014. They explore emerging notions of identity and belonging in South-Central Asian borderlands. Their topics cover the activities of South Asian Muslim networks in the context of transregional interaction with actors and institutions from Post-Soviet Central Asia (Reetz); the transregional character of the Panj and Amu river regions in Eastern Bukhara and the increased leeway coming with marginality (Dağyeli); processes of territorialisation in Gilgit-Baltistan by the Pakistani state and the counter-force of local responses (Bouzas); and the history of the Soviet Union’s engagement in northern Afghanistan as a turn of the region from a socialist borderscape to a “postcolony” (Nunan).The study by Dietrich Reetz, “Mediating Mobile Traditions: The Tablighi Jama’at and the International Islamic University between Pakistan and Central Asia” explores connections between South and Central Asia in an alternative to or contestation of globalization. These connections, argues Reetz, are an attempt to revive or maintain Islamic practices and values while accepting the market economy and the political changes of the post-Soviet environment. Reetz supports his argument with two case studies based on qualitative interviews and written records of the institutions involved while drawing methodological inspiration from Norbert Elias’s concept of “figurations.” The article shows how the original agendas of the Tablighi and the International Islamic University in Islamabad were re-configured through their local adaptation, their adaptability being the condition for their mobility. The actors and institutions studied here operated on both a transregional and a local scale. They did so in an environment characterized by dramatic change, which reframed inter-state relations as much as it impacted local governments and communities: the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the re-emergence of older connections between South and Central Asia, the introduction of market economies, and the rising concerns about radical Islam. As new challenges and opportunities emerged, with shifting power asymmetries influencing the depths of the former and the range of the latter, the religious actors and institutions in Reetz’ study adjusted their strategies. At the same time, they all claimed to represent the only true Islam, rejected other teachings, kept a distance from governments with their security and stability concerns, and remained critical of local communities with their traditions and ethnic tensions. The globalization that went with this environmental shift in terms of the economy, secular government, an...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Transcultural Studies journal, vol 8 no 1 (2017). To get started finding Transcultural Studies journal, vol 8 no 1 (2017), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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