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Ji-Yeon O. Jo, “Homing: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration” (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
Ji-Yeon O. Jo
Homing
An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration
University of Hawaii Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network May 31, 2018 Ed Pulford

For anyone with an interest in Korean studies, the study of diaspora and globalization, and indeed in broader questions around transnational identities and encounters in East Asia and beyond, Homing will prove an invaluable text. In it Ji-Yeon Jo,… Read More
Rosina Lozano, “An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States” (U California Press, 2018)
Rosina Lozano
An American Language
The History of Spanish in the United States
University of California Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Latino StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network May 28, 2018 David-James Gonzales

In An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States (University of California Press, 2018), Rosina Lozano details the entangled relationship between language and notions of individual, community, and national belonging in the U.S. Through an innovative analysis… Read More
Roderick P. Hart, “Civic Hope: How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Roderick P. Hart
Civic Hope
How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive
Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in CommunicationsNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & Society May 24, 2018 Bill Scher

To find out what Americans really think about their government, University of Texas-Austin Professor Roderick P. Hart read and analyzed approximately 10,000 letters to the editor, from 12 “ordinary” cities, written between 1948 and the present. In Civic Hope: How … Read More
Ruth G. Millikan, “Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Ruth G. Millikan
Beyond Concepts
Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information
Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in LanguageNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network May 15, 2018 Carrie Figdor

Kant famously asked the question, how is knowledge possible? In her new book, Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information (Oxford University Press, 2018), Ruth Garrett Millikan responds to this question from a naturalistic, and specifically evolutionary, perspective. Millikan, who… Read More
Walter N. Hakala, “Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Walter N. Hakala
Negotiating Languages
Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia
Columbia University Press, 2016

New Books in Hindu StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Islamic StudiesNew Books in LanguageNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network May 2, 2018 Kristian Petersen

For many people language is a central characteristic of their social identity. In modern South Asia, the production of Urdu and Hindi as national languages was intricately tied to the hardening of religious identities. South Asian lexicographers, those folks who… Read More

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