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Erik Berggrem Branka Likic-Brboric, Gulay Toksoz and Nicos Trimikliniotis, eds. Shaker Publishing, Maastricht, 2007, ISBN: 978-9042303171, pp.492, p/b, CY£/ €
Cynthia Cockburn Zed Books, UK, ISBN: 978-1842778210, pp.286, p/b, CY£18.90/ €32.29 Why do so many women organize against militarism and war? And why, very often, do they choose to do so in women-only groups? This original study, the product of 80,000 miles of travel by the author over a two-year period, examines women‘s activism against wars as far apart as Sierra Leone, Colombia and India. It shows women on different sides of conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and Israel refusing enmity, and co-operating for peace. It describes trans-national networks of women opposing US and Western European militarism and the so-called ‘war on terror‘. Women are often motivated by adverse experiences in the male-led anti-war movements, preferring to choose different methods of protest and remain in control of their own actions. But like the mainstream movements, women‘s groups differ. They debate pacifism - must justice come before peace? They differ on nationalism, some condemning it as a cause of war, others seeing it as a legitimate source of identity. Yet despite women‘s many different perspectives on war a coherent feminism emerges from the movement, and it suggests a radical shift in our understanding of war, linking the violence of patriarchal power to that of class oppression and ethnic ‘othering‘. Eleni Papademetriou En Tipis Publications, Nicosia, 2008, ISBN: 978-9963654574, pp.71, p/b, €
Vassos Argyrou Berghahm Books, 2007, ISBN: 1845451058, pp.195, p/b, CY£15.75 Although modernity’s understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of the world itself, remains in the same (Western) hands. This bold argument is at the center of this provocative book that challenges the widespread assumption that environmentalism reflects a radical departure from modernity. Our perception of nature may have changed, the author maintains, but environmentalism remains a thoroughly modernist project. It reproduces the cultural logic of modernity, a logic that finds meaning in unity and therefore strives to efface difference, and to reconfirm the position of the West as the source of all legitimate signification. Vassos Argyrou lectures in Social Anthropology at the University of Hull. His research interests include social and cultural theory, poststructuralism and postcolonialism and southern Europe. Publications include Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean (Cambridge University Press, 1996) and Anthropology and the Will to Meaning: A Postcolonial Critique (Pluto Press 2002).
Vangelis Calotychos Berg, 2004, ISBN 9781859737163, pp. 384, p/b, CY£18.90 This book is the first to present an alternative cultural history of Greece. Beginning with the growth of Greece as a nation-state through to the present, it shows how modern Greece has long been undervalued and neglected. From the compositional process of the first National Poet to the first feminist text, the first sustained Marxist treatise of Greek society to the Athens subway system, this groundbreaking book brings together a fascinating mix of literary texts, maps and aspects of material culture to uncover the identity of modern Greece. In considering these rich cultural landmarks, Calotychos argues that a new relationship with the past must be forged if Greek literature, culture and society are to be truly part of the present and meet the challenges of modernity.Modern Greece: A Cultural Poetics fills a major gap. Its refreshing approach provides an original insight into the everyday, lived experience of Greece. The intriguing range of case studies, the historical depth, and the engagement with cultural and literary theory will be of great value to literature students, cultural theorists, anthropologists, philologists and historians alike.
Lou Taylor Manchester University Press, 2004, ISBN: 0719066395, pp.330, p/b, CY£18.90 This book, the sister publication to The study of dress history, is the first to detail the history of the collection, exhibition and museum interpretation of dress of all kinds. It examines the earliest European developments in dress history from the mid sixteenth century onwards, and explains the interest in dress collection and display both privately and in museums in Britain, France, the USA and Eastern Europe. Lou Taylor argues that only when women were permitted to be curators of dress within museums did the collection of all kinds of dress find its proper place in our museums of decorative arts, social history and ethnography. Chapters cover the current debates related to dress collecting in such institutions, including discussion of the return of sacred objects, the place of contemporary fashion within museums and issues of the commodification of collections and displays.
Lou Taylor Manchester University Press, 2002, ISBN: 0719040655, pp.284, p/b, CY£18.90 Over the past ten years the field of dress history has
finally broken free of the shackles that have undeservingly held it back. For
the first time, Lou Taylor outlines the full range of current academic
approaches to the subject, from object-centred research to study based on oral
history, art history, ethnography, the use of literature, photographs and film,
material culture and cultural studies methods.
Theodore Papadopoullos Cyprus Research Centre, Nicosia, 2006, ISBN: 9963081029, pp.646, h/b, d/j, CY£
Cyprus Research Centre, Nicosia 2006, ISBN: 9963080987, 2VOLS (pp.343 + 493), h/b, d/j, CY£
William Woys Weaver Moufflon Publications, Nicosia, 2006, ISBN: 996364225X, pp.39, p/b, CY£5.25
One of the most useful documents relating to the highly stratified system of
food consumption in medieval Cyprus is a 1468 agreement of transfer dealing with
royal garden in Nicosia called du Pin in French or in Greek Pefkou
(The Pine), in reference to a large and probably ancient pine tree that was its
defining feature. Eleni Protopapa Nikianna Press, 2006, ISBN: 996393160X, pp.215, p/b, CY£7.25 ...Learn about life in the occupied village of Arghaki, up to her forced evacuation in 1974. About farming, their dependence on water, the harvest; about family and friends. Discover all about village engagements, weddings, births, baptism, death and funerals. Read about the various religious festivals and enjoy her intricate detail on the preparation and cooking of the local dishes...
ΚΑΛΛΙΟΠΗ ΠΡΩΤΟΠΑΠΑ Cyprus Research Centre, Nicosia, 2005, ISBN (set): 9963080901, pp. 442 (Vol.1) & 497 (Vol. 2), h/b, d/j, CY£25.00
Myria Vassiliadou et al Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, Nicosia, 2005, no ISBN, pp. 166, large format, CY£12.60 The first of its kind in Cyprus, the handbook is for journalists who want to change the way gender gets talked about in the media. Filled with useful information about women and the media both in Cyprus and abroad, exercises to use in workshops, and an abundant supply of contacts and examples how women have changed the media all over the world, this handbook is an invaluable resource. Simply put, it provides the tools necessary to challenge gender inequality in the media and in the world.
Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou Bank of Cyprus Cltural Foundation, Nicosia, 2005, ISBN: 9963428444, edition in Greek, pp. 108, 107 colour & black-and-white illustrations, CY£14.00 This is an improved and augmented edition, in the form of a monograph, with the text by Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou, Associate Professor at the University of Cyprus. This deals with the Humanshaped koukkoumares, pottery of Famagusta and was first published in the Cyprus Studies journal (Vol. ΞΔ-ΞΕ, 2000 - 2001). In the introduction an account is given of the thinking behind the study and of the research problems, as well as of the locating by the author of the relevant material. In the chapters which follow the pottery of Varosha and its decorated ceramics during the period of British rule are described. The author distinguishes two basic groups of the ceramics, which she examines in detail. Included in the first group are 24 anthropomorphic vessels and in the second 28 vessels of various shapes with appliqu? decoration. This is followed by General Remarks and Conclusions. The text is accompanied by an abundance of photographs with a list of illustrations (107 illustrations, many of which are published here for the first time) and a detailed bibliography.
Beryl Adolphs Nalowa Esembe Unknown publishers. ISBN: 996389920X, pp.81, p/b, CY£6.30
Karin B. Costello, Ed. Intercollege Press, Nicosia, 2005, ISBN: 9963910807,
pp.176, p/b, CY£6.30 Karin B. Costello's publications include Overcoming Writing Blocks (co-authored with Eric Skjei) and Gendered Voices: Readings from the American Experience. She teaches English at Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, California.
Λευκωσία: Κέντρο Μελέτης της Παιδικής και Εφηβικής Ηλικίας, 2005, ISBN: 9963905013, pp.160, p/b, CY£11.55 Λούκας Αντωνίου, Σπύρος Σπύρου
Λευκωσία: Κέντρο Μελέτης της Παιδικής και Εφηβικής Ηλικίας, 2005, ISBN: 9963905005, pp.110, p/b, CY£11.55 Λούκας Αντωνίου
Anna M. Agathangelou Palgrave Macmillan, New York – Basingstoke, 2004, ISBN: 0312294662, pp.214, h/b, d/j, CY£42.00 "This book shows us what feminist
international political-economy looks like: a Ukrainian woman trying to cope
with neo-liberal restructuring by risking migration to work in a Turkish
cabaret; a Chechen male 'impressario' importing women into Cyprus to reap
profits; a Greek professional woman calculating the pros and cons of hiring a
Filipina or a Sri Lankan woman as her domestic worker; government officials
using women's cheapened labor to solve their states' problems. Anna Agathangelou
reveals how these very specific relationships together comprise the new global
system. This is an engaging, valuable book for us all." "Reproductive labor has for too long been
sidelined in debates and actions around globalization. This thought-provoking
and politically engaged book demonstrates the complicity of the state in the
exploitation of reproductive labor in the interests of global capitalism and the
importance of learning from the lives of female migrant workers. Drawing on
empirical material to theorize the racialized feminization of the 'desire
industries' and to explore the possibilities for organizing and change, Anna
Agathangelou succeeds in making theory accessible and relevant." "Madam and maid, master and slave: these
remain central to capitalism even though we imagine them to be replaced by
private relations of contract and choice. Agathangelou makes us look at the
violence that lies beneath how people of rich countries come to know themselves
as a people who possess the freedom to consume people and things, and how
peripheral states come to participate in these arrangements. An utterly
compelling analysis of the international 'commodification of the intimacies' of
sex and domestic work, and of the race, gender, and class hierarchies of the
global economy." Anna M. Agatahangelou is Lecturer at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and Director of Global Change Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
Rebecca Bryant I.B.Taurus, London – New York, 2004, ISBN: 185043462X, pp.307, p/b, CY£18.90 'Rebecca Bryant's study demonstrates a most
unusual depth and balance in its account of the dual nationalisms in Cyprus and
of the progress towards conflict. Few scholars have studied both communities in
equal depth. Her understanding of the connection between education and
national/ethnic identification is profound, bold and original.' Imagining the Modern argues that two conflicting styles of nationalist imagination led to the violent rending of Cyprus in 1974 and sustained that division over decades. Basing her study on comparative research in both southern and northern Cyprus, Rebecca Bryant demonstrates how the conflict emerged through Cypriots' encounters with modernity under British colonialism, and through a consequent reimagining of the body politic in a new world in which Cypriots were defined as part of a European periphery. Her book describes how Muslims and Christians in Cyprus were transformed into Turks and Greeks through a political process that made language and history important to claiming rights. Fundamental differences between Greek and Turkish nationalisms in Cyprus were to become predicated on a divergence between the communities in the meaning and logic of history. Greek Cypriot history assumes the primordial inevitability of blood ties, such that Turkish Cypriots are usually seen as descendants of converted Greeks. In contrast, Turkish Cypriot history stresses historical contingency (the Ottoman conquest of 1571), accommodation and acculturation as social foundation. These differing meanings of history took on significance and gained momentum as the traditional 'high' cultures of the two communities became available to the masses. This compelling and original study reflects on the diverse styles of nationalism and of its emergence in modernity. Rebecca Bryant is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University and Is engaged in research on place and memory in Cyprus.
Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Canada, 2004, ISBN: 0889204543, pp.244, p/b, CY£15.75 Throughout centuries of European colonial domination, the bodies of Middle Eastern dancers, male and female, move sumptuously and seductively across the pages of Western travel journals. Evoking desire and derision, admiration and disdain, allure and revulsion, this profound ambivalence forms the axis of an investigation into Middle Eastern dance—an investigation that extends to contemporary belly dance. Stavros Stavrou Karayanni, through historical investigation, theoretical analysis, and personal reflection, explores how Middle Eastern dance actively engages race, sex, and national identity. Close readings of colonial travel narratives, an examination of Oscar Wilde's Salome, and analyses of treatises about Greek dance, reveal the intricate ways in which this controversial dance has been shaped by Eurocentric models that define and control identity performance.
Costas M. Constantinou Routledge, 2004, ISBN: 0415328357, pp.189, h/b, CY£63.00 * How are states made possible, constructed in theory and practice, and what alternative possibilities are given up by conferring legitimacy on states? * How do 'reasons of state' appropriate and inform discourses of sovereignty, territoriality, historiography, diplomacy, security and community? * How can we employ language to challenge the problematic logics of international relations and imagine alternative ways of being with and relating to others? States of Political Discourse addresses these questions through a series of highly original and provocative essays that engage a range of political conditions and practices, exploring areas that are conventionally neglected. Topics include the language of normal and pathological states in Freudian psychoanalysis, the mythography of Europe, the political reification of the Himalayan region, the spirituality of cosmopolitanism, the status of the Knights of St John, and the literary exploration of diplomacy and security. Costas M. Constantinou is senior lecturer in international relations at Keele University, UK. His research interests include global politics and culture, diplomacy, and the history of social and political thought. Dr Constantinou is also the author of On the Way to Diplomacy.
Research and text: Dr. Andreas Cl. Sophocelous The Laiki Group Cultural Centre, Nicosia, 2004, ISBN: 9963-42-264-0, pp.327, large format, h/b This book attempts a review of the development of advertising in Cyprus from its first appearance in the Press in 1878 (a landmark year, when Britain took over the government of Cyprus from the Ottoman Empire) until the founding of the Republic of Cyprus in 1960 and then till 1978, when it completed a century of life.
Shlomo
Maital and Antonis Pierides Nicosia, 2003, ISBN: 9963-8920-0-0, pp.336, h/b, d/j, CY£20.00
Argyrou (Vassos), Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean, The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle, Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, pp.210, h/b, dust jacket, £30 Galatarioutou (Catia), The Making of a Saint – The Life, Times and Sanctification of Neophytos the Recluse, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991, pp.310, h/b, dust jacket, o/p, £45 Hadjiyanni (Tasoulla), The Making of a Refugee, Children Adopting Refugee Identity in Cyprus, Praeger Publishers, Westport, USA, 2002, pp.245, h/b, £53 Loizos (Peter), The Greek Gift: politics in a Cypriot village, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1975, pp.326, h/b, dust jacket, o/p, £55 Loizos (Peter), Unofficial Views, Cyprus: Society and Politics, Intercollege Press, Nicosia, 2001, pp.182, p/b, £9 Loizos (Peter), The Chronicle of Cypriot War Refugees, Alexandria, Athens, 2001, edition in Greek, pp.273, p/b, £12 (English Edition published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1981, “The Heart Grown Bitter. The Chronicle of Cypriot War Refugees.”) Lysaght (Patricia), Ed., Food and the Traveler, Migration, Immigration, Tourism and Ethnic Food, Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the International Commission for Ethnological Food Research, Cyprus, June 8-14, 1996, Intercollege Press – The Department of Irish Folklore, University College Dublin, Nicosia, 1998, pp.342, 36 proceedings, p/b, £16 Periodicals: The Cyprus Review, A Journal of Social, Economic and Political Issues; Published by Intercollege, Nicosia; £5 each Global Dialogue; Published by Centre for World Dialogue, Nicosia; Global Dialogue is intended for the intelligent reader, as opposed to an exclusively academic audience. £9 each Mediterranean Quarterly, A Journal of Global Issues; Published under the editorial direction of Mediterranean Affairs Inc; The Mediterranean Quarterly is aimed at scholars and general readers interested in current affairs concerning the Mediterranean sector. |
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