Recent readings XVII

Christian F. Rostbøll's 'The use and abuse of "universal values" in the Danish cartoon controversy," European Political Science Review, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2010, pp. 401-422.

Nasar Meer, Claire Dwyer and Tariq Modood's 'Embodying nationhood? conceptions of British national identity, citizenship, and gender in the "veil affair",' The Sociological Review, Vol. 58, No. 1, 2010, pp. 84-111.

Simon Locke's 'Conspiracy culture, blame culture, and rationalisation,' The Sociological Review, Vol. 57, No. 4, 2009, pp. 567-585.

Eduardo Posada-Carbó's 'Newspapers, politics, and elections in Colombia, 1830-1930,' The Historical Journal, Vol. 53, No. 4, 2010, pp. 939-962.

Daniel M. Stephen's '"Brothers of the empire?': India and the British Empire Exhibition of 1924-25," Twentieth Century British History, 2010, advance access, 25pps. Stephens examines the reactions of Indians to the Exhibition, which provides a key to understanding how 'race' was increasingly a subject of contestation and negotiation between Britain and colonized subjects, and illustrates how changes in 'racial boundaries occurring in imperial culture were a response to challenges mounted by colonized people. Have a look of W. K. Hancock's Survey of British Commonwealth Affairs (OUP)

Jack W. Chen, 'Blank spaces and secret histories: questions of historiographic epistemology in medieval China,' The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, No. 4, Nov 2010, pp. 1071-1091.

Elisa Giunchi, 'The reinvention of shar¯ı‘a under the British Raj: In search of authenticity and certainty,' The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 69, No. 4, Nov 2010, pp. 1119-1142.

Anthony E. Clark, "Early modern Chinese reactions to western missionary iconography,"Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Vol. 30, 2008, pp. 5-22.

Dana Irwin, "Sheikhs and samurai: Leon Roches and the French Imperial Project," Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Vol. 30, 2008, pp. 23-40.

Richard Bradshaw, "Victim of colonialism or model of colonial rule? changing Japanese perceptions of Egypt, ca. 1860-1930," Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Vol. 31, 2009, pp. 143-163.

Rickw W. Law, "Runner-up: Japan in the German mass media during the 1936 Olympic Games,"Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Vol. 31, 2009, pp. 164-180. The case of China in foreign mass media in the past?

Natalia Starostina, "Engineering the empire of images: constructing railways in Asia before the Great War," Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Vol. 31, 2009, pp. 181-206. railway construction in Indochina and Yunnan, e.g. the pont sur Albaletriers (Crossbow Bridge) by French engineers' "civilizing mission".

Wei Lin, "The Southern dynasties (420-589) Buddhist caves at Qixiashan, China," Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Vol. 31, 2009, pp. 254-261.

Rosanne Trottier's 'Intellectual property for mystics? considerations on protecting traditional wisdom systems,' International Journal of Cultural Property, Vol. 17, 2010, pp. 519-546.

Michael F. Brown's "Culture, property, and peoplehood: a comment on Carpenter, Katyal, and Riley's 'In defense of property'," International Journal of Cultural Property, Vol. 17, 2010, pp. 569-579.

Kristen A. Carpenter, Sonia K. Katyal, and Angela R. Riley's 'Clarifying cultural property,'International Journal of Cultural Property, Vol. 17, 2010, pp. 581-598. Carpenter et al. propose the ideas of sovereignty and stewardship on the protection of indigenous cultural heritage/property.

Daphne Voudouri's 'Law and the politics of the past: legal protection of cultural heritage in Greece,' International Journal of Cultural Property, Vol. 17, 2010, pp. 547-568. Voudouri quotes Handler that 'retentionists' often 'defend their position by deconstructing the national identity of their opponents - claiming, for example, that modern Greeks are not 'true descendants of ancient Greeks...[without] simultaneously willing to call into question their own nationalistic claims to cultural superiority. In other words, retentionists are quick to condemn the parochial nationalism of their opponents, but rarely question their own more imperial nationalisms, which they mask in the name of internationalism.' ("Who owns the past? History, Cultural Property, and the Logic of Possessive Individualism," in Brett Williams (ed.), The Politics of Culture (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991), p. 71) The paper also draws me to James Cuno's Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage (Princeton: PUP, 2008) and Whose Culture: The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiques (Princeton: PUP, 2009) and David Lowenthal's The Heritage Crusade and the Spoil of History (Cambridge: CUP, 1998).