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Index
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
Contents
INTRODUCTION
WORDS IN MOTION
Notes
WORLDS IN MOTION
Notes
WORDS WITH SHADOWS
SEGURANÇA/SECURITY IN BRAZIL AND THE UNITED STATES
United States
Brazil
Projecão (Expansion)
Secrecy
Conclusion
Notes
ADAT/INDIGENOUS: INDIGENEITY IN MOTION
Negara/Adat: Making Room for the Dispossessed
Shari’a/’Ada: Universality and its Others
Rationality/Race: Cultural Nationalism at a Time of Freedom
Population/Peoples: Indigeneity on the Move
Adat/Indigeneity: Living with Contradictions
Notes
WORDS THAT EXPAND
‘ADA/CUSTOM IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
What is ‘Ada?
Custom Can Be a Matter of Law: Some Egyptian Examples
Custom and its Cluster of Affinity Words
How Did “Custom” Travel?
How Did “Custom” Become Law in Indonesia?
A Moroccan Parallel
Reformism as a Colonial Mirror Image: How Custom Became Superstition
An Orthodox Middle East Versus a Syncretic Southeast Asia?
Notes
SEKININ/RESPONSIBILITY IN MODERN JAPAN
Early Transits
Taking Responsibility
Responsibility in Politics
War Responsibility
Social Responsibility
Global Transits
Notes
WORDS UNSPOKEN
‘ILMANIYYA, LAÏCITÉ, SÉCULARISME/SECULARISM IN MOROCCO
Did the French Colonial Régime Import Secularism?
Secular Constitutionalism Came to Morocco from the Middle East and Turkey
If Islam Contains Science and Democracy, Does Morocco Need “Secularism”?
Is the Religious State “Secular”?
Islamists Condemn Secularism
Liberals and the Left Respond
The Amazigh Movement Responds
Is “Secularism” in Morocco in Stasis or in Motion?
Notes
SABURAIMU/SUBLIME: A JAPANESE WORD AND ITS POLITICAL AFTERLIFE
Mori Ógai and the Sublime Return from Germany
The Sublime Binding of the People
Óe Kenzaburó’s Sublime Turn to Politics
Sublime Atmosphere
Notes
WORDS THAT COVER
‘AQALLIYYA/MINORITY IN MODERN EGYPTIAN DISCOURSE
The Lexicon
Nationalist Discourses: Coptness, Arabness, and Egyptianness
From Empire to Nation-State: Changing Categories
Censuses and Their Categories
The Press: The Copts between “Sect” and “Minority”
The Assiut Conference of 1911: Copts as Sects (Th’ifá)
Decolonization: Copts as ‘Aqalliyya
The Contemporary Politics of Intervention
Null Cases: Nubians and Sudanese
Circulation and Vernacularization
Notes
HIJĀB/HEADSCARF: A POLITICAL JOURNEY
Notes
FEAR WORDS
INJURY: INCRIMINATING WORDS AND IMPERIAL POWER
1836: How the British Were Injured in India and China
The Purloined Letter of the Opium War
The Work of Injury
Notes
CONJURACIÓN/CONSPIRACY IN THE PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION OF 1896
I
II
III
IV
Notes
TERRORISM: STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND MILITANT POLITICS IN INDIA
Origins
Discursive Context
First Acts of “Terrorism”
“Anarchist and Revolutionary Movements”
Revolutionary Nationalism
“Terrorism as Distinct from Other Revolutionary Methods”
Militant Opposition to the Postcolonial State
Terrorism in Contemporary India
Notes
WORDS THAT SET STANDARDS
KOMISYON/COMMISSION AND KURUL/BOARD: WORDS THAT RULE
Commissions and Bureaucratic Rule
Boards: From Participatory Legitimation to Expert-Based Efficiency
Conclusion
Notes
CHUMCHON/COMMUNITY IN THAILAND
Genealogies
Community Culture
On the Defensive
Notes
THAMMARAT/GOOD GOVERNANCE IN GLOCALIZING THAILAND
A Nation of Rhymers
Official Neologisms: Translation as Politics
From Good Governance to Thammarat
Authoritarian Thammarat
Liberal Thammarat
Communitarian Thammarat
The Five Meanings of Thammarat
Conclusion
Notes
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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