Recent books from 天美影视传媒 faculty and staff include those from legal studies at UW Tacoma, international studies, political science, history, and Asian languages and literature.听

UW Tacoma assistant professor collaboration with Policing in Chicago Research Group

鈥�鈥� was collaboratively authored by , assistant professor of legal studies at UW Tacoma, and the Policing in Chicago Research Group. They developed the book in dialogue with those on the front lines of struggles against racist policing in Black, Latinx and Arab/Muslim communities.

鈥淚mperial Policing鈥� analyzes the connections between three police 鈥渨ars鈥� 鈥� on crime, terror and immigrants 鈥� with a focus on the weaponization of data and the coordination between local and national agencies to suppress communities of color and undermine social movements. Topics include: high-tech, data-based tools of policing; racialized archetypes; the manufacturing of criminals and terrorists; the subversion of sanctuary city protections; and abolitionist responses to policing, such as the Erase the Database campaign.

The book contains analysis and ideas for solutions at a critical political moment, and serves as a rare, vital example of scholars working directly with community organizations to map police networks and intervene in policing practices.

鈥溾�業mperial Policing鈥� is an important offering that decenters normative modes of knowledge production and the academy itself and instead provides a model for collaborative knowledge production and change work that academics ought to take up and consider,鈥� Ravichandran said. 鈥淭his book deepens abolitionist analyses of U.S. Empire and broadens abolition as a necessary global coalitional framework.鈥�

Modern Taiwan through an agrarian lens

鈥�鈥� is a recent book by , associate professor of international studies at the UW.

The book recounts the history of modern Taiwan through the lens of agrarian development. Starting in the 1950s, Taiwan sent international development missions to over two dozen nations across the Global South. From the 1950s to 1990s, Taiwan鈥檚 GDP per capita grew by 800%. While researching this growth, an article caught Lin鈥檚 attention: a report of how Taiwan鈥檚 efforts surrounding improved varieties of broccoli rabe would solve hunger, famine and malnutrition.

鈥淗ow could broccoli rabe make the world a better place?鈥� Lin wrote in a blog post about his book. 鈥淥ver the next decade, I traced the arc of agricultural development in libraries and archives across the world, from Ithaca, New York to Shanhua, Taiwan. The more I delved into this question, the more I unearthed a time when Taiwan鈥檚 contributions to the world weren鈥檛 in advanced semiconductors, but rather rice and vegetables.鈥�

In 鈥淚n the Global Vanguard,鈥� Lin examines how Taiwanese technicians and agricultural scientists introduced new crop varieties, extended new agricultural technologies and extolled the virtues of a Taiwanese approach to development across the Global South.听

Lin argues the missions eventually shaped how the Taiwanese conceived their place in the world. At the same time, the Nationalist party-state of Taiwan co-opted agrarian science to position Taiwan as a modern nation, legitimizing the government’s authoritarian rule by martial law.

Ordinary people and the global legal order

鈥�鈥� examines an important, and often underappreciated, actor in international law.听

Written by , professor of political science at the UW, the book is of interdisciplinary interest due to its combination of constitutional and international law theories and a wide range of quantitative and qualitative data.

When considering who counts in the international legal order, most answers focus on governments, leaders, generals, lawyers or other elites. Wallace integrates insights from law and political behavior to advance the idea of 鈥減opular international law,鈥� where ordinary people are considered important legal actors.

鈥淒rawing on a blend of experiments, conventional polling, media coverage and historical cases, this book shows the ways in which national publics can have an impact on core functions of international law,鈥� Wallace said. 鈥淚nsights from the book offer an account of international legal politics from below 鈥� taking seriously the place of ordinary people in international affairs.

Co-authored book began with love of 18th century poetry

鈥�鈥� is a new book co-authored by the UW鈥檚 , associate professor of history, and , professor of Asian languages and literature. True to its subtitle, the book emerged from friendly conversations they had about early 18th century poetry in Urdu 鈥� a language that was called Rekhtah at the time.

Their interdisciplinary conversations led to the growing conviction that the diverse roots of this important vernacular tradition had become obscured through selective attention to a handful of poets associated with rarified imperial courtly environments. Poetic networks had become erased as poems were taken out of their social contexts and isolated in separate tomes by author.听听

鈥淰ali Dakhani and the Early Rekhtah Networks鈥� presents the evidence to reconstruct these lost literary networks of Urdu’s formative past. The book reframes the history of Urdu within the diverse context from which it emerged: lively social gatherings, bazaars, shrines and multiple courts of 18th-century South Asia, highlighting its engagement with diverse regional cultures and communities in South Asia.听

The cover illustration, an 18th-century canvas by Mughal painter Chitarman II, vividly depicts the many literary references to “Lovers and Beloveds” featured in the poetry of this period, inviting the reader to join the authors in sharing its pleasures.

For more information, contact Lauren Kirschman at lkirsc@uw.edu

Notable new books by 天美影视传媒 faculty members include studies of military cultural education programs and equitable collaboration between schools and families. Also, National Endowment for the Humanities support for a coming book on an 18^th century India poet, and a National Jewish Book Award.

Volume of essays co-edited by Naomi Sokoloff wins 2019 National Jewish Book Award for anthologies, collections

A book co-edited by , UW professor of Hebrew and comparative literature, has won a 2019 National Jewish Book Award for anthologies and collections from the .

“),” edited by Sokoloff with of Washington University, is a volume of scholars, writers and translators discussing the changing status of Hebrew in the United States. The book was published by 天美影视传媒 Press in June 2018.

The book features a diverse group of distinguished contributors discussing the questions, publisher notes state: “Why Hebrew, here and now? What is its value for contemporary Americans? To what extent is that sta颅tus affect颅ed by evolv颅ing Jew颅ish iden颅ti颅ties and shift颅ing atti颅tudes toward Israel and Zion颅ism? Will Hebrew pro颅grams sur颅vive the cur颅rent cri颅sis in the human颅i颅ties on uni颅ver颅si颅ty cam颅pus颅es? How can the vibran颅cy of Hebrew lit颅er颅a颅ture be con颅veyed to a听larg颅er audience?”

The Jewish Book Council established the in 1950. Winners of the 2019 awards, across 18 categories, will be honored at a ceremony March 17 in New York.

To learn more, contact Sokoloff at naosok@uw.edu.

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Heidi Pauwels receives National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for book on ‘India’s 18^th century Mona Lisa’听

, professor in the Department of Asian Languages & Literature, has been awarded a $45,000 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to work on her planned book, “The Voice of India’s 18th Century Mona Lisa: Songs by Rasik Bihari of Kishangarh.”

The book will explore the poetry and life of an 18^th-century woman known as , or Rasik Bihari, who was an elegant court performer and favorite of the Indian crown prince S膩vant Singh (1699-1764) of , a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. She turns out to have been a composer in her own right under the pseudonym of Rasik Bihari.

Pauwels, who also coordinates the department’s South Asia Program, recently wrote a book about Singh. “” was published in 2017 by 天美影视传媒 Press.

The fellowship was announced Jan. 14, part of a NEH of $30.9 million in grants supporting 188 humanities projects in 45 states. Read more on the Simpson Center for the Humanities .

To learn more, contact Pauwels at hpauwels@uw.edu.

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Ann Ishimaru pens book on equitable school-family collaboration

Teachers College Press has published “,” by , associate professor in the UW College of Education. The book examines the challenges and possibilities of creating more equitable forms of collaboration among nondominant families, communities and schools.

“As we’ve been trying to make changes to the long-standing and persistent racial inequities that exist in our schools and really transform education, my argument is that we’ve overlooked a vital source of expertise and leadership 鈥� and that resides in the families and communities of students themselves,” Ishimaru said in an .

The book is drawn on Ishimaru’s work as principal investigator of the UW-based and the project over more than a decade. The book describes core concepts for equitable collaboration and provides multiple examples of effective practices.

Listen to a College of Education-produced with Ishimaru. To learn more, contact Ishimaru at aishi@uw.edu.

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Paula Holmes-Eber co-edits book on building military cultural competence

As recent international conflicts have shown, the military officer of today must be both warrior and diplomat, combatant and humanitarian worker, soldier and peacekeeper. An anthology coedited by , affiliate professor in the Jackson School of International studies, explores how today’s militaries can prepare their leaders for such complex roles.

“,” edited by Holmes and Kjetil Enstad of The Norwegian Defence University College, compares research on the successes and failures of military cultural education and training programs in seven countries: The United States, Canada, Argentina, Norway, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.

“Warriors or Peacekeepers” will be published in March by Springer. To learn more, contact Holmes-Eber at pholmese@uw.edu.

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Justin Jesty’s ‘Arts and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan’ honored

“,” a 2018 book by , associate professor of Japanese language and literature, has been awarded the by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, known as ASAP for short.

The book, a cultural history of post-World War II Japan, was published in September 2018 by Cornell University Press. The award was announced in late 2019.

To learn more, contact Jesty at jestyj@uw.edu or visit his .

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