Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2019
The contributions to this collection focus on the intersecting dynamics of gender, generation and class in Southeast Asian rural communities engaging with expanding capitalist relations, whether in the form of large-scale corporate land acquisition or other forms of penetration of commodity economy....
Economic and Social Transformation in China
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
The Center for China Studies is among China’s most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for the first time, the most important of these reports is collected in book form in English, providing a fascinating insight into the challenges...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
When thinking about the culture and economy of East Asia, many attribute to the region a range of dispositions, including a preference for consensus and social harmony, loyalty and respect towards superiors and government, family values, collectivism, and communitarianism. Affect is central to these...
Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice
The Rhetorics of Comparison
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and ‘Western’ cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural...
Palestinian Refugees
Identity, Space and Place in the Levant
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
More than four million Palestinian refugees live in protracted exile across the Middle East. Taking a regional approach to Palestinian refugee exile and alienation across the Levant, this book proposes a new understanding of the spatial and political dimensions of refugee camps across the Middle East.
Combining...
by Haomin Gong, Xin Yang
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
New information technologies have, to an unprecedented degree, come to reshape human relations, identities and communities both online and offline. As Internet narratives including online fiction, poetry and films reflect and represent ambivalent politics in China, the Chinese state wishes to enable...
Civil Society in China and Taiwan
Agency, Class and Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The concept of 'civil society' has often been used as a devise for differentiating China from other cultures. Though sometimes portrayed as a growing phenomenon, Chinese civil society is frequently said to be non-existent. Definitional deficiencies have, therefore, led to both a simplification and...
Raza Studies
The Public Option for Educational Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
The well-known and controversial Mexican American studies (MAS) program in Arizona’s Tucson Unified School District set out to create an equitable and excellent educational experience for Latino students. Raza Studies: The Public Option for Educational Revolution offers the first comprehensive account...
Visual Media in Indonesia
Video Vanguard
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
In the age of digital communication and global capitalism, people’s mental, social and natural environments are interconnected in complex and often unpredictable ways.
This book focuses on the visual media, one of the key factors in shaping the contemporary ecology of colliding environments....
Multidisciplinary Studies of the Environment and Civilization
Japanese Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Multidisciplinary Studies on the Environment and Civilization draws on research from a diverse range of fields across the humanities, social and natural sciences to discover what is needed to develop an affluent, sustainable and resilient world for the twenty-first century and beyond.
The contributions...
Trans-Americanity
Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
A founder of U.S.-Mexico border studies, José David Saldívar is a leading figure in efforts to expand the scope of American studies. In Trans-Americanity, he advances that critical project by arguing for a transnational, antinational, and "outernational" paradigm for American studies....
Transformations of Gender and Race
Family and Developmental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Transformations of Gender and Race will help you become a better therapist by arming you with new theories and practices that concern inclusiveness of identity, psyche, and culture in the therapy room. This book radically shifts current thinking in systemic theory and practice with individuals, children,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
South Africa and India constitute two key nodes in the global south and have inspired new modes of non-Western transnational history. Themes include anti-imperial movements; Gandhian ideas; comparisons of race and caste; Afro-Asian ideals; Indian Ocean public spheres.
This volume extends these...
Sinologism
An Alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Why, for centuries, have the West and the world continuously produced China knowledge that deviates from Chinese realities? Why, since the mid-nineteenth century, have Chinese intellectuals oscillated between commendation and condemnation of their own culture, and between fetishization and demonization...