Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures
Knowledge, Ritual, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Buddhist Manuscript Cultures explores how religious and cultural practices in premodern Asia were shaped by literary and artistic traditions as well as by Buddhist material culture. This study of Buddhist texts focuses on the significance of their material forms rather than their doctrinal contents,...
Urban Spaces in Japan
Cultural and Social Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities including Tokyo, Kobe, and Kyoto, this book examines the potential of civil society in contemporary planning...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Veils and veiling are controversial topics in social and political life, generating debates across the world. The veil is enmeshed within a complex web of relations encompassing politics, religion and gender, and conflicts over the nature of power, legitimacy, belief, freedom, agency and emancipation....
Gay and Lesbian Asia
Culture, Identity, Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
How do Asian cultures construct queer genders, sexualities, and eroticism?
Gay and Lesbian Asia demonstrates the astonishing diversity of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered identities in countries including Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines....
Worlding Multiculturalisms
The Politics of Inter-Asian Dwelling
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Worlding multiculturalisms are practices that infuse our arbitrary cultural lives with new things from other cultures in poetic ways to enable us to dwell and be at home with the complexity of the world. In the context of the crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the growing obsolescence of state-based...
Sex Trafficking in South Asia
Telling Maya's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary locally...
Chicana Without Apology
The New Chicana Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
By approaching Chicana/o issues from the frames of feminism, social activism, and cultural studies, and by considering both lived experience and the latest research, Torres offers a more comprehensive understanding of current Chicana life. Through compelling prose, Torres masterfully weaves her own...
Decision-Making Reform in Japan
The DPJ’s Failed Attempt at a Politician-Led Government
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
In the election to the House of Representatives in 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) almost tripled the number of its lower house members by winning 308 seats. It subsequently formed a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party and the People’s New Party. The new ruling party...
Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea
Journeys of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Fusing audience research and ethnography,the bookpresents a compelling account of women’s changing lives and identities in relation to the impact of the most popular media culture in everyday life: television.
Within the historically-specific social conditions of Korean modernity, Youna Kim...
by Colin Hawes
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
In recent years, Chinese policymakers and corporate leaders have focused significant attention on the concept of corporate culture. This book will reveal the political, social and economic factors behind the enormous current interest in corporate culture in China and provide a wide range of case studies...
The Reorder of Things
The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
In the 1960s and 1970s, minority and women students at colleges and universities across the United States organized protest movements to end racial and gender inequality on campus. African American, Chicano, Asia American, American Indian, women, and queer activists demanded the creation of departments...
Economy Hotels in China
A Glocalized Innovative Hospitality Sector
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
While economy or budget hotels have been popular in western countries since the end of the Second World War, they have only emerged as a sector in their own right in China since the mid-1990s. Indeed, as a new service industry sector, economy hotels in China demonstrate important characteristics which...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
China is among a number of large developing country or new powers on the ascendance in the international system, all of which are deepening their economic relations with Africa However, China is the largest and most powerful of this group. it has sought closer economic relationships with other developing...
by Earl Wright II, Edward V. Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology provides the most up to date exploration and analysis of research focused on Blacks in America. Beginning with an examination of the project of Black Sociology, it offers studies of recent events, including the ‘Stand Your Ground’ killing of Trayvon...