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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act hastened the process of South Asian migration to postcolonial Britain. Half a decade later, now is an opportune moment to revisit the accumulated writing about the diasporas formed through subsequent settlement, and to probe the ways in which the South Asian...
ANTHROPOLOGY OF MIGRATION AND MULTI
New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The field of anthropology of migration and multiculturalism is booming. Throughout its hundred-odd year history, studies of migration and diverse or ‘plural’ societies have arguably been both marginal and central to the discipline of Anthropology. However, recent years have witnessed the rapid...
Italian Lives, Cape Breton Memories
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, is most often associated with a version of Scottish culture that has evolved in its own unique ways. Though worthy of celebration, that perception tends to overwhelm the realities of everyday life experiences by people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. A strong and vibrant...
by Cameron Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This comprehensive study of local politics in Russia shows that the key reforms of local government, and the struggle to forge viable grassroots democracies have been inextricably linked to the wider struggle for power between the regions and the Kremlin, and to the specific nature of Russia’s highly...
Transport, Demand Management and Social Inclusion
The Need for Ethnic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Social inclusion/exclusion has only recently emerged in transport-related discourse. Despite the apparent absence of a transport policy framework for social inclusion/exclusion, there has been some movement towards a greater understanding of the social aspects of transport in the research sphere....
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Italian Politics
Inventing the Padania: Lega Nord and the Northern Question
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Employing primary sources and interviews with protagonists of the rebellion of the Italian North, this book explores the invention of the Padanian nation and the construction of identity politics in Northern Italy. It reveals for the first time the connection between the ethnic wave in European party...
The Legacy of Indian Indenture
Historical and Contemporary Aspects of Migration and Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book is the second publication originating from the conference Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour: Past, present and future, which was organised in June 2013, by the Institute of Graduate Studies and Research (IGSR), Anton de Kom University of Suriname.
The articles are grouped in...
Culture, Religion and Conflict in Muslim Southeast Asia
Negotiating Tense Pluralisms
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
By examining the sometimes surprising and unexpected roles that culture and religion have played in mitigating or exacerbating conflicts, this book explores the cultural repertoires from which Southeast Asian political actors have drawn to negotiate the pluralism that has so long been characteristic...
by Shanti Nair
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A case study of a multi-ethnic Muslim state and a contribution to the study of the domestic functions of foreign policy. The book also addresses the real and imagined significance of Islam as a force in contemporary global politics.
Constitution-making in Asia
Decolonisation and State-Building in the Aftermath of the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Britain’s main imperial possessions in Asia were granted independence in the 1940s and 1950s and needed to craft constitutions for their new states. Invariably the indigenous elites drew upon British constitutional ideas and institutions regardless of the political conditions that prevailed in their...
Religion, Space and Conflict in Sri Lanka
Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Space is dynamic, political and a cause of conflict. It bears the weight of human dreams and fears. Conflict is caused not only by spatial exclusivism but also by an inclusivism that seeks harmony through subordinating the particularity of the Other to the world view of the majority.
This book...
Impostors
Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions that involved flagrant acts of cultural appropriation. This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a different ethnic, class, or other...
by Mohammad Qadeer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is the first English-language survey of Pakistan’s socio-economic evolution. Mohammad Qadeer gives an essential overview of social and cultural transformation in Pakistan since independence, which is crucial to understanding Pakistan’s likely future direction.
Pakistan examines how...
The Migrants Table
Meals And Memories In
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
To most of us the food that we associate with home—our national and familial homes—is an essential part of our cultural heritage. No matter how open we become to other cuisines, we regard home-cooking as an intrinsic part of who we are. In this book, Krishnendu Ray examines the changing food habits...