Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Locating Asian Australian Cultures is a timely and challenging interdisciplinary compilation that sets a contemporary benchmark for Asian Australian studies and its future directions.
In the dynamic field of diasporic Asian studies, Asian Australian Studies is an emerging and contentious area....
Latinx Studies
The Key Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage...
Introducing Cultural Studies
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that claims not to be a discipline; it is a radical critical approach for understanding racial, national, social and gender identities. "Introducing Cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature. Extending and renewing Asian American studies and ecocriticism by drawing the two fields into deeper dialogue, it brings Asian American writers to the center of ecocritical studies....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagoes, shorelines, continents,...
From Orientalism to Postcolonialism
Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism.
The contributors...
Russian Traditional Culture: Religion, Gender and Customary Law
Religion, Gender and Customary Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The resurgence of national and historical awareness among the people of what was once the USSR has been nowhere stronger than among the Russians themselves. Some of the larger projects of rediscovery amount to a reinterpretation of traditional culture. This carefully annotated collection of recent...
Explaining Railway Reform in China
A Train of Property Rights Re-arrangements
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Having been state-owned for decades, the railway reform in China confused many people, particularly in terms of its ownership and property rights arrangements. Western literature always prescribes that the best model for railway reform is privatization. China’s leadership has also enunciated the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In migration studies, the nexus between migration and development in the global South has been meticulously debated. However, a unanimous resolution to this debate has not been found, due to the ever-changing nature of international migration. This book advances knowledge on the global debate on the...
India's Human Security
Lost Debates, Forgotten People, Intractable Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
India's explosive economic growth and emerging power status make it a key country of interest for policymakers, researchers and scholars within South Asia and around the world. But while many of India's threats and conflicts are strategized and discussed extensively within the confines of security...
Grassroots Social Security in Asia
Mutual Aid, Microinsurance and Social Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Grassroots Social Security in Asia investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to low-income people in Asia and in particular the region's developing countries. Historically, these associations have consisted of small groups of people with common interests who save...
Renewable Energy in East Asia
Towards a New Developmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Energy is crucial to the functioning of any human society and central to understanding East Asia’s ‘economic miracle’. The region’s rapid development over the last few decades has been inherently energy-intensive and the impact on global energy security, climate change and the twenty-first-century...
The New Latino Studies Reader
A Twenty-First-Century Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The New Latino Studies Reader is designed as a contemporary, updated, multifaceted collection of writings that bring to force the exciting, necessary scholarship of the last decades. Its aim is to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding...
Media Consumption in Malaysia
A Hermeneutics of Human Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
How do visitors immersing themselves in material places such as shopping malls or video sites online make sense of the experience, enabling criticizing - or consenting to content? How is this evident in behaviour? Reflecting on accounts by Chinese, Indian, Malay and Indigenous members of Malaysian...