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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2007
The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the most important texts to emerge from the Indian cultural tradition. At almost 75,000 verses it is the longest poem in the world, and throughout Indian history it has been hugely influential in shaping gender and social norms. In the context of ancient India, it...
Technology Transfer Between the US, China and Taiwan
Moving Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Examining the flow of technical knowledge between the US, Taiwan and Mainland China over the last sixty-five years, this book shows that the technical knowledge that has moved between these states is vast and varied. It includes the invention and production of industrial goods, as well as knowledge...
Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century
Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions is a tightly interconnected and richly collaborative book that will advance our understanding of why it is so difficult to re-form and reimagine whiteness in the twenty-first century. Composed after...
Change and Continuity in the Pacific
Revisiting the Region
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Thousands of studies have been conducted by social scientists in the villages and islands, and increasingly in the towns, of the Pacific. Despite this, there are few longitudinal studies of any great depth and sophistication in the region.
The contributors to this book have all conducted long-term...
Cultural Sustainability in Rural Communities
Rethinking Australian Country Towns
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural...
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Asia Encounters the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
The internet is developing quicker in Asia than in any other region of the world. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the information society in an Asian context, and the impact of these technologies in Asia. These impacts are inevitably uneven and conditioned by issues of telecommunications...
Subaltern Movements in India
Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies.
Based...
by Alain Guilloux
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
In this unique book, Alain Guilloux uses four major elements of governance - namely norms, actors, processes, and outcomes - to examine Taiwan’s national governance as well as its participation in global governance in relation to humanitarian aid.
Including case studies on Taiwan’s application...
China's Cinema of Class
Audiences and Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
China’s commercial film industry can be used as a map to understand how class is interwoven into the imaginations that inform and influence social change in Chinese society. Film consumption is important in this process, particularly for young adult urbanites that are China’s primary commercial...
Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India
The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
This book fills an important gap in the existing literature on economic liberalization and globalisation in India by providing much needed ethnographic data from those affected by neoliberal globalisation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, it reveals the complexity of the globalisation...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
As India celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its independence, much praise was lavished on its emergence as a major player on the global stage. Its economic transformation and geopolitical significance as a nuclear power are matched by its globally resonant cultural resources.
This book...
The West in Asia and Asia in the West
Essays on Transnational Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
This collection of new essays examines the “transnational turn” in cultural studies between Asia and the West. Drawing on literature, history, culture, film and media studies, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the constructs of “Asia” and “the West” and their cultural collision....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.
As the study...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Lesbian Realities/Lesbian Fictions in Contemporary Spain, edited by Nancy Vosburg and Jacky Collins, focuses exclusively on manifestations of lesbian cultures and identities in contemporary Spain. Bringing together key essays from a range of international scholars, this anthology of critical essays...