Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Hong Kong: Economic, Social, and Political Studies in Development, with a Comprehensive Bibliography
Hong Kong: Economic, Social, and Political Studies in Development, with a Comprehensive Bibliography
Economic, Social, and Political Studies in Development, with a Comprehensive Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
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by Justin Charlebois
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The corporate salaryman and professional housewife stand as hegemonic archetypes of masculinity and femininity in Japan. However, these rigid gender roles are being challenged by women who are seeking to move beyond the strictly defined confines of their traditional roles as caregivers and homemakers.
Through...
Housing in Post-Growth Society
Japan on the Edge of Social Transition
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In a globalising world, many mature economies share post-growth characteristics such as low economic growth, low fertility, declining and ageing of the population and increasing social stratification. Japan stands at the forefront of such social change in the East Asian region as well as in the Global...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase...
Vietnamese-Chinese Relationships at the Borderlands
Trade, Tourism and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Ever since China and Vietnam resumed diplomatic contacts and reopened the border in 1991, the borderland region has become part of the vibrant growing economies of both countries and drawn many from the interior provinces to the borderland for new economic adventures. This book examines Chinese-Vietnamese...
by Arvind-Pal S. Mandair, Christopher Shackle, Gurharpal Singh
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book brings together new approaches to the study of Sikh religion, culture and ethnicity being pursued in the diaspora by Sikh academics in western universities in Britain and North America. An important aspect of the volume is the diversity of topics that are engaged - including film and gender...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book looks at movements of communities which formed the lower and middle rungs of society in medieval and early colonial India. It presents migration, mobility and memories from a specifically Indian perspective, breaking away from previous Eurocentric studies. The essays in the volume focus...
China's New Creative Clusters
Governance, Human Capital and Investment
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Recognising that creativity is a major driving force in the post-industrial economy, the Chinese government has recently established a range of "creative clusters" – industrial parks devoted to media industries, and arts districts – in order to promote the development of the creative...
Elie Kedourie's Approaches to History and Political Theory
'The Thoughts and Actions of Living Men'
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Elie Kedourie was one of the twentieth century’s most important and controversial historians of the Middle East. He redefined the landscape of the field by challenging the notion that the West’s imperial domination of the region spawned nationalism in Arab countries. In a long career lecturing...
The Origins of Himalayan Studies
Brian Houghton Hodgson in Nepal and Darjeeling
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Brian Hodgson lived in Nepal from 1820 to 1843 during which time he wrote and published extensively on Nepalese culture, religion, natural history, architecture, ethnography and linguistics. Contributors from leading historians of Nepal and South Asia and from specialists in Buddhist studies, art...
by Nor-eddine Bourima
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Scientific Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Culture, Technology, Peoples / Nations, , language: English, abstract: Researchers from different academic disciplines approach conversation as a form of social interaction from widely differing perspectives. In this article, an overview...
'Yogini' in South Asia
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In different stages in the history of South Asian religions, the term yoginī has been used in various contexts to designate various things: a female adept of yoga, a female tantric practitioner, a sorceress, a woman dedicated to a deity, or a certain category of female deities. This book brings together...
Post-Conflict Tajikistan
The politics of peacebuilding and the emergence of legitimate order
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Post-Soviet, post-conflict Tajikistan is an under-studied and poorly understood case in conflict studies literature. Since 2000, this Central Asian state has seen major political violence end, countrywide order emerge and the peace agreement between the parties of the 1990s civil war hold. Superficially,...
by Nadeem Malik
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has not only become an important concept for corporate organizations but also civil society, community, state and the multilateral and bilateral development agencies. It has acquired great significance in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, not...