Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
The Cosby Cohort
Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
The Cosby Cohort examines the now-grown children who were raised in the black middle class. This probing book studies how their parents established their middle class position, how they interact with white America, the pressures placed upon them by their parents, how they connect with African Americans...
The Non-Aligned Movement and the Cold War
Delhi - Bandung - Belgrade
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
The idea of non-alignment and peaceful coexistence was not new when Yugoslavia hosted the Belgrade Summit of the Non-Aligned in September 1961. Freedom activists from the colonies in Asia, Africa, and South America had been discussing such issues for decades already, but this long-lasting context...
Japanese Women in Science and Engineering
History and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) varies greatly from country to country, and the number of Japanese women in these fields remains relatively few. This prompts us to ask why the proportion of female scientists in Japan is still remarkably low and what measures...
The Political Economy of the Agri-Food System in Thailand
Hegemony, Counter-Hegemony, and Co-Optation of Oppositions
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
The mainstream agri-food system in Thailand has been shaped to aid capital accumulation by domestic and transnational hegemonic forces, and is currently sustained through hegemonic agri-food production-distribution, governance structures and ideational order. However, sustainable agriculture and land...
Religious Freedom in India
Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India’s religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious...
Migrant Workers and ASEAN
A Two Level State and Regional Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
ASEAN (The Association of Southeast Asian Nations) has made slow progress in defining a regional policy for the protection of migrant workers.
This book examines the normative structures within the institutions at play at both state and regional level of ASEAN, which influence the making of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Southeast Asia is one of the most diverse regions in the world – hosting a wide range of languages, ethnicities, religions, economies, ecosystems and political systems. Amidst this diversity, however, has been a common desire to develop. This provides a uniting theme across landscapes of difference.
This...
Transnational Islamic Actors and Indonesia's Foreign Policy
Transcending the State
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
The past fifteen years have seen Indonesia move away from authoritarianism to a thriving yet imperfect democracy. During this time, the archipelago attracted international attention as the most-populated Muslim-majority country in the world. As religious issues and actors have been increasingly taken...
by Monika Metykova
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Diversity and the Media offers a concise and interdisciplinary overview of the relationship between diversity and media. Focusing on media regulation in democratic societies throughout, individual chapters explore how different conceptions of diversity relate to media audiences, media workforces, media...
NGOs in India (Open Access)
The challenges of women's empowerment and accountability
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.
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Challenging Southeast Asian Development
The shadows of success
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Over the course of the last half century, the growth economies of Southeast Asia – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – have transformed themselves into middle income countries. This book looks at how the very success of these economies has bred new challenges,...
by David L. Shambaugh
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Examines the historical evolution of contemporary China studies in the United States, reflecting the growth and maturation of the field since the Communist Party seized power in 1949.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Politics, history, and religion have long lent Tibet a glamorous air, particularly in the West. But Tibet can be understood in an astonishingly wide variety of other ways, including linguistic, ecological, environmental and climatological, geographical, geological, economic, biologic, sociologic,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, and new forms of governance and media, however, have brought significant changes to the religious traditions of the region in the twentieth and twenty-first...