Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Labor, Globalization and the State
Workers, Women and Migrants Confront Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
This book explores the impact of neoliberal globalization on labour markets and the state in the developed and developing world. It focuses especially on the United States and the economies of Asia – in particular, India. Liberalized trade and investment are thought by neoliberals to be the best...
Common Ground
The Japanese American National Museum and the Culture of Collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Los Angeles's Japanese American National Museum, established in 1992, remains the only museum in the United States expressly dedicated to sharing the story of Americans of Japanese ancestry. The National Museum is a unique institution that operates in collaboration with other institutions, museums,...
Globalisation and Advertising in Emerging Economies
Brazil, Russia, India and China
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Brazil, Russia, India and China are four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies in the world. Strong economic growth in each of these economies has been accompanied by the expansion of the advertising and consumer goods sectors. Using a series of country studies, this book...
by Qianqing Mai, Maria Francesch-Huidobro
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
In the last thirty years, China has experienced rapid economic development and urbanisation which has resulted in high levels of environmental degradation and has put considerable pressure on the country’s infrastructure and natural resources. As China commits to considerably lower the carbon intensity...
International Regimes in China
Domestic Implementation of the International Fisheries Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, more than 80% of world’s fish stocks are fully exploited, over-exploited, depleted, or recovering from depletion. Although several international agreements have promoted more responsible fisheries, coastal states have...
Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Political Economy of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2002
This indispensable text reader provides a broad-ranging and thoughtfully organized feminist introduction to the ongoing controversies of development in Latin America and the Caribbean. Designed for use in a variety of college courses, the volume collects an influential group of essays first published...
Global Japanization?
The Transnational Transformation of the Labour Process
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Global Japaniziation? Brings together research from North America, Japan, Europe and Latin America to analyse the influence of Japanese manufacturing investment and Japanese working practices across the global economy. The editors present original case studies of work reorganization and workers’...
Filipinos in Canada
Disturbing Invisibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The Philippines became Canada’s largest source of short- and long-term migrants in 2010, surpassing China and India, both of which are more than ten times larger. The fourth-largest racialized minority group in the country, the Filipino community is frequently understood by such figures as the victimized...
by Sôseki Natsume
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 72
Shirai Dôya is a man of letters, a man of principles. His principles sometimes stand in the way of his teaching career, but his writing allows him to openly address "today's youth" with stern conviction—although he is still unable...
Latinx Writing Los Angeles
Nonfiction Dispatches from a Decolonial Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Latinx Writing Los Angeles offers a critical anthology of Los Angeles’s most significant English-language and Spanish-language (in translation) nonfiction writing from the city’s inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors, including three Pulitzer Prize winners and writers such as Harry...
by Genaro Castro-Vazquez
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book presents an ethnographic investigation of intimate and reproductive behaviour in current Japanese society, grounded in the viewpoints of a group of Japanese mothers. It adopts a new approach in studying the decreasing fertility rates which are contributing to the ageing population in modern...
by Iain Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorised Modernities is a ground-breaking work that revaluates the cultural and political understandings of the world today from the perspective of the south. Largely located in the Mediterranean, and in understandings of a ‘southern question’ that extends beyond...
Love in Modern Japan
Its Estrangement from Self, Sex and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
This compelling and controversial book places the concept of love in both a social and historical context. Taking an approach in which state formation and vicissitude of power are explicitly taken into account in the discussion of intimacy and love, the author demonstrates that love as idealization...
Globalizing Japan
Ethnography of the Japanese presence in Asia, Europe, and America
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Globalizing Japan explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on an everyday basis. Both consciously and unconsciously, we regularly come into contact with Japan's industrial and cultural globalization, from...