Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
China on Video
Smaller-Screen Realities
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media,...
Popular Culture in Taiwan
Charismatic Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The growing field of popular culture studies in Taiwan can be divided into two distinct academic trends; a different analytical framework is used to examine either locally oriented popular culture or transnational pop culture. This volume combine these two academic trends, firstly by revealing that...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the top leadership, makes...
Across Borders
Latin Perspectives in the Americas Reshaping Religion, Theology, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
While work in theology and religious studies by scholars in Latin America and by Latino/a scholars in the United States has made substantial contributions to the current scholarship in the field, there are few projects where scholars from these various contexts are working together. *Across Borders:*Latin...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
The notion of a ‘politics of religion’ refers to the increasing role that religion plays in the politics of the contemporary world. This book presents comparative country case studies on the politics of religion in South and South Asia, including India, Pakistan and Indonesia. The politics of...
Reclaiming Chinese Society
The New Social Activism
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Reclaiming Chinese Society analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasizes economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, this volume argues for the centrality of...
Protecting the Weak in East Asia
Framing, Mobilisation and Institutionalisation
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book investigates public claims for the protection of weak groups and interests in Japan and China from the nineteenth century to the present day. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it engages with ongoing global debates relevant to both Western and non-Western societies whilst also providing...
Exalted Subjects
Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2007
Questions of national identity, indigenous rights, citizenship, and migration have acquired unprecedented relevance in this age of globalization. In Exalted Subjects, noted feminist scholar Sunera Thobani examines the meanings and complexities of these questions in a Canadian context. Based in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This book analyzes the overall effect of American primacy on social and political conflicts in Asia, discussing how the post-Cold War American agenda does not promote democratization in the region, in contradiction to one of the major proclaimed aims of the proponents of the Pax Americana. This team...
Terrorist Assemblages
Homonationalism in Queer Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms.
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Continental Shifts
Migration, Representation, and the Struggle for Justice in Latin(o) America
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Applying a broad geographical approach to comparative Latino literary and cultural studies, Continental Shifts illuminates how the discursive treatment of Latinos changed dramatically following the enactment of NAFTA—a shift exacerbated by 9/11. While previous studies of immigrant representation...
by Nina Buschle
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 2,3, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, course: Cultural Studies, 6 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'An upper-class child may learn the 'facts of life' at an age when a lower-class...
by Rafael Parente
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: PhD, The Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (NYU), course: Cross-Cultural Studies of Socialization, 0 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Brazil has been...