Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
The South Asian Diaspora
Transnational networks and changing identities
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2008
The South Asian Diaspora numbers just under 30 million people worldwide, and it is recognized as the most widely dispersed diaspora. It is, moreover, one which of late has seen phenomenal growth, both due to natural increase and the result of a continued movement of professionals and labourers in...
Mapping the Path to Maturity
A Connected History of Bengal and the North-East
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
This book delves into varied aspects of the history of Bengal and North east situated within a time frame of more than a hundred years, from the colonial times to the present. The individual essays deal with ideas, literary texts, politics, gender, industries, culture, health, sports and tribal issues...
China's Workers Under Assault: Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy
Exploitation and Abuse in a Globalizing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This important book contains case studies with substantive analysis of Chinese workers in a variety of settings: state enterprises, urban collectives, township and village enterprises, domestic private enterprises, and foreign funded enterprises. The cases include urban workers migrant workers from...
Cities in Post-Mao China
Recipes for Economic Development in the Reform Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2005
This volume, written by contributors from a number of different specialisms, suggests that different combinations of factors have contributed to the relative successes and failures in these cities. Endowment factors, preferential policies, and history have all proved to be important. Most importantly,...
Border Crossing in Greater China
Production, Community and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
China’s transformation from a poor and underdeveloped country into a global market power has profoundly altered its socioeconomic power relations with the other countries in the Greater China region, namely, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Indeed, this economic shift has resulted in the massive flow of capital...
The Indian Ocean Rim
Southern Africa and Regional Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation was formally established in 1997 under the leadership of South Africa, India and Australia. The demise of Apartheid, the fall of the Soviet empire, and the rapid advance of globalization altered the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean region in...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Decades after the end of the World War II East Asia continues to struggle with lingering animosities and unresolved historical grievances in domestic, bilateral and regional memory landscapes. China, Japan and the Korea share a history of inter- and intra-violence, self-other identity construction...
by Liubov Denisova
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the 20th century in English. Filling a significant gap in the literature on rural studies and gender studies of the twentieth century Russia, it is the first to take the story into the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive...
Public Relations in India
New Tasks and Responsibilites
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Public Relations in India is a review of the history of Public Relations (PR) in the world and India and an in-depth critical analysis of the value of PR as an essential feature of the management function. The key focus of this book is what PR means for India and other developing countries in the...
Africas Last Romantic
The Films, Books and Expeditions of John L. Brom
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Africa’s Last Romantic: The Films, Books and Expeditions of John L. Brom captures the drama and excitement of John L. Brom’s film expeditions from 1949 to 1962 through sub-Saharan Africa. Brom was the only explorer to follow the footsteps of Henry Morton Stanley and in a documentary interviewed...
by Christian van Gorder
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2008
This book explores issues of cultural tension that affect Muslim and Christian interaction within the Central Asian context. It looks at the ways that Christians have interacted with Central Asian Muslims in the past, and discusses what might need to be done to improve Muslim-Christian relations in...
Social and Cultural Change in Central Asia
The Soviet Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Focusing on Soviet culture and its social ramifications both during the Soviet period and in the post-Soviet era, this book addresses important themes associated with Sovietisation and socialisation in the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
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Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia
Identity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
In the decades since her defeat in the Second World War, Japan has continued to loom large in the national imagination of many of her East Asian neighbours. While for many, Japan still conjures up images of rampant military brutality, at different times and in different communities, alternative images...
Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and Societal Contexts
International and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Groundbreaking in its international, interdisciplinary, and multi-professional approach to diversity and inclusion in higher education, this volume puts theory in conversation with practice, articulates problems, and suggests deep-structured strategies from multiple perspectives including performed...