Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Global Tangos
Travels in the Transnational Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary argues against the hackneyed rose-in-mouth clichés of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance may be used as a way to understand transformations around the world that have taken place as a result of two defining features of globalization:...
Growing Up in Central Australia
New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This volume presents recent and original studies of life experiences outside the institutional settings of childcare and education,...
Europe and the Asia-Pacific
Culture, Identity and Representations of Region
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The many points of contact and conflict about culture and identity that exist between Europe and the Asia Pacific are highlighted in this book. This work surveys a variety of issues relating to culture, identity and representation from an interdisciplinary perspective, with contributions from sociology,...
by William A. Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
This text examines the politics of culture and the culture of politics in Pacific Asia through case studies on the South Pacific, China, South Korea, Thailand and Southeast Asia. The contexts and cultures of the chapters are wide-ranging and Callahan skilfully ties them together with the objective...
Interracial Encounters
Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series
Why do black characters appear so frequently in Asian American literary works and Asian characters appear in African American literary works in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Censorship in Japan has seen many changes over the last 150 years and each successive system of rule has possessed its own censorship laws, regulations, and methods of enforcement. Yet what has remained constant through these many upheavals has been the process of negotiation between censor and artist...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism...
Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy
Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular on visual materials from the...
Environmental Governance in Taiwan
A New Generation of Activists and Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Three decades of rapid industrialization until the lifting of martial law in 1987, with little or no concern for the environment, have made Taiwan’s environmental degradation a serious problem. In the past twenty years, Taiwan has seen a surge of environmental organizations, which to a certain degree...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic increase in cultural flows and connections between the countries in the East Asian region. Nowhere is this more apparent than when looking at popular culture where uneven but multilateral exchanges of Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Chinese products...
by Shenshen Cai
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Most current research on the evolution of China’s propaganda discourse only touches upon recent variations of official propaganda rhetoric grounded in popular media. Here, the research is extended by tapping into the most recently released popular cultural media narratives such as online documentaries,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
This book argues that the dominant descriptions of the ‘caste system’ are rooted in the Western Christian experience of India. Thus, caste studies tell us more about the West than about India. It further demonstrates the imperative to move beyond this scholarship in order to generate descriptions...
East Asian Men
Masculinity, Sexuality and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book provides a fresh and contemporary take on the study of men and masculinity. It highlights new and exciting approaches to sexuality, desire, men and masculinity in East Asian contexts, focusing on the interconnections between them. In doing so, it re-examines the key concepts that underpin...
Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked
Authority, Participation and Equity in East Timor
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Focusing on rural development and environmental management, this book brings together the detailed history of development in East Timor under two colonial regimes and under the contemporary conditions of national independence. It addresses two comparative areas of development: across the three political...