Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
by Jing Yang
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Based on data collected through in-depth fieldwork observation and interviews in Bai Township, this book examines how women with disabilities in rural Southwest China compensate for their disability identity through marriage. As the first book to theorize the married life of rural-based women with...
Gender Justice and Proportionality in India
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
For a judiciary in a democracy, dispensing justice is not only about doing justice, but also about showing that justice is being done; it is about giving reasons and creating a "culture of justification". The question becomes how to nurture such a culture. A number of liberal democratic...
HIV/AIDS in India
Voices from the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
India ranks third in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS globally. The country has high levels of poverty and inequality, poor healthcare infrastructure, especially away from the metropolitan areas, and a legacy of colonialism that bequeathed laws criminalizing non-heteronormative sexualities....
Yeniseian Peoples and Languages
A History of Yeniseian Studies with an Annotated Bibliography and a Source Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The Kets of Central Siberia are perhaps the most enigmatic of Siberia's aboriginal tribes. Today numbering barely 1,100 souls living in several small villages on the middle reaches of the Yenisei, the Kets have retained much of their ancient culture, as well as their unique language.
Genetic studies...
Social Work Practice with African American Families
An Intergenerational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Be more effective by understanding African American families from an intergenerational perspective
Social workers looking to provide competent practice with African American families may be more effective by using a new strengths-based approach from an intergenerational perspective. Social...
Health Communication and Sexual Health in India
Interpreting HIV and AIDS messages
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Over the past few years, ever since the advent of HIV and AIDS, there has been increasing discussion of the concept of sexual health. This upsurge is especially noticeable not only in the field of health education and promotion but also in academic sources. The recent discourse on sexual health is...
Understanding Pakistan
Emerging Voices from India
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Understanding Pakistan: Emerging Voices from India is the outcome of a national seminar for research scholars on Pakistan organized by the Centre for Pakistan Studies at the MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. The aim of the seminar was to explore how young minds...
Reshaping City Governance
London, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
India’s cities are in the midst of an unprecedented urban expansion. While India is acknowledged as a rising power, poised to emerge into the front rank of global economies, the pace and scale of its urbanisation calls for more effective metropolitan management if that growth is not to be constrained...
The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India
Exploring Transgressions, Contests and Diversities
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India was much more than a ‘sepoy mutiny’. It was a major event in South Asian and British colonial history that significantly challenged imperialism in India.
This fascinating collection explores hitherto ignored diversities of the Great Rebellion such as...
Vietnam's Socialist Servants
Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Since Vietnam introduced economic reforms in the mid-1980s, domestic service has become an established sector of the labour market, and domestic workers have become indispensable to urban life in the rapidly changing country. This book analyzes the ways in which the practices and discourses of domestic...
The Global Education Movement
Narratives of Distinguished Global Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The pages of this book paint a portrait of thirteen scholars and their lifelong professional accomplishments in and contributions to teaching, service, and research in global international education around the world. Their extraordinary work contributed extensively to the development, direction and...
Tibetan Buddhism in Diaspora
Cultural re-signification in practice and institutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The imperialist ambitions of China – which invaded Tibet in the late 1940s – have sparked the spectacular spread of Tibetan Buddhism worldwide, and especially in western countries. This work is a study on the malleability of a particular Buddhist tradition; on its adaptability in new contexts.
The...
New Chinese Migrations
Mobility, Home, and Inspirations
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
With the rapid economic development of China and the overall shift in the global political economy, there is now the emergence of new Chinese on the move. These new Chinese migrants and diasporas are pioneers in the establishment of multiple homes in new geographical locations, the development of...
Heritage Conservation and Japan's Cultural Diplomacy
Heritage, National Identity and National Interest
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Japan’s heritage conservation policy and practice, as deployed through its foreign aid programs, has become one of the main means through which post-World War II Japan has sought to mark its presence in the international arena, both globally and regionally. Heritage conservation has been intimately...