Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Cultural Heritage Management in China
Preserving the Cities of the Pearl River Delta
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Cultural Heritage Management in China presents a thematic examination of the development of cultural heritage management (CHM) in an Asian context. It challenges assumptions of the primacy of community-sponsored action and heritage authority based on Western-derived ideals and practices that fit with...
The Korean Developmental State
From dirigisme to neo-liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
The Korean Developmental State is a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of processes of state and economic restructuring in South Korea since the 1997 crisis. The book distinguishes itself from previous studies by consistently arguing that structural changes in the global political economy have...
Homegrown
Engaged Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream...
Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India
Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity, gender...
Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema
A Freedom Incomplete
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Historically, Indian cinema has positioned women at the intersection of tradition and a more evolving culture, portraying contradictory attitudes which affect women’s roles in public and private spheres.
Examining the work of three directors from West Bengal, this book addresses the juxtaposition...
Bush and Asia
America's Evolving Relations with East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Bringing together a number of recognized international experts, this book considers the impact of changes in American foreign policy on the East Asian region, as well as the evolving nature of American policy itself. Specific case studies consider America's relations with the most important countries...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Asian Nationalism brings together internationally renowned experts in the field analysing current theories of nationalism. Featuring detailed chapter case-studies on Pakistan, China, Japan, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, this book provides a good balance of theoretical and empirical...
A Sociological Analysis of Vietnamese Society
In the Palace of the Dragon King
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Scientific Study from the year 2015 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: B, , language: English, abstract: Now, the confusion of road traffic in big cities in Vietnam has become serious a large number of motorbikes as well as many cars run on the roads. The living...
The Changing Face of Korean Cinema
1960 to 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The rapid development of Korean cinema during the decades of the 1960s and 2000s reveals a dynamic cinematic history which runs parallel to the nation’s political, social, economic and cultural transformation during these formative periods.
This book examines the ways in which South Korean...
Race, Place and Globalization
Youth Cultures in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
What does it mean to be young in a changing world? How are migration, settlement and new urban cultures shaping young lives? And in particular, are race, place and class still meaningful to contemporary youth cultures? This path-breaking book shows how young people are responding differently to recent...
Secrecy and Cultural Reality
Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Gilbert Herdt is Director of the Program in Human Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, where he is also Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology.
Racial Worldmaking
The Power of Popular Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
When does racial description become racism? Critical race studies has not come up with good answers to this question because it has overemphasized the visuality of race. According to dominant theories of racial formation, we see race on bodies and persons and then link those perceptions to unjust...
by Michael Leach
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Timor-Leste’s long journey to nationhood spans 450 years of colonial rule by Portugal, a short-lived independence in 1975, and a 24-year occupation by Indonesia. This book examines the history of nation-building and national identity in Timor-Leste, and the evolution of a collective identity through...
Alien Encounters
Popular Culture in Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Alien Encounters showcases innovative directions in Asian American cultural studies. In essays exploring topics ranging from pulp fiction to multimedia art to import-car subcultures, contributors analyze Asian Americans’ interactions with popular culture as both creators and consumers. Written by...