Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter
Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This major new work explores the British encounter with Buddhism in nineteenth century Sri Lanka, examining the way Buddhism was represented and constructed in the eyes of the British scholars, officials, travellers and religious seekers who first encountered it.
Tracing the three main historical...
White Race Discourse
Preserving Racial Privilege in a Post-Racial Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The election of Barack Obama as president led some to suggest that not only has US society made significant strides toward racial equality, but it has moved beyond race or become “post-racial.” In fact, studies have exposed numerous contradictions between the ways white Americans answer questions...
by Amy Ansell
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Situating the study of race and ethnicity within its historical and intellectual context, this much needed guide exposes students to the broad diversity of scholarship within the field. It provides a clear and succinct explanation of more than 70 key terms, their conceptual evolution over time, and...
Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics
The Oriental Other Within
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Orientalism refers to the imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West, and was devised in order to have authority over the Orient. The concept of Re-Orientalism maintains the divide between the Orient and the West. However, where Orientalism is based on how the West constructs the East, Re-Orientalism...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Queer People of Color in Higher Education (QPOC) is a comprehensive work discussing the lived experiences of queer people of color on college campuses. This book will create conversations and provide resources to best support students, faculty, and staff of color who are people of color and identify...
by Roland Vazquez
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2010
Until now, social scientists studying Spanish politics have focused on party systems, regime transition, and election analysis, and anthropologists studying Spain have largely neglected its political parties. This book is a pathbreaking work of political anthropology and an ethnographic study of the...
Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka
Life after Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the aftermath,...
Reporting Thailand's Southern Conflict
Mediating Political Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Since 2004, Thailand’s southern border provinces have been plagued by violence. There are a wide array of explanations for this violence, from the revival of Malay nationalist movements and the influence from the global trend of radical Islam, to the power play among the regional underground crime...
China Turns to Multilateralism
Foreign Policy and Regional Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
China’s recent rapid economic growth has drawn global attention to its foreign policy, which increasingly has had an impact on world politics. In contrast with China’s long-standing preference for bilateralism or unilateralism in foreign policy, recent decades have seen changes in the PRC’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Industrialization has meant sweeping social transformations across Asia. Some political commentators have predicted that the expansion of civil society and the rapid development of liberal democracy will necessarily follow. The contributors to this volume dissect the extent of political opposition...
China's Governance Model
Flexibility and Durability of Pragmatic Authoritarianism
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Many studies of government in China either simply describe the political institutions or else focus, critically, on the weaknesses of the system, such as corruption or the absence of Western-style democracy. Authors of these studies fail to appreciate the surprising ability of China’s government...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Corporatism and Korean Capitalism employs corporatist theory to examine the Korean experience of state-business ties. It includes theoretical chapters on Asian and Korean corporatism, case studies of agriculture, industry and industrial relations and an introduction to comparative corporatism. It...
by David C. Stahl
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Japanese literature and film have frequently been approached using lenses such as language, genre and ideology. Yet, despite a succession of major social traumas that have marked, and in many ways shaped and defined much of modern Japan, Japanese fiction and cinema have not often been examined psychoanalytically.
In...
The Other in South Asian Religion, Literature and Film
Perspectives on Otherism and Otherness
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book introduces the term "otherism" and looks at the discourse of otherism and the issue of otherness in South Asian religion, literature and film. It examines cultural questions related to the human condition of being the "other," of the process of "othering" and...