Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Sexual Cultures in East Asia
The Social Construction of Sexuality and Sexual Risk in a Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Using case-studies from East and Southeast Asia, this book examines sexuality and AIDS-related sexual risk in the context of Asian cultures. It offers a complementary perspective, documented with sociological and anthropological data, to historical studies and looks at commercial sex work, kinship...
India in South Asia
Domestic Identity Politics and Foreign Policy from Nehru to the BJP
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
South Asia is one of the most volatile regions of the world, and India’s complex democratic political system impinges on its relations with its South Asian neighbours. Focusing on this relationship, this book explores the extent to which domestic politics affect a country’s foreign policy.
The...
South Asian Security
21st Century Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The South Asian security complex refers to security interdependencies between the states in the region, and also includes the effect that powerful external actors, such as China, the US and Russia, and geopolitical interests have on regional dynamics. This book focuses on the national securities of...
by Annemarie Kunz
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject South Asian Studies, South-Eastern Asian Studies, grade: 1,0, Charles University in Prague, language: English, abstract: Energy is the key to a state's economic growth: it influences not only sustainable development, but also areas such as education...
by Soodha Mungur
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: none, , course: MA Enlish with Cultural studies, language: English, abstract: Globalization is a spatio-temporal process and 'the transtionalization of capitalism, interconnected to world economic system' . Gayatri...
Race, Rhetoric, and Technology
Searching for Higher Ground
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
In this book Adam Banks uses the concept of the Digital Divide as a metonym for America's larger racial divide, in an attempt to figure out what meaningful access for African Americans to technologies and the larger American society can or should mean. He argues that African American rhetorical traditions--the...
The Indian Caribbean
Migration and Identity in the Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Winner of the 2018 Gordon K. and Sybil Farrell Lewis Award for the best book in Caribbean studies from the Caribbean Studies Association
This book tells a distinct story of Indians in the Caribbean--one concentrated not only on archival records and institutions, but also on the voices of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Since the late nineteenth century, religious ideas and practices in Japan have become increasingly intertwined with those associated with mental health and healing. This relationship developed against the backdrop of a far broader, and deeply consequential meeting: between Japan’s long-standing,...
The Other Ramayana Women
Regional Rejection and Response
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This book is the first to present current scholarship on gender and in regional and sectarian versions of the Rāmāyaṇa. Contributors explore in what ways the versions relate to other Rāmāyaṇa texts as they deal with the female persona and the cultural values implicit in them. Using a wide...
by R. A. B. Ponsonby-Fane
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Multicultural Horizons
Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2008
The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the ‘New Britain’ of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural. Introducing the concept of ‘multicultural intimacies’, Anne-Marie Fortier offers a new form...
Disability Policy in China
Child and family experiences
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Without access to a public social welfare system in parts of China, some families face invidious decisions about the lives of their children with disabilities. In other places, children with disabilities can now expect to participate in their families and communities with the same aspirations as other...
British Asians and Football
Culture, Identity, Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
In spite of a great passion in the game and significant involvement at amateur level, British Asians are under-represented in professional football. This book asks how and why this situation has developed, using extensive interviews with British Asian football players to offer an insider’s assessment...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
This book restores water, both fresh and salt, to its central position in human endeavour, ecology and environment. Water access and the environmental and social problems of development are major issues of concern in this century. Drawing on water's many formations in debating human relationship with...