Global, Area, and International Archive – serie
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16 produkter
Women in China's Long Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2007
471 kr
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This indispensable guide for students of both Chinese and women's history synthesizes recent research on women in twentieth-century China. Written by a leading historian of China, it surveys more than 650 scholarly works, discussing Chinese women in the context of marriage, family, sexuality, …
National Insecurity and Human Rights
Democracies Debate Counterterrorism
Av Alison Brysk, Gershon Shafir
Häftad, 2007
306 kr
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Human rights is all too often the first casualty of national insecurity. How can democracies cope with the threat of terror while protecting human rights? This timely volume compares the lessons of the United States and Israel with the "best-case scenarios" of the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, and …
Engaging Contradictions
Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship
Häftad, 2008
472 kr
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Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. Some advocate on behalf of the communities they study; others incorporate the knowledge and leadership of their informants directly …
Reinventing Britain
Constitutional Change Under New Labour
Häftad, 2007
547 kr
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Contrary to popular myth, Britain does have a constitution, one that is uncodified and commanded little political interest for most of the twentieth century. In the late 1990s, Tony Blair's New Labour Government launched a program of reform that was striking in its ambition. "Reinventing Britain" …
Diaspora without Homeland
Being Korean in Japan
Av Sonia Ryang, John Lie
Häftad, 2009
400 kr
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More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today - the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field of diaspora studies to understand the complicated …
Chinese Religiosities
Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation
Häftad, 2008
514 kr
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The long twentieth century in China and Taiwan has seen both a dramatic process of state-driven secularization and modernization and a vigorous revival of contemporary religious life. "Chinese Religiosities" explores the often vexed relationship between the modern Chinese state and religious …
America and the Misshaping of a New World Order
Av Giles Gunn, Carl Gutiérrez-Jones
Häftad, 2010
456 kr
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The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears to have resulted in a catastrophic "misshaping" of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many reverberations …
Hard Work, Hard Times
Global Volatility and African Subjectivities
Av Anne-Maria Makhulu, Beth A. Buggenhagen m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
456 kr
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The description of Africa as a continent in perpetual crisis, ubiquitous in the popular media and in policy and development circles, is at once obvious and obfuscating. This collection by leading ethnographers moves beyond the rhetoric of African crisis to theorize people's everyday practices under …
Dynamics of Regulatory Change
How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies
Av David Vogel, Robert A. Kagan
Häftad, 2004
443 kr
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Critics of globalization claim that economic liberalization leads to a lowering of regulatory standards. As capital and corporations move more freely across national boundaries, a race to the bottom results as governments are forced to weaken labor and environmental standards to retain current …
Politics of Knowledge
Area Studies and the Disciplines
Häftad, 2004
350 kr
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The usefulness and political implications of Area Studies programs are currently debated within the Academy and the Administration, where they are often treated as one homogenous and stagnant domain of scholarship. The essays in this volume document the various fields' distinctive character and …
Mirrors and Echoes
Women’s Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain
Av Emilie L. Bergmann, Richard Herr
Häftad, 2007
493 kr
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Throughout Spain's tumultuous twentieth century, women writers produced a dazzling variety of novels, popular theater, and poetry. Their work both reflected and helped to transform women's gender, family, and public roles, carving out new space in the literary canon. This multilingual collection of …
Zainichi (Koreans in Japan)
Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity
Av John Lie
Häftad, 2008
456 kr
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This book traces the origins and transformations of a people-the Zainichi, or Koreans 'residing in Japan'. Using a wide range of arguments and evidence - historical and comparative, political and social, literary and pop-cultural - John Lie reveals the social and historical conditions that gave …
International Migration and Human Rights
The Global Repercussions of U.S. Policy
Häftad, 2009
457 kr
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In this work, a multidisciplinary group of scholars examines how the actions of the United States as a global leader are worsening pressures on people worldwide to migrate, while simultaneously degrading migrant rights. Uniting such diverse issues as market reform, drug policy, and terrorism under …
Crude Existence
Environment and the Politics of Oil in Northern Angola
Av Kristin Reed
Häftad, 2009
333 kr
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After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. But oil extraction - both on and offshore - is a toxic remedy for the country's economic ills, with devastating effects on both …
Modern Peoplehood
Av John Lie
Häftad, 2011
603 kr
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In modern states, John Lie argues, ideas of race, ethnicity, and nationality can be subsumed under the rubric of "peoplehood." He argues indeed, that the modern state has created the idea of peoplehood. That is, the seemingly primitive, atavistic feelings of belonging associated with ethnic, …
Public Health in East and Southeast Asia
Av Roger Detels, Sheena G. Sullivan m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
603 kr
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Public Health in East and Southeast Asia presents an overview of the state of public health across this vast region and considers the challenges and prospects for its future advancement. It pays particular attention to how rapid economic progress has brought accelerated change, both demographic and …
