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Exporting Japanese Aesthetics
Evolution from Tradition to Cool Japan
Av Tets Kimura, Jennifer Harris
Inbunden, 2020
1952 kr
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Exporting Japanese Aesthetics brings together historical and contemporary case studies addressing the evolution of international impacts and influences of Japanese culture and aesthetics. The volume draws on a wide range of examples from a multidisciplinary team of scholars exploring transnational, …
Southeast Asian Migration
People on the Move in Search of Work, Marriage and Refuge
Häftad, 2019
578 kr
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Southeast Asia has long been a crossroad of cultural influence and transnational movement, but the massive migration of Southeast Asians throughout the world in recent decades is historically unprecedented. Dispersal, compelled by economic circumstance, political turmoil, and war, engenders …
Chasing Freedom
The Philippines' Long Journey to Democratic Ambivalence
Av Adele Webb
Inbunden, 2022
1952 kr
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How did Rodrigo Duterte earn the support of large segments of the Philippine middle class, despite imposing arbitrary rule and offering little tolerance for dissent? Has the Filipino middle class, heroes of the 1986 People Power Revolution, given up on democracy?Chasing Freedom tells the story of …
Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals
The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films
Av Tingting Hu
Inbunden, 2021
1896 kr
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This book examines the representation of women in relation to violence in Chinese crime films made on the mainland, and in Hong Kong and Taiwan. It introduces a new trajectory in the investigation of the cinematic representation of female figures in relation to gender issues by interweaving Western …
Christianity and the Chinese in Indonesia
Ethnicity, Education and Enterprise
Häftad, 2023
803 kr
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The field of religions of Indonesia is dominated by the sheer size of the population of Muslims, which represent 87 percent of the Indonesian population. Christians form the second largest religious group and represent the largest concentration of members of minority ethnic groups with 7 percent …
Governance of Islam in Pakistan
An Institutional Study of the Council of Islamic Ideology
Av Sarah Holz
Häftad, 2022
954 kr
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Modern states increasingly seek to regulate religious expression, practice and discourse. This is profoundly evident at many levels of Islamic policy interaction: from debates about the banning of the Muslim face-veil in Europe to civic re-education programmes for Muslim citizens in China. …
Exporting Japanese Aesthetics
Evolution from Tradition to Cool Japan
Av Tets Kimura, Jennifer Harris
Häftad, 2022
750 kr
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Exporting Japanese Aesthetics brings together historical and contemporary case studies addressing the evolution of international impacts and influences of Japanese culture and aesthetics. The volume draws on a wide range of examples from a multidisciplinary team of scholars exploring transnational, …
Domestic Workers in Indonesia
Feminist Activism and a Politics of Presence
Av Mary Austin
Inbunden, 2024
2153 kr
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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.This absorbing study examines the remarkable campaign for domestic worker rights in Indonesia. Drawing on interviews with workers, activists, unionists, journalists, and researchers, Austin provides a compelling …
Queer Mobilities in Indonesia
Religion, Activism, and Everyday Life
Av Wikke Jansen
Häftad, 2027
488 kr
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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.In recent decades, queer individuals and groups in Indonesia have reached unprecedented levels of visibility. Since the colonial era, conceptualizations of gender and sexual diversity have shifted drastically, …
Queer Mobilities in Indonesia
Religion, Activism, and Everyday Life
Av Wikke Jansen
Inbunden, 2025
1896 kr
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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.In recent decades, queer individuals and groups in Indonesia have reached unprecedented levels of visibility. Since the colonial era, conceptualizations of gender and sexual diversity have shifted drastically, …
Fangirls, Youth Political Participation and Nationalism in Contemporary China
Inbunden, 2025
1810 kr
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Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative.This book explores the intersection of pop idol culture, social media, and nationalism in China, focusing on the role of fangirls in the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement in Hong Kong. By examining …
Chinese Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Culture, Politics and Media
Inbunden, 2008
1896 kr
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During Suharto's New Order (1966-1998), the ethnic Chinese expanded Indonesia's economy (and their own wealth) but, paradoxically, were marginalized and discriminated against in all social spheres - culture, language, politics, entrance to state-owned universities, and public service and public …
Han Shan, Chan Buddhism and Gary Snyder's Ecopoetic Way
Häftad, 2009
621 kr
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This book is a comparative study of the ninth-century Chinese poet and recluse Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and Gary Snyder, an American poet and environmental activist. Joan Tan explains how Chan Buddhism has the potential to be recognised as an important voice in contemporary ecopoetry. …
Politics of Dress in Asia and the Americas
Av Mina Roces
Häftad, 2010
652 kr
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This book explores the ways in which dress has been influential in the political agendas and self-representations of politicians in a variety of regimes from democratic to authoritarian. Arguing that dress is part of 'hard core' politics, it shows how dress has been crucial to the constructions of …
Independence of East Timor
Multi-Dimensional Perspectives — Occupation, Resistance, and International Political Activism
Inbunden, 2021
1952 kr
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This book is a history of the struggle for independence after East Timor was invaded by Indonesia in 1975. The occupation, which lasted 24 years, was immediately resisted through guerrilla warfare and clandestine resistance. A continuum of effort between the armed freedom fighters in the mountains, …
China's Rising Global Profile
The Great Power Tradition
Inbunden, 2011
1123 kr
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China is an emerging superpower with growing economic and political interests worldwide that need to be preserved and enhanced. As China becomes economically powerful, it has also become more ambitious and assertive. Its foreign policy strategy is aimed at protecting the country from external …
Chinese Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Culture, Politics and Media
Häftad, 2011
540 kr
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During Suharto's New Order (1966-1998), the ethnic Chinese expanded Indonesia's economy (and their own wealth) but, paradoxically, were marginalized and discriminated against in all social spheres - culture, language, politics, entrance to state-owned universities, and public service and public …
Independence of East Timor
Multi-Dimensional Perspectives — Occupation, Resistance, and International Political Activism
Häftad, 2021
517 kr
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This book is a history of the struggle for independence after East Timor was invaded by Indonesia in 1975. The occupation, which lasted 24 years, was immediately resisted through guerrilla warfare and clandestine resistance. A continuum of effort between the armed freedom fighters in the mountains, …
China's Rising Global Profile
The Great Power Tradition
Häftad, 2011
472 kr
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China is an emerging superpower with growing economic and political interests worldwide that need to be preserved and enhanced. As China becomes economically powerful, it has also become more ambitious and assertive. Its foreign policy strategy is aimed at protecting the country from external …
Heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion in Asia
Inbunden, 2014
1842 kr
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This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and …
Media Events in Web 2.0 China
Interventions of Online Activism
Av Jian Xu
Inbunden, 2015
1896 kr
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This book is among the first to use a "media events" framework to examine China's Internet activism and politics, and the first study of the transformation of China's media events through the parameter of online activism. The author locates the practices of major modes of online activism in China …
Southeast Asian Migration
People on the Move in Search of Work, Marriage and Refuge
Inbunden, 2015
1896 kr
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Southeast Asia has long been a crossroad of cultural influence and transnational movement, but the massive migration of Southeast Asians throughout the world in recent decades is historically unprecedented. Dispersal, compelled by economic circumstance, political turmoil, and war, engenders …
Negotiating Malay Identities in Singapore
The Role of Modern Islam
Inbunden, 2016
1896 kr
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Singapore Malays subscribe to mostly traditional rather than modern interpretations of Islam. Singapore state officials, however, wish to curb the challenges such interpretations bring to the country's political, social, educational and economic domains. Thus, these officials launched a programme …
Heteronormativity, Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion in Asia
Häftad, 2015
578 kr
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This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi, two major cities with substantively different religious and social values: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and …
Dancing the Feminine
Gender and Identity Performances by Indonesian Migrant Women
Häftad, 2016
672 kr
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Migration makes a profound impression on identity (gender and sexuality, culture, class, status), its expressions, and performance. Research in this field has demonstrated that migrant communities often cast women as bearers of cultural reproduction. This is especially the case when women choose to …
Media Events in Web 2.0 China
Interventions of Online Activism
Av Jian Xu
Häftad, 2016
547 kr
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This book is among the first to use a "media events" framework to examine China's Internet activism and politics, and the first study of the transformation of China's media events through the parameter of online activism. The author locates the practices of major modes of online activism in China …
In Women's Words
Violence and Everyday Life During the Indonesian Occupation of East Timor, 1975-1999
Av Hannah Loney
Inbunden, 2018
1952 kr
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Drawing primarily upon oral history interviews, this study presents a woman-centred history of the Indonesian occupation. It reveals the pervasiveness of violence as well as its gendered and gendering dynamics within the social and cultural everyday of life in occupied East Timor. The violence …
Women and Politics in Southeast Asia
Navigating a Mans World
Inbunden, 2018
1896 kr
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This book aims to contribute to the discourse on women and politics in Southeast Asia. The chapters, covering Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Timor-Leste and Singapore, analyse the asymmetrical power relationships between the sexes and how power differentials between men and women play out in …
Thinking Beyond the State
Migration, Integration, and Citizenship in Japan and the Philippines
Häftad, 2018
652 kr
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Human mobility has been a widely examined phenomenon in the social sciences, and in this increasingly globalized world migration continues to be of significant concern. The chapters comprising this volume on Thinking Beyond the State address the need to think beyond prevailing state discourses in …
South China Sea Arbitration
Understanding the Awards and Debating with China
Häftad, 2019
877 kr
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The South China Sea Arbitration, which marks the first time that the Philippines and China have been parties to a compulsory dispute settlement procedure, is a landmark legal case. The Tribunal tackled head-on critical issues in the interpretation and application of the UN Convention on the Law of …
