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Politics and Change in Singapore and Hong Kong
Containing Contention
Inbunden, 2009
768 kr
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In democratization theory, Singapore continues to be a remarkable country for its extremely low level of contentious politics despite rapid economic development. In contrast, many different groups in Hong Kong have taken their demands to the streets since the 1970s. Even though there is an obvious …
Conflict in India and China's Contested Borderlands
A Comparative Study
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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For a long time, India and China have been seen as the rising economic giants on the Asiatic mainland. Studies of the conflicts which have plagued the borderlands of India and China however have tended to only analyse individual case studies without attempting to compare and contrast the situation …
Faces of Homelessness in the Asia Pacific
Häftad, 2019
776 kr
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Across the Asia Pacific, there are a vast range of experiences of homelessness and an equally diverse range of responses from state systems. Since understandings of homelessness are also heavily dependent on geographical, cultural, and historical contexts, attitudes towards it as a ‘social problem’ …
Transcontinental Silk Road Strategies
Comparing China, Japan and South Korea in Uzbekistan
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book analyzes initiatives and concepts initiated by China, Japan and South Korea (the Republic of Korea) toward Central Asia to ascertain their impact on regionalism and regional cooperation in Central Asia.Using the case study of Uzbekistan, the book focuses on the formation of the discourse …
Hate Speech in Asia and Europe
Beyond Hate and Fear
Av Myungkoo Kang, Marie-Orange Rivé-Lasan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This edited collection provides a timely review of the current state of hate speech research in Asia and Europe, through the comparative examples of Korea, Japan and France. Extending the study of hate speech studies beyond the largely western emphasis on European and US contexts dominant in the …
Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia
Av Claudia Dolezal, Alexander Trupp m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This book analyses the role tourism plays for sustainable development in Southeast Asia. It seeks to assesses tourism’s impact on residents and localities across the region by critically debating and offering new understandings of its dynamics on the global and local levels. Offering a myriad of …
Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine
Av Céline Coderey, Laurent Pordié
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine, from production of medications in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds, and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance.Chapters analyze the process of …
Climate Change Governance in Asia
Av Kuei-Tien Chou, Koichi Hasegawa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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Asian countries are among the largest contributors to climate change. China, India, Japan and South Korea are among the top ten largest carbon emitters in the world, with South Korea, Japan and Taiwan also some of the largest on a per capita basis. At the same time, many Asian countries, notably …
Energy Transition in East Asia
A Social Science Perspective
Häftad, 2019
776 kr
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The Fukushima disaster of 2011 shook the globe, arousing warm debate and new research within the academic fields of countries in both the West and the East on issues related to nuclear security, public trust, government governance, risk governance and risk perception along with technological and …
Normalization of Violence
Conceptual Analysis and Reflections from Asia
Av Irm Haleem
Inbunden, 2019
1002 kr
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This book offers both a conceptual and an empirical analysis of how violence is normalized. In its conceptual analysis, Irm Haleem offers a framework of explanation that she argues is universal in its narratives, which she submits is premised on moralizing, legalizing, and popularizing violence. …
Protecting the Weak in East Asia
Framing, Mobilisation and Institutionalisation
Av Iwo Amelung, Moritz Bälz m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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This book investigates public claims for the protection of weak groups and interests in Japan and China from the nineteenth century to the present day. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it engages with ongoing global debates relevant to both Western and non-Western societies whilst also …
Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana
Av Naoki Sakai, Jon Solomon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2600 kr
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This book critically analyzes the global hegemony of the United States – a hegemony whose innovative aspect consists in articulating postcoloniality to imperial control – in relation to knowledge and knowledge production.Through targeted case studies on the historical relationship between regional …
Climate Change Governance in Asia
Av Kuei-Tien Chou, Koichi Hasegawa m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
695 kr
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Asian countries are among the largest contributors to climate change. China, India, Japan and South Korea are among the top ten largest carbon emitters in the world, with South Korea, Japan and Taiwan also some of the largest on a per capita basis. At the same time, many Asian countries, notably …
Transnational Civil Society in Asia
The Potential of Grassroots Regionalization
Av Simon Avenell, Akihiro Ogawa
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This edited volume addresses how transnational interactions among civil society actors in Asia and its sub-regions are helping to strengthen common democratic values and transform dominant processes of policymaking and corporate capitalism in the region. The contributors conceive of transnational …
Transnational Civil Society in Asia
The Potential of Grassroots Regionalization
Av Simon Avenell, Akihiro Ogawa
Häftad, 2023
651 kr
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This edited volume addresses how transnational interactions among civil society actors in Asia and its sub-regions are helping to strengthen common democratic values and transform dominant processes of policymaking and corporate capitalism in the region. The contributors conceive of transnational …
Memory, Trauma, Asia
Recall, Affect, and Orientalism in Contemporary Narratives
Av Rahul K. Gairola, Sharanya Jayawickrama
Häftad, 2023
799 kr
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The contributors to this volume re-think established insights of memory and trauma theory and enrich those studies with diverse Asian texts, critically analyzing literary and cultural representations of Asia and its global diasporas. They broaden the scope of memory and trauma studies by examining …
Conflict in India and China's Contested Borderlands
A Comparative Study
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
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For a long time, India and China have been seen as the rising economic giants on the Asiatic mainland. Studies of the conflicts which have plagued the borderlands of India and China however have tended to only analyse individual case studies without attempting to compare and contrast the situation …
Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities
Perspectives from Philosophy and Beyond
Av Benedict S. B. Chan, Victor C. M. Chan
Inbunden, 2021
2454 kr
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This book provides much new thinking on the phenomenon of whole-person education, a phenomenon which features strongly in East Asian universities, and which aims to develop students intellectually, spiritually, and ethically, to master critical thinking skills, to explore ethical challenges in the …
Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities
Perspectives from Philosophy and Beyond
Av Benedict S. B. Chan, Victor C. M. Chan
Häftad, 2023
675 kr
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This book provides much new thinking on the phenomenon of whole-person education, a phenomenon which features strongly in East Asian universities, and which aims to develop students intellectually, spiritually, and ethically, to master critical thinking skills, to explore ethical challenges in the …
Asian Sound Cultures
Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology
Av Iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2600 kr
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This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia.Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the …
Asian Sound Cultures
Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology
Av Iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
671 kr
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This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia.Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the …
Historical Narratives of East Asia in the 21st Century
Overcoming the Politics of National Identity
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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In the twenty-first century, East Asia has been increasingly marked both by tensions at a government level and a chauvinistic mood among the polity. While China’s rise is in one respect the proximate driver of these changes in tone, it draws on a range of unresolved grievances among the respective …
Minorities, Rights and the Law in Malaysia
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This book analyses the mobilisation of race, rights and the law in Malaysia. It examines the Indian community in Malaysia, a quiet minority which consists of the former Indian Tamil plantation labour community and the urban Indian middle-class.The first part of the book explores the role played by …
New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific
Drivers, Dynamics and Consequences
Av Priya Chacko
Häftad, 2019
724 kr
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During the last twenty years, burgeoning transnational trade, investment and production linkages have emerged in the area between the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The appearance of this area of interdependence and interaction and its potential impact on global order has captured the attention of …
Energy Security in Asia and Eurasia
Av Mike M. Mochizuki, Deepa M. Ollapally
Häftad, 2019
716 kr
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Many states appear to have strong sentiment on energy security and energy transit vulnerability. Some analysts see the rapidly increasing demand for energy and competition for energy resources leading to nationalistic energy policies. Others argue that global trends with efficient energy markets …
Political Participation in Asia
Defining and Deploying Political Space
Av Eva Hansson, Meredith L. Weiss
Häftad, 2019
716 kr
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A combination of economic transformation, political transitions and changes in media have substantially, if incrementally, altered the terrain for political participation globally, particularly in Asia, home to several of the most dramatic such shifts over the past two decades.This book explores …
Middle Class, Civil Society and Democracy in Asia
Häftad, 2019
695 kr
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This book offers a timely analysis of the tripartite links between the middle class, civil society and democratic experiences in Northeast and Southeast Asia. It aims to go beyond the two popular theoretical propositions in current democratic theory, which emphasise the bilateral connections …
Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe
Shopping for Allies
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe examines Taiwan’s economic diplomacy towards post-communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. The media, and occasionally academia, have often suggested that Taipei resorts to costly aid, trade and investment diplomacy to facilitate its foreign relations, whilst …
Taiwan's Environmental Struggle
Toward a Green Silicon Island
Av Jack Williams, Ch’ang-yi David Chang
Inbunden, 2008
2525 kr
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Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia’s genuine ‘miracles’ of modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid …
Asian-European Relations
Building Blocks for Global Governance?
Av Jurgen Ruland, Gunter Schubert m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2525 kr
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Interregional Relations are a novel field within international relations which have increasingly been attracting scholarly interest. Thus, over the last five years or so, Interregional Relations has firmly established itself as a research field, initially within political science, and gradually in …
