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Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia
Essays in Honour of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas
Av Riaz Hassan
Häftad, 2004
2322 kr
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Globalization, modernization and colonialism have played a pivotal role in the social transformation of Southeast Asian societies. The essays in this volume examine three aspects of this transformation: social change and development, the role of intellectuals, religion and cultural values. The …
Work Stress and Coping Among Professionals
Häftad, 2007
2143 kr
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While aspiring to escape from the drudgery and alienation which seem to be the fate of manual workers, professionals have long realized to their distress that their professionalism and work commitment by no means reduce the stressfulness of their work. Such an awareness of the impact of work on …
Converting Cultures
Religion, Ideology and Transformations of Modernity
Av Dennis Washburn, Kevin Reinhart
Häftad, 2007
3652 kr
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This volume fundamentally improves our understanding of processes like the secularization of society, and the growth of mass ideological movements, by looking upon these transformations to modernity as a species of conversion akin to religious conversion. The geographical areas covered by the …
East Meets West
Civilizational Encounters and the Spirit of Capitalism in East Asia
Av Kyong-Dong Kim, Hyun-Chin Lim
Häftad, 2007
2019 kr
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Over the past few decades, East Asia developments in terms of production, population and trade have shown remarkable dynamics. Ensuing changes in these regions of non-Western civilization are commonly interpreted in terms of a successful adaptation of modernity. However, experiences such as the …
Cinema and Television in Singapore
Resistance in One Dimension
Av Kenneth Tan
Häftad, 2008
2544 kr
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Through close readings of contemporary made-in-Singapore films (by Jack Neo, Eric Khoo, and Royston Tan) and television programs (Singapore Idol, sitcoms, and dramas), this book explores the possibilities and limitations of resistance within an advanced capitalist-industrial society whose …
Science, War and Imperialism
India in the Second World War
Häftad, 2008
2276 kr
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Why could not the Second World War catalyse science in India as it did in the West? This is one of the central questions of this volume on the British policy towards science and technology in India. Its focus is on education, research, innovation and organisation of science in such sectors as …
Imagining the Good Life
Negotiating Culture and Development in Nepal Himalaya
Häftad, 2008
2048 kr
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This is a book of great originality that analyses cultural change and experience of development in terms of the pursuit of the ‘good life’ as a social process. While recent anthropological critiques of development highlight the importance of ‘local knowledge’, this book argues that these critiques …
Overcoming Passion for Race in Malaysia Cultural Studies
Häftad, 2008
2048 kr
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Overcoming Passion examines the passion for race in contemporary Malaysia. Broadly the essays look at the disjunction between the falsity of race as a scientific category and the entrenched belief that race determines one's rightful identity. They probe the ways in which individual minds and …
New "Temples" of India
Singapore and India Collaboration in Information Technology Parks
Häftad, 2008
2048 kr
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After 1991, India after decades of stifling its own economic growth, has reformed its economy and has implemented its Look East policy to enhance its economic, business and trade linkages with East Asian economies. At the same time, Singapore has reached its own domestic limits to economic growth …
Reconsidering Islam in a South Asian Context
Häftad, 2009
2713 kr
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Despite late reconsideration, a dominant paradigm rooted in Orientalist essentialisations of Islam as statically ‘legalistic’ and Muslims as uniformly ‘transgressive’ when local customs are engaged, continues to distort perspectives of South Asia's past and present. This has led to …
Intellectual Property Regime Evolution in China and India
Technological, Political and Social Drivers of Change
Häftad, 2010
2208 kr
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What is behind the changing attitudes towards intellectual property in India and China? This exploration of empirically-based research comparisons on the character of intellectual property systems found in these two countries, offers answers to three key questions: what are the drivers that have …
Cultural Commodities in Japanese Rural Revitalization
Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware and Tsugaru Shamisen
Häftad, 2010
1890 kr
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The fate of local places increasingly rests on their capability to capitalize on their highly specific local cultural resources. Cultural Commodities in Japanese Rural Revitalization: Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware and Tsugaru Shamisen examines the dynamics of this reality for the Tsugaru District of the …
School Music Education and Social Change in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Av Wai-chung Ho
Häftad, 2010
1927 kr
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This book examines recent reforms and innovations in school music education within the changing societies of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. These three regions share a common historical culture but have had diverse socio-political experiences. Whilst some musical knowledge is common to all …
Migration and Social Upheaval as the Face of Globalization in Central Asia
Häftad, 2013
2706 kr
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Since the start of the 1990s, Central Asia has been the main purveyor of migrants in the post-Soviet space. These massive migrations due to social upheavals over the last twenty years impact issues of governance; patterns of social adaptation; individual and collective identities; and gender …
Faith in the Future
Understanding the Revitalization of Religions and Cultural Traditions in Asia
Häftad, 2012
2209 kr
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Revitalization of religious and cultural traditions is taking place in nearly all contemporary Asian societies, as is shown in Faith in the Future: Understanding the Revitalization of Religions and Cultural Traditions in Asia. Revitalization is not unique to Asia, it is one of the most significant …
Renunciation and Empowerment of Buddhist Nuns in Myanmar-Burma
Building A Community of Female Faithful
Häftad, 2013
1915 kr
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Myanmar-Burma has one of the largest concentrations of Buddhist nuns and monks in the world today. In Renunciation and Empowerment of Buddhist Nuns in Myanmar-Burma, Kawanami traces the nun's scholarly lineage in modern Myanmar history and examines their contemporary religious position in Myanmar’s …
Asia in the Making of Christianity
Conversion, Agency, and Indigeneity, 1600s to the Present
Häftad, 2013
2544 kr
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Drawing on first person accounts, Asia in the Making of Christianity studies conversion in the lives of Christians throughout Asia, past and present. Fifteen contributors treat perennial questions about conversion: continuity and discontinuity, conversion and communal conflict, and the politics of …
Embedded Entrepreneurship: Market, Culture, and Micro-Business in Insular Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2013
2136 kr
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Embedded Entrepreneurship examines the importance of cultural meaning in the creation and utilization of economic value. Based on case-studies from Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, the authors demonstrate that micro-scale entrepreneurship is intertwined with prevailing conceptions, …
Chinese Activism of a Different Kind
The Chinese Students' Campaign to Stay in Australia
Av Gao Jia
Häftad, 2013
1905 kr
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In Chinese Activism of a Different Kind, Jia Gao examines the social behavior and patterns of actions of 45,000 or so Chinese students as they fought to obtain the right to stay permanently in Australia after the June 4 'Tiananmen Square' incident of 1989.In a time of relative Internet infancy …
Promising Practices: Women Volunteers in Contemporary Japanese Religious Civil Society
Häftad, 2015
2088 kr
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Based upon a survey of five faith-based volunteer groups, Promising Practices offers valuable insights and fresh perspectives into the ways women’s participation in religious civic organizations may work as a gateway toward participatory democracy. By approaching women’s faith-based volunteering as …
Migration as Transnational Leisure
The Japanese Lifestyle Migrants in Australia
Av Jun Nagatomo
Häftad, 2014
1944 kr
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In Migration as Transnational Leisure: The Japanese Lifestyle Migrants in Australia Jun Nagatomo discusses a new type of migration in which “lifestyle” is at the core of middle class aspirations to migrate. Traditionally, international migration has been commonly seen as resulting from economic, …
Religion, Place and Modernity
Spatial Articulations in Southeast Asia and East Asia
Häftad, 2016
2221 kr
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Using the potential of place as an approach and of places as ethnographic contexts, the authors in this volume investigate the multiple entanglements of ‘religion’ and ‘modernity’ in contemporary settings. The guiding questions of such an approach are: How are modernity and religion spatially …
Detention Camps in Asia
The Conditions of Confinement in Modern Asian History
Av Robert Cribb
Inbunden, 2022
2209 kr
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Why have Asian states – colonial and independent – imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps? How have detainees experienced the long months and years of captivity? And what does the creation of camps and the segregation of people in them mean for society as a whole? This ambitious …
Coastal Urbanities
Mobilities, Meanings, Manoeuvrings
Inbunden, 2022
1769 kr
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This volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast Asia. Drawing inspiration from case studies spanning Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and New Caledonia, the volume rethinks the place of the sea …
Rural Life in Late Socialism
Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future
Av Phill Wilcox
Inbunden, 2023
1436 kr
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China, Laos, and Vietnam are three of a handful of late socialist countries where capitalist economics rubs up against party-state politics. In these countries, sweeping processes of change open up new vistas of opportunity and imaginaries of the future alongside much uncertainty and anxiety, …
