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Author : Zaheer Baber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004146259
This book provides a critical analysis of the social consequences of the Internet in Asia. The papers discuss a wide variety of issues and domains, ranging from the economy and politics to interpersonal relations.
Author : Jolie A. Sheffer
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781643360324
Among the most trenchant and provocative writers of globalization, Karen Tei Yamashita is one of the most significant, ambitious, and widely taught Asian American writers today. In four genre-bending novels, a short story collection/travel essay collage, a family memoir, and more than a dozen performance/theater works, Yamashita weaves together postmodernism, magical realism, history, social protest, and a wicked sense of humor. Her fictions challenge familiar literary tropes, especially those expected of "multicultural writers," such as the now-clichéd conflict between first-generation immigrants and their American-born children. Instead her canvas is global, conjuring the unexpected intimacies and distances created by international capitalism, as people and goods traverse continents in asymmetrical circuits. Highlighting the connections between neoliberal economic policies, environmental devastation and climate change, anti-immigrant rhetoric, urban gentrification, and other issues that disproportionately affect historically underinvested and minority communities, Yamashita brings a uniquely transnational perspective to her portrayal of distinctly American preoccupations. Sheffer gives readers a concise introduction to Yamashita's life, provides lucid analysis of key motifs, and synthesizes major research on her work. Each chapter offers, in accessible prose, original interpretations of essential works and stages in her career: her Brazil-Japan migration trilogy comprising Brazil-Maru, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, and Circle K Cycles; the magical realist revision of the Los Angeles riots in Tropic of Orange; her historical magnum opus about Asian American activism in the long 1960s, I Hotel; her understudied theatrical and performance works collected in Anime Wong; and her recent familial memoir about Japanese American internment during World War II, Letters to Memory. In short the volume serves as both a lucid introduction to a challenging author and a valuable resource for students and scholars.
Author : Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781566893404
Giant foam rubber sushi and cyborg kungfu fighters populate performances that reflect questions of gender, identity, orientalism, and racial politics.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philippines
ISBN : UOM:39015086916601
Author : Hassan, Robert
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335213153
What is the network society? What effects does it have upon media, culture and politics? What are the competing forces in the network society, and how are they reshaping the world? The rise of the network society - the suffusion of much of the economy, culture and society with digital interconnectivity - is a development of immense significance. In this innovative book, Robert Hassan unpacks the dynamics of this new information order and shows how they have affected both the way media and politics are 'played', and how these are set to reshape and reorder our world. Using many of the current ideas in media theory, cultural studies and the politics of the newly evolving 'networked civil society', Hassan argues that the network society is steeped with contradictions and in a state of deep flux. This is a key text for undergraduate students in media studies, politics, cultural studies and sociology, and will be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand the network society and play a part in shaping it.
Author : Bert B. Tussing,Robert McCreight
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781466595699
The application of our Armed Forces within the states and territories of the United States is far from intuitive. The challenges of defending the country against assaults within the homeland are much more complex than engaging our enemies on foreign soil. Likewise, the introduction of the military‘s appreciable capabilities in response to disasters
Author : Sungsup Ra,Shanti Jagannathan,Rupert Maclean
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811609831
This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies. The book is a testimonial to the importance of ‘learning communities.’ It highlights the pivotal role that can be played by non-traditional actors such as city and urban planners, citizens, transport professionals, and technology companies. This collection seeks to contribute to the discourse on strengthening the fabric of a learning society crucial for future economic and social development, particularly in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease.
Author : Hon Seng Teh
Publisher : Puc Founder (M)
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015061121961
Author : Eva Kit-Wah Man
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Asia
ISBN : 303430093X
This book is a collection of selected essays presented at the International Symposium on «Contemporary Asian Modernities: Transnationality, Interculturality and Hybridity» hosted by the Humanities Programme of Hong Kong Baptist University in September 2006. As «modernity» has been used to describe the cultural, economic and socio-political conditions in the Western worlds, the time in which we now live and the Asian countries where capitalistic transformation is extensively carried out are already articulating their own descriptions. The essays collected here discuss the notions of «contemporary», «Asia» and «modernities» as they relate to the global trend of adopting capitalism. They probe into questions related to modernity as well as global modernity, ranging from China in particular to Asia in general. As reflected in the pluriversal meanings in the title, the book endeavours to make critical inquiries into the concept of modernity/modernities from different perspectives.
Author : Metaxiotis, Kostas,Carrillo, Francisco Javier,Yigitcanlar, Tan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781615207220
"This book presents a better knowledge and understanding of applying knowledge-based development policies, contributing to the theorizing of knowledge-based development and creation of knowledge societies"--Provided by publisher.
Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824874056
Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers, and are taught not only in the United States but in at least half a dozen countries in Asia, South America, and Europe. Her work has been written about in numerous disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory is the first anthology given over to Yamashita’s writing. It contains newly commissioned essays by established, international scholars; a recent interview with the author; a semiautobiographical keynote address delivered at an international conference that ruminates on her Japanese American heritage; and a full bibliography. The essays offer fresh and in-depth readings of the magic realist canvas of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990); the Japanese emigrant portraiture of Brazil-Maru (1992); Los Angeles as rambunctious geopolitical and transnational fulcrum of the Americas in Tropic of Orange (1997); the fraught relationship of Japanese and Brazilian heritage and labor in Circle K Cycles (2001); Asian American history and politics of the 1960s in I Hotel (2010); and Anime Wong (2014), a gallery of performativity illustrating the contested and inextricable nature of East and West. This essay-collection explores Yamashita’s use of the fantastical, the play of emerging transnational ethnicity, and the narrative tactics of reflexivity and bricolage in storytelling located on a continuum of the unique and the communal, of the past and the present, and that are mapped in various spatial and virtual realities.
Author : Zaheer Baber,Joseph M. Bryant
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739140383
This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new generation of sociologists. The essays presented here address a wide range of topics that include classical sociological theory, globalization, bureaucracy, genocide, resistance, ethnic diversity, the intifada, anti-Semitism, democracy, geopolitical theory, war literature, science, and national culture. The contributions span a wide range of geographical areas that include Korea, China, India, Poland, Spain, Germany, the ex-Soviet Union, Canada, and the United States. These essays by eminent scholars located in many parts of the world affirm the incredibly broad range of expertise and learning that Irving M. Zeitlin's work has engaged with. The contributions to this volume also serve to highlight the contemporary relevance of the classical sociological tradition in making sense of the global human condition.
Author : Michael Curtin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520251342
Delineates the globalizing pressures and opportunities that have dramatically transformed the terrain of Chinese film and television, including the end of the cold war, the rise of the World Trade Organization, and the escalation of democracy movements. This book examines the prospect of a global Chinese audience.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004211032
The Age of Knowledge emphasizes that the ongoing transformations of knowledge, both within universities and for society more generally, must be understood as a reflection of the larger changes in the constitutive social structures within which they are invariably produced, translated and reproduced.
Author : Francis Khek Gee Lim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047440741
Combining wide-ranging empirical investigations and sophisticated theoretical reflections, this book offers a comprehensive analysis on the interactions between religion and technology, thereby elucidating the complex relationships between spirituality, social and identity formation, sovereignty and power.