Public Camp Orders And The Power Of Microstructures In The Thai Burmese Borderland

Author : Annett Bochmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793608963

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Public Camp Orders and the Power of Microstructures in the Thai-Burmese Borderland by Annett Bochmann Pdf

Based on extensive ethnographic field research, Public Camp Orders and the Power of Microstructures in the Thai-Burmese Borderland makes a unique contribution to empirical and theoretical discourses on camp institutions, (forced) migration, and border regimes. Focusing on public camp life, everyday interactions, and the concept of microstructures, this ethnography explores local practices of mobility, governance, and economy in the context of plural and temporary environments.

Author : Akira Shimizu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793618276

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Specialty Food, Market Culture, and Daily Life in Early Modern Japan by Akira Shimizu Pdf

This study is an unique approach to social and cultural history of Japan through the scope of food and food ways. In this book-length study of food markets in the early modern Japanese capital of Edo, Akira Shimizu draws a fascinating picture of early modern Japanese society where specialty foods—seasonal, regional, and hard-to-find delicacies that satisfied the palate of nation’s highest political authority, the shogun—served as a powerful nexus that connected different social groups. In the course of their daily lives, peasants, fisherfolks, and merchants, who made specialty food available at the market, were in constant negotiation with powerful wholesalers and government authorities in charge of procuring specialty foods of the highest qualities for the shogun’s Edo Castle. Utilizing a number of previously unused archival materials that reveals the lives of those at the bottom of the society, the book traces the production, supply, and handling of specialty foods and shows how ordinary people were empowered to assume control over the distribution of specialty food, eventually affecting their procurement for the shogunal kitchen. In doing so, they disrupted the existing market order on the shogunal requisition, and led to the reconfiguration of market relations.

Author : Alice D. Ba,Mark Beeson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137596215

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Contemporary Southeast Asia by Alice D. Ba,Mark Beeson Pdf

At the epicenter of the world's most dynamic economic continent, Southeast Asia provides a window into some of the most important contemporary global developments in politics, and plays a crucial role in determining the wider region's future. The 3rd edition of this highly-acclaimed text provides a comprehensive analysis of Southeast Asia's remarkable variety of political systems, cultures and traditions, which are without exception all undergoing a variety of major changes. Written by a team of leading experts on Southeast Asia, this volume provides an accessible introduction to a region being buffeted by profound internal social transformation and great power confrontation, as well as the continuing challenges of economic development and environmental management. Comprehensive in its analysis and ambitious in scope, this book will be the perfect introduction for students interested in the culture, politics, economy and society of the nations of Southeast Asia.

Author : Mark Beeson
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1403934762

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Contemporary Southeast Asia by Mark Beeson Pdf

BERGER Senior Lecturer in International Studies, University of New South Wales, Australia CHUA BENG HUAT Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore WILLIAM CASE Senior Lecturer, School of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia LORRAINE ELLIOTT Fellow, Department of International Relations, The Australian National University, Australia, and until August 2005, Reader, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK ROBERT ELSON Professor of Southeast Asian History, School of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Classics, University of Queensland, Australia GREG FEALY Research Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and Lecturer, Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Australia GREG FEL KER Assistant Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong VEDI HADIZ Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore RICHARD STUBBS Professor of Political Science, McMaster University, Canada.

Author : Adrian Levy,Cathy Scott-Clark
Publisher : Hachette Digital, Inc.
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0316095583

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The Stone of Heaven by Adrian Levy,Cathy Scott-Clark Pdf

A compelling and richly textured journey to Burma into the heart of Imperial Green Jade, the rare and stunning stone more precious than diamonds, interconnects the modern story of the miners of jadeite who are dying of AIDS because they are being paid in the form of heroin with the mythology and secret history of this unusual jewel that goes back to the Burmese court. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Harriet Evans,Michael Rowlands
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793632746

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Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China by Harriet Evans,Michael Rowlands Pdf

The recent heritage boom in China is transforming local social, economic, and cultural life and reshaping domestic and global notions of China's national identity. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted largely by young anthropologists in China, Grassroots Values and Local Cultural Heritage in China departs from the dominant top-down UNESCO-influenced narrative of cultural heritage preservation and approaches the local not as a fixed definition of place but as a shifting site of negotiation between state, entrepreneurial, transcultural, and local community interests. The volume takes readers along an unusual trajectory between a disadvantaged neighborhood in central Beijing, metropolitan centers in Anhui and Sichuan, Quanzhou in the southeast, and Yunnan in the southwest before finally ending at the great Samye Monastery in Tibet. Across these sites, the contributors converge in apprehending the grassroots as an arena of everyday life and belonging underpinning ordinary social interactions and cultural practices as diverse as funeral rituals, Tibetan Buddhist pilgrimages, and encounters between young contemporary artists and the Bloomsbury Group. In examining the diversity of local cultural practices and knowledge that underpin ideas about cultural value, this volume argues that grassroots cultural beliefs are essential to the liveability and sustainability of life and living heritage.

Author : Jin Suk Bae
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793652614

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Korean Immigrants from Latin America by Jin Suk Bae Pdf

Korean Immigrants from Latin America explores the migration and resettlement experiences of Koreans from Latin America now residing in the New York metropolitan area. It uses interview data from 102 Korean secondary migrants from Latin America to explore the religious, familial, economic, and educational dimensions of their migration and resettlement processes in the U.S. As Korean and Latino immigrants share increasingly close interactions with each other in various urban settings, these Korean remigrants can serve as links between Korean and Spanish speakers as well as liaisons among diverse groups. This book shows a surprising degree of diversity within the seemingly homogenous Korean population in the U.S. and demonstrates the unacknowledged linguistic and cultural differences among them.

Author : Elizabeth Noble Shor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Science
ISBN : UVA:35007004830059

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography by Elizabeth Noble Shor Pdf

Author : Fang Xu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793635327

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Silencing Shanghai by Fang Xu Pdf

Silencing Shanghai investigates the paradoxical and counterintuitive contrast between Shanghai’s emergence as a global city and the marginalization of its native population, captured through the rapid decline of the distinctive Shanghai dialect. From this unique vantage point, Fang Xu tells a story of power relations in a cosmopolitan metropolis closely monitored and shaped by an authoritarian state through policies affecting urban redevelopment, internal migration, and language. These state policies favor the rich, the resourceful, and the highly educated, while alienate the poorer and less educated Shanghainese geographically and linguistically. When the state vigorously promotes Mandarin Chinese through legal and administrative means, Shanghainese made the conscious yet reluctant choice of shifting from the dialect to the national language. At the same time, millions of migrants have little incentive to adopt the vernacular given that their relation to the state has already firmly established their legal, financial, and social standing in the city. The recent shift in the urban linguistic scene that silences the Shanghai dialect is ultimately part of the state-led global city-building process. Through the association of the use of national language with realizing the "China Dream," the state further eliminates the unique vernacular characters of Shanghai.

Author : Anderson Sungmin Yoon,Sung Seek Moon,Haein Son
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793636461

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Understanding Korean Americans’ Mental Health by Anderson Sungmin Yoon,Sung Seek Moon,Haein Son Pdf

The Korean American community is one of the major Asian ethnic subgroups in the United States. Though considered among one of the model minority groups, excelling academically and professionally, members in this community are plagued by unaddressed mental health obstacles. In Understanding Korean Americans’ Mental Health: A Guide to Culturally Competent Practices, Program Developments, and Policies, the editors, Anderson Sungmin Yoon, Sung Seek Moon, and Haein Son, examine a variety of mental health issues in the Korean American community, including depression, suicide, substance abuse, and trauma, and convincingly connect these challenges to cultural stigma and racial prejudice. The editors argue that this population and its mental health needs are neglected by current approaches in mainstream mental health services. Alarmingly, the very cultural values that help make up the Korean American community are contributing to its members’ reluctance to seek care, counting both familial and communal shame among the most pressing culprits. This book supports these claims with statistical realities and seeks to gather the relatively scarce research that does exist on this topic to underscore the heightened prevalence of mental health issues among Korean Americans, and the contributors make recommendations for more culturally competent practices, program developments, and policies.

Author : Edward T. Chang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793645173

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Pachappa Camp by Edward T. Chang Pdf

Through new research and materials, Edward T. Chang proves in Pachappa Camp: The First Koreatown in the United States that Dosan Ahn Chang Ho established the first Koreatown in Riverside, California in early 1905. Chang reveals the story of Pachappa Camp and its roots in the diasporic Korean community's independence movement efforts for their homeland during the early 1900s and in the lives of the residents. Long overlooked by historians, Pachappa Camp studies the creation of Pachappa Camp and its place in Korean and Korean American history, placing Korean Americans in Riverside at the forefront of the Korean American community’s history.

Author : Kyong Yoon Yong Jin,Kyong Yoon,Wonjung Min
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538146972

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Transnational Hallyu by Kyong Yoon Yong Jin,Kyong Yoon,Wonjung Min Pdf

While the influence of Western, Anglophone popular culture has continued in the global cultural market, the Korean cultural industry has substantially developed and globally exported its various cultural products, such as television programs, pop music, video games and films. The global circulation of Korean popular culture is known as the Korean wave, or Hallyu. Given its empirical scope and theoretical contributions, this book will be highly appealing to any scholar or student interested in media globalization and contemporary Asia popular culture. These chapters present the evolution of Hallyu as a transnational process and addresses two distinctive aspects of the recent Hallyu phenomenon - digital technology integration and global reach. This book will be the first monograph to comprehensively and comparatively examine the translational flows of Hallyu through extensive field studies conducted in the US, Canada, Chile, Spain and Germany.

Author : Thomas Nail
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190618674

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Theory of the Border by Thomas Nail Pdf

Despite -- and perhaps because of -- increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the twenty-first century. From the biometric data that divides the smallest aspects of our bodies to the aerial drones that patrol the immense expanse of our domestic and international airspace, we are defined by borders. They can no longer simply be understood as the geographical divisions between nation-states. Today, their form and function has become too complex, too hybrid. What we need now is a theory of the border that can make sense of this hybridity across multiple domains of social life. Rather than viewing borders as the result or outcome of pre-established social entities like states, Thomas Nail reinterprets social history from the perspective of the continual and constitutive movement of the borders that organize and divide society in the first place. Societies and states are the products of bordering, Nail argues, not the other way around. Applying his original movement-oriented theoretical framework "kinopolitics" to several major historical border regimes (fences, walls, cells, and checkpoints), Theory of the Border pioneers a new methodology of "critical limology," that provides fresh tools for the analysis of contemporary border politics.

Author : Sou Hyun Jang,Joong-Hwan Oh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793632111

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Health Disparities in Contemporary Korean Society by Sou Hyun Jang,Joong-Hwan Oh Pdf

This edited volume unveils diverse issues and factors related to health disparities in contemporary Korean Society. It illustrates how economic and social changes unequally impact different subpopulations, including employees, the elderly, children, and immigrants and describes why health policy and intervention is needed now.

Author : Hojeong Lee,Joong-Hwan Oh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793642295

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Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea by Hojeong Lee,Joong-Hwan Oh Pdf

Digital Media, Online Activism, and Social Movements in Korea deepens the current understanding of online activism and its impacts on society by highlighting how various forms of social movements have been mobilized in Korea. Through exploring movements in Korea such as political participation based on SNS, the 2008 U.S. beef protests, and the 2016-2017 candlelight vigils, the contributors study the intersection of digital media platforms, current trends, and social, cultural, and political conditions within Korean society. Using a wide range of events and movements, this book analyzes how people have utilized the development of digital media to facilitate social movements and effect social change.