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Autor:
Ben Tran
Post-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media—all of which were foreign and illegible to their fathers. This new generation of intel
Autor:
Adrian Vickers
Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of the fourth largest country on earth remains relatively unknown. Adrian Vickers'book, first published in 2
Autor:
Christian Gerlach
The world food crisis (1972–1975) gave rise to new development concepts. To eradicate world hunger, small peasants were supposed to use ‘modern'inputs like high-yielding seeds, fertilizer, pesticides and irrigation. This would turn subsistence pr
This book advances a holistic conceptualisation of maritime security, under the term ‘Blue Security', and situates it in states across the Indo-Pacific.The Indo-Pacific encompasses a vast space, incorporating two of the planet's biggest oceans, the
Autor:
Scott Pribble
Pribble investigates the barter economies that developed in many of the labor camps established under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. When the Khmer Rouge abolished currency and markets in 1975, starving Cambodians created underground exchanges in labor
This book critically examines assumptions about age, women, and gender. Amidst all the attention that has been granted to difference and inequality, however uneven and unsatisfactory in terms of class and caste, race and ethnicity, sexuality and gend
Rethinking Community in Myanmar : Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon
Autor:
Judith Beyer
In this first anthropological study of Muslim and Hindu lives in urban Myanmar today, Judith Beyer develops the concept of “we-formation” to demonstrate that individuals are always more than members of wider groups. “We-formation” complements
Autor:
Cheryl Narumi Naruse
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Becoming Global Asia centers Singapore as a crucial site for comprehending the une