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  • Contracting Colonialism

    Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule

    by Vicente L. Rafael ...
    In an innovative mix of history, anthropology, and post-colonial theory, Vicente L. Rafael examines the role of language in the religious conversion of the Tagalogs to Catholicism and their subsequent colonization during the early period (1580–1705) of Spanish rule in the Philippines. By tracing this history of communication between Spaniards and Tagalogs, Rafael maps the conditions that made ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Sovereign Trickster

    Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte

    by Vicente L. Rafael ...
    In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Rafael weaves together topics ranging from the drug war, policing, and extrajudicial killings to neoliberal citizenship, intimacy, and photojournalism. He is ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • White Love and Other Events in Filipino History

    by Vicente L. Rafael ...
    Series series American encounters/global interactions
    In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino diaspora in the 1990s. Self-consciously adopting the essay form as a method with which to disrupt epic conceptions of Filipino history, Rafael treats in a condensed and concise manner clusters of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Crown and the Capitalists

    The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation

    by Wasana Wongsurawat, Vicente Rafael, Laurie J. Sears, Charles F. Keyes ...
    Series series Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies
    Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand—or Siam, as it was formerly known—has succeeded in transforming itself into a rival modern nation-state over the last two centuries. Recent historiography has placed progress—or lack thereof—toward Western-style liberal democracy at the center of Thailand’s narrative, but that view underestimates ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Motherless Tongues

    The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation

    by Vicente L. Rafael ...
    In Motherless Tongues, Vicente L. Rafael examines the vexed relationship between language and history gleaned from the workings of translation in the Philippines, the United States, and beyond. Moving across a range of colonial and postcolonial settings, he demonstrates translation's agency in the making and understanding of events. These include nationalist efforts to vernacularize politics, U.S. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Promise of the Foreign

    Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

    by Vicente L. Rafael ...
    In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent origins of the nation by mediating one’s encounter with things foreign while preserving their ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos

    The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Phrae Chittiphalangsri, Vicente L. Rafael ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Comprising 11 countries and hundreds of languages from one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world, the chapters in this collection explore a wide range of translation issues.The subject of this volume is set in the contrasted landscapes of mainland peninsulas and maritime archipelagos in Southeast Asia, which, whilst remaining a largely minor area in Asian studies, harbors a wealth of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Urban Policy in the Framework of the 2030 Agenda

    Balance and Perspectives from Latin America and Europe

    Edited by María Ángeles Huete García, Adrián Rodríguez Miranda, Vicente Ugalde, Rafael Merinero Rodríguez ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book provides comparative information about the materialization of the 2030 Agenda in urban policy in ten countries located in Europe and Latin America. The Declaration of Quito is the starting point for the implementation of SDGs into public policies in urban areas. However, there are fewer efforts to understand the impact that the 2030 Agenda and, specifically, the instruments developed for ... Read more

    $154.19 CAD

  • Living Sharia

    Law and Practice in Malaysia

    by Laurie J. Sears, Vicente Rafael, Charles F. Keyes, Timothy P. Daniels ...
    Series series Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies
    Drawing on ethnographic research, Living Sharia examines the role of sharia in the sociopolitical processes of contemporary Malaysia. The book traces the contested implementation of Islamic family and criminal laws and sharia economics to provide cultural frameworks for understanding sharia among Muslims and non-Muslims. Timothy Daniels explores how the way people think about sharia is often ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Mediating Islam

    Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia

    by Janet Steele, Laurie J. Sears, Vicente Rafael, Charles F. Keyes ...
    Series series Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies
    Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to pluralist cosmopolitans, at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia. At Sabili, established as an underground publication, journalists are hired for their ability at dakwah, or Islamic propagation. At ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The New Way

    Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam

    by Charles F. Keyes, Laurie J. Sears, Vicente Rafael, Tâm T. T. Ngô ...
    Series series Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies
    In the mid-1980s, a radio program with a compelling spiritual message was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnam’s remote northern highlands. The Protestant evangelical communication had been created in the Hmong language by the Far East Broadcasting Company specifically for war refugees in Laos. The Vietnamese Hmong related the content to their traditional expectation of salvation by a ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Imperial Bandits

    Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands

    by Bradley Camp Davis, Charles F. Keyes, Laurie J. Sears, Vicente Rafael ...
    Series series Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies
    The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against other armed migrants and uplands communities for the control of commerce, specifically opium, and natural resources, such as copper. At the edges of three empires (the Qing empire in China, the Vietnamese empire governed by the Nguyen dynasty, and, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD