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  • Trans-Himalayan Borderlands

    Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities

    par Dan Smyer Yu ...
    Collections series Asian Borderlands
    The societies in the Himalayan borderlands have undergone wide-ranging transformations, as the territorial reconfiguration of modern nation-states since the mid-twentieth century and the presently increasing trans-Himalayan movements of people, goods and capital, reshape the livelihoods of communities, pulling them into global trends of modernisation and regional discourses of national belonging. ... En savoir plus

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  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

    par James C. Scott ...
    For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • The China Questions

    Critical Insights into a Rising Power

    Modifié par Jennifer Rudolph, Michael Szonyi ...
    “Cuts through the cacophony of information, misinformation, and nonsense on China that circulates in our modern world to give us reliable answers to crucial questions… Should be on the shelf of anyone seeking to understand this fast-rising superpower.”—Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of ChinaAfter years of isolation, China is now center stage as an economic and global power, but its rise has ... En savoir plus

    $24.89 CAD

  • In the Shadows of the State

    Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India

    par Alpa Shah ...
    In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Taming Tibet

    Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development

    par Emily Yeh ...
    The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans' apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of development. In Taming Tibet, Emily T. Yeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights

    Intersections in Theory and Practice

    Modifié par Michele Langfield, William Logan, Mairead Nic Craith ...
    Collections series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    This theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights.It is the first publication to address the notions of cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights in one volume. Heritage provides the basis of humanity’s rich ... En savoir plus

    $98.99 CAD

  • Truly Human

    Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence on Formosa

    par Scott E. Simon ...
    Collections series Anthropological Horizons
    The Sediq and Truku Indigenous peoples on the mountainous island of Formosa – today called Taiwan – say that their ancestors emerged in the beginning of time from Pusu Qhuni, a tree-covered boulder in the highlands. Living in the mountain forests, they observed the sacred law of Gaya, seeking equilibrium with other humans, the spirits, animals, and plants. They developed a politics in which each ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia

    Modifié par Lu Zhouxiang ...
    This handbook presents a comprehensive survey of the formation and transformation of nationalism in 15 East and Southeast Asian countries.Written by a team of international scholars from different backgrounds and disciplines, this volume offers new perspectives on studying Asian history, society, culture, and politics, and provides readers with a unique lens through which to better contextualise ... En savoir plus

    $100.99 CAD

  • Subaltern Movements in India

    Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development

    par Manisha Desai ...
    Collections series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies.Based on extensive field research, this book examines the reasons for the three social movements succeess. It ... En savoir plus

    $97.99 CAD

  • Struggle Against the State

    Social Network and Protest Mobilization in India

    par Ashok Swain ...
    Many developing countries pursue policies of rapid industrialization in order to achieve faster economic growth. Some policies cause displacement forcing many individuals to take up a fight against the state. Interestingly some of these dissenting individuals are more successful in organizing their protests than others. In this book, Ashok Swain demonstrates how displaced people mobilize to ... En savoir plus

    $73.99 CAD

  • In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

    The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border

    par Tenzin Jinba ...
    Collections series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient “queendom” on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in classical Chinese texts, this legendary matriarchal domain has attracted not only tourists but the vigilance of the Chinese state. Tenzin Jinba’s research examines the consequences ... En savoir plus

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  • Mapping Shangrila

    Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

    par Ralph A. Litzinger ...
    Collections series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila—a place that previously had existed only in fiction—had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism ... En savoir plus

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