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  • Thai-Western Mobilities and Migration

    Intimacy within Cross-Border Connections

    Edición de Paul Statham, Sarah Scuzzarello, Sirijit Sunanta, Alexander Trupp ...
    Series series Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
    The chapters in this volume study transnational social relationships and cross-border connections between ‘ordinary’ people that arise from the increasingly large-scale mobilities and migrations between Thailand and ‘the West’. While Thai and Western people’s social relationships are usually studied as personal stories within a cross-border marriage migration perspective, this book considers it ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia

    Edición de Claudia Dolezal, Alexander Trupp, Huong T. Bui ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    This book analyses the role tourism plays for sustainable development in Southeast Asia. It seeks to assesses tourism’s impact on residents and localities across the region by critically debating and offering new understandings of its dynamics on the global and local levels.Offering a myriad of case studies from a range of different countries in the region, this book is interdisciplinary in nature ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Migration, Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand

    Highlanders in the City

    de Alexander Trupp ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asian Diasporas, Migrations and Mobilities
    Visitors to Thailand’s urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products. A high percentage of these vendors are members of the highland ethnic minority group of Akha who have become micro-entrepreneurs or self-employed street vendors. The work and everyday life experiences of these ethnic ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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  • Tourism, Culture and Development

    Hopes, Dreams and Realities in East Indonesia

    de Dr. Stroma Cole ...
    Series Libro 12 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    Can tourism help a poor remote community to develop? How much does tourism change a village? How can a village have the benefits tourism offers without the problems it can cause? These are the questions that lie at the core of this text. Using an anthropologist’s eye and a high degree of trust, this book uncovers the story of tourism development in two small villages on a remote island of Eastern ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • The Intimate Economies of Bangkok

    Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the Global City

    de Ara Wilson ...
    Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of the global economy in this vibrant city.The Intimate Economies of Bangkok is a multifaceted portrait of the intertwining ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Seeds We Planted

    Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School

    de Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    In 1999, Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua was among a group of young educators and parents who founded Hālau Kū Māna, a secondary school that remains one of the only Hawaiian culture-based charter schools in urban Honolulu. The Seeds We Planted tells the story of Hālau Kū Māna against the backdrop of the Hawaiian struggle for self-determination and the U.S. charter school movement, revealing a critical ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Politics of the Temporary: An Ethnography of Migrant Life in Urban Malaysia

    de Parthiban Muniandy ...
    For more than three decades Malaysia's economic growth has been driven in part by the skills and sweat of large numbers of migrant workers. The country has become the temporary home for more than two million documented migrants. Many more than that are undocumented, living precarious lives on the margins of society. In cities like Kuala Lumpur and George Town, workers from Indonesia, Nepal, ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sustainable Tourism in Island Destinations

    de Rachel Dodds, Sonya Graci ...
    Series series Tourism, Environment and Development Series
    Many of the world's islands are dependent on tourism as their main source of income. It is therefore imperative that these destinations are managed for long-term viability. The natural appeal of a destination is typically one of its main tourism related assets, yet the natural environment is also the feature most directly threatened by potential overexploitation.Sustainable Tourism in Island ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Bangkok

    Place, Practice and Representation

    de Marc Askew ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
    Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. It is a city of contradictions, both in its present and past. This unique book examines the development of the city from its earliest days as the seat of the Thai monarchy to its current position as an infamous contemporary metropolis. Adopting insights from anthropology, urban studies and human geography, ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Tourism and Indigenous Peoples

    de Richard Butler, Tom Hinch ...
    Tourism and Indigenous Peoples is a unique text examining the role of indigenous societies in tourism and how they interact within the tourism nexus. Unlike other publications, this text focuses on the active role that indigenous peoples take in the industry, and uses international case studies and experiences to provide a global context to illustrate best practice and aid comparison. First ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Asian Tourism: Growth and Change

    Edición de Janet Cochrane ...
    Tourism in Asia is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, driven by the increasing wealth of countries like Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia, and by the huge populations of China, India and Indonesia -the first second and fourth biggest countries in the works. Despite the significance of the tourism industry in this area it is still under researched. Asian Tourism is a unique book and the ... Leer más

    $224.99 USD

  • World Heritage

    Benefits Beyond Borders

    Edición de Amareswar Galla ...
    Published on the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, this thematic collection of case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage sites and their Outstanding Universal Value in the context of sustainable development. The case studies describe twenty-six thematically, typologically and regionally diverse World Heritage sites illustrating their benefits to local ... Leer más

    $50.99 USD