Area Studies at the Crossroads, Katja Mielke; Anna-Katharina Hornidge

Автор: Gottdiener Mark, Budd Leslie, Lehtovuori Panu
Название: Key Concepts in Urban Studies
ISBN: 1849201986 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849201988
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: A long awaited, fully-revised edition of this popular, inter-disciplinary student guide to urban studies.

Автор: Hoskins Janet
Название: Transpacific Studies
ISBN: 0824839943 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824839949
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Pacific has long been a space of conquest, exploration, fantasy, and resistance. Pacific Islanders had established civilisations and cultures of travel well before European explorers arrived, initiating centuries of upheaval and transformation. The twentieth century, with its various wars fought in and over the Pacific, is only the most recent era to witness military strife and economic competition. While “Asia Pacific” and “Pacific Rim” were late twentieth-century terms that dealt with the importance of the Pacific to the economic, political, and cultural arrangements that span Asia and the Americas, a new term has arisen—the transpacific. In the twenty-first century, U.S. efforts to dominate the ocean are symbolized not only in the “Pacific pivot” of American policy but also the development of a Transpacific Partnership. This partnership brings together a dozen countries—not including China—in a trade pact whose aim is to cement U.S. influence. That pact signals how the transpacific, up to now an academic term, has reached mass consciousness.Recognising the increasing importance of the transpacific as a word and concept, this anthology proposes a framework for transpacific studies that examines the flows of culture, capital, ideas, and labour across the Pacific. These flows involve Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands. The introduction to the anthology by its editors, Janet Hoskins and Viet Thanh Nguyen, consider the advantages and limitations of models found in Asian studies, American studies, and Asian American studies for dealing with these flows. The editors argue that transpacific studies can draw from all three in order to provide a critical model for considering the geopolitical struggle over the Pacific, with its attendant possibilities for inequality and exploitation. Transpacific studies also sheds light on the cultural and political movements, artistic works, and ideas that have arisen to contest state, corporate, and military ambitions. In sum, the transpacific as a concept illuminates how flows across the Pacific can be harnessed for purposes of both domination and resistance.The anthology’s contributors include geographers (Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Weiqiang Lin), sociologists (Yen Le Espiritu, Hung Cam Thai), literary critics (John Carlos Rowe, J. Francisco Benitez, Yunte Huang, Viet Thanh Nguyen), and anthropologists (Xiang Biao, Heonik Kwon, Nancy Lutkehaus, Janet Hoskins), as well as a historian (Laurie J. Sears), and a film scholar (Akira Lippit). Together these contributors demonstrate how a transpacific model can be deployed across multiple disciplines and from varied locations, with scholars working from the United States, Singapore, Japan and England. Topics include the Cold War, the Chinese state, U.S. imperialism, diasporic and refugee cultures and economies, national cinemas, transpacific art, and the view of the transpacific from Asia. These varied topics are a result of the anthology’s purpose in bringing scholars into conversation and illuminating how location influences the perception of the transpacific. But regardless of the individual view, what the essays gathered here collectively demonstrate is the energy, excitement, and insight that can be generated from within a transpacific framework.

Название: Indian Ocean Studies
ISBN: 0415648475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415648479
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Famously referred to as the "cradle of globalization," the Indian Ocean has received increasing attention from scholars. However, few have examined the `human` dimensions of the ocean. In this volume, historians, geographers, anthropologists and literary analysts each address a specific human factor in Indian Ocean exchanges.

Автор: Borras Jr.
Название: Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies
ISBN: 0415591775 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415591775
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book is a collection of essays on key perspectives, frameworks and methodologies in critical rural development studies, with contributions from leading scholars in the field. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Автор: Juergensmeyer Mark
Название: Thinking Globally: A Global Studies Reader
ISBN: 0520278445 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520278448
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In this accessible text, Mark Juergensmeyer, a pioneer in global studies, provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of global studies from regional, topical, and theoretical perspectives. Each of the twenty compact chapters in Thinking Globally features Juergensmeyer's own lucid introduction to the key topics and offers brief excerpts from major writers in those areas. The chapters explore the history of globalization in each region of the world, from Africa and the Middle East to Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and cover key issues in today's global era, such as:
- Challenges of the global economy
- Fading of the nation-state
- Emerging nationalisms and transnational ideologies
- Hidden economies of sex trafficking and the illegal drug trade
- New communications media
- Environmental crises
- Human rights abuses
Thinking Globally is the perfect introduction to global studies for students, and an exceptional resource for anyone interested in learning more about this new area of study.