Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of contemporary Asia.
The Dynamics of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Amrita Daniere, Hy Van Luong
March 04, 2015
The purpose of this volume is to highlight the impacts on civic engagement of social capital, and its various component parts (trust, norms, networks and associations), in diverse parts of Asia. Addressing the pressing need for improved governance within the spatial, political and cultural ...
The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Ishtiaq Ahmed
March 28, 2014
This book presents comparative country case studies on the politics of religion in South and Southeast Asia, including India, Pakistan and Indonesia. It deals with politicized religious revivals that cannot reasonably be depicted as mere quest for a moral anchor in a world of flux and change....
Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture: Asia in Flight
1st Edition
By Sheng-mei Ma
March 21, 2014
This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples ...
Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Melissa Butcher, Selvaraj Velayutham
February 27, 2014
This book documents urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local capital, technology and labour flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia’s fastest growing cities. Rather than constructing occupants of the city as simply passive victims of ...
The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora: Revisiting the boat people
1st Edition
Edited
By Yuk Wah Chan
February 14, 2014
Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee ...
Child Security in Asia: The Impact of Armed Conflict in Cambodia and Myanmar
1st Edition
By Cecilia Jacob
August 16, 2013
Millions of children around the world are affected by conflict, and the enduring aftermath of war in post-conflict societies. This book reflects on the implications of children’s insecurity for governments and the international humanitarian community by drawing on original field research in ...
Asia and Latin America: Political, Economic and Multilateral Relations
1st Edition
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By Jörn Dosch, Olaf Jacob
April 15, 2013
Until the late 1980s, Japan was the only country in Asia with notable political and economic relations. Since then, however, several Asian nations have perceived growing links with the Latin American region as a means of diversifying their political and particularly economic relations while ...
Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces
1st Edition
Edited
By Tai-Chee Wong, Jonathan Rigg
April 12, 2013
This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase ...
De-Westernizing Communication Research: Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks
1st Edition
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By Georgette Wang
April 12, 2013
The rise of postmodern theories and pluralist thinking has paved the way for multicultural approaches to communication studies and now is the time for decentralization, de-Westernization, and differentiation. This trend is reflected in the increasing number of communication journals with a national...
Soft Power in Japan-China Relations: State, sub-state and non-state relations
1st Edition
By Utpal Vyas
April 12, 2013
Soft power has tended to be overlooked in the field of international relations, often dismissed as lacking relevance or robustness as a theoretical concept. This book seeks to expand upon the idea of ‘soft power’ in international relations and to investigate how it actually functions by looking at ...
Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia: Considering the Other through Ethnonyms, Territories and Rituals
1st Edition
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By Christian Culas, François Robinne
February 15, 2013
South-East Asia is one of the most complex regions in the world as far as ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity is concerned with an extremely rich ancient and contemporary history. Because of this, it offers an exceptionally rich field of study for inter-ethnic relations. This book examines ...
Regional Minorities and Development in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Huhua Cao, Elizabeth Morrell
February 15, 2013
Asia has undergone strong economic growth since the Second World War. However, it also experiences growing economic and regional disparities brought about by this unprecedented development. This economic growth cannot be considered sustainable without taking into consideration the social ...