Ethnicity Books

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1. The Schooling of Tibetans in China: Making Tibetan Chinese

   By Gerald Postiglione

   The debates over Tibetan cultural autonomy continue without a great deal of attention given to the education system. Never before have so many Tibetans attended school. Before long, most will be at school for six to nine years, and the number going to college and university will increase. What is...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-55239-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Diaspora and Citizenship

   Edited by Claire Sutherland, Elena Barabantseva

   This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship in their country of origin. While the majority of current citizenship debates focus on the challenges and directions in which diasporic and migrant...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59412-7 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict

   Edited by Mahendra Lawoti, Susan Hangen

   Ethnic and nationalist movements surged forward in Nepal after the restoration of democracy in 1990, surprising observers who believed that ethnic harmony prevailed in the country. After the turn of the century, these movements entered a new phase with some groups launching armed rebellions and...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-78097-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Ethnic Minorities in Modern China

   Edited by Colin Mackerras

   Ethnicity in general has become a topic of immense importance and interest in the world since the collapse of the ideological divide between liberal capitalism and communism and since the 2001 attacks in the US intensified the fractures resulting from religious fundamentalism bolstered by ethnic...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57393-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi

   Edited by Daniel Rycroft, Sangeeta Dasgupta

   This volume responds to the need for an inter-disciplinary re-assessment of Tribal studies in postcolonial India. The volume engages in this process by defining a new field of Adivasi studies. As such it prompts a close review of the political and sociological categories of tribal peoples and...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-60082-8 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology

   By Akbar Ahmed

   First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed,...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-61796-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China: Imagined immunity through racialized disease

   By Johanna Hood

   Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-47198-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Ethnicity and Religion: Intersections and Comparisons

   Edited by Joseph Ruane, Jennifer Todd

   Religion has regained political prominence in the twenty first century and not least for the manner in which it intersects with ethnicity. Many ethnic conflicts have a strong religious dimension, and religion appears as a powerful force for mobilisation, solidarity and violence. Religion and...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-60233-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Alterities in Asia: Reflections on Identity and Regionalism

   Edited by Leong Yew

   This book investigates the politics of identity in Asia and explores how different groups of people inside and outside Asia have attempted to relate to the alterity of the places and cultures in the region through various modes (literary and filmic representation, scholarly knowledge, and so on)...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-58750-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism: De-Centering China

    By Elena Barabantseva

    Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The interplay between modernisation programmes and nationalist discourses has shaped China’s national project...

    August 2010 | 978-0-415-57950-6 | Hardback (Routledge)