Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

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1. State Formation and Radical Democracy in India

   By Manali Desai

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Northern Territories, Asia-Pacific Regional Conflicts and the Aland Experience

   Untying the Kurillian Knot

   Edited by Kimie Hara, Geoffrey Jukes

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   This volume is the fruit of an international collaborative study, which considers the Åland islands settlement in northern Europe as a resolution model for the major Asia-Pacific regional conflicts that derived from the post-World War II disposition of Japan, with particular focus on the...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia

   Inheritance of Loss

   By Susan Engel

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   This book explores the history, structure and current operations of the World Bank, which despite being the largest development organisation and the largest development research body in the world with tremendous direct and indirect influence on developing economies, has rarely received the critical...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. Japanese Industrial Governance

   Protectionism and the Licensing State

   Edited by Yul Sohn

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. China on Video

   Smaller-Screen Realities

   By Paola Voci

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media,...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Writing Okinawa

   Narrative acts of identity and resistance

   By Davinder L. Bhowmik

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It provides readings of major authors and texts set against a carefully researched presentation of the region’s political and...

   Published April 16th 2012 by Routledge
7. Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia

   Edited by Nissim Otmazgin, Eyal Ben-Ari

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in...

   Published October 13th 2011 by Routledge
8. Reconciling Indonesia

   Grassroots agency for peace

   Edited by Birgit Bräuchler

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Indonesia has been torn by massive internal conflicts over the last decade. The absence of functioning national tools of reconciliation and the often limited success of an internationally established ‘reconciliation toolkit’ of truth commissions and law enforcement, justice and human rights,...

   Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
9. Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism

   Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor

   By Tim Winter

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a...

   Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge
10. Pirate Modernity

    Delhi's Media Urbanism

    By Ravi Sundaram

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

    Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of the 1990s. As a practice, pirate modernity is...

    Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge