Critical Asian Studies

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1. Truth and Reconciliation in South Korea

   Between the Present and Future of the Korean Wars

   Edited by Jae-Jung Suh

   Series: Critical Asian Studies

   The Korean War is multiple wars. Not only is it a war that began on 25 June 1950, but it is also a conflict that is rooted in Korea's colonial experiences, postcolonial desires and frustrations, and interventions and partitions imposed by outside forces. In South Korea, the war is a site of...

   Published July 17th 2012 by Routledge
2. Speaking with Pictures

   Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India

   By Roma Chatterji

   Series: Critical Asian Studies

   Speaking with Pictures is a path-breaking exploration of visual narratives in folk art. Instead of talking of the recovery of narrativity in Indian modernism through the idiom of folk art, as art critics sometimes do, this book foregrounds folk art’s engagement with modernity by re-looking at its...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge India
3. Heritage, Nationhood, and Language

   Migrants with Connections to Japan

   Edited by Neriko Doerr

   Series: Critical Asian Studies

   The notion of "heritage" has become one of the global tropes in recent years. At the heart of heritage politics are three questions: what heritage is, who decides what it is, and for whom is the decision made. However, existing work on heritage language has rarely tackled these questions, assuming...

   Published December 2nd 2010 by Routledge
4. Enchantments of Modernity

   Empire, Nation, Globalization

   Edited by Dube Saurabh

   Series: Critical Asian Studies

   The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes of modernity also create their own enchantments in the mapping and making of the modern...

   Published August 12th 2010 by Routledge
5. Beyond Crisis

   Re-evaluating Pakistan

   Edited by Naveeda Khan

   Series: Critical Asian Studies

   Through the essays in this volume, we see how the failure of the state becomes a moment to ruminate on the artificiality of this most modern construct, the failure of nationalism, an opportunity to dream of alternative modes of association, and the failure of sovereignty to consider the threats and...

   Published February 22nd 2010 by Routledge India
6. Shared Histories of Modernity

   China, India and the Ottoman Empire

   Edited by Huricihan Islamoglu, Peter Perdue

   Series: Critical Asian Studies

   While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to transcend the temporal bifurcation of that world history into 'pre-modern' and 'modern', as well as question its geographical split into two...

   Published March 24th 2009 by Routledge India
7. Enchantments of Modernity

   Empire, Nation, Globalization

   By Saurabh Dube

   Series: Critical Asian Studies

   The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernity suggests the disenchantment of the world, yet the processes of modernity also create their own enchantments in the mapping and making of the modern...

   Published December 30th 2008 by Routledge India
8. Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns

   An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India

   By Farhana Ibrahim

   Series: Critical Asian Studies

   This book is an anthropological study located along India’s western border with Pakistan. The core arguments are situated within the context of contemporary religious nationalism, communal strife, and border politics in the Indian state of Gujarat. It seeks to understand how, within these contexts,...

   Published December 30th 2008 by Routledge India
9. The Intimate State

   Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi

   By Perveez Mody

   Series: Critical Asian Studies

   This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation. It bears upon anthropological understandings of marriageability, urban morality, gender, kinship and the study of the...

   Published October 23rd 2008 by Routledge India
10. Living With Violence

    An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life

    By Roma Chatterji, Deepak Mehta

    Series: Critical Asian Studies

    This book gives a detailed account of the ‘communal riots’ between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93. It departs from the historiography of the riot, which assumes that Hindu-Muslim conflict is independent of the participants of the violence. Speaking to and interacting with the residents of...

    Published March 6th 2007 by Routledge India