Asian Culture & Society Products

Edited by Claudia Dolezal, Alexander Trupp, Huong T. Bui

This book analyses the role tourism plays for sustainable development in Southeast Asia. It seeks to assesses tourism’s impact on residents and localities across the region by critically debating and offering new understandings of its dynamics on the global and local levels. Offering a myriad of…

Hardback – 2020-04-13 
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

By Andrew McWilliam

This book presents a rich ethnography of post-conflict social and economic recovery in East Timor following the end of Indonesian military occupation of the territory in 1999. It offers a longer-term analysis of the pathways to rebuilding and restoring local community life, and the budding…

Hardback – 2020-01-23 
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The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia

By Marzia Balzani

This book is a study of the UK-based Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the context of the twentieth-century South Asian diaspora. Originating in late nineteenth-century Punjab, the Ahmadis are today a vibrant international religious movement; they are also a group that has been declared heretic by…

Hardback – 2020-01-15 
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Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series

By Pablo Holwitt

This book interrogates contemporary processes of neoliberal urban renewal in the Global South by studying the model of chawl-redevelopment in Mumbai, India. The model of chawl-redevelopment is used to address questions surrounding contemporary urban renewal. Focusing on attempts to redevelop Mumbai…

Hardback – 2019-12-19 
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By Emily Byrne Curtis

Chinese-Islamic studies have concentrated thus far on the arts of earlier periods with less attention paid to works from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). This book focuses on works of Chinese-Islamic art from the late seventeenth century to the present day and bring to the reader’s attention several…

Hardback – 2019-12-17 
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Routledge Research in Art History

Edited by Poshek Fu, Man-Fung Yip

This book offers an interdisciplinary, historically grounded study of Asian cinemas’ complex responses to the Cold War conflict.　 It situates the global ideological rivalry within regional and local political, social, and cultural processes, while offering a transnational and cross-regional focus.…

Hardback – 2019-12-05
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Edited by Aurel Croissant, Peter Walkenhorst

This book explores the historical origins, contemporary dynamics and future challenges of social cohesion in South, Southeast and East Asia—one of the most dynamic and at the same time heterogeneous regions in the world, in terms of economic, political and human development. The comparative case…

Hardback – 2019-11-27
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Routledge Studies on Comparative Asian Politics

By Miho Ishii

This book investigates the entangled relations between people’s daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on the practices of spirit (būta) worship in the coastal area of Karnataka, it examines the relationship between people and deities. Based on extensive fieldwork, this…

Hardback – 2019-11-13
Routledge
Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies

By Marc Yamada

This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the “lost decades” of Japan’s Heisei period (1989–2019). Presenting original analysis of major Heisei writers, filmmakers, and manga artists, the chapters examine the work of Urasawa Naoki, Kurosawa…

Hardback – 2019-10-31
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Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

By Radha Adhikari

This book offers a fresh perspective on gender debates in Nepal and analyses how the international migration of the first generation of professional female Nepali nurses has been a catalyst for social change. With unprecedented access to study participants in Nepal (the source country),…

Hardback – 2019-10-31
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Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

By Rommel A. Curaming

Examining two state-sponsored history writing projects in Indonesia and the Philippines in the 1970s, this book illuminates the contents and contexts of the two projects and, more importantly, provides a nuanced characterization of the relationship between embodiments of power (state, dictators,…

Hardback – 2019-10-29
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Rethinking Southeast Asia

By Dragan Pavlićević

This book explores non-electoral means of public participation in contemporary China, both as an outcome of and a key contributor to the party-state’s efforts to improve its governing capacity. Examining consultative meetings, public hearings, and the use of surveys and questionnaires in Zhejiang…

Hardback – 2019-10-28
Routledge
Routledge Studies on China in Transition