Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
Monash University Publishing Maskulinitas: Culture, Gender and Politics in
Book SynopsisA timely addition to the generally conservative field of scholarship on gender in Southeast Asia, Maskulinitas demonstrates that gender studies needs to encompass the man question, especially considering Indonesia''s strongly patriarchal society, where the norms of feminine subordination and submission are legitimised by the ideologies of the state and the strictures of religion. Ultimately, this book challenges us with the notion that if the subordinate status of Indonesian women is to be highlighted and some sort of gender equality achieved, then the representations, subjectivities and practices of Indonesian men must be addressed.
£17.99
Caitlin Press Old Lives: In the Chilcotin Backcountry
Book SynopsisSet in the wild country north of Lillooet and west of the great Fraser River, "Old Lives" paints the rugged landscape and equally rugged lives of the Chilcotin''s enigmatic old-timers: aboriginal and settler, male and female, deceased and alive. It takes vigilance, persistence, courage and humour to live where survival requires a deep knowledge and trust of the land, where prosperity is synonymous with self-sufficiency and where thriving is dependent upon a community of neighbours and friends who can be counted on in the direst of times. In his second collection of Chilcotin stories, John Schreiber unveils an urban life that continues to encroach upon the BC Interior, and as it does, the old ways disappear; traditional knowledge and skills are forgotten, and the legends fade into myth. This is a book that acknowledges and honours the region''s backcountry elders, their way of life and the wild liveliness of the great Chilcotin land where they have existed for centuries.
£13.49
NeWest Press Wild Daisies in the Sand: Life in a Canadian
Book SynopsisWild Daisies in the Sand is a series of diary entries beginning in 1941, when the author was imprisoned in concentration camps, first in Petawawa and then Angler, Ontarioa young Japanese Canadian, like many others, deemed dangerous by the Canadian government because of his race.
£14.39
Monash University Publishing Asia Pacific Education: Diversity, Challenges and
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£30.59
Monash University Publishing Human Rights and Human Wrongs: A Life Confronting
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£21.59
Monash University Publishing John Darling: An Australian Filmmaker in Bali
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£24.29
Monash University Publishing Talking North: The Journey of Australia's First
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£21.59
Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Walking in the Woods: A Métis Memoir
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£20.69
Fitness Information Technology, Inc, U.S. Racism in College Athletics
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£50.14
Tin House Books Six Walks
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£19.51
Oratia Media Toku Whanau Rerehua: My Beautiful Family
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£16.19
Transcript Verlag Urban Life-Worlds in Motion: African Perspectives
Book SynopsisUrban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particularly to Africa, where cities have the highest growth rates world-wide and where the urban population is younger than anywhere else. Urban life-worlds are the basis for the development of new lifestyles and new cultural phenomena. Based on empirical ethnographic research, this book presents case studies that enhance our understanding of the dynamics of urbanity in Africa and beyond - by envisioning cities as crossroads where cultures, biographies and networks meet.
£33.29
Transcript Verlag Cool Istanbul: Urban Enclosures and Resistances
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the "cool city" phenomenon with an empirical focus on Istanbul. The book approaches "cool Istanbul" not only as a consumable brand but also as a socially produced and politically performed phenomenon. The contributions draw attention to the significance of thinking production, consumption and performance of cities in relation to their imagination, and trigger critical questions beyond disciplinary academic boundaries.
£28.89
Transcript Verlag Ethnicity as a Political Resource:
Book SynopsisHow is ethnicity viewed by scholars of different academic disciplines? Can its emergences be compared in various regions of the world? How can it be conceptualized with specific reference to distinct historical periods? This book shows in a uniquely and innovative way the broad range of approaches to the political uses of ethnicity, both in contemporary settings and from a historical perspective. Its scope is multidisciplinary and spans across the globe. It is a suitable resource for teaching material. With its short contributions, it conveys central points of how to understand and analyze ethnicity as a political resource.Trade ReviewBesprochen in: Sociologus, 66/2 (2016), Reinhard Kößler
£33.14
Transcript Verlag Power Relations in Black Lives – Reading African
Book SynopsisAccording to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new readings of power asymmetries as represented in works of canonical and contemporary black writers (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead), rap music (e.g., Jay Z), images of black homelessness, and figurations of political activism (civil rights activist Bayard Rustin,
£33.74
Transcript Verlag Fragments of Solidarity: An Ethnography of an
Book SynopsisHow is solidarity understood by the people who practice it actively and daily? What is the role of solidarity in reconciling the relationship of individuals with the collective demands of communities that fight for the rights of others? Based on a variety of anthropological, sociological, and philosophical writings as well as ethnographic research, Maria Giannoula takes an elaborated look at the emotional and spiritual aspects of political participation within an activist group in Greece in the 2010s. This study is a valuable resource for those researching social movements and alternative communities, focusing on the ways in which individuals organise their own forms of activism.
£40.00
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Ethnic Belonging, Gender, and Cultural Practices
Book SynopsisHow are youth cultural identities rooted in gender, ethnicity and place? What resources do young people from ethnic minorities use in creating their cultural identities? Drawing upon interdisciplinary research, Ulrike Ziemer's case study demonstrates the different ways in which young people from ethnic minorities respond to the social, political, and cultural transformations of post-Soviet Russia and provides a detailed analysis of how local vs. global relations are experienced outside the West. Relying on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Ziemer explores the complex processes of identity formation and cultural experiences among young Armenians in Krasnodar krai and young Adyghs in the Republic of Adyghea. Both ethnic groups, Armenians and Adyghs, have a minority status in Russia, yet Adyghs are indigenous to the region while Armenians constitute a diaspora people. Ulrike Ziemer is the first to examine specifically Armenian and Adygh youth identities in the context of everyday life experiences in post-Soviet Russia.Trade Review"This is a very valuable contribution to the growing stock of literature on Russian youth. [...] the well-designed comparative setting and a skilful exploitation and analysis of the ethnographic data makes this book an extremely timely and interesting account of the construction of identity of Russian youth. It will be of interest to specialists in that field and everyone interested in the way the new generation in Russia actually experiences the much debated political developments." -- Felix Krawatzek, Oxford University, Europe-Asia Studies: Volume 65/10Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms Foreword, by Anoop Nayak Introduction 1. Framing Youth Identities in Russia: The State, Ethnicity and Belonging 2. Ethnocentric Politics in the (Post-)Soviet Context: A Regional Perspective 3. Narratives of Translocation, Dislocation and Location 4. Gendered Armenian and Adygh Identities 5. Situating Youth Cultural Practices and Experiences in the Local Context 6. Conclusion: Youth Cultural Identities Revisited Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Bibliography
£27.19
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Language Conflicts in Contemporary Estonia, Latv
Book SynopsisLanguage policy and usage in the post-communist region have continually attracted wide political, media, and expert attention since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. How are these issues politicised in contemporary Estonia, Latvia, and Ukraine? This study presents a cross-cultural qualitative and quantitative analysis of publications in leading Russian-language blogs and news websites of these three post-Soviet states in the period from 2004 to 2017. The most notable difference observed between Ukraine, on the one side, and the two Baltic countries, on the other, is that many Russian-writing users in Ukraines internet tend to support the position that the state language, i.e. Ukrainian, is discriminated against and needs special protection by the state, whereas the majority of Russian-speaking commentators on selected Estonian and Latvian news websites advocate the establishment of Russian as a second state language. Despite attempts of Ukraines government to ukrainianise the public space, the position of Ukrainian is still perceived, even by many Russian-writing commentators and bloggers, as being precarious and vulnerable. This became especially visible in debates after the 20132014 Revolution of Dignity, when the number of supporters of an introduction of Russian as a second state language significantly decreased. In the Russian-language segments of Estonian and Latvian news websites and blogs, in contrast, the majority of online users continue to reproduce the image of being victims of their countries nation-building. They often claim that their political, as well as economic rights are significantly limited in comparison to ethnic Estonians and Latvians. This book illustrates thatnotwithstanding variations between the Estonian as well as Latvian cases, on the one hand, and Ukraine, on the otherthere is an ongoing process of convergence within Ukrainian debates if compared to those held in the other two countries in terms of an increasing degree of discursive decommunisation and derussification.
£41.25
Indigo Books The Parsi Collection
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£23.99
Rawat Ethnicity, Movement and Social Structure:
Book SynopsisEthnicity has been growing rapidly, and it has brought together the differentiated ethnic groups as a strong united force, which continues to have frequent conflicts with the local governments.
£23.62
Global Vision Publishing House Caste Violence in India
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£999.99
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Indian Troops in Europe
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£22.80
University Press of Southern Denmark Cosplay: East Asian popular culture in a
Book SynopsisCosplay deals with a community of Danish fans of Japanese popular culture whose fandom makes them distinctly identifiable as productive fans; namely fans who appropriate characters, story worlds and design from manga, anime and video games and who produce cosplay. It is argued that the Danish cosplayers constitute a confident, vibrant community, which sees itself in the midst of actualizing manga and Japanese media worlds against the backdrop of childhood and early youth literacies and intimacies. Cosplay is the first publication in the four-volume series East Asian popular culture in a transnational perspective: A National Museum of Denmark Collection. What happens when anime, manga, video games & photo booths from Japan and South Korean pop music & comics flow into Denmark? This series explores issues pertaining to East Asian popular culture in a Danish context and asks what it can contribute to our understanding of cultural flows in an East/West perspective.
£20.70
University Press of Southern Denmark Hallyu: East Asian popular culture in a
Book SynopsisHallyu deals with Danish fans of Korean popular culture. As consumers of Korean popular culture, not least K-pop (Korean pop music), these fans aspire to integrate into the Korean social fabric through career choice; they produce K-pop realities by performing Korean dance, conforming to Korean aesthetics or beauty ideals, thinking through Korean story-worlds and finding viable alternatives to Danish youth sociality. This constitutes an example of how East Asian popular culture is present in the formation of Danish youth culture in the 2010s. Hallyu is the second publication in the four volume series East Asian popular culture in a transnational perspective: A National Museum of Denmark Collection. What happens when Korean pop music & comics and anime, manga, video games & photo booths from Japan flow into Denmark? This series explores issues pertaining to East Asian popular culture in a Danish context and asks what it can contribute to our understanding of cultural flows in an East/West perspective.
£20.70
Museum Tusculanum Press Ethnologia Europaea, Volume 34/2: Multicultures &
Book Synopsis''Ethnologia Europaea'' has set itself the task of breaking down not only the barriers which divide research into Europe from general ethnology, but also the barriers between the various national schools within the continent. With this manifesto ''Ethnologia Europaea'' was started in 1969. Since then, it has acquired a central position in the international co-operation between ethnologists in the various European countries, in the East as well as in the West. It is, however, a journal of topical interest, not only for ethnologists, but also for anthropologists, social historians and others studying the social and cultural forms of everyday life in recent and historical European societies.
£19.79
Museum Tusculanum Press Ethnologia Europaea Journal of European
Book SynopsisShifts, both visible and imperceptible, are a common denominator of the papers gathered in this issue of Ethnologia Europaea. The increasing diversification of religious manifestations in civil society is analysed by Peter Jan Margry, while Mats Lindqvist traces the impact of transnational business practices in the Baltic forest. Luís Silva questions the effect of the heritage regime on individuals working with and living in Portuguese dwellings turned patrimony. The adjustments to life that an individual body and mind must undergo following an organ transplantation are documented by a team led by Katrin Amelang. Each of these papers profits from emerging or recently established analytic interests and topoi in cultural research. The final paper in this issue turns to shifts and reactions within scholarship itself, as Anna Malewska-Szalygin uses her fieldwork in Poland to question some anthropological tenets current in work on post-socialist societies.
£19.79
Museum Tusculanum Press Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities
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University Press of Southern Denmark Immigrant & Native Children's Cognitive Outcomes
Book SynopsisIn 2004 the Rockwool Foundation decided to launch a research project that would focus upon the relationship of young immigrants to the Danish educational sys-tem, including an investigation of the attitudes of these young people towards education and of the benefits that they obtained from attending primary and lower secondary school (i.e. the obligatory stages of schooling) in Denmark. It has been evident for a number of years that non-Western immigrants do not make much use of the Danish educational system, and that far too many of those who do go to Danish educational institutions fail to complete their courses. If this educa-tional pattern of non-achievement is not broken, then it will greatly hinder the true integration of immigrants from non-Western backgrounds into the Danish labour market, and consequently into Danish society. In order to determine the learning outcomes for young immigrants from their attendance at Danish primary and lower secondary school, the Rockwool Foun-dation Research Unit contacted the Danish PISA Consortium to arrange a spe-cial PISA survey. The results of this survey were presented in a book published in 2007 by the University Press of Southern Denmark entitled PISA Etnisk 2005 (PISA Ethnic 2005), edited by Niels Egelund and myself. This special PISA sur-vey made possible in-depth analyses of school-pupils'' performance, including the performance of pupils from non-Western backgrounds.
£9.99
Blacksmith Books Waiting for the Dalai Lama: Stories from All
Book SynopsisWhy does the issue of Tibet rouse such passions on both sides? And is there any way to find common ground? Chinese-speaking journalist Annelie Rozeboom worked as a foreign correspondent in China for ten years. During that time she was able to interview numerous Tibetan people inside and outside Tibet, as well as Chinese residents, Western observers and the Dalai Lama himself. As these people explain their life stories, it becomes clear to the reader why they think the way they do. The book also shows how history washed over this remote kingdom and how the Tibetans and the Chinese came to take such opposing positions. This is a uniquely valuable book which approaches the emotive issue of Tibet from all angles.
£9.49
Blacksmith Books Love, Money and Friendships
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£14.39
Blacksmith Books Other Voices, Other Eyes: Expatriate Lives in
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£13.29
Via Media Publishing Company To Give to the Light
£13.05
Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Messy Ethnography Does Englishness Exist
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£138.39
HarperCollins Publishers London Calling
Book SynopsisFrom the 11th-century, when one commentator claimed the capital was being overrun with Moors, to the garage MCs and street poets of today – this book tells the story of life in London for black and Asian people from the 17th-century until today.Trade Review‘A spectacular, stimulating work, full of intriguing information.’ Sunday Times ‘This cocktail of literary archaeology, social critique and storytelling reopens a window on a marginalised world.’ Observer ‘A fine, unusually insightful and stylishly written piece of work, a valuable, zesty contribution to the growing body of literature on black writers by black writers.’ Daily Telegraph
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Match
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£15.16
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Miss Anne in Harlem
Book SynopsisCelebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, focuses on white women, collectively called “Miss Anne,” who became Harlem Renaissance insiders. The 1920s in New York City was a time of freedom, experimentation, and passion—with Harlem at the epicenter. White men could go uptown to see jazz and modern dance, but women who embraced black culture too enthusiastically could be ostracized. Miss Anne in Harlem focuses on six of the unconventional, free-thinking women, some from Manhattan high society, many Jewish, who crossed race lines and defied social conventions to become a part of the culture and heartbeat of Harlem. Ethnic and gender studies professor Carla Kaplan brings the interracial history of the Harlem Renaissance to life with vivid prose, extensive research, and period photographs.
£15.29
HarperCollins The Manitous
£12.89
HarperCollins Black Power
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HarperCollins Reggie Jackson
£13.99
HarperCollins Devil in the Grove
Book SynopsisWinner of the Pulitzer Prize“A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York TimesArguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.In 1949, Florida''s orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve. When a white seventeen-year-old girl cried rape, McCall pursued four young black men who dared envision a future for themselves beyond the groves. The Ku Klux Klan joined the hunt, hell-bent on lynching the men who came to be known as the Groveland Boys.<
£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Sea People
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£16.99
HarperCollins Lulu in the Sky
£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Such Good Girls
Book SynopsisEdgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells the story of the hidden children who survived the Holocaust through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries—among the less than 10 percent of Jewish children in Europe to survive World War II—who went on to lead remarkable lives in New York City.Only one in ten Jewish children in Europe survived the Holocaust, many in hiding. In Such Good Girls, R. D. Rosen tells the story of these survivors through the true experiences of three girls.Sophie Turner-Zaretsky, who spent the war years believing she was an anti-Semitic Catholic schoolgirl, eventually became an esteemed radiation oncologist. Flora Hogman, protected by a succession of Christians, emerged from the war a lonely, lost orphan, but became a psychologist who pioneered the study of hidden child survivors. Unlike Anne Frank, Carla Lessing made it through the war concealed with her
£15.19
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Hidden Figures The Story of the AfricanAmerican
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£23.79
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Cooking Gene
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£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Mother of Black Hollywood
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£14.39
