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Analyzes one of the important cases of developmental change in the 20th century, namely, Kerala in southern India, and addresses the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use representative democracy to create better life chances. This book takes a historical view of Kerala and compares it with the state of West Bengal.

Presents a case-based analysis of media panoply in (and out of) Asia. This book demonstrates the multiple links between media, society and culture, and advance the claim that media is the key means through which Asians experience, understand, effect and are affected by the worlds containing them.

Looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. This book offers fresh perspectives on the changing boundaries of the Chinese nation.

Relocates Chinese independent movie making from a film to a visual culture perspective enabling the author to explore the role that other movies (mostly, but not exclusively, popular culture products) play in the making of experimental and non-mainstream visual culture.

Focusing on the culture of piracy in the Indian capital, this book looks at what has happened to the city in the wake of the dissemination of the new media and the ways in which it has, and will, affect urban cultures in an age of globalization.

Presents a study of Okinawan fiction, from it's emergence in the early twentieth-century onwards. This title offers perspectives on subaltern identity, colonialism, and post-colonialism, and the nature of 'regional', 'minority', and 'minor' literatures. It also provides an introduction to the major works of Okinawan literature.

Explores the history, structure and operations of the World Bank, which despite 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 attention its importance merits.

Reflecting on Singapore's policy of meritocratic multiracialism and the communalist state of Malay, this book examines the way by which these policies, coupled with historical animosities, competitive economic tensions and janus-faced foreign economic policy orientation have contributed to Singapore's mercurial relations with Malaysia.

Providing insights into this Southeast Asian city, this book interprets Vientiane's landscape, as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao identity in the contemporary period.

Gives an overview of contemporary Lao culture and society, whilst linking local and national phenomena to tendencies of globalization and the history of the region. This book introduces a theoretical approach based on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu. It examines various aspects of Lao culture and society including economics, politics, and others.

Through careful analysis of literary texts and attention to writers and works long excluded from Japan's postwar literary canon, this book introduces fresh perspectives on the occupation era.

This volume provides the most expert, up-to-date and multidisciplinary analyses on how the contemporary media function in what has rapidly become the world's biggest market.

Examining the imperialist phenomenon from a wide-ranging perspective, this work reveals imperialism as driven by rivalry; and facilitates comparison: imperialism has elements in common, yet differs according to the territory in which it operates. It analyses attempts to re-establish control after the overthrow of imperial regimes in World War II.

Presenting case study material, this book examines the labour issues surrounding the workplace in China, during a tumultuous time in the country's history. It also reassesses the significance of labour process theory in the context of the Chinese workplace.

Akami's study of the Institute of Pacific Relations offers insight into the formation of the dominant ideologies and institutions of regional and international politics in the Pacific during the inter-war years.

Incorporating Japanese language materials and field-based research, this compelling collection of essays takes a comparative look at the changing notions of gender and sexual diversity in Japan.

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.

Bringing together contributions from leading academics, this topical book looks at the impact of the government's strict control over planning and population growth on the family, the wider society and the country's demography.

Transcultural Japan provides a critical examination of mixed and pure, of becoming and being Other in Japan, of the multiple intersections of identities (cultural, class, gender, race, ethnicity, etc.) and the narratives and conversations about these identities.

Looks at Japanese popular culture as it traverses international borders flowing out through such forms as manga consumption in New Zealand and flowing in through such forms as foreigners writing about Japan in Japanese and how American influences affected the formation of Japan's gay identity.

Examines the relationship of overseas Japanese and their descendents (Nikkei) with their home and host nations, focusing on the political, social, and economic struggles of Nikkei. This book is of interest to scholars of diaspora studies and Japanese studies.

Promoting an interdisciplinary examination of Indonesia, this volume goes beyond a mere political and legal approach to reconciliation. It offers new understandings of bottom-up reconciliation approaches and the cultural dimension of reconciliation.

With contributions from both the US and Japan, this book examines the legacies of the US Occupation on Japanese politics and society, and discusses the long-term impact of the Occupation on contemporary Japan. It is suitable for students and scholars of Japanese-US relations, Japanese history and Japanese politics.