Asian Culture & Society

This book presents analyses of a range of contemporary projects of citizenship formation across Asia in order to identify those issues and concerns most central to Asian debates over the construction of modern identities. The book main focus is on schooling, but also features other vehicles for citi..

Dialogue between characters is an important feature of South Asian religious literature: entire narratives are often presented as a dialogue between two or more individuals, or the narrative or discourse is presented as a series of embedded conversations from different times and places. Including so..

This book seeks to document urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia’s fastest growing cities...

This book seeks to document urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia’s fastest growing cities...

The essays in this book analyze electioneering activities in nine Asian countries in terms of popular cultural practices, ranging from updated traditional cultures to mimicry and caricatures of present day television dramas...

Entertainment media comprises one of the world’s largest industries and this collection is important not just for explaining what is happening in Indonesian entertainment media, but also for establishing a theoretical framework for the study of entertainment media in other societies...

An intervention in one of the most fundamental debates confronting the social science and humanities, namely how to understand global and local historical processes as interconnected developments affecting human actors...

Economic development in Asia is associated with expanding urbanism, overconsumption, and a steep growth in living standards. These rapid changes have led to fundamental shifts in the way ecological concerns are articulated politically and culturally. This book presents an analysis of a range of prac..

Economic development in Asia is associated with expanding urbanism, overconsumption, and a steep growth in living standards. These rapid changes have led to fundamental shifts in the way ecological concerns are articulated politically and culturally. This book presents an analysis of a range of prac..

Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s.  Du Perron examines Thumi Lyrics, a major genre of Hindustani music, from a primarily linguistic perspective...

Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s.  Du Perron examines Thumi Lyrics, a major genre of Hindustani music, from a primarily linguistic perspective...

Using the case study of the Kadazan of Sabah, a region in the Malaysian section of Borneo, this book examines national, ethnic and local identities in post-colonial states. It shows the importance of the connection between lived experience and identity and belonging, and by doing so, provides a deep..