Identity in crossroad civilisations ethnicity, nationalism and globalism in Asia
Based on multi-disciplinary studies conducted in Asia (India, Bhutan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand), this volume on Identity in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia demonstrates how identity is defined, negotiated and conceptualised in response to...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
c2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ;
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431124006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; List of Tables and Plates; 1. Introduction: Crossroad Civilisations and Bricolage Identities; 2. Asia and the Global World: Identities, Values, Rights; 3. Creating 'Malaysians': A Case Study of an Urban kampung in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia; 4. Ethnic Mosaic and the Cultural Nationalism of Bhutan; 5. Religion and Cultural Nationalism: Socio-Political Dynamism of Communal Violence in India; 6. Is Identity Clash Inevitable? Identity and Network Building amongst mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
- 7. Socio-Economic Crisis and Its Consequences on a Little Known Tribal Community in West Bengal, India8. Post-Colonialism, Globalism, Nativism: Reinventing English in a Post-Colonial Space; 9. Occidentalism and Asian Middle-Class Identities: Notes on Birthday Cakes in an Indian Context; 10. Ode to 'Personal Challenge': Reconsidering Japanese Groupism and the Role of Beethoven's Ninth in Catering to Socio-Cultural Needs; 11. Performing Cosmopolitan Clash and Collage: Krishen Jit's Stagings of the 'Stranger' in Malaysia
- 12. Constructing Identity: Visual Expressions of Islam in the Predominantly Catholic Philippines13. Islam and Orientalism in New Zealand: The Challenges of Multiculturalism, Human Rights and National Security- and the Return of the Xenophobes; Contributors; References
