Format:
1 Online-Ressource (259 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9089641270
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9048510511
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9789089641274
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9789048510511
Series Statement:
ICAS publications series. Edited volumes 8
Content:
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 increasing globalisation in the region. Asian expressions of identity reflect, in many ways, their adaptability to the changing economic, political and social climates and at the same time question Samuel Huntington's popular yet controversial thesis on the clash of civilisations. This book also engages Benedict Anderson's idea of 'imagined communities' and shows how its operation impacts on both community and individual identity in an environment that is increasingly characterised by border crossings and transnationalism. Contemporary Asian realities, as examined in the essays, demonstrate the need to rethink previous notions of identity and nationalism
Content:
Deze bundel gaat over de vorming van identiteit door het samenspel van etniciteit, nationalisme en de effecten van globalisering. De essays in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia maken de gelaagdheid en de complexiteit hiervan duidelijk
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-259)
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Introduction : crossroad civilisations and bricolage identities
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Asia and the global world : identities, values, rights
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Creating 'Malaysians' : a case study of an urban kampung in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
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Ethnic mosaic and the cultural nationalism of Bhutan
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Religion and cultural nationalism : socio-political dynamism of communal violence in India
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Is identity clash inevitable? Identity and network building amongst mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong
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Socio-economic crisis and its consequences on a little known tribal community in West Bengal, India
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Post-colonialism, globalism, nativism : reinventing English in a post-colonial space
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Occidentalism and Asian middle-class identities : notes on birthday cakes in an Indian context
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Ode to 'personal challenge' : reconsidering Japanese groupism and the role of Beethoven's Ninth in catering to socio-cultural needs
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Performing cosmopolitan clash and collage : Krishen Jit's stagings of the 'Stranger' in Malaysia
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Constructing identity : visual expressions of Islam in the predominantly Catholic Philippines
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Islam and Orientalism in New Zealand : the challenges of multiculturalism, human rights and national security -- and the return of the Xenophobes
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789089641274
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Identity in crossroads civilisations Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009
Language:
English
Keywords:
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