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British-Bangladeshi Women in Higher Education - Aspirations, Inequities and Identities (Paperback): Berenice Scandone British-Bangladeshi Women in Higher Education - Aspirations, Inequities and Identities (Paperback)
Berenice Scandone
R1,088 Discovery Miles 10 880 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Drawing on primary qualitative research, this book explores the experiences and identities of a group of British-born women of Bangladeshi background attending university in London through a Bourdieusian theoretical framework. It demonstrates the inequities that these women experience in UK higher education and employment as well as how they challenge them. This book presents stories that illuminate the diversity of views and experiences marked by dynamics of class, race, ethnicity, religion and gender. These stories reveal family projects of social mobility and discourses of aspiration, the multiple resources and constraints that influence decisions, experiences and pathways, and the mutual construction of different dimensions of identification and tensions between them. Through participants' narratives, the book tackles wider questions around fair access to education and employment, social mobility and the (re)production and transformation of social inequities. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of Youth, Education, Race/Ethnicity and Migration Sociology, as well as community and education practitioners and anyone with an interest in multi-ethnic societies and young people's histories.

The Barsden Memoirs (1799-1816) - An Australian Transnational Adolescence (Hardcover): Grant Rodwell The Barsden Memoirs (1799-1816) - An Australian Transnational Adolescence (Hardcover)
Grant Rodwell
R3,845 Discovery Miles 38 450 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Covering the life of Josephus Henry Barsden from his birth in 1799 through his childhood to 16 years of age, the Barsden memoirs describe events from a Sussex smugglers' inn, a convict ship to the colony of New South Wales, sealing and whaling expeditions to Van Diemen's Land, and Barsden's participation in a Tahitian civil war. The author assesses the value of memoirs, and of these memoirs in particular to students of history in respect to the transnational paradigm. He tests the historicity and veracity of their contents, and provides an engaging exegesis and graphical supplement of its contents. Of central importance is Barsden's account of the Battle of Fe'i Pi, which was in many respects the Pacific's equivalent to the contemporaneous Battle of Waterloo, such was its lasting impact on Pacific geopolitics. This was no ordinary childhood, and poses many questions about a transnational adolescent's impact on major events. A fascinating read for scholars and students of Australian, Pacific, and British Colonial History, written with academic rigour but accessible to non-specialists.

Armenia and Imperial Decline - The Yerevan Province, 1900-1914 (Hardcover): George Bournoutian Armenia and Imperial Decline - The Yerevan Province, 1900-1914 (Hardcover)
George Bournoutian
R3,928 Discovery Miles 39 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book seeks, for the first time, to examine the demography and the social and economic conditions in the Yerevan Province during the first decade of the twentieth century, before the great changes that occurred during World War I and the seven decades of Soviet rule. Unlike in Tiflis and Baku, the Armenian inhabitants of the Yerevan Province were overwhelmingly peasants. They did not play a major role in the political, intellectual or economic life of the South Caucasus. The aim of the book is to prove conclusively that the Armenians of the Yerevan Province not only benefited from living under the umbrella of imperial security, but, as junior and senior officials, they also acquired important administrative and professional skills. The social and economic changes of the last decade of Russian rule enabled the local Armenians to advance and, following the collapse of the Russian Empire, to occupy posts previously held by Russians. Thus, despite the absence of their most talented individuals and the lack of experienced political leaders, as well as the loss of half their territory to Turkish attacks in 1918, the local Armenian administration, in the face of terrible conditions and great odds, provided the foundation which allowed the Armenian Republic to maintain its independence until December of 1920. In fact, some of the survivors would assist in the modernization and nation building of Soviet Armenia. Providing a detailed overview of the history of the Yerevan Province in the late imperial age, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in the History of Armenia, the Russian Empire and the Caucasus.

India in Art in Ireland (Paperback): Kathleen James-Chakraborty India in Art in Ireland (Paperback)
Kathleen James-Chakraborty
R1,348 Discovery Miles 13 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

India in Art in Ireland is the first book to address how the relationship between these two ends of the British Empire played out in the visual arts. It demonstrates that Irish ambivalence about British imperialism in India complicates the assumption that colonialism precluded identifying with an exotic other. Examining a wide range of media, including manuscript illuminations, paintings, prints, architecture, stained glass, and photography, its authors demonstrate the complex nature of empire in India, compare these empires to British imperialism in Ireland, and explore the contemporary relationship between what are now two independent countries through a consideration of works of art in Irish collections, supplemented by a consideration of Irish architecture and of contemporary Irish visual culture. The collection features essays on Rajput and Mughal miniatures, on a portrait of an Indian woman by the Irish painter Thomas Hickey, on the gate lodge to the Dromana estate in County Waterford, and a consideration of the intellectual context of Harry Clarke's Eve of St. Agnes window. This book should appeal not only to those seeking to learn more about some of Ireland's most cherished works of art, but to all those curious about the complex interplay between empire, anti-colonialism, and the visual arts.

Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850 (Hardcover): Peter Denney, Bruce Buchan, David Ellison, Karen Crawley Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850 (Hardcover)
Peter Denney, Bruce Buchan, David Ellison, Karen Crawley
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during the long eighteenth century. The volume restores the sonic dimension to conversations about civil conduct by exploring how censured behaviours and recommended practices resonated beyond the written word. As the contributors show, understanding changing perceptions and valuations of noise and sound allows us to chart how civility was understood in the context of significant political, social and cultural change, including the development of urban life, the extension of empire and the consolidation of legal procedure. Divided into three parts, Sound, Space and Civility in the British World demonstrates how both noise and sound could be recognized by eighteenth-century Britons as expressions of civility. The essays also explore the audible implications of uncivil conduct to complicate our understanding of the sonic range of politeness. The uses of sound and noise to interrogate British colonial anxieties about the distinction between civility and incivility are also investigated. Taken together, the essays identify the emergence of civility as a development that radically altered sonic attitudes and experiences, producing new notions of what counted as desirable or undesirable sound.

Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism - Australia, Race and Place (Hardcover): Lisa Slater Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism - Australia, Race and Place (Hardcover)
Lisa Slater
R3,900 Discovery Miles 39 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book analyses the anxiety "well-intentioned" settler Australian women experience when engaging with Indigenous politics. Drawing upon cultural theory and studies of affect and emotion, Slater argues that settler anxiety is an historical subjectivity which shapes perception and senses of belonging. Why does Indigenous political will continue to provoke and disturb? How does settler anxiety inform public opinion and "solutions" to Indigenous inequality? In its rigorous interrogation of the dynamics of settler colonialism, emotions and ethical belonging, Anxieties of Belonging has far-reaching implications for understanding Indigenous-settler relations.

Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India - Her Myriad Gaze on the 'Other' (Hardcover): Sukla Chatterjee Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India - Her Myriad Gaze on the 'Other' (Hardcover)
Sukla Chatterjee
R3,897 Discovery Miles 38 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the colonial context of South Asia, there is a glaring asymmetry in the written records of the interaction between the Bengali women and their European counterparts, which is indicative of the larger and the overall asymmetry of discursive power, including the flow and access to information between the colonizers and their subjects. This book explores the idea of gazing through literature in Colonial India. Based on literary and historical analysis, it focuses on four different genres of literary writing where nineteenth-century Bengali women writers look back at the British colonizers. In the process, the European culture becomes a static point of reference, and the chapters in the book show the ideological, social, cultural, political, and deeper, emotional interactions between the colonized and the colonizer. The book also addresses the lack of sufficient primary sources authored by Bengali women on their European counterparts by anthologizing different available genres. Taking into account literary narratives from the colonized and the less represented side of the divide, such as a travelogue, fantasy fiction, missionary text and journal articles, the book represents the varying opinions and perspectives vis-a-vis the European women. Using an interdisciplinary approach charting the fields of Indology, colonial studies, sociology, literature/literary historiography, South-Asian feminism, and cultural studies, this book makes an important contribution to the field of South Asian Studies, studies of empire, and to Indian women's literary history.

Routledge Library Editions: World Empires (Hardcover): Various Routledge Library Editions: World Empires (Hardcover)
Various
R41,148 R22,086 Discovery Miles 220 860 Save R19,062 (46%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 16 volumes in this set, originally published between 1919 and 1998, draw together research by leading academics in the area of World Empires and provide an examination of related key issues. The books examine French Colonialism, the German Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, as well as the effect European colonialism had in Africa and Asia. This set will be of particular interest to students of world history.

Revolutionary America, 1763-1815 - A Political History (Paperback, 4th edition): Francis D. Cogliano Revolutionary America, 1763-1815 - A Political History (Paperback, 4th edition)
Francis D. Cogliano
R1,258 Discovery Miles 12 580 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Includes new maps and an expanded treatment of the War of 1812, allowing students to grasp further dimensions of the conflict and the emergence of the United States. * Broad scope and interdisciplinary approach fully contextualize the Revolution, giving readers a comprehensive view of the era. * Fourth edition has been fully revised and updated to incorporate the insights of the latest scholarship throughout.

Routledge Library Editions: The British Empire (Hardcover): Various Routledge Library Editions: The British Empire (Hardcover)
Various
R17,954 R9,718 Discovery Miles 97 180 Save R8,236 (46%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1968 and 1989, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the British Empire and provides an examination of related key issues. The volumes examine slavery in the British Empire, problems encountered in India in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, as well as the Empire at its most powerful. This set will be of particular interest to students of British, colonial, and world history.

New Immigration Destinations - Migrating to Rural and Peripheral Areas (Hardcover): Ruth McAreavey New Immigration Destinations - Migrating to Rural and Peripheral Areas (Hardcover)
Ruth McAreavey
R3,917 Discovery Miles 39 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Current population movements involve both established and new destinations, often encompassing marginal and rural communities and resulting in a whole new set of issues for these communities. This volume examines structural forces and individual strategies and behavior to highlight the opportunities and threats for new destination areas arising from new economic and cultural mobility. It represents a "second wave" in studies of in-migration by examining patterns in "non-traditional" rural and peripheral migration destinations and using the case of Northern Ireland. Accordingly, the book develops a much fuller conceptual and theoretical understanding of migration and social integration within rural/peripheral destinations. It provides clarification of many of the contested concepts including transnationalism; integration, acculturation and assimilation; new destinations; and migrants and ethnic minorities.

While a number of books provide an analysis of migration, they are typically concerned with patterns rather than micro-processes of migration. Less is known about new destination areas and on the micro-issues affecting migrants to those places: their lived experiences; the role of local networks and connections; and the significance of local civil society. By critically engaging with original theories of migration this volume provides a better understanding of an emerging field of migration studies in a rapidly changing and uncertain world.

McAreavey focuses on the local and the micro with a strong sense of research, social and policy reality. This book s interdisciplinary nature will have appeal to policymakers, scholars, and both undergraduate and postgraduate students in a range of disciplines including sociology (race and ethnic studies), human geography (migration, demography), political economy and community development."

The Economy of Colonial Malaya - Administrators versus Capitalists (Hardcover): Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja The Economy of Colonial Malaya - Administrators versus Capitalists (Hardcover)
Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja
R4,217 Discovery Miles 42 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although colonies are often viewed as having been of crucial economic importance to Britain's empire, those responsible for administering the colonies were often not at all interested in or supportive of commercial ventures, as this book demonstrates. Based on extensive original research, and including detailed case studies of the agricultural and mining sectors in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Malaya, the book examines how administrators and capitalists interacted, showing how administrators were often hostile to business and created barriers to business success. It discusses in particular contradictory colonial government policies, confusion over land grants and conflicts within bureaucratic hierarchies, and outlines the impact of such difficulties, including the failure to attract capital inflows and outright business failures. Overall, the book casts a great deal of light on the detail of how business and government actually worked in Britain's colonial empire.

Early Modern East Asia - War, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange (Hardcover): Kenneth M. Swope, Tonio Andrade Early Modern East Asia - War, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange (Hardcover)
Kenneth M. Swope, Tonio Andrade
R5,377 Discovery Miles 53 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections, the book explores the importance of international trade networks, the implications of technological dissemination, and the often unforeseen consequences of missionary efforts. It demonstrates the benefi ts of a global history approach, outlining the complex interactions between Western traders and Asian states and entrepreneurs. Overall, the book presents much interesting new material on this complicated and understudied period. .

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts - Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine (Paperback): Nada Elia Greater than the Sum of Our Parts - Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine (Paperback)
Nada Elia
R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How is the struggle for Palestinian freedom bound up in other freedom struggles, and how are activists coming together globally to achieve justice and liberation for all? In this bold book, Palestinian activist Nada Elia unpacks Zionism, from its militarism to its prisons, its environmental devastation and gendered violence. She insists that Palestine's fate is linked through bonds of solidarity to other communities crossing racial and gender lines, weaving an intersectional feminist understanding of Israeli apartheid throughout her analysis. She also looks deeper into the interconnectedness of Palestine with Black, migrant, and queer movements, and with other indigenous struggles against settler colonialism, including that of Native Americans. Greater than the Sum of Our Parts is a powerful and hopeful account, highlighting the role of the Palestinian diaspora, youth, and women, and inspired by activists across the world.

1916 in Global Context - An anti-Imperial moment (Hardcover): Roisin Healy, Gearoid Barry, Enrico Dal Lago 1916 in Global Context - An anti-Imperial moment (Hardcover)
Roisin Healy, Gearoid Barry, Enrico Dal Lago
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The year 1916 has recently been identified as "a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions." Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of empires, and thus collectively represent a global anti-imperial moment, which was the revolutionary counterpart to the later diplomatic attempt to construct a new world order in the so-called Wilsonian moment. Chief among such events was the Easter Rising in Ireland, an occurrence that took on worldwide significance as a challenge to the established order. This is the first collection of specialist studies that aims at interpreting the global significance of the year 1916 in the decline of empires.

The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region - Evolution and Transformation (Hardcover): Evgeny Khvalkov The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region - Evolution and Transformation (Hardcover)
Evgeny Khvalkov
R3,951 Discovery Miles 39 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism, the urban demography, and the functioning of the polyethnic entangled society of Caffa in its interaction with the outer world. It offers a novel interpretation of the functioning of this late medieval colonial polyethnic society and rejects the widely accepted narrative portraying the whole history of Caffa of the fifteenth century as a period of constant decline and depopulation.

The Invention of Humboldt - On the Geopolitics of Knowledge (Paperback): Mark Thurner, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra The Invention of Humboldt - On the Geopolitics of Knowledge (Paperback)
Mark Thurner, Jorge Canizares-Esguerra
R1,144 Discovery Miles 11 440 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Invention of Humboldt is a game-changing volume of essays by leading scholars of the Hispanic world that explodes many myths about Alexander von Humboldt and his world. Rather than 'follow in Humboldt's footsteps,' this book outlines the new critical horizon of post-Humboldtian Humboldt studies: the archaeology of all that lies buried under the Baron's epistemological footprint. Contrary to the popular image of Humboldt as a solitary 'adventurer' and 'hero of science' surrounded by New World nature, The Invention of Humboldt demonstrates that the Baron's opus and practice was largely derivative of the knowledge communities and archives of the Hispanic world. Although Humboldtian writing has invented a powerful cult that has served to erase the sources of his knowledge and practice, in truth Humboldt did not 'invent nature,' nor did he pioneer global science: he was the beneficiary of Iberian natural science and globalization. Nor was Humboldt a pioneering, 'postcolonial' cultural relativist. Instead, his anthropological views of the Americas were Orientalist and historicist and, in most ways, were less enlightened than those of his Creole contemporaries. This book will reshape the landscape of Humboldt scholarship. It is essential reading for all those interested in Alexander von Humboldt, the Hispanic American enlightenment, and the global history of science and knowledge.

A History of Crime in Australia - Australian Underworlds (Paperback): Nancy Cushing A History of Crime in Australia - Australian Underworlds (Paperback)
Nancy Cushing
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

WHY PUBLISH: - While there are a lot of true crime style books that look at similar case studies, this is the only academic book on Australian crime currently on the market pitched at an undergraduate audience. - The author is a well-know and respected academic, and used her connections to bring a stellar cast of reputable contributors on board for this project. - Book is based on a successful, long-running course offered at Newcastle University, Australia.

Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy over China, 1894-1945 (Paperback): Hiroaki Kuromiya Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy over China, 1894-1945 (Paperback)
Hiroaki Kuromiya
R1,173 Discovery Miles 11 730 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- Iosif Stalin was a past master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, through which he gained supremacy in China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. -The editor is a leading scholar of the subject with a long track record of publications. - The volume is based on extensive archival research.

Posthumanism and the Man Question - Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities (Paperback): Ulf Mellstroem, Bob Pease Posthumanism and the Man Question - Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities (Paperback)
Ulf Mellstroem, Bob Pease
R1,132 Discovery Miles 11 320 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book brings together the emerging insights of what posthumanism, new materialism and affect theory mean for 'the man question'. The contributors to this book interrogate the question of how 'Man' as a gendered being is entangled with nature, culture, materiality and corporeality, and they explore ways to unsettle men's sense of sovereignty to decentre anthropocentric masculinity. Men have to move from the centre of privilege which grants them supremacy before they can open themselves to the decentred, embodied, affective, vulnerable and relational self that is necessary to embrace the posthuman. This book explores the extent to which this is possible. The book will be of interest to academics, students and scholars across a range of disciplines who are engaging with the intersections of feminist studies with posthumanism and new materialism, especially as they relate to critical studies of men and masculinities. Chapters on fathering, pornography, ageing, affect, embodiment, entanglements with technology and nature and the implications of these issues for changing men and masculinities and the politics of critical masculinity studies' engagement with posthuman feminisms will interest students and academics across these diverse disciplines.

Political Power and Colonial Development in British Central Africa 1938-1960s (Paperback): Alan Cousins Political Power and Colonial Development in British Central Africa 1938-1960s (Paperback)
Alan Cousins
R1,191 Discovery Miles 11 910 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book focuses on the late colonial history of Zambia and Malawi, which between 1953 and 1963 were part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Although there were many links in their history and between their populations, the two territories (British protectorates under Colonial Office control) contrasted greatly in power structures, in their economies, and in their development. Europeans living in Northern Rhodesia, with a power base in the mining economy, were able to establish a dominant position in the territory after the Second World War. By the 1950s it looked as though they would have, with Southern Rhodesian Europeans, a long hegemony, gaining independence from Britain as a new Dominion, which would mean control over both Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland through the Federation. Thus, white ethnicity and ideology are essential factors in this book relating to the struggle for power from just before the Second World War up to the 1960s. However, crises in 1959 and 1960 led to the collapse of the Federation. A second focus is on issues of social and economic development. For Africans in Nyasaland, and in rural parts of Northern Rhodesia, there was a relatively weak economy in this period, a pattern of limited cash crop production, while many people became caught up in labour migration, subordinate to powerful European-dominated economic forces within southern Africa. This meant that colonial policies aimed at rural development were fundamentally flawed. The book also looks at the actual nature of rural economic change (as opposed to colonial policies) and discusses alternative visions of the future which were put forward. The argument is put that historians have often concentrated on the activities of the main nationalist movements in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, seeing them as bringing progress away from colonialism and towards independence. Here there is an attempt to draw out the complexities of life, and a variety of responses in the colonial situation, progress coming in a number of forms, but not always being achieved.

The Coloniality of Modern Taste - A Critique of Gastronomic Thought (Paperback): Zilkia Janer The Coloniality of Modern Taste - A Critique of Gastronomic Thought (Paperback)
Zilkia Janer
R1,121 Discovery Miles 11 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book analyzes the coloniality of the concept of taste that gastronomy constructed and normalized as modern. It shows how gastronomy's engagement with rationalist and aesthetic thought, and with colonial and capitalist structures, led to the desensualization, bureaucratization and racialization of its conceptualization of taste. The Coloniality of Modern Taste provides an understanding of gastronomy that moves away from the usual celebratory approach. Through a discussion of nineteenth-century gastronomic publications, this book illustrates how the gastronomic notion of taste was shaped by a number of specifically modern constraints. It compares the gastronomic approach to taste to conceptualizations of taste that emerged in other geographical and philosophical contexts to illustrate that the gastronomic approach stands out as particularly bereft of affect. The book argues that the understanding of taste constructed by gastronomic texts continues to burden the affective experience of taste, while encouraging patterns of food consumption that rely on an exploitative and unsustainable global food system. This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in cultural studies, decoloniality, affect theory, sensory studies, gastronomy and food studies.

Warfare and Society in British India, 1757-1947 (Paperback): Ashutosh Kumar, Kaushik Roy Warfare and Society in British India, 1757-1947 (Paperback)
Ashutosh Kumar, Kaushik Roy
R1,135 Discovery Miles 11 350 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explores the intricate and intimate relationship between military organization, imperial policy, and society in colonial South Asia. The chapters in the volume focus on technology, logistics, and state building. The present volume highlights the salient features of expansion and consolidation of imperial control over the subcontinent, and ultimate demise of the Raj. Further, it turns the spotlight on to subaltern challenges to imperialism as well as the role of non-combatants in warfare. The volume: * Deals with both conventional and guerrilla conflicts and focuses on the frontiers (both North-West and North-East, including Burma); * Looks at the army as an institution rather than present a chronological account of military operations, which highlights the complex and tortuous relationship between combat institution, colonial state, and Indian society; * Integrates top-down approaches in military and strategic studies with the bottom-up perspectives and discusses on how the conduct of war (organisation and technology) is related to the economic, societal, and cultural impact of war. A rich account of the British 'Army in India', this book will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of South Asian history, military history, political history, colonialism, and the British Empire.

The Body Politics of Glocal Social Work - Essays on the Post-Anthropocentric Condition (Paperback): Mona B. Livholts The Body Politics of Glocal Social Work - Essays on the Post-Anthropocentric Condition (Paperback)
Mona B. Livholts
R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book shapes a situated body politics to re-think, re-write, and de-colonise social work as a post-anthropocentric discipline headed towards glocalisation, where human and non-human embodiments and agencies are entangled in glocal environmental worlds. It critically and creatively examines how social work can be theorised, practised, and written in renewed ways through dialogical and transdisciplinary practices. This book is composed of eight essayistic spaces, envisioning social work through embodied, glocal, and earthly entanglements. By drawing on research-based knowledge, autobiographical notes, stories, poetry, photographs, and an art exhibition in social work education, these essays provide readers with analysis and strategies that are useful for research, education, and practice as well as life-long learning. The book constitutes key literature for researchers, educators, practitioners, and activists in social work, sociology, architecture, art and creative writing, feminist and postcolonial studies, human geography, and post-anthropocentric philosophy. It offers the readers sustainable ways to re-think and re-write social work towards a glocal- and post-anthropocentric more-than-human worldview.

Colonial Administration and Land Reform in East Asia (Hardcover): Sui Wai Cheung Colonial Administration and Land Reform in East Asia (Hardcover)
Sui Wai Cheung
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book argues that as colonialism brought the concept of individual, as opposed to collective, land ownership to indigenous society, along with Western surveying techniques, the changes that resulted altered the relationship of the state to its citizens, and, thereby, the structure of local societies. The book considers these issues in all of East Asia, including China, Japan and Korea, focusing in particular on Hong Kong, which was subject to British rule from 1842 to 1997, and on Taiwan, which was subject to Japanese rule from 1895 to 1945. The book discusses how, although the main impact of land ownership by individuals and modern surveying were felt after colonialism had ended, it is by studying the introduction of these factors that their impact can be most clearly understood.

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