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This collection of essays, with special reference to Asia, analyzes
religion through lived experience and reveals how religious
phenomena are inextricably linked to globalizing processes.
Focusing on world regions where human rights abuses are the most
serious, extensive and sustained; this book fills a crucial gap in
our knowledge of the difficulties and promise of promoting human
rights in our global age.
Focusing on world regions where human rights abuses are the most
serious, extensive and sustained; this book fills a crucial gap in
our knowledge of the difficulties and promise of promoting human
rights in our global age.
Published twice yearly, the Asia Journal of Global Studies (AJGS)
is the official journal of the Asia Association for Global Studies
(AAGS). The journal features research articles on Asia and other
world regions from an Asian perspective. AJGS' other regular
offerings include guest columns by global studies experts in Asia,
reader commentaries, and book reviews. Multidisciplinary in scope,
AJGS accepts contributions from authors with backgrounds in the
humanities and social sciences. The journal encourages historians,
political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists,
philosophers and others to submit their work for consideration. It
particularly welcomes research that dissolves academic boundaries,
looks beyond traditional notions of the nation state, and aims for
a holistic view of the past, present and future. All submissions to
AJGS are peer reviewed and judged for their originality, quality of
writing and relevance for AJGS' overall objectives.
The Asia Journal of Global Studies (AJGS) is the official journal
of the Japan-based Asia Association for Global Studies (AAGS). The
journal features research articles on Asia and other world regions
from an Asian regional perspective. AJGS' other regular offerings
include guest columns by global studies experts in Asia, reader
commentaries, and book reviews.Multidisciplinary in scope, AJGS
accepts contributions from authors with backgrounds in the
humanities and social sciences. The journal encourages historians,
political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, linguists,
philosophers and others to submit their work for consideration. It
particularly welcomes research that dissolves academic boundaries,
looks beyond traditional notions of the nation state, and aims for
a holistic view of the past, present and future.
"Development" is one of the most ubiquitous yet least understood
concepts of our age. It is something all governments claim to be
engaged in and is considered desirable by scholars, activists,
policymakers, and laypeople alike. Yet it is also a highly
contested term. For some, development is simply a matter of
economic growth. Others maintain that it must entail improving life
expectancy, literacy, education levels, and access to resources.
Others yet, disillusioned by the results of development
initiatives, have rejected development altogether, equating it with
a self-serving aid industry that entraps the poor in a vicious
cycle of dependency. Still, critics argue these "post-development"
theorists merely replicate earlier doctrines of development and
have themselves become part of the problem they wish to transcend.
This book, a collection of works by scholars of development,
examines the theory and practice of development and its
implications and varied meanings in Asian contexts. It attempts to
understand development both in its objective and constructivist
senses. That is, it examines how societies and nations have
developed over time and how leaders, experts and governments have
attempted to shape these same societies and nations. It also
analyzes development in civil society and how non-state actors have
conceived, participated in and been affected by the process. Has
true development been occurring in Asia? Is it possible to direct
development? How are real people affected by development? Should
the concept of development be retained or discarded? These are a
few key questions covered in this book.
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