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A UN report recently found that the Asia Pacific is the world's
most disaster-prone region. Indeed, considering that the region
accounts for more than half of the total number of disasters in the
world, building capacity and resilience to mitigate the devastating
impact of disasters is a pressing task for local actors. This book
takes a regional, multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach to
improve understandings of how various actors respond to natural and
human-induced disasters in the Asia-Pacific region. It examines the
ideas and activities of four different categories of agents: civil
society; military and state institutions; local cultural knowledge
and the media; and economic initiatives, and these themes are
approached from various academic disciplines, ranging from
anthropology and cultural studies to economics, human geography and
political science. The contributors draw their findings from a
variety of countries in the region, including China, Fiji, India,
Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar and Samoa, and importantly, focus on the
interconnection between vulnerability and resilience. In turn, the
book highlights how the nature and magnitude of disasters are
influenced by social conditions, and aims to contribute to policies
that prioritize development opportunities to enhance resilience.
Further, it explores the complicated and multifaceted role of
agency in building resilience, and presents a comparative framework
for analysis and key findings from the Asia-Pacific region. The
focus of this book on recent and ongoing disasters makes it a
topical and timely contribution to the growing field of disaster
management, and as such it will appeal to students and scholars of
environmental studies, development studies and Asian politics.
A UN report recently found that the Asia Pacific is the world's
most disaster-prone region. Indeed, considering that the region
accounts for more than half of the total number of disasters in the
world, building capacity and resilience to mitigate the devastating
impact of disasters is a pressing task for local actors. This book
takes a regional, multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach to
improve understandings of how various actors respond to natural and
human-induced disasters in the Asia-Pacific region. It examines the
ideas and activities of four different categories of agents: civil
society; military and state institutions; local cultural knowledge
and the media; and economic initiatives, and these themes are
approached from various academic disciplines, ranging from
anthropology and cultural studies to economics, human geography and
political science. The contributors draw their findings from a
variety of countries in the region, including China, Fiji, India,
Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar and Samoa, and importantly, focus on the
interconnection between vulnerability and resilience. In turn, the
book highlights how the nature and magnitude of disasters are
influenced by social conditions, and aims to contribute to policies
that prioritize development opportunities to enhance resilience.
Further, it explores the complicated and multifaceted role of
agency in building resilience, and presents a comparative framework
for analysis and key findings from the Asia-Pacific region. The
focus of this book on recent and ongoing disasters makes it a
topical and timely contribution to the growing field of disaster
management, and as such it will appeal to students and scholars of
environmental studies, development studies and Asian politics.
Portrayals of Islamic teachings in mass media, often present Muslim
women as victims of patriarchal norms. Often covered in a full
veil, and without individuality, they tend to be depicted using a
monochrome image, across Muslim countries and regions. It does not
portray the social reality and expectations of Muslim women, which
are in fact diverse and contextual. This book consists of articles
that attempt to answer the question, are Muslim women merely
passive objects in constructing their role, despite the spread of
social media and the Internet, the increased demands of earning
disposable income for their families, and their migration to
non-Muslim countries around the world? It closely examines women's
agency in negotiating their role in Muslim-majority societies and
in new places of settlement (Australia). These articles analyse
Muslim women's narratives in a wide range of economic, political,
social and cultural milieu and their relationship to identity
construction and portrayal in the new millennium. This volume was
originally published as a special issue of Islam and
Christian-Muslim Relations.
Portrayals of Islamic teachings in mass media, often present Muslim
women as victims of patriarchal norms. Often covered in a full
veil, and without individuality, they tend to be depicted using a
monochrome image, across Muslim countries and regions. It does not
portray the social reality and expectations of Muslim women, which
are in fact diverse and contextual. This book consists of articles
that attempt to answer the question, are Muslim women merely
passive objects in constructing their role, despite the spread of
social media and the Internet, the increased demands of earning
disposable income for their families, and their migration to
non-Muslim countries around the world? It closely examines women's
agency in negotiating their role in Muslim-majority societies and
in new places of settlement (Australia). These articles analyse
Muslim women's narratives in a wide range of economic, political,
social and cultural milieu and their relationship to identity
construction and portrayal in the new millennium. This volume was
originally published as a special issue of Islam and
Christian-Muslim Relations.
This book analyzes women entrepreneurs in Muslim countries who are
using Islamic values to develop and run small businesses. As a core
case study, the authors are using Indonesia as it is the largest
Muslim country in the world by population. The project examines
supportive policies and economic programs in detail and considers
their effects on the businesses of several women entrepreneurs.
Additionally, the authors argue that this work-life balance is
critical for the definition of a successful female Muslim
entrepreneur. The monograph considers whether this new phenomenon
indicates a change in the conception of ideal Muslim womanhood or
whether it is a limited phenomenon with few impacts beyond
Indonesia. The book will appeal to academic and practitioner
audience interested in Islam, gender studies, Middle Eastern and
South Asian politics, development, anthropology, and social policy.
The Politics of the Periphery in Indonesia is a thought-provoking
examination of local politics and the dynamics of power at
Indonesia's geographic and social margins. After the fall of
Suharto in 1998 and the introduction of a policy of
decentralization in 2001, local stakeholders secured and
consolidated decision-making power, and set about negotiating new
relations with Jakarta. The volume deals with power struggles and
local-national tensions, looking among other things at resource
control, the historical roots of regional identity politics and
issues relating to Chinese-Indonesians. The authors develop
information in ways that transcend the post-colonial territorial
boundaries of Indonesia in the Malay-Indonesian archipelago, and
use case studies to show how the charges described have galvanized
Indonesian politics at the cultural and geographical peripheries.
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