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Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827989
Pub Date: April 2025
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s.
After Work
Japanese Silver Backpackers in Malaysia
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827088
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
After Work is a compelling account of Japanese retirees who move to Malaysia as “silver backpackers,” where they seek to achieve a “good” retirement. Set against contemporary inter-Asian migration, After Work offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement when the boundaries between work and life are blurred.
Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512823585
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Nine studies focused on East and South Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe illuminate how early modern courts and societies shaped, and were shaped by, the landscape, including both physical sites, such as gardens, palaces, cities, and hunting parks, and conceptual ones, such as those of frontiers, idealized polities, and the cosmos.
Counseling Women
Kinship Against Violence in India
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9781512822847
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
Drawing on ethnographic research at counseling centers in Jaipur, Rajasthan, Julia Kowalski reassesses Western liberal feminism’s notions of what it means to have agency and retheorizes the role of interdependence in gendered violence and inequality as not only a site of vulnerability but a potential source of strength.
China Urbanizing
Impacts and Transitions
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512823011
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
China turned majority urban only in the recent decade, a dramatic leap given that less than 20 percent of its population lived in cities before 1980. The chapters in China Urbanizing, written by American and Chinese scholars, provide new perspectives to understand the transitions underway and the gravity of the progress, particularly in the context of demographic shifts and climate change.
Refugee Cities
How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512822861
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Situated between the 1970s Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan and the post–2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities tells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan.
Making Meaningful Lives
Tales from an Aging Japan
Price: $24.50
ISBN: 9781512823738
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two community centers in Osaka, Japan, Making Meaningful Lives provides an intimate anthropological account of the existential concerns of elderly Japanese women and men.
Daughters of Parvati
Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512823745
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
In this account of an anthropologist's journey into Indian psychiatry wards, among women with mental illnesses and the loved ones who care for them, Sarah Pinto responds to ethical crises in caregiving with attention to culture, gender, and the globalized worlds of Indian women.
Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827989
Pub Date: April 2025
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
Drawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources, Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea offers the first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970s.
After Work
Japanese Silver Backpackers in Malaysia
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827088
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
After Work is a compelling account of Japanese retirees who move to Malaysia as “silver backpackers,” where they seek to achieve a “good” retirement. Set against contemporary inter-Asian migration, After Work offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement when the boundaries between work and life are blurred.
Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512823585
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Nine studies focused on East and South Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe illuminate how early modern courts and societies shaped, and were shaped by, the landscape, including both physical sites, such as gardens, palaces, cities, and hunting parks, and conceptual ones, such as those of frontiers, idealized polities, and the cosmos.
Counseling Women
Kinship Against Violence in India
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9781512822847
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
Drawing on ethnographic research at counseling centers in Jaipur, Rajasthan, Julia Kowalski reassesses Western liberal feminism’s notions of what it means to have agency and retheorizes the role of interdependence in gendered violence and inequality as not only a site of vulnerability but a potential source of strength.
China Urbanizing
Impacts and Transitions
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512823011
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
China turned majority urban only in the recent decade, a dramatic leap given that less than 20 percent of its population lived in cities before 1980. The chapters in China Urbanizing, written by American and Chinese scholars, provide new perspectives to understand the transitions underway and the gravity of the progress, particularly in the context of demographic shifts and climate change.
Refugee Cities
How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512822861
Pub Date: September 2022
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
Situated between the 1970s Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan and the post–2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities tells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan.
Making Meaningful Lives
Tales from an Aging Japan
Price: $24.50
ISBN: 9781512823738
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Based on ethnographic fieldwork at two community centers in Osaka, Japan, Making Meaningful Lives provides an intimate anthropological account of the existential concerns of elderly Japanese women and men.
Daughters of Parvati
Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512823745
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
In this account of an anthropologist's journey into Indian psychiatry wards, among women with mental illnesses and the loved ones who care for them, Sarah Pinto responds to ethical crises in caregiving with attention to culture, gender, and the globalized worlds of Indian women.