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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
The first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970sDrawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources,...
After Work
Japanese Silver Backpackers in Malaysia
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827088
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
An ethnography of “silver backpackers” that offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement in contemporary societiesThe moniker “silver backpackers” refers to Japanese couples...
Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512823585
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication,...
Counseling Women
Kinship Against Violence in India
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9781512822847
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
Women’s rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from which women must be liberated. Counseling Women...
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. This book situates China’s urbanization in the...
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...
Making Meaningful Lives
Tales from an Aging Japan
Price: $24.50
ISBN: 9781512823738
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as "that which makes one's life worth living," ikigai has also come to mean that which gives...
Daughters of Parvati
Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512823745
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory...
Human Rights and Transnational Democracy in South Korea
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827989
Pub Date: April 2025
Format: Paperback
360 Pages
The first account of the historical intersection between South Korea's democratic transition and the global human rights boom in the 1970sDrawing on previously unused or underutilized archival sources,...
After Work
Japanese Silver Backpackers in Malaysia
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827088
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
An ethnography of “silver backpackers” that offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement in contemporary societiesThe moniker “silver backpackers” refers to Japanese couples...
Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512823585
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication,...
Counseling Women
Kinship Against Violence in India
Price: $32.50
ISBN: 9781512822847
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
Women’s rights activists around the world have commonly understood gendered violence as the product of so-called traditional family structures, from which women must be liberated. Counseling Women...
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. This book situates China’s urbanization in the...
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...
Making Meaningful Lives
Tales from an Aging Japan
Price: $24.50
ISBN: 9781512823738
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as "that which makes one's life worth living," ikigai has also come to mean that which gives...
Daughters of Parvati
Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Price: $26.50
ISBN: 9781512823745
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory...