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  • In Search of an Identity

    The Politics of History Teaching in Hong Kong, 1960s-2000

    by Edward Vickers ...
    Series series East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
    This book traces the influences that have shaped the secondary school history curriculum during Hong Kong's prolonged political transition between the 1960s and the early 21st century, focusing especially on the relationship between history teaching and identity formation. The author's experience as a local history teacher during the mid-1990s made him conscious of the peculiarities of the history ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Constructing Modern Asian Citizenship

    Edited by Edward Vickers, Krishna Kumar ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia
    In many non-Western contexts, modernization has tended to be equated with Westernization, and hence with an abandonment of authentic indigenous identities and values. This is evident in the recent history of many Asian societies, where efforts to modernize – spurred on by the spectre of foreign domination – have often been accompanied by determined attempts to stamp national variants of modernity ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • History Education and National Identity in East Asia

    Edited by Edward Vickers ...
    Series series Reference Books In International Education
    Visions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant studies of the politics of history education in East Asian societies. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Education and Society in Post-Mao China

    by Edward Vickers, Zeng Xiaodong ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia
    The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life – much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, changes to the country’s education system. This book analyses the development of that system since the abandonment of radical Maoism and the inauguration of ‘Reform and Opening’ in the late 1970s.The principal focus is on formal education in schools and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Remembering Asia's World War Two

    Edited by Mark R. Frost, Daniel Schumacher, Edward Vickers ...
    Series series Remembering the Modern World
    Over the past four decades, East and Southeast Asia have seen a proliferation of heritage sites and remembrance practices which commemorate the region’s bloody conflicts of the period 1931–45. Remembering Asia’s World War Two examines the origins, dynamics, and repercussions of this regional war “memory boom”.The book analyzes the politics of war commemoration in contemporary East and Southeast ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia

    Identity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture

    Edited by Paul Morris, Naoko Shimazu, Edward Vickers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education and Society in Asia
    In the decades since her defeat in the Second World War, Japan has continued to loom large in the national imagination of many of her East Asian neighbours. While for many, Japan still conjures up images of rampant military brutality, at different times and in different communities, alternative images of the Japanese ‘Other’ have vied for predominance – in ways that remain poorly understood, not ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Faith Schools, Tolerance and Diversity

    Exploring the Influence of Education on Students' Attitudes of Tolerance

    by Helen Everett ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the effects of faith schools on social cohesion and inter-ethnic relations. Faith schools constitute approximately one third of all state-maintained schools and two fifths of the independent schools in England. Nevertheless, they have historically been, and remain, controversial. In the current social climate, questions have been raised about the ability of faith schools to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Education as a Political Tool in Asia

    Edited by Marie Lall, Edward Vickers ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    This book offers a fresh and comparative approach in questioning what education is being used for and what the effects of the politicisation of education are on Asian societies in the era of globalisation. Education has been used as a political tool throughout the ages and across the whole world to define national identity and underlie the political rationale of regimes. In the contemporary, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Connecting Theory with Practice

    by Erin K. Wilson ...
    Religion and World Politics provides a short, accessible, and practical introduction to how we can understand the place of religion in world politics in a more comprehensive, contextually relevant way.Is religion central or irrelevant, positive or negative in world politics today? So much political commentary and analysis focuses on these issues. But these are the wrong questions to be asking. ... Read more

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  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Right to Maim

    Debility, Capacity, Disability

    by Jasbir K. Puar ...
    Series series ANIMA
    In The Right to Maim Jasbir K. Puar brings her pathbreaking work on the liberal state, sexuality, and biopolitics to bear on our understanding of disability. Drawing on a stunning array of theoretical and methodological frameworks, Puar uses the concept of “debility”—bodily injury and social exclusion brought on by economic and political factors—to disrupt the category of disability. She shows how ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

    by Samuel P. Huntington ...
    The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski.Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international relations and one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. An insightful and powerful ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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