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  • Pride in Asia

    Negotiating Ideologies, Localness, and Alternative Futures

    by Benedict J. L. Rowlett, Pavadee Saisuwan, Christian Go, Li-Chi Chen, Mie Hiramoto ...
    Series series Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality
    This Element provides a transregional overview of Pride in Asia, exploring the multifaceted nature of Pride in contemporary LGBTQIA+ events in Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. This collaborative research that combines individual studies draws on linguistic landscapes as an analytical and methodological approach. Each section examines the different manifestations of Pride as a ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • What is Anthropology?

    by Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in an exciting and innovative way.Lucid and accessible, What is Anthropology? draws examples from current affairs as well as previous anthropological ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Growing Up in Transit

    The Politics of Belonging at an International School

    by Danau Tanu ...
    “[R]ecommended to anyone interested in multiculturalism and migration….[and] food for thought also for scholars studying migration in less privileged contexts.”—Social AnthropologyIn this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of being “international” that is Eurocentric. Despite the cosmopolitan ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Dreams of Flight

    The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West

    by Fran Martin ...
    In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Language and Globalization

    by Norman Fairclough ...
    Language and Globalization explores the effects of language in the processes of globalization. Norman Fairclough adopts the approach of combining critical discourse analysis with cultural political economy to develop a new theory of the relationship between discourse and other dimensions of globalization. Using examples from a variety of countries such as the USA, Britain, Romania, Hungary and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Queer Singapore

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Singapore remains one of the few countries in Asia that has yet to decriminalize homosexuality. Yet it has also been hailed by many as one of the emerging gay capitals of Asia. This book accounts for the rise of mediated queer cultures in Singapore’s current milieu of illiberal citizenship. This collection analyses how contemporary queer Singapore has emerged against a contradictory backdrop of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Desiring China

    Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture

    by Lisa Rofel, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such “desiring subjects” is at the core of China’s contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Handbook of Language and Globalization

    Edited by Nikolas Coupland ...
    Series Book 64 - Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    The Handbook of Language and Globalization brings together important new studies of language and discourse in the global era, consolidating a vibrant new field of sociolinguistic research.The first volume to assemble leading scholarship in this rapidly developing fieldFeatures new contributions from 36 internationally-known scholars, bringing together key research in the field and establishing a ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • English in Singapore

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    English in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the various issues surrounding the sociolinguistics of English in Singapore. Rather than attempting to cover the usual topics in an overview of a variety of English in a particular country, the essays in this volume are important for identifying some of the most significant issues pertaining to the state and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Why English?

    Confronting the Hydra

    Edited by Pauline Bunce, Prof. Robert Phillipson, Vaughan Rapatahana, Ruanni Tupas ...
    Series Book 13 - Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
    This book explores the ways and means by which English threatens the vitality and diversity of other languages and cultures in the modern world. Using the metaphor of the Hydra monster from ancient Greek mythology, it explores the use and misuse of English in a wide range of contexts, revealing how the dominance of English is being confronted and counteracted around the globe. The authors explore ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Chinese on the Move

    Migration, Language, and Identity

    by Seong Lin Ding, Rui Li ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is the first to study the language and politics of identity of recent mainland Chinese migrants to Malaysia. Drawing on a variety of fieldwork data, the volume provides an accessible and succinct view of this ‘new’ transnational migrant community in multilingual Malaysia. Unlike earlier Chinese migrants (the ‘old’ Chinese communities) who migrated to Malaysia (previously British Malaya) ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Global City Dilemmas and Anglophone Singapore Literature

    Intersectional Politics and Cultural Negotiations in the 21st Century

    by Angelia Poon ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book looks at culturally significant, English-language texts produced in Singapore in the last 20 years by writers such as Balli Kaur Jaswal, Alfian Sa’at, Claire Tham, Amanda Lee Koe, Ng Yi-Sheng and Kevin Kwan. It provides an analysis sensitive to the writers' socio-political and cultural contexts, and shows how Singapore's Anglophone literature successfully disrupts the government’s ... Read more

    $116.99 USD