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“nihal perera”

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  • Trans-Status Subjects

    Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia

    by Philippa Levine, Nihal Perera ...
    A Thai foodseller on the streets of Bangkok, a cyclo driver in a Vietnamese village, a Pahari migrant laborer in the Himalayas, a Parsi-Christian professional social worker shuttling back and forth between London and Calcutta—Trans-Status Subjects examines how these and other South and Southeast Asians affect and are affected by globalization. While much work has focused on the changes wrought by ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • People's Spaces

    Coping, Familiarizing, Creating

    by Nihal Perera ...
    Who controls space? Powerful corporations, institutions, and individuals have great power to create physical and political space through income and influence. People’s Spaces attempts to understand the struggle between people and institutions in the spaces they make.Current literature on cities and planning often looks at popular resistance to institutional authority through open, mass-movement ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Transforming Asian Cities

    Intellectual impasse, Asianizing space, and emerging translocalities

    Edited by Nihal Perera, Wing-Shing Tang ...
    While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum, tradition, tourism, and pollution, and use the modern, affluent, and transforming Western city as the reference point. This vast Asian empirical presence is not complemented by a theoretical presence; academic discourses overlook common and basic urban processes, particularly the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Asian Anthropology

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    Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora.Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping the field, such as migration, ethnicity, post-colonialism and cosmopolitanism. It also examines key ... Read more

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