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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert winstanley”
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  • Change and Continuity in North Korean Politics

    Edited by Adam Cathcart, Robert Winstanley-Chesters, Christopher K. Green ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
    In the years since the death of Kim Jong-il and the formal acknowledgement of Kim Jong-un as head of state, the North Korean regime has made a series of moves to further augment and consolidate the ideological foundations of Kimism and cement the young leader’s legitimacy. Historical narratives have played a critical, if often unnoticed, role in this process. This book seeks to chronicle these ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea

    Landscape as Political Project

    by Robert Winstanley-Chesters ...
    Environmental and developmental matters have long proved key to North Korea’s “revolutionary” industrial and economic strategies. They have equally been important to Pyongyang’s diplomatic and geo-political efforts both during the Warsaw Pact period and in our contemporary era following the collapse of its supportive and collaborative partners. However, while environmental issues have been very ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • No Guts No Story

    Bob the Bike (Travels on a pushbike)

    by Robert Winstanley ...
    ‘No Guts, No Story’ is about the years and the distances ‘Bob the Bike’ spent in his sixties on his bicycle. Well, two bicycles actually, because one got stolen, plus Bob had many amazing encounters, narrow escapes and romantic interludes on the way. Why he set out and what happened will fascinate you. In four years he rode 40,000 miles through 32 countries, completely alone. No back-up vehicles, ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • Fish, Fishing and Community in North Korea and Neighbours

    Vibrant Matter(s)

    by Robert Winstanley-Chesters ...
    This open access book explores the histories and geographies of fishing in North Korea and the surrounding nations. With the ideological and environmental history of North Korea in mind, the book examines the complex interactions between local communities, fish themselves, wider ecosystems and the politics of Pyongyang through the lens of critical geography, fisheries statistics and management ... Read more

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  • Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar

    by Helen James ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed to state and security, going on to argue that freedom from want, and freedom from fear (of the regime) are in fact mutually supportive ideas, and that the security of the people and the security of the state are in fact in a symbiotic ... Read more

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  • Russia and the North

    Edited by Elana Wilson Rowe ...
    Russia holds more Arctic territory than any other state, yet unlike other Arctic states it does not have a unified strategy identifying economic and political aims for the North. Russia's policies on the North are dispersed across a variety of fields from domestic migration politics to oil and gas development. This volume engages the disparate elements of Russian northern policy and illustrates ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Goh Keng Swee: A Legacy Of Public Service

    by Emrys Myles Khean Aun Chew, Chong Guan Kwa ...
    Dr. Goh Keng Swee's extensive career as a public servant was dynamic as well as distinguished, in many ways decisively instrumental in the making of the Republic of Singapore. This distinctive collection of essays attempts an assessment of the long-term influence and significance of Dr. Goh's major contributions.Envisaged as a companion volume to Goh Keng Swee: A Public Career Remembered, this ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Transnational Migration and Work in Asia

    Edited by Kevin Hewison, Ken Young ...
    Series series Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series
    Focusing on the issues associated with migrating for work both in and from the Asian region, this book sheds light on the debate over migration and trafficking. With contributions from an international team of well-known scholars, the book sets labour migration firmly within the context of globalization, providing a focused, contemporary discussion of what is undoubtedly a major twenty-first ... Read more

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  • The Hakkas of Sarawak

    Sacrificial Gifts in Cold War Era Malaysia

    by Kee Howe Yong ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    This book tells the story of the Hakka Chinese in Sarawak, Malaysia, who were targeted as communists or communist sympathizers because of their Chinese ethnicity the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of these rural Hakkas were relocated into “new villages” surrounded by barbed wire or detained at correction centres, where incarcerated people were understood to be “sacrificial gifts” to the war on ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Governance and Civil Society in Myanmar

    Education, Health and Environment

    by Helen James ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Most international attention on Myanmar has focused on the political situation, where the military, in power since 1962, continues to refuse to acknowledge the results of democratic elections, and on related human rights issues. This book, by focusing on education, health and environment, and on the institutions which formulate and deliver policy in these fields, shows how the international ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization

    Case Studies from Beijing and Taipei

    by W Emily Chow, Chiang Chun-chi, Rosita Dellios, James C. Hsiung, Shawn S. F. Kao, Richard W. Mansbach, Samuel S. Zhao ...
    In the this collection, International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization, the writers explore international relations and globalization by using specific examples from Beijing and Taipei. In December 1949, when China was politically divided the People's Republic of China (PRC) central government was in control of most resources, tangible and intangible. For that reason, our unit of analysis ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Singapore

    Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control

    by Carl A. Trocki ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
    This volume examines Singapore’s culture of control, exploring the city-state’s colonial heritage as well as the forces that have helped to mould its current social landscape. Taking a comparative approach, Trocki demonstrates the links between Singapore’s colonial past and independent present, focusing on the development of indigenous social and political movements. In particular, the book ... Read more

    $57.99 USD