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Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination


Free Download Sk Sagir Ali, "Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination"
English | ISBN: 1666951471 | 2024 | 202 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 2 MB
Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination looks at the myriad ways in which disaster events (both man-made and natural) are perceived and represented in South Asian literature and culture. This book explores the affective mechanisms of empathy and imaginary identification which are conditioned and reiterated by biopolitical statist regimes of power to preempt and coopt any radical agential or cognitive intervention which might be evinced by the event of the disaster. The contributors also examine South Asian disasters vis-a-vis the registers of ecological crises, migration events, civil and liberation wars, and pandemics to understand the multifarious ways in which such ‘disasters’ are used as tropes to peddle certain structures of interpellation in the collective consciousness.

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Southeast Asian Islam


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English | ISBN: 1032699256 | 2024 | 318 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book explores Muslim communities in Southeast Asia and the integration of Islamic culture with the diverse ethnic cultures of the region, offering a look at the practice of cultural and religious coexistence in various realms.

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Perceptions of East Asian and Asian North American Athletics


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English | ISBN: 303097779X | 2022 | 372 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book highlights inconsistencies within the field of sports scholarship and provides an opportunity to open up and extend conversations about the intersection of sports media and race ― particularly surrounding athletes of East Asian descent. Despite the growing influence of East Asian and Asian American/Canadian athletes, they are still underrepresented in Western media and in scholarship. This anthology adds much-needed literature to sports, popular culture, East Asian, and Asian American studies. The prominence of sports in global popular culture makes the intersections explored in this collection a crucial addition to existing conversations about both sports and East Asian/Asian American/Canadian studies.

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Modern Asian Kitchen


Free Download Modern Asian Kitchen: Essential and Easy Recipes for Ramen, Dumplings, Dim Sum, Stir-Fries, Rice Bowls, Pho, Bibimbaps, and More by Kat Lieu
English | April 9th, 2024 | ISBN: 0760384045 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 58.38 MB
The New Asian Cooking is bolder and more assertive, less fussy and more casual. With these easy-to-shop-for, quick-to-cook recipes, you can try-and will fall in love with-this trending style right in your own kitchen.

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Handbook on East Asian Economic Integration


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English | ISBN: 1788975154 | 2021 | 496 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This comprehensive Handbook provides an in-depth analysis of the nature of East Asian economic integration alongside thoughtful insights into contemporary issues, such as digital technology and the environment. Contributors provide detailed explanations of the origins of the topic, tracing the evolution of production networks and guiding readers through contemporary policy issues.

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Foreign Aid and Emerging Powers Asian Perspectives on Official Development Assistance


Free Download Foreign Aid and Emerging Powers: Asian Perspectives on Official Development Assistance By Iain Watson
2014 | 268 Pages | ISBN: 0415727073 | PDF | 8 MB
Current debates on emerging powers as foreign aid donors often fail to examine the myriad geopolitical, geoeconomic and geocultural tensions that influence policies of Official Development Assistance (ODA). This book advocates a regional geopolitical approach to explaining donor-donor relationships and provides a multidisciplinary critical assessment of the contemporary debates on emerging powers and foreign aid, bringing together economic and geopolitical approaches in the light of the 2015 completion of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Moving away from established debates assessing the advantages and disadvantages of foreign aid, this book challenges the current geopolitical assumptions of the emerging powers concerning issues such as ‘south-south’ solidarity, shared development experience and ‘multipolarity’. It analyses how donor governments ‘sell’ aid to recipients through enabling different cultural assumptions and soft power narratives of national identity and provides empirical evidence on agendas such as aid effectiveness, aid for trade, public-private partnerships, and green growth aid. The book examines the role of, and relationships between, the leading traditional and emerging power Asian donors specifically, and explores the different and contested perspectives and patterns of ODA policy through an alternative account of emerging power foreign aid to leading African and Asian recipients. This book provides a valuable resource for postgraduate students and practitioners across disciplines such as development economics and geopolitics of development, uniquely approaching the debate from the perspective of emerging powers and donors.

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