Tag: Asia

Free Download Michael Stanley-Baker, "Situating religion and medicine in Asia: Methodological insights and innovations "
English | ISBN: 1526160013 | 2023 | 416 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book’s central question is to what extent ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collectively, the contributions explore a number of related issues, such as: which societies separated out religious from medical concerns, at which times and in what ways? Where have medicine and religion converged, and how has such knowledge been defined by scholars and cultural actors? Are ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ the best terms by which scholars can grapple with knowledge about the sacred and the self, destiny and disease?

Free Download Jasmin Dall’Agnola, "Researching Central Asia: Navigating Positionality in the Field "
English | ISBN: 3031390237 | 2024 | 116 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research, it addresses key questions, including: How shall we problematize and reconceptualize the concept of positionality through lenses of local voices from the region? How does practitioners’ and scholars’ positionality contribute to their experiences of inclusion, exclusion, and access to the field? How do scholars navigate issues of personal safety and mental well-being in the more closely monitored societies of Central Asia?

Free Download Political Identity in South Asia
by David Taylor and Malcolm Yapp
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032715553 | 281 Pages | True PDF | 28 MB

Free Download Lawrence Ka-Ki Ho, "Policing the Police in Asia: Police Oversight in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan "
English | ISBN: 3030829804 | 2021 | 89 pages | PDF | 1502 KB
This brief offers an overview of the prevailing debates in police oversight and accountability through an analysis of policing in Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan. It places emphasis on three major controversies of oversight: professionalism, representation, and empowerment. Arguing that traditional models do not accurately depict variations in police systems in Asia, the volume aims to bring attention to the implementation of these three concepts and clearly articulate the power relationship within these Asian police oversight mechanisms. This brief will be a useful resource for researchers in policing as well as criminologists, political scientists, and sociologists, particularly those specializing in East Asia.

Free Download Tariq Ismail, "Neglected Plant Foods Of South Asia: Exploring and valorizing nature to feed hunger"
English | ISBN: 3031370767 | 2023 | 496 pages | PDF | 20 MB
According to the global hunger index, South Asia has worldwide highest rate of undernourished people. Such a burden of food insecurity and various forms of malnutrition are directly associated with the existing food production system that ignores biodiversity, food affordability, and sustainability. During the last five decades, food production system has witnessed a global shift from ethnic to mainstream staple cereals production and promotion. Such an approach has badly affected the regional genetic pool of a diverse range of nourishing, economical, and sustainable edible plant species which are now referred to as neglected or underutilized food crops.

Free Download Thomas E. Jones, "Nature-Based Tourism in Asia’s Mountainous Protected Areas: A Trans-regional Review of Peaks and Parks "
English | ISBN: 3030768325 | 2021 | 340 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book provides holistic insights into management of protected areas across East Asia and identifies current trends in mountain tourism within the broader field of human geography and nature conservation. The book describes the diversification in visitors and expanding protected areas territories in different Asian countries during recent years. It also compares protected areas networks in the context of the changing demographic profiles of visitors and provides an interdisciplinary transnational appraisal of mountain-based tourism in Asia based on national and international statistics. The research combines specific case studies at the individual country and destination level with trans-regional trends, thereby offering analysis from both the perspective of supply (parks, protected areas, and stakeholders) and demand (mountain tourist market trends and segments). The book is a useful resource for students and academics in tourism and protected areas studies as well as social scientists and policy-makers interested in Asian countries.

Free Download David Hardiman, "Medical Marginality in South Asia"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138948292, 0415502411 | PDF | pages: 217 | 1.8 mb
Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of ‘subaltern therapeutics’ that both interacts with and resists state-sanctioned and elite forms of medical practice. The relationship is seen as both a historical as well as ongoing one.

Free Download Managing the Post-Colony South Asia Focus: Ways of Organising, Managing and Living
by Nimruji Jammulamadaka and Shoaib Ul-Haq
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811929874 | 304 Pages | True PDF | 4.7 MB

Free Download Lionel Wee Hock An, "Language Policy and Modernity in Southeast Asia: Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand"
English | 2006 | pages: 164 | ISBN: 1461499925, 1402045107 | PDF | 4,2 mb
Source: CIA World Factbook, 2005 In this book, our goal is to understand how the language policies of various nation-states in Southeast Asia grapple with the challenge of modernity. Our focus will therefore be on language policies as these are explicitly articulated either in the form of constitutions or public proclamations made by political leaders. We do not RAPPA AND WEE: LANGUAGE POLICY AND MODERNITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA 2 deny that language policies can be implicit (Spolsky, 2004:s) since ideologies about language are prevalent regardless of whether these lead to overt policy formulations or not. However, our interest is in the attempts by Southeast-Asian nation-states to maintaidlegitimize particular ‘nationalist imaginations’ (cf. Anderson, 1991), and such attempts are best seen in the kinds of explicit declarations made by agents of the state. It seems clear that our objective includes the question of how these nation-states manage the spread of the English language, since English is often seen as the language of modernity par excellence (May, 2001).

Free Download Joonkoo Lee, "Knitting Asia, Weaving Development: Globalization of the Korean Apparel Industry"
English | ISBN: 9819937639 | 2023 | 186 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book offers a fresh look at the global apparel industry, focusing on Korean multinational corporations (MNCs) and their growing role in building regional connections and shaping economic and social development in Asia. Focusing on the multinationalization of Korean apparel firms over the past decades and their upgrading to first-tier suppliers in apparel global value chains, this edited volume highlights a host of new challenges these emerging MNCs confront in the rapidly changing global apparel industry and provides an in-depth view of their expanding role and adaptive strategies in configuring regional connections in post-Pandemic Asia.