Search Results for displacement

...Baasanjav Terbish Mobility and Displacement: Nomadism, Identity and Postcolonial Narratives in Mongolia . By Orhon Myadar . New York : Routledge , 2021 . xii, 119 pp. ISBN: 9780367361662 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 Orhon Myadar's book...

...Diane L. Wolf Development and Displacement: Women in Southeast Asia . Edited by Glen Chandler , Norma Sullivan , and Jan Branson . Monash Papers on Southeast Asia 18. Melbourne : Monash University, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies , 1988 . iv, 136 pp. Aus. $14.00 (paper...

...Thomas M. Ryan Abstract The South Korean Vietnam War deployment (1965–73), typically understood as a mercenary expedition, was also an exercise in the management of refugees and other displaced populations. While the South Korean Army managed its own refugee villages in South Vietnam, the overseas...

...Darren Byler Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression . By Saskia Witteborn . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2023 . 250 pp. ISBN: 9781503634305 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 Saskia Witteborn's ethnographic volume Unruly Speech...

...Bob Currie Pragmatism and Development: The Prospects for Pluralist Transformation in the Third World . By Murray J. Leaf . Westport, Conn. : Bergin and Garvey , 1998 . xiv, 229 pp. $59.95 (cloth). The Development Dilemma: Displacement in India . By S. Parasuraman...

...Christopher Bush Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature . By Yunte Huang . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2002 . xv, 209 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Copyright ©...

...Elizabeth F. Drexler Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 In the decade since the end of Suharto's New Order regime, internal displacement has been a prominent political and humanitarian issue across Indonesia. This timely and important collection examines...

...Nandini Sundar The Dam and the Nation: Displacement and Resettlement in the Narmada Valley . Edited by Jean Dreze , Meera Samson , and Satyajit Singh . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1998 . ix, 339 pp. $32.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999...

...David W. Haines Victims and Survivors: Displaced Persons and Other War Victims in Viet-Nam, 1954–1975 . By Louis A. Wiesner . New York : Greenwood Press , 1988 . xxx , 448 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 218 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...David J. Davies Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China . By Beth E. Notar . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2006 . vii , 186 pp. $57.00 (cloth); $21.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2007 2007 This book is an engaging...

...Chandra R. de Silva Listening to the Displaced: Action Research in the Conflict Zones of Sri Lanka . By Kerry Demusz . Oxford : Oxfam Publishing , 2000 . 68 pp. $18.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 263...

...Daphne Lei Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage: Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced . By Min Tian . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . 320 pp. £65.00 (cloth, ebook). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 What is there left...

... on to rule the mainland as their peoples come to dominate the second millennium. Case by case these shifts appear to be ethnic and political successions wherein the strong displace the weak, but seen together regionally the similarities suggest an agricultural change whereby an irrigated wet rice...

... technological revolutions, have altered but have not displaced the fundamental and still largely unsolved problems of human adjustment. Many formulas considered as peculiarly modern had their counterpart in antiquity, and concepts regarded as typical of Western culture have frequently been encompassed...

...Michael Hutt Abstract On April 25, 2015, central Nepal was struck by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed over 9,000 people and displaced 2.8 million. The image of the Dharahara, a nineteenth-century minaret that collapsed during the quake, quickly became for many Nepalis an iconic representation...

... invasions from Japan that displaced much of the Korean population and devastated the economy and environment. The crucial role of the navy during the war, along with a dire postwar situation, heightened government anxieties about deforestation and timber scarcity. Thus, in the seventeenth century...

..., increasing standards of living, and the displacement of traditional social organization. Most of the data for the “impact” approach have been drawn from cases where the greatest contrasts occur–the most rural elements of the population caught up in large extractive industries or repetitive machine operations...

... be called a “hierarchical nationhood.” The strategies of temporal displacement, this article contends, are employed in South Korean cinema and television dramas in order to contain the uncanny cultural difference embodied by these ethnic returnees. As a result, a certain sense of belatedness is inscribed...

... and legitimacy. These ideas and understandings were not abandoned in the dynasty's displacement and reestablishment in India. Among them remained a distinctly Timurid understanding of the rights and roles of elite women—not only with regard to their artistic production or patronage but also, in marked contrast...

... mobilization by exploiting untapped natural resources, and foster an ethos of dedication and self-sacrifice for the nation. Unrestrained land clearance decimated forests that had returned to Huanglongshan's hillsides since its abandonment during the rebellions of the late Qing. By compelling displaced people...