The Everyday Practice of Chinese Religions (Hardcover, 1)

Introduction

Part 1: Turbulent Religious Lives

1. Portrait of Yinkong (1921-2025), Abbess of a Chan Monastery in Jiangxi: “Breaking through the Illusion of Life, Similar to a Dream”

2. Performing Orthodoxy at a Modern Chan Monastery: Striking and Shouting

3. The Venerable Daoist Li of the Southern Peak: Weaver of Destinies

Part 2: Builders, Architects of the Revival

4. A Dragon Dwells on Buddhist Territory: The Venerable Jinghai in His Dalin Monastery

5. The old Daoist monk and temple builder Feng Xingzhao: “The encounter between a man of talent and a place of good fengshui”

6. Miaoshan, he who brought Guanyin’s island back to life: Portraits of a 20th-century Buddhist entrepreneur monk

Part 3: Trajectories and Roles

7. Two lives in a mirror: Dongxiang, a Goddess on her own, and Baoyu, a whole life longing for a master

8. Spirit Mediums and Deity Attendants in Shaanbei

9. A Family of Confucian Masters (lisheng) Practitioners of Geomancy and Divination Among the Hakka of Greater Meinong in Taiwan Today

10. The Life and A Year in the Life of A Daoist in Western Fujian: For a Communication With the Three Worlds

Part 4: Legacies: Reconstructed Lineages and Transmissions

11. The Xue Lineage of Household Daoists in Rural Shanghai

12.?Yinyang?Household Daoists in Shanxi: Things ain’t what they used to be

13. From “Masters of Psalmody” to “Yi Writing Disseminators”: The Transformation of Ni Scriptural Shamanism (19th to 21st centuries)

14. Challenges and Achievements in the Life of a Tibetan Lama who became an Electrician: The Fifth Dragkar Lama

Women's Human Rights in Türkiye (Hardcover)

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: ON THE PURPOSE AND THE LAYOUT OF THE BOOK; 1.1. The Case of Women's Human Rights (WHR) in Turkiye; 1.2. Significance and Contribution: Developing a Nuanced Framework for Norm and Policy Transfer; 1.3. Country Case and Policy Sector Selection: Violence Against Women (VAW) and Women's Economic Rights (WER) in Turkiye; 1.4. Incorporating the Structure, Institution, Agency (SIA) Framework for the Localized Transfer of Women's Rights; 1.5. Contribution of the Theoretical Framework and Empirical Implications; CHAPTER 2. CURRENT STATE OF THE ART AND THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; 2.1. The State of the Art: Norm and Policy Transfer; 2.2. Transnational Feminist Touch on the Transfer of Gender Equality Norms and Policies; 2.3. The SIA Framework of Analysis as the Analytical Lens; CHAPTER 3. METHODOLOGY: INVESTIGATING LOCALIZED NORM AND POLICY TRANSFER THROUGH A COMPARATIVE QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY; 3.1. A Multi-Layered Comparative Design; 3.2. Analytical Strategy: The SIA Framework and Ensuring Validity; 3.3. Ensuring Reliability: Data Collection Tools and Triangulation; 3.4. Theoretical Framework: Applying the SIA Framework to the State of the Art of Norm and Policy Transfer; CHAPTER 4. THE INTERNATIONAL LEVEL: THE SIA ARCHITECTURE OF THE UNITED NATIONS (UN) GENEVA HUMAN RIGHTS HUB; 4.1. Structural Factors: The UN Geneva Hub as a Policy Laboratory; 4.2. Institutional Factors: Comparing UPR and CEDAW Modalities; 4.3. Agential Factors: Negotiators of Global Mandates in Geneva; 4.4. Interactions Among SIA Factors at the International Level; 4.5. Concluding Remarks for Chapter 4; CHAPTER 5. THE NATIONAL LEVEL: THE SIA ARCHITECTURE OF THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (VAW) POLICY SECTOR IN THE CASE OF TURKIYE; 5.1. Structural Factors: Turkish Political Regime and Society; 5.2. Institutional Factors: Legal Regulations and Protections; 5.3. Agential Factors: WHR and VAW Actors, Polarization, and Exclusion; 5.4. Interactions Among SIA Factors at the National Level...


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BRICS and the New World Order (Paperback, 1)

Lists of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface. List of abbreviations. 1. BRICS, Global Economic Order, and Challenges for Development: An Introduction. Section 1: BRICS Transformation Towards Knowledge Economy. 2. BRICS and the Knowledge Economy: Building Sustainable Economic Futures. 3. Innovation driven economic growth in BRICS countries; Trends, Challenges and policy implications. 4. The Fiscal Foundation of Human Capital: How Budgetary Provisions Impact Educational Equity in BRICS. Section 2: BRICS Strategy for Climate Change and Sustainable Future. 5. BRICS and Climate Change: Driving Transformation through Green Finance and Energy Transition towards a Sustainable Future. 6. BRICS' GHG Emissions and Reliance on Fossil Fuels: A Comparative Analysis. 7. Climate Change and Water Security in BRICS: A Looming Crisis? Section 3. BRICS in Transition. 8. Tax convergence in BRICS countries. 9. Is BRICS Prepared for De-Dollarization? Dollar Dependence and the Growing Pushback. 10. Equal Partners, Sustainable Goals: The NDB as BRICS' Distinctive path to Collaborative Development. Section 4- Country Strategies for Building a Strong BRICS. 11. Thailand's Potential Contribution to BRICS in the Evolving Global Order. 12. Historical Overview of the Indian Health Economic-Industrial Complex: reflections for the BRICS+ countries. 13. Role of India in BRICS: Navigating global geo-political-economic landscape. Index.

BRICS and the New World Order (Hardcover, 1)

Lists of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface. List of abbreviations. 1. BRICS, Global Economic Order, and Challenges for Development: An Introduction. Section 1: BRICS Transformation Towards Knowledge Economy. 2. BRICS and the Knowledge Economy: Building Sustainable Economic Futures. 3. Innovation driven economic growth in BRICS countries; Trends, Challenges and policy implications. 4. The Fiscal Foundation of Human Capital: How Budgetary Provisions Impact Educational Equity in BRICS. Section 2: BRICS Strategy for Climate Change and Sustainable Future. 5. BRICS and Climate Change: Driving Transformation through Green Finance and Energy Transition towards a Sustainable Future. 6. BRICS' GHG Emissions and Reliance on Fossil Fuels: A Comparative Analysis. 7. Climate Change and Water Security in BRICS: A Looming Crisis? Section 3. BRICS in Transition. 8. Tax convergence in BRICS countries. 9. Is BRICS Prepared for De-Dollarization? Dollar Dependence and the Growing Pushback. 10. Equal Partners, Sustainable Goals: The NDB as BRICS' Distinctive path to Collaborative Development. Section 4- Country Strategies for Building a Strong BRICS. 11. Thailand's Potential Contribution to BRICS in the Evolving Global Order. 12. Historical Overview of the Indian Health Economic-Industrial Complex: reflections for the BRICS+ countries. 13. Role of India in BRICS: Navigating global geo-political-economic landscape. Index.

The Routledge Handbook of Bangladeshi Literary Cultures (Hardcover, 1)

1)??? Introduction: Locating Bangladesh and its Literary Culture Part 1: Ideational and Literary Foundations?2)??? Context, Text, Identity of Muslim-Bengalis: A Hyphenated Subaltern’s Struggle for Selfhood and Voice?3)??? Partition and Bangladeshi Literature?4)??? The Cultural Politics of the 1952 Language Movement and Bangladesh 5)??? The Literary Practices of Bengali Muslim Writers in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries?Part 2: Genres and Trends?6)??? Modernism in Bangladeshi Poetry 7)??? Bangladeshi Poets and Poetry in Recent Decades?8)??? Social Realism and the Post-Liberation War Bangladeshi Fiction 9)??? Modernism and Bangladeshi Fiction?10) Literature of Bangladesh: Belles-Lettres, Travel Writing, and Autobiography (1947-1971)?11) Experimental Trends in Contemporary Bangladeshi Literature 12) The Length and Breadth of Bangladeshi Anglophone Literature?Part 3: Women’s Contributions?13) Pioneering Muslim Women Writers of Colonial Bengal (1876-1947)?14) The Rise of Bangladeshi Writing: Women Writers (1947-1971)?15) Feminism and Women Writers of Bangladesh: Liberation to Contemporary Era?Part 4: Performative and Visual Arts?16) The Indigenous Theatre of Bangladesh 17) Mystical and Devotional Lyrics: From Bhakti Poetry to Bauls?18) Modern Bangladeshi Theatre: A Platform for Social Activism 19) Visual Arts and Bangladeshi Literary Culture?20) The National Cinema of Bangladesh ? Fahmida Akhter?Part 5: Beyond the Mainstream?21) The Threatened Fringe: Literary Culture of the Indigenous Peoples?22) Urdu in Bangladesh: Maintaining an ‘Imagined Community’?23) Afterword: Many Directions of Bangladeshi Literary Culture

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Understanding Nation and Postnationalism : Narrative and Context in South Asian Literature (Hardcover)

List of Figures. List of Contributors. Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Section I: Understanding Nation: Narrative and Performance 1. The Collapse of the Nation in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay 2. Performing Region, Realizing Nation 3. Re-contextualizing Identities and Ideologies of a Nation 4. A Postnational Reading of Ethical Universality in Vishnu Sharma’s Panchatantra 5. Mapping the Border, Mapping the Mind: A Study of Sunanda Sikdar’s Dayamayeer Katha (A Life Long Ago) 6. Subnationality Vis-A-Vis Self-Determination in Indira Goswami’s The Shadow of Kamakhya and Anjum Hasan’s Lunatic in My Head Section II: Nation and Postnationalism: Ideology and Narration 7. Apocalyptic Discovery of Cultural and National Identity in the Colonized Protagonists of Amitav Ghosh Novels: Evidence from The Glass Palace and Flood of Fire 8. A Critique of Democracy: An Analysis of Arundhati Roy’s Select Non-Fiction 9. Nation- Building and Development Discourse vis-a-vis Indigenous Rights: A Study in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s “The Adivasi Will Not Dance” 10. Family and Indian English Novel: A Study of Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk 11. Persecution, Exile and Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits - Home away from Home in Our Moon has Blood Clots 12. Undoing the Folded Lie: Reflections on the Subaltern Will to Subversion 13. Rabindranath Tagore’s Nationalism and Postcolonial Dissensus in Tasher Desh 14. Rebel as/in Creative Annihilator: Resistance in Nazrul Islam and Bairagi Kainla Index

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Mother Teresa's Revolutionary Theology : Prayer, Poverty, Service, Suffering, and Conscience (Hardcover)

Introduction: Mother Teresa as Historical Figure and Theological Witness? 1. Active Contemplation: Mother Teresa’s Revolutionary Prayer? 2. Poverty as Freedom: Mother Teresa’s Revolution of Poverty? 3. The Revolution of Service: When Theology Becomes Practice? 4. Suffering as Redemptive: Mother Teresa’s Revolution of Suffering? 5. Two Sparks, Two Saints, One Revolution of Conscience: Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II? 6. Conclusions: The Shape of Mother Teresa’s Evangelical Revolution

The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and Armenia-Azerbaijan Relations : War for Sovereignty (Hardcover)

1. Irresolvable by Design: The Geopolitics of Unpeace and the Nagorno-Karabakh Conundrum? 2. Stages of Negotiations and Collapse of Diplomacy? 3. Power Asymmetry and the Road to War? 4. The 2020 War: Military Asymmetry and Strategic Breakdown? 5. After the War: Fracture, Ethnic Cleansing, and the End of Russian Hegemony? 6. Unpeace by Design: Hybrid Warfare and Baku’s Ontological Aversion to Comprehensive Peace? 7. Justice, Self-Determination, and Failure of International Law: The Destruction of an Ethnic Statelet? 8. Power Transition, Normalization and Negative Peace

Ethnic Minorities in the South Caucasus : Everyday Ethnopolitics (Hardcover)

Introduction??Part 1: Ethnicity and ethnic minorities?1. Ethnicity, ethnic groups, and ethnic categories? 2. Ethnic minority, ethnic community, and everyday ethnopolitics? Part 2: Setting up the stage: from ethnies to nations to nation-states??3. From ethnies to modern nations in the South Caucasus? 4. Ethnicity in the Soviet Union? 5. Ethnicity and ethnic mobilization in the post-Soviet South Caucasus? 6. Minority policy and integration of ethnic minorities in nationalizing states of the South Caucasus? 7. Ethnic policy and ethnic minorities in de facto states: the case of Abkhazia??Part 3: Ethnic minorities in the South Caucasus??8. Our people behind the border: the Ingiloys? 9. The “guests” who seceded: Abkhazians and Ossetians in Georgia? 10. How many heirs to Caucasian Albania?? 11. Nakh peoples in Georgia: Kists and Tsova-Tush? 12. Tat speakers: unravelling the myth? 13. Talyshis: oppression, assimilation, or successful integration?? 14. Meskhetian Turks: longing for home 15. Caucasus Jews: the lost tribe of Israel? 16. Caucasus Greeks: progeny of the Roman millet? 17. Assyrians in the South Caucasus? 18. Kurds and Yezidis in the South Caucasus? 19. Caucasus Gypsies or Roma? The complexity of identities? 20. Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians: from colonists to refugees? 21. Babel in the Caucasus: Germans, Estonians, Poles, and Czechs??Part 4: Ethnic communities and everyday ethnopolitics: case studies??22. Javakheti Armenians? 23. Borchalo Azerbaijanis? 24. Pankisi Kists? Conclusion

Gender, Race, and Class in Greek and American Rap (Hardcover)

The Rohingya in South Asia : People Without a State (Paperback, 2 ed)

Lists of tables.?List of contributors.?Acknowledgements.?Introduction to the 2^nd?edition.?Introduction to the 1^st?edition -?Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Ranabir Samaddar?1.?Stateless, Floating People: The Rohingya at Sea?2.?Where do #ibelong? The Stateless Rohingya in India?3.?The Stateless People: Rohingya in Hyderabad?4.?The jailed Rohingya in West Bengal?5.?Rohingya in Bangladesh and India and the media planet?6.?Legal brief on statelessness: law in the Indian context?7.?Reducing statelessness: a new call for India?8.?Life is A Floating Island?9.?Refugee Law, Rights and Identity.?Epilogue: The Regional Dimension.?Afterword.?References.?Index.

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The Rohingya in South Asia : People Without a State (Hardcover, 2 ed)

Lists of tables.?List of contributors.?Acknowledgements.?Introduction to the 2^nd?edition.?Introduction to the 1^st?edition -?Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Ranabir Samaddar?1.?Stateless, Floating People: The Rohingya at Sea?2.?Where do #ibelong? The Stateless Rohingya in India?3.?The Stateless People: Rohingya in Hyderabad?4.?The jailed Rohingya in West Bengal?5.?Rohingya in Bangladesh and India and the media planet?6.?Legal brief on statelessness: law in the Indian context?7.?Reducing statelessness: a new call for India?8.?Life is A Floating Island?9.?Refugee Law, Rights and Identity.?Epilogue: The Regional Dimension.?Afterword.?References.?Index.

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Rahi Masoom Reza : The Question of Text and Context (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations. Foreword ? Sanjay Kumar. Series Preface. Preface. Acknowledgements Introduction ? Bodh Prakash Part 1 Rahi’s Creative Expression. Fiction 1. Aadha Gaon (Extracts) 2. Topi Shukla (Extracts) 3. Desolation (Short story) Poetry 4. Introduction to Rahi’s poetry 5. Selected Poems Scripting 6. Mahabharat (Extracts)?7. On Mahabharat Part 2 Rahi, the Critic 8. Tulsi’s Ramcharitmanas 9. Muharram, a genuine Indian festival 10. The Story- From the Writer to the Producer 11. Cinema, Literature and the Curriculum 12. A Slice of Sunshine Part 3 Assessing Rahi. Partition, its Aftermath, and Indian Muslims 13. Memory, History and Fictional Representations of Partition 14. Partition, Nationalism and the Indian Muslim?15. Society, Language and Nation in Rahi Masoom Reza’s Aadha Gaon and Topi Shukla?16. The Tragedy of Partition and Women in Rahi’s Fiction Poetry, Progressive and Modern?17. Resistance and Representation: Rahi Masoom Reza’s 1857 18. Introduction to Mein ek Pheriwala 19. Rahi Masoom Reza’s Writings and Contemporary times Language and Script 20. Rahi’s Language opens a new Window 21. Rahi Masoom Reza and the Discourse on Language 22. Tracing Shifts in the Linguistic and Communal Dynamics of India: A Re-reading of Rahi Masoom Reza’s Topi Shukla Part 4 Translating Rahi 23. Translating Rahi Masoom Reza’s Aadha Gaon and Topi Shukla: A Critique 24. On translating Aadha Gaon 25. Re-ceiving Topi Shukla: Then and Now Part 5 Conversations 26. Rahi Was Dead Against Narrow-mindedness: Kunwarpal Singh in Conversation with Devendra Gupta 27. The Muslim Society was C...


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Cultural Crosscurrents from Latin America to Asia (Hardcover)

Provisions: Finding Home Through the Food Folklore of the Appalachian Table (Audio CD)

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China's Society and Culture : Studies and Reflections (Hardcover)

Lists of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface Introduction I. Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity Politics 1. Status Quo Amid ‘Change’: Xi Jinping’s Common Prosperity Agenda and Its Interface with Labour 2. ‘Zenyang zuo ge Shenzhenren?’ Local State Narratives and Migrant-Worker Subjectivities in Shenzhen 3. Ethnic Culture and Gender Relations among Naxi women in Lijiang, China 4. Significance of Bayandai: Wang Meng’s Quest for Renewing Self, Ethnic Transcendence, and Interethnic Unity II. China and India: Development and Policy Perspectives 5. The Importance of China’s Two ‘Leftovers’ 6. Media Responses to China’s Two-Child Policy and People’s Resistance to State-Controlled Reproduction 7. India and China: Some Reflections in Relation to Child Marriage 8. Disruption in Travel of Indian Students for Medical Education: The Case of China and Ukraine III. Chinese Culture and Cultural Interactions across Time 9. Legends and Myths: A Cultural Bridge between India and China 10. Popular Culture in Contemporary Mainstream Chinese Society: Twenty-first Century Avatar of Confucianism 11. Prize Economy and Chinese Literature 12. The Broadened Road of Realism: Debates and Praxis in Chinese Literature IV. Visual Culture in the Making of Perception 13. Seeing China through the Lens of Indian Cinema: An Account of the Popular and Civic Imagination 14. History, Subversion and Chinese Society through the Lens of Web Dramas: The OTT Trend 15. Relational Margins in International Relations:? Reading Select Pre- and Post-Pandemic Cinematic Portrayals of Migrant Workers in China and India V. Journeys, Scholarship, and Universalism 16. Exploration, Travel and Pilgrimage in High Asia: Journeys of Transformation 17. The Nation and Its Borders in Patricia Uberoi’s? Ouvre 18. Unfolding the ...


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Critical Discourse in Marathi : Iconic Texts (Hardcover)

Chapter One:?? What is Freedom??Chapter Two: What is Gender??Chapter Three: What is Fiction??Chapter Four: What is Caste??Chapter Five: What is Aesthetics??Chapter Six: What is Myth??Chapter Seven: What is Discourse??Chapter Eight: What is Historiography??Chapter Nine: What is Poetry?Chapter Ten: What is Literature??Chapter Eleven: What is Dalit Politics??Chapter Twelve: What is Multiculturalism??Chapter Thirteen: What is ‘Folk-culture’?Chapter Fourteen: What is Form??Chapter Fifteen: The Making of Marathi Critical Discourse

Anglo-East Asian Exchanges in Literature, Culture, and Media (Hardcover)

Bridging the Past and Future: Public and Non-Profit Marketing for Post-Industrial Areas: Proceedings of the XXIV International Congress on Public and (Hardcover)

Andaman and Nicobar Islands on the Indian Eastern Seaboard : Security, Strategy and Development (Hardcover)

Introduction?Part 1: Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Strategic Significance?1.?? Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Geopolitical and Developmental Dimensions??

2. Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Strategic Importance for India?3. Andaman and Nicobar Islands: India’s Eastern Maritime Pivot?Part 2: Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Security Dimension?4.? Maritime Crimes in Andaman and Nicobar Islands?5. Balancing Power and Preservation: Strategic Development in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands?6. Andaman and Nicobar Command: A Watchtower in the Region?7. Strategic Importance of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Backdrop of Chinese Maritime Expansion?Part 3: Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Connectivity and Development?8. Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India's Maritime Connectivity?9. Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Developmental Projects?10.? Andamans and India’s Energy Security?11. Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Maritime Domain Awareness Framework?12. Traditional Knowledge of Andaman and Nicobar Tribes: Sea and Forest

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Libya : Continuity and Change (Paperback, 3 ed)

1 Introduction; 2 State formation; 3 Politics; 4 Economics; 5 International Relations; 6 Conclusions; Bibliographical survey of the recent literature; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Libya : Continuity and Change (Hardcover, 3 ed)

1 Introduction; 2 State formation; 3 Politics; 4 Economics; 5 International Relations; 6 Conclusions; Bibliographical survey of the recent literature; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Oman : The Sultanate on the Edge (Hardcover)

Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. State Formation; Chapter 3. Politics; Chapter 4. Economics; Chapter 5. International relations; Chapter 6. Conclusion; Glossary; Notes to the Reader; Bibliography; Index