This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged with the politics of nation-building in postcolonial Southeast Asia. It provides readings of Southeast Asian literatures in a comparat...Daugiau...
This open access book presents Southeast Asia as an interesting and conceptually meaningful site to interrogate the transnational paradigm. In featuring research from and across different nations in Southea...Daugiau...
This collection scrutinizes the representation, dynamics, transformation and/or adaptation of various heroes and heroines in different folkloric traditions and narratives in the context of Asia. Exploring notions in the topics of mythologies, folk...Daugiau...
This volume consolidates chapters from across Southeast Asia as a means of discussing alternative development pathways. It presents radical re-imaginings of how development might look, considered alongside the growing disillusionment over mainstre...Daugiau...
This is an Open Access book. The international political economy is confronted by a number of overlapping crises. These include the climate emergency, rapid technological advancement, the high volume of globalised trade and financial flows, cross-...Daugiau...
This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as EH, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integra...Daugiau...
This book traces the contours of the symbiotic relationship between crop cultivation and cattle rearing in India by reading against the grain of several official accounts from the late colonial period to the 1980s. It also skillfully unpacks the m...Daugiau...
This open access book explores Asian approaches towards investment arbitrationa transnational procedure to resolve disputes between a foreign investor and a host statesetting it in the wider political economy and within domestic law context...Daugiau...
This open access book explores Asian approaches towards investment arbitrationa transnational procedure to resolve disputes between a foreign investor and a host statesetting it in the wider political economy and within domestic law context...Daugiau...
This open access book provokes critical thinking regarding the most ambitious Chinese project since the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The book presents extensive quality research and original insig...Daugiau...
This open access book provokes critical thinking regarding the most ambitious Chinese project since the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The book presents extensive quality research and original insig...Daugiau...
This transdisciplinary edited book explores new developments and perspectives on global Vietnam, touching on aspects of history, identity, transnational mobilities, heritage, belonging, civil society, linguistics, education, ethnicity, and worship...Daugiau...
This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysi...Daugiau...
This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively limited attention fro...Daugiau...
This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively limited attention fro...Daugiau...
This book focuses on the concept of home or place of origin (expressed in Tamil as Ur) and its various dimensions, in turn related to issues of belonging, attachment, detachment, and commonality among the war-affected population in the p...Daugiau...
This open access book examines Malaysian politics using a linguistic perspective. It explores how language serves to (de)legitimise governance, and its subsequent policies and activities in Malaysia. Grounded in discourse studies, this edit...Daugiau...
This open access book examines Malaysian politics using a linguistic perspective. It explores how language serves to (de)legitimise governance, and its subsequent policies and activities in Malaysia. Grounded in discourse studies, this edit...Daugiau...
This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different countries: Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. It investigates the thematic and stylistic trends in the literary...Daugiau...
This book presents new perspectives on Southeast Asia using cases from a range of ethnic groups, cultures and histories, written by scholars from different ethnicities, generations, disciplines and scientific traditions. It examines various resear...Daugiau...
