Identity in crossroads civilisations : ethnicity, nationalism and globalism in Asia / edited by Erich Kolig, Vivienne S.M. Angeles and Sam Wong.
Based on multi-disciplinary studies conducted in Asia (India, Bhutan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand), this volume on Identity in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia demonstrates how identity is defined, negotiated and conceptualised in response to...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : crossroad civilisations and bricolage identities / Erich Kolig, Sam Wong, Vivienne SM. Angeles
- Asia and the global world : identities, values, rights / Elena Asciutti
- Creating 'Malaysians' : a case study of an urban kampung in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia / Toru Ueda
- Ethnic mosaic and the cultural nationalism of Bhutan / Rup Kumar Barman
- Religion and cultural nationalism : socio-political dynamism of communal violence in India / Sali Augustine
- Is identity clash inevitable? Identity and network building amongst mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong / Sam Wong
- Socio-economic crisis and its consequences on a little known tribal community in West Bengal, India / Samar Kumar Biswas
- Post-colonialism, globalism, nativism : reinventing English in a post-colonial space / Krishna Sen
- Occidentalism and Asian middle-class identities : notes on birthday cakes in an Indian context / Minna Säävälä
- Ode to 'personal challenge' : reconsidering Japanese groupism and the role of Beethoven's Ninth in catering to socio-cultural needs / Eddy Y.L. Chang
- Performing cosmopolitan clash and collage : Krishen Jit's stagings of the 'Stranger' in Malaysia / Charlene Rajendran
- Constructing identity : visual expressions of Islam in the predominantly Catholic Philippines / Vivienne SM. Angeles
- Islam and Orientalism in New Zealand : the challenges of multiculturalism, human rights and national security
- and the return of the Xenophobes / Erich Kolig.