Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia. Anxiety, Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times, Paperback - ***

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. The volume explores the impact of humour ...

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The contributors to Speaking of the Self interrogate the varied ways in which a diverse group of mostly female writers from South Asia-from a seven...

Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, an...

Analyses South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, an...

Patchwork States argues that South Asia's politics of violence, development and electoral competition are rooted in colonial and post-colonial stat...

DescriptionA discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can't afford to be indifferent China's rise has upse...

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Reducere. Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering P...

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their prope...

Offers a look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia. This book looks at how social and natural landscapes are c...

Description Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the mode...

Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the languages of the South Asian subcon...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 245 x 18Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Iulia Lumin...

Jane Gibson, an established potter, was determined to document the lives, skills and work of the traditional potters of South Asia before their dis...

This book engages with the concept, true value and function of democracy in South Asia against the background of real social conditions for the pro...

There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. Jos Esteban Mu oz looks at how those outside the raci...

Based on extensive original research at the local level, this book explores the relationship between Russian Orthodoxy and politics in contemporary...

This book explores the state of community radio, a significant independent media movement that began about two decades ago, in different parts of S...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 276Collection: Routledge Research in Comparative PoliticsPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 157 x 23...

Reducere. Description"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflictin...

By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, this book shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial pro...

In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-hist...

From dour old women to buzzkills who can't take a joke, the stereotype of the humourless feminist has repeatedly been deployed to derail and delegi...

The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia: Regimes and Revolutions - Dr Charles W. Hartley, Dr G. Bike Yazicioglu, Dr Adam T. Smith

Examining different forms of resistance among Shi'i women in the Middle East and Europe, this book studies the performance of sectarian and gender ...

Negotiating identity in hip-hop culture

What trends are shaping contemporary political communication and behaviour in Canada, and where are they heading? What's Trending in Canadian Polit...

Traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a biodiverse region at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, B...

Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciou...

This volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. Focusing on developmen...

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DescriptionFinancial inclusion and financial education are becoming increasingly recognized as key requirements for sustainable and inclusive growt...

This book traces the archaeological trajectory of the expansion of Buddhism and its regional variations in South Asia. The work underlines that rel...

Challenges visuality as the dominant mode through which we understand gender, social performance, and visual culture