ICAS Publications series
Writing India Anew: Indian English Fiction 2000-2010
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Sen, Rituparna Roy
June 23, 2013
This groundbreaking study assesses the genre of Indian-English fiction in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Some of the most prominent scholars in the field, including Rimi B. Chatterjee, Bill Ashcroft and Shirley Chew, explore a range of themes that extend from the re-mapping of ...
Islam in Indonesia: Contrasting Images and Interpretations
1st Edition
By Jajat Burhanudin, Kees van Dijk
January 31, 2013
While Muslims in Indonesia have begun to turn towards a strict adherence to Islam, the reality of the socio-religious environment is much more complicated than a simple shift towards fundamentalism. In this volume, contributors explore the multifaceted role of Islam in Indonesia from a variety of ...
Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization: Channeling the Flow of Life
1st Edition
By Deborah Tooker
March 29, 2012
Based on the author's extensive fieldwork among the Akha people prior to full nation-state integration, this illuminating study critically re-examines assumptions about space, power, and the politics of identity, so often based on modern, western contexts. Tooker explores the active role that ...
Singapore in Global History
1st Edition
Edited
By Derek Heng, Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
March 22, 2011
This important overview explores the connections between Singapore's past with historical developments worldwide until present day. The contributors analyse Singapore as a city-state seeking to provide an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of the global dimensions contributing to ...
Exploring 'Unseen' Social Capital in Community Participation: Everyday Lives of Poor Mainland Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Sam Wong
July 17, 2007
This book argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is less likely to succeed because the mainstream neoinstitutional approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. This inadequacy calls for a re-assessment of human motivations, institutional dynamics ...
The Rhythm of Strategy: A Corporate Biography of the Salim Group of Indonesia
1st Edition
By Marleen Dieleman
July 17, 2007
This book provides a well-documented analysis of the strategy of the Salim Group, one of the largest family conglomerates in Southeast Asia. Using a multitude of sources, including interviews with the Salim family and Salim Group managers, the author provides a comprehensive corporate biography of ...
Multiregionalism and Multilateralism: Asian-European Relations in a Global Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Sebastian Bersick, Paul van der Velde, Wim Stokhof
September 01, 2006
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM, est. 1996) is an interregional forum which consists of the members of the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and China, Japan and South Korea. The main components of the ASEM process include political dialogue, economy, education and culture...