Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of contemporary Asia.
Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology
1st Edition
Edited
By Iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene, Martyn Smith
May 27, 2024
This book examines the meanings, uses, and agency of voice, noise, sound, and sound technologies across Asia. Including a series of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary case studies, the book reveals sound as central to the experience of modernity in Asia and as essential to the understanding of the ...
Indigenous Reconciliation in Contemporary Taiwan: From Stigma to Hope
1st Edition
Edited
By Scott E. Simon, Jolan Hsieh, Peter Kang
May 27, 2024
This book draws attention to the issues of Indigenous justice and reconciliation in Taiwan, exploring how Indigenous actors affirm their rights through explicitly political and legal strategies, but also through subtle forms of justice work in films, language instruction, museums, and handicraft ...
Memory and Fabrication in East Asian Visual Culture: Ruinous Garden
1st Edition
By Dennitza Gabrakova
May 27, 2024
This book examines four contemporary sites of visual culture in East Asia through the poetic prism of the “ruinous garden.” Framing destroyed, discarded, and displaced material objects within a rhetoric of development and relating this to the experience of ethnic/national culture, the book presents...
Air Pollution Governance in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Kuei-tien Chou, Koichi Hasegawa, Dowan Ku, Shu-Fen Kao
January 29, 2024
Focusing on Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and Mainland China, the contributors to this book analyze various cases of air pollution within East Asia. Air pollution in East Asia is a major health risk, which also has damaging impacts on the environment leading to impacts on society, economic growth, ...
Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony Spires, Akihiro Ogawa
January 29, 2024
This book represents a pioneering interdisciplinary effort to analyze Asian civil society under authoritarianism, a regime type that is re-appearing or deepening after several decades of increased political liberalization. By organizing its approach into four main themes, this volume succinctly ...
Memory, Trauma, Asia: Recall, Affect, and Orientalism in Contemporary Narratives
1st Edition
Edited
By Rahul K. Gairola, Sharanya Jayawickrama
May 31, 2023
The contributors to this volume re-think established insights of memory and trauma theory and enrich those studies with diverse Asian texts, critically analyzing literary and cultural representations of Asia and its global diasporas. They broaden the scope of memory and trauma studies by examining ...
Whole Person Education in East Asian Universities: Perspectives from Philosophy and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Benedict S. B. Chan, Victor C. M. Chan
May 31, 2023
This book provides much new thinking on the phenomenon of whole-person education, a phenomenon which features strongly in East Asian universities, and which aims to develop students intellectually, spiritually, and ethically, to master critical thinking skills, to explore ethical challenges in the ...
Transnational Civil Society in Asia: The Potential of Grassroots Regionalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Avenell, Akihiro Ogawa
January 09, 2023
This edited volume addresses how transnational interactions among civil society actors in Asia and its sub-regions are helping to strengthen common democratic values and transform dominant processes of policymaking and corporate capitalism in the region. The contributors conceive of transnational ...
Climate Change Governance in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Kuei-Tien Chou, Koichi Hasegawa, Dowan Ku, Shu-Fen Kao
May 06, 2022
Asian countries are among the largest contributors to climate change. China, India, Japan and South Korea are among the top ten largest carbon emitters in the world, with South Korea, Japan and Taiwan also some of the largest on a per capita basis. At the same time, many Asian countries, notably ...
Populist Threats and Democracy’s Fate in Southeast Asia: Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia
1st Edition
By William Case
August 14, 2018
Democracy in Southeast Asia has been explained using a number of factors including historical legacies, social structures, developmental levels, transitional processes, and institutional designs while other elements, such as elite-level relations and social coalitions, have been overlooked. This ...
Enhancing Asia-Europe Co-operation through Educational Exchange
1st Edition
By Georg Wiessala
August 10, 2018
This book examines the ideas of knowledge-transfer and higher education exchange in the relationship between the European Union and countries, regions, universities and think-tanks across Asia. It critically investigates some discourses of particular relevance to the cognitive framework of the ...
Asia Struggles with Democracy: Evidence from Indonesia, Korea and Thailand
1st Edition
By Giovanna Dore
June 28, 2018
Since 1974, when the current wave of democratisation began, the movement towards democracy in Asia has remained limited. Many countries in Asia, in fact, are not making a decisive move towards democracy, and find themselves struggling with the challenges of democratic consolidation and governance. ...