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    Norms, Modes, and Challenges

    In recent years, law and religion scholarship has increasingly emphasized the need to study the interaction of legal and religious ideas and institutions, norms and practices. The overall question that this scholarship explores may be stated as follows: how do legal and religious ideas and institutions, methods and mechanisms, beliefs and believers influence each other, for better and for worse, ... Read more

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  • Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore

    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism – and multicultural practices – have developed over time. Going beyond existing studies – which concentrate on the politics ... Read more

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  • Worlding Multiculturalisms

    The Politics of Inter-Asian Dwelling

    Edited by Daniel P. S. Goh ...
    Series series Political Theories in East Asian Context
    Worlding multiculturalisms are practices that infuse our arbitrary cultural lives with new things from other cultures in poetic ways to enable us to dwell and be at home with the complexity of the world. In the context of the crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the growing obsolescence of state-based multiculturalism in the postcolonial world, this book offers examples of new practices of ... Read more

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  • Precarious Belongings

    Affect and Nationalism in Asia

    Edited by Chih-ming Wang, Daniel PS Goh ...
    Series series Asian Cultural Studies: Transnational and Dialogic Approaches
    In the midst of refugee crises, terrorist attacks and territorial disputes across the globe, nationalism remains a powerful force in generating affects of inclusion and exclusion. In Asia, inter-Asian migration, enabled and disrupted by a history of colonialism, capitalist globalization and political conflicts, has rendered the idea of nation as both politically distinct and culturally malleable ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
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  • Governing Global-City Singapore

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    Series series Politics in Asia
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  • International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization

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    In the this collection, International Governance, Regimes, and Globalization, the writers explore international relations and globalization by using specific examples from Beijing and Taipei. In December 1949, when China was politically divided the People's Republic of China (PRC) central government was in control of most resources, tangible and intangible. For that reason, our unit of analysis ... Read more

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  • Media and the Chinese Diaspora

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    Series series Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
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