Africa – June to August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 15, 2012|Africa|0 comments

Civil society as a conflictual sphere in post-liberalization Tanzania : the roles of NGOs and trade unions / Mark McQuinn. Les fantômes de Jérusalem : roman / Waciny Laredj ; traduit de l’arabe (Algérie) par Marcel Bois ; en collaboration avec l’auteur. Les Balcons de la mer du Nord / Waciny Laredj ; roman traduit de l’arabe (Algérie) par Catherine Charruau avec la collaboration de l’auteur. Les ailes de la

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South Asian Lit Fest Heads for Edinburgh this Summer!

By Farzana Whitfield|August 3, 2012|Literature, South Asia|0 comments

On the 21st August, The South Asian Literature Festival (SALF) is teaming up with mutual friends behind the Edinburgh International Book Festival. South Asia Unbound: The Sounds and Words We Make will feature giant figures from the South Asian literary world, including: Kamila Shamsie, Hari Kunzru and music journalist Neil Kulkarni. There will be music, storytelling, stand-up, poetry and much more fun anticipated.  Click on the link below to find out more:

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The Tibetan and Himalayan Library

By Farzana Whitfield|July 26, 2012|China and Inner Asia, South Asia|0 comments

I love this website! The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) promotes knowledge, expertise, information resources/services and publishers relating to the Tibetan and Himalayan regions. They also provide knowledge that is created by and for the benefit of local communities. Data used includes: maps, images, audio visual and critical essays. There is also an exciting sister archive called the Bhutan National Digital Library. To explore both further, please see the links below:

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Africa – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 12, 2012|Africa|0 comments

Canadian foreign policy in Africa : regional approaches to peace, security, and development / Edward Ansah Akuffo. A double-edged sword : a quest for a place in the African sun : archival records on the formation and missions of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa / Nkosi S.P. Holomisa Slave emancipation and racial attitudes in nineteenth-century South Africa / R.L. Watson. Africa, the lost decades / by Samuel

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Japan – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 6, 2012|Japan|0 comments

Buddhist fire ritual in Japan / Madhavi Kolhatkar, Musashi Tachikawa. Housewives of Japan : an ethnography of real lives and consumerized domesticity / Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni. Why economic slumps following economic crises turn out to be long and arduous : Japan’s experience of the lost decades / Tetsurō Sugiura. Hedge fund activism in Japan : the limits of shareholder primacy / John Buchanan, Dominic Heesang Chai, Simon Deakin. Continuous improvement strategies

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Middle East and Central Asia – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 20, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Islam Dreams and visions in Islamic societies / edited by Özgen Felek and Alexander D. Knysh. Islam, Christianity and the mystic journey : a comparative exploration / Ian Richard Netton. The Qurʼān in context : historical and literary investigations into the Qurʼānic milieu / edited by Angelika Neuwirth, Nicolai Sinai, Michael Marx. Young British Muslims : identity, culture, politics and the media / Nahid Afrose Kabir. Constructing a religiously ideal

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South Asia – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 19, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

Sambandha / Rājendra ‘Rājeśa’. 1857, Narahatạ kī vīrān̐ganā / Vinoda Kumara Śrīvāstava. Patthara galī : [kahānī-saṅgraha] / Nāsirā Śarmā. Mahākavikālidāsaviracitam, Abhijñānaśākuntalam : Prabhopetam / sampādaka, samīkshaka evaṃ vyākhyākāra, Śivabālaka Dvivedī, Ratnā Tivārī, Pratyushavatsalā Divedī. Nirālā kā kāvya rāga se vidroha taka / Avadheśa Kumāra. Muṃśī Premacanda aura Dalita samāja : rāshtṛīya bahasa ke āīne meṃ vivecanā / Ratnakumāra Sāmbhariyā. Āja ke g̲ẖama ke nāma / Faiza Ahamada Faiza ; sampādaka,

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Africa – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 15, 2012|Africa|0 comments

Men in African film & fiction / edited by Lahoucine Ouzgane. History of the Igala Kingdom c.1534-1854 : a study of political and cultural integration in the Niger-Benue confluence area of Nigeria / Joseph N. Ukwedeh. African theatre. 9, Histories 1850-1950 / editor, Yvette Hutchison.. Africa in the American imagination : popular culture, racialized identities, and African visual culture / Carol Magee. The developmental challenges of mining and oil :

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Korea – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 7, 2012|Korea|0 comments

Media and democratic transition in South Korea / Ki-Sung Kwak. The languages of Japan and Korea / edited by Nicolas Tranter. 예쁜여자만들기 : 미인강박의문화사, 한국에서미인은어떻게만들어졌는가 / 이영아지음 한국민주주의의제도화 / 정상호지음 한국의보수와수구 : 이념의역사 / 이나미 한국 민족주의 와 변혁적 이념 체계 / 금 인숙, 문 상석, 전 상숙 통일한국브랜딩 : 마케팅의눈으로본한반도브랜딩전략서 / 전병길, 박일수 근현대 한일 관계 의 제 문제 / 동북아 역사 재단 편 청년층노동시장진입및정착방안연구 / 남재량 그들이아닌우리를위한복지 :

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Literature – Jan to May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 23, 2012|Literature|0 comments

Sketches : anthology, 2008 to 2011 / introduced and edited by Jeremy Kearns-Watts. Postcolonial fiction and disability : exceptional children, metaphor and materiality / Clare Barker. Jan-May 2012