Development Studies – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 8, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding : Peace In Between : Post-War Violence and Peacebuilding / Mats Berdal, Astri Suhrke [e-book from ebrary] Ethnographic research in the construction industry / edited by Sarah Pink, Dylan Tutt, and Andrew Dainty. Women and wars / edited by Carol Cohn ; with a foreword by Cynthia Enloe. Development, security, and aid : geopolitics and geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development / Jamey

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South Asia – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 19, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Architecture and nationalism in Sri Lanka : the trouser under the cloth / Anoma Pieris. Civil society and democratization in India : institutions, ideologies and interests / Sarbeswar Sahoo. Displacement and resettlement in India : the human cost of development / Hari Mohan Mathur India in South Asia : domestic identity politics and foreign policy from Nehru to the BJP / Sinderpal Singh. India’s rights revolution : has it worked

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China and Inner Asia – September 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 24, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

Migration, prostitution, and human trafficking : the voice of Chinese women / Min Liu. Taiwan and the rise of China : cross-strait relations in the twenty-first century / edited by Baogang Guo and Chung-chian Teng. Taiwanese identity in the 21st century : domestic, regional, and global perspectives / edited by Gunter Schubert and Jens Damm. Tibet : a history / Sam Van Schaik. Harmony and war : Confucian culture and

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Japan and Korea – June 2012 to May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 21, 2013|Japan, Korea|0 comments

朝鮮通信使の足跡 : 日朝関係史論 / 仲尾宏著. Women of the Yi dynasty / [edited by Park Young-hai ; translated by Choi Jin-young et al.]. 평화 를 사랑 하는 세계인 으로 / 문 선명. Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan under the single non-transferable vote : the comparative study of an embedded institution / edited by Bernard Grofman … [et al.]. A slow walk through Jeong-dong / written by Michael Gib, illustrated by

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Literature – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 15, 2013|Literature|0 comments

Criticism & interpretation Women writing violence : the novel and radical feminist imaginaries / Shreerekha Subramanian. Approaches to teaching The story of the stone (Dream of the red chamber) / edited by Andrew Schonebaum and Tina Lu. 文学革命与”新青年”传播 /陈斯华著 – Wen xue ge ming yu “Xin qing nian” chuan bo / Chen Sihua zhu. 子彈鴉片 : 天安門大屠殺的生死故事 / 廖亦武  – Zi dan ya pian : Tian’anmen da tu sha de

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South Asia – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 7, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Sri Lanka and the Kandy Esala Perahera : discovering the spirit of Buddah in the land of elephants / Michael Sarnacki. The great Indian phonebook : how the mass mobile changes business, politics and daily life / Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron. Beyond Swat : history, society and economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier / edited by Magnus Marsden, Benjamin Hopkins. Contesting nation : gendered violence in South Asia : notes on the postcolonial present / edited by Angana P. Chatterji and Lubna Nazir Chaudhry. Coins of Jahangir : creations of a

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South Asia – March 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 24, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Encyclopaedia of the Nilgiri hills. Parts 1 & 2 / edited by Paul Hockings. More than real : a history of the imagination in south India / David Shulman. Serving empire, serving nation : James Tod and the Rajputs of Rajasthan / by Jason Freitag. Women writing violence : the novel and radical feminist imaginaries / Shreerekha Subramanian. Leaders on leadership : insights from corporate India / edited by All

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Birds Eye View Film Festival: Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers [3rd-10th April]

By David Pearson|March 30, 2013|Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica|0 comments

Next week sees the start of the 2013 Film Festival: Celebrating Arab Women Filmmakers along with two special events for International Women’s Week on 7th & 8th March. It runs from 3-10 April 2013 and takes place at the BFI Southbank, Barbican, ICA & Hackney Picturehouse, Southbank Centre. The program consists of features, documentaries, short films, events, live music and awards that give factual and fictional perspectives by, and on, Arab women.

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Development Studies – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 5, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Every nation for itself : winners and losers in a G-Zero world / Ian Bremmer. Crisis, capital flows and FDI in emerging Asia / Ramkishen S. Rajan with Sasidaran Gopalan, Rabin Hattari. From iron rice bowl to informalization: markets, workers, and the state in a changing China / [edited by] Sarosh Kuruvilla, Ching Kwan Lee, and Mary E. Gallagher.[Available as an e-book via ebrary] Modalities of change : the interface

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