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The Constructed Other: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind

The Constructed Other: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind

The Constructed Other argues that the assumed otherness of Japanese architecture has made it both a testbed for Western architectural theories and a source of inspiration for Western designers. The book traces three recurring themes in Western accounts of Japanese architecture from the reopening of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: a wish to see Western architectural theories reflected in Japanese buildings; efforts to integrate elements of Japanese architecture into Western buildings; and a desire to connect contemporary Japanese architecture with Japanese tradition. It is suggested that together these narratives have had the effect of creating what amounts to a mythical version of Japanese architecture often at odds with historical fact but which has exercised a powerful influence on the development of building design internationally. | The Constructed Other: Japanese Architecture in the Western Mind

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Politics of the 'Other' in India and China Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts

Politics of the 'Other' in India and China Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts

The social sciences have been heavily influenced by modernization theory focusing on issues of economic growth political development and social change in order to develop a predictive model of linear progress for developing countries following a Western prototype. Under this hegemonic paradigm of development the world tends to get divided into simplistic binary oppositions between the ‘West’ and the ‘rest’ ‘us’ and ‘them’ and ‘self’ and ‘other’. Proposing to shift the discussion on what constitutes the ‘Other’ as opposed to the ‘Self’ from philosophy and cultural studies to the social sciences this book explores how the structural asymmetries existing between Western discourses and the realities of the non-Western world manifest themselves in the ideas institutions and socio-political practices of India and China and in how far they shape the social scientist’s understanding of their discipline in general. It provides a counter-narrative by revealing the relativity of geographies and by showing that the conventional presentation of core elements of the Asian socio-political set-up as ‘aberrations’ from the Western models fails to acknowledge their inherent strategic character of adapting Western concepts to meet local requirements. Drawing on multiple disciplines concepts and contexts in India and China the book makes a valuable contribution to the theory and practice of politics as well as to International and Asian Studies. | Politics of the 'Other' in India and China Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts

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The Western Balkans in the World Linkages and Relations with Non-Western Countries

The Western Balkans in the World Linkages and Relations with Non-Western Countries

This book provides a detailed understanding of how different types of engagements impact upon the reform and EU integration of the Western Balkan region. It examines the influence of Russia China Turkey and the UAE in the region and analyses the range of existing links. Contributors offer an academic and multifaceted perspective of the role of external and non-Western actors in the region that goes beyond on the one hand the tendency of some Western decision makers to perceive all engagement by third powers as a sinister threat and on the other the view of regional governments of all external involvement as a boon coming at a time of Western neglect and reduced foreign investments. By looking at the importance of Russia Turkey China and the UAE in the Western Balkans the book sheds light on one key arena of global competition offers new insights on the strengths and weaknesses of Euro–Atlantic integration and advances our knowledge of foreign policy and its economic social and security dimensions for small and medium-sized countries. It will be of interest to academics postgraduate and research students and think-tankers with research interest in IR and Southeast European Studies. European decision makers will also gain an insight into the extent of non-Western influence in the region. | The Western Balkans in the World Linkages and Relations with Non-Western Countries

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Western Sahara International Law Justice and Natural Resources

Western Sahara International Law Justice and Natural Resources

As the Spanish were preparing to leave colonized Western Sahara in 1975 Morocco invaded sparking a war with the Western Saharan Polisario Front. About 70% of Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco which stations up to 140 000 soldiers in the territory primarily along a 1700 kilometre long sand berm that is protected by one of the world’s largest fields of landmines. In 1991 Morocco and the Polisario Front agreed to a truce ahead of a referendum on Western Sahara’s future. However Morocco has since refused to allow the referendum to take place and has begun the extensive exploitation of Western Sahara’s non-renewable natural resources. This has both highlighted the plight of the Saharawi people who live in refugee camps in Algeria and in occupied Western Sahara and pushed the Polisario Front back to a position where it is openly canvassing for a return to war. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Change Peace and Security. | Western Sahara International Law Justice and Natural Resources

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Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought Cosmopolitan Interventions

Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought Cosmopolitan Interventions

For too long scholars interested in panentheism have focused almost exclusively on Western approaches to the issue. This book offers the first in-depth study of a wide range of Indian paradigms of panentheism both ancient and modern and brings these paradigms into creative and constructive dialogue with Western traditions. This volume features original essays written by leading international scholars. The volume discusses a broad range of Indian panentheistic traditions including the Upaniṣads Bhedābheda Vedānta Rāmānuja’s Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta Yogācāra Buddhism and the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda tradition. The chapters connect these traditions with Western panentheistic conceptions developed by thinkers such as Spinoza Berkeley Schopenhauer Krause Royce Tononi and Koch and Western process philosophers. Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of religion Indian philosophy comparative philosophy and comparative religion. | Panentheism in Indian and Western Thought Cosmopolitan Interventions

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The Essential Guide to Western Civilization

The Essential Guide to Western Civilization

The Essential Guide to Western Civilization offers a concise overview of European history developed to suit the undergraduate Western Civilization curriculum. Author Nicholas L. Waddy provides an accessible account of major developments in European history in a flexible format. The book will serve as a core text for instructors wishing to build a syllabus including primary sources articles and visual materials of their own choosing. Discussion questions and a list of key terms at the end of each chapter will help to guide conversation and assist students in navigating the Western Civilization survey.

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Western Reports on the Taiping A Selection of Documents

Western Reports on the Taiping A Selection of Documents

This book first published in 1982 collects together a wide range of Western reportage on this major revolt in nineteenth century China. The extracts are contemporary from eyewitnesses and come from diplomatic and missionary reports from books newspapers private journals travel accounts and diaries. They provide a good overview of the response to this major crisis of Chinese society over a twenty-year period and the Western presence in mid-nineteenth century China. | Western Reports on the Taiping A Selection of Documents

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Western Germany From Defeat to Rearmament

Western Germany From Defeat to Rearmament

This book first published in 1955 examines the total economic political and social breakdown that Germany suffered in the last year of the Second World War and in its immediate aftermath and the beginnings of the recovery in the Western half of the now-divided nation. The process of ‘denazification’ is analysed as are the policies of the occupying powers and the subsequent political stability and economic expansion. | Western Germany From Defeat to Rearmament

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The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria Western Africa Part IV

The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria Western Africa Part IV

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series published between 1950 and 1977 brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise critical and (for its time) accurate the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion Witchcraft Birth Initiation Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship Marriage Inheritance Slavery Land Tenure Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa North-Eastern Africa Southern Africa West Central Africa Western Africa and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps available to view on routledge. com or available as a pdf from the publishers. | The Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria Western Africa Part IV

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Digital Journalism in China

Digital Journalism in China

This edited collection brings together journalism scholars from mainland China Hong Kong the UK and Australia to address a variety of pressing issues and challenges facing digital journalism in China today. While China shares certain affinities with the digital disruption of media in other settings its experience and articulation of change is ultimately unique. This volume explores the implications of digital media technologies for journalists’ professional practice news users’ consumption and engagement with news as well as the shifting institutional organizational and financial structures of news media. Drawing on case studies and quantitative and qualitative approaches contributors address questions concerning: whether China is witnessing ‘disruptive’ or ‘sustainable’ journalism; if and in what ways digital technologies may disrupt journalism; and whether Chinese digital journalism converges with or diverges from Western experiences of digital journalism. Digital Journalism in China is an important addition to the literature on digital journalism comparative media analysis the Chinese Communist Party’s social media strategies tabloidization trends and the conflict between newsroom and classroom in journalism education and will be of interest to advanced students scholars and practitioners alike.

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Economic Summits and Western Decision-Making

Economic Summits and Western Decision-Making

Since 1975 the leaders of the major western economies have gathered in annual summit meetings to try to agree a unified response to the main political and economic problems facing them. This book first published in 1984 traces the development of the summit meetings and tries to assess their impact on western decision-making and international relations in general. The summits arose as the product of a serious crisis that shook the world economy in the early 1970s. They have been sustained because of the waning of the American hegemony that had supported the postwar international economic regime. From this it became vital for the leaders of the major economies to reassert collective leadership in order to try to re-establish a new world economic equilibrium. | Economic Summits and Western Decision-Making

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The Future Of Western Development Assistance

The Future Of Western Development Assistance

Since the inception of Western development assistance significant changes in the makeup of donors recipients development goals and strategies have taken place. However major donor institutions have not yet weighed the impact of these changes on their operations and objectives in anticipation of the future global environment. Discussing trends that will profoundly affect development assistance strategy the authors raise such questions as: Will the demand for Western technical assistance drop sharply over the next decade? Was the Latin American debt crisis precipitated by the loan practices of international commercial banks? Should aid to Africa be shifted from investment in rural desert areas to investment in urban planning and infrastructure? Also examined are such concerns as the outside management of agricultural research; the U. S. focus on purchasing political allegiance with its aid programs thus creating dependent nations; the threat to East Asian economic growth posed by the micro-electronics revolution; and the growing conflict between western aid and trade objectives. The authors' purpose is not to provide definitive prescriptions for future development programs but rather to focus the attention of policymakers on important but often neglected issues. | The Future Of Western Development Assistance

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Party Leaders and their Selection Rules in Western Europe

Party Leaders and their Selection Rules in Western Europe

This book analyses the determinants behind the openings in party leader selection rules (leaders' selectorate) in 10 Western European countries and more than 55 parties between the mid-1980s and the mid-2010s. Presenting a novel and revealing theoretical and empirical framework it tackles the impact of party change and the personalisation of politics specifically using data coming from the first expert survey on the personalisation of politics in Western Europe; the PoPES. A quantitative analysis is paired with more in-depth explorations of two Italian parties (the Italian Communist Party - Democratic Party of the Left; the Northern League) and the (missed) opening of their leader selectorate. This book highlights the critical importance of studying party leader selection rules against the backdrop of allegedly declining parties and rising party leaders and concludes by placing its findings in a broader discussion about the future of Western European party leaders. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties and party systems leadership political elites elections democracy and more widely of Western European politics and comparative politics. | Party Leaders and their Selection Rules in Western Europe

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The Benin Kingdom and the Edo-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria Western Africa Part XIII

The Benin Kingdom and the Edo-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria Western Africa Part XIII

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series published between 1950 and 1977 brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise critical and (for its time) accurate the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion Witchcraft Birth Initiation Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship Marriage Inheritance Slavery Land Tenure Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa North-Eastern Africa Southern Africa West Central Africa Western Africa and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps available to view on routledge. com or available as a pdf from the publishers. | The Benin Kingdom and the Edo-Speaking Peoples of South-Western Nigeria Western Africa Part XIII

GBP 36.99
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