Identity in crossroad civilisations : ethnicity, nationalism and globalism in Asia /
Identity in crossroad civilizations
edited by Erich Kolig, Vivienne SM. Angeles and Sam Wong
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2009
- 259 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- ICAS publications series. Edited volumes ; 8 .
- ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 8. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259).
Introduction : crossroad civilisations and bricolage identities / Asia and the global world : identities, values, rights / Creating 'Malaysians' : a case study of an urban kampung in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia / Ethnic mosaic and the cultural nationalism of Bhutan / Religion and cultural nationalism : socio-political dynamism of communal violence in India / Is identity clash inevitable? Identity and network building amongst mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong / Socio-economic crisis and its consequences on a little known tribal community in West Bengal, India / Post-colonialism, globalism, nativism : reinventing English in a post-colonial space / Occidentalism and Asian middle-class identities : notes on birthday cakes in an Indian context / Ode to 'personal challenge' : reconsidering Japanese groupism and the role of Beethoven's Ninth in catering to socio-cultural needs / Performing cosmopolitan clash and collage : Krishen Jit's stagings of the 'Stranger' in Malaysia / Constructing identity : visual expressions of Islam in the predominantly Catholic Philippines / Islam and Orientalism in New Zealand : the challenges of multiculturalism, human rights and national security - and the return of the Xenophobes / Erich Kolig, Sam Wong, Vivienne SM. Angeles -- Elena Asciutti -- Toru Ueda -- Rup Kumar Barman -- Sali Augustine -- Sam Wong -- Samar Kumar Biswas -- Krishna Sen -- Minna Säävälä -- Eddy Y.L. Chang -- Charlene Rajendran -- Vivienne SM. Angeles -- Erich Kolig.