Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “n freiner”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Social and Gender Politics of Confucian Nationalism

    Women and the Japanese Nation-State

    by N. Freiner ...
    Freiner defines a new understanding of nationalism, with a focus on the ways in which the Japanese state has utilized Confucian philosophy to create a Japanese national identity and on the impact of this on women. She examines the key policy areas of education and social security alongside the roles that women have played in these initiatives. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Eco Culture

    Disaster, Narrative, Discourse

    by Charles Byler, Kristen Chamberlain, Danielle Crawford, Stephanie Hankinson, Peer Illner, Amy Lantinga, Marceleen Mosher, Minna Niemi, Liane Tanguay, Erik Trump, Kirk Boyle, Nicole L. Freiner, Hannah Stark ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The edited collection, Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse, opens a conversation about the mediated relationship between culture and ecology. The dynamic between these two great forces comes into stark relief when a disaster—in its myriad forms and narratives—reveals the fragility of our ecological and cultural landscapes. Disasters are the clashing of culture and ecology in violent and ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Rice and Agricultural Policies in Japan

    The Loss of a Traditional Lifestyle

    by Nicole L. Freiner ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book chronicles Japan’s rice farmers who live in mainly rural areas in the west and south of Japan through original interviews conducted in Japanese. It argues that current agricultural policy as well as the tightening relationship between the US and Japan is a death sentence for a traditional lifestyle that is vital to Japan’s notion of national identity. The project covers recent ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Paradiplomacy

    Cities and States as Global Players

    by Rodrigo Tavares ...
    Orthodox international relations theory considers foreign affairs to be the exclusive purview of national governments. Yet as Rodrigo Tavares demonstrates, the vast majority of leading sub-states and cities are currently practicing foreign affairs, both bilaterally and multilaterally. Subnational governments in Asia, the Americas, Europe and Africa are changing traditional notions of sovereignty, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Dynamic Governance: Embedding Culture, Capabilities And Change In Singapore (English Version)

    by Boon Siong Neo, Geraldine Chen ...
    In a world of uncertainty and change, current achievements are no guarantee for future survival. Even if the initial chosen set of principles, policies and practices are good, static efficiency and governance would eventually lead to stagnation and decay. No amount of careful planning can assure a government of continual relevance and effectiveness if there is no capacity for learning, innovation ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Politics of Financing Education in China

    by T. Lin ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Tingjin Lin explores the conflict between self-interest and the provision of equality of opportunity facing educators in China. Provincial leaders prove reluctant to equalize education when doing so means sacrificing their future promotion. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • A History of Human Rights Society in Singapore

    1965-2015

    Edited by Jiyoung Song ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    To celebrate Singapore’s fiftieth anniversary for its independence from Malaysia in 2015, 35 students, academics and activists came together to discuss and write about pioneering Singaporean human rights activists and their under-reported stories in Singapore. The city-state is known for its remarkable economic success while having strict laws on individual freedom in the name of national security ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Reforming Urban Governance in Bangladesh

    The City Corporation

    by Pranab Kumar Panday ...
    This book provides an analysis of the urban government system in Bangladesh, focusing on its upper tier, the City Corporation (CC), and the institutional and legal frameworks within which it operates. Along with a discussion of the scale and magnitude of urbanization, the book presents a comprehensive analysis of the reform agendas of CCs including their functional assignments, local political ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Marginalities in India

    Themes and Perspectives

    Edited by Asmita Bhattacharyya, Sudeep Basu ...
    This volume engages with the renewed focus on various forms of persisting and new marginalities in globalising India. The persistence of hunger in pockets of India; forcible land acquisitions and their impact on deprived sections of society; the effects of urban relocations; material deprivation of minority groups and tribes as a result of conflicts; continuing caste discrimination; reported cases ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Public Service Innovations in China

    Edited by Yijia Jing, Stephen P. Osborne ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume presents case studies of the transformation of China’s public services over the past decade in China. As the country has experienced fundamental changes in its demographic, economic, social and environmental structures, demands on public services have been increasing tremendously, and have become unprecedentedly diverse. In response, innovations to provide new services, expand ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh

    Reforms, Participation and Accountability

    by Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday ...
    Series Book 8 - Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
    This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people’s participation and accountability. Throughout the chapters, the authors review the existing legal framework of UP and its relation to social accountability, examine how much of the social participation is spontaneous ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Observing Policy-Making in Indonesia

    Edited by Erhard Friedberg, Mary E. Hilderbrand ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyzes policy-making and implementation in Indonesia. Conducted at the School of Government and Public Policy (Indonesia), the research presented here provides original insights into the country’s public policy processes by exploring the conditions on the ground that shape implementation.The studies brought together in this volume are based on fieldwork involving interviews with ... Read more

    $107.99 USD