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    Service needs and the state

    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Older persons are often portrayed as social and financial burdens because pensions, health and social care have to withstand increasing old age dependency ratios. Due to a lack of access to representation or a lack of social and economic power, older people have found few opportunities to have their voices heard, making age an immensely political issue.Written by an impressive team of authors, ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China

    A View from Lijiang

    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China’s hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang. It provides a compelling study of the dialectical relationships between global and domestic capital, the state, tourists and locals as they collude, collaborate and contest one another to ready Lijiang for tourist consumption.Using rich material from insightful interviews and ... Read more

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  • Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region

    Series series Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
    Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women's lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change in the region. The editors focus attention on the politics of gender as a mobilizing centre for identities, and ... Read more

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