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'Social-science research has been transformed over the last generation by the advent and expansion of the general social surveys (GSS). The GSS model of research has created a infrastructure for the social sciences designed to address the interests and research agenda of scholars and their students; cover a wide range of topics; utilize reliable, valid, and generalizable measurement; and provide data both across nations and across time. This design in turn has generated widespread analysis and notably contributed to our understanding of social processes and societal change.' (author's abstract)|

On Language, Power, and the Nation -- Sri Lanka: Linguistic Nationalism and its Perils -- Kazakhstan: Revival in Postcolonial Negotiations -- Mongolia: Purism, Identity, and the Other -- Hong Kong: Language and Survival in a One-China World -- Catalonia: Good and Bad Revivals -- Reflections and Takeaways.

"The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Sri Lanka offers a comprehensive overview on issues facing the island country and an overview delineating some key moments in the country's contemporary polity, economy, and sociality. This book outlines aspects and influences foundational to understanding a country defined by its economic and political turmoil, and rift with public distrust in today's shifting geopolitics. Chapters by various established scholars highlight this book's pivotal contribution in situating Sri Lanka's turmoil and deprivation in this current conjuncture. The handbook is structured in seven sections: Nations and Nationalism Politics, State and Institutions Economy and Political Economy Work and Life Environment and Environmental Politics Society, Social Systems and Culture Moment of flux, looking ahead. Each section includes on average six chapters covering the social sciences and humanities to survey emerging and cutting-edge areas of the study of Sri Lanka. Multi-disciplinary in focus, the book also includes an introductory and concluding section, which creates the space and platform for senior, mid-ranking and junior academics to engage in dynamic conversation with each other on the subject of contemporary Sri Lanka. Including scholarship from Sri Lankan experts, the handbook creates academic output, which chimes with broader calls in academia on decolonizing the academic landscape. An important reference work, this handbook will be of interest to scholars and students from wide-ranging academic disciplines and a focus on Sri Lanka, Asia and South Asian Studies, sociology, environmental politics, development, labour, management, political economy and anthropology"--

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1952. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived

Prologue; Chapter One: Urban Space, Community-making and Illiberal Politics: A Theoretical Framework; Chapter Two: Producing a New Urban Space: City-making in Noida; Chapter Three: Fractured Secessions: Urban Communities in Noida; Chapter Four: Recreating a Nativist Rural: Community-making in Urban Villages; Chapter Five: The 'Tainted Others': Community-making in Noida Jhuggis; Chapter Six: Conclusion

Introduction -- What is Already Known and Documented -- Intergenerational Occupational Mobility among Socio-religious Communities -- What drives occupational mobility: An analysis of parental, household and locational characteristics -- Intergenerational Educational Mobility among Socio-religious Communities and Neighborhood Effects -- Survey Design and Profile of Surveyed Districts -- Primary Survey-Based Evidence on Muslim Occupational and Educational Mobility -- Current Evidence and Disagreements.

Unequal under Socialism examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, the book traces the intertwined local and global forces driving racialization, socialist state policies, and Eurocentric Marxist and Leninist ideologies, all of which led to valued and devalued categories of women. Roma women, Muslim women, ethnic Bulgarian women, sex workers, and female factory and office workers were among those marked by socialist authorities for prosperity, accommodation, violent reformation, or erasure. Covering the period from the 1930s to the present and drawing upon original archival sources as well as a constellation of critical theories, Unequal under Socialism focuses on the lives of different women to articulate deep doubt about the capacity of socialism to sustain societies where all women prosper. Such doubt, Miglena S. Todorova suggests, is an under-recognized but important force shaping how women in former socialist countries have related to one another and to other women in the global North and South

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 The Vision and the Reality -- 2 Mr. Jerusalem -- 3 When Giants Sleep -- 4 A Question of Trust -- 5 Mr. Arafat, Can You Lend Me A Hand? -- 6 The Eagle Has Landed -- 7 The Forgotten Ones -- 8 Security Breach -- 9 Damage Control -- 10 A First Friendship -- 11 No Judenrein in Jerusalem -- 12 A Path to Peace Not Taken -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Maps -- Index

Frances Swyripe here presents the interpretive study of women of Ukrainian origin in Canada. She analyses the images and myths that have grown up around them, why they arose, and how they were used by the leaders of the community. Swyripa argues that ethnicity combined with gender to shape the experience of Ukrainian-Canadian women, as statelessness and national oppression in the homeland joined with a negative group stereotype and minority status in emigration to influence women's roles and options. She explores community attitudes towards the peasant immigrant pioneer, towards her daughters exposed to the opportunities, prejudice, and assimilatory pressure of the Anglo-Canadian world, towards the 'Great Women' evoked as models and sources of inspiration, and towards the familiar baba. In these stereotypes of the female figure, and in the activities of women's organizations, the community played out its many tensions: between a strong attachment to canada and an equally strong attachment to Ukraine; between nationalists who sought to liberate Ukraine from Polish and Soviet rule and progressives who saw themselves as part of an international proletariat; between women's responsibilities as mothers and homemakers and their obligation to participate in both Canadian and community life. Swyripa finds that the concerns of community leaders did not always coincide with those of the grassroots. The differences were best expressed in the evolution of the peasant immigrant pioneer woman as a group symbol, where the tensions between a cultural ethnic consciousness and a politicized national consciousness as the core of Ukrainian-Canadian identity were played out in the female figure

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has said that peace is the first priority of the National League for Democracy (NLD) when it comes to power in April 2016. Both her remarks at the Union Peace Conference in January and the NLD election manifesto point to ethnicity and federalism being linked. This is a position similar to that taken by the outgoing Thein Sein government and the army. Now that the word "federalism" is accepted as useful in the debate over how to establish an end to Myanmar's persistent civil wars with ethnically designated armed groups, it was hoped that some meeting of minds might take place. But as revealed at the Union Peace Conference, that is yet to have happened. Rather, spokespersons for the ethnic armed groups continue to speak the language of ethnic rights and a federal army, while the government talks about reaching material and administrative agreements and the army insists that there can only be one army. These debates echo the past, going back to the formation of Myanmar in the late 1940s. In order to break the apparently endless debate about federalism, ethnicity, states and divisions in the Union of Myanmar, perhaps a new approach might be considered — taking federalism a step further to the seventy-four district levels of administration. As the ethnically designated armed groups operate in relatively small and localized areas, a solution that squares the circle between ethnicity and territory might have appeal

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Series -- Acknowledgments -- Past Dialogues about Race: An Introduction to the Present -- I Decency in 1920 Urban Cuzco The Cradle of the Indigenistas -- 2 Liberal Indigenistas versus Tawantinsuyu The Making of the Indian -- 3 Class, Masculinity, and Mestizaje New Incas and Old Indians -- 4 Insolent Mestizas and Respeto The Redefinition of Mestizaje -- 5 Cuzqueiiismo, Respeto, and Discrimination The Mayordomias of Almudena -- 6 Respeto and Authenticity Grassroots Intellectuals and De-Indianized Indigenous Culture -- 7 Indigenous Mestizos, De-Indianization, and Discrimination Cultural Racism in Cuzco -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This collection of essays explores educational issues confronting educators and researchers from various disciplines. They are grouped into four sections, with the first, "Business Economics and Management", discussing concepts such as contemporary urban theories, multiculturalism and the informal economy. The second section, "Linguistics and Literature", encompasses topics such as Russian-Chinese bilingualism and training in Russian phraseology for foreigners. The third section, "Education" considers issues such as language teaching and use of learning cycle model and the Socratic Seminar Technique. The fourth section, "History and Geography", looks at history education, historical consciousness, and cultural geography. This book will mainly appeal to educators, researchers, and students involved in social sciences.