Suchergebnisse

Poverty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India By Bhrigupati Singh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xii + 335 pp. Paperback. ISBN 978-0-226-19454-7.Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico. By Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. 400 pp. Paperback. ISBN 978-1-4773-1275-9.Resilience and the Localisation of Trauma in Aceh, Indonesia By Catherine Smith. Singapore: NUS Press, 2017. 232 pp. Paperback. ISBN 978-9-8147-2260-5.After Rape: Violence, Justice, and Social Harmony in Uganda By Holly Porter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 255 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-1-3168-4129-7.The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 By Nayanika Mookherjee. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. 352 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-8223-5949-4.The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland By Robyn C. Spencer. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. ix + 260 pp. Paperback. ISBN 978-0-8223-6286-9.Sovereignty in Exile: A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs By Alice Wilson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 312 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-8122-4849-4.Occupied Lives: Maintaining Integrity in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank By Nina Gren. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2015. 250 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-9-7741-6695-2.

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations. Delving into topical issues such as education, social inequality, family pressures, changing values, precarious employment, and political discontent, the book explores how young people are pushing boundaries and imagining their future. In this way, they explore and create the identities of their local and global surroundings