
Constructing the 'Other'
Considerations about Study on Asian Issues
EHV Academicpress
1st Edition
Published on 29. October 2013
Book
200 pages
978-3-86741-892-8 (ISBN)
Description
Asian studies - as basically all efforts to engage in inter-culturally - is caught in producing and reproducing prejudices on the one hand and denying differences and specificities on the other. In particular in academic studies and teaching the challenge is to overcome this apparent dichotomy and the task is to establish understanding without prejudice of what Asia really was and is. The extensive range of topics and views in this volume challenge a mode of globalisation that simply overthrows national traditions by a Darwinian-kind of rule of the survival of the strongest, the fittest will actually be the one who is well capable to manage difference by understanding them in a historical context and acknowledge them as part of something new that is emerging in front of our eyes. This book will stimulate further research and debate within and without the boundaries of Asian Studies.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-86741-892-8 (9783867418928)
Schweitzer Classification