Ann Brooks

Social Theory in Contemporary Asia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Philosophical debates around reflexivity, identity and intimacy have preoccupied Western social and cultural theorists since the 1990s, and this book examines them in relation to the Chinese diasporic cultures in Asia. The debates are set within the context of globalization, and its impact on cultural, gendered and ethnic identities in late modernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9780415666855
• ISBN-10: 0415666856
• Artikelnr.: 38618275

Autorenporträt

Ann Brooks is Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies at the University of Adelaide. She is author of Academic Women (Open University Press, 1997); Postfeminisms: Feminism, Cultural Theory and Cultural Forms (Routledge, 1997); Gendered Work in Asian Cities: The New Economy and Changing Labour Markets (Ashgate, 2006) and co-author of Gender and the Restructured University: Changing Management and Culture in Higher Education (Open University Press, 2001). Her latest book is: Social Theory in Contemporary Asia: Intimacy, Reflexivity and Identity (Routledge 2010). Her forthcoming books include Emotions in Transmigration: Transformation, Movement and Identity (Palgrave 2011) and a co-edited collection on the work of Norbert Elias.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Contesting Intimacy, Reflexivity and Identity in
Contemporary Social Theory 2. Intimacy, Reflexivity and Identity in
Contemporary Asia 3. Reflexivity and the Transformation of Gender Identity
in Cosmopolitan Asia 4. Postmodern Confucianism, 'Moral Economies' and
'Biopolitical Otherness' in Redefining Intimacy and Identity in Southeast
Asia 5. Sex and 'Singlehood' as a Source of Tension in Contemporary Asia 6.
Cultural Production, Intimacy and Identity: Paradigms of Resistance and
Islamic Orthodoxy in Asia