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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451549203321

Autore

Glassman Jim

Titolo

Thailand at the margins [[electronic resource] ] : internationalization of the State and the transformation of labour / / Jim Glassman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-19-191758-3

1-280-75674-8

0-19-151487-X

1-4294-6029-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Oxford geographical and environmental studies series

Disciplina

330.9593

Soggetti

Industrial policy - Thailand

Labor policy - Thailand

Electronic books.

Thailand Economic policy

Thailand Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2004.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures and Maps; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction. The Problematic: Territorial State, International Capital, and Uneven Industrial Development in Thailand; 1. State Power Beyond the 'Territorial Trap': The Internationalization of the State; 2. Internationalization of the State under US Hegemony: Building the Cold War Regime and Capturing Peasants, 1945-1975; 3. Internationalization of the State under US Hegemony and Japanese Quasi-Hegemony: Promoting Industrialization and Disciplining Labour, 1945-2000

4. Internationalization of the State under Japanese Quasi-Hegemony: Marginalizing Northern Workers, 1980-20005. Interpreting Post-World War II Development in Thailand: More and Less than a National Phenomenon; 6. Uneven Economic Crisis, Industrial Restructuring, and the Politics of Development in a Post-Nationalist Era; 7. Conclusion: Thailand at the Margins; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Jim Glassman addresses the role of the state in the industrial



transformation of what was, before the economic crisis of 1997-98, one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing economies. He argues that the Thai state has been both proactive and interventionist in encouraging industrial transformation.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910734839803321

Autore

Sidhu Inder

Titolo

Imagining the Self in South Asian and African Literatures / / by Inder Sidhu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031276057

3031276051

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (ix, 167 pages)

Disciplina

820.9954

Soggetti

African literature

Oriental literature

Literature, Modern - 19th century

African Literature

Asian Literature

Nineteenth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 -- Introduction -- 2 Negotiating Difference: Positioning the Self in Sake Dean Mahomet’s The Travels of Dean Mahomet, a Native of Patna in Bengal, Through Several Parts of India, While in the Service of the Honourable the East India Company (1794) and Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African (1789) -- 3 Importing Knowledge and Theory: The Authorial Self and the Expert Position in Henry Callaway’s Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulu (1868) and R. C. Temple’s Legends of the Punjab (1884-1900). - 4 The Divisible Self — Global-Local Journeys in G.V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr (1948) and Amos



Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) -- 5 Talking Back — The Uncertain Self and Counter-Narratives in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not (2006) -- 6 Conclusion -- 8 Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the idea of the self in Anglophone literatures from British colonies in Africa and the subcontinent, and in the context of intercultural encounter, literary hybridity and globalization. The project examines texts by eight authors across the colonial, postwar and post-9/11 eras – Olaudah Equiano, Sake Dean Mahomet, Henry Callaway, R.C. Temple, Amos Tutuola, G.V. Desani, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Aravind Adiga – in order to map different strategies of selfhood across four fields of literature: autobiographical life writing, folk anthology, postwar fabulism, and contemporary realism. Drawing on historical analysis, psychological inquiry, comparative linguistics, postcolonial criticism and social theory, this book responds to a renewed emphasis on the narrative strategies and creative choices involved in a literary construction of the self. Threaded through this investigation is an analysis of the effects of globalization, or the intensification of intercultural and dialogic complexity over time. Inder Sidhu holds a PhD in English literature from King's College London, UK. He works with graduate students at the Ontario College of Art & Design University’s Writing and Learning Centre and teaches at the University of Guelph-Humber and Humber College in Toronto, Canada.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910743258503321

Titolo

Considerations for a Post-COVID-19 Technology and Innovation Ecosystem in China / / edited by Jinling Hua, Bismark Adu Gyamfi, Rajib Shaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9789811669590

9811669597

9789811669583

9811669589

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 pages)

Collana

Disaster Risk Reduction, Methods, Approaches and Practices, , 2196-4114

Disciplina

338.0640951

Soggetti

Natural disasters

Technology - Sociological aspects

Technological innovations

Science - Social aspects

Diseases

Natural Hazards

Emerging Technologies

Innovation and Technology Management

Science and Technology Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Overview of Post COVID Scenario in China -- Innovation and Technology Ecosystem: Historical Perspectives -- Drones Activity in Epidemic Prevention and Prospects in the Post COVID-19 -- Social Media Development and Application During Pandemic and Post-Pandemic from the Perspectives of Recovery and Preparedness -- Towards a Digital China Through Digital Economy -- Big Data and Its Implication in China -- Robotics and Its Advancement in Modern China -- Artificial Intelligence and its Importance in Post COVID-19 China -- 5G and Its Implication to Communication in China -- Evolution from



IoT to IoE Era in China -- Going Beyond the “Norm” in Technology and Innovation Apparatus in Emergency Situation: A Post COVID-19 Society.

Sommario/riassunto

COVID-19 has made differential impacts on countries and communities around the world. China, where COVID-19 started, has developed and utilized different types of technologies, including both traditional and disruptive technologies, to address the pandemic risks. Also, there have been many innovations in applying technologies in different contexts during the pandemic as well as in the post-pandemic recovery and preparedness aspects. This book covers some of these technological developments as well as the governance mechanisms for developing a technology and innovation ecosystem in a post-COVID-19 context in China. The book also explores the experiences and lessons learned from different types of technologies and their implementation in the post-COVID-19 period and highlights how they can be useful to prepare for future calamities.