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Between The World And Me
2015 || Paperback || Ta-Nehisi Coates || Text Publishing
Humanizing the Sacred / 1st edition
Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia
2015 || Paperback || Azza Basarudin || University of Washington Press
In recent years, global attention has focused on how women in communities of Muslims are revitalizing Islam by linking interpretation of religious ideas to the protection of rights and freedoms. Humanizing the Sacred demonstrates how Sunni women activists in Malaysia are fracturing institutionalized Islamic authority by generating new understandings of rights and redefining the moral obligations of their community. Based on ethnographic research of Sisters in Islam (SIS), a nongovernmental or...
Dealing in Desire / 1st edition
Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
2015 || Paperback || Kimberly Kay Hoang || University of California Press
This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam's sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen, Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese living abroad), Western businessmen, and Western budget-tourists. Dealing in Desire takes an in-depth and often personal look at both the sex workers and their clients to ...
Sustainable Development / 2nd edition
2015 || Paperback || UK) Susan (Cardiff University Baker || Taylor & Francis
The current focus on sustainable development opens up debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, about what constitutes social progress and about the character of development, both in the Global North and the Global South. The promotion of sustainable futures is taking on a new urgency in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss. This concise and accessible text explores how the international community is responding to the challenge of sustainable development.
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