Transnational Entrepreneurship in South East Asia

Professor Yokoyama is the Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, Toyo Gakuen University, Tokyo, Japan, where she supervises research in the field of human resource management in Japanese companies by drawing comparisons between Japanese-style employment management and the merit-based systems. Her recent research is concerned with Japanese self-initiated expatriate entrepreneurs…

Performing Citizenship

This open access book discusses how citizenship is performed today, mostly through the optic of the arts, in particular the performing arts, but also from the perspective of a wide range of academic disciplines such as urbanism and media studies, cultural education and postcolonial theory. It is a compendium that includes insights from artistic and activist experimentation. Each chapter investi…

Foreign Aid and its Unintended Consequences

Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This book delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing them. The book starts by laying out a theoretical framework based on complexity thinking, before going on to explore the ten most prevalent kinds o…

Globalisation, environmental law and sustainable development in the global so…

Volume ini mengkaji dampak globalisasi terhadap hukum lingkungan internasional dan penerapan pembangunan berkelanjutan di Negara-negara Berkembang. Terdiri dari kontribusi dari para pengacara dari Negara-negara Berkembang atau yang memiliki pengalaman di Negara-negara Berkembang, volume ini disusun menjadi tiga bagian, dengan penyelidikan tematik yang dijalin melalui setiap bab untuk menanyakan…

Globalisation and its economic consequences : looking at apec economies

Mengingat meningkatnya kritik dan keraguan tentang globalisasi, buku yang disunting tepat waktu ini membahas globalisasi dan dampak ekonominya terhadap delapan negara di kawasan Asia dan Pasifik, yaitu Australia, Tiongkok, Indonesia, Jepang, Malaysia, Thailand, Amerika Serikat (AS), dan Vietnam. Delapan negara yang dipilih adalah anggota forum Kerja Sama Ekonomi Asia-Pasifik (APEC) dan ekonomi …

Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people’s sexual lives, access to citizenship, and struggles for livelihood. Despite the industry’s persistent insis…

Environmental change in South-East Asia: people, politics and sustainable dev…

Environmental Change in South-East Asia brings together scholars, journalists, consultants and NGO activists to explore the interaction of people, politics and ecology. Ostensibly "green" activities - plantation forestry, eco-tourism, hydro-electricity - are revealed as guises used by elites to promote their own political and economic interests. Highlighting fatal flaws in presently exclusive …

Discourses of global queer mobility and the mediatization of equality

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Revolutionizing Development Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers

This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambers. His work has taken him from being a colonial officer in Kenya through training and managing large rural development projects to a fundamental critique of top-down development and the championing of participatory approaches. The contributors eloqu…

State Fragility Case Studies and Comparisons

Presenting case studies and comparisons across seven countries, this book addresses key questions as to the nature of state fragility, policies used to mitigate it, assessment of outcomes and prospects. It offers a novel empirical contribution in examining a range of distinct but interdependent dimensions of state fragility, not only focusing on questions of state legitimacy, capacity and au…