Series Flyers - Asian Studies by Saskia Gieling
Environment and Society in Asia, 2020
The AUP series in Environment and Society in Asia welcomes humanities and social sciences manuscr... more The AUP series in Environment and Society in Asia welcomes humanities and social sciences manuscripts that both are academically rigorous and can contribute to the general public understanding of the pertinent issues related to broadly defined environmental degradation and socio-political challenges in Asian countries and regions. We also invite studies focussing on institutional and/or grassroots initiatives to tackle these issues. We define Asia in the broad geo-political sense, including East Asia (Northeast and Southeast), South Asian sub-continent, Central Asia and Western Asia (non-African Mid-East). We are particularly interested in well-structured comparative works (within country comparison, critical cluster comparison or cross-national comparison) and scholarship that theoretically addresses the daunting triple challenges most developing countries in Asia face today: socio-political (in)stability, economic (under)development and environmental (un)sustainability. We use this platform as a way to strengthen our collaboration with scholars from Asia by encouraging and supporting them in publishing their amazing work and reflections from the field.
Amsterdam University Press’s Transforming Asia series publishes books that explore, describe, int... more Amsterdam University Press’s Transforming Asia series publishes books that explore, describe, interpret, understand and, where appropriate, problematize and critique contemporary processes of transformation and their outcomes. This includes both country-level and regional and sub-regional analyses, both single authored and edited. The series encourages interdisciplinary work and ranges across themes from the social and cultural to political, economic and environmental. The core aim of the series is to finesse ‘Asia’, both as a geographical category and to ask what Asia’s ‘rise’ means globally, from conceptual models to policy lessons.
The China: From Revolution to Reform Series is launched by AUP to meet the rising influence of th... more The China: From Revolution to Reform Series is launched by AUP to meet the rising influence of the people’s Republic of China (PRC) as an economic, military, and political power in the world arena. The primary focus of this series will be the PRC in the new era with somewhat dual attention to previous periods such as the Republic of China (1912-1949) and the late Qing (1644-1911), both of which are not only intertwined with and inseparable from the PRC but also crucial to our better understanding of the PRC. This series invites studies from a wide variety of disciplines and topics in politics, law, history, diplomacy, gender, and the like. Researches in earlier periods of 20th century China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong are also welcome.
Over the last three decades, Asian medicine has become a central feature in most contemporary soc... more Over the last three decades, Asian medicine has become a central feature in most contemporary societies. This series explores the local fabric and global aspirations of these modes of healing.
We seek to bring attention to two decisive phenomena in these processes. The first concerns the relations between Asian medicine and biomedical science and objects. Braided concepts and tools, new understandings of the body, technological patterns of drugs’ production, revised regulatory schemes and policy making manifest and reinforce the transformations of Asian Medicine. In these situations, Asian therapies may also be blended among themselves or associated to other non-biomedical practices. The second phenomenon deals with the global and its scales, whether Asian Medicine is located in Asia or elsewhere.
This book presents a new perspective on attempts by the contemporary Chinese government to transf... more This book presents a new perspective on attempts by the contemporary Chinese government to transform the diverse conditions found in countless rural villages into what the state's social welfare program deems 'socialist new villages'. Lili Lai argues that an ethnographic focus on the specifics of village life can help destabilize China's persistent rural-urban divide and help contribute to more effective welfare intervention to improve health and hygienic conditions of village life.
This is an engaging anthropological exploration of the rural-urban divide and its focus on hygiene is important as it is a much neglected topic. The book will be of interest to not just China scholars but development studies, cultural studies and related fields too.
The series aims to be a meeting place between experts from a variety of disciplines; from linguis... more The series aims to be a meeting place between experts from a variety of disciplines; from linguistics to history and social sciences. The core ambition of the series is to explain different types of labour (share cropping, wage labour, slavery, casual or precarious labour) within a wider cultural, economic and ecological context.
This series focuses on visual cultures that are produced, distributed and consumed in Asia and by... more This series focuses on visual cultures that are produced, distributed and consumed in Asia and by Asian communities worldwide.
This series seeks to capture the dynamic field of early-modern and modern Asian history. The seri... more This series seeks to capture the dynamic field of early-modern and modern Asian history. The series encompasses intellectual, cultural, and political histories, broadly defined, covering the period 1500 to 2000.
This series presents the latest research on borderlands within Asia as well as on the borderlands... more This series presents the latest research on borderlands within Asia as well as on the borderlands of Asia — the regions linking Asia with Africa, Europe, and Oceania.
We seek proposals for monographs and edited volumes that focus on consumption — the engine propel... more We seek proposals for monographs and edited volumes that focus on consumption — the engine propelling Asia onto the world economic stage — and its implications, from practices and ideologies to environmental sustainability, both globally and on the region itself. The series explores the interplay between the state, market economy, technologies, and everyday life.
Book Flyers by Saskia Gieling
This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia a... more This book explores the historical and contemporary processes that have made and remade Mongolia as it is today: the construction of ethnic and national cultures, the transformations of political economy and a 'nomadic' pastoralism, and the revitalisation of a religious and cosmological heritage that has led to new forms of post-socialist politics. Widely published as an expert in the field, David Sneath offers a fresh perspective into a region often seen as mysterious to the West.
This book aims to explore and interpret the multi-dimensional meanings of frontier, transboundary... more This book aims to explore and interpret the multi-dimensional meanings of frontier, transboundary passages, landscape transformation, and sustainability of heritages in the modern trans-Himalayan region. We focus on the diverse human responses to regionally transformative changes engendered by intensified inter-regional human migration, movements of capital, goods and technologies, new forms of religious practices, and climate change. These external forces of change are reshaping the livelihoods of communities in the region. In many ways they are forces of destructive creation, which, on one hand, destabilize the age-old ecological niches and cultural heritages of communities regarding their place-based livelihoods and worldviews, and, on the other hand, push and pull them into the global trend of modernization, market economy, and intermeshing of multi-national economics and geopolitics. In such simultaneity of destructive and re-creative processes, people in the region are undergoing what we call 'niche reconstruction', based on our reconceptualization of 'niche' broadly as being in place (Smith 1999:3) but emphatically with a trans-regional and global gravitation in order to address changing social, political, and environmental conditions, and the transregional connectivity of human livelihoods, ethnic differences, and ecological systems, and thus reintroduce complexity and human agency into what might otherwise look like a crude form of eco-geographical determinism.
Published in the Emerging Asia series at Amsterdam University Press.
Books by Saskia Gieling
New titles Spring 2018 Asian Studies,Amsterdam University Press
Drafts by Saskia Gieling
This series presents ground-breaking research on North-East Asia, a vast region encompassing the ... more This series presents ground-breaking research on North-East Asia, a vast region encompassing the Russian Far East, Siberia, northern China, Mongolia, Japan, and Korea.
Despite its strategic significance, studies of North East Asia remain fragmented and pigeonholed within the academic traditions of Eastern European, postsocialist and Asian studies. The series will seek to address this gap by publishing innovative monographs and edited volumes spanning the region beyond national boundaries. Ranging from migration and crossborder trade to urban development and climate change, the series will foreground contemporary and emerging issues, and make critical interventions in both regional studies and in the field of social sciences.
North East Asian Studies is published in collaboration with the Mongolia and Inner Asia Research Unit at the University of Cambridge.
In the 21st century, human mobility will increasingly have an Asian face. Migration from, to, and... more In the 21st century, human mobility will increasingly have an Asian face. Migration from, to, and within Asia is not new, but it is undergoing profound transformations. Unskilled labour migration from the Philippines, China, India, Burma, Indonesia, and Central Asia to the West, the Gulf, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand continues apace. Yet industrialization in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and India, the opening of Burma, and urbanization in China is creating massive new flows of internal migration. China is fast becoming a magnet for international migration from Asia and beyond. Meanwhile, Asian students top study-abroad charts; Chinese and Indian managers and technicians are becoming a new mobile global elite as foreign investment from those countries grows; and Asian tourists are fast becoming the biggest travellers and the biggest spenders, both in their own countries and abroad.
These new mobilities reflect profound transformations of Asian societies and their relationship to the world, impacting national identities and creating new migration policy regimes, modes of transnational politics, consumption practices, and ideas of modernity. The series will bring together studies by historians, anthropologists, geographers, and political scientists that systematically explore these changes.
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Series Flyers - Asian Studies by Saskia Gieling
We seek to bring attention to two decisive phenomena in these processes. The first concerns the relations between Asian medicine and biomedical science and objects. Braided concepts and tools, new understandings of the body, technological patterns of drugs’ production, revised regulatory schemes and policy making manifest and reinforce the transformations of Asian Medicine. In these situations, Asian therapies may also be blended among themselves or associated to other non-biomedical practices. The second phenomenon deals with the global and its scales, whether Asian Medicine is located in Asia or elsewhere.
This is an engaging anthropological exploration of the rural-urban divide and its focus on hygiene is important as it is a much neglected topic. The book will be of interest to not just China scholars but development studies, cultural studies and related fields too.
Book Flyers by Saskia Gieling
Books by Saskia Gieling
Drafts by Saskia Gieling
Despite its strategic significance, studies of North East Asia remain fragmented and pigeonholed within the academic traditions of Eastern European, postsocialist and Asian studies. The series will seek to address this gap by publishing innovative monographs and edited volumes spanning the region beyond national boundaries. Ranging from migration and crossborder trade to urban development and climate change, the series will foreground contemporary and emerging issues, and make critical interventions in both regional studies and in the field of social sciences.
North East Asian Studies is published in collaboration with the Mongolia and Inner Asia Research Unit at the University of Cambridge.
These new mobilities reflect profound transformations of Asian societies and their relationship to the world, impacting national identities and creating new migration policy regimes, modes of transnational politics, consumption practices, and ideas of modernity. The series will bring together studies by historians, anthropologists, geographers, and political scientists that systematically explore these changes.
We seek to bring attention to two decisive phenomena in these processes. The first concerns the relations between Asian medicine and biomedical science and objects. Braided concepts and tools, new understandings of the body, technological patterns of drugs’ production, revised regulatory schemes and policy making manifest and reinforce the transformations of Asian Medicine. In these situations, Asian therapies may also be blended among themselves or associated to other non-biomedical practices. The second phenomenon deals with the global and its scales, whether Asian Medicine is located in Asia or elsewhere.
This is an engaging anthropological exploration of the rural-urban divide and its focus on hygiene is important as it is a much neglected topic. The book will be of interest to not just China scholars but development studies, cultural studies and related fields too.
Despite its strategic significance, studies of North East Asia remain fragmented and pigeonholed within the academic traditions of Eastern European, postsocialist and Asian studies. The series will seek to address this gap by publishing innovative monographs and edited volumes spanning the region beyond national boundaries. Ranging from migration and crossborder trade to urban development and climate change, the series will foreground contemporary and emerging issues, and make critical interventions in both regional studies and in the field of social sciences.
North East Asian Studies is published in collaboration with the Mongolia and Inner Asia Research Unit at the University of Cambridge.
These new mobilities reflect profound transformations of Asian societies and their relationship to the world, impacting national identities and creating new migration policy regimes, modes of transnational politics, consumption practices, and ideas of modernity. The series will bring together studies by historians, anthropologists, geographers, and political scientists that systematically explore these changes.