Ziqian Xue, Xia Li, Qinglin Liu, Mengke Cai et al.
Abstract Interface engineering has been recognized as one of the most promising strategies for regulating the physical and chemical properties of materials. However, constructing well‐defined nanointerfaces with efficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER) still remains a challenge. Herein, cross colum...
In recent years the British mass media have discovered a new and urgent social problem - the Asian gang. Images of urban deprivation and the Underclass have combined with fears of growing youth militancy and masculinities-in-crisis to position Asian, and especially Muslim, young men as the new folk ...
Md Sadek Ferdous, Farida Chowdhury, Madini O. Alassafi
In recent times, with the advent of blockchain technology, there is an optimism surrounding the concept of self-sovereign identity which is regarded to have an influential effect on how we interact with each other over the Internet in future. There are a few works in the literature which examine dif...
Tahir Abbas, Tariq Modood
* Acknowledgements * Notes on Contributors * Foreword - Professor Tariq Modood, * PART I FROM ISLAM TO BRITISH MUSLIMS? * 1. British South Asian Muslims: State and Multicultural Society - Tahir Abbas * 2. Muslims in the UK - Ceri Peach * 3. Muslims in Britain: Issues, Policy and Practice - Muhammad ...
Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Safia Azim, Abbas Bhuiya, Lars Åke Persson
This paper explores the magnitude of physical violence by husbands, the disclosure of it and the help-seeking behavior of abused women in urban and rural Bangladesh. The data come from a larger study on domestic violence against women conducted in Bangladesh during 2000-2004. All ever-married women ...
Juliane Reinecke, Jimmy Donaghey
Global labour governance has typically been approached from either industrial relations scholars focusing on the role of organised labour or social movement scholars focusing on the role of social movement organisations in mobilising consumption power. Yet, little work has focused on the interaction...
Whilst the vast majority of recent research on identity and ethnicity amongst South Asians in Britain has focused upon younger people, this book deals with Bengali elders, the first generation of migrants from Sylhet, in Bangladesh. The book describes how many of these elders face the processes of a...
Vale, Lawrence J.
"This new, expanded edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity examines how architecture and urban design have been manipulated in the service of politics. Focusing on the design of parliamentary complexes in capital cities across the world, it shows how these places reveal the struggles ...
Amy Β. M. Tsui, James W. Tollefson, Sylvia Celedón‐Pattichis, Jonathan Brinkerhoff
Contents: Preface. A.B.M. Tsui, J.W. Tollefson, Language Policy and the Construction of National Cultural Identity. Part I: Globalization and Its Impact on Language Policy, Culture, and Identity. K. Hashimoto, Japan's Language Policy and the Lost Decade. Y. Sungwon, Globalization and Language Policy...
Alexander C. Diener, Joshua Hagen
Chapter 1: Introduction: Borders, Identity, and Geopolitics Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen Chapter 2: The Border Enclaves of India and Bangladesh: The Forgotten Lands Reece Jones Chapter 3: The Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary: Stalin's Cartography, Post-Soviet Geography Nick Megoran Chapter 4: ...
Bandana Purkayastha
In the continuing debates on the topic of racial and ethnic identity in the United States, there are some that argue that ethnicity is an ascribed reality. To the contrary, others claim that individuals are becoming increasingly active in choosing and constructing their ethnic identities.Focusing on...
Radhika Parameswaran, Kavitha Cardoza
The recent commercial boom in women's skin-lightening or “fairness” cosmetics in India is part of the larger context of escalating lifestyle consumerism in Asia's emerging market nations. This monograph examines the cultural politics of gender, nation, beauty and skin color in the persuasive narrati...
Peter Cantillon, Tim Dornan, Willem de Grave
PURPOSE: Most clinical teachers have not been trained to teach, and faculty development for clinical teachers is undermined by poor attendance, inadequate knowledge transfer, and unsustainability. A crucial question for faculty developers to consider is how clinicians become teachers "on the job." S...
Pnina Werbner, Helene Basu
The continued vitality of Sufism as a living embodied postcolonial reality challenges the argument that Sufism has 'died' in recent times. Throughout India and Bangladesh, Sufi shrines exist in both the rural and urban areas, from the remotest wilderness to the modern Asian city, lying opposite bank...
Farzana Shain
Challenging western misconceptions and stereoptypes of young Asian girls, this book through the analysis of Asian girls experiences reassesses the role that schooling can play in shaping their identities. It draws on an empirical study with Muslim, Hindu and Sikh schoolgirls of Pakistani, Indian and...