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Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia
Rural life in Southeast Asia is being transformed by new and intensifying processes of migration and mobility. Migration out of rural areas creates new forms of class mobility, familial relations, production processes and income. Migration into rural areas creates a new and sometimes marginalized workforce, contestation over resource access, and the juxtaposition of culturally different groups. At the same time, everyday mobility stretches the spatial boundaries of village and family life. The bounded space of the village is no longer adequate to understand the dynamics that are driving (and resulting from) rural social change. This collection of original studies explores the cultural, econo...
Cash Disruption
When I first met Pinakin, 15 years ago, he introduced me to the world of digitization and automation. What used to take me hours, or even days to do, I was now able to scale in seconds. I was addicted to this level of efficiency and how it was able to transform business. I outlined these efficiencies for the payments industry in my last book, Beyond Plastic: Trends in the Payment Card Industry. Through our professional relationship, Pinakin and I grew into good friends. As polar political opposites, our discussion topics shifted towards endemic problems within our society. In Cash Disruption, we decided to solve a global economic problem with the same efficiency and agility that we had creat...
The Olympics
The Olympics: A Critical Reader represents a unique, critical guide to the definitive sporting mega-event and the wider phenomenon it represents – Olympism. Combining classic texts and thoughtful editorial discussion with challenging new pieces, including previously unseen material, the book systematically addresses the key questions in modern Olympism, including: what does studying Olympism entail? how do historical accounts create and challenge Olympic myths? how do different theoretical perspectives inform our understanding of Olympism? which socio-political processes influence personal, collective and imagined Olympic identities? how do we experience and make sense of Olympism? who own...
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