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This Month in Mongolian Studies is a monthly listing of selected academic activities, resources and other material related to Mongolia. This list is based on information the ACMS has received and is presented as a service to its members. If you would like to submit information to be included in next month's issue please contact the ACMS at info@mongoliacenter.org This publication is supported in part by memberships. Please consider becoming a member of the ACMS, or renewing your membership by visiting our website at mongoliacenter.org/join.
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ACMS Announcements, News and Media References
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| "Conserving and preserving Mongolia's endangered textile collections" Project
ACMS continues to implement the AFCP (Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation) funded project. ACMS project fellows Dr. Angaragsuren Odkhuu and Kristen Pearson, under guidance from the project leader Colleen O'Shea, have been working on the conservation of the rare textile fragments. They have entered the final stages of the conservation of this textile. To remind the reader about the textile fragments, these are fragments of a deel (a traditional Mongolian garb) with a silk lining, the only known example ever found. It was discovered exposed to the elements after it was unearthed by grave robbers, who left it after taking everything deemed valuable.
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| | This Week's Word
ᠬᠢᠴᠢᠶᠡᠯ /kičiyel/ - (Cyrillic: хичээл /khicheel/, English: lesson, subject, attempt) - [1] noun form of striving, attempting, trying, [2] schooling under approved regular schedule, program with a professional teacher.
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ACMS Sponsored Programs and Events
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| ACMS organized documentary screening for author and filmmaker Sas Carey, one of ACMS' earliest members. The documentary title is "Transition" and tells the story of Khongoroo a young medical doctor from the Dukha/tsaatan community, caught between her job in Ulaanbaatar and her daughter and foamily in the Taiga.
Sas takes a 'fly on the wall' approach to her filmmaking, that is without interfering or directing subjects of her film.
Sas also runs a nonprofit called Nomadicare, which helps the remote Dukha people stay healthy by delivering them vitamins and supplements.
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| | | Interview of 2023 ACMS Field Research Fellow Jennifer Beetem, an art conservator, collections care worker, art historian, artist and website designer. Her research in Mongolia focuses on an Ethnographic study on nomadic approaches to preventative conservation and conservation needs of household collections in the Darkhad valley. Click the button to view. |
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| Visit our YouTube channel to see more series of the Virtual Speaker and Virtual Panel Series, as well as our videos on Cultural Heritage Project, interviews with our Field Research Fellows and more.
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| We are working to bring back in-person speaker events, we will be putting these events up as more in-person speaker become available. If you would like to speak in-person for an ACMS Speaker event, please email buyandelger@mongoliacenter.org
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Vacancies, Scholarship, and Fellowships
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Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies Kathmandu University Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute
Institution Type: College / University
Location: Nepal
Position: Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies
Rangjung Yeshe Institute, the Centre for Buddhist Studies (RYI-CBS) at Kathmandu University, invites applications for a full-time, twelve-month position in Tibetan Buddhist Studies and Translation at the rank of Assistant Professor, starting on August 15, 2024. This position may be extended for multiple years depending on funding and department need.
Rangjung Yeshe Institute offers courses in Buddhist philosophies, histories, and cultures, and in Classical Tibetan and Sanskrit, as well as colloquial Tibetan and Nepali languages. The institute is a world leader in educating Tibetan textual and oral translators. The undergraduate and graduate programs combine rigorous traditional Tibetan philosophical training with contemporary, academic perspectives and methods. The campus is located inside the Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling monastery complex in Boudha, Kathmandu. Students can earn BA, MA, and PhD degrees in Buddhist Studies and Himalayan Languages.
Successful candidates are expected to teach graduate seminars in RYI’s MA program “Translation, Textual Interpretation, and Philology” (https://ryi.org/programs/graduate/master-of-arts) and other graduate and undergraduate courses as needed. A PhD in the field of Buddhist Studies or a related field is preferred (ABDs nearing completion will be considered), with an emphasis on Buddhist translation and Indo-Tibetan studies, accompanied by teaching experience in the field. Proficiency in Classical Tibetan is required and proficiency in Buddhist Sanskrit is desirable. Successful candidates are expected to provide service to the institute and the profession, to establish and maintain an independent research activity.
In addition to the teaching salary, benefits include round-trip transportation to Kathmandu and a Nepalese visa. Salary is dependent upon experience.
Application letter, curriculum vitae, teaching evaluations, and two letters of recommendation should be sent to the Director of Studies, Julia Stenzel (julia.stenzel@ryi.org) by October 15, 2023. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. The Centre for Buddhist Studies appreciates and encourages diversity. For further information about the position, contact Julia Stenzel at the above email address.
Note: If you are interested in teaching single courses within the specialization of RYI-CBS during the spring or summer semester 2024, or in working as an oral translator for philosophy classes taught in Tibetan language, please contact Julia Stenzel at the above email address. |
| | Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Early Modern or Modern East Asia University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Institution Type: College / University
Location: University of Tennessee - Knoxville, United States
Position: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track Faculty
The Department of History at the University of Tennessee invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in the History of Early Modern or Modern East Asia (since 1500) outside of China. The research specialty is open and may treat any country or region within that scope. Applicants working in borderlands, cross-cultural contact, environment, migration, or science and medicine are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will teach an undergraduate world history survey (1500 CE-present) and offer upper division and graduate courses in the area of specialty to complement our current strengths. The department has a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and is dedicated to maintaining a respectful and welcoming academic environment. The Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee is seeking candidates who have the ability to contribute in meaningful ways to the diversity and intercultural goals of the University.
The appointment will begin August 1, 2024. A Ph.D. in a relevant discipline is required at the time of appointment.
Applications should include a cover letter addressing research and teaching interests and experience; a curriculum vitae; contact information for three references; a sample of written scholarship not more than 25 pages in length, preferably published; and evidence of teaching effectiveness.
Materials should be submitted through http://apply.interfolio.com/130738. Review of applications will begin 15 October 2023. Questions may be directed to Charles Sanft (csanft@utk.edu), chair of the search committee.
As a land-grant university, the University of Tennessee values active and engaged scholarship and teaching and welcomes evidence of these commitments in applications. In addition to addressing other qualifications in the letter of application, candidates may also describe how they would promote students’ access and inclusion in teaching and scholarship.
The University of Tennessee is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and admission without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, and parental status.
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Grants and Calls for Paper
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Call for submissions: AAS 2024 Film Expo
Established as an Association for Asian Studies (AAS) conference program in 2011, the AAS Film Expo is curated and organized by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
The AAS 2024 Annual Conference will take place from March 14-17 in Seattle, Washington.
Documentary and independent films on issues reflecting contemporary life in Asia will be programmed and projected in a dedicated screening room Thursday through Saturday on conference dates. The film expo also offers an on-demand screening option to registered conference attendees unavailable for scheduled screening times. The on-demand option is only for those available on-site in Seattle. On-demand viewers will view the films using private links provided by the filmmakers/distributors valid from March 14 to March 18, 2024. Short Q&As and moderated conversations with filmmakers and film representatives may be scheduled as part of the film expo program.
All selected films are promoted in a special AAS Film Expo booklet distributed to conference attendees, listed in the print and digital AAS Annual Conference Program, the Conference Mobile App, as well as on the AAS and CEAPS websites.
We welcome the submission of films related to Asia produced by scholars and independent filmmakers. Criteria utilized in the selection process include timeliness, broad appeal to the scholarly community, and quality of the filmmaking. In considering your submission, please note that attendees viewing films may be seeking titles for research, classroom use or for their institutional libraries.
Approximately twenty to twenty-five films will be selected for screenings.
We look forward to receiving online submissions to present and promote films at the premier annual conference of Asia scholars in North America which offer impactful programming and networking opportunities for emerging research in diverse disciplines contributing to Asian Studies.
For programming consideration in the 2024 Film Expo, please complete an ONLINE FILM SUBMISSION FORM. Our selection committee reviews films through Vimeo, YouTube and secured website links accessible in North America.
Our film submission deadline: Friday, October 6, 2023.
Please note:
All film entries must have English subtitles to be considered.
We do not accept any films that have had scheduled screenings at past meetings.
AAS does not pay rental or royalty fees, nor does it charge you for publicity and exposure. AAS considers this program of mutual benefit to both you and our members.
AAS does not offer financial support for filmmakers to attend the conference screenings.
Selected films will be required to submit 2 high quality promotional images, which may be uploaded at time of submission or acceptance confirmation.
If you have any questions, please address email correspondence with subject header "AAS Film Expo 2024 / NAME OF FILM" to ceaps@illinois.edu.
Contact Email: ceaps@illinois.edu
URL: https://www.asianstudies.org/conference/aas2024-call-for-films/
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| | CFP: The Politics and Poetics of Immobility: Asian Migrants (not) on the Move in (Post-)Pandemic Times
DATE OF EVENT : 14-15 March 2024
VENUE : Online via Zoom
WEBSITE : https://ari.nus.edu.sg/events/immobility/
CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 31 OCTOBER 2023
In migration studies, immobility is predominantly conceptualized as a disempowering and involuntary experience, symbolizing the curtailment of freedom to move as a result of prevailing structural constraints. Scholarly investigations have devoted significant attention to the institutionalized and nation-specific “regimes of mobility” (Glick-Schiller & Salazar, 2013) that bestow varying degrees of conditional or unconditional mobility to certain individuals while imposing temporary or prolonged immobility upon others. Nonetheless, immobility does not invariably denote an involuntary circumstance, nor does it inherently culminate in negative outcomes. Scholarly discourse has shed light on the fact that immobility can also be voluntary or even desirable, arising from a lack of aspiration to relocate despite possessing the capability to do so (Carling & Schewel, 2018; Schewel, 2019). In such cases, immobility should be regarded as a proactive and purposeful practice that necessitates agency, involving extensive engagement in decision-making processes related to migratory and residential choices.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharper focus the paramount importance of immobility. Stringent border restrictions have erected substantial barriers to geographical mobility, affecting even highly skilled and privileged migrants who were previously accustomed to high levels of mobility. Amidst the ongoing global crisis, entrenched regimes of (im)mobility have been reproduced and reinforced in certain contexts, while undergoing critical evaluation and reconfiguration in others. The evolving terrains of (im)mobility, stemming from the pandemic and extending into the post-pandemic era, have engendered far-reaching implications at both the micro-level, affecting the migration trajectories and life experiences of individual migrants, and the macro-level, reshaping nation-state governance, economic development, as well as cross-border population dynamics.
While research on migration and (im)mobility under pandemic conditions has ramped up, the predominant focus remains directed towards migrant mobilities rather than immobilities. With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting established (im)mobility regimes and introducing immobility to broader migrant populations, it becomes imperative to examine immobility as a distinct phenomenon with its array of experiences, narratives, and consequences. Furthermore, since existing knowledge concerning pandemic-related immobilities has been largely shaped by a Western perspective, there exists a pressing need to cast light upon the Asian arena that has hitherto remained relatively understudied within scholarly discourses.
In this context, the present workshop calls for a comprehensive investigation into the experiences and practices of Asian migrants pertaining to (post-)pandemic immobilities. The primary objective is to offer novel perspectives and insights into the ongoing discourses surrounding the complexities of migrant immobilities in the pandemic context, focusing on the interplay between migration regimes and human agency, the spatial and temporal aspects of transnational lives, and the shifting dynamics that preceded and followed the pandemic. The workshop endeavours to encompass diverse studies, delving into the intricacy of migration and pandemic immobility from the perspective of individuals, households, societies and nation-states, and remaining attentive to experiences of both the privileged and the marginalised migrant groups.
Potential workshop participants are encouraged to submit original works that address the following areas of interest, which include but are not limited to:
- How have governments in Asia regulated cross-border (im)mobilities and socio-spatial relations during the pandemic and its aftermath? How have these policies and measures affected the geographical (im)mobilities of migrants and their families?
- What does immobility mean to migrants in (post-)pandemic times? How has geographical immobility affected various aspects of migrants’ life, such as family and social relationships, employment and career, financial situations, and physical and emotional well-being?
- How have migrants’ (im)mobility rights been impacted by their citizenship and residential status in both the country of origin and destination? How, in turn, have the experiences of immobility amid the pandemic influenced their plans regarding future residential status and pathways to citizenship?
- How do migrants make sense of and navigate immobilities during the pandemic? How has the pandemic influenced migrants’ decisions in relation to (im)mobility in the post-pandemic age? Do they choose to remain in their destination countries, return to their home countries, or move on to other places?
- How has the pandemic reinforced, reproduced, or challenged existing regimes of differentiation and exclusion regarding migrant (im)mobility? Does the pandemic contribute to greater or lesser equality in access to mobility for migrants? Who are the privileged and who are the disadvantaged?
- How has the pandemic transformed the meanings and social expectations surrounding immobility across Asian countries?
SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (300 words maximum), and a brief personal biography of 150 words for submission by 31 October 2023. Abstracts should include as appropriate a discussion of the paper’s main aim(s), conceptual framework/theoretical contribution, research methods and data, and key findings. Please also include a statement confirming that your paper has not been published or committed elsewhere, and that you are willing to revise your paper for potential inclusion in a journal special issue.
Please submit your proposal using the provided template to Ms Minghua Tay at aritm@nus.edu.sg. Successful applicants will be notified by end November 2023. Panel presenters will be required to submit drafts of papers (4,000-6,000 words) by 16 February 2024. These drafts will be circulated to fellow panelists and discussants in advance. Drafts need not be fully polished. Indeed, we expect that presenters will be open to feedback from fellow participants.
WORKSHOP CONVENORS
Dr Yang WANG | Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Dr Wei YANG | Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Dr Bernice LOH | Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Dr Theodora LAM | Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Prof Brenda S. A. YEOH FBA | Asia Research Institute & Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
Contact Information:
Ms Minghua TAY
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
AS8 Level 7, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260
Email: minghua.tay@nus.edu.sg
Tel: (65) 6516 4224
Fax: (65) 6779 1428
URL: https://ari.nus.edu.sg/upcoming-events/ |
| | CFP: Extended deadline: International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture Vol. 33 No. 2 (December 2023)
Submission deadline is extended to October 15, 2023 for the International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture, (Vol.33 No.2), and the date of publication (Vol.33 No.2) is December 31, 2023.
The International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture (IJBTC) is seeking contributions of articles and book-reviews on history, philosophy, literature, and culture that are relevant to Buddhism.
The IJBTC welcomes submissions that bring new perspectives and ground-breaking research to the various fields of Buddhist Studies.
The IJBTC is listed in the Atla Religion Database®, the Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Citation Index, and is accredited by Korean Research Foundation.
For more information, including submissions, subscriptions and inquiries, please visit our homepage http://ijbtc.dongguk.edu/ or contact us by email at ijbtc@dgu.ac.kr
Contacts
KIM Jongwook (Dongguk University, Korea)
Richard D. MCBRIDE II (BYU, USA)
Editors, International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture
Email: ijbtc@dgu.ac.kr
URL: https://ijbtc.dongguk.edu/
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Interesting digital resource we discovered in July, 2023:- "journal.num.edu.mn" - is the online directory of the journals published by the National University of Mongolia. The journals cover NUM publications in various disciplined including but not limited to political science and economics to geology and physics.
- "Цахим номын сан" - is a free online public library for books in Mongolian.
Member contribution publications:(If you would like to announce your publication, please reach out to us at info@mongoliacenter.org. Make sure you put Member contribution publication in the Subject field of your email.
Selected scholarly articles published in July, 2023:
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| | FEATURE ARTICLES AND EVENTS ON MONGOLIAN STUDIES |
| Podcast: Khorloogiin Choibalsan /Christopher Atwood//The Hated and the Dead/ July 9. Khorloogiin Choibalsan was the leader of Communist Mongolia from 1939 until 1952. Known as "The Stalin of the Steppe", his life changed in 1933 when he agreed to become Stalin's lackey under the threat of execution for supposed collusion with Japanese spies.
This led Choibalsan to execute three percent of the Mongolian population in Purges commensurate with Stalin's. His career offers a fascinating insight into the character of Stalin, and also poses an interesting question as to how small countries such as Mongolia often have to settle for partial independence, if they wish to be free at all. Spotify link, Apple Podcast link |
| | Eric Thrift, ACMS VSS quest speaker, appeared as guest for MNB's Welcome to Mongolia Program /Mongolian National Broadcaster/ July 10. Mongolist Eric Thrift, Winnipeg University, Canada: "Mongolians are very welcoming and friendly people. May their doors be ever open." We would also like to remind the reader that Dr. Eric Thrift appeared on ACMS' Virtual Speaker Series in 2022. |
| | Everything You Need to Know Before Buying a Dinosaur Skeleton for Your Home
/Robb Report/ July 16. “Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in interest,” says Iacopo Briano, a paleontology expert at Giquello auction house, which holds dinosaur sales at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris. The appeal for private collectors is obvious: A T. rex makes for an awe-inspiring sculptural piece for that awkward-to-fill atrium. But the risks are high. Nicolas Cage reportedly was among the collectors of Tarbosaurus bataar who gave up their fossils after Mongolian paleontologist Bolortsetseg Minjin reminded authorities in 2012 that all Mongolian fossils are the property of that state—and all known T. bataars have been unearthed in Mongolia. When Robb Report spoke with Bolortsetseg in May, she was waiting to receive “about 20” illegally collected Mongolian dinosaurs, including the skull purportedly owned by Cage, from Homeland Security. The actor, she notes, most likely lost his money, and “the person who sold that dinosaur skull to him went to jail.” (That would be convicted smuggler Eric Prokopi.) Bolortsetseg advises collectors to avoid specimens labeled as originating from Mongolia or Central Asia and not to rely on the assurances of auction houses, which “want to make money.” Natural-history specialists from Sotheby’s and Christie’s declined to comment. Read more |
| | | 9 dead and 5 missing after floods /Montsame/ July 17. Ulaanbaatar. NEMA and Meteorological Institute report that the heavy rains that started from the beginning of July and lasting through Naadam have caused floods in Ulaanbaatar. 14300 emergency responders using 2800 machinery have attempted to mitigate the impact of the floods. 128.1 thousands in 28 microdistricts have been impacted by the flood, 743 have been evacuated in thr capital. All over the country 11 aimags (province) and 22 soums (county) have called in to report flood related emergencies. 9 dead and 5 missing in the affected areas throughout the country. Read more in Mongolian
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| | Mongolia-SpaceX deal provokes a security stir in China
/The Asian Times/ July 22. Mongolia’s recent decision to adopt SpaceX’s Starlink internet services is stirring security concerns across the border in China, both as a potential military threat and a possible way around Beijing’s strict censorship regime on perceived “harmful” foreign websites. Read more |
| | Summer school for Young Mongolists will have 30 researchers from 11 countries /Eagle News/ July 22. The Summer school for Young Mongolists, organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of Mongolia and the National Council for Mongolian Studies, is hosting 30 young scholars and students from 11 countries (Russia, USA, China, France, Japan, Germany, Hungary, Laos, North Korea, South Korea and Turkey) and 16 universities. They will be learning Mongolian lifestyle, culture and academics. Read more in Mongolian |
| | MCS does restoration of Secen Khan's Palace Museum courtyard/MCS/ July 29. As part of MCS' "Heritage Treasure" program, the company did restoration work for the Secen Khan's Palace Museum courtyard. A total of 8225 sq. meters of area was restored consisting of a construction of 5200 sq. meters of sidewalk and park space and 3000 sq. meters of green area. The restoration began on May 1, 2023 and completed late July. The "Heritage Treasure" program granted over 2.5 billion MNT to 15 cultural projects so far. Read more in Mongolia (includes photos of the museum) |
| | Mongolia PM to Begin First Visit to US in 5 Years/Voice of America News/ August 1. Mongolian Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene Luvsannamsrai and Foreign Minister Battsetseg Batmunkh arrive in Washington on Tuesday to start their meetings with Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior U.S. officials this week. “@VP (Vice President Harris) looks forward to welcoming Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene of Mongolia to the White House on August 2. The visit will highlight the strength of the U.S.-Mongolia Strategic Partnership and our ongoing work to deepen political, economic, and cultural ties,” said Harris’ press secretary Kirsten Allen in a message posted to the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. This is the first official visit of a Mongolian prime minister to the United States since 2018. The visit comes as the two countries are expanding cooperation on regional security and Mongolia’s deposits of rare earth minerals, which are crucial to the manufacture of high-tech items and renewable energy products, such as battery-powered electric vehicles. Read more
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"Discourses of Globalisation, Human Rights and Sports" by Joseph Zajda, Yvonne Vissing
Price: €129.99 (Hardcover)
This book discusses major discourses of performing sports within human rights. Research findings data demonstrate that sports is an inequitable field today that has the potential to be a social change agent. There is more discussion about rights violations and what the fields of sports can do to be more rights-respecting, but the discussions are at a surface, rather than analytic level for most sports organizations.
In sports, culture and human rights, as an emerging field, it is important to develop well crafter theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical body of knowledge. There is an academic discipline of sport that showcases its interdisciplinary nature. Linking sport to the field of human rights will require theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical evolution in this new discipline. There are both organizational, environmental and individual factors associated within the nexus of sports, athletes and human rights.
This book links together sports and human rights in a systematic and analytical way. It contains chapters that discuss human rights policies in performing sports, from both organizational and interpersonal perspectives. The book focuses on the benefits of sports and the human rights and safety challenges within the operations of sports organizations and their impact on individual players.
Joseph Zajda is a professor at the Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University (Melbourne Campus). He specialises in globalisation and education policy reforms, social justice, history education and values education. He has written and edited 45 books and over 150 book chapters and articles on globalisation and education policy, higher education and curriculum reforms. He is also the editor of the 24-volume book series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research (Springer, 2009 & 2021). Recent publications include: Zajda, J (Ed). (2020a). Globalisation, ideology and neo-liberal higher education reform. Dordrecht: Springer. Zajda, J. (Ed). (2020b). Human rights education globally. Dordrecht: Springer. Zajda, J. (Ed). (2020c). Globalisation, Ideology and Education Reforms: Emerging paradigms. Dordrecht: Springer. Zajda, J. (2018). He is an elected fellow of the Australian College of Educators (FACE).
Yvonne Vissing, PhD, is a Professor of Healthcare Studies, focusing on health policy and public health, and the Founding Director of the Center for Childhood & Youth Studies at Salem State University. She is the US policy chair for the Hope for Children Convention on the Child Policy Center in Cyprus, on the Steering Committee for Human Rights Educators USA, and is on the AAAS Human Rights Council. Vissing is author of 17 books, including Children’s Human Rights in the USA: Challenge & Opportunities (Springer 2023), Changing the Paradigm of Homelessness (Routledge 2020), and The Rights of Unaccompanied Minors (Springer 2021). A clinical sociologist, National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on child abuse and Whiting Foundation fellow studying child rights, she was also a Dialogue and Democracy fellow at UCONN’s Dodd Center for Human Rights. She is a graduate of Equitas International Human Rights Training Program in Montreal. She is CEO of Training for Excellence.
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| | "Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia" by Stephanie Balkwill (editor) and James A. Benn (editor)
Price: €104.00 (Hardback)
Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia explores the long relationship between Buddhism and the state in premodern times and seeks to counter the modern, secularist notion that Buddhism, as a religion, is inherently apolitical. By revealing the methods by which members of Buddhist communities across premodern East Asia related to imperial rule, this volume offers case studies of how Buddhists, their texts, material culture, ideas, and institutions legitimated rulers and defended regimes across the region.
The volume also reveals a history of Buddhist writing, protest, and rebellion against the state.
Contributors are Stephanie Balkwill, James A. Benn, Megan Bryson, Gregory N. Evon, Geoffrey C. Goble, Richard D. McBride II, and Jacqueline I. Stone.
Stephanie Balkwill, Ph.D. (2015), McMaster University, is Assistant Professor of Chinese Buddhism at the University of California, Los Angeles. She publishes on the social, political, and intellectual history of Buddhist women in early medieval China.
James A. Benn, Ph.D. (2001), University of California, Los Angeles, is Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions at McMaster University. He is the author of Burning for the Buddha: Self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007) and Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015).
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| | "Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands: A proportional share" by Hedwig Amelia Waters
Price: This is an open access book
Since the early 1990s, Mongolia began its hopeful transition from socialism to a market democracy, becoming increasingly dependent on international mining revenue. Both shifts were promised to herald a new age of economic plenty for all. Now, roughly 30 years on, many of Mongolia’s poor and rural feel that they have been forgotten.
Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands describes these shifts from the viewpoint of the self-proclaimed ‘excluded’: the rural township of Magtaal on the Chinese border. In the wake of socialism, the population of this resource-rich area found itself without employment and state institutions, yet surrounded by lush nature 30 kilometres from the voracious Chinese market. A two-tiered resource-extractive political-economic system developed. Whilst large-scale, formal, legally sanctioned conglomerates arrived to extract oil and land for international profits, the local residents grew increasingly dependent on the Chinese-funded informal, illegal cross-border wildlife trade. More than a story about rampant capitalist extraction in the resource frontier, this book intimately details the complex inner worlds, moral ambiguities and emergent collective politics constructed by individuals who feel caught in political-economic shifts largely outside of their control.
Offering much needed nuance to commonplace descriptions of Mongolia’s post-socialist transition, this study presents rich ethnographic detail through the eyes and voices of the state’s most geographically marginalized. It is of interest not only to experts of political-economy and post-socialist transition, but also to non-academic readers intrigued by the interplay of value(s) and capitalism.
Hedwig Amelia Waters is Horizon Europe ERA Postdoctoral Fellow at Palacky University, Czech Republic.
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