Tag: depopulation
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AAS 2020 Virtual Book Exhibit
Welcome to our AAS 2020 virtual book exhibit! Below are the new titles that would have been released at the AAS conference. These were also featured on the outside back cover of the AAS 2020 conference program. Save 30% on the print edition of all titles if you order directly from the Cambria Press website…
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#ISA2015 Essential Titles
NEW TITLE: International Relations and the Arctic Increased global interest in the Arctic poses challenges to contemporary international relations, and many questions surround exactly why and how Arctic countries are asserting their influence and claims over their northern reaches and why and how non-Arctic states are turning their attention to the region. This first systematic…
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The Economist highlights emptying of Japan’s rural areas – An issue that has been comprehensively covered in Japan’s Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century!
The Economist has reported that “public awareness of voting disparities in Japan is rising as rural areas empty, putting pressure on the judiciary to act. Politicians are strongly attached to the system that elects them. The LDP in particular has flourished in the countryside. For most in the party, deliberately weakening its rural base and…
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AAS 2013 Book Highlights: Outstanding Reviews for Cambria Press Titles!
In addition to the titles in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, the following titles in Asian Studies are being highlighted for the 2013 Asian Studies Association (AAS) annual conference in San Diego (click on links for more details): Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Victor H. Mair…
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First-Rate Cambria Press Book Review! Asian Anthropologist hails Japan’s Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century for being “very substantial” and a “must read”!
Cambria Press congratulates Peter Matanle, Anthony Rausch, and the Shrinking Regions Research Group on the review on their highly acclaimed book Japan’s Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century: Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline! The reviewer for Asian Anthropologist praises the book, stating that this is “an ambitious project. I should also note that it…
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Cambria Press Countdown to the 2012 International Studies Association Annual Conference has begun!
The countdown to the International Studies Association (ISA) annual conference in San Diego has begun! To kick things off, Cambria Press is proud to announce that North Korea Demystified is scheduled for publication this year. The editor of this forthcoming book by Cambria Press is Han S. Park with Regan Damron and Jonathan Polk .…
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Cambria Press Author Anthony Rausch at the 2012 Asian Studies Association (AAS) Annual Conference in Toronto
An unexpected visitor was Professor Anthony Rausch who came all the way from Japan! It was delightful to meet him after such an intense collaboration process on his book, Japan’s Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century: Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioeconomic Decline, which he coauthored with Professor Peter Matanle and the Shrinking Regions Research…