About this title: Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be self-reliant, individualistic, and free, even as the system and the culture constrain them within terms of ethnicity, race, and class. "Buddha Is Hiding" tells the story of Cambodian Americans experiencing American citizenship from the bottom-up. Based on extensive fieldwork in Oakland and San ...
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Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 9-4-03
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Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2003
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Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2003-09-04
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Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780520238244ISBN:0520238249
Description: New. "In this tour-de-force ethnography, acclaimed anthropologist Aihwa Ong trains her awesome ethnographic and theoretic talents on the brutal forces reconfiguring citizenship in a globalized world of war refugees, economic immigrants, and technicians of... read more
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780520229983ISBN:0520229983
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"Say what you want about Ong, but she has the uncanny ability to take a concept--such as "governmentality"--that in the hands of most writers turns into utter opacity and explain it so that even 17 year old university freshman with no background in social science can begin to use it to understand their own lives and see the world around them in a new way."
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