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Northeast India and Japan : engagement through connectivity / edited by Mayumi Murayama, Sanjoy Hazarika, Preeti Gill.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Relations.
- India, Northeastern--Relations--Japan.
- India, Northeastern.
- Japan--Relations--India, Northeastern.
- Japan.
- India, Northeastern--Social conditions.
- Japan--Social conditions.
- India, Northeastern--Economic conditions.
- Japan--Economic conditions.
- Northeastern India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Mayumi Murayama serves as Executive Vice President of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) in charge of the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO). Her research interests include industry, labour, gender, and youth issues as well as the regional relationship of India and Bangladesh. Some of her publications include Gender and Development: The Japanese Experience in Comparative Perspective , (editor), Globalization, Employment and Mobility: South Asian Experience , (co-edited with Hiroshi Sato), and 'Borders, Migration and Sub-regional Cooperation in Eastern South Asia', among others. Sanjoy Hazarika is currently International Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), New Delhi, which is headquartered in India and has offices in London and Accra. He has designed innovative development interventions such as the boat clinics on the Brahmaputra river and is a columnist in various media and an award-winning former reporter with the New York Times . He is Founder and Managing Trustee of the Centre of North East Studies and Policy Research (C-NES) and established India's first centre for Northeast studies at a central university - at Jamia Milia Islamia. He is a former member of the Justice Jeevan Reddy Committee to review the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and former member of the National Security Advisory Board. Journalist, researcher, editor, and expert on the Northeast and its neighbourhood, he has made more than a dozen documentaries on the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra river, environmental issues, human rights and conflict. His books include the acclaimed Strangers of the Mist, Tales of War and Peace from India's North East ; Rites of Passage ; Writing on the Wall; Bhopal, the Lessons of a Tragedy and, most recently, Strangers No More , published 25 years after the pioneering Strangers of the Mist . His work has appeared in newspapers, journals and magazines across the world, and he has contributed to The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration and various nonfiction anthologies. Preeti Gill is an independent literary agent who has more than 20 years of experience in the publishing industry as a commissioning editor and rights director. She has travelled extensively in the Northeast of India and written on issues of conflict and women. She is the editor of T he Peripheral Centre: Voices from India's Northeast as well as Bearing Witness: A Report on the Impact of Conflict on Women in Nagaland and Assam . Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including 1984 in Memory and Imagination (2016).
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Northeast India and Japan.
- ISBN:
- 9781000426038
- 1000426033
- 9781003165026
- 1003165028
- 9781000426076
- 1000426076
- Publisher Number:
- 40030861048
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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