{"title":"Robin Visser","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobin Visser\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intersections of geography, identity, and culture with a thoughtful and nuanced approach. Readers can expect works that challenge conventional understandings of borders and boundaries, offering fresh perspectives on migration, space, and belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, Visser’s writings invite reflection on how cultural landscapes are shaped and contested. These books are ideal for those intrigued by questions of place, identity, and the dynamic forces that shape our world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"questioning-borders-by-robin-visser-9780231199810","title":"Questioning Borders","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalise resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. \u003cem\u003eQuestioning Borders\u003c\/em\u003e explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analysing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative possibilities for creativity and consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInformed by extensive field research, Robin Visser compares literary works by Bai, Bunun, Kazakh, Mongol, Tao, Tibetan, Uyghur, Wa, Yi, and Han Chinese writers set in Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Southwest China, and Taiwan, sites of extensive development, migration, and climate change impacts. Visser contrasts the dominant Han Chinese cosmology of centre and periphery that informs what she calls \"Beijing Westerns\" with Indigenous and hybridised ways of relating to the world that challenge borders, binaries, and hierarchies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy centring Indigenous cosmologies, this book aims to decolonise approaches to ecocriticism, comparative literature, and Chinese and Sinophone studies as well as to inspire new modes of sustainable flourishing in the Anthropocene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427455451372,"sku":"9780231199810","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231199810.jpg?v=1774767552"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/robin-visser.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}