Asian Population Studies — Special Section: The Internationalisation of Education and ‘Belt and Road’ Student Mobilities in Southeast Asia (Volume 21, Issue 1)

Over the last few decades, youth migration for education has emerged as an important component of population movements in Asia. This trend not only affects young people’s ‘identities, educational resilience, sense of belonging and sense of self’ (Mazzucato & Haagsman, Citation2022, p. 2473), but also contributes to the development goals of both sending and receiving countries. …

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After Work: Japanese Silver Backpackers in Malaysia

An ethnography of “silver backpackers” that offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement in contemporary societies. The moniker “silver backpackers” refers to Japanese couples who, in their mid-fifties to seventies, move to Malaysia to enjoy their retirement. Recent scholarship on Japan has revealed how the gendered division of labor impacts the lives …

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Handbook of Gender and Mobilities

This important Handbook provides a critical overview of the complex links between gender, mobility and immobility, highlighting the production and politics of gendered mobilities and the importance of gender perspectives. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

City, Culture and Society – Special Issue: Urban religion and gendered bodies (Volume 39)

The relation between religion and the city is one of mutual social, political, architectural, conceptual and experiential formation. This special issue shifts debates on religion and the city to the body as the site of religious and urban experience, and as a site of regulation and negotiation. Examining Muslim femininities and masculinities in cities in …

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Urban Studies – Special Issue: Heat and the City: Thermal Control, Governance and Health in Urban Asia (Volume 61, Issue 15)

This special issue focuses on the under-studied but increasingly pressing issue of urban heat. Cities are getting hotter, both due to the global crisis of climate change, and the related phenomena of Urban Heat Islands, which locally amplify increased global temperatures and exposure to solar radiation. We know a great deal about how heat is …

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Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North Senses, Media and Power: Senses, Media and Power

What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and public life of communities beyond the Global North, analyzing diverse configurations of the category of sound and various sonic ontologies to usher in a more …

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Asian Medicine – Special Issue: Faith in Immunity and Structures of Trust: COVID-19 Vaccines from Asian Perspectives (Volume 19, Issue 1)

The collection of seven research articles in this special issue offers empirical and nuanced perspectives on the concept of faith in immunity in order to go beyond this reductionist discourse and interrogate the complex interplay between COVID-19 immunity and preexisting structures of trust, cosmologies of protection, and epistemologies of healing. In the context of the …

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HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory – Special Section: Ethical Pedagogies and/of Relationality (Volume 13, Issue 3)

The articles in this special section analyse pedagogical endeavours, broadly understood, at various sites and through diverse processes, mostly in Asia. The authors approach sites and processes of ethical learning as a point of departure to investigate the forms of pedagogies implemented, the kinds of subjectivities fashioned, and the shifts in relationality entailed. Their focus …

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