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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of its first election victory in 1959, the People’s Action Party began to deliver on its promises in dramatic fashion. By the 1980s, 85 percent of the population had been rehoused in modern flats, and today, decades later, the …
