Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore’s Public Housing
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 …
Asia Pacific Viewpoint – Special Issue: Diasporic Chinese Voluntary Associations Engage China’s Rise (Volume 64, Issue 3)
Since the late 1970s, China has gradually risen as a global power, which culminates in the present moment when large-scale geopolitical and economic ventures such as the Belt and Road Initiative have generated diversified cross-border connections. This is most forcefully felt in the Chinese diaspora, and particularly those in Southeast Asia since the region is …
Security Competition and International Order in the Digital Era 数字时代的安全竞争与国际秩序
Security Competition and International Order in the Digital Era” mainly analyzes the strategic competition of great powers and the changes and continuation of international/regional order and their impact mechanisms in the process of entering the digital era. It combines the reality of international relations to reveal the impact of digital technology on national military capabilities …
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Ethics of Belonging: Education, Religion, and Politics in Manado, Indonesia
The city of Manado and province of North Sulawesi have built a public identity based on religious harmony, claiming to successfully model tolerance and inter-religious relations for the rest of Indonesia. Yet, in discourses and practices relevant to everyday interactions in schools and political debates in the public sphere, two primary contested frames for belonging …
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Strongman’s Brokers Old Diasporas and New Networks in the Age of Populism
This book explores the critical role of informal diplomats in shaping contemporary global politics as they navigate complex networks of power and influence in the age of strongman leaders. The world of international relations has long been viewed as the domain of state institutions and career diplomats. But in the age of strongman leaders, a …
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Asian Ethnicity – Special Issue: Asian Ethnicity Co-Producing Ethnicity in Urban Asia (Volume 24, Issue 4)
The articles in this special issue examine engagements across ethnic boundaries in Asian cities over the past two centuries. We see these cities as stages for the co-production of ethnicity, where multiple actors, including but not limited to state authorities, have attempted to define, manage, and challenge the social boundaries between their diverse inhabitants. These …
World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon
In World of Worldly Gods, Kelzang T. Tashi offers the first comprehensive examination of the tenacity of Shamanic Bon practices, as they are lived and contested in the presence of an invalidating force: Buddhism. Through a rich ethnography of Goleng and nearby villages in central Bhutan, Tashi investigates why people, despite shifting contexts, continue to …
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Global Networks – Special Issue: Beyond Migration? Alternative Articulations of Transnational Religious Networks (Volume 23, Issue 3)
A growing body of scholarship on transnational religion is grounded within the analytical framework of the religion–migration relationship and has highlighted migrant individuals and groups as main players in forging religious networking. This ignores a wide range of alternative drivers that are forceful in the (re)making of transnational religious networks. In this introduction of the …