Rice is the foremost foodstuff in terms of caloric intake for Southeast Asians and for bolstering national food security, yet writings on the region’s politics have overlooked the crucial role rice production programs have played in shaping signal political and development outcomes. In this comparative historical analysis, Jamie S. Davidson argues that the performance legitimacy …

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This book examines the affective domain of the city to visibilise the invisible order that informs the complex urban reality in today’s world. Exploring both the lived and imaginary properties of Dhaka, it uncovers alternative spatial logics and signifying relations among other local dynamics shaping urban knowledge. Moving beyond traditional research frameworks, it focuses on …

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In 𝘌𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴, Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in josō and dansō cafe-and-bars, establishments where male-to-female and female-to-male crossdressing is prevalent, Ho shows how their owners, employees, …

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Sounding untouchability across postcolonial borders Communities of Sound brings together insights from religion, anthropology, sound, and migration studies to explore the sonic traces of untouchability and forced migration across the Bay of Bengal. Based on an immersive, multi-sited ethnography with Matua devotees—a low-caste, Bengali-speaking Dalit religious community fragmented by Partition, war, and postcolonial displacement—the book …

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This women-centred study examines social reconstructions of immigrant mothering among a middle-class minority community of first-generation Coorg women – Kodavathees – in urban Karnataka, Singapore, and Sydney through conceptual lenses of new cosmopolitanisms and new maternalisms. Cosmopolitan Maternalisms explores how Kodavathee immigrant mothering is practised with a pragmatic awareness of adapting the ways of the …

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This special issue examines the diversified citizenship pathways that migrants undertake to manage uncertainties and global disparities or opportunities in various national contexts and at different life stages. We define citizenship pathways as the routes and processes that shape how migrants pursue personal and family goals to achieve citizenship recognition and redistribution. As migrants respond …

Migration and Citizenship Pathways In/Beyond Asia Read More »