Cultural Studies – Special Issue: Shifting Undergrounds in East and Southeast Asia (Vol. 35, Issue 1)
Taking ‘underground(s)’ as the conceptual point of departure, the authors in this Special Issue investigate the socio-political, cultural and ideological dynamics of ‘cultural undergrounds’ across cities in East and Southeast Asia. Through critical analysis of changing conditions, frameworks, (mis)representations and self- and counter-definitions, we seek to build towards a timely interdisciplinary discourse. Drawing from our …
Society, Resistance and Civil Nuclear Policy in India: Nuclearising the State
This book explores how anti-nuclear social movements impact the state’s civil nuclear policy and its implementation by presenting a historical-comparative case study of anti-nuclear movements in India. Drawing on social movement theory and empirical methods, the book demonstrates that the ability for anti-nuclear movements to impede the inception of nuclear plants – a key element …
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Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka (Global Perspectives on Aging)
When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical …
Disastrous Times: Beyond Environmental Crisis in Urbanizing Asia
Across contemporary Asia, each day dawns with a new story about living in an era of profound environmental change. Rapid transformations in the landscape, society, and technology produce new conflicts that are experienced at nearly every scale of life in the region. Environmental change is marked in square kilometers or micrometers, in cities or in …
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City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action – Special Feature: Migrants in Global Cities in East Asia and the Gulf (Vol. 24, Issue 5-6)
This Special Feature reflects on how cosmopolitanism is inscribed and refracted in non-western cities with global city ambitions. We focus on Asia and the Gulf to provide a counter-reading of cosmopolitanism from various cities with both unstated or explicit non-integration policies, ranging from metropoles where migrants and foreigners correspond to a small minority (such as …
Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore
Singapore, Rock City. On any given day in the basement of Peninsula Plaza, a shopping mall in central Singapore, Singaporeans of different ethnicities and ages can be found imagining and living a way of life through music. Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this sonic ethnography is centered around a community of noisy …
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The Information Society – Special Section: Platforms, Precarity, and Entrepreneurship: Mobile Communication in Asia (Vol. 36, Issue 5)
This special section brings together ethnographic and sociological work in three Asian countries – China, Cambodia, and Myanmar – to provide a view of different levels and degrees of the platformisation of labor, perspectives on precarity, and narratives around entrepreneurship and work. There is a growing recognition that, amid this techno-economic focus, and lack of …
East Asian Science, Technology and Society – Special Issue: Care in Translation: Care-ful Research in Medical Settings (Vol. 14, Issue 1)
This special issue aims to investigate the possibilities that spring from treating “care” as a practice and a moral-political orientation, through ethnographies and case studies related to medical settings across Asia. It pays attention to who and what is involved in care, and to historical and recent developments that feed into what forms of care …