The Roots of Resilience: Party Machines and Grassroots Politics in Singapore and Malaysia

The Roots of Resilience examines governance from the ground up in the world’s two most enduring electoral authoritarian or “hybrid” regimes―Singapore and Malaysia―where politically liberal and authoritarian features are blended to evade substantive democracy. Although skewed elections, curbed civil liberties, and a dose of coercion help sustain these regimes, selectively structured state policies and patronage, …

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Who’s Cashing In? Contemporary Perspectives on New Monies and Global Cashlessness

Cashless infrastructures are rapidly increasing, as credit cards, cryptocurrencies, online and mobile money, remittances, demonetization, and digitalization process replace coins and currencies around the world. Who’s Cashing In? explores how different modes of cashlessness impact, transform and challenge the everyday lives and livelihoods of local communities. Drawing from a wide range of ethnographic studies, this …

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Journal of Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (Vol. 38, Issue 5)

The issue introduces the symposium on the politics and spaces of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, locating the papers as concept explorations resting on case studies that contextualize and historicize Belt and Road Initiative. The first paper explores the historiography of one of the Belt and Road Initiative’s conditions of possibility, the Silk Road idea. …

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Journal of Family Issues – Special Issue: Old Bonds, New Ties: Contextualizing Family Transitions in Re-partnerships, Remarriage and Stepfamilies in Asia (Vol. 41, Issue 7)

The continued emphasis on a decontextualized nuclear family in Asia has often obscured experiences of re-partnered individuals and stepfamilies, wherein transitions including couple dissolution and remarriage or cohabitation have had particular implications for family well-being and social mobility. The eight papers in this special issue expand scholarship beyond acknowledging the increasing prevalence of re-partnership and …

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Religions – Special Issue: Chinese Temples and Rituals in Southeast Asia (Vol. 11, 2020)

Temples are sites through which flow crowds of sensations, people, gods, ideas, capital, food, and ritual artifacts – a great many kinds of movements and transformations – thus papers exploring mobility in relation to Chinese temples are included in this issue. Papers on religion and migration, on the circulation or the training of ritual specialists, …

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Geographical Research – Special Section: Migration Methodologies (Vol. 58, Issue 4)

A growing body of migration scholarship has highlighted the inadequacies of a single‐origin, single‐destination model for thinking about international migration in the 21st century. Multinational migrations—involving the varied movements of international migrants across more than one overseas destination with significant time spent in each overseas country—have been observed among high‐skilled migrants, low‐wage labour migrants, and …

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SOJURN Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia – Special Section: Global Catholicism in Southeast Asia: Mobilities and Networks ( Vol. 35, No. 2)

This special section emerges from the collaborative program “Intersecting Mobilities: Southeast Asia from the Perspective of Religious Mobility”, which gathered scholars from the Asia Research Institute (ARI, National University of Singapore), the Institute of Research on Contemporary Southeast Asia (Irasec) and the Université de Paris/Inalco, as well as several others who actively participated in a …

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Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks across India and Southeast Asia

This book breaks new ground by examining trans-oceanic connectivity through the perspective of coastal shrines and maritime cultural landscapes across the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. It covers a period of expanding networks and cross-cultural encounters from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. The book examines the distinctiveness of …

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