Much has been written about the attitude of Islam to family planning and population control. In the past much of this writing took as its starting-point the observation that Muslim countries, and Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries, tended to have high fertility. It was only a small step from this to the argument that high …
A demographic perspective is relevant to understanding the position of Muslims in today’s world. This paper deals with issues such as the proportion of Muslims who live in countries where Muslims are the great majority of the population (71% live in countries where more than 80% of the population is Muslim); indices of human development, …
After having lain dormant for some twenty years during the period 1973 to 1991, the Singaporean film industry is experiencing something of a revival. Films produced since the early 1990s have been resolutely ‘local’ in their portrayals in an effort to ground this emergent cinematic modernity. Only a handful of these films have, however, received …
WPS 40 Slang Images: On the ‘Foreignness’ of Contemporary Singaporean Films Read More »
This publication consists of all presentations, details of question-and-answer sessions and main points and issues arising from the 2004 IPS Intercultural Dialogue Series. The publication hopes to contribute to public awareness and education, and policy and practice, in the interests of cultural understanding, social cohesion and the common good in Singapore.
The processes of migration and health are inextricably linked in complex ways, with migration impacting on the mental and physical health of individuals and communities. Health itself can be a motivation for moving or a reason for staying, and migration can have implications on the halth of those who move, those who are left bhind …
In a period of rapid globalisation, sociologists need urgently to reconsider the national assumptions of sociology. Cosmopolitanism is a promising set of values and presuppositions that are useful for rethinking and designing sociology to meet the challenge of a global social system. To comprehend global processes, the existing assumptions about national societies in mainstream sociology …
WPS 39 Classical Sociology: On Cosmopolitanism, Critical Recognition Theory and Islam Read More »
Although the proportions remain relatively small compared to its neighboring countries, statistical trends indicate that the incidence of postponed marriages in Indonesia is growing, especially among urban people. Utilizing the 2000 Indonesian census data and in-depth interviews with 35 never-married women aged 30 years and over, this study aims to describe the patterns and gender …
The migration of people within and beyond Asia no longer takes the form of permanent ruptures, uprooting, and resettlement. Today, such movement is more likely to be transient and complex, ridden with disruptions and detours, and based on translocal interconnections between places and multiple chains of movement. Written from various disciplinary perspectives, this collection of …
Asian Migrations: Sojourning, Displacement, Homecoming and Other Travels Read More »
Conflicting parties worldwide increasingly use the internet in a strategic way. Conflicts carried out on a local level thus achieve a new dimension: This new kind of medialisation results in their expansion into global cyberspace. Based on ethnographic research on the online activities of Christian and Muslim actors in the Moluccan conflict (1999-2002) this study …
Cyberidentities at War: Der Molukkenkonflikt im Internet Read More »
The name Champa refers to the region along the central and southern Vietnamese coast in which the major population group, identifiable from the 5th century onward by their own architectural and epigraphic remains, was the linguistically Austronesian Cham. The Cham settled mainly in river port deltas, and developed a Hindu and Buddhist religious culture exemplified …
