Once an occupation traditionally associated with poor rural women who migrated to cities in search of work, paid domestic work is now a transnational occupational niche for millions of women from Asia’s less well-off countries-including the Philippines, Indonesia, Burma, Sri Lanka, and India-who embark on sojourns to the richer countries of the world-such as Singapore, …
The study of Cambodian religion has long been hampered by a lack of easily accessible scholarship. This impressive new work by Ian Harris thus fills a major gap and offers English-language scholars a booklength, up-to-date treatment of the religious aspects of Cambodian culture. Beginning with a coherent history of the presence of religion in the country …
Over the last ten years citizenship has become an area of interdisciplinary research and teaching in its own right. This book highlights that globalization poses new challenges for established understandings and practices of citizenship, and that intellectual work is required to fashion models of citizenship better suited to present problems and realities. In particular, this …
Challenging Citizenship: Group Membership and Cultural Identity in a Global Age Read More »
Indonesian Translation of The Contest for North Sumatra: Atjeh, the Netherlands and Britain, 1858-1898 (1969).
Thai translation of Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce (2 vols, 1988-93) Author/Speaker:LEKAWATANA Pongsri (Translator), Anthony REID
For four centuries, from 1520 to 1920, the Ottoman dynasty in Turkey represented a dream for Southeast Asian Muslims; a longing for Islamic power at a time of Islamic political decline. That dream became a reality in the period 1530-70, when Aceh submitted itself to Ottoman suzerainty in return for military support against the Portuguese. …
Sumatra is a vast and understudied island with a population of 43 million people divided into a variety of ethnic groups. Apart from William Marsden’s great study of 1783, few serious historical works deal with Sumatra’s history, and even fewer attempt to describe that history as a coherent whole. Sumatra’s rich resources of land and …
An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra Read More »
What do “independence”, “dependence”, and “disability” mean to older people? How do they feel about personal and equipment assistance? We conducted interviews on these issues with community-dwelling Americans and Singaporeans aged 70+; the samples were assisted-living residents and day-care center clients, respectively. Quantitative and qualitative data analyses show that the two groups differ greatly in …
WPS 35 Views of Disability in the U.S. and Singapore Read More »
Television has arguably been (and remains) the most important medium for promulgating Indonesia’s national language, Indonesian, certainly for popularising it as speech. This paper looks particularly at the treatment of non-Indonesian languages on television in Indonesia during the New Order, the age of which coincided with the development of television. The paper examines how foreign …
WPS 34 Speaking the Truth: Speech on Television in New Order Indonesia Read More »
