In this volume Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history. He argues that the region not only had a historical character of its own, but that it played a crucial role in shaping the modern world.Southeast Asia’s interaction with the forces uniting and transforming the world is explored through chapters focusing …
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Though described as the ‘world’s oldest profession’, prostitution is recognized by society neither as a valid form of employment nor an acceptable activity on the part of the customer. Prostitution has a long and varied history in Indonesia, starting before the colonial era, through decades of Dutch attempts to control the practice, to the institutionalization …
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This edited collection interrogates the diversity of transnational migration experiences in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of digital ethnography in order to explore the transformative effects digital media plays in these experiences. While there has been work on the various ways in which internet communication technologies (ICTs) particularly mobile communication allows for various forms of …
