WPS 03 The Ming shi Account of Champa
The account of Champa contained within the Chinese dynastic history Ming shi records events, as seen by the Chinese court, extending from 1369 until 1544. The text thus covers the period from that which Georges Maspero referred to as the “apogée” of the polity, to the sack and decimation of the Cham capital at Vijaya …
WPS 02 A Tale of Two Centuries: The Globalisation of Maritime Raiding and Piracy in Southeast Asia at the end of the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The comparative temporal perspective explored in this paper, which covers the latter part of two centuries, the late eighteenth and the late twentieth centuries, lends explanatory power to the treatment of Iranun maritime raiding, on the one hand, and on the other, modern day crime on the high seas in Southeast Asia, with particular reference …
WPS 01 War, Peace and the Burden of History in Aceh
The Indonesian military “invasion” of Aceh on 19 May 2003 marked the collapse of a peace process initiated discreetly by the Henry Dunant Centre three years earlier. This process had culminated in the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (COHA) between the Government of Indonesia and the Aceh Independence Movement (GAM), which came into effect on 9 …
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Approaching Transnationalisms: Studies on Transnational Societies, Multicultural Contacts, and Imaginings of Home
The term “transnationalism” has gained considerable academic and popular currency despite a lack of clear definitions, in part because its overall form changes as its influence incorporates additional spheres of daily life on a variety of scales and contexts. The purpose of this volume is to bring together different perspectives on this phenomenon, using case …
Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text: Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretative Experiences
Summary: Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities. It focuses on the ways in which urban spatial forms are textual experiences, subject to interpretative strategies and the influence of …
The Politics of Landscapes in Singapore: Constructions of “Nation”
Has the era of globalization neutralized the institution of “nation”? This thought-provoking book focuses on attempts to build “nation” through landscape. Specifically, it explores strategies employed by Singapore, a multiracial society, to create a Singapore “nation” with an emphasis on the role of landscapes. As such, the authors cast a keen eye on religious buildings, …
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The Potent Dead: Ancestors, Saints and Heroes in Contemporary Indonesia
The dead are potent and omnipresent in modern Indonesia. Presidents and peasants alike meditate before sacred graves to exploit the power they confer, and mediums do good business curing the sick by interpreting the wishes of deceased forebears. Among non-Muslims there are ritual reburials of the bones of the dead in monuments both magnificent and …
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Gender Politics in the Asia-Pacific Region
Call#: HQ1236.5 Yeo 2002 (Dis) Note: Display collection Library holdings: 1 copy ISBN: 0-415-20660-X Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women’s lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change …