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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Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia

Susceptibility in Development offers a novel approach to understanding power in development through theories of affect and emotion. Development agents – people tasked with designing or delivering development – are susceptible to being affected in ways that may derail or threaten their ‘sense of self’. This susceptibility is in direct relation to the capacity of …

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Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability

Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema explores a geopolitically situated set of cultures negotiating unique relationships to colonial history. These particular Singaporean, Malaysian, and Indonesian identities are discussed through a variety of commercial films, art cinema, and experimental work. It discovers instances of postcoloniality that manifest stylistically through Singapore’s preoccupations with space, the importance of …

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