This special issue presents a series of papers selected from those presented at a workshop held July 30 – August 1, 2018 at Yale-NUS College and the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. We start from the assumption that changes in Asia Pacific foodways cannot be understood as simply “diffusion from the …
This edited volume brings together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience, think about, perceive and utilize their bodies as part of the journeys they have embarked on. In exploring how bodies are physically and symbolically marked by migration experiences, the volume seeks to move beyond the immediate effects of hard labour and (potentially) …
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In February 2018, a group of scholars, educators, librarians, heritage practitioners, and graduate students gathered for a one-and-a-half-day workshop to discuss the history and historiography of Singapore. Jointly sponsored by the Department of History (National University of Singapore) and the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (JSEAS), the participants were asked to think about the epistemological …
The largest cities in Pacific Asia are the engines of their countries’ economic growth, seats of national and regional political power, and repositories of the nation’s culture and heritage. The economic changes impacting large cities interact with political forces along with social cultural concerns, and in the process also impact the neighbourhoods of the city. …
With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, the volume explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and the conceptualised space engineered into material form by bureaucrats, experts and commercial interests, a perceptual layer of space is conjured out of …
Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities examines how the concept of ‘post-politics’ has manifested across a range of Asian cities, and the impact this has had on state-society relationships in processes of urban governance. This volume examines how the post-political framework—derived from the study of Western liberal democracies—applies to …
This is a collection of over 1700 inscriptions gathered in temples, monasteries, lineage halls, and Confucian temples in 9 districts of southeast Fujian. In 2019, it was awarded a national First Prize in the category of Traditional Textual Publications for the Best 100 Publications in the 2018 Classical Literature National.
This pivot considers the emergence and functioning of the migration industry and commercialization of migration pathways in Asia. Grounded in extensive fieldwork and building on empirical data gathered through interactions and interviews with brokers, agents and other facilitators of migration, it examines the increasing co-dependence on, entanglement of and overlap between migrants, industry and state. …
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This book investigates why students choose to study in key Asian cities, and how this trend relates to the strategic intent of states and universities to build “knowledge economies” and “world-class” profiles. Drawing on substantial theoretical and empirical research, the authors examine the emotional geographies of East Asian international education, and offer new analytical insights …
