Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia: Comparative Perspectives

Over the last few decades historians and other scholars have succeeded in identifying diverse patterns of connection linking religious communities across Asia and beyond. Yet despite the fruits of this specialist research, scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies have rarely engaged with each other to share investigative approaches and methods of interpretation. …

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Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared

For many years, China and India have been powerfully shaped by both transnational and subnational circulatory forces. This edited volume explores these local and global influences as they play out in the contemporary era. The analysis focuses on four intersecting topics: labor relations; legal reform and rights protest; public goods provision; and transnational migration and …

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Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space – Special Issue: Disaster Justice in Asia’s Urban Transition (Vol. 1 Issue 3)

The essays in this themed collection critically engage with questions of environmental disaster justice from historical and contemporary perspectives. The contributions are geographically centred on urbanising societies in six countries in South, East, and Southeast Asia: India, the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, and Japan. Among the first multidisciplinary efforts to develop the concept of disaster …

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Challenging Cosmopolitanism: Coercion, Mobility and Displacement in Islamic Asia

Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a key category in Islamic Studies, defining models of Muslim mobility, pluralism and tolerance that challenge popular perceptions of religious extremism. Such celebrations and valorisations of mobility and trans-regional consciousness, however, tend to conflate border-crossing with opportunity and social diversity with ethical progress. At the same time, they generally disregard the …

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Journal of Children’s Geographies – Special Issue: Youthful Futures?: Education, Employment and Aspirations in Asia (Vol. 16, Issue 1)

In this editorial article we frame how young people in Asia are reworking rapidly changing socio-economic, cultural conditions and constraining political structures to create possible successful futures and achieve their aspirations. We critically engage with interdisciplinary debates that conceptualise youth futures and provide an overview of current literature on this topic. Using the intense dynamism …

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City – Special Issue: Constructing Asia (Vol. 21, No. 5)

This a special issue on ‘Constructing Asia’ which has recently been published in City. The special issue is edited by Eli Elinoff, Marlini Sur and Brenda SA Yeoh. Pieces in the collection take on construction sites and practices to understand contemporary political economies across a variety of Asian contexts (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Singapore, and India). This special …

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Marriage & Family Review – Special Issue: Growing Up in One-Parent Families in Asia (Vol 52, No 1-2)

This issue presents diverse forms of one-parent families in Asia because of different demographic and socioeconomic developmental contexts. The 9 papers show how culture and policies could shape the impact of living with one parent on children’s well-being. As seen, one-parent families due to out-of-wedlock births remain rare in most Asian societies. One-parent families due …

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Asian Ethnology – Special Issue: Salvage and Salvation: Religion and Disaster Relief in Asia’ (Vol. 75, No. 1)

This a special issue on ‘Salvage and Salvation: Religion and Disaster Relief in Asia’ which has recently been published in Asian Ethnology. The special issue is edited by Levi McLaughlin, Patrick Daly, Michael Feener and Philip Fountain. This concludes a four year project which began with a conference on “Salvage and Salvation: Religion, Disaster Relief, and Reconstruction in …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 11 No. 2)

Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population …

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Space and Polity – Special Issue: Asian Cities in an Era of Decentalisation (Vol. 16 No. 1)

The essays in this special issue critically engage with the conception of decentralization as empowering cities, urban regions and their residents to act innovatively and creatively. The contributions thus highlight how the term ‘empowerment’ in the context of decentralization regimes masks a competing array of intentions and agendas. Who and what (and to what ends) …

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