Asian Population Studies — Special Section: The Internationalisation of Education and ‘Belt and Road’ Student Mobilities in Southeast Asia (Volume 21, Issue 1)

Over the last few decades, youth migration for education has emerged as an important component of population movements in Asia. This trend not only affects young people’s ‘identities, educational resilience, sense of belonging and sense of self’ (Mazzucato & Haagsman, Citation2022, p. 2473), but also contributes to the development goals of both sending and receiving countries. …

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After Work: Japanese Silver Backpackers in Malaysia

An ethnography of “silver backpackers” that offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement in contemporary societies. The moniker “silver backpackers” refers to Japanese couples who, in their mid-fifties to seventies, move to Malaysia to enjoy their retirement. Recent scholarship on Japan has revealed how the gendered division of labor impacts the lives …

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Handbook of Gender and Mobilities

This important Handbook provides a critical overview of the complex links between gender, mobility and immobility, highlighting the production and politics of gendered mobilities and the importance of gender perspectives. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

City, Culture and Society – Special Issue: Urban Religion and Gendered Bodies (Volume 39)

The relation between religion and the city is one of mutual social, political, architectural, conceptual and experiential formation. This special issue shifts debates on religion and the city to the body as the site of religious and urban experience, and as a site of regulation and negotiation. Examining Muslim femininities and masculinities in cities in …

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Urban Studies – Special Issue: Heat and the City: Thermal Control, Governance and Health in Urban Asia (Volume 61, Issue 15)

This special issue focuses on the under-studied but increasingly pressing issue of urban heat. Cities are getting hotter, both due to the global crisis of climate change, and the related phenomena of Urban Heat Islands, which locally amplify increased global temperatures and exposure to solar radiation. We know a great deal about how heat is …

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Social Enterprise in China: State-Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness

Wang offers an empirically based exploration into work-integration social enterprises as a means for delivering social services in China. Focusing on the political economy of social enterprise development in China, Wang examines the nature of the relationship between the state and social enterprises and the implications of such relationships for their institutional effectiveness. She adopts …

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Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History

Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains largely beholden to a terrestrial view of the world that is at odds …

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