Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space – Special Section: Exchanges: Critical Geoeconomics (Volume 57, Issue 1)

This theme section explores the analytical purchase and limitations of advancing a “critical geoeconomics” within a broader historical and geographical context. Comprising 11 short papers, it combines timely reassessments of contemporary and past iterations of geoeconomics and explores the potentials for positing an anti-geoeconomics against the backdrop of nationalist-imperialist phantoms. Collectively, the set of exchanges …

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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology – Special Issue: Leisure and Older Adults in Asia (Volume 39, Issue 3)

Although the study of older adults’ participation in leisure has gained traction over the last decade, there is need to consider in greater depth the central role that leisure activities may play in the construction of identities and lifestyles in later life. The collection of articles in this special issue contributes to the emerging literature …

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Transnational Southeast Asia: Communities, Contestations and Cultures

This open access book presents Southeast Asia as an interesting and conceptually meaningful site to interrogate the transnational paradigm. In featuring research from and across different nations in Southeast Asia, it asks in what ways Southeast Asia lends itself to nuanced applications of transnationalism, and what the wider cultural and collective implications of that might …

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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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