Journal of Korean Religions – Special Issue: Religion and Media in Korea (Vol. 8, No. 2)

In contemporary social life, religion and media cannot be said to be separated. Contrary to the long-lasting understanding that the two are independent from each other, the spheres of religion and media are closely intertwined. Dynamic and increasing connections have been observed and reported by a range of scholars. Indeed, the scholarly interest in the …

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Singapore Chronicles: Religion

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Singapore’s Independence, the Institute of Policy Studies and Straits Times Press are jointly launching the Singapore Chronicles series in 2015. This 50-volume series seeks to record, explain and offer insights into what makes Singapore, Singapore. Each volume in this series will serve as a primer on the subject. RELIGION …

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International Journal of the Sociology of Language – Special Issue: Language and Globalization in South and Central Asian Spaces (Issue 247)

In this introduction, we outline our approach to the two main themes this interdisciplinary special issue brings together – language and globalization, and South and Central Asian spaces. Arguing for the importance of exploring these topics from multiple, complementary disciplinary angles (sociolinguistic, anthropological and historical), we delineate a conceptualization of language and globalization which both …

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Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina

Making liquor isn’t rocket science: some raw materials, a stove, and a few jury-rigged pots are all that’s really needed. So when the colonial regime in turn-of-the-century French Indochina banned homemade rice liquor, replacing it with heavily taxed, tasteless alcohol from French-owned factories, widespread clandestine distilling was the inevitable result. The state’s deeply unpopular alcohol …

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Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market

Multinational Maids offers an in-depth investigation into the international migrations of Filipino and Indonesian migrant domestic workers. The author taps on her rigorous study of more than 1,200 subjects’ migration trajectories to reveal how these migrants work in a series of overseas countries to improve their lives and, in some cases, seek permanent residence in …

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Asia Pacific Viewpoint – Special Issue: International Medical Travel (Vol 58, Issue 2)

International medical travel may be viewed as an ‘assemblage’ of various components such as infrastructure, hospitals, finance, transport, technologies, staff, facilitators and patients. In this paper, we focus on the articulations of medical travel facilitators (MTFs) and private hospitals in producing international medical travel in the context of the neoliberalising processes that had led to …

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WPS 262 Developing Healthy Towns in the Tropics: Urban Governance and the Weather in Colonial George Town, Penang

This article explores the development of public health in George Town, Penang. It argues that the extreme weather of the tropical climate led to a unique set of challenges for George Town’s urban governors, as the town grew from a small British base, to a multi-cultural and thriving port. Penang was the earliest British colony …

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