Religious and Ethnic Revival in a Chinese Minority: The Bai People of Southwest China

This book is based on anthropological fieldwork among the Bai, an ethnic minority with a population of two million in Dali, southwest China. It explores the religious and ethnic revival in the last two decades against a historical background. It explains why and how religions and ethnic identity are revived in contemporary China, with the …

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The Secular in South, East, and Southeast Asia

This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West. Its authors highlight that terms like ‘secular’, ‘secularization’, and ‘secularism’ do not carry the same meanings in the very different historical and cultural contexts of Asia. Critiquing Charles Taylor’s …

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International Journal of Migration and Border Studies – Special Issue: Borders, (Dis)Order, And Exclusion: Mapping Migration Governance From the Margins (Vol. 4, No. 1/2)

Bringing together scholars from different disciplines, this collection explores the failures of migration policies on the ground, analysing how policies and discourse can heighten migrant vulnerability and justify restrictive measures that curb access to asylum and migration. The special issue also includes contributions that move beyond state policies and practices to the everyday experiences of …

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Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies – Special Issue: Hong Kong Connections Across the Sinosphere (Vol. 20, No. 8)

The collection of essays presented in this volume is the outcome of a workshop at the University of Zurich in 2016. It addresses the past as well as present of Hong Kong, with an aim critically to examine the less obvious or forgotten relations not only with China but, rather, with a much larger sphere …

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Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower

In the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, “sustainable” hydropower projects as viable options for World Bank-led development. By viewing hydropower as a process that creates ecologically uncertain environments, Jerome Whitington reveals how new forms of managerial care have emerged in the context of a privatized dam project …

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Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology – Special Issue: Elder-Care Issues in Southeast and East Asia (Vol. 33 Issue 2)

This special issue is centered on exploring elder-care in Asia with a focus on countries represented in Southeast and East Asia. Although the issues surrounding elder-care are diverse, in the Asian context, they overwhelmingly congregate around concerns dominated by the challenges facing long-term care provisions. While this alludes to inadequacy in the current long-term care …

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International Communication of Chinese Culture – Special issue Anthropocene matters: Envisioning Sustainability in the Sinosphere (Vol. 5 Issue 1-2)

The contributions to this volume contend that technological and corporate driven solutions are not sufficient effectively to address the aggravating environmental problems, and hence ask how communities and individuals grapple with the crisis from a Chinese point of view, and what is at stake in the different approaches taken. Voices addressing the problems and issues …

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WPS 266 The YMCA’s “Moral Empire”, Public Health, and Masculinity in Interwar East and Southeast Asia: China, the Philippines, and Japan

This paper addresses the North American YMCA’s transnational “moral empire” in East and Southeast Asia, focusing on the topics of public health, fitness, and masculinity. The main period covered are the 1920s, when the YMCA had already established an institutional network in China, the Philippines, and Japan. I analyze how the growing scientificity of physical …

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The Mission of Development: Religion and Techno-Politics in Asia

The Mission of Development interrogates the complex relationships between Christian mission and international development in Asia from the 19th century to the new millennium. Through historically and ethnographically grounded case studies, contributors examine how missionaries have adapted to and shaped the age of development and processes of ‘technocratisation’, as well as how mission and development have …

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Social & Legal Studies – Special Issue: Governing Migration from the Margins (Vol. 27 No. 2)

The papers in this collection offer empirical cases that, both historically and geographically, demonstrate the fluxes in the role of borders, legal framework and structures of surveillance in upholding state control over territory and human mobility (cf. Roy, this issue). The shrinking spaces of asylum around the world are now well-documented (e.g. Anderson, 2013; Hyndman …

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