What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sounds, bodies, and media in the private and public life of communities beyond the Global North, analyzing diverse configurations of the category of sound and various sonic ontologies to usher in a more …
The collection of seven research articles in this special issue offers empirical and nuanced perspectives on the concept of faith in immunity in order to go beyond this reductionist discourse and interrogate the complex interplay between COVID-19 immunity and preexisting structures of trust, cosmologies of protection, and epistemologies of healing. In the context of the …
The articles in this special section analyse pedagogical endeavours, broadly understood, at various sites and through diverse processes, mostly in Asia. The authors approach sites and processes of ethical learning as a point of departure to investigate the forms of pedagogies implemented, the kinds of subjectivities fashioned, and the shifts in relationality entailed. Their focus …
In this stirring memoir, a preeminent politician and diplomat traces the transformation of the Republic of Singapore from a poor colony into an Asian powerhouse. Growing up in poverty in the 1950s, Kishore Mahbubani expected to become a common textile salesman after finishing high school. Instead, a government scholarship sent him to the University of …
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The era of liberal interventionism is over, and the prevailing international discourse is once again about defending state borders and putting up walls. This broad re-assertion of sovereignty and non-intervention – often considered the normative foundation of the BRICS countries, of the Non-Aligned Movement, of Bandung, of the “Westphalian” South – raises a series of …
Intervention before Interventionism: A Global Genealogy Read More »
The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of its first election victory in 1959, the People’s Action Party began to deliver on its promises in dramatic fashion. By the 1980s, 85 percent of the population had been rehoused in modern flats, and today, decades later, the …
This Open Access book explores the complex interplay between gender, Islam and sexuality in Indonesia, the country with the world’s largest Muslim population. The authors offer a fresh look at the tensions between the local and the global through a wide range of cultural expressions and productions, including fashion, Islamic dating, popular literature, and videos …
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