By the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of worship around the world were already undergoing profound changes. In Asian and Asian diaspora communities, diverse cultural tropes, beliefs, and artifacts were mobilized to make sense of Covid, including a repertoire of gods …
“This timely volume chronicles and analyses the intersection of rice policies and the pandemic through case studies of a diverse range of Southeast Asian countries: rice exporters, rice importers and city-states. There is no group of eminent researchers better suited to carrying out this work, and they conduct the analysis by illuminating the historical context …
Just Another Crisis? The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Southeast Asia’s Rice Sector Read More »
This Handbook is a timely and critical intervention into debates on changing family dynamics in the face of globalization, population migration and uneven mobilities. By capturing the diversity of family ‘types’, ‘arrangements’ and ‘strategies’ across a global setting, the volume highlights how migration is inextricably linked to complex familial relationships, often in supportive and nurturing …
Selecting migrants based on skill has become a widely practised migration policy in many countries around the world. Since the late 20th century, research on “skilled” and “highly skilled” migration has raised important questions about the value and ethics of skill-based labour mobility. More recent research has begun to question the concept of skill and …
The Question of Skill in Cross-Border Labour Mobilities Read More »
Everyday Modernism is the first comprehensive documentation of Singapore’s modern built environment. Through a lens of social, cultural, and architectural histories, the book uncovers the many untold stories of the Southeast Asian city-state’s modernization, from the rise of heroic skyscrapers, such as the Pearl Bank Apartments, to the spread of typical utilitarian buildings like the …
Everyday Modernism: Architecture and Society in Singapore Read More »
By training the spotlight on exchanges of and within relations of intimacy, this collection of papers focuses on the intimate labour performed by gendered migrant subjects in a variety of settings ranging from homes in the city and rural villages, toilets in transnational corporations to public entertainment spots. It contributes to the discussion on intimate …
Outsourcing the Polity offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar, demonstrating how the bankrupt post-socialist junta mediated market reform in the 1990s and 2000s and forced private and non-state actors to take the burden for social welfare. Informed by research during Myanmar’s decade of partial civilian rule (2011–2021), Gerard McCarthy examines how ideals and …
Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality and Resistance in Myanmar Read More »
This edited volume explores core questions on education and transnational mobility in a time characterized by a global pandemic, recasting them through the lenses of regimes, experiences, and aspirations. The volume brings together 19 short essays in the form of letters addressed to the coronavirus and written by international students, together with nine striking illustrations …
International Student Mobilities and Voices in the Asia-Pacific: Letters to Coronavirus Read More »
Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong and explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in gendered migration, precarious labor, and bureaucracy. Focusing on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, anthropologist Nicole Constable considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate …
Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations Read More »
