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.
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 …
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 …
Wang offers an empirically based exploration into work-integration social enterprises as a means for delivering social services in China. Focusing on the political economy of social enterprise development in China, Wang examines the nature of the relationship between the state and social enterprises and the implications of such relationships for their institutional effectiveness. She adopts …
Social Enterprise in China: State-Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness Read More »
Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feeding millions, and seeding conflicts over territory and resources. And yet, Japan studies remains largely beholden to a terrestrial view of the world that is at odds …
Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History Read More »
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 …
Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir Read More »
