This is the first work available in any language to extensively document and critically discuss traditions of ‘Alid piety and their modern contestations in the region. The concept of ‘Alid piety allows for a reframing of our views on the widespread reverence for ‘Ali, Fatima and their progeny that emphasises how such sentiments and associated …
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Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population …
Nation at play is a novel history of India’s engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and the raj, as well as in the decades after independence. Interestingly, over time, some sports that originated in India have fallen out of favour, while others, such as cricket, a …
East Asian societies have undergone major changes in the past few decades, including substantial declines in marriage and fertility. This special section of Asian Families in Context sketches commonalities and variations in patterns of marriage and family behavior in this region and discusses relevant theoretical frameworks from Western literature. The six empirical studies discuss their …
Focusing on women as they are more likely to face greater disadvantages compared with their male counterparts because of gender differentials they might have faced throughout the life course, the paper examines the potential barriers for old age preparedness among women in Singapore. Based on secondary literature, the paper interrogates whether women in Singapore are …
In the construction of national space, is there a contrast between continental and oceanic determinants? I consider this question by looking at how India was conceptualized, conceived, imaged, and imagined in the first half of the 20th century, before it became independent. More specifically, how did the idea of India came to be articulated from two …
WPS 238 Liquid Geographies: India in the Oceanic Imaginary Read More »
The idea and the title for this special issue originally came from the symposium ‘Negotiating Histories: Traditions in Modern and Contemporary Asia-Pacific Art’ organized by the Tate Research Centre Asia-Pacific on 21 October 2013. The symposium’s focus was on the ‘issues around traditions in modern and contemporary Asia-Pacific art, focusing on how art history is …
Anyone who visits India or China will puzzle over their vast media systems. Though they exercise immense influence, the world knows very little about the media landscape in the two countries. The world’s two most populous countries, comprising close to 40 per cent of the global population, have disputed boundaries and the legacy of the …
Media at Work in China and India: Discovering and Dissecting Read More »
This special issue seeks to highlight the ways in which diverse Asian cities – Mumbai,Seoul, Singapore – exceed current urban theorization. Modest, but nonetheless more-than-local re-theorization, can proceed from such empirical excess, which itself can onlybe derived from sustained ethnographic examination of cities in all their diversity.Relatedly, we cast Asia as a frontier for ethnographic …
Ethnography – Special Issue: Doing Asian Cities (Vol. 16 No. 3) Read More »
During and shortly after the colonial period, in their writings on Southeast Asia a number of geographers and social scientists – including Dumont (1935), Gourou (1936 and 1953), Robequain (1946 and 1958), Dobby (1960), Geertz (1963), Burling (1965), Fisher (1966) and Spencer (1966) – emphasized the disequilibrium in population distribution throughout most of the region, …
