With Asia expected to add more than a billion people to its urban population by mid-century, attention is turning toward cities as spheres of governance for meeting pressing social, economic and environmental concerns and fulfilling people’s aspirations for a better life. Asia’s accelerated urbanization is a major contributor to an on-going global urban transition that …
This book examines the relationship between the state state implementation of Shariʿa and diverse lived realities of everyday Islam in contemporary Aceh, Indonesia. With chapters covering topics ranging from NGOs and diaspora politics to female ulama and punk rockers, the volume opens new perspectives on the complexity of Muslim discourse and practice in a society …
This multidisciplinary special issue examines decentralised governance from the perspective of environmental disasters. The worldwide trend towards the devolution of state authority to sub-national administrations that has accompanied globalization has been strongest in Asia and Africa, where political reforms have had profound implications for the efficient and equitable distribution of resources. In times of disaster …
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 …
Places for Happiness explores two of the most important performance-based activities in the Philippines: the processions and Passion Plays associated with Easter and the mass-dance phenomenon known as “street dancing.” The scale of these handcrafted performances in terms of duration, time commitment, and productive labor marks the Philippines as one of the world’s most significant and …
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State-led community-driven development programs invite orang biasa (ordinary people) to become ‘developers’. Located between society and the state, this positioning offers certain possibilities for being and becoming: possibilities that may have been unobtainable to many prior to their involvement. This paper examines processes of self-becoming among volunteers in one such program in Medan, Indonesia. Rather …
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Colonial parochial attitudes played a key role in perpetrating injustice against women in metropolitan imperial cities such as London and Singapore that highly valued merchants’ and foreign rulers’ contributions to imperial coffers. Yet, historical sources are mostly silent on white women. This article probes how colonial legal courts situated white women in the colonies from …
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This edited book approaches the threat and impact of environmental disasters on Asia’s urban populations from a governance perspective. It adopts a multi-sector and multi-disciplinary approach to disaster governance that emphasises the importance of multiple stakeholders in preparing for, responding to and recovering from disasters and their cascading impacts in Asia’s cities. The contributors to …
Reflecting the region’s increasing prominence, Asia is becoming an important focal point where a myriad of ‘new’ mobilities can be unearthed and analyzed. From the revival of the ancient Silk Road for freight (Calder, 2012), to the growing complexity of Asian migrations within and beyond the region (Amrith, 201 I; Fielding, 2016; Nyiri and Tan, …
