WPS 227 Reconsidering Nationalism in 21st Century China

To what extent is the political integrated into the aesthetic in the nationalist discourses of contemporary China? How do we understand the historical significance of the publicly manifested postsocialist relations of the state and the society? In what ways does the aesthetics, encompassing the temporalities of modern and premodern, socialist and postsocialist, articulate the nation …

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Journal of Family Issues – Special Issue: Marriage in Asia (Vol. 35 No. 12)

This special issue gives readers a taste of the diversity of Asia, by including articles on countries from Turkey in the west to the Philippines in the east, two of Asia’s three largest countries—China and Indonesia—and a country in South Asia—Sri Lanka. The articles examine the trends in marriage and explore the possible factors contributing …

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WPS 226 Negotiating Post-Divorce Familial Relationships: A Case of Singaporean Divorce Biographies

This paper offers an analysis of how Singaporean divorcees organise their post-divorce family life and examines the interplay of autonomy, commitment and context in the maintenance of their family relationships after the divorce. While family life has become increasingly democratised as discussed in theorisations on individualisation and contemporary organisation of personal life, community scholars argue …

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Journal of Hindu Studies – Special Issue: Text and Reality in the Study of Balinese Hinduism (Vol. 7 Issue 2)

Revisiting the notorious debate about Balinese culture that pitched Clifford Geertz and Christiaan Hooykaas in the 70s, I discuss some key methodological issues concerning the study of Balinese Hinduism, namely the text- and practice-oriented approaches championed by Philologists and Anthropologists respectively. Arguing that an ‘epistemic turn’ in the study of Balinese Hinduism is needed, I …

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How India Became Territorial: Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics

Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international relations, political geography, international law, and social history, and based on a close examination of the Indian experience during the twentieth century, Itty Abraham addresses …

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