This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine, from production of medications in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds, and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance. The chapters analyse the process of industrialization and commercialisation of Asian medicine and the ways …
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This special issue is concerned with the transboundary dimensions of governing common pool resources and formulating collective responses to cross-border environmental threats and crises. Our theoretical and conceptual focus is on transboundary environmental governance, understood to mean the full range of actors and institutions involved in shaping and implementing decisions about the environment across jurisdictions …
The sociology of childhood is currently at a crossroads for developing research agendas beyond the “new” social studies of childhood of the 1980s and 1990s, which suffer from four problems: cultural relativism derived from binary conceptualisations of childhood, Northern normativity that ill-fits Southern realities, methodological issues related to the preferred child-centric and participatory research, and …
Initially upheld as a bastion of success in curbing the spread of COVID-19 in the first few months of 2020, Singapore found itself home to the highest number of coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia by the middle of the same year. Over 90 per cent of its cases occurred among the 300,000 migrant construction workers …
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This special issue examines how older adults anticipate and manage their futures through migration. Although ageing is often associated with decline towards the end-of-life, it is still a life stage where (the lack of) planning for the future can profoundly impact the life outcomes of older adults and their caregivers. This collection illustrates different ways …
In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye …
Nearly eleven million Chinese migrants live outside of China. While many of these faces of China’s globalization headed for the popular Western destinations of the United States, Australia and Canada, others have been lured by the booming Asian economies. Compared with pre-1949 Chinese migrants, most are wealthier, motivated by a variety of concerns beyond economic …
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Intimate labor, “the work of tending to the sexual, bodily, health, hygiene and care needs of individuals” (Parreñas et al., 2016, p. 2), is an emergent concept in social research. Differentiated from impersonal service delivery and other forms of social relations of the workplace, intimate labor involves the provision of individualized attention, the sharing of …
