ARIWPS 220 On the Origins and Reflexivity of Autonomy and Social Movements in CybUrbia

This thought piece aims to inject an argument into social movement studies that has been made almost 20 years ago in a different context: that the theory of ‘social action’ (i.e. situated conduct that has a “social meaning”) remains to be so widespread in academic knowledge production that we forget to ask — and thus …

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Cities in Relations: Trajectories of Urban Development in Hanoi and Ouagadougou

Cities in Relations advances a novel way of thinking about urban transformation by focusing on transnational relations in the least developed countries. Examines the last 20 years of urban development in Hanoi, Vietnam, and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Considers the ways in which a city’s relationships with other places influences its urban development Provides fresh ideas …

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Emotions and Social Change: Historical and Sociological Perspectives

This edited collection takes a critical perspective on Norbert Elias’s theory of the “civilizing process,” through historical essays and contemporary analysis from sociologists and cultural theorists. It focuses on changes in emotional regimes or styles and considers the intersection of emotions and social change, historically and contemporaneously. The book is set in the context of …

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WPS 219 Counter-Hegemonic Spaces of Hope? Constructing the Public City in Jakarta and Singapore

The quest for the public city needs to be situated within the debate about the people’s ability to exert agency over the use and design of physical urban spaces. Building on the public city concept and insurgent actions in the previous chapters, this chapter identifies the public city as: 1) an inclusive urban society with …

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WPS 218 An Economy of Sacrifice: Roman Catholicism and Transnational Labor in the Philippines

The Philippine state’s ability to rationalize its deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) has relied on its endorsement of ‘sacrifice’ as the positive ethic that undergirds an idiom of modern-day heroism. In this paper I seek to add some ethnographic substance to this idiom by making two related analytical movements. Firstly, I discuss how the interests …

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WPS 217 New Models of Travel Behavior for Independent Asian Youth Urban Cultural Tourists

For too long, the area of independent Asian youth tourism has remained under-examined in terms of the kind and depth of urban cultural experiences that could be associated with it.  This paper is based on study results that investigated urban cultural experiences of fully independent (of family and tour package decision-making) youth tourists (15-29 years), …

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The Economic and Political Weekly – Divided Bodies: Crossing the India-Bangladesh Border (Vol. 49 No. 13)

There has been a global proliferation in high security barriers, xenophobia and the deep suspicion of Muslim migrants. The overlap of migration, politics, and national security requires us to shift attention to the actual experiences of migrants if we are not to be trapped in the prison of ideologies and legalities. It is especially critical …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 10 No. 1)

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 …

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The Other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the Shadows of a Globalising Southeast Asian City

Kuala Lumpur, like many Southeast Asian cities, has changed very significantly in the last two or three decades – expanding its size, and ‘modernising’ and ‘globalising’ its built environment. For many people these changes represent ‘progress’ and ‘development’. This book, however, focuses on the more marginalised residents of Kuala Lumpur. Among others, it considers street …

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