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 …
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 …
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), …
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 …
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 …
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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This paper explores why and how the peasant labour processes are being reconfigured in the Global South by contemporary rural and agrarian change, with particular focus on their incorporation into informal mining: the exchange of ploughs for picks. To address this question, it draws on recent scholarship that has problematised the classical understandings of agrarian …
WPS 216 Extracting Peasants from the Fields: Rushing for a Livelihood? Read More »
In recent decades, there have been many research-based frameworks emphasizing sociological, psychological, behavioural and other theories of leadership. However, there has been relatively little research on leadership and succession in religious organisations. Similarly, while historians have written about the struggle for power within Christianity and Islam, much less is known about the Chinese religion and …
This paper adopts the metaphor of a Southeast Asian Zomia to its Chinese cyber-urban variation, and assesses what we can learn from such a way of seeing. After introducing the reader to Zomia and its Cyber-urban counterpart, I provide a succinct status update on the cat-and-mouse game that is afoot on the Chinese Internet, clarify …
