While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum, tradition, tourism, and pollution, and use the modern, affluent, and transforming Western city as the reference point. This vast Asian empirical presence is not complemented by a theoretical presence; academic discourses overlook common and basic urban …
This paper deals with several interconnected topics. It examines the differential origins of sovereignty in Asia in connection with ancient Asian philosophical systems, mainly early Buddhism. It links the concepts of sovereignty to corresponding concepts of subjectivity or, respectively, to the willed absence of a concept of subject (as in Buddhism). It assumes that the …
WPS 206 Sovereignties, Buddhisms, Post-1989: An Epistemological Conundrum in Rising Asia Read More »
This paper explores reverse causation effect of fertility on infant mortality using both time trend and cross-sectional data for India and states. Time series and panel data regression model estimates on macro level trend data, revealed an explicable reverse causation effect of fertility on the infant mortality decline during the recent decades. Kaplan Meier survival …
This special issue examines the current revival of religious faith and practices in China’s ethnic areas, and investigates the rationale and variations of revival, as well as the implications to China and Asia. It seeks to move beyond the general discussions of applicability of the state-society model to more sophisticated interpretations based on empirical and …
This volume brings together contributions that explore the increasingly important roles that English plays in Asia, including its contribution to economic growth, national imaginaries and creative writing. These are issues that are political in a broad sense, but the diversity of Asian contexts also means that the social, political and cultural ramifications of the spread …
The Politics of English: South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific Read More »
While the relationships between ethics and religion, and violence and politics, are of enduring interest, the interface between religion and violence is one of the most problematic features of the contemporary world. Following in the tradition of Max Weber’s historical and comparative study of religions, this book explores the many ways in which religion and …
The Religious and the Political: A Compararive Sociology of Religion Read More »
Taking a thematic approach, Bryan S. Turner draws together his writings which explore the relationship between Islam and the ideas of Western social thinkers. Turner engages with the broad categories of capitalism, orientalism, modernity, gender, and citizenship among others, as he examines how Muslims adapt to changing times and how Islam has come to be …
The Sociology of Islam. Collected Essays of Bryan S. Turner Read More »
In 1992 the Bangkok automobile taxi business was ‘liberalized’ and the long-running quota system that tightly controlled the number of taxis allowed to operate was abolished in favor of an open-supply approach. Within months of the policy change the number of taxis on the streets of the Thai capital skyrocketed, as did demand for taxi …
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 …
Until the computerization of music making and the ‘napsterization’ of its consumption into downloadable soundtracks by the late 1990s, popular music flows had been largely determined by the corporate networks of record companies,distributors, and retailers. With the expansion of cyberspace coupled with the decreasing costs and increasing simplifications of operating audiovisual technologies,the digital sphere is …
