[Indonesian translation of From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh, ISEAS, Singapore, 2012. The tsunami that struck a dozen countries around the Indian Ocean on 26 December 2004 evoked international sympathy on a scale beyond any previous natural disaster. The international relief effort broke all records both in scale and diversity, with …
Bringing together essays from leading thinkers across the sciences and humanities, this ground-breaking volume explores the role Asian knowledge traditions played in the rise of modern European science in Europe, the implications this has for the epistemology of science, and the question of whether pre-modern Asian traditions can aid in advancing future scientific knowledge. Included …
Asia, Europe, and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries Read More »
Salafism is one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing Islamic movements and it is impossible to understand contemporary Islam without taking account of it. The movement has reached almost every corner of the Muslim world, and its transnational networks span the globe. Despite the importance of Salafism, scholars have only recently begun to pay …
This exemplary work of international collaboration takes an integral approach to the histories of Northeast and Southeast Asia, with contributions from scholars familiar with Japanese, Chinese and Korean academic discourse as well as that of English. The new scholarship represented by this volume demonstrates that the vast and growing maritime interactions between the countries of …
Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia before Steamships Read More »
Within a mere decade, hospital pharmacies throughout the Tibetan areas of the People’s Republic of China have been converted into pharmaceutical companies. Confronted with the logic of capital and profit, these companies now produce commodities for a nationwide market. While these developments are depicted as a big success in China, they have also been met …
This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the nineteenth-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Fundamental to the author’s analysis is the assumption that notions of national identity are discursively constructed and therefore are subject to change. Here, modern Thailand is viewed as its …
Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation Read More »
This is an updated and revised paper as of May 2016. It was first published as “Population Change and Migration in Mumbai Metropolitan Region: Implications for Planning and Governance” in the ARI Working Paper Series No. 201 in May 2013. This paper compares some features of the mega-urban region focusing on Mumbai with comparable regions …
WPS 201 Demographic Dynamics of Mega-urban Regions: The Case of Mumbai Read More »
The Kingdom of Cambodia today is nominally a constitutional multi-party democracy. But all power lies with the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), with Prime Minister Hun Sen at its helm; and elections have been reduced to little more than formalities. This consolidation of power has been brought about by extra-institutional means through building networks of patron-client …
This special issue poses questions concerning death, afterlife and immortality in the age of the Internet. It extends previous work by examining current and emerging practices of grieving and memorializing supported by new media. It suggests that people’s lives today are extended, prolonged, and ultimately transformed through the new circulations, repetitions, and recontextualizations on the …
For nearly two decades now, scholars have been heralding the arrival of new urbanisms. One debate in rapidly urbanizing Southeast Asia concerns the convergence of Western and Asian urban processes, and the riposte that interaction between globalizing processes and the historical momentum of local and regional forces make for complex Asian urbanisms. In recent years, …
