Tulisan yang dikumpulkan dalam buku ini merupakan rangkuman 30 tahun pengamatan Martin tentang Islam dan masyarakat di Indonesia, dimana ia berusaha mengambil pandangan ‘dari bawah’—dengan memfokus pada pengalaman rakyat miskin, berbagai kelompok dan gerakan yang dimarjinalkan secara politik dan sosial, serta usaha-usaha membangun ekonomi dari bawah. Bergerak dari kawasan kecil dan terbatas, namun bisa menjadi …
Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged, facilitated, or demanded the return of emigrants. In this interdisciplinary collection, distinguished scholars from countries around the world explore the changing relations between nation-states and transnational mobility. Taking into account illegally trafficked migrants, deportees, temporary laborers on short-term contracts, and highly skilled émigrés, the contributors argue …
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This book seeks to open new lines of discussion about how Islamic law is viewed as a potential tool for programs of social transformation in contemporary Muslim society. It does this through a critical examination of the workings of the state shari’a system as it was designed and implemented at the turn of the twenty-first …
Place Names tell us much about a country – its history, its landscape, its people, its aspirations, its self-image. The study of place names, ‘toponymics’, unlocks the myriad interlocking stories that are encoded in every street and landmark. In Singapore, the coexistence of various races, cultures and languages, as well as its history of colonisation, …
In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. …
Urban growth levels in Pakistan remain high with migration as a key dynamic in the accelerating process of social and political-economic change.With an estimated population of 21 million, Karachi is Pakistan’s largest city and ranks as one of the most populace cities in Asia. Migrants especially those who are poor confront a hostile, risky and …
The past decade has seen a burgeoning of critical trans-disciplinary research on urban inter-referencing and policy mobilities. The trans-Atlantic dissemination of progressive policies and practices of urban planning, management and finance among local governments flourished especially during the first half of the twentieth century, creating direct linkages and communities of practice across the ocean. Trans-Atlantic …
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[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 …
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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 …
