Offshore Asia: Maritime Interactions in Eastern Asia before Steamships

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 …

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Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine. The Creation of an Industry and Moral Economy of Tibetanness

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 …

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WPS 201 Demographic Dynamics of Mega-urban Regions: The Case of Mumbai

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 …

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The Information Society – Special Issue: Death, Afterlife and Immortality of Bodies and Data (Vol 29, Issue 3)

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 …

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research – Symposium on Recentering Southeast Asian Cities (Vol. 37 Issue 3)

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, …

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WPS 199 China’s Higher Education Expansion and Social Stratification

This paper explores the extent to which the impact of family background and gender on one’s access to college education changed after the 1999 college expansion policy in China.The analysis is based on data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) collected between 2005 and 2008. Results show that, although the expansion has been an …

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Cyberidentities at War: The Moluccan Conflict on the Internet

Conflicting parties worldwide increasingly use the Internet in a strategic way, and struggles carried out on a local level achieve a new dimension. This new kind of medialization results in a conflict’s expansion into global cyberspace. Based on ethnographic research on the online activities of Christian and Muslim actors in the Moluccan conflict (1999–2003), this …

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Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity

We live in a world populated not just by individuals but by figures, those larger-than-life people who in some way express and challenge our conventional understandings of social types. This innovative and collaborative work takes up the wide range of figures that populate the social and cultural imaginaries of contemporary Southeast Asia—some familiar only in …

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