Cell Phone Nation: How Mobile Phones Have Revolutionized Business, Politics and Ordinary Life In India conveys to readers how mobile phones have permeated every strata and sphere of society and is both a blessing and a curse. It gives an account of how this device rose to become a necessary means of communication in current …
After celebrating their country’s three decades of fantastic economic success, many Chinese are now asking, “What comes next?” How can China convert its growing economic power into political and cultural influence around the globe? William A. Callahan’s China Dreams gives voice to China’s many different futures by exploring the grand aspirations and deep anxieties of …
Celebrated as one of the great success stories in rural development in the modern world, the Korean Saemaul Undong (SMU – New Village Movement) began in the 1970s as a community-based village modernization program that, when combined with a green revolution strategy, substantially increased rural incomes and quality of living. Although by the 1980s it …
Profound demographic and socioeconomic transformations in Asia in the second half of the 20th century have significantly affected Asian families (Quah, 2009). Despite significant variation across Asian countries in the nature and intensity of these changes, major trends can be identified to include an increase of nuclear families, a decline in fertility and mortality rates, …
Journal of Family Issues: Asian Fatherhood (Vol. 34 No. 2) Read More »
This new work explores the formation of populist urban programs in post-Suharto Jakarta and the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen as a result of the continuing influence of the Suharto-era’s neoliberal ideology of development. Analyzing a spectrum of urban agendas from waterfront city to green environment and housing for the poor, Kusno deepens …
After the New Order: Space, Politics, and Jakarta Read More »
This book compiles some of the first research by Southeast Asian archaeologists on this significant but neglected subject. It contains much new information on the roles of Southeast Asians in ancient commerce and industry, and on the nature of cultural interaction which has taken place in these sites for over 2,000 years. The bulk of …
This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively. The contributions thus highlight how the term ‘empowerment’ in the context of decentralization regimes masks a competing array of intentions and agendas. Who and what are ‘empowered’, given a ‘voice’ and allowed to ‘participate’ via …
Beyond Swat addresses Fredrik Barth’s seminal work, Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans and its reception in relation to contemporary developments in Swat and the larger Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Swat is a Pakistani district located near the Afghan-Pakistan border. This volume explores the relevance of Barth’s work and the debates it has generated in scholarship on the …
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This pioneering study of the fate of Buddhism during the communist period in Cambodia puts a human face on a dark period in Cambodia’s history. It is the first sustained analysis of the widely held assumption that the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot had a centralized plan to liquidate the entire monastic order. Based on …
Buddhism in a Dark Age: Cambodian Monks Under Pol Pot Read More »
