The aim of this paper is to provide a brief but comprehensive overview of population trends in Southeast Asia over the past half century, examining the dynamics of mortality, fertility and migration, and emphasizing contrasting national patterns. It shows the way population momentum has carried, and will continue to carry, population growth forward despite replacement …
Chiang Mai is a city of culture. This slogan is broadcast by banners hanging over the highway, coffee shops specializing in northern Thai Arabica blends, architectural conferences and seminars, art galleries, et cetera. It is claimed in English and in Thai [meuang haeng watthanatham] Anthropological studies of such culture-saturated sites have often focused upon its …
Asia, the location of the world’s fastest-growing economies, is also home to some of the fastest rates of urbanization humanity has ever seen, a process whose speed renders long-term outcomes highly unpredictable. This volume contrasts with much published work on the rural/urban divide, which has tended to focus on single case studies. It provides empirical …
Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia Read More »
MESSAGE FROM CHAIR OF MANAGEMENT BOARD Prof Chong Chi Tat The year 2012 for ARI ended on an introspective note with a major institutional review by an External Review Committee chaired by Professor Tommy Koh and with Professors Takashi Shiraishi, Srirupa Roy and Ho Eng Seng as members. The Committee commended the impressive achievements of …
In Indonesia, the rapid emergence of early childhood programming aimed at the empowered self-directed learner seems to be just the kind of phenomenon described by assemblage. Emergent networks of care appear to represent something new and innovative, including center and circle time and optimal brain development. Yet, their delivery simultaneously intensifies longstanding modes of social …
WPS 194 Durable Assemblage: Early Childhood Education in Indonesia Read More »
This series of interventions speak to the wider literature on interrelations between state territorialization processes and border-crossing urban linkages. Focusing on cases in Asia, we seek to bring into view a greater diversity of transborder urban political geographies than are visible in metageographical imaginings of city networks spanning state boundaries. Specifically, the interventions address four main areas that …
WPS 193 Interventions in the Political Geography of Asia’s Transborder Urban Networks Read More »
Modern sports were introduced to Asia in the late nineteenth century as an innovation from the West, and the diffusion and rise of modern sports in Asia overlapped with the development of modern society in Asia. I In the process of introduction and diffusion,sports are inextricably intertwined with Asian experiences of colonial occupation andsubsequent post-colonial …
Soon after the ex-colonies of European and Japanese imperial powers in Asia began to achieve independence after the end of the Second World War in 1945, Asia was plunged into the Cold War. Many of the new nations were transformed into frontline states as proxies of Western liberal democracy- the so-called ‘free world’ led by …
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies – Special Issue: American Pop Culture (Vol. 13 No. 4) Read More »
This book explores the range and dynamism of contemporary Asian cinemas, covering East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia), South Asia (Bollywood), and West Asia (Iran), in order to discover what is common about them and to engender a theory or concept of “Asian Cinema”. It goes beyond …
In the past five years, Thailand has been beset by coup d’état, street violence, and most recently the devastating floods of 2011. Looming in the background is the failing health of the Thai monarch, that person which has been for Thais the most potent symbol of development of the 20th century. With these events has …
WPS 192 Moral Knowledge and its Enemies: Conspiracy and Kingship in Thailand Read More »
