WPS 187 The Difficulties of Religious Pluralism in India: Analysing the Place of Worship as a Legal Category in the Ayodhya and Bababudangiri Disputes

The desirability of religious pluralism is widely accepted in most modern societies, being considered the hallmark of a stable and progressive state. Such pluralism is based on the framework that the protection of religious freedom is essential to the survival of these societies, and that a neutral secular state is required to legally enforce such …

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China Information – Special Issue: China’s Futures (Vol. 26 No. 2)

China’s growing economic, political, and cultural power is an important global issue; Chinese people are increasingly interested in thinking about their country’s future as a world power. This article introduces the special issue ‘China’s futures – and the world’s future’ by discussing how futurology works in China. It argues that Chinese futures studies exhibit two …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 8 No. 2)

Asian Population Studies is the first international population journal to focus exclusively on population issues in Asia. The journal publishes original research on matters related to population in this large, complex and rapidly changing region, and welcomes substantive empirical analyses, theoretical works, applied research and contributions to methodology. Topics covered include all branches of population …

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Memetakan Masa Lalu Aceh

Indonesian translation of Mapping the Acehnese Past by Michael Feener, Patrick Daly and Anthony Reid eds) 2011; Supardi Asmorobangun (trans).

On Society

‘Society’ is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however, the idea has never been so much in dispute and so little understood. For some critics, society is simply too consensual for a world of intensive discord. For …

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The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in East Asia

As the world globalises, more people than ever are on the move, including the many professional, managerial and entrepreneurial elites—often referred to as ‘international talent’—who circulate between cities in response to career and business opportunities. While much has been written about the economic motivations behind these mobilities, less is known about the everyday experiences and …

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WPS 186 Kinship, Selfhood and Migration: Articulations of Love, Loss and the Future in Japan

Studies of Brazilian Nikkeis (Japanese emigrants and their descendents) living and working in Japan tend to focus on the role of ethnic and national identity concerns in the shaping of everyday migrant experiences. Excluded from Japanese society these migrants, it is argued, find a sense of belonging in the collective shelter of a displaced Brazilian …

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INTER-ASIA ROUNDTABLE 2012 – Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Cyber Activism Research

The Inter-Asia Roundtable is one of ARI’s annual flagship events. Each Roundtable selects and focuses on an area of research that is emergent and/or that has potentially high impact in Asia. This particular roundtable Roundtable on cyber-activism is the fourth in the series and was held on 30-31 August 2012 by ARI’s Cultural Studies in …

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