This book honours Anthony Reid at the occasion of his retirement from the Asian Research Institute in Singapore where he was a founding father. Tony Reid belongs to the great historians of Southeast Asia who did — and still does — innovative and stimulating research ranging from the history of seismology in Early Modern History …
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Recently Kartsowiryo and the Darul Islam have become heroic symbols of the Islamist struggle. The author looks beyond the popular dichotomy between rebel and martyr and unveils a politician whose legacy has been shaping the role of Islam in Indonesian politics for over fifty years. She thereby offers an alternative view of Soekarno as the …
Domestic and international development strategies often focus on private ownership as a crucial anchor for long-term investment; the security of property rights provides a foundation for capitalist expansion. In recent years, Thailand’s policies have been hailed as a prime example of how granting formal land rights to poor farmers in low-income countries can result in …
Land and Loyalty: Security and the Development of Property Rights in Thailand Read More »
This volume makes an important and unique contribution to scholarly understandings of migration and diversity through its focus on Asian contexts. Current scholarship and literature on processes of migration and the consequences of diversity is heavily concentrated on Western contexts and their concerns with “multiculturalism”, “integration”, “rights and responsibilities”, “social cohesion”, “social inclusion”, and “cosmopolitanism”. …
India’s ‘Maoist movement’, erupting in the village of Naxalbari in 1967, claims to struggle for the rights of exploited tribal people and poor peasants. To Indian governments, however, the movement is fomented by crazed ideologues exploiting vulnerable citizens. Since 2003 when a landmine nearly killed the Chief Minister of the state of Andhra Pradesh, hundreds …
More than Maoism: Politics, Policies and Insurgencies in South China Read More »
For many years, Singapore was believed to be a middle-class society. However, recent statistics and studies reveal growing stratifications within the middle-class bulge. This paper shines the spotlight onto a specific group of Singaporeans – the elderly – and examines the extent and implications of social stratification among them. Drawing upon life-history interviews with elderly persons …
This paper provides the first detailed account of the development of Ceylonese Buddhism in colonial-period Singapore. It tracks the development of Buddhist spaces in Singapore oriented towards Pali-language authoritative texts and liturgy, focusing on Ceylonese Buddhism but alert also to the activities of Thai, Burmese, and Chinese Buddhists. In contrast to Burma and Ceylon, British …
This collection documents the different ways in which Asian governments have been pursuing economic nationalism even as they have been integrating with the world economy. The book challenges the popular view that with globalization, either the role of the state becomes redundant or that states are unable to purposefully intervene in the economy. The book …
The book presents a thoroughly revised edition, English translation, and study of the Dharma Patanjala, an Old Javanese-Sanskrit Saiva scripture transmitted through a single palm-leaf codex of West Javanese origin dating back to the 15th century AD. The cultural and doctrinal background of the text, as well as its codicological and philological aspects, are introduced …
This working paper is an article that complements my short film, A Day in the Life of a Mall (http://www.youtube.com/user/kitlvrtf). The short film is compiled from footage from the Recording the Future project – an ongoing audio-visual archive by KITLV (The Netherlands and Indonesia), Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (Jakarta) and Offstream (Jakarta). This article and …
WPS 183 Asian Urbanisms and Mallness in ‘Recording the Future’ Read More »
