From Bombay (Mumbai) and other production centres on the Indian subcontinent, Indian popular cinema has travelled globally for nearly a century, culminating in the Bollywood-inspired, Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. The volume brings together perspectives on Indian popular cinema, universally known as Bollywood now, from different disciplinary and geographical locations to look afresh at national cinemas. …
The tectonic interface between the India-Australia plate and the Eurasian plate has been shown to be one of the world’s most dangerous in its Sumatra-Andaman section, by research subsequent to the 9.2 earthquake and horrific tsunami of 26 December 2004. No comparable research has been conducted on the south coast of Java, the most densely-populated …
WPS 178 Historical Evidence for Past Tsunamis in the Java Subduction Zone Read More »
This paper adopts a comparative approach to analyze an emergent urban form – the tourist utopia – by focusing on the paradigmatic examples of Las Vegas, Dubai, and Macau. Though culturally, historically, and geographically distinct, these “post-world cities” of neoliberal capitalism share a set of common characteristics. These characteristics include their respective status as “spaces of …
WPS 177 Tourist Utopias: Las Vegas, Dubai, Macau Read More »
This paper analyzes the recent developments in public space policy in the city of Hanoi, Vietnam. It has three aims. The first is to look at a potentially progressive urban policy in contrast to most work on ‘policies in motion’ that has primarily been concerned with neoliberal policies. The second is to put the process …
WPS 176 Loose Threads: The Translocal Making of Public Space Policy in Hanoi Read More »
This brief paper makes two arguments about studying the legal system in China. First, it argues that the development of the Chinese legal system may be understood most effectively by studying legal practitioners rather than laws, legal structures such as courts, or legal processes. Second, the paper attempts to develop a taxonomy of legal practitioners, …
WPS 175 Lawyers, Not Law? A Taxonomy of the Legal Profession in China Read More »
This book on the future of Asian feminism, confronting fundamentalisms, conflicts, and neo-liberalism is a critical contribution to the rising voices of Asian women’s studies scholars and activists. It is based on the ongoing research and advocacy work of the Kartini Asia Network, founded in 2003 in Manila. The five overlapping themes of the network …
The Future of Asian Feminisms: Confronting Fundamentalisms, Conflict and Neoliberalism Read More »
Armed Separatist insurgencies have created a real dilemma for many national governments of how much freedom to grant aggrieved minorities with out releasing territorial sovereignty over the nation-state. This book examines different approaches that have been taken by seven states in South and Southeast Asia to try and resolve this dilemma through various offers of …
Autonomy and Armed Separatism in South and Southeast Asia Read More »
In 1968, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party endorsed a radical new system of health-care delivery for the rural masses. Soon every village had at least one barefoot doctor to provide basic medical care, creating a national network of health-care services for the very first time. The barefoot doctors were …
This work explores in detail how innovative academic activism can transform our everyday workplaces in contexts of considerable adversity. Personal essays by prominent scholars provide critical reflections on their institution-building triumphs and setbacks across a range of cultural institutions. Often adopting narrative approaches, the contributors examine how effective programmes and activities are built in varying …
Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies Read More »
An intellectual event, Derrida and the Time of the Political marks the first time since Jacques Derrida’s death in 2004 that leading scholars have come together to critically assess the philosopher’s political and ethical writings. Skepticism about the import of deconstruction for political thought has been widespread among American critics since Derrida’s work became widely available in …
Derrida and the Time of the Political (Japanese Translation) Read More »
