Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the causes and patterns of this decline. In few …
International marriage has received increasing attention in recent years, both from a theoretical perspective and because of a practical concern with urgent policy issues arising from the emerging trends. This paper focuses on the East and Southeast Asian region. It updates available information about trends in international marriage in the region, categorizes the kinds of …
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The experience of Penang Malays over the past two centurie , from colonial outpost to part of the Malaysian state, reveals a people historically receptive to commerce and inter-marriage with other Muslim immigrants to the region. Malay capacity to absorb and socialise in-married or adopted outsiders as “Malays” means that they are simultaneously local and …
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This cutting-edge edited volume (posted here on SSRN in its entirety) analyzes the Islamic legal systems of three Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. It also includes new information about the training, organization and professional culture of judges and lawyers who work in these Islamic legal systems. The volume begins with an essay discussing …
While the importance of the informal sector and informality in processes of urbanisation is increasingly widely acknowledged across development studies, architecture, planning and urban studies more broadly, there is considerable disagreement on how they should be defined and approached as objects of study. The three papers in this themed section all seek to re-view – …
This pioneering collection brings together an international group of scholars to explore the Vietnamese middle class. From the leisure pursuits of the colonial middle class to the impact of the new urban rich on landscape of the countryside, this interdisciplinary volume explores the ways in which middle classness has been practiced in a wide range …
The Reinvention of Distinction: Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam Read More »
MESSAGE FROM CHAIR OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Prof Tommy Koh ARI enters its second decade with an impressive international reputation as a choice venue for doing cutting edge research on Asia and a sought-after partner for international collaborations. Established projects, such as Asian Biopoleis, the Aceh Project, and the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable …
Theories of citizenship from the West – pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall – provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history. The Marshallian trajectory – juridical, political and social rights – was not repeated in Asia and the late nineteenth-century debate about liberalism and citizenship among intellectuals in Japan and China was eventually stifled …
This collection edited by Associate Professor Goh Beng Lan, Head of the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, is the outcome of an SSRC Working Group on the subject. It sets the stage for regional scholars to develop perspectives and concepts as they respond to the critique of area studies and the new political-economic and cultural …
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Focusing on a key group of global labor migrants – Filipino merchant seafarers – this paper demonstrates how a migration analysis can address a central debate in masculinity studies. Specifically, the paper addresses the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” and its critics by analyzing relations between competing, dominant masculinities in transnational and non-western contexts (Connell 2005, …
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