Religion-State Encounters in Hindu Domains: From the Straits Settlements to Singapore

The historical and empirical project presented here is grounded in a desire to theorize ‘religion-state’ relations in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious, secular city-state of Singapore. The core research problematic of this project has emerged out of the confluence of two domains, ‘religion, law and bureaucracy’ and ‘religion and colonial encounters.’ This work has two core objectives: …

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WPS 152 Women Writing about Marriage and Sexuality: Post-1998 Indonesian Fiction

This paper presents close readings of literary works by four Indonesian women writers and points to changes in discourses about marriage, families, sex and sexuality since 1998. Recent studies by social scientists address how sexual curiosity and erotic desire among Indonesian youth cause frictions between conservative religious attitudes and modern, globally influenced ways of life. …

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Ethnic and Racial Studies – Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Asia: Inclusion or Exclusion? (Vol. 34 No. 5)

This special issue, devoted to ethnic minorities in Asia, originated with the International Symposium on Ethnic Minorities in Asia: Subjects or Citizens, held at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. As one of the most ethnically-diverse regions in the world, Asia is the site of large indigenous minority populations as well as non-indigenous …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 7 No. 1)

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 studies …

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International Journal of Cultural Studies – Transnational Television (Vol.14 No.3)

This special issue brings together a range of articles exploring the changing trends of television culture s in contemporary Asia over the past decade. \Vith the process of de­regulation and privatization of national broadcasting rights, coupled with the intensifica­tion of the rate of penetration of cable, satellite and digital communicative technologies; the experience of television …

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The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 3: The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries

In writing the history of the Islamic world, there are two expedients which, sooner or later, become impossible to avoid: periodisation and geographical subdivision. These are bound to be, to a greater or lesser extent, arbitrary, but that does not imply that they are necessarily meaningless. It is possible to tell the story of early …

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Online Society in China: Creating, Celebrating, and Instrumentalising the Online Carnival

This book discusses the rich and varied culture of China’s online society, and its impact on offline China. It argues that the internet in China is a separate ‘space’ in which individuals and institutions emerge and interact. While offline and online spaces are connected and influence each other, the Chinese internet is more than merely …

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WPS 150 Larger Than Life: ‘Central World’ and its Demise and Rebirth – Red Shirts and the Creation of an Urban Cultural Myth in Thailand

This paper looks at the cultural and political implications of the arson of Bangkok’s Central World Shopping Complex, one of the Asian region’s largest sites of elite/middleclass consumption – a “lifestyle destination centre” and a dreamscape. The destruction has become a new urban myth which has hit at the heart of late modern urban Thai …

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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies – Special Issue: In and Out of Asia: The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration (Vol. 37 No. 5)

The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS) publishes the results of first-class research on all forms of migration and its consequences, together with articles on ethnic conflict, discrimination, racism, nationalism, citizenship and policies of integration. Contributions to the journal, which are all fully refereed, are especially welcome when they are the result of comparative research, for …

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