ARI Annual Report 2010

MESSAGE FROM CHAIR OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Prof Tommy Koh Time flies. In the twinkle of an eye, ten years have gone by. I still remember meeting the former President of NUS, Prof Shih Choon Fong and Prof Wang Gungwu, at a reception at the French Embassy. They pulled me aside and shared with me …

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Politics and the Media in Twenty-First Century Indonesia: Decade of Democracy

Every political aspirant and activist knows the media are important. But there is little agreement on how an increasingly diversified media operate in post-authoritarian transitions and how they might promote, or impede, the pathways to a sustainable liberal democracy in the 21st century. This book examines the role of the media during Indonesia’s longest experiment …

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Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues

Despite active scholarly interest in the phenomenon of cross-border marriage migration between Southeast and East Asia—a majority of which marriages are between men from wealthier regions and women from regions that are less economically developed—we know very little about who these women are and why they choose to marry and migrate. This volume provides an …

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Collective Violence in Indonesia

Call# HM886 Col 2010 ISBN: 9781588266873/ 1588266877 Since the end of Suharto’s so-called New Order (1966-1998) in Indonesia and the eruption of vicious group violence, a number of questions have engaged the minds of scholars and other observers. How widespread is the group violence? What forms—ethnic, religious, economic—has it primarily taken? Have the clashes of …

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Cultural Transformations: Perspectives on Translocation in a Global Age

Contemporary global culture is inevitably culture in translation. It encompasses encounter, exchange, and transformation, disruption and the emergence of the totally new. Drawing on contemporary theorists in fields of cultural studies and postcolonial studies, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the functions of cultural translation in – and as – translocation. They analyze the uneven …

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