The classic secularization thesis of modernizarion has long dominated the study of religion. According to this view, modernizing societies become increasingly secular and rational in worldview, and restrict religion to a private, irrational sphere. Scholars have recently begun to question the secularization thesis, seeking continuities between the pre-modern and the modern, and destabilizing the boundary …
The Fifteenth century is an enigma in Southeast Asian history – too lage for classical inscriptions, and generally too early for indigenous texts or European observations. The arrival of European ships, ideas and economies in the early sixteenth century has long been seen as the origin of the early modern era in Southeast Asia, but …
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The Cham people once inhabited and ruled over a large stretch of what is now the central Vietnamese coast. The Indianized civilization of this Austronesian-speaking group flourished between roughly the third and fifteenth centuries, and they competed with the Vietnamese and Khmers for influence in mainland Southeast Asia, but the Cham territories eventually became part …
In exploring the past, researchers labour in the present: to locate the archival document which is located somewhere behind a gate with its keeper: or to find that elusive participant who will throw light on a gap in our knowledge, and convice them to speak. The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History meditates on this …
Although practice theory has been a mainstay of social theory for nearly three decades, so far it has had very limited impact on media studies. This book draws on the work of practice theorists such as Wittgenstein, Foucault, Bourdieu, Barth adn Schatzki and rethinkd the study of media from the perspective of practice theory. Drawing …
In the 1920s, as the Philippines and India intensified their nationalist attempts at independence from the U.S. and British empires, an American woman journalist, Katherine Mayo, would publish two books—The Isles of Fear (1925) and Mother India (1927)—hostile to the peoples’ struggles by foregrounding the notion of race as proof why independence must not be …
From ARI co-organised workshop “Female Labour Migration in Globalising Asia: Translocal/Transnational Identities and Agencies”, 13-14 September 2007.
Global Social Policy is a fully peer-reviewed journal that advances understandings of social policy, social development, social and health governance, gender and poverty, social welfare, education, employment, and food, and the advantages and disadvantages of globalisation, from transnational and global perspectives. The journal publishes scholarly and policy-oriented articles that address global social policy discourse, and practice …
New Cinemas provides a peer-reviewed platform for scholarship that broadens and elaborates our knowledge of late-twentieth century and contemporary cinematic theory and practice. Welcoming approaches that do not take existing conceptual paradigms and canons as given, it anticipates submissions that refresh our understanding of established bodies of work as well as those which tackle practices …
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