INTER-ASIA ROUNDTABLE 2010 – Transnational Migration and Children in Asian Contexts

The ARI Inter-Asia Roundtable series is the annual flagship event of the Asia Research Institute (ARI) of the National University of Singapore. Transnational Migration and Children in Asian Contexts is the theme of the second in the series, held on 2-3 August 2010 by ARI’s Asian Migration Cluster. Why the theme of transnational migration and …

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WPS 139 The End of the Peasantry and the Politics of Peri-urbanization in an Indonesian Metropolis

The nature of Asian urbanization has been the object of theoretical attention for almost two decades. A central theme in the discussion revolves around the dissolution of the city and countryside divide; and the question of whether the city is winning (through urbanization) or if the countryside is losing in the development game. Such issues …

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WPS 138 Urban-Rural Connections: Banda Aceh through Conflict, Tsunami and Decentralization

As a site of tremendous social, political and economic transformation over the past decade, Indonesia’s northwestern-most province of Aceh on the island of Sumatra has attracted considerable attention. Aceh has been the scene of one of the most catastrophic natural disasters and large-scale reconstruction efforts in human history following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and …

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Fatherhood in 21st Century Asia – Research, Interventions, and Policies

This conference will provide a platform for scholars and policy makers to discuss issues related to the trend, determinants, and consequences of father involvement, as well as policies and interventions that engage men in family lives in Asia. We aim to gain a better understanding about (1) the nature of Asian men’s diverse roles and …

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International Conference on Economic Stress, Human Capital, and Families in Asia: Research and Policy Challenges

The changing demographic landscape, globalization, natural disasters, financial crises, and the revamping of social safety nets in many Asian countries in the past few decades have subjected countless people to economic stress. Job and income loss, volatile gasoline and food prices, and growing residential insecurity top the list of sources of family economic stress in …

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Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680, Volume Two: Expansion and Crisis

Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680 , Volume Two: Expansion and Crisis by Anthony Reid Between the fifteenth and the mid-seventeenth centuries, when the Renaissance and early capitalism were transforming Europe, changes no less dramatic were occurring in Southeast Asia. This diverse tropical region was integrated into a global trade system, while trade-based …

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Modernist Avant-Garde Aesthetics and Contemporary Military Technology: Technicities of Perception

Call# NX180 Tec.Bi 2010 ISBN: 9780748639885(hbk.)/ 0748639888(hbk.) This book analyses the operation of current state-of-the-art military technology and the experimental art, music and writing of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Modernist aesthetics renders clearer the operations of the vast surveillance and killing machines of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A basic aim of …

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