In September 2006, a coalition of political forces spearheaded by the army removed the Thai prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, by overthrowing parliamentary democracy. Elections which restored parliamentary government fourteen months later were a contest between the coup generals and the man they had overthrown. The generals argued that a return of a pro-Thaksinite government was …
Conceptual shift from “gentry” to “local elites” fail to respect the internal relations of gentry and the renouncer, which complementarily constitutes the literati in the imperial Chinese value of “the literati’s vocation is the Way”. Examining the renouncers assessed in The Analects and depicted in the Official Histories, I argue that by keeping the literati’s …
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The implementation of new national laws on decentralisation and self-determination in Eastern Indonesia provides the case study to examine the various dilemmas resulting from the human right to culture such as integration versus exclusion, cultural flexibility versus codification, and re-empowerment of local cultures versus the re-emergence of feudal structures. The contribution first discusses the challenges …
This book showcases some of the key thematic issues reported by Asian migrants and sojourners residing abroad, as well as non-Asians living in the Far East. The diverse range and scope of the papers demonstrate the interdisciplinary, convoluted and intertwined perspectives in human transnational movement. The book comprises four thematic sections, in Intercultural Relations and …
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From ARI conference “The Changing Asian Family as a Site of State Politics”, 26-27 April 2007.
The debate about secularism and secularization has become a central issue in politics, public policy and international affairs. Secularization explores its history, the sociology, America’s exceptionalism and the revival of world religions. Volume I explores the history and meaning of key terms: secular, secularism, secularity, secularization and laicity. It is primarily concerned with the philosophy …
This paper, originally the 15th James C. Jackson Memorial Lecture, argues the case for considering Malaysia and Singapore as immigrant societies, and analyzing their dynamic by comparison with New World countries such as Australia rather than with Asian neighbours. The historical demography of the two countries over the past two centuries puts them at the …
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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 …
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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