Performing Fear in Television Production: Practices of an Illiberal Democracy

What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy? While much of the critical discussion of the media in authoritarian contexts focus on state power, the emphasis on strong states tend to perpetuate misnomers about the media as mere tools of the state and sustain myths about their absolute power. Turning to the …

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Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine, 1st Edition

This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine, from production of medications in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds, and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance. The chapters analyse the process of industrialization and commercialisation of Asian medicine and the ways …

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Environmental Policy and Governance – Special Issue: Transboundary Environmental Governance: Emerging Themes and Lessons from Southeast Asia (Vol. 32, Issue 4)

This special issue is concerned with the transboundary dimensions of governing common pool resources and formulating collective responses to cross-border environmental threats and crises. Our theoretical and conceptual focus is on transboundary environmental governance, understood to mean the full range of actors and institutions involved in shaping and implementing decisions about the environment across jurisdictions …

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Current Sociology – Special Issue: The Value of Children in the Global South: A Critical Engagement (Vol. 70, Issue 4)

The sociology of childhood is currently at a crossroads for developing research agendas beyond the “new” social studies of childhood of the 1980s and 1990s, which suffer from four problems: cultural relativism derived from binary conceptualisations of childhood, Northern normativity that ill-fits Southern realities, methodological issues related to the preferred child-centric and participatory research, and …

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American Behavioral Scientist – Special Issue: (Re)constructing Ageing Futures: Insights from Migration in Asia and Beyond (Vol. 66, Issue 14)

This special issue examines how older adults anticipate and manage their futures through migration. Although ageing is often associated with decline towards the end-of-life, it is still a life stage where (the lack of) planning for the future can profoundly impact the life outcomes of older adults and their caregivers. This collection illustrates different ways …

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Chinese Religion in Contemporary Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan: The Cult of the Two Grand Elders

In Singapore and Malaysia, the inversion of Chinese Underworld traditions has meant that Underworld demons are now amongst the most commonly venerated deities in statue form, channelled through their spirit mediums, tang-ki. The Chinese Underworld and its sub-hells are populated by a bureaucracy drawn from the Buddhist, Taoist and vernacular pantheons. Under the watchful eye …

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Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants

Nearly eleven million Chinese migrants live outside of China. While many of these faces of China’s globalization headed for the popular Western destinations of the United States, Australia and Canada, others have been lured by the booming Asian economies. Compared with pre-1949 Chinese migrants, most are wealthier, motivated by a variety of concerns beyond economic …

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