Mobilities – Special Issue: Mobile City Singapore (Vol. 5 No. 2)

Mobilities examines the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private space and the travel of material objects in everyday life. New transportation and digital infrastructures and novel social and cultural practices pose important challenges for coordinating and governing …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 6 No. 1)

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 …

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WPS 135 Symmetric Development of Informal Settlements and Gated Communities: Capacity of the State — The Case of Jakarta, Indonesia

Paired informal settlements and gated communities are prevalent phenomena in the developing countries. In the Jakarta metropolitan region, one of the high-density Asian urban centers, it is observed that informal settlements are ubiquitous in its central city, while gated communities are concentrated in the suburbs. This dual process of informal and formal urbanization, or co-existence …

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WPS 134 A Historicised (Re)Assessment of EDSA ‘People Power’ (1986)

The EDSA ‘People Power’ of 1986 stands out  in  iconography and ideography of democratisation, both within and beyond the Philippines. Having paved the way for restoring democracy after over a decade of Marcos’s authoritarianism, conventional wisdom takes it as a critical turning point in Philippine political history. This is the idea that this paper seeks …

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INTER-ASIA ROUNDTABLE 2009 – Gender Relations in the 21st Century Asian Family

The 2009 Inter-Asia Roundtable was the first of its kind in the Asia Research Institute (ARI), and is scheduled to become an annual event. Its format was based on the concern that there is little dialogue across the major regions of Asia—East, South and Southeast Asia—concerning major social issues, largely because it is often felt …

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WPS 133 In Search of Authenticity in Historic Cities in Transformation: The Case of Pingyao, China

In an historic city, physical setting generates the uniqueness of a place, and the activities in the physical setting enrich its cultural value. Along with the demands of modernization, the development of heritage tourism indeed facilitates urban conservation in Asia, but it also challenges the meaning of the “authenticity” of an historic city. In the …

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