How is it that today in the diverse, multi-ethnic polity of Malaysia (where government figures give a population breakdown of 65% Bumiputra, 26% Chinese and 8% Indian), a single ethnic group completely controls – and occupies virtually all positions in – the judiciary, public administrative organs, the police, the armed forces and increasingly the universities? …
WPS 112 The Origins and Evolution of Ethnocracy in Malaysia Read More »
Tea-drinking is a major feature of the ethnography of Japan. The art of the tea ceremony evokes questions of identity and identification. In New York in 1906, Okakura Kakuzo (Tenshin) wrote The Book of Tea, the quintessential publication that introduced Japan’s culture to America and the West through the medium of the Japanese tea ceremony. …
The contributions to this Special Issue focus on marginalised and neglected social issues associated with the migration–development nexus. It reports research on specific groups of migrants who have so far been left out of the current debate on the relationship between migration and development. This debate has tended to be dominated by structural and economic …
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 term ‘Hinduism’ is used in both popular and academic works. However, because Hinduism defies definition, exactly what authors are referring to is often left unclear. Despite this, I argue that the adoption of an approach which, crucially, does not seek to define Hinduism demonstrates that the term has utility and should be retained. Following …
Tradisi tulis Batak terkenal di antara sepuluh tradisi tulis lain karena telah menghasilkan buku-buku yang sangat menakjubkan, terbuat dari kulit kayu yang berlipat-lipat, berisi aksara yang khas dan gambar magis yang misterius. Tradisi ini sudah hampir punah. Buku kulir kayu (pustaha), juga bambu dan tulang beraksara, kini menjadi barang perpustakaan museum, dan kebanyakan berada di …
This book addresses the question of why a party system with a modest number of nationally oriented political parties emerges in some democracies but not others. The number of parties and nationalization are the product of coordination between voters, candidates, and party leaders within local electoral districts and coordination among candidates and elites across districts. …
Building Party Systems in Developing Democracies Read More »
The regions that we know today as Southeast Asia and China have, for millennia, been linked together through a diverse range of political, economic and social interactions. From the earliest days the two regions have been tied by commercial interaction, human movement and political aspirations, and have been woven together by technological and cultural interflows. …
The idea of eliminating undesirable traits from human temperament to create a “new man” has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological framework for reshaping human nature. But it was only among the communist regimes of the twentieth century that such ideas …
Creating the New Man: From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities Read More »
