Population, Space and Place- Special Issue: Rethinking the Migration-Development Nexus- Bringing Marginalized Visions and Actors to the Fore Vol. 15 No. 2

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 …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 5 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 110 Conceptualising Hinduism

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 …

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Surat Batak: Sejarah perkembangan tulisan Batak, berikut pedoman menulis aksara Batak dan cap si Singamangaraja XII. [The Batak script: The historical development of the Batak writing system with a practical introduction and the history of the seals of Singamangaraja XII]

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 …

Surat Batak: Sejarah perkembangan tulisan Batak, berikut pedoman menulis aksara Batak dan cap si Singamangaraja XII. [The Batak script: The historical development of the Batak writing system with a practical introduction and the history of the seals of Singamangaraja XII] Read More »

China and Southeast Asia (Vols. 1- 6)

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. …

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Creating the New Man: From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities

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 …

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ARI Annual Report 2008

DIRECTOR’S FORWARD Prof Lily Kong The last year at ARI has been a full and busy one. The calendar of seminars, roundtables, workshops, and conferences, as always, continues to be packed. Visitors continue to come to ARI on a regular basis, and scarcely a month passes without several enquiries from interested researchers and students from …

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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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