The family narrative is a rich site where feminist, ethnic and nationalist politics can be projected and advocated. In the Malaysian case, the discourse of feminism, cultural relativism and liberalism, vis-à -vis family litigation has been used to assert and bargain for specific political interests. The politicization of litigation involving Muslim-non-Muslim family cases has proved to …
This paper focuses on two cross-cultural projects involving Didik Nini Thowok, is a cross-gendered and cross-cultural cosmopolitan who is the most popular and successful professional dancer and comedian in Indonesia. Ethnographic accounts of these project and dialogues with some of their performers lead to wider discussions about creative innovation, collaboration, the location of culture in …
This volume is an output of the workshop, 29- 31 March 2006, at the Pusan auniversity of Foreign Studies, Korea and the conference titled “Information revolution and cultural integration in East Asia”, 25- 26 January 2007, at the University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam.
With the vast majority of academic theory on tourism based on “Western” tourists, Asia on Tour illustrates why the rapid growth of travel for leisure and recreation in Asia demands a reappraisal of how tourism is analyzed and understood. Examining domestic and intra-regional tourism, the book reveals how improvements in infrastructures, ever increasing disposable incomes, …
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Protected areas have emerged as major arenas of dispute concerning both indigenous and environmental protection. In the Malay Archipelago, which contains two of the twenty-five biodiversity hotspots identified globally, rampant commercial exploitation is jeopardizing species and rural livelihoods. While protected areas remain the only hope for the imperiled biota of the Malay Archipelago, this protection …
The articles in this volume address the current development and examine the role of the state in its panoply of roles, exploring the challenges and the resulting contradictions. Some of the articles explore the impact of the state as a sponsor of innovation, and its role in providing infrastructural support and incentives to new activities. …
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International Migration is a refereed, policy oriented journal on migration issues as analysed by demographers, economists, sociologists, political scientists and other social scientists from all parts of the world. It covers the entire field of policy relevance in international migration, giving attention not only to a breadth of topics reflective of policy concerns, but also attention to …
Southeast Asia, one of the most colonized regions in the world, is conspicuously absent in the expanding archive of Postcolonial Studies. This is partly due to the negligence of the many practicing Postcolonial Studies practitioners, including editors of anthologies. It is, however, more significantly a consequence of the preoccupation of Southeast Asian scholars who were …
The relationship between religion and economics, or more narrowly between religion and entrepreneurship, has been, perhaps counter intuitively, a more or less persistent theme of the history of the sociology of religion. In thinking about economics and entrepreneurship we probably somewhat automatically think about economic innovation and risk-taking behaviour along the lines classically suggested by …
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