Citizenship Studies- Special Issue: International Marriage, Rights and the State in Southeast and East Vol. 12 No.1

The dramatic increase in intra-Asia cross-nationality marriage is a distinct, yet relatively under-researched, aspect of globalization and regionalization. Most existing research focuses on individual experiences of international marriage, but articles in this issue are intended to examine the politics of legal recognition: namely, how states categorize, legitimate and de-legitimate various intimacies, and how gender, religion, …

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China and Southeast Asia (6 Vols)

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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Citizenship Between Past and Future

Citizenship between Past and Future brings together some of the most prominent scholars in the field of citizenship studies to assess, critically and contextually, the ongoing significance of citizenship as an object of study.The authors reflect on the major issues and debates that have emerged in the field of citizenship studies over the last decade …

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Embodied Communities: Dance Traditions and Change in Java

Court dance in Java has changed from a colonial ceremonial tradition into a national artistic classicism. Central to this general transformation has been dance’s role in personal transformation, developing appropriate forms of everyday behaviour and strengthening the powers of persuasion that come from the skillful manipulation of both physical and verbal forms of politeness. This …

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WPS 107 Syarikat and the Move to Make Amends for the Nahdlatul Ulama’s Violent Past

The role of Indonesia’s largest Islamic organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), in the killings of approximately 500,000 leftists in 1965-66 was not a particularly sensitive issue within NU circles for the duration of the anti-communist New Order regime (1966-1998). Just two years after the fall of the regime, however, young members of NU founded the NGO …

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Contemporary Kayagum Music in Korea

Contemporary Kayagŭm Music in Korea offers the first book-length account of a new musical genre developed in post-war South Korea for kayagŭm, a traditional 12-stringed long board zither. The book examines the process by which a traditional instrument has become a vessel for the expression of new ideas concerning modernity, tradition and identity by examining history …

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From Rebellion to Riots: Collective Violence on Indonesian Borneo

From Rebellion to Riots is a critical analysis of the roots of contemporary violence in one of Indonesia’s most ethnically heterogeneous provinces, West Kalimantan. Citing evidence from his research, internal military documents and ethnographic accounts, Jamie S. Davidson refutes popular explanation for these flare-ups. The recurrent riots have less to do with the clash of cultures, the …

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