Singapore’s era of pluralism between the 1950s and 1970s was a time of extraordinary cultural, intellectual and political dynamism. Students, labour unions, ambitious political contenders, and representatives of the various ethnic communities all stepped forward to offer alternate visions of Singapore’s future from across the entire political spectrum. They generated a ferment of ideologies, priorities, …

Paths Not Taken: Political Pluralism in Post-War Singapore Read More »

This is a book of great originality that analyses cultural change and experience of development in terms of the pursuit of the a good life as a social process. While recent anthropological critiques of development highlight the importance of a local knowledge, this book argues that these critiques have not gone far enough, and suggests …

Imagining the Good Life: Negotiating Culture and Development in Nepal Himalaya Read More »

As Adam M. McKeown demonstrates, the push for increased border control and identity documentation is the continuation of more than 150 years of globalization. Not only are modern passports and national borders inseparable from the rise of global mobility, but they are also tied to the emergence of individuals and nations as the primary sites …

Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders Read More »

Call# BP63 *Indo.Mo 2007 ISBN: 9789791820318   Author/Speaker: ICHWAN, Moch Nur, Noorhaidi HASAN

In the past decade or so, historians, activists, and literary scholars have recovered stories of survivors of Partition in order to understand its human side and multiple dimensions of the ways in which “partitioned subjects” reconstituted themselves in relation to the violence. These collections are useful not only in uncovering the hitherto buried creative writing …

Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement and Resettlement Read More »