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 »
The ways in which humanitarian aid organisations respond to natural disasters contribute significantly to how communities negotiate and endure the loss of family, homes, and livelihoods in disaster-affected areas. When the chaos of a natural disaster occurs, gender is often ignored in the planning and development of relief strategies and projects. The lack of understanding …
WPS 104 Women and Livelihoods in Post-Tsunami India and Aceh 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 »
Evidence that political trust is in decline in established democracies seems conclusive, but there is less clarity about trends in political values in poor developing country democracies. This paper attempts to shed some light on the determinants of political trust in poor developing countries. It does so by exploring findings of unexpected levels of political …
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 …
In typical Indonesian fashion, when you land at Palembang, the first public name to greet the visitor is that given to the airport: Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II, the last of the Palembang sultans, the provincial National Hero (Pahlawan Nasional), who resisted Dutch annexation, was subsequently exiled in 1821 and later died in Ternate. As you …
In anthropological fieldwork between 2005 and 2007 on genetically-related illness among British Bangladeshi Muslims, I was struck by the absolute faith which people expressed in Allah in relation to whatever healing and medical options they might adopt. Whether the problem was regarded as an upri (jinn, i.e. spirit-related) or daktari (biomedical) problem, the families were …
This paper is an attempt to detail the dualism observed in the cosmology of both the Cham monuments and contemporary Cham society. It first outlines the dualistic cults as represented in two royal sanctuaries, My Son in the north and Po Nagar Nha Trang in the south of the Champa kingdom. The My Son sanctuary was …
