Building on the literature on global cities and on the worlding of cities, the articles in this special issue chart how cities outside Europe and North America try to reinvent and rescale themselves using culture. They suggest that the fabric of urban cultural policy is embedded in multi-scalar power dynamics. First, the contributions in this …
The Chinese government promotes the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a global strategy for regional integration and infrastructure investment. With a projected US$1 trillion commitment from Chinese financial institutions, and at least 138 countries participating, the BRI is attracting intense debate. Yet most analysis to date focuses on broad drivers, risks, and opportunities, largely …
What started out as a discussion on the direction of Project ‘Mausam,’ launched in 2014 by the Government of India at the Doha Meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for transcribing world heritage, has turned into a discussion of where the strengths of the Mausam Initiative lie and how the vision of the Initiative …
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How can the ‘where’ of creativity help us examine how and why it has become a paradigmatic concept in contemporary economies and societies? Adopting a geographically diverse, theoretically rigorous approach, the Handbook offers a cutting-edge study of creativity as it has emerged in policy, academic, activist, and cultural discourse over the last two decades. To …
Rural areas and rural people have been centrally implicated in Southeast Asia’s modernisation. Through the three entry points of smallholder persistence, upland dispossession, and landlessness, this Element offers an insight into the ways in which the countryside has been transformed over the past half century. Drawing on primary fieldwork undertaken in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, …
Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Dispossession, Accumulation and Persistence Read More »
Bringing Women to the Fore in the Mapping of Chinese Female Religious Heritage in Singapore Author: Show Ying Ruo, Postdoctoral Fellow, ARI. Publication Date: 3 September, 2020 Publisher: ARIscope Keywords: vegetarian halls, religion, female temples, Singapore, vegetarian nuns, Chinese diaspora, Southeast Asia Vegetarian nuns conducting religious rituals and reciting Buddhist scriptures in Singapore, from the …
This special issue is concerned with increasing the understanding of the challenges and opportunities involved in governing environmental issues that are cross-jurisdictional and multi-scalar in nature. Our geographical focus is on Southeast Asia, a resource-rich but land scarce region with a long history of porous borders around informal resource regimes, mixed use landscapes and economic …
A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a modernization agenda around the globe. Soon followed by a sister organization, the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), founded in 1855, the Y movement defined its global mission in 1889. Although their …
This innovative and timely reassessment of political theology opens new lines of critical investigation into the intersections of religion and politics in contemporary Asia. Moving beyond a focus on the (post-) Christian West, this volume locates ‘development’ – conceptualised as a set of modern, transnational networks of ideas and practices of improvement that connect geographically …
Political Theologies and Development in Asia: Transcendence, Sacrifice, and Aspiration Read More »
Indonesia has long been hailed as a rare case of democratic transition and persistence in an era of global democratic setbacks. But as the country enters its third decade of democracy, such laudatory assessments have become increasingly untenable. The stagnation that characterized Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s second presidential term has given way to a more far-reaching …
Democracy in Indonesia: From Stagnation to Regression? Read More »
