Asian Population Studies – Special Issue: Skilled Diasporas in Asian Development (Vol. 3 No. 2)

Special Issue: Skilled Diasporas in Asian Development 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 …

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Democratisation – Special issue: Beyond Hybrid Regimes

Transition theory literature has been preoccupied with either identifying why democracy has not arrived or with how it can be consolidated where it has emerged. Most recently, arising out of the interest in consolidation, attention has turned to scrutinizing institutions for their democratic quality or lack thereof, not least within so-called hybrid regimes. However, such …

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Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction

Economic Geography is a comprehensive introduction to this growing field, providing students with a vibrant and distinctive geographical insight into the economy. Contrasts a distinctively geographical approach with popular conceptions and assumptions in economics and management studies Debates a wide range of topics including economic discourses, uneven development, commodity chains, technology and agglomeration, the commodification of …

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Polarising Javanese Society: Islamic and Other Visions, c. 1830-1930

BY THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY, Islam had come to be the religious element in Javanese identity. But it was a particular kind of Islam, here called the ‘mystic synthesis’. This Javanese mysticism had three notable characteristics: Javanese held firmly to their identity as Muslims, they carried out he basic ritual obligations of the faith, but …

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Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism: Culture, Politics and Development at Angkor

Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a staggering 10,000 per cent in just over a decade, the …

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Pragmatism and European Social Theory

Pragmatism is the golden thread running through American social thought and is often seen as the quintessential philosophical tradition of American liberal democracy. Whereas pragmatism was committed to clarity and simplicity of its ideas, European social theory has been seen by its critics as deliberately vague, abstract and obscure. The essays collected in Pragmatism and …

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WPS 90 Filipino Migration, Transnationalism and Class Identity

Contemporary understandings of class provide diverse interpretations of the concept. This paper proposes a four-part typology to make sense of this diversity, with class rendered as ‘position’, ‘process’, ‘performance’ and ‘politics’. Each highlights a distinct dimension of class, but all are closely related. The paper then examines the ways in which class as position/process/performance/politics is complicated in …

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