Other Malays: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World

This simulating new reading of constructions of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore is an important contribution to understanding the powerful linkages between ethnicity, religious reform, identity and nationalism in multi-ethnic Southeast Asia. The narrative of Malay identify devised by malay nationals, writers and filmmakers in the late colonial period associated malayness with the village or …

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WPS 75 Cultural Resource and Heritage Issues of Historic Champa States: Champa Origins, Reconfirmed Nomenclatures and Preservation of Sites

In this paper the author has firstly reconfirmed some names related to the most northern minor states of the Champa kingdom that were noted in Champa inscriptions during the eleventh to fifteenth centuries and are presented in comparison with the place names of the current provinces of Quảng Bình, Quảng Tri, Thừa Thiên-Huế in Central …

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WPS 74 Ethnos (minzoku) and Ethnology (minzokushugi) in Manchukuo

I explore how the rhetoric of nationality or ethnos (minzoku) became a central element in Japanese imperial ideology of Manchukuo and Asia in the Pacific War. Japanese imperialism from the 1930s sought to put nationality at the center of its expansionist ideology. At the same time, anthropology or ethnology (minzokushugi), became the means to study …

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WPS 73 Regionalism in Myanmar’s Foreign Policy: Past, Present and Future

This paper examines regionalism in Myanmar foreign policy mostly in the context of ASEAN-Myanmar relations and it argues that Myanmar’s decision to embrace regionalism was primarily motivated by her desire to enhance state security, which also meant regime security; the threat to which was more internal than external in nature. Her subscription to regionalism was …

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Telisik Tradisi (in Indonesian; Management of Traditional Arts)

Telisik Tradisi: Pusparagam Pengelolaan Seni, is the product of a research project on management of the traditional arts in Indonesia conducted by the Kelola Foundation. Edited by Jennifer Lindsay, the writing team comprises Aton Rustandi Mulyana, Andi Aguyssalim AJ and Ediwar Chaniago. Essays discuss management issues facing performing groups for Sisingaan in West Java (Kabupaten Subang), Tarling from Indramayu, …

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Post-War Laos: The Politics of Culture, History and Identity

Three decades after the conclusion of the civil war that brought the communist Pathet Lao to power, the leaders of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic are still searching for a compelling and unifying national identity. As detailed in Postwar Laos—a rigorously researched, cogently argued, and pathbreaking book—Laotian nationalism is caught between the rhetoric of preservation …

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WPS 72 Marriage Practices in an Urban Slum: Vulnerability, Challenges to Traditional Arrangements and Resistance by Adolescent Women in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Compared to Southeast Asia, Dhaka city represents an apparent anomaly: a rapidly growing metropolis with relatively little change in early marriage practices, with 51 percent of 15-19 year-old females in 2000 already married. The rapid influx of rural poor families to Dhaka has led to a rapid increase in urban population growth, slum settlements and …

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WPS 71 Village Transnationalism: Transborder Identities among Thai-Isan Migrant Workers in Singapore

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Thai-Isan (the Northeastern Thai), male migrant workers in Singapore’s construction industry in 2004, I propose ‘village transnationalism’ as a conceptual model for understanding the transnationalization and globalization processes from below. Exclusively hailing from rural working-class and farming backgrounds, Thai-Isan migrant workers have redefined their transborder identities by relying on their …

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The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology

Providing an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the classical and the contemporary, this volume is an indispensable guide to the vibrant and expanding field of sociology. Featuring over 600 entries, from concise definitions to discursive essays, written by leading international academics, the Dictionary offers a truly global perspective, examining both American and European traditions and …

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