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 …
This book is a study of the political economy of Java’s Northeast Coast from 1743, when the VOC emerged as its ruler, until the end of the eighteenth century. The focus is on the various power-holders – namely coastal Javanese regents, Mataram rulers, Chinese merchants and Company authorities – and how they accommodated the changes …
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Historians have long portrayed the May Fourth Movement as a seminal period in Chinese history. By the early 1920s, that movement increased in intensity until it reached the overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. In Singapore, newspapers such as the Le Bao (Lat Po) and the Nanyang Shang Bao (Nanyang Siang Pau) became the primary …
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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 Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh, the democratisation process that began in Indonesia in 1998 encouraged the overt expression of regionalist sentiment and resentment of the military. The surprising extent of both made Aceh, home to a long-standing independence movement, the next potential candidate after East Timor to break away from Indonesia, and led to …
Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem Read More »
Moving beyond past histories of Viêt Nam that have focused on nationalist struggle, this volume brings together work by scholars who are re-examining centuries of Vietnamese history. Crossing borders and exploring ambiguities, the essays in Viêt Nam: Borderless Histories draw on international archives and bring a range of inventive analytical approaches to the global, regional, …
The mass violence of the twentieth century’s two world wars-followed more recently by decentralized and privatized warfare, manifested in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and other localized forms of killing-has led to a heightened awareness of human beings’ vulnerability and the precarious nature of the institutions they create to protect themselves from violence and exploitation. This vulnerability, …
The global debate on migration has experienced a major push toward the “management of migra¬tion” in the form of international cooperation in dealing with migration issues of all countries implicated, related to a number of global initiatives. The main objective of this global agenda is to promote cooperation among states in dealing with various dimensions …
This paper situates the practice of international recruitment of Indian nurses in the model of a ‘business process outsourcing’ of comprehensive training-cum-recruitment-cum-placement for non-traditional destinations like the UK, and USA through an agency system that has gained popularity in India. The small sample survey of trainee nurses and informal interviews of other stakeholders revealed that …
Hybridisation of language, dress, customs, food and material culture is indispensable as a means to understand the formation of identities in the ports of Central Southeast Asia (the Peninsula and adjacent parts of Sumatra, Java and modern central Thailand) before modern nationalist categories took hold. In the period between the last Srivijaya tribute mission to …
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