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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The Political Economy of Java’s Northeast Coast, c. 1740-1800: Elite Synergy

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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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 2 No. 2)

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 …

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Verandah of Violence: The Background to the Aceh Problem

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 …

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Viêt Nam: Borderless Histories

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, …

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Vulnerability and Human Rights

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, …

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