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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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: 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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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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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 …
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 …
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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