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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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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While the concept of the ‘tourist gaze’ has been influential in tourism research, the ‘counter-gaze’ of the host communities and their imagination of the tourists’ places of origin have not been adequately addressed. Based on fieldwork conducted in the Langtang National Park of Nepal, and drawing on Simmel’s theory of sociation, this paper attempts a …
In this paper we explore what happens to a tightly bounded translocal village when the second generation rebels. The news story above encapsulates a number of threads we would like to discuss in this paper. The article was published in one of Tamil Nadu’s leading newspapers, the Dina Thandi, which has a readership of some …
This paper proposes a new historical interpretation of pre-modern relations between Burma and Siam by analyzing these relations within the historical context of the formation of Burmese states: the first Toungoo, the restored Toungoo and the early Konbaung empires, respectively. The main argument is that the conflictive conditions leading to the military confrontation between Burma …
The second arrival of Christianity in China went hand in hand with the Mongol conquest of Eurasia. Although the Mongols themselves were not Christian missionaries, they did create a special political, social and religious atmosphere, which happened to be favourable to the spread of religions like Buddhism, Islam and Christianity in China in the Mongol …
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