WPS 55 Nomadic Trajectories: Mapping Short Film Production in Singapore

The short film form in Southeast Asia is a potent form of cultural production and one that contributes compellingly to the development and continued growth of the region’s moving image culture. This essay provides a preliminary theoretical framework within which to map the intricacies of the short film within Southeast Asia and offers a case …

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ARI Annual Report 2005

MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRMAN Board of Management ARI is embarking on its second five-year development cycle. Much has been accomplished in the first five years. It is now a recognized research centre in disciplines of interest and importance to scholars of Asia, and it has played a visible role in promoting collaboration among researchers in …

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WPS 54 Empowering Farmers, Improving Techniques? Integrated Pest Management in Cambodia and Thailand

After more than three decades of the introduction of the Green Revolution with high crop productivity as the main objectives and results, yet with various unintended negative consequences, various parties have now seriously taken steps to counter the Green Revolution’s negative consequences on people and environment. One among others was the introduction of the Integrated …

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Reclaiming Adat: Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature

In the early 1990s, the animist and Hindu traces in adat, or Malay custom, became contentious for resurgent Islam in Malaysia. Reclaiming Adat focuses on the filmmakers, intellectuals, and writers who reclaimed adat to counter the homogenizing aspects of both Islamic discourse and globalization in this period. They practised their project of recuperation with an …

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WPS 52 Finding Java: Muslim Nomenclature of Insular Southeast Asia from Śrîvijaya to Snouck Hurgronje

This article shows how Arab geographical conceptualizations of insular Southeast Asia came to be placed under the rubric of ‘Jâwa’ in the 13th century. It does so after examining echoes of another toponym of far greater longevity in greater depth, namely Zâbaj. It outlines how this earlier term served from the mid-9th century to mark …

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Asian Population Studies (Vol. 1 No. 3)

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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