Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 2001"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that current academic approaches to environmentalism in developing countries understate the role of class in either dominating political alliances, or in constructing underlying environmental discourse, and propose that analysts need to pay more attention to the origin of much environmental discourse from new, or identity-based social movements both within Thailand and elsewhere, and seek ways to understand the co-production of social activism and environmental knowledge.

TL;DR: The Chrysanthemum and the sword became something of an urtext of the post-World War II Japanese discourse on the Japanese and on Japanese culture (Nihonjinron or Nihonbunkaron) as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The subject of war and memory in the Philippines remains a sensitive topic as mentioned in this paper and many controversial issues about the Second World War remain subjects of debate, among them collaboration with the Japanese; Japanese war responsibility; American responsibility for the failed defense of the Philippines, and others.

TL;DR: This paper examined the riots from the perspective of a sociology of collective memories and found that older people's memories give rise to more varied interpretations of the riots than younger generations' memories, and that the past still lives in the present because it serves a purpose and has implications for the next generation.

TL;DR: This paper provided a historical and sociological overview of the Chinese community and the Chinese-educated in Singapore, after which they turned to the personal experience of marginalization on the part of older Chinese- educated intellectuals.

TL;DR: This article argued that urban "middle class" environmental activism is a manifestation of resistance to enlarging systems of governance allied with capital, and that environmentalism can be seen as a response against the encroachment of the system into the intimate living places of the lifeworld.

TL;DR: In this article, a key moment for Singapore history, the years 1963-65, when Singapore was first merged with the nation of Malaysia, and then separated from it, is analysed.

TL;DR: The authors investigates the question of whether indigenous concepts are universal or culturally specific in the context of debates on the indigenization of the Chinese social sciences, and whether the use of indigenous concepts does in fact rule out a cross-cultural comparison.

TL;DR: A preliminary study of Japanese video game culture and industry in Singapore from historical and socio cultural perspectives, focusing on consoles, games and players was conducted by Ng et al..

TL;DR: In this article, Bidayuh women who are a group of minority indigenous women in the Malaysian state of Sarawak discuss women's entry into paid work and life-course squeezes.

TL;DR: This article read three colonial literary texts by Joseph Conrad, Hugh Clifford and Lim Boon Keng to show how a gendered modern subjectivity created in Orientalist discourse might be refurbished by the colonized, and form the basis for a proto-nationalist subjectivity through the application of the powerful and yet compromised discursive strategy of "auto-Orientalism."

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the emergence of a global economy has led to new lines of conflict between transnational corporations and civil society actors, arguing that the efficiency of state regulation seems to have diminished, transnational protest groups have been able to challenge TNCs and enforce certain standards upon them.

TL;DR: Saro-Wiwa et al. as discussed by the authors examined the role of civil society in environmental movements in the context of globalization and argued that to understand civil society as a politically meaningful concept, due consideration should be given to social movements, which recharge civil society.

TL;DR: In the face of the individualistic and destructive tendencies of the wider global community circa 1500, in the Strait of Melaka region there was less dislocation and isolation than is supposed by many twentieth century scholars as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a question of memory relating to an event that took place towards the end of the Indonesian war of Independence (1945-49) is raised. But the authors focus on the Serangan Oemum 1 Maret 1949, or "General Attack of 1 March, 1949", when Indonesian freedom-fighters launched an all-out attack on Dutch positions in Yogyakarta and drove them from the city.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of rural women in the rehabilitation of local irrigation systems and a study of contextual factors affecting risk-related sexual behaviour among young people between the ages of 15 and 25.

TL;DR: Memory is as intrinsic to the construc tion of collective identities as it is integral to the individual's sense of self as discussed by the authors, and there has been a sudden kindling of interest in memory within concrete social contexts.

TL;DR: In the quest for "truths" and "untruths", popular discourse and state memorial practices try to stake a claim on individual and collective memories as discussed by the authors, and this poses a problem for Vietnam's past, present and future social dynamics.

TL;DR: In this article, the human security implications of the Asian economic crisis for the Western Pacific have been examined, and it was shown that the insecurity was transmitted through the unregulated operation of the global market, on which the countries of East Asia had based their national and regional development strategies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at how this complex relation that exists between literature, imperialism and imagined space is reflected in Andre Malraux's La Voie royale and Henri Fauconnier's Malaisie.

TL;DR: In the developing world, after the marginalization of the socialist discourse, two kinds of discussions seem to be going on: the neo-libcral discourse and the postmodernist discourse.

TL;DR: This article examined the socio-economic role of pawnshops in Singapore and found that a high redemption rate both in number and amount reflects a period of economic growth; the reverse is true when the redemption rate falls.

TL;DR: The Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992 marked the coming of age of the environmental mental movement as a global movement as mentioned in this paper and civil society organizations took part in the Earth Summit alongside the representatives of the states.

TL;DR: The authors examines the political significance of Orientalism in the light of the struggles within literary studies that gave rise to the text and argues that there is a difference between overstatement for effect and overstatement as doctrine.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the nature of collective action in the manufacturing sector in Singapore, using the social psychological analytical framework as proposed by Guest and Dewe (1988), and found that among the four explanations of union joining, influence from colleagues emerged as the most important discriminator between members and non-members.