Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 2003"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss different types of illnesses and through narratives of women garment workers explores health hazards experienced by them and suggest solutions for policy-makers, NGO activists, employers and workers.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparative analysis of NGOs in Hong Kong that are involved with the improvement of foreign workers' rights and welfare is carried out by adapting and applying David Korten's (1990) typology of NGOs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors follow the theoretical footsteps of Weber and Habermas to unravel the advent of modernity in terms of the problematic of rationality and rationalization, and argue that a major malaise of modern society stems from the proliferation and domina tion of instrumental rationality on one hand, and the alleged subjective, relativistic nature of value rationality on the other.

TL;DR: The authors reconstructs Jacob van Heemskerck's second voyage to the East Indies and his capture of the Portuguese merchantman Santa Catarina on 25 February 1603, and incorporates important new archival evidence like Van Heemskerskck's letter to the directors of the Dutch East India Company of 27 August 1603 and the original text of the verdict of the Amsterdam Admiralty Court, which confiscated the ship's cargo on 4 September 1604.

TL;DR: In this article, an in-depth analysis of Dutch colonial sources, the memories van overgave, which have never been analysed in such detail on the subject of cultural geography, reveals that almost all facets of cultural landscape were influenced by the Dutch rule.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discussed the risks of our welfare system, and the weaknesses of public sector, community and private welfare in meeting these increasing social demands after the financial crisis, as observed in Hong Kong and other Asian societies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the knowledge gap is a precondition for economic development and that knowledge is the most important factor of production in a new economy, and the production, dissemination and utilisation of knowledge are therefore essential for development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the structural realignment -power shift, social conflicts, and coalition change - in the wake of the economic crisis in Korea and critically examine the impact of various reform measures on state-society relations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify new forms of economic insecurities generated by the renewed growth of labour flexibility as globalisation weakens the basis of social partnership and tripartism.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative investigation of two villages in West Java was conducted to investigate the factors that women factory workers consider when deciding whether to participate in labour protests, as well as the gender-specific pressures on women to refrain from participating in labour activism in the two villages.

TL;DR: The inherent inappropriateness of this model is unfolded through an examination of the linguistic situation and language policy in India as discussed by the authors, and the pluralist approach is put forward as a viable and democratic alternative for a cultural renewal of India.

TL;DR: In this paper, an exegesis of an eighteenth-century tract on the practice of smallpox inoculation in Bengal written by a Scottish medic is given, and it is argued that the technique of inoculation is a moment in larger therapeutics, and the latter-day privileging of this moment has resulted in seeing the nineteenth-century as a standoff between variolation and vaccination.

TL;DR: The persistence of non-liberal regimes in Asia, even after the financial and economic crisis, raises questions about how social and economic regimes change and the sort of legal and political frameworks required by modern market capitalism as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse how state-based banking policy elites in both states used the 1997-2000 crisis to accelerate pre-crisis policy directions that were opposed by local banking institutions and their peak associations.

TL;DR: Fussell as mentioned in this paper describes Herodotus' History of the Persian Wars which follows a chronological sequence gives, in a systematic fashion, copious, detailed descriptions of the physical setting and the social and cultural customs of the countries he visits.

TL;DR: This paper examined the role of women in French women in Indochina and found that French women were witnesses to some of the more unpleasant aspects, as portrayed in many of Marguerite Duras' novels, could they not provide a new means of examining colonial history?

TL;DR: The authors examines social development as a process and as a historically produced discourse before and during the crisis in Southeast Asia and argues that new modes of knowing are necessary to challenge, rethink, and reconstruct the role of social science based on situated knowledge and contextualised views expressed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the individual women missionaries as lone travellers, bringing their western cultural ideas and imaginings to politically tumultuous Turkey in the 19th century, and apply the metaphor of travel to examine the interaction between the missionaries and the people they came to save.

TL;DR: In the most minimalist sense, travel would translate as the movement between geographical locations and cultural experiences as mentioned in this paper. But, if we went beyond by looking at how this movement operates psychicaEy, metaphorically and politically, we would notice that in narratives of displacement the relation ship between self, home, nation, travel and encounter is both varied and complicated.

TL;DR: Using an interactionist approach, the authors uncovers the complexity of the interactions between the modern worlds of science and non-science, of scientists and nonscientists, of non-scientists and scientists.

TL;DR: Wessex Estate as discussed by the authors is a residential neighbourhood located in the low hills extending on the western flank of the central urban area of Singapore, which is of no particular architectural interest, but it does represent a heritage through the names borne by the blocks of flats.

TL;DR: This article explored a small portion of this rich and varied literature to display the way in which select British travel writers used their experiences with transportation in Burma to present a much larger set of under standings about the country and its peoples.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between feminist theory and the contemporaneous efforts to re-think basic sociological categories occurring in the aftermath of the 1960s' social movements, primarily in the US and Europe.