Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 2005"

TL;DR: The authors argue that the workspaces of Bangladeshi construction workers in Singapore typify that of a "total institution", which correspondingly moulds the worker into a discursive ideal, the good, docile Other.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at the relationship between the religious and the secular from a historical perspective, and show that there is no natural given boundary separating the two dimensions, instead, the whole discussion derives from an advanced state of a secular mind.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how young women in a Javanese village try to incorporate the impact of their experiences as circular labour migrants in Jakarta into their rural life worlds.

TL;DR: In this article, a sketch of the encounters and experiences of modern secularism in four areas of the Islamic world (Turkey, Arab world, South Asia and Southeast Asia) is presented, which point to the diverse conditions and constructions that have become central issues of regional and trans-regional discourse.

TL;DR: A brief survey of some fundamental aspects of Islam and Muslims in the Islamic Malay world and Malaysia can be found in this article, where Islam is a universal theology originating from the Arabic Middle East.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of caregivers' social capital using Short Adapted Social Capital Assessment Tool (Short A-SCAT) is presented, which is used to measure the validity of a quantitative social capital instrument.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the negotiation of identity in Malaysia, involving historical and present-day relations between the Malay-Muslim majority and the rest of the citizens of the country.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the preoccupation with power in mainstream Western social theory can be challenged from a number of perspectives, and suggest that the resources for such alternatives lie not only in Western forms of utopian thinking but also in existing Asian traditions of thought.

TL;DR: In this paper, the issue of secularity as a main node of the historic construction of modern power and the modern state in Europe is investigated. And the authors point out the inherent ambivalence and arbitrary character of the modern secular distinction between religion and politics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss one local newspaper that has been established since the introduction of media reforms in post-Suharto Indonesia, published in the Luwu region of South Sulawesi, which has undergone significant subdivision within Indonesia's radical decentralization programme.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the ideal of self-cultivation as it confronts the holders of power and our practice and understanding of ethics and aesthetics, and discuss the challenge of recognizing the face of the other that the radical alterity of poverty presents to the quest for freedom, exercise of power, and the ideal selfcultivation.

TL;DR: The long drawn-out crisis in Indonesia may be viewed as a period of power struggles that are an inevitable result of the power vacuum that followed the fall of Soeharto.

TL;DR: The authors argued that the attempt to assemble colonial knowledge exposed the potentially counter-productive aspects of such projects and highlighted the limitations of colonial knowledge implicit in the institutional structure of colonial power, and the extent to which, in the circumstances of mid-nineteenth century Java, the blind eye was the necessary corollary of the strong arm.

TL;DR: Research on the covariates of infant and child mortality, as well as mortality differentials in different socio-economic groups of a population, is particularly important for both social policy makers and health programme planners in developing countries.

TL;DR: The authors discusses three models of continuity and discontinuity as the subjects of an intercultural philosophy based on the historical experiences of peoples and cultures, instead of on hypothetical and purely theoretical reflections.

TL;DR: This paper explored the psychological processes of acculturative stress and identity crises in the lives of South Asian students in academe and found that the anxieties about South Asian student's cultural adaptabilities are sites of contested meanings.

TL;DR: The authors examines the role of economic and cultural globalization in the interaction between Muslim and European public spheres and argues that culture is the most powerful driver of contemporary globalization as it is experienced in the Muslims' majority world and in Muslim communities in Europe.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the modern politics of meaning is archaic in the sense that it implies an obvious drift towards coherence and reconciliation with the world of things and, more specifically, a return to the origins, to the order of things in ancient civilizations.

TL;DR: In this article, a transnationalized Turkish-Islamic group of the followers of the populist theologian Said Nursi in Germany is discussed, where the authors present an outline of the community character and interprets also the reactions in the cross-cultural field in the aftermath of September 11, with regard to this specific culture of the group.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the question of whether there is a general trend from coercive towards cooperative and consensual forms of power over time, considering the contributions of Gramsci and Foucault.

TL;DR: This paper proposed a more expansive, inclusive, and flexible definition of the field based upon the way it is practised in particular places and times, which can take students, pedagogy, diaspora, and diverse transnational flows into account, while emphasizing the importance of Southeast Asia as a field of scholarly and institutional collaboration.

TL;DR: This paper argued that the emptiness of the self is due to its fluidity, which accounts for the fluidity of knowledge in psychology and the rest of the social sciences, and that the practice of psychology in the Philippines, as a science and profession, should take on a spiritual depth in consideration of the positive values espoused by postmodernism from an East-West comparative standpoint.

TL;DR: In economic theory, one indispensable antecedent of economic development is the existence of innovators who discover and implement better ways of organizing the resources of production and exchange such an emphasis on entrepreneurial innovation and investment has characterized economic thought since Adam Smith and it was voiced again in a modified form by Joseph Schumpeter.

TL;DR: In contrast with the artifice of remembrance, nature and places seem to make a more effective stand against the conspiracy of social neglect as mentioned in this paper, which is the theme of Simon Schama's monumental Landscape and Memory (1996).