Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 2006"

TL;DR: The authors examined how prevalent the notion of filial piety remains in modern Chinese society like Hong Kong as an initiative for individuals to become caregivers for their parents, and how it is practiced in actual caregiving scenarios.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the relationship between Madurese and other population groups in conflict-ridden West Kalimantan and conflict-free East Kalimanantan, and showed that there are significant dissimilarities between the two regions with regard to the ethnic composition of the population, cultural attitudes, access to natural resources and political competition.

TL;DR: In this paper, an overview of the development and evolution of the concept of ummah and its usage in Islamic discourse to explain the current social, political and economic conditions of the Muslim world is provided.

TL;DR: In 1998, around one hundred sorcerers were killed in Banyuwangi District, East Java as mentioned in this paper, and most scholars treated the killings as a conspiracy, but the evidence indicates that local residents have been killing sorcerers for at least the past half century.

TL;DR: The relationship between religion and politics can be examined under three rather different historical circumstances: nation-states, the global system, and empire as mentioned in this paper, and these three socio-political contexts may overlap in time and space, they are examined here in their specific historical settings.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated how residential moves are related to the contextual constraints, availability and mobilization of social capital for expressive actions and found that recent movers and non-movers tend to be equally capable of reaching intimate ties when needed, although the types of activated ties are different.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the discursive construction of national identity in Bangladesh and investigated whether national identity discourse is a creation of the political rhetoric during different eras or it is "over-determined" in Althusserian terms.

TL;DR: It is argued that the dynamics of the role of the security forces in the conflict in Ambon evolved in concert with the dynamic of the conflict itself and was influenced by both local and national factors and their respective actors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the contemporary state of Thai Buddhism is narrated and interpreted in remarkably different tones, with a firm faith in Buddhist teachings and principles, with some critical concerns of its religious agencies and performances in Thailand's post-1997 economic crisis context.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between popular music and the power of the state through an analysis of the history of Taiwan and the settings within which popular music was constructed and transformed by contentious political and social groups in the twentieth century.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the situation of the ethnic Vietnamese in Cambodia and found that anti-Vietnamese sentiments have been regularly displayed by the Cambodian elite and in the policies of the Cambodia authorities.

TL;DR: The authors synthesize non-violent resistance theory and late modern power theory to understand resistance to power, and argue that incorporated forms of power imply cooperative subordination, which in turn opens new space for understanding resistance, which is indicated in the conclusion.

TL;DR: A cyclical history of violence in Papua, Indonesia is reviewed in this paper, where the authors analyse the ways in which the Indonesian security forces employ nationalist discourse to justify conduct in Papua that includes obstructing justice and intimidating human rights advocates.

TL;DR: The authors argue that not only the conventional analytical categories but also the modes of explanation and interpretation used are both problematic and Eurocentric, because they are mediated by a whole series of industrial and intellectual practices which have remained unacknowledged.

TL;DR: The failure of sociologists to come to grips with larger societal issues is not just a failure of sociology in India, but also a widespread problem faced by the discipline at present is the reluctance to raise 'big questions' as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The politics of use and misuse of religious iconography during popular uprisings in the Philippines has been discussed in this paper, where the authors discuss the ways in which religious icons, specifically the Santo Nino and Our Lady of EDSA are co-opted for specific political and social agendas.

TL;DR: In the early nineteenth century, Tamil Muslims participated in creating a landscape of shrines in the city by inking their practices with those of other Muslim communities, while at the same time maintaining attachments to saints and shrines back in India.

TL;DR: The Sampit massacres in Central Kalimantan in 2001 were the latest in a series of horrific clashes between Madurese migrants and indigenous peoples, which, since 1996, killed thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how ancestors continued to be regarded as important members of a transnational lineage in the Fujian Province in South China, and also in Singapore, and how ancestors are moralised as a significant social capital by the Chinese State, local government and rural villagers, in an attempt to establish transnational guanxi linkages between the ancestral villages in rural China and their Diaspora members in Singapore.

TL;DR: The authors argue that a corporate state system of political economy had come to engulf both the liberal democratic polity and the professions and that this approach, as a field science and ecological stewardship, provides public alternatives to violence, whether primarily "social" or "environmental".

TL;DR: The authors made a preliminary attempt to construct such a comparison and contrast through studying some aspects of their colorful lives and intellectual legacies, which suggests that the Shaykh and the Shāh founded and spearheaded distinct, but largely dissimilar, systems and schools of thought in the pre-modernist era that have had farreaching impacts on subsequent Islamic reformist movements worldwide.

TL;DR: This paper examined the underlying theories of the contemporary Hong Kong legal discourse from both the Lacanian psychoanalytic and Buddhist vijnanamatra perspectives, and argued that Foucauldian resistance subverting the patriarchal agenda on the representation of the sex work industry could be reproduced and localized within the specific cultural context of Hong Kong, which is a predominately (Han-)Chinese society.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss population ageing and its impact on the financing of social security, health and other social services for the Japanese elderly, including the importance of avoiding fragmentation and complexity in public programmes; the need to anticipate the possibility of escalating costs and how to deal with this challenge; dealing with noncompliance with the law in mandatory schemes; reducing financial pressure on firms and individuals; and anticipating possible service shortages either because of increased demand or because of mal-distribution of facilities and personnel.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss classical theories of civil society as an essential seedbed for capitalist development and argue that some attributes of such a civil society are today interpenetrating with aspects of gemeinschaft type relationships of kinship and community, blurring the distinction and drawing from the combination of a renewed dynamism, flexibility and developmental power.

TL;DR: In the context of the Philippines, a critical social science is necessary to counterbalance modern society's functional goals if social science are also to play an emancipatory role as mentioned in this paper. But even as social science requires the resources of the nation state, it is equally dependent on a vigorous civil culture distinct from the state.

TL;DR: In a time dominated by incessant warfare, violence and terrorism, it would do well to remember the great Dutch humanist Erasmus and especially his teachings on war and peace.

TL;DR: The authors argue that sweeping proclamations about the effects of globalization relate to a world which is antithetic to that of real people, and they take issue both with those who show unbri veled admiration for globalization and with the those who fear it for backing the economically privileged and for flattening cultural differentiation.

TL;DR: In this article, a personal account of some of my experiences as an activist within the global justice movement and also as a Buddhist practitioner, and how these two ways of striving for human emancipation interlink and mutually reinforce each other.