Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 2014"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the intersections of ecological-environmental and social vulnerability and the adaptive responses of urban poor communities and commercial-industrial establishments in Metro Manila to floods and other climate change-related effects, such as storm surges and sea-level rise (SLR).

TL;DR: The Asia Foundation, working with Indonesian research organizations, conducted a nation-wide survey to explore the changing ways that these Muslim organizations wield political influence, especially at the local level as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographic account of the self-formation experiences of Mainland Chinese undergraduate students as "foreign talents" in a Singaporean university is presented, with the title being a playful riff on G.W.F. Hegel's philosophical canon, which uses Hegelian notions such as self-consciousness, the "other", desire, and negation to narrate and analyse those aspects of the scholars' self-formative experiences revolving around the idiom of "very China"-ness.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of trust as it relates to individual political behavior was examined in the context of Central and Southeast Asia by examining the associations between the two forms of trust and informal (signing a petition, boycotting, protesting) and formal (voting) political activities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify how geopolitical, economic, legal and technological drivers of change shape sailing-trading livelihoods in southeastern Indonesia and show how these macro-level drivers articulate with sailor-traders' individual and group-based responses at the local level.

TL;DR: The authors argued that the transnational order should be distinguished from both the earlier international order of nation-states and from the ideology of globalisation, arguing that the cultural formations that grow under the logic of transnational and flexible production operate not as part of a stable national system but according to the contingent and fluid logic of assemblage.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed factors limiting the practice of religious diversity in post-Suharto Indonesia with a focus on two types of important grass-roots religious institutions, namely, religious philanthropic organizations and traditional Islamic schools known as pesantren salaf.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the modes of consolidation between the dynamic practices of commercial television and the rising Islamic manifestation among urban, middle-class Indonesians, focusing on the most-consumed type of television programming in the country, the sinetron (television drama).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an historical introduction to the emergence of diverse models of Muslim religious authority in modern Asia and provide an overview of the challenges of modernizing reform at the turn of the twentieth century struck at the very heart of traditions that had bolstered established religious authority for a thousand years.

TL;DR: This article studied the cultural politics surrounding the narratives of cultural festivals in Gwangju, South Korea and Glasgow, Scotland and found that the instrumental focus of festival organizers curtails community participation, by focusing on professionalism in both the public and private sectors.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the call to de-westernise Media Studies is naive, ignores history and the long patterns of global interconnectedness that have mutually formed the West/Rest. But they also suggest that the true alternative to a repressive theocracy is its internal challenge by women, students and other parts of civil society that offers a critical third way beyond the binary divide.

TL;DR: The authors discusses the ways in which the increasing pervasiveness of the inter-nationalised modes of production, circulation and consumption of media cultures makes exclusive national boundaries even stronger and more solid.

TL;DR: In this article, Song et al. discuss the role of China as the "Protector" of Co-ethnics in Distress: Changing Episodes of Human Security Vulnerabilities over Space and Time.

TL;DR: The role and status of religious authority need to be read into Malaysian political history over the past fifty years during this period as the Malaysian state constructed its national identity and plotted its policy course, the role of Islam and religious leaders became an important point of debate.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the complex and unstable times that have occurred alongside the transition to democracy are transforming the potent authority of Tuan Guru, and they seek to understand how to delineate their religious authority and conceptualize its application.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the biographies of two leading female Ahong and considering their modes of operation and the relationships that they have with their community, and found that these women operate in distinctive ways through the cooperation with women's mosque managers and committees to create and develop a unique female collective and ritual space for religious expression.

TL;DR: The authors argued that farmers take risk as an ethical action in response to conditions of uncertainty, and that these actions consequently play a part in self-making processes, evoking feelings of capacity and impotence, dreams and fears.

TL;DR: The authors examines the main features of the discourse of seonjinguk in contemporary Korea, focusing on the representations and identities of countries reflected in its basic concepts, and shows that the discourse constructs a world dichotomised by idealised seon-jinguk and marginalised hujinguk (backward country).

TL;DR: In this paper, a preliminary reconstruction of Indian discourse on film and entertainment, a discourse marginalised or ignored by Eurocentric scholarship on film in South Asia, is presented, arguing that it needs to be seen rather as a problematic, historic institution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that existing approaches to Indonesian media hypostatise what may be more imaginatively understood as a rapidly changing assemblage of arguments and practices, and propose instead to approach Indonesian media as assemblages of practices of production, distribution, engagement and use by different people in different situations.

TL;DR: The effects of this fraught environment on religious authority can be seen through the way that religious leaders have issued contradictory and opaque fatwa (non-binding, but highly influential, legal opinions).

TL;DR: This article showed that weak ties, as a form of social capital, matter and that they assist in explaining variations in status attainment between ethnic groups in Singapore, and that the Malay's weaker performance in the labour market is partly due to their lower access to weak ties.

TL;DR: This article examined the role of family narratives in the formation of Chinese identities and the interplay between history and memory, focusing on traditions regarding ancestors of the Fujian Guo lineage of Muslim descent in China, Taiwan and the Philippines, over six centuries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw attention to the variegated histories of Christian conversion and dissemination in Malaysia, and the various modes and meanings of Christian identity as incorporated into different local communities and cultures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the history of the Khalwatiah Sammān tarekat in South Sulawesi and the challenges posed by formalist ulama who take exception to their Islamic practices and interpretations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the implications of imposing Eurocentric and metropolitan frameworks on the diverse assemblages of practices of producing, distributing and engaging with Asian media and film.

TL;DR: This article argued that the very act of keeping religion out of formal political life in Singapore is a conscious position taken by the local ulama and that in itself is a form of politics.

TL;DR: In this article, Bauman suggests that people have come to be like tourists living from one moment to another, and proposes to treat the contemporary meaning of social interaction as inseparable from the consumption of sensations and looseness of ties.

TL;DR: In this article, a case study using qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the workings of Anjung Singgah, a transitional shelter established in 2011 by a Malaysian federal ministry and handed over to a government-linked charitable organisation for administration.