Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 2015"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the negative side effects of climate change interventions for vulnerable social groups in the context of climate changes and increased flood risk in Jakarta, Indonesia, and found that these interventions may further "injure" vulnerable communities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored socio-demographic differences in environmental concern and willingness to pay for addressing climate change in Pakistan and found some divergent demographic patterns in environmental concerns among Pakistanis that are likely the result of a number of contextual influences.

TL;DR: The authors examines the mode of governmentality applicable as an analytical framework in socialist states committed to market socialism and finds that there are signs of reconfiguration and restructuring of the party-states in such a highly complicated and fluid context to adapt themselves to a more sustainable governmentality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the relationship between vulnerable households and local authorities during floods using the concept of linking social capital and found that these linkages appear to be susceptible to social inertia during times of stress and undermine the development and reproduction of strong bonding and bridging social capital.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine claims that "local community" and "local/traditional knowledge" are vital contributions to safeguarding socioeconomic stability and securing sustainable resource uses in times of stress, and conclude that local aspirations may not necessarily be part of the solution, but may form part of a social and political complex that exacerbates risk, particularly for weaker population segments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of policy-making carried out by various government officials in the Japanese financial community who contributed to the formulation and implementation of Japanese Silk Road Diplomacy in the 1990s and 2000s is examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the political engagement of millions of people by examining individuals' views on politics in their own voices through analysis of social media data, and illustrate this point by drawing on data analysis of the protests and election in Thailand from October 2013 through February 2014.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated gender differences in realisation of right to the city in the Iranian capital city and found that structural constraints have limited women's participation and appropriation of the city.

TL;DR: In this paper, personal narratives collected between 2012 and 2015 in the aftermath of the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ensuing tsunami were collected to understand how lived and embodied experiences of home and belonging in the post-disaster city of Banda Aceh offer modes of contestation for the concept of an Aceh that is built back better.

TL;DR: Park Geun-Hye as mentioned in this paper contributed to the debate between the merits of the "politics of presence" versus the 'politics of ideas" by examining the case of the first female Korean president, Park GeunHye.

TL;DR: A new computational methodology is presented to identify national political elites as those individuals who occur most frequently in a large corpus of politically-oriented newspaper articles, and it is found that this structure does not differ significantly from that of a randomly generated co-occurrence network.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider how risk, in the context of natural hazards, is produced by processes of social and economic transformation; understood and experienced by vulnerable groups; and framed by governments and experts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that differences in religious ecologies between China and the polities of Taiwan and Hong Kong are necessary but insufficient explanations for their different approaches to the reliance on religious actors for the delivery of social services.

TL;DR: In this paper, the similarity of nominally opposed concepts of welfare in the Turkish debate between conservative Islamists and secular Kemalists was analyzed, showing that although these two political groups appear to disagree about welfare governance, in reality this on-going debate actually masks the consolidation of social assistance as a welfare norm.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors studied the social inclusion of educated but disadvantaged youth under neoliberal and post-neoliberal reforms in China and found that these postneoliberal social programmes are not enough to help migrant graduates perform full social citizenship in urban regions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the Elite Network Shifts (ENS) project to the Asian Studies community where computational techniques are used with digitized newspaper articles to describe changes in relations among Indonesian political elites.

TL;DR: This paper examined how local Filipino volunteers frame their participation and membership in the Tzu Chi Foundation, a worldwide Buddhist philanthropic organization based in Taiwan, and found that the volunteers, who are mostly non-Chinese, urban poor, and Catholic, framed their participation in terms of personal transformation through self-discipline and self-fulfillment.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored sources of subjective evaluation of local municipal government policy performance among Chinese urban residents in ten large Chinese cities and found moderate satisfaction with city government performance.

TL;DR: In this article, a social sciences-inspired vulnerability and adaptation analysis with a natural science-based hydrological modelling analysis was used to investigate climate-related water disasters in two communities in the Quang Binh Province, central Vietnam.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between multi-dimensional religiosity and volunteering in Taiwan has not yet been examined and the authors tried to contribute to this literature by analysing one of the most extensive sampling surveys in Taiwan.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit the UN Support Facility for Indonesian Recovery (UNSFIR) data by applying several time series analysis methods to reveal previously unobserved features of collective violence in Indonesia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse moves made by Malaysian authorities as they seek to engage coercive capital in the form of state-directed market maneuvers and mobile capital in form of institutional investors' discourses in the aftermath of the financial crises of 1997-1998 and 2007-2008.

TL;DR: The authors examined the non-death of neoliberalism in Japan and found that many formal welfare benefits have been cut back even as spending has risen, and various tax and labour reform policies that have been adopted since the 1980s have further eroded the level of social equality and income security in Japan.

TL;DR: The authors studied the role of women Buddhists in the delivery of Buddhist compassion and the micro-politics of volunteerism from a feminist perspective, and argued that women focus on empowerment, social visibility and emotive philanthropy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors share the experiences of two Indian NGOs participating in a multiple-stakeholder pro-poor urban electrification programme that was designed to demonstrate a viable alternative to neoliberal models of basic service provision.