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Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 2017"


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TL;DR: The making of the entrepreneurial self is a dominant trope of contemporary media culture, and a multitude of media formats across divergent national contexts showcase the contemporary obsession with self-identity.

24 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore protection and racketeering as central statecraft repertoires of muscular styles of governance in the Indian context, and show how a predatory economy together with structures of inter-and intra-party political competition generate the demand for and the imposition of unofficial and illegal protection and shape different manifestations of Mafia Raj.

19 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that K-pop firms have been successful because they have made the right product selection and delivered the performances that have best exploited the comparative advantages that Korea has in global entertainment markets.

17 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how institutional dynamics among regulatory institutions affect the governance of the recruitment of Indonesian low-skilled migrant workers and revealed that the regulatory framework does not take into consideration the horizontal relationship between the old and new institutions, and the vertical relationship between central and sub-national governments.

15 citations


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TL;DR: The International Retiree Migration (IRM) refers to the rapidly growing wave of financially independent individuals from diverse nations seeking affordable, comfortable retirement away from their home nation.

11 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine and review the stereotypes of each of these groups, implicated in the exclusionary nationalist policies of the Myanmar state, and the general hostility expressed towards the refugees by the host community in Bangladesh, with a view to understanding the multi-layered spaces of violence in which they live.

8 citations


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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper focused on the use of guanxi (Chinese personal connections) in everyday urban life and found that the practice of ritual becomes an important way of using and developing one's Guanxi capital, and "instrumental li" is the shared value behind ritual practice.

6 citations


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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed and tested the impact of multiple dimensions of parenting behaviour (parental warmth, hostility and overprotection) during childhood and adolescent years on behavioural and emotional problems (anxiety, depression and drinking behaviour) among Chinese university students who were entering university and starting their independent living.

5 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that as far as residential segregation is concerned among socio-economic status groups, Turkish cities have a characteristic pattern where the highest and the lowest status groups never share a common border in urban areas.

5 citations



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Haomiao Zhang1
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the influence of the minimum living standard guarantee system (MLSGS) on the perceptions of citizenship among aid recipients, and found not only that the MLSGS has gradually promoted the social rights of the poor and strengthened state-citizen interactions, but also finds issues and challenges that may limit Chinese citizens' ability to fully exercise their new rights.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that, in reality, democracy and violence can be two sides of the same coin, and connect this process to the appropriation of citizenship and nationalism, by ordinary but radically differently-positioned people, in their daily realities.

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TL;DR: The authors argue that dominant (Hindus) nationalism is linked to the ideas of race and has its roots in Brahminical notions of Aryanism and colonial racism, and that social and cultural cleavages propagated by Hindu nationalists have their origins in race theory that accommodates purity, lineage, classification and hierarchy as part of the democratic discourses that pervade the modern nation-state.

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TL;DR: In this article, the emergence and consolidation of spaces of violence in South Asia's democracies from both historical and conceptual perspectives is discussed, and the authors seek to show how democracy can not only be built on a violent past, but also become the very basis for the emergence of violent spaces.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the VPA and show how the promise of democracy, as well as of secularism, reveals the violences that are entailed in actually existing democratic practice, including in the construction of the Hindu citizen as unworthy and a threat to national security.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the lagged effects of the government's anti-corruption stance, reforms undertaken to facilitate business and economic growth on FDI in the Philippines and provided support through a narration of historical developments, trends and explanations rooted on theoretical foundations.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify lessons from the methodological gaps in understanding health research in the context of domestic violence in a multi-centre cross-cultural environment, where language, culture and customs differ from place to place within the country.

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TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between life satisfaction and voting preferences in Malaysian general elections and found that respondents with higher levels of life satisfaction will have a higher probability of voting for the ruling party, with the magnitude of this effect relatively comparable to that of the ethnic effect.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of weather conditions on voter turnout and found that, all else being constant, inclement weather reduces voter turnout, implying that it may benefit right-wing or major parties rather than leftwing or minor parties.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a new relationship between local diviners and the municipal government is made with the construction of a divination valley to encourage religious competition and innovation as well as to attract more city tourists as a local cultural property.

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TL;DR: This paper explored why information and communication technology (ICT) does not show effective power in increasing Chinese worker activism publicity with the digital divide framework and found that strategic skills and motivations, perceived importance of the media in activism as well as media censorship and users' coping strategies are influential in preventing them from effectively using ICT for activism.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the inhabitants of a small village in Bangladesh, which lies on the border with the Indian state of Assam, experiencing high levels of fear and hope.




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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a kind of person who will need some homesickness culture contagion and national transformation in modern china references, and what kind of people are they?