Showing papers in "Asian Journal of Social Science in 2018"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the vulnerability to cyclones of different socio-economic groups and their individual and collective responses to cyclone-related disasters through case studies of two villages in southwest coastal Bangladesh and conclude that recognising the complexities of vulnerability to multiple, interlinked, recursive hazards is essential to developing better risk reduction strategies for the coastal zone.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe decolonial thinking as a material dialectics of a critique of Eurocentrism, a rescue of Third-World perspectives, and a dialogue between the two.

TL;DR: In rural Punjabi society, fertility is valued for the social value of the child that raises the status of the woman as woman-being and a mother as discussed by the authors, and it is believed that the child removes the curse of childlessness and sets a woman from social demotion.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretically informed empirical investigation of breadwinning peasant workers in China's urban metropolis of Guangdong and the values they ascribe to money acquired through sex work is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, food consumption patterns and practices are undergoing changes in the mega-cities of South and Southeast Asia based on a qualitative, comparative case study, which examines food consumption practices among middle-class households in Bangalore and Metro Manila.

TL;DR: Torngrens as discussed by the authors is a researcher at the Department of Global political studies and MIM at the Malmo Institute of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmo University, Sweden and her main research interests are in racial and ethnic relations, intermarriages, and integration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a recent representative sample of commuter couples in Korea, and found that commuter couples report lower levels of marital satisfaction compared to typical dual-earner couples.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the strategic importance of sons in rural Pakistan by analysing 30 semi-structured interviews and three focus group discussions with women, taking into account the prevalent perception of men as breadwinners and argue that even if men do not fulfil this role, they are considered precious due to other factors, e.g., family future security, social protection and maintenance of kinship ties.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take a long look at the law and development movement and its attempts to entrench the rule of law in developing countries in Asia via the means of legal technical assistance (LTA) designed to reform judiciaries and judicial bodies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used propensity score matching to isolate the effect that the introduction of a motorcycle has on household income and found that new motorcycle ownership reduces spatial isolation penalties and significantly improves household well-being in Vietnam.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the episode of Hong Kong student movement in the 1960s to 1970s inspired by the charismatic idea of the Chinese Nation and found that Chinese identity politics in Hong Kong not only failed to challenge fundamentally the legitimacy of the British colonial state, but also did not proselytise Hong Kong people towards Chinese national identification and preoccupy Hong Kong society with the Chinese Question thereafter.

TL;DR: This article examined what Internet users would do if they did not spend time online and whether these activities would include face-to-face social interaction, an important condition for a sense of attachment, physical and psychological health, and social integration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the role of strategic deritualization and strategic ritualisation in the Khmer Rouge regime and discuss its role in social control and extremist (sometimes genocidal) regimes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the use of social networks to obtain initial employment in the United States labour market and found that strong ties had a significant impact resulting in poor labour market outcomes and rather imperfect long-term employment opportunities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors traced the journey of Tai Pucam as a declared public holiday in colonial Singapore to the 1950s when the Hindu community had two gazetted public holidays to 1968 when TaiPucam was removed from the list of public holidays, a situation which persists into the present.

TL;DR: This article explored why migrant children migrate to martial arts schools for educational purposes and how they and their parents seek to establish a new value system within which different forms of capital can be accumulated, disseminated, and transformed as society expects.

TL;DR: This paper explored the rise of a new youth activist movement in response to the proposed legislation, focusing on how they interpreted the national security discourse and locating these social movements in Japanese postwar peace activism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined knowledge diffusion, talent development and technology transfer in Malaysia's electronics and electrical (EE) industry by employing a triangular model comprising the collaboration of the state, industry and the university in Penang's Free Trade Zone.

TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative study of young women in an interfaith marriage, in a social context where ethnic/religious identity is not contested or threatened, was conducted with ten women to understand through narrative the conflicts and challenges they experience and how they cope with them.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that jurisdictions in both regions could learn a lot from one another regarding avoiding failures and unintended consequences, and demonstrate the potential of this by comparing four reform strategies carried out in Argentina and the Philippines.

TL;DR: The authors argued that the existing regional human rights courts have bolstered corporate human rights, while at the same time have remained on the sidelines of addressing corporate accountability, and suggested that there are key grassroots movements shaping human rights discourses around corporate accountability through the region and that these offer exciting prospects for an alternative approach to addressing Corporate accountability through a prospective supervisory mechanism.

TL;DR: The authors locates and analyses the incipient paradigm shift in the rising pluralism of family forms and the influence of international legal developments in protecting the rights of the child and interventionist family law.