Asian Anthropologies
Asian Anthopologies
Publications
Adelyn Lim
- Introduction to special issue - culture wars in Asia: Revisiting “Asian values” in gender politics
- Asian values in Confucian masculinity: A discourse analysis of parenting advice to fathers
- Sexism without sexists: Gender-blind frames in police work
- Confucian Masculinity: State Advocacy of Active Fatherhood in Singapore
- Transnational Organising and Feminist Politics of Difference and Solidarity: The Mobilisation of Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Ali Kassem
- QUEER LIFE AND THE MUSLIM MAINSTREAM Southern Possibilities Thinking Alongside the Shia Hawza
- On Teaching Sociology 'Decolonially' in Singapore: Notes on Possibilities and Challenges
- Kassem, A. Arrested possibilities, Islam otherwise, and queer life: Thinking liberation, religion, and decoloniality alongside Shia Muslim scholars
- Estranged in Urban Beirut: Anthropocentric Ecological Destruction, Mysticist Shia Islam, and Epistemological Alternatives’
- Complex Integrated Necropolitics: Hopelessness and Defuturing in Neoliberalized Lebanon
Canay Özden-Schilling
- Databasing Violence
- Chasing scale: the pasts and futures of mobility in electricity and logistics
- Commentary
- Staying with the blackout: an insecure anthropology of energy
- Real Time in Rearview: Techno-economic Acts in Markets of Electricity
Elliott Prasse-Freeman
- The Revolutionary’s Two Temporalities?
- Arms Politics: Becoming and Being a Weapon in the Borderlands of Myanmar
- Kaminer, Matan: Capitalist Colonial: Thai migrant workers in Israeli agriculture
- Big data visuality and interstitial spaces of autonomy: Drones and blockchains in and around Myanmar's civil war
- Ko Ko Thett, Brian Haman, Kenneth Wong, Su San Thett, and Ethos Books, eds. Picking off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring: Witness Poems and Essays from Burma/Myanmar, 1988-2021 . Singapore: Ethos Books, 2022
Emily Chua
- Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China: From the Cultural to the Digital Revolution in Shanghai
- Personal devices: investing apps and the selectively self-directed digital-financial subject
- Zombie Startups: Time, Labour and Value in Singapore’s Innovative Entrepreneurship ‘Ecosystem’
- The new monies of the startup world: Future-focused tech ventures as experiments in personal worth
- The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era
Eric Thompson
- Introduction: Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective
- Singapore: Making Space for Farming
- The Story of Southeast Asia
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What are ASEAN Values? An Agenda for Knowledge Building
- Discourses, Agency, and Identity in Malaysia: Critical Perspectives
George Radics
- Cultural wars and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in Southeast Asia: ‘Asian values’, human rights, and the ‘homosexual turn’
- Human Rights, Compliant Counterterrorism, Myth-making, and Reality in the Philippines and Indonesia
- Anti-gender backlash politics as anti-Western politics: examining the UN’s “Being LGBT in Asia” project in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand
- Introduction to special issue - culture wars in Asia: Revisiting “Asian values” in gender politics
- Introduction: The political mobilisation of criminal law and its resistance in the Global South
Ho Swee Lin
- Pride and Ambivalence: The Ascent of East Asia in Western Classical Music -- Awarded the 2020 Book Grant by AmorePacific Foundation. (Under preparation)
- Neither Respite Nor Recognition: How Women Managers in Japan Are Managing Career and Mental Health Challenges (Under Preparation)
- Women Managers in Japan and the Re-Creation of the Gendered Self through Angling and Golf
- Women Managers in Japan and the Challenges of the New Anti-Harassment Law
- Japan's new anti-harassment law and the ironic legitimation of workplace harassment against women managers
Ivan Kwek
- RACE(D) CATEGORIES, RACIAL(-IZIED) POLICIES: COMPLICITY AND RESISTANCE IN SINGAPORE
- Unpacking Subtle Barriers to Regenerative Anthropology in Singapore Classrooms
- "Let’s Talk about Race… Harmoniously: Fault Lines, Tribes and the Fragile Nation"
- "I’d Rather Burn My Boat!" Nostalgia after the Eviction, or What Happened to the Pain?
- Cinema off screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China. Zhou, Chenshu 2021, Oakland, California: University of California Press (Dec 2022)
Jennifer Estes
- Remittances as translocal collateral: How microfinance profitably sustains precarity in Cambodia
- Learning the party line: The paradox of politics and Cambodian schools
- The Underside of Microfinance: Performance Indicators and Informal Debt in Cambodia
- A High Price to Pay: Weddings and Waithood in Cambodia
- Translocal Precarity: Labor and Social Reproduction in Cambodia
Jinba Danzeng
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Regional History of Gyalrong III [རྒྱལ་མོ་རོང་གི་ལོ་རྒྱུས་སྐོར =嘉绒地区历史V3 ]
- Seeing like borders: Convergence zone as a post-zomian model
- The Ecology of Chinese Academia: A Third-Eye Perspective
- Memory Politics at Work in a Gyalrong Revolt in the Early Twentieth Century
- A grassroots association on the sino-tibetan border: The role, agendas and beyond
Kelvin Low
- Studying Urban Density and Human-Animal Relations as Sensory Phenomena.
- Bracketed Belonging: Gurkha Migrant Warriors and Transnational Lives
- Fair or fowl: Human-animal relations, sensory boundaries and social control
- Of sensory infractions and anthropomorphism across Asian urban histories
- On the qualia of sensory food heritage in Singapore
Lau Ting Hui
- The afterlife of “doing medicine”: Birth planning, chronic illness, and regeneration among the Lisu on the China–Myanmar border
- Conjuring spirits: melancholic play and refusal among alcohol-drinking Lisu men on the China-Myanmar border
- Languages of the Body: Rituals of Care x Wounds of Progress
- The Lisu: far from the ruler
- Land Tenure Challenges in a Changing Climate
Marvin Joseph Montefrio
- 9 Sirá-Sirá Stores
- Agahan
- Panghimagas
- When one crisis comes after another: successive shocks, food insecurity, and coastal precarity in the Philippines
- Halo-Halo Ecologies The Emergent Environments Behind Filipino Food
- Engaging With Race and Racism Through the Sensory: Four Pedagogical Instigations
- Decolonising the Curriculum? Instigations and Interventions in Teaching and Pedagogy
- On the Decolonising Process in Teaching and Pedagogy: Pitfalls and Problematics
- Instigating a Call for the Teaching of Alternative Discourses and Knowledges in Asia
- On Resonance and the Sensory: Teaching and Pedagogical Interventions’
- SOJOURN Symposium on Improvisational Islam: Indonesian Youth in a Time of Possibility
- Everyday authoritarianism: a political anthropology of Singapore
- Accounting for the Soul: Improvisational Islam in Democratic Indonesia
- Improvisational Islam Indonesian Youth in a Time of Possibility
- Questioning the New Secularism of the West
Sahana Ghosh
- A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands
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Included but Not Equal?: Debating Gender and Labor Reforms within the Border Security Force
- BORDERLANDS AS BARRACKS: Constructing a National Geography of Security in India
- The stigma matrix: Gender, globalization, and the agency of Pakistan's frontline women By FauziaHusain. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 306 pp.
- Show and tell: soldiering and social media for the Indian Border Security Force
- A ritual geology: Gold and subterranean knowledge in Savanna West Africa
- Trust in numbers: Serious numbers and speculative fictions in rare earth elements exploration
- Authors of misfortune: interpretation and expertise in a model disaster
- Varkkey, H. (2021). The forests for the palms: Essays on the politics of haze and the environment in Southeast Asia. ISEAS Publishing
- The Ends of Research Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods
Veronica L. Gregorio
- FOREWORD
- Youth and Civic Engagement in Southeast Asia: A Survey of Undergraduates in Six Countries
- Youth and Civic Engagement in Southeast Asia: A Survey of Undergraduates in Six Countries
- The Quezon City pride: Tug of wars and triumphs in LGBTIQ+ rights
- #InstaMoms: Filipina Influencers on Idealized Contemporary Motherhood
- Resilience Behind Barriers: Life, Labour, and Lockdown in Singapore’s Dormitories
- Gendered dynamics and emotional well-being in the “aftermath” of the pandemic
- The new governance of religious diversity
- “Urban Spaces” and “Infrastructures” as Sites for Theorizing “Diaspora Religion”
- Correction to: “Urban Spaces” and “Infrastructures” as Sites for Theorizing “Diaspora Religion”
- Navigating Geoeducational Dilemmas: Singapore as a Migration Hub for Students from China
- Diligent Daughters: Women’s Educational Outperformance in Contemporary China
- Dreams of flight: The lives of Chinese women students in the West
- Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition
- Gaokao Warriors: Diligent Struggle in China's College Entrance Exam