SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from April 1998

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from April 1998

Forest Products and Peoples: Upland Groups, Thai Polities, and Regional Space.
April 1, 1998... This article relates problems with the assumptions of village studies, and suggests ways of turning these issues towards region and history The case concerns ways in which communities of Karen have been caught up in internal tensions as well as...

State and Civil Society: Global Context, Southeast Asian Prospect.
April 1, 1998... Globalization has not entailed the "eclipse" of the nation-state. While state sovereignty has been eroded, international society still remains organized as a network or "club" of nation-states which jealously guard their borders, especially to...

Unto You Your Religion and Unto Me My Religion: Muslim-Christian Relations in a Javanese Village.
April 1, 1998... This article examines Muslim-Christian relations in a Javanese village at the point at which the centrality of Islam in the everyday lives of Muslims has come to the fore and the religion becomes a factor in framing their perceptions of things...

Yangon: The Emergence of a New Spatial Order in Myanmar's Capital City.(southeast Asia)
April 1, 1998... Change has marked Yangon, Myanmar's capital city in recent years. Most notably the establishment of three new towns by the ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) in the late 1980s increased the city's area to more than twice the...

Past and Present Juxtaposed: The Chinese of Nineteenth Century Johor.(Johor, Malaysia)
April 1, 1998... The Johor Bahru Central District Master Plan aims at restructuring the city as a high-technology financial centre and the gateway to the rapidly industrializing region of south Johor, When it was unveiled to the public in February 1997, Chinese...

Health Care in the Context of Social Security in Singapore.
April 1, 1998... This article examines health provisions in the context of social security in Singapore and argues that the principles underlying health care and old age provisions are compatible. The Central Provident Fund (CPF) and its health schemes such as...

Contesting Space: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment in Colonial Singapore.(Review)
April 1, 1998... Contesting Space: Power Relations and the Urban Built Environment in Colonial Singapore. By Brenda S.A. Yeoh. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1996. Contesting Space is a monumental work. Theoretically and ideologically engaging, it...

Loggers, Monks, Students, and Entrepreneurs: Four Essays on Thailand.(Review)
April 1, 1998... Loggers, Monks, Students, and Entrepreneurs: Four Essays on Thailand. By Bryan Hunsaker, Theodore Mayer, Barbara Griffiths, and Robert Dayley, with an Introduction by Clark Neher. Occasional Paper no. 18, Southeast Asia Publications. DeKalb,...

The Coming of the Gods. An Iban Invocatory Chant (Timang Gawai Amat) of the Baleh River Region, Sarawak.(Review)
April 1, 1998... The Coming of the Gods. An Iban Invocatory Chant (Timang Gawai Amat) of the Baleh River Region, Sarawak. By James Jemut Masing, with a Foreword by Derek Freeman. Canberra: Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian...