SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from April 2002

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from April 2002

Opium-reduction programmes, discourses of addiction and gender in Northwest Laos.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2002... Opium use is widespread in northern provinces of Laos, Myanmar, and and to a lesser extent in northern Thailand--a region referred to as the "Golden Triangle". The cultivation of opium is associated with a number of highland ethnic minorities...

Living arrangements of never-married Thai women in a time of rapid social change.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2002... The industrialization of Thailand, like that of its Southeast Asian neighbours, has been especially rapid in the past couple of decades or so. The substantial growth in the industrial sector has been part of the rapid expansion of the Thai...

Migrant subjectivities and narratives of the kampung in Malaysia.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Anthropologists are abandoning villages in Southeast Asia and around the world. Although village-level fieldwork continues to be the archetype (or at least stereotype) of socio-cultural anthropological investigation (Marcus and Fischer 1986,...

Gender matters in the Singapore Mutiny.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... In 1915, in the midst of World War I, the Fifth Light Infantry of the British Indian Army, which was then stationed in Singapore, rose up against their British commanders. Several historical studies of the so-called Singapore Mutiny have...

Batik and pewter: symbols of Malaysian pianissimo.
April 1, 2002... In an era of globalization, the production and consumption of material symbols to represent or encapsulate aspects of national identity usually embodies the economic decisions of major business players who link with political stakeholders for...

The magic of the nation-state in Malaysia.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... T.N. Harper. The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xviii, 417. Anthony Milner. The Invention of Politics in Colonial Malaya: Contesting Nationalism and the Expansion of the Public...

Women and Households in Indonesia: Cultural Notions and Social Practices.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Edited by Juliette Koning, Marleen Nolten, Janet Rodenburg, and Ratna Saptari. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Studies in Asian Topics Series, no. 27. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. 354 pp. This collection of essays from the third...

Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs Behind the Man.
April 1, 2002... By Michael D. Barr. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series no. 85. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. 273 pp. Political scientist Michael Keren has identified a pattern in political biographies in emerging nation-states....

An Identity Dilemma: a Comparative Study of Primary Education for Ethnic Chinese in the Context of National Identity and Nation-Building in Malaysia and Singapore.
April 1, 2002... By Ingrid Glad. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1998. 352 pp. This fascinating comparative study links up issues of language, culture, and national identity in two countries that have some common historical roots, but very distinctive...

Civility and Savagery: Social Identity in Tai States.
April 1, 2002... Edited by Andrew Turton. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2000. 376 pp. One problem of academic publications, I guess, is that it takes too long --far too long in some cases--to get the books out. And this is one of those books. This book...