SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from April 2003

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from April 2003

Space, theory, and hegemony: the dual crises of Asian area studies and cultural studies.
April 1, 2003... Introduction In recent decades, the classical form of area studies based on the notion of culture-language areas has been critiqued from several directions. The origins of Asian area studies in the post-World War II carve up of the planet...

Mapping poststructuralism's borders: the case for poststructuralist area studies.
April 1, 2003... Poststructuralist Resistances to Cultural Difference In a previous study I argued that the growth of ventriloquized forms of Derridean and Foucauldian poststructuralist analysis in the study of non-Western societies, cultures, and...

The impact of urbanization on family structure: the experience of Sarawak, Malaysia.
April 1, 2003... At a global level, the rise in female-headed households is one of the most important recent changes in the structure of household and family. Current debates about the family have been defined by two opposing positions. On one side are those...

Violent youth groups in Indonesia: the cases of Yogyakarta and Nusa Tenggara Barat.
April 1, 2003... 1. Introduction Since the economic crisis started in 1997, an increasing number of people in Indonesia are thrown into the harsh reality of joblessness. The younger generation is most severely affected by the lack of employment or...

Indonesian Azharites, fifteen years later. (Research Notes and Comments).
April 1, 2003... As long as we need to read the kitab Gundul (1) (the bald books, meaning the Arabic script without tashkil, vocalization), we will always have to go to the Middle East and we will have to send students there. --Kiyayi Issam Mukhtar...

Keeping the Faith: Thai Buddhism at the Crossroads.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By Sanitsuda Ekachai. Edited by Nick Wilgus. Bangkok: Post Books, 2002. 328 pp. Sanitsuda Ekachai's new book is a collection of short, critical articles and commentaries on various aspects of contemporary Thai Buddhism, arranged under...

Dependence on Green Gold: a Socio-Economic History of the Indonesian Coconut Island Selayar.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By Christiaan Heersink. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1999. xiii, 371 pp. The island of Selayar lies off the southern tip of South Sulawesi, and is perhaps best known to the outside world for the presence there of a magnificent Dong Son bronze drum,...

Political Participation and Ethnic Minorities: Chinese Overseas in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the United States.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... By Amy Freedman. New York: Routledge, 2000. 224 pp. In Political Participation and Ethnic Minorities: Chinese Overseas in Malaysia, Indonesia, and the United States, Amy Freedman undertakes the task of determining the roots of political...

King Siliman and Other Bidayuh Folk Tales.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Compiled by Robert Sulis Ridu, Ritikos Jitab, and Jonas Noeb. Dayak Studies Monographs, Oral Literature Series, no. 1, 2001. xvi, 138 pp. Suket: Penan Folk Stories. Compiled by Jayl Langub. Dayak Studies Monographs, Oral Literature Series, no....