SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from April 2004

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from April 2004

Affect, materiality, and the gift of social life in Singapore.
April 1, 2004... The more the government provides for Singaporeans, the higher their expectations of what the government should do. The more we educate Singaporeans, and the more economic opportunities we create for them, the more internationally mobile they...

Multi-household farming system in a northeastern Thai village: its transformation during economic development.
April 1, 2004... Introduction Thailand experienced significant economic growth over the past four decades. The growth rate of its gross domestic product (GDP) exceeded 7 per cent on average until the end of the 1980s, and even climbed to over 9 per cent...

Constructing an Islamic model in two Malaysian states: PAS rule in Kelantan and Terengganu.
April 1, 2004... Since the fall of communism a new world order is emerging in which political Islam develops into one of the major players: Islam not only provides a new stimuli for the re-definition of political models as well as social and cultural identity...

Ethnohistorical perspectives on Buddhist-Muslim relations and coexistence in southern Thailand: from shared cosmos to the emergence of hatred?
April 1, 2004... The landscape of the northern part of peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand is characterized by extreme cultural complexity and ethnic diversity, incorporating influences from China, India, and Persia, Turkey, and from the Middle East....

Local issues and changes: the post-new order situation in rural Lombok.(Research Notes and Comments)
April 1, 2004... The paper is based on three short visits of less than three months between 2000 and 2003 to the village of Elah (pseudonym) in East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, a village in which I lived for almost two years between 1991 and 1992. My field...

Living Silence: Burma under Military Rule.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Living Silence: Burma under Military Rule. By Christina Fink. London and New York: Zed Books; Bangkok: White Lotus; and Dhaka: University Press, 2001. 16 illus., xv, 286 pp. In the field of area studies, Burma/Myanmar studies occupies a...

Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia. Edited by Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 344 pp. A collection of essays on gender in the experiences of colonialisms...

Custodians of the Sacred Mountains: Culture and Society in the Highlands of Bali.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Custodians of the Sacred Mountains: Culture and Society in the Highlands of Bali. By Thomas Reuter. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002. 400 pp. Bali is a fascinating island. Within one cultural sphere major contrasts exist side by...

Opusculum de Sectis apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses (A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinese and Tonkinese): A Study of Religion in China and North Vietnam in the Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Opusculum de Sectis apud Sinenses et Tunkinenses (A Small Treatise on the Sects among the Chinese and Tonkinese): A Study of Religion in China and North Vietnam in the Eighteenth Century. By Father Adriano di St. Thecla. Translated and...

People Like Us: Sexual Minorities in Singapore.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... People Like Us: Sexual Minorities in Singapore. Edited by Joseph Lo and Huang Guoqin. Singapore: Select Publishing, 2003. 149 pp. People Like Us: Sexual Minorities in Singapore is a book so right on time that it might have in fact arrived a...

Politics and the Press in Indonesia: Understanding an Evolving Political Culture.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Politics and the Press in Indonesia: Understanding an Evolving Political Culture. By Angela Romano. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. xvii, 222 pp. Indonesia's recently expanded media industry has gained the serious attention it...