SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from October 2007

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from October 2007

Authenticity, tourism, and self-discovery in Thailand: self-creation and the discerning gaze of trekkers and old hands.
October 1, 2007... Introduction: The Robot Whiteness and Robot-ness During the summer of 2001, the Tourist Authority of Thailand (TAT, formerly TCT) aired a new commercial to promote its "Amazing Thailand" year. As the commercial opened, a robot sat with...

Living with globalization tactically: the metapragmatics of globalization in Singapore.
October 1, 2007... Introduction: The Metapragmatics of Globalization in Singapore Globalization is a geo-politico reality however we define it. While there is a tendency to generate a "grand narrative" and discourse about globalization and its ramifications,...

Re-inventing society: state concepts of knowledge in Germany and Singapore.
October 1, 2007... Introduction: Country-Specific Concepts of Knowledge In different countries, varying concepts of knowledge prevail and structure politics, especially in the fields of research and development (R&D), education, arts, culture, and the media....

Food-buying habits in Hanoi.
October 1, 2007... Introduction As the second-fastest growing economy in Asia, with its GDP rising by 8.4 per cent in 2005 (Bradsher 2006), change in Hanoi is constant and readily apparent. Cars are proliferating, motorbikes jam increasingly crowded streets,...

Toooot! Vroooom! The urban soundscape in Indonesia.(Research Notes and Comments)
October 1, 2007... Introduction Indonesian cities are noisy. At least, they are noisy compared with cities in its Southeast Asian neighbours, Singapore and Malaysia, and the two largest countries in Asia, India and China, both of which have exercised a...

"Disrupted" historical trajectories and indigenous agency: rethinking imperial impact in Southeast Asian history.
October 1, 2007... Reconciling Southeast Asia's imperial past and colonial legacy with the reality of indigenous agency is perhaps the most challenging issue currently facing the field. When writing colonial and post-colonial histories of the region scholars are...

Reclaiming Adat: Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Reclaiming Adat: Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature. By Khoo Gaik Cheng. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006. 254 pp. The 1990s marked a sort of coming of age for Malaysia with a new found affluence in the...

Piety and Politics: Nurcholish Madjid and His Interpretation of Islam in Modern Indonesia.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Piety and Politics: Nurcholish Madjid and His Interpretation of Islam in Modern Indonesia. By Ann Kull. Lund, Sweden: Department of History and Anthropology of Religions, Lund University, 2005. 300 pp. This is an important and unfortunately...

Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Chinese Business in the Making of a Malay State, 1882-1941: Kedah and Penang. By Wu Xiao An. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon 2003. 239 pp. Growing up in Kuala Lumpur, I did not often travel up the north of the Malaya Peninsula. And...