IIAS Publications series
The Institutionalisation of Political Parties in Post-authoritarian Indonesia: From the Grass-roots Up
1st Edition
By Ulla Fionna
April 17, 2013
The Institutionalisation of Political Parties in Post-authoritarian Indonesia: From the Grass-roots Up provides detailed examination of how much the local party branches of Partai Golkar, Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan, Partai Amanat Nasional, and Partai Keadilan Sejahtera in Malang (East ...
The Making of the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Brokers and the Politics of Representation
1st Edition
By See Seng Tan
December 31, 2012
This illuminating volume critically surveys the power of narratives in shaping the discourse on the post-Cold War Asia Pacific. The author examines the purposes, practices, power relations and protagonists behind policy networks such as the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and ...
Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge and Retail
1st Edition
By Duncan McDuie-Ra
September 01, 2012
Receives accolades by the ICAS 8 Committee 2013 Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge and Retail is an ethnographic study of migrants from India's north-east border region living and working in Delhi, the nation's capital, Northeast India borders China, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. ...
Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities: Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia
1st Edition
By Barak Kalir, Malini Sur
July 12, 2012
Transnational Flows and Permissive Polities examines how legality and other sources of authority intersect in the regulation of human mobility. The book focuses on the ethnographic exploration of the experiences and views of mobile subjects in the vast and rapidly changing continent of Asia. The ...
The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya: Tangled Strands of Modernity
1st Edition
Edited
By Kah Seng Loh, Cheng Tju Lim, Edgar Liao, Guo-Quan Seng
May 10, 2012
The book, using a small group of left-wing student activists as a prism, explores the complex politics that underpinned the making of nation-states in Singapore and Malaysia after World War Two. While most works have viewed the period in terms of political contestation groups, the book demonstrates...
Women from Traditional Islamic Educational Institutions in Indonesia: Negotiating Public Spaces
1st Edition
By Eka Srimulyani
April 24, 2012
Until currently there have been no specific publications, particularly in English, on women in traditional Islamic educational institutions in Indonesia, known as pesantren, which played a significant role in shaping the gender issues in the Indonesian Muslim community. This informative and ...
Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou
1st Edition
By Gregory Bracken
April 20, 2012
China’s rise is one of the transformative events of our time. Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou examines some of the aspects of China’s massive wave of urbanization – the largest the world has ever seen. The various papers in the book, written by academics from ...
China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music
1st Edition
By Jeroen de Kloet
January 17, 2010
In the wake of intense globalisation and commercialisation in the 1990s, China saw the emergence of a vibrant popular culture. Drawing on sixteen years of research, Jeroen de Kloet explores the popular music industry in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai, providing a fascinating history of its ...