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No Place, New Places: Death and its Rituals in Urban Asia
Urban Studies, 2011 In many land-scarce Asian cities, planning agencies have sought to reduce space for the dead to release land for the living, encouraging conversion from burial to cremation over several decades. This has caused secular principles privileging efficient land use to conflict with symbolic values invested in burial spaces. Over time, not only has cremation
Lily Kong, KONG, Lily
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Becoming a Woman Leader in the United States: Finding a Place to Shine
Japanese Language and Literature, 2022 -
Natsuki Fukunaga
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Dinamika Peran Negara dalam Proses Liberalisasi dan Privatisasi
JKAP (Jurnal Kebijakan dan Administrasi Publik), 2015 Liberalization and privatization are often associated with global demands for termination of state interference in business. The policy often result in dispute between neoliberalism and socialism.
Syamsul Ma'arif
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Parerga to the Stadiasmus Patarensis (4) Mikron Oros Akarassos in Milyas
Gephyra, 2010 In the treaty of 46 BC between Caesar and the Lycians and in the fragmentary governor inscription from the time of Claudius there are some topographical names which enrich our knowledge of the historical geography of the Elmalı Plain (Northern Lycia ...
Sencer Şahin
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Potent Places and Animism in Southeast Asia [PDF]
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2017 To Michael VickeryWho passed away in June 2017In his beloved country of CambodiaThis special issue originates in a presentation of my research to the Centre Asie du Sud-Est in Paris in 2008.1 My et...
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Curing Cholera: Pathogens, Places and Poverty in South Asia. [PDF]
International journal of South Asian studies, 2010 In this paper I will seek to provide a new understanding of endemicity of disease in India. Through a study of cholera research in the twentieth century I will argue that disease and its endemicity has to be understood in biological factors as well as within a wider social and economic context.
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Nostalgia, Place, and Making Peace with Modernity in East Asia
Postcolonial Studies, 2010 This essay sets out to theorize the nostalgia boom that has held East Asia in thrall to the past for some years now. It begins by noting that this nostalgic sentiment often has an ersatz cast, not least since much of it harks back to epochs—Showa-era Japan, 1930s Hong Kong, colonial Taiwan—of which the ‘remembering’ subject has no bodily recollection ...
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Central Asia's Place in Turkey's Foreign Policy
Policy Perspectives: The Journal of the Institute of Policy Studies, 2018 With the independence of the Turkic World after disintegration of USSR in 1991, Turkey found an opportunity to fill the power vacuum in the Central Asian region left by the Soviets. Thus, in the early 1990s, the Turkish foreign policy towards the Central Asian States was hinged on the wishful ideas of Pan-Turkic World.
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