Search Results - "Asian Journal of Social Science"

The reasons of unmarried Chinese women for avoiding marriage and childbirth and their identity construction by Hu, Yu, Jiang, Bo, Liu, Jiaxin

“…The phenomenon of women avoiding marriage and childbirth has recently caused heated discussion in China. However, limited attention has been given to the…”
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Ko Ko Thett, Brian Haman, Kenneth Wong, Su San Thett, and Ethos Books, eds. Picking off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring: Witness Poems and Essays from Burma/Myanmar, 1988-2021. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2022 by Prasse-Freeman, Elliott

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Cultural constraints on knowledge transmission and knowledge erosion: An indigenous community in India by Koteswara Rao, Kodirekkala

“…The paper aims to add a novel dimension to the ongoing discourses on the erosion of indigenous knowledge. The loss of indigenous knowledge as a result of…”
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Uchida, Jun. Provincializing Empire: Ōmi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora. Asia Pacific Modern, vol 18. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2023 by Yamamoto, Takahiro

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How social change occurs: Women's agentic negotiation and defiance of Chhaupadi practice by Jun, Miyang

“…This study examines how the practice of Chhaupadi, a traditional Nepalese custom that restricts menstruating women from participating in their daily…”
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McGregor, Katharine E. Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia. Critical Human Rights. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023 by Hidayah, Sita

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Corrigendum to “Iranian women, e-learning, and experience of motherhood in the age of COVID-19: An analysis of mothers’ lived experience of their children's e-learning” [Asian Journal of Social Science (September 2023) Pages 162-171/Volume 51, Issue 3] by Parvaei, Shiva, Mirhosseini, Zahra

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Zhou, Jianbo. Westernization Movement and Early Thought of Modernization in China: Pragmatism and Changes in Society, 1860s-1900s. Trans. Jianhua Zhao. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 386pp by Jiang, George Hong

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The changing faces of racism: Tracing the racial state through mixed-race categories in South Korea by Ahn, Ji-Hyun

“…This paper examines the emergence and development of mixed-race categories in South Korea in the context of the shift in the state's governing practices from…”
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Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border. By Ong, Andrew. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023. 253 pp by Fattal, A.L.

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Contentious politics of welfare in rural India: The interplay between the Maoist insurgency and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act by Kına, M.F.

“…This paper examines whether the Indian government used the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) to counter the radical mobilization of rural poor by…”
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Rural local government and healthcare delivery in an Eastern Indian state by Suman, Das, Sthitapragyan, Ray

“…Based on field research in the remote and tribal-dominated Kandhamal district in the eastern Indian state of Odisha during 2019-20, the study examines the…”
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Constructing Muslim womanhood in Indonesia: Hijab and the governmentality of religious organizations by Shin, Jiwon, Lew, Yong Kyu, Seo, Myengkyo

“…This study investigated the ways in which two religious organizations in Indonesia govern female bodies; specifically focusing on the construction of ideal…”
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The Japanese Talmud – Antisemitism in East Asia. By Schilling, Christopher L. Hurst and Co. London, 2023. 144pp by Medzini, Meron

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Knowledge production of university-industry collaboration in academic capitalism: An analysis based on Hoffman's framework by Huang, Jinghui, Xiong, Kui

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Reproduction propaganda: The state hails, citizens responds—A case study of Vietnamese governmental Facebook by Gammon, Thi, Phan, Anh Ngoc Quynh

“…Since the turn of the 21st century, aging populations and low fertility rates have alarmed governments across Europe and East Asia. The Communist state of…”
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An analysis of local political forces around the management of climate change-led disasters in the Indian Sundarbans by Biswas, Debarchana, Sen, Amrita

“…In this paper, we explore the impacts of political forces within local governance mechanisms during and in the aftermath of climate change led disasters in the…”
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Rethinking the concept of “Public” in colonial South Malabar, Kerala, India by Kunjukunju, Anish Kizhakkentaparampil

“…This article looks at the structure of “public” and its meanings in colonial South Malabar. What factors influence various social groups to engage with…”
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Resettlement of Bukom Kechil: Southern Islanders and the making of the housing nation in Singapore by Miharja, Nurhidayahti Mohammad

“…This article seeks to tell the story of how the development of Singapore's multiracial housing nation involved resettling all of the islanders on one of the…”
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Reclaiming the “good women” identity: A case study of Surabaya's Muslim sex workers negotiating Islam and sex work by Lee, W.H.

“…Drawing on interviews with 55 Muslim sex workers in Surabaya City, Indonesia, this study challenges prevailing narratives that portray a “Third World sex…”
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