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Resources Matching Year 2011

Global sociology, live!
Global sociology, live!
1st August 2011
When sociology began as a positivist enterprise in the 19th century the goal was to ... Read More

The church, the state and the migrant in Singapore
1st August 2011
Migration theorists have persuasively highlighted the experience of human mobility as a highly variegated terrain Read More

Reflections For eSymposium
1st August 2011
In 2000, I took part in an interim conference of the ISA Research Council in ... Read More

The evolution of Syariah and postcolonial modernity
embedding Malay authority through statutory law
1st August 2011
One of the pillars of State Islamization is the development of exclusive laws for Muslims. Read More

The gender of democracy
why it matters in the Middle East and North Africa
1st August 2011
The year 2011 will always be remembered as the year of mass social protests for ... Read More

From the Editor
1st August 2011
It gives me great pleasure to bring to ISA members the second issue of the ... Read More


On the ‘Vulnerability’ of the Social Researcher
Observations from the Field of Spirit Interference
1st December 2011
In his Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage (1989), Renato Rosaldo writes that he only came ... Read More


In Conversation with Professor Mike Featherstone
1st December 2011
Mike Featherstone is Director of the Theory, Culture & Society Centre and research professor of ... Read More

Letting the Other in, Queering the Nation
Bollywood and the Mimicking Body
1st December 2011
Bombay’s film industry, Bollywood, is an arena that intensively transmits cultural products from one nationality ... Read More


Actually Existing Religious Pluralism in Kuala Lumpur
1st December 2011
Malaysia is no stranger to mutating religious diversity and cultural pluralism. For centuries, given its ... Read More

Engendered Capacity Building
A Need for Sustainable Microfinance Initiatives
1st June 2011
‘Capacity building is an ongoing process through which individuals, groups, organisations and societies enhance their ... Read More

From the Editor
1st June 2011
The ISA E-Bulletin has been in continuous publication since July 2005 and with this 18th ... Read More

Challenges of Autonomy in Higher Institutions of Learning in Keny
Diluted Education?
1st June 2011
One of the key sectors in a country’s economy that affects development in a myriad ... Read More

Yogi-doctors” and Occult Healing Arts
Towards a Post-colonial Anthropology of Holistic Therapeutics at Sri Aurobindo Ashram
1st June 2011
In this paper I attempt a post-colonial anthropology of healing that documents a significant therapeutic ... Read More


In Conversation with Professor Judith Ann Nagata
1st June 2011
Judith Ann Nagata is Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Senior Research Fellow of Malay Studies in ... Read More

Lessons from North Africa
The Dynamics of Displacement
1st June 2011
The wave of revolutionary uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, from Morocco to ... Read More
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