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Alternative Engagements with ‘Homeland’
Sindh as an Expression of Diasporic Sindhi Identity
1st December 2012
This paper is premised on a non-traditional understanding of the nature and role of the ... Read More
Neofundamentalist Thought, Dakwah, and Religious Pluralism among Muslims in Singapore
1st December 2012
Since the mid 1970s, Muslim societies have seen the emergence and spread of a new ... Read More
‘Us’ and ‘Them’
Ethnic Minority Gangs in the Singapore Prisons
1st December 2012
This research is the first empirical study to examine ethnic minority gangs which have emerged ... Read More
Towards Internationalism
Beyond Colonial and Nationalist Sociologies
1st December 2012
In this paper I ask two sets of questions. First, given the organic links between ... Read More
ISA Forum of Sociology
Social Justice and Democratization in the 21st Century
1st June 2012
Buenas noches. On behalf of the International Sociological Association, it is my great honor to ... Read More
Modern law, traditional ‘Salish’ and civil society activism in Bangladesh
1st June 2012
One of the challenges of modernisation in Bangladesh is played out in the confrontation between ... Read More
Social Mobility and Social Structure
Towards a Conceptual-methodological Re-orientation
1st June 2012
My first interaction worth-the-name with Professor Srinivas was in the Vice-Chancellor’s office at the Delhi ... Read More
Secession in the Contemporary World
1st June 2012
Within the recent past, five events in the Sudan, Sri Lanka, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, ... Read More
Socio-economic and Health Impact of Labour Migration in Nepal
1st June 2012
Migration comprises population movements across international borders (out-migration) and within country (in-migration) which broadly includes ... Read More
Tribal Identity, Religious Conversion and Violence in India
A Preliminary Note
1st June 2012
On 23rd December 2007, when the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was celebrating the ... Read More
Musical Knowledge and the Vernacular Past in Post-War Sri Lanka
1st June 2012
This article registers two types of musical past in Sri Lanka that constitute vital problems ... Read More
Neoliberal Morality in Singapore
Institutionalising the Logics of Neoliberalism
1st June 2012
Neoliberalism as discourse and practice has been welldocumented and roundly criticised by scholars. Analysing a ... Read More
Spatial Ethnic Diversity Patterns in Malaysia
What Can We Learn from Bio-Diversity Research?
1st March 2012
We are living in a world of increasing diversity, both in terms of measurable items, ... Read More
Occupy Toronto
A Photo-Essay
1st March 2012
Barely a few weeks before the Occupy Wall Street movement caught most by surprise, many ... Read More
The Sociology of Complex Emergencies
1st March 2012
‘Complex emergencies’ – disasters caused by natural events (famines, tsunami, earthquakes, forest fires, landslides, flooding) ... Read More
In Conversation with Dr . Raymond Lee
1st March 2012
Dr Raymond Lee was born in Malaysia more than 6 decades ago. He studied in ... Read More
New Car Blessing
Creolisation, Modernity and Religious Beliefs on Reunion Island
1st March 2012
Andre Mary (2000) in his work on popular religions in Africa suggests that syncretic forms ... Read More
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