Recently added articles from SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia:
Dek inter and the "other": Thai youth subcultures in urban Chiang Mai.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Introduction Apart from sensational journalistic reports depicting the excessive lifestyles of Thai teenagers, there is a dearth of literature on contemporary Thai youth culture. Most studies on youth culture have typically been the domain of sociology and cultural studies and ...
Keeping the peace is not enough: human security and gender-based violence during the transitional period of Timor-Leste.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Introduction The transitional period in Timor-Leste led by the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) from 1999-2002 has been widely criticized by scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers for its poor performance in nation- and peace-building ...
Transnational peace building and conflict: lessons from Aceh, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka.(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Introduction When huge tsunami waves hit some of the more beautiful beaches in Thailand and Sri Lanka on the day after Christmas in December 2004, the global response to visually powerful aid appeals in the international media was the largest in the history of humanitarian ...
Punjabi delights in Forbidden City Singapore: the space of flows and place.(Research Notes)(Report)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Saskia Sassen (2006, p. 2), in her book Cities in a World Economy, complicates the conceptualization of the information economy by David Harvey (1990), Manuel Castells (2000), Arjun Appadurai (1996), and others through her reinscription of place into the undifferentiated space of ...
Those that urbanization left behind: a case study of spatial disparities and rising dependency in coastal areas in Mindanao, the Philippines.(Research Notes)(Case study)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Background In the Philippines, as in many developing countries in Asia, there is a distinct spatial shift that is often a characteristic of rapid urbanization. As the countryside becomes urbanized, land use conversion of agricultural lands to non-agricultural uses occurs at a ...