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Verlag: NUS Press, Singapore, 2007
ISBN 10: 9971693623ISBN 13: 9789971693626
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PAPERBACK. 1st edition. 225pp, bw maps, illustrations, text figures and tables, octavo paperback. slight cover wear otherwise very good.
Verlag: NUS Press, Singapore, 2008
ISBN 10: 9971694115ISBN 13: 9789971694111
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PAPERBACK. Paper edition. 413pp, bw illustrations, octavo paper. slight cover wear otherwise very good.
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2020
ISBN 10: 9813251182ISBN 13: 9789813251182
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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ix + 127pp, bibliography. Paperback. "The name of Thomas Stamford Raffles continues to be a mark of prestige in Singapore, more than 200 years after he first established a British factory on the island. Not one but two statues of Raffles stand tall in prominent sites in Singapore?s civic and heritage district. Streets and squares are named after him, and important local businesses use the Raffles name. Does Thomas Stamford Raffles deserve this recognition? Should we continue to celebrate him? Or like the image of Cecil Rhodes in South Africa, must Raffles fall? Those exercised by the discussion and debates around Singapore's 2019 Bicentennial should know that the question was considered at length nearly 50 years ago, in Syed Hussein Alatas' slim but devastating volume Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer or Reformer? While publication of the work failed to spark a wide debate on Raffles? legacy in 1970s Singapore, it was noticed by Edward Said, who later cited Alatas? essay as one example of works that ?set themselves the revisionist, critical task of dealing frontally with the metropolitan culture, using the techniques, discourses, and weapons of scholarship and criticism once reserved exclusively for the European.? Nearly 50 years after its original publication, this extended essay on Raffles reads as fresh and relevant. Presented here for a new audience, Schemer or Reformer sets out the key elements of the debate in understanding Raffles' own political philosophy through the record of his actions, not just in Singapore, but in Southeast Asia in the years just before and after Singapore's foundation. A new introduction by Syed Farid Alatas assesses contemporary Singapore's take on Raffles, and how far we have or have not come in thinking through Singapore's colonial legacy." (Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press, Singapore, 2017
ISBN 10: 9814722375ISBN 13: 9789814722377
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Black and white illustrations, 130pp, paperback. "Born in the Year of the Fire Tiger, Ann Wee moved to Singapore in 1950 to marry into a Singaporean Chinese family, entering into a new world of cultural expectations and domestic rituals. She went on to become a pioneer in Singapore's fledging social welfare department and is often described as the founding mother of social work in Singapore. In A Tiger Remembers, she draws on her decades of experience getting to know the many shapes and forms of the Singapore family and witnessing how they transformed since the '50s. Wee's talent is for remembering and paying homage to the things history books often deem insignificant-things that can contain some of the most illuminating details about the day to day inner workings of families from many backgrounds, such as terms of endearment; the emotional nuance in social relations; questions of hygiene; the stories of convicts; tales of ghost wives and changeling babies; anecdotes from rural clan settlements and migrant dormitories; and the migration of families from squatter settlements into public housing. Affectionately observed and wittily narrated, with a deep appreciation of how far Singapore has come, this book brings to life generations of social change through a focus on the institution of the family." (Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2015
ISBN 10: 9971698528ISBN 13: 9789971698522
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 125pp, glossary, list of place names, bibliography. The Flemish gem trader Jacques de Coutre visited Southeast Asia in the early 17th century, and his lengthy account of his experiences provides a glimpse of Singapore, Johor and the Straits of Melaka during an era for which little written material has survived. This special edition, which presents highlights from the full translation, is designed to provide students, teachers and the wider public with a glimpse of this tumultuous region when it was still controlled by local rulers, and Western colonialism was just gaining a foothold. The author describes dangerous intrigues involving fortune hunters and schemers, as well as local rulers and couriers, adventures that on several occasions nearly cost him his life. The manuscripts come from a bundle of documents preserved at the National Library of Spain in Madrid that includes De Coutre's autobiography and several memorials to the Crowns of Spain and Portugal. Chapters from the autobiography have been excerpted from book I, which covers the writer's life in Southeast Asia between 1593 and 1603. A glossary and list of place names provide information about officials, goods and places mentioned in the text that will be unfamiliar to readers of English.
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2007
ISBN 10: 9971693658ISBN 13: 9789971693657
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Black and white photographic illustrations, xviii + 372pp, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, paperback. Founded in 1906, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a cultural and economic organisation dedicated to promoting the interests of the Chinese business community. This book describes its changing relationship with the state and with businesses in the region. It also examines Chinese business practices, considering cultural elements as well as state and market forces, and highlights unique features of the Chinese experience in Singapore, this book offers an alternative to conventional political histories.
Verlag: NUS Press, Singapore, 2009
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PAPERBACK. First edition. 235pp b/w illustrations octavo paper. slight cover wear otherwise very good.
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2008
ISBN 10: 9971693909ISBN 13: 9789971693909
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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xii + 285pp, bibliography, index, paperback. This pioneering volume develops an institutionalist analysis of Malaysia's post-colonial economy by exploring the political economy of development and particularly the interface between economics and law. The various authors show that economic policy initiatives in Malaysia have often been accompanied by corresponding legislative and regulatory reforms intended to create an appropriate legal environment, and that economic problems or crises arising from earlier policies have led to major legislative innovations.The volume begins with a survey of Malaysia's colonial legal heritage and significant postcolonial developments, and the relationship between economic change, institutional developments and the law. Colonial land law transformed the rural Malay population, and the authors show that the routine depiction of this sector of the economy as a 'traditional' relic of the pre-colonial era is misleading. With regard to industry, the government changed course after independence, promoting manufacturing investments and technological progress, and forging new industrial relations between the state and trade unions., Drawing on this background the book rejects claims that corporate governance failures caused the financial crisis of the 1990s, and criticizes claims for the superiority of Anglo-American arrangements for corporate governance.
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2016
ISBN 10: 9814722189ISBN 13: 9789814722186
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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242pp, glossary, list of place names, bibliography, index. Paperback. "Few authors have as much to say about Singapore and Johor in the early 17th century as Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge (c.1570?1632). This admiral of the Dutch East India Company sailed to Asia in 1605 and besieged Portuguese Melaka in 1606 with the help of Malay allies. A massive Portuguese armada arrived from Goa to fight the Dutch at sea, break the siege and relieve the Portuguese colony. During his Asian voyage and on his return to Europe in September 1608, Matelieff penned a series of letters and memorials in which he provided a candid assessment of trading opportunities and politics in Asia. He advised the VOC and leading government officials of the Dutch Republic to take a long term view of Dutch involvement in Asia and fundamentally change the way they were doing business there. Singapore, the Straits region, and Johor assumed a significant role in his overall assessment. At one stage he seriously contemplated establishing the VOC?s main Asian base at a location near the Johor River estuary. On deeper reflection, however, Matelieff and the VOC directors in Europe began to shift their attention southward and instead preferred a location around the Sunda Strait. This was arguably a near miss for Singapore two full centuries before Thomas Stamford Raffles founded the British trading post on the island in 1819." (Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2015
ISBN 10: 9971696347ISBN 13: 9789971696344
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Black and white photographic illustrations, xix + 194pp, paperback. "This book of short stories by Goh Poh Seng tells his adventures as a young Asian student in the Ireland of the 1950s. Brought up in post-war Kuala Lumpur, the impressionable young man finds himself transported to a totally different milieu and culture. The stories follow him from the first tentative steps of his voyage to Europe, to his sojourn in a hostel for Asian students and the shock of boarding life in a boys' Catholic school; continues with his early awakening to the posibility of becoming a writer, together with a total embrace of the cultural and literary pleasures of Dublin. Along the way, he met a colourful tapestry of characters, among them a member of the Anglo-Irish gentry, the suave and charming Tom Pierre from the West Indies, and the much-loved Irish poet Paddy Kavanagh." (Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press, Singapore., 2019
ISBN 10: 9814722812ISBN 13: 9789814722810
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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344 pages, 230mm x 160mm Paperback, colour plates, maps, tables, index, bibliography, natural history. Everything you might want to know about Kent Ridge in one book. Kent Ridge, a corner of Singapore island, has been home to the National University of Singapore (NUS) since the 1980s, but the area entered the historical record centuries earlier. From the white sands of its shoreline marked on navigators? maps, to the Alexandra Barracks of the Singapore Mutiny, from tiger traps and plantations to kampong and rich men?s seaside bungalows, the rocky ridge running parallel to Singapore?s western seashore has formed one of the most memorable of the island city-state?s landscapes. Extending from Clementi Road in the west to Alexandra Road in the east, and divided by the ?ninety-nine curves? of South Buona Vista Road, Kent Ridge extends its imaginative pull on many Singaporeans and visitors, but especially those who have graduated?or are studying?at the NUS. This book helps you look beneath the shiny exteriors of today?s institutions, to the area?s geological past, and the wealth of flora and fauna that still can be found here: from indigenous plants such as the tembusu, tiup tiup, and senduduk, to monitor lizards, flying dragons and oriental green snakes. The book guides you through the changing human geography of the region, and tells the inside stories behind the original campus master plan drawn up in the 1970s. Richly illustrated with photos, historical maps and images, each chapter of this book is written by NUS faculty and staff who are passionate about the Ridge. With contributions from Edwin Thumboo, Victor R. Savage, David Higgitt, Hugh Tan, Ho Chi Tim, Erik Holmberg,Tan Chye Guan, Kevin Y.L. Tan, Peck Thian Guan and Lee Fook Ngian.
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2009
ISBN 10: 9971694859ISBN 13: 9789971694852
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Map, xvii + 288 pages, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, paperback. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with nationalist leaders, activists and guerillas, Aspinall reveals how the Free Aceh Movement went from being a quixotic fantasy to a guerilla army in the space of a generation. Author from Australian National University.
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2007
ISBN 10: 9971693615ISBN 13: 9789971693619
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Maps, black and white illustrations, xv + 313pp, notes, bibliography, index, paperback. "This intriguing account of the vigorous survival of an Islamic community in the strife-torn borderlands of the lower Mekong delta, and of its creative accommodation to the modernising reforms of the Vietnamese government, shows how Islam provides a unifying focus for the Cham people in their diversely-constituted rural settlements. Although officially regarded as one of Vietnam's nationial minority groups, the multilingual Cham are part of a cosmopolitan, transnational community, and as traders, pilgrims and labour migrants are found throughout mainland Southeast Asia and beyond it." (Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2007
ISBN 10: 9971693461ISBN 13: 9789971693466
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Maps, black and white illustrations, xviii +297 pages, index, bibliography, glossary. "By the early nineteenth century, Islam had come to be the religious element in Javanese identity. But it was a particular kind of Islam, here called the 'mystic synthesis'. This Javanese mysticism had three notable characteristics: Javanese held firmly to their identity as Muslims, they carried out the basic ritual obligations of the faith, but they also accepted the reality of local spiritual forces. In the course of the nineteenth century, colonial rule, population pressure and Islamic reform all acted to undermine this 'mystic synthesis'. Pious Muslims became divided amongst adherents of that synthesis, reformers who demanded a more orthoprax way of life, reforming Sufis and those who believed in messianic ideas. A new category of Javanese emerged, people who resisted Islamic reform and began to attenuate their Islamic identity. This group became known as abangan, nominal Muslims, and they constituted a majority of the population. For the first time, a minority of Javanese converted to Christianity. The priyayi elite, Java's aristocracy, meanwhile embraced the forms of modernity represented by their European rulers and the wider advances of modern scientific learning. Some even came to regard the original conversion of the Javanese to Islam as a civilisational mistake, and within this element explicitly anti-Islamic sentiments began to appear. In the early twentieth century these categories became politicised in the context of Indonesia's nascent anti-colonial movements. Thus were born contending political identities that lay behind much of the conflict and bloodshed of twentieth-century Indonesia." (Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2012
ISBN 10: 9971695634ISBN 13: 9789971695637
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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257pp, index, paperback. "The impact of the processes of cultural, economic and institutional transformation typically defined as "modernising" have been prevasive in Indonesia and Malaysia over an extended period of time, and have played a central role in shaping the cultures, societies, economics and polities of both countries. The authors in this book engage critically with the concept of modernity, considering the way it has been used in the analysis of economic, political, and cultural processes, and conclude that while Indonesia and Malaysia can both be described as fully modern, their modernities are not merely derivative of the Western understanding of the word. The place and character of modernity appear differently if a local rather than a Western perspective is adopted, and any analysis of the two countries must reflect an understanding of these differences. Written by scholars from both "inside" and "outside" the region, the case studies presented this volume highlight the extent to which the intellectual tools, concepts, and theories commonly used in academic research reflect a European/Western modernist imaginary, and show how the process of conducting social research in Asia might be reconceptualized on the basis of a revised understanding of modernity. In presenting their case that the application of a supposedly 'Western' concept such as modernity to the study of Asia needs to be re-assessed, the authors pose questions relevant to theories of modernity and the study of non-Western societies generally." (Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2007
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
Black and white photographic illustrations, xxi + 330pp, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, paperback copy in very good condition. Under the New Order regime (1967-98), the Indonesian military sought to monopolise the production of official history and control its contents. The goal was to validate the political role of the armed forces, condemn communism and promote military values. In this detailed examination of the Indonesian military's image-making efforts, Katharine E. McGregor explores the formulation of nationalist history under Suharto, and shows how this effort affected the Indonesian people.
Verlag: NUS Press, Singapore., 2018
ISBN 10: 9814722820ISBN 13: 9789814722827
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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241pp, appendix, index, paperback. Breast cancer is now the most common cancer among women in most Asian countries. Many lives are at stake. Even in places where state-of-the-art medical services are available, thousands of women in Asia are dying of the disease largely due to late presentation compared to women in most Western countries. While much progress has been made in Western medical science to treat breast cancer, it appears that there are significant socio-cultural considerations and contexts in Asia that limit the efficacy of Western-based health-care methods. This volume presents conversations across Asia with breast cancer patients, their caregivers, doctors, traditional healers as well as just ordinary men and women?all on the subject of breast cancer meanings. Through the stories as told by local peoples in Asia about how they think and talk about breast cancer, as well as how they respond to the disease, insights on breast cancer meanings emerge. These offer new understandings into how local contexts shape those meanings and life courses?and hopefully will help medical practitioners devise new strategies to combat the disease.
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2020
ISBN 10: 9813250828ISBN 13: 9789813250826
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Translated by Liesbeth Bennink. Black and white illustrations, x + 165pp, index, lists of publications both on and by Jacob Haafner. Paperback. "Jacob Gotfried Haafner (1754-1809) was a writer of great talent, and an early dissenting voice from within the colonial enterprise. Haafner was orphaned in the Dutch East Indies, and lived in South Africa, Sri Lanka, India and Mauritius for more than 20 years. On his return to Europe he transformed himself into one of the most popular Dutch writers of the early 19th century, for his travel writing in the Romantic mode. Books like his popular Travels in a Palanquin were translated into the major European languages, and his essays on the havoc wrought by missionaries worldwide stirred up great controversy, particularly in his home country of the Netherlands. He was a fierce critic of English machinations in India: ?Had I to write the history of the English and their deeds in Asia?, Haafner once said, ?it would be the spitting image of hell? But there was a scholarly side to him to complement the pamphleteer and travel writer, working to promote European understanding of Indian literature, myth and religion, including through his translation of the Ramayana into Dutch." (Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2019
ISBN 10: 9813250771ISBN 13: 9789813250772
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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2 illustrations, xxxi + 108pp. Paperback. "A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land traces the story of Sam, a young man who leaves the countryside for the capital after the death of his parents. Once there he is exposed to the hardships and injustice of the city's capitalist society. All Sam wants to do is earn an honest wage for an honest day's work, but he is constantly thwarted by those with money: his landlord, the woman from whom he rents his cyclo, factory bosses and politicians. The city takes its toll on Sam and his wife, Soy, despite the kindness and generosity offered by their friends who are also only barely managing to scrape by. Sam's humanity is denied him at every turn leading to the devastation of his small family and his surrender to temptation. As the country develops and Sam's fortunes change, he realises that while the life of a farmer is far from easy, it is one that has the potential to bring fulfilment and happiness. First published in 1961, eight years after Cambodia gained independence from French colonial rule, A New Sun Rises Over the Old Land by Suon Sorin is an iconic work of modern Khmer literature. The novel - a singularly illuminating historical document of the new nation - offers a fresh view into a period of profound transformation in Cambodia and a region that was coming to know itself and to be known as Southeast Asia."(Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press 2021-02-28, Singapore, 2021
ISBN 10: 9813251328ISBN 13: 9789813251328
Anbieter: Blackwell's, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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hardback. Zustand: New. Language: ENG.
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Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2018
ISBN 10: 9814722928ISBN 13: 9789814722926
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Black and white photographic photographic illustrations, 219pp, index, hardback in dustjacket. "As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating universe that I wanted to unpick and explain to myself." Wang Gungwu is one of Asia?s most important public intellectuals. He is best-known for his explorations of Chinese history in the long view, and for his writings on the Chinese diaspora. With Home is Not Here, the historian of grand themes turns to a single life history: his own. In this volume, Wang talks about his multicultural upbringing and life under British rule. He was born in Surabaya, Java, but his parents? orientation was always to China. Wang grew up in the plural, multi-ethnic town of Ipoh, Malaya (now Malaysia). He learned English in colonial schools and was taught the Confucian classics at home. After the end of WWII and Japanese occupation, he left for the National Central University in Nanjing to study alongside some of the finest of his generation of Chinese undergraduates. The victory of Mao Zedong?s Communist Party interrupted his education, and he ends this volume with his return to Malaya. Wise and moving, this is a fascinating reflection on family, identity, and belonging, and on the ability of the individual to find a place amid the historical currents that have shaped Asia and the world." (Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2014
ISBN 10: 9971697823ISBN 13: 9789971697822
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Colour and black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 333pp, appendices, bibliography, index, paperback, a very good copy. This book examines lower class communities in the inner city and the urban fringe of Bangkok view their employment prospects and living conditions, and how they manage risk. As a case study, the author examines the lives of female workers who became self employed after losing factory jobs during Thailand's economic restructuring in the late 1990s.
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Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2017
ISBN 10: 9814722618ISBN 13: 9789814722612
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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206pp, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback. "Japan's invasion of Burma in 1942 set off the longest retreat in British military history. Along with the fall of Singapore, it marked the beginning of the end of British rule, not only in Burma but also in south and south-east Asia. Britain's defeat in Burma has been studied in detail, but Reporting the Retreat is the first account that looks at how war correspondents presented the campaign in Western newspapers, pictorial magazines, and newsreels. Twenty-six accredited war correspondents covered the campaign, and nearly half of them wrote books about it, in most cases while the war was ongoing and events were still fresh. Government officials censored these accounts, and claimed the authors were misinformed and sensationalist. Historians, on the other hand, have criticized the same accounts for expressing undue optimism, suggesting that the writers presented an unrealistic view of what had taken place in an effort to bolster morale. Using wartime archives, Philip Woods re-evaluates the accuracy and impact of the versions of events presented by war correspondents reporting from Burma. His account will be of great value to historians of conflict and to anyone interested in journalism and the media." (Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press, Singapore., 2018
ISBN 10: 981472288XISBN 13: 9789814722889
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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xi + 170pp, index, paperback. What is Islamic journalism? This study examines day-to-day journalism as practiced by Muslim professionals at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia. At Sabili, established as an underground publication, journalists are hired for their ability at dakwah, or Islamic propagation. At Tempo, a news magazine banned during the Soeharto regime, the journalists do not talk much about sharia law; although many are pious and see their work as a manifestation of worship, the Islam they practice is often viewed as progressive or even liberal. At Harakah reporters support an Islamic political party, while at Republika they practice a "journalism of the Prophet." Secular news organizations, too, such as Malaysiakini, employ Muslim journalists. Janet Steele explores how these various publications observe universal principles of journalism and do so through an Islamic idiom.
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Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2007
ISBN 10: 9971693445ISBN 13: 9789971693442
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Black and white illustrations, x + 317pp, index, spine faded, but otherwise paperback in very good condition. "Presents life stories of ordinary people in rapidly changing Southeast Asia, one of the most dynamic and developing regions in the world. The narratives illustrate the richness of life histories in revealing what it was like to live through the wrenching social changes that have accompanied successive political transformations in Southeast Asia, from the period of colonialism through the wartime occupation of Southeast Asia by the Japanese to the emergence of new nation states." Publisher's description.
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Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2015
ISBN 10: 9971698447ISBN 13: 9789971698447
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Translated by Frank Palmos. Map, xviii + 204pp, paperback. "Written by a 24-year-old Indonesian medical student turned military commander named Suhario Padmodiwiryo, or 'Hario Kecik', Revolution in the City of Heroes is an evocative first-hand account of a popular uprising. The book vividly portrays the chaotic swirl of events and the heady emotion of young people ready to sacrifice their lives for a great cause. Newly liberated from nearly four brutal years under Japanese control, the people of Indonesia faced great uncertainty in October 1945. As the British Army attempted to take control of the city of Surabaya, maintain order and deal with surrendered Japanese personnel, their actions were interpreted by the young residents of Surabaya as a plan to restore Dutch colonial rule. In response, the youth of the city took up arms and repelled the force sent to occupy the city. They then held off British reinforcements for two weeks, battling tanks and heavy artillery with nothing more than light weapons and sheer audacity. Though eventually defeated, Surabaya?s defenders had set the stage for Indonesia?s national revolution. Suhario Padmodiwiryo, ?Kecik? to his friends and family, was born in Surabaya on 12 May 1921. He began a career in medicine but his studies were cut short by the arrival of the Japanese. After his extraordinary experiences as a Deputy Commander of forces fighting in Surabaya in 1945, he stayed in the newly formed Indonesian National Army, rising eventually to the rank of General. Later placed under house arrest by President Suharto, General Suhario published his memoirs in Indonesian in 1995." (Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2023
ISBN 10: 9813252677ISBN 13: 9789813252677
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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Reprint. Black and white photographic illustrations, xix + 208pp, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback. New. "In 1998, the Belitung, a ninth-century western Indian Ocean-style vessel, was discovered in Indonesian waters. Onboard was a full cargo load, likely intended for the Middle Eastern market, of over 60,000 Chinese Tang dynasty ceramics, gold, and other precious objects. It is one of the most significant shipwreck discoveries of recent times, revealing the scale of ancient commercial endeavors and the centrality of the ocean within the Silk Road story. But this shipwreck also has a modern tale to tell, of how nation-states appropriate the remnants of the past for their own purposes, and of the international debates about who owns - and is responsible for - shared heritage. The commercial salvage of objects from the Belitung, and their subsequent sale to Singapore, contravened the principles of the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and prompted international criticism and debate. The resulting controversy continues to reverberate in academic and curatorial circles. Today, the finds are proudly displayed at Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum as the Tang Shipwreck Collection. But major museums have refused to host international traveling exhibitions of the collection, and some Western archaeologists maintain the objects should be thrown back in the sea rather than ever go on display. Shipwrecks are anchored in the public imagination, their stories of treasure and tragedy told in museums, cinema, and song. At the same time, they are sites of scholarly inquiry, a means by which maritime archaeologists interrogate the past through its material remains. Every shipwreck is an accidental time capsule, replete with the sunken stories of those on board, of the personal and commercial objects that went down with the vessel, and of an unfinished journey. In this moving and thought-provoking reflection of underwater cultural heritage management, Natali Pearson reveals valuable new information about the Belitung salvage, obtained firsthand from the salvagers, and the intricacies in the many conflicts and relationships that developed. In tracing the Belitung?s lives and afterlives, this book shifts our thinking about shipwrecks beyond popular tropes of romance, pirates, and treasure, and toward an understanding of how the relationships between sites, objects, and people shape the stories we tell of the past in the present." (Publisher's description).
Verlag: NUS Press, Singapore, 2009
ISBN 10: 9971694298ISBN 13: 9789971694296
Anbieter: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Kanada
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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. xii, 316 p. 23 cm. Colour illustrations in centre section. Paperback.
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Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2014
ISBN 10: 9971698153ISBN 13: 9789971698157
Anbieter: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australien
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215pp, appendices, notes, references, index, paperback. From private meetings in living rooms in the 1990s to the emergence of annual rallies and decriminalization campaigns in the past six years,Singapore's gay rights activists have sought equality and justice in a state that does not recognize their rights to seek protection of their civil and political liberties. In her groundbreaking book, Mobilizing Gay Singapore, Lynette Chua tells the history of the gay rights movement in Singapore and asks what a social movement looks like under these circumstances. She examines the movement?s emergence, development, strategies, and tactics, as well as the roles of law and rights in social processes. Chua uses in-depth interviews with gay activists, observations of the movement's activities, movement documents, government statements,and media reports. She shows how activists deploy "pragmatic resistance" to gain visibility and support, and tackle political norms that suppress dissent, while avoiding direct confrontations with the state.
Verlag: NUS Press., Singapore., 2015
ISBN 10: 9971698633ISBN 13: 9789971698638
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Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xix + 293pp, notes, bibliography, index, paperback. The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North Maluku are both corporeally real and fundamentally unknowable. Witches (known as gua in the Buli language) appear to be ordinary humans but sometimes, especially at night, they take other forms and attack people in order to kill them and eat their livers. They are seemingly everywhere and nowhere at the same time. The reality of gua, therefore, can never be pinned down. The title of the book comes from the empty nautilus shells that regularly drift ashore around Buli village. Convention has it that if you find a live nautilus, you are a gua. Like the empty shells, witchcraft always seems to recede from experience. Bubandt begins the book by recounting his own confusion and frustration in coming to terms with the contradictory and inaccessible nature of witchcraft realities in Buli. A detailed ethnography of the encompassing inaccessibility of Buli witchcraft leads him to the conclusion that much of the anthropological literature, which views witchcraft as a system of beliefs with genuine explanatory power, is off the mark. Witchcraft for the Buli people doesn't explain anything. In fact, it does the opposite: it confuses, obfuscates, and frustrates. Drawing upon Jacques Derrida's concept of aporia?an interminable experience that remains continuously in doubt?Bubandt suggests the need to take seriously people?s experiential and epistemological doubts about witchcraft, and outlines, by extension, a novel way of thinking about witchcraft and its relation to modernity.
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