Newsletter 49

Newsletter 49

Autumn 2008

2Director's note
Max Sparreboom (Director, IIAS)

1 - 4Crises of governance / Imran Ali
3Pakistan, an abundance of problems and scant knowledge / Kristoffel Lieten
5 - 6Lords of a Dubai labour camp: Pakistani migrants in the Gulf / Magnus Marsden
6 - 7The quiet evolution: Islam and women's rights in Pakistan / Martin Lau
8 - 9Primary education, lagging behind / Afke de Groot & Kristoffel Lieten
10Violence and love: the mobilisation of Karachi's Mohajir youth / Nichola Khan
11A lesson for Asia? Maintaining socio-economic security in old age:
a European perspective
/ Alan Walker
12 - 13‘Stilled to silence at 500 metres': making sense of historical change in Southeast Asia / James C. Scott
14 - 15Captive elephant management, the Tharu, and the Nepali state /
Piers Locke
16In conversation with Kunal Basu / Rituparna Roy
17Ancient corpus under digital scrutiny: deciphering lexical structure
of the Veda
/ Alexandre Sotov
18 - 19National monuments and social construction in Mongolia and
Kyrgyzstan
/ Irina Morozova
20 - 21Early adopters: debunking stereotypes of Buddhist attitudes towards technology / Andrew Glass
22 - 23Singapore Indians, a brief note / Vidya Murthy
24 - 25Pioneering portraits: early photography in Japan / Tani Akiyoshi & Oliver Moore
26New For Review
27Bookmarked
27Write a review on newasiabooks.org / Thomas Voorter
28How the West will cope with the ‘Asian century' / Thomas S. Wilkins
29Two journeys to the centre of the colonial project / Joost Cote
30 - 31Audible lessons in self / Constantine Sandis
31After Alexander / Andrew Glass
32‘You don't have to be English to play Elgar': the globalisation of Western music / Nicholas Tarling
33 - 34Network Asia
35Announcements
36 - 37IIAS Research
37The ‘ICAS miracle': Preparing for ICAS 6 in Daejeon in August 2009 / Paul van der Velde
38IIAS Fellows
39International Conference Agenda
40Colophon

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