Newsletter 49

Newsletter 49

Autumn 2008

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

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

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