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Grow at home, buy local: (De)commodifying ‘rural’ vegetables and herbs 在家里种植，购买当地的蔬菜和草药(消除)商品化的“农村”蔬菜和草药

Southeast Asian Transformations Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839451717-004

Sandra Kurfürst

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Fertility Decline and the Role of Culture – Thailand’s Demographic Challenges for the 21st Century 生育率下降和文化的作用——泰国21世纪的人口挑战

Southeast Asian Transformations Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839451717-009

Kwanchit Sasiwonsaroj, K. Husa, H. Wohlschlägl

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Sociology of development: sociology, development studies or already dead? 发展社会学:社会学，发展研究还是已经死了?

Southeast Asian Transformations Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839451717-003

Dieter Neubert

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Mobility, porosity and the peri-urban city in Vietnam 流动性，孔隙度和越南的城郊城市

Southeast Asian Transformations Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839451717-008

Mirjam Le

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The Changing Social and Religious Role of Buddhist Nuns in Myanmar: A case study of two nunneries (1948-2010) 缅甸尼姑社会与宗教角色的变迁——以两所尼姑院为例(1948-2010)

Southeast Asian Transformations Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839451717-016

M. Thant

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Frontmatter

Southeast Asian Transformations Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839451717-fm

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The moral space and the logic of collective self-organisation of domestic workers in Chennai, India 印度金奈家政工人集体自我组织的道德空间与逻辑

Southeast Asian Transformations Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839451717-007

J. Vogel, E. Rothfuß

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Building integration platforms in multiethnic Malaysia: A tribute to ideas and contributions of Professor Ruediger Korff 在多民族的马来西亚建立融合平台:致敬Ruediger Korff教授的思想和贡献

Southeast Asian Transformations Pub Date : 2020-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839451717-012

Shamsul Ab

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