Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2022-06-06DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2022.2085077
P. Ganeshpandian
{"title":"The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign Against a Muslim Minority","authors":"P. Ganeshpandian","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2085077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2085077","url":null,"abstract":"has previously been promoted in Kandon by Khamleuane, is not mentioned. It would have been interesting to have learned more about this important topic, and how the Katu in New Kandon understood attempts by some to promote Katu literacy. Ultimately, however, there is much to celebrate in Projectland, and I highly recommend it for those who want to learn more about how ethnic minorities interact with nation-building efforts in rural Laos.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46256471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2022-06-02DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2022.2084360
Mikko Toivanen
{"title":"The colonial city in motion: managing ethnic diversity through public processions in Singapore and Batavia, 1840-1870","authors":"Mikko Toivanen","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2084360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2084360","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines attempts by colonial authorities in nineteenth-century Singapore and Batavia (now Jakarta) to employ ceremonial processions to manage the ethnic diversity of these two major colonial capitals. Public spectacles formed a key forum for the reinforcement of ethnic categories and the negotiation of inter-community relations in the context of the colonial city. The paper looks at two case studies: the procession on the occasion of the arrival of governor-general Jan Jacob Rochussen in Batavia in 1845, and a second one celebrating the Duke of Edinburgh’s visit in Singapore in 1869. The analysis shows how these events attempted to fix ethnic categories spatially on the maps of the respective cities. Comparing the two events to a Malay account of the 1864 Muharram celebrations, the article also analyses the different ways that official and community-led processions employed mobility, visuality and sound to represent ethnicity and inter-community relations or hierarchies.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44642902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2022-05-31DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2022.2082921
Gowoon Jung
{"title":"Remaking ethnic nationalism: evangelical protestant women’s discourses of multiculturalism in South Korea","authors":"Gowoon Jung","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2082921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2082921","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Researchers have argued that religion has direct and indirect connections with nationalism, and they have called for conceptual clarity about the role of religion in the construction of nationalism. I extend the insights of this scholarship into reevaluating the alteration of ethnic nationalism in Korea. Drawing on interviews with evangelical Protestant women attending a megachurch in Seoul, this study explores who evangelical women are willing to include as members of Korea and in what conditions the women are inclined to include these individuals. My findings suggest that women use evangelical mission work as a rhetorical device to create a broader membership category, regardless of skin color, to imagine members of Korea. Women’s participation in volunteer works shapes their expectation of immigrants’ appreciation of Korean language, food, and civic etiquette. Challenging the prevalent view that ethnic nationalism is declining, I argue that it has survived but shifted its focus from bloodline to ethnic culture.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46801750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2022-05-31DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2022.2082374
Zarine L. Rocha, B. Yeoh
{"title":"‘True blue’ or part Peranakan? Peranakan Chinese identity, mixedness and authenticity in Singapore","authors":"Zarine L. Rocha, B. Yeoh","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2082374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2082374","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT While no longer associated with colonial economic and political privilege, Peranakan Chinese identity is now often viewed as an ‘authentic’ heritage in contemporary Singapore that is made visible through hybrid cultural and material markers. But for the Peranakan community, what does it mean to be authentically Peranakan in post-colonial Singapore? This paper explores concepts of hybridity and authenticity for Peranakan individuals, highlighting how being Peranakan is informed by ideas of belonging, mixedness and purity, from being ‘true blue’ to generational shifts towards being part Peranakan. Drawing on critical mixed race theory, the paper provides an historical overview of Peranakan identity in the region, tracing how ‘authentic’ Peranakan-ness has changed over time. Using a series of narrative interviews with self-identified Peranakan individuals across three generations, the paper explores public and private representations of identity, and how mixedness and purity are seen as being ‘authentic’ aspects of Peranakan culture.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42453931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2022-05-29DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2022.2082920
R. Tan
{"title":"Renegotiating multiracialism: the grassroots integration of new migrants’ ethnic identities in Singapore","authors":"R. Tan","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2082920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2082920","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Through a study of Singapore’s integration and naturalisation processes, this paper examines how the Singaporean state has negotiated the twin challenges of embracing cultural pluralism in its population while also forming a common national identity. Employing Benedict Anderson’s conception of ‘bound serialities’, it argues that the Singaporean state has developed a framework of multiracialism to imagine the Singaporean nation through three serialities or collective identities. First, the Chinese, Malay, Indian and Other (CMIO) categories organise individuals into groups that have clear cultural identities. Second, the CMIO categories constitute a fixed image of the multicultural Singaporean nation. Third, being Singaporean requires an ethos of accepting the cultural differences that the CMIO structure represents. However, such a top-down imagining of the multicultural nation is increasingly challenged by the arrival of new citizens who embody alternative imaginings of their own ethnic and national identities, raising questions about the continued effectiveness of Singapore’s multiracialism.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45699649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2022-05-17DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2022.2076653
Moodjalin Sudcharoen
{"title":"Migrant youth identities as performances: dress codes and styling in Thai multi-ethnic education","authors":"Moodjalin Sudcharoen","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2076653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2076653","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper focuses on clothing policy in schools as a means to understand the Thai state’s management of diversity as well as the ways in which young migrants navigate their belongingness within the state discourse of nationalism. Because of its diverse migrant student population, a Thai state school proclaims itself a multicultural institution and instructs its students to wear ‘national clothes’ (chut pracam chat) every Tuesday. This policy enables migrant children to enter a cultural sphere where Burmese migrants are excluded, but, ironically, the very same clothes simultaneously stamp them as raeng-ngan tangdao, literally translated as ‘alien workers’. Young migrants devise strategies to downplay their alterity in public spaces and question the idea of belongingness and authenticity. Their dress practices reveal theatrical and fleeting performances of identity. But they neither fully assimilate to national standards nor assert completely distinct identities.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44313586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2022-05-13DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2022.2075714
Jamal Shah, Bakhtiar Khan
{"title":"Managing diversity: an assessment of the national question in Pakistan","authors":"Jamal Shah, Bakhtiar Khan","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2075714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2075714","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Modern societies are confronted with a plethora of issues that have far-reaching socio-political ramifications. The negative effects of diversity are primarily the result of state policies. Where societies were not homogenous, attempts were made to bring desperate populations together to advance official nationalist projects. Pakistan, being dominantly a Muslim state, has religio-cultural and ethnic diversity where minority groups have raised their voices against the unjust state’s policies. This study examines how these issues evolved over the course of Pakistan’s history. The paper attempts to answer the question ‘why has Pakistan’s plurality become unmanageable?’ The results demonstrate that a high degree of centralization of authority, the adoption of Urdu as a national language, a sense of domination of the central institutions by the Punjabis, underrepresentation of ethnic minorities in state institutions, and controlled society has aggravated the position of diverse groups in Pakistan, with colossal consequences to national economy and social harmony.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47365426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian EthnicityPub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2022.2070125
Jessica Nakamura
{"title":"Illuminating the universal: the multilingual Uncle Vanya in Drive My Car","authors":"Jessica Nakamura","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2070125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2070125","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This film review explores Drive My Car's use of Uncle Vanya, understanding it in the contexts of modern and contemporary Japanese theater history and analyzing the role of the play in the film's portrayal of human connection.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42828811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}