Asian Ethnicity最新文献

{"title":"Tracing the journey of a craft from ‘Embeddedness’ to ‘Commercialisation’: A case of hand block printing from the Jaipur Region","authors":"Sakshi Tokas, Vanshika Mittal, S. Agarwal, D. Mohan, Jignesh Mistry, T. Mohan","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2132913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2132913","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Karl Polanyi’s theories on embeddedness and disembeddedness help unpack the transformation of exchange systems and emergence of markets in societies. This paper analyses a process of such transformation observed in the context of the hand block printing industry of Jaipur and its nearby areas. Through an ethnographic study of the craft, we observe the extent to which hand block printing has undergone heavy commodification and commercialisation while disembedding from the society. Over the years, aspects of hand block printing, such as design, labour and authenticity, have changed for the worse, which has further impacted the socio-cultural identity of this craft and crafts(wo)men engaging in it. Some underlying forces behind this are the commodification of labour and the commercialisation of the craft. While expanding on these, the paper also provides policy recommendations on the aspects of recognising artists and standardising labels in the industry.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48543837","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}

{"title":"From Pulau to Pulo: Archipelagic perspectives on Southeast Asian Chinese ethnicity from the Philippines and Indonesia","authors":"Josh Stenberg, Chien-Wen Kung, Charlotte Setijadi","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2132914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2132914","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Southeast Asia is an important region for working through questions of Chineseness. It is, however, a notoriously heterogeneous region, and conclusions derived from some parts of it can be of limited applicability elsewhere. This special issue offering empirically-grounded, multi-disciplinary research engages with and expands on existing scholarship on Southeast Asia’s Chinese. By focusing on Indonesia and the Philippines, the articles in this special issue investigate diverse models of being Chinese in Southeast Asia and depart from the familiar paradigms offered by Singapore and Malaysia, where ethnic Chinese populations are in the highest proportions and hold significant political power, and where Anglophone institutions transmute formulations of Chineseness into academic and political discourse. In so doing, we call for recognising diversity within Chinese communities in the region, not only among localised, hybrid expressions of Chineseness, but in the coexistence of both hybridity and persistent identification with Chineseness in multiple forms.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43758149","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}

{"title":"Identity pride and exclusiveness: cross-border craftsmanship and Chinese tailors in post-war Hong Kong, 1945-1970","authors":"K. Lee","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2132911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2132911","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent scholarship has shown that in cosmopolitan urban spaces, identities are flexible, and migrants often integrate smoothly. But Shanghainese and Cantonese tailors who migrated to Hong Kong after World War II developed a different trajectory of identity transformation. Instead of simply integrating into a single social collectivity based on claims to a common Chinese ethnicity, they forged separate diasporic identities according to their places of origin. By problematising the arrival of Shanghainese tailors and their interactions with Cantonese tailors in Hong Kong, this article shows that pride in a place-based identity along with a strong sense of exclusiveness facilitated the maintenance of social boundaries by the Shanghainese community against the Cantonese. It argues that despite the common Chinese-ness of both migrant communities, place of origin was employed as a critical form of social identification and differentiation, creating an as-yet insurmountable barrier to the amalgamation of the two Chinese communities.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46444347","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}

{"title":"Making it work: women, land and labour in West Karbi Anglong, Assam","authors":"Meenal Tula, Upasana Goswami","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2132912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2132912","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The article seeks to understand how the deepening logic of neoliberal governmentality transforms the lives, labour and access to resources such as land, for women in West Karbi Anglong, Assam, Northeast India. It explores new forms of social (in)equality and mobility in gender relations and community dynamics in Sixth Schedule districts, tracing the evolving conjuncture between community, state and the market. We approach this question in two ways: first, how the neoliberal market rationality reconstitutes and is reconstituted by existing customs of inheritance, patterns of labour, notions of community and belonging, and gender relations; second, the strategies that women adopt in a context where forms of women’s work and modes of access to resources such as land are going through rapid changes. The aim is to encourage critical reflections on women’s access/rights to land and their labour in the Sixth Schedule areas, and what changes with the neoliberal turn.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41760680","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}

{"title":"The primordial modernity of Malay nationality: contemporary identity in Malaysia and Singapore","authors":"Faris Bin Ridzuan","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2132469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2132469","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46514826","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}

{"title":"Archipelagic Chineseness: competing ways of being Chinese Muslims in contemporary Indonesia and Malaysia","authors":"Hew Wai Weng","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2122396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2122396","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Inspired by the concept of ‘archipelagic Islam’ and the recent academic call for archipelagic thinking, this article proposes the term ‘archipelagic Chineseness’ to analyze various discourses and practices of Chineseness that take into account diverse national and local contexts, without disregarding various transnational connections. However, different from the proponents of ‘archipelagic Islam’ who promote an ideal type of Islamic identity in Indonesia, I use ‘archipelagic Chineseness’ mainly not to prescribe a kind of ideal Chinese identity, but instead to explore and theorize multiple ways of being or not being Chinese in Indonesia, Malaysia, and beyond. The concept points to the possibility of being Chinese in a way that is neither totally subscribed to China’s growing influence, nor completely assimilated due to the demand of some nationalists. By examining the trends of Chinese-style mosques and Chinese Muslim preachers, I discuss how and under what conditions different Chinese and non-Chinese Muslims appropriate Chineseness for diverse reasons. While the Chinese-style mosques borrow the architectural design of ancient mosques in China, they adopt local cultural traditions and interact with local politics. Many Muslim leaders welcome such mosques as an initiative to promote localized Islam and to imagine a translocal Chinese Muslim identity. However, when it comes to preachers, there are contesting – if not conflicting – cultural and religious orientations, which are shaping and being shaped by the politics of race, religion and class in both countries. Thus, I propose ‘archipelagic Chineseness’ to analyze various entanglements of diverse transnational connections, national belongings and local sensibilities among ethnic Chinese in general and Chinese Muslims in particular. Archipelagic thinking around Chineseness also allows us to explore how ethnic Chinese in maritime Southeast Asia negotiate their Chineseness with their other identities, such as nationalities, localities, religion, and sexual identities.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43573874","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}

{"title":"Determinants of ethnic minority students’ sense of belonging in Hong Kong: teachers’ narratives and perspectives","authors":"S. Karim, M. Hue","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2122397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2122397","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines nine secondary school teachers’ narratives and perspectives about the determinants of their ethnic minority students’ sense of belonging in Hong Kong. The thematic analysis of their in-depth interviews reveals three sets of determinants of belonging, including demographic, personal, and intercultural factors. The study findings underscore the importance of students’ socialisation contexts and the critical role of the Chinese language curriculum and the social reception towards non-European immigrants in Hong Kong. The paper discusses the potential avenues of educational policy and practice interventions for developing a stronger sense of belonging among young people with immigrant and ethnic minority backgrounds in the multicultural societies of settlement.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46806205","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}

{"title":"Minoritised communities and Hong Kong’s ‘summer of uprising’: attitudes and engagement without citizenship","authors":"M. Bhowmik, K. Kennedy, J. Gube, Joan S K Chung","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2120455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2120455","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Hong Kong experienced unprecedented political and social turmoil starting in June 2019. The original impetus was a proposed law that would have enabled the extradition of Hong Kong residents to Mainland China. The focus of previous work relating to the consequent social movement that opposed the law has been on the engagement of the dominant Chinese population. Little attention has been paid to the attitudes or experiences of Hong Kong’s minoritised communities. This paper, therefore, shifts the focus of research to those communities, who are resident in Hong Kong but many of them are not Chinese citizens. The interviews with twenty-five study participants revealed multiple views of the social movement ranging from those who were in full support to those who were wary of the social movement because of its potential to impinge on an already fragile social context. The conundrum of providing education for the city’s ‘non-citizens’ is discussed.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44787348","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}

{"title":"Tiurki i irantsi v Tanskoi imperii [Turks and Iranians in the Tang Empire]","authors":"R. Karimova","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2089094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2089094","url":null,"abstract":"principle of res judicata. The Sarbanda Sonowal judgment, according to Bhat, is ‘unrealisticeven cruel-evidentiary demands on people who are often poor, illiterate and without access to government documents’ (p.182). Hence, citizenship in India has turned merely into an enquiry of evidence rather than belongingness that is termed as ‘tyranny of documents’ in the book. The last part of this section recommends the state to apply certain measures with fair legal rules of evidence in order to make the judicial process inclusive and reliable. The later sections of the book move towards the pan-Indian level discussing the implications of CAA and NRC on vulnerable and marginalized citizens. It portrays the duality in citizenship regime in India where refugee status is accorded to certain selected communities by pushing the Muslims at abeyance. The book further urges India’s stand on the refugee protection formula, where already being a signatory to the Global Compact on Refugees, 2018, the country should adopt a humanitarian, if not majoritarian, perspective in according belongingness to its people. Finally, the concluding section looks in to the contestations around the CAA-NRC-NPR trinity where the government, as protesters put it, is attempting to disenfranchise a particular community based on religion. The power to disenfranchise a person permits executive to victimize genuine Indian citizens, thereby cutting their legal personality. These contestations, as argued in the book, need certain exercises to be adjudicated upon so as to understand the consequences of statelessness in India in general and Assam in particular. In sum, the book is a detailed work on the contested citizenship in India, particularly from the legislative, executive and judicial standpoint with comprehensive theoretical underpinnings. However, the book limits its eyes only on the Muslim minority question in the entire debate on citizenship by ignoring the nationality question of Assam. Besides, the book vehemently critics the NRC process conducted in Assam without placing immigration in the context. Moreover, citizenship debate in India can’t be justified only from the prism of religion but through multidimensional issues that have been shaping the social, cultural and political values. Yet, the book is oriented towards cosmopolitan outlook with a humanitarian perspective, which would be beneficial for those having keen interest to understand the citizenship debate in India.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48755329","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}

{"title":"Decolonising feasts of merit: reasoning Marān Kasā from a Tangkhul Naga perspective","authors":"Shaokhai Mayirnao, Sinalei Khayi","doi":"10.1080/14631369.2022.2089093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2022.2089093","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Feasts of Merit is a cultural phenomenon practised by several communities specific to their customs, traditions, and culture in different parts of the world. Whether or not the terminology is a colonial construct and/or a misnomer remains contestable. In the Tangkhul Naga context, the translation or notion of marān kasā as mere Feasts of Merit is a misnomer. Feast (of Merit) is only constitutive of marān kasā; thus, a part of a whole cannot be said to be the whole. This paper attempts to emancipate marān kasā from the coloniality of Feasts of Merit by debunking the colonial metanarrative; through the enunciation of socio-religious significance and culturo-educational functions of marān kasā that are manifestations of a deeper Tangkhul Naga, thus Naga, philosophy.","PeriodicalId":45296,"journal":{"name":"Asian Ethnicity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44845016","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}