{"title":"Constructing Muslim womanhood in Indonesia: Hijab and the governmentality of religious organizations","authors":"Jiwon Shin , Yong Kyu Lew , Myengkyo Seo","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigated the ways in which two religious organizations in Indonesia govern female bodies; specifically focusing on the construction of ideal Muslim womanhood through hijab practice. This mixed-method study combines partial least squares path modelling (PLS-path modelling), ethnographic research during fieldwork, and content analysis of social media accounts. The quantitative analysis revealed that among members of <em>Muslimat</em>, involvement with the religious organization and subjective norms exerted a stronger influence on sharia compliance regarding hijab practices than among members of <em>‘Aisyiyah</em>. Content analysis revealed that <em>Muslimat</em> prefers unified and monotonous hijab styles, while <em>‘Aisyiyah</em> permits more colours and patterns. While both organizations tend to avoid presenting female sexualities, <em>‘Aisyiyah</em> favours long and wide hijab, thus more strongly regulating the presentation of female sexualities. This research reveals the dynamics of religious organizations’ governing hegemony, highlighting the increasing influence of religion in the construction of ideal Muslim womanhood in Indonesian society.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 3","pages":"Pages 136-144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Meghna Kajla","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 3","pages":"Page 145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Robert Aldrich","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 3","pages":"Page 150"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Angze Li, Haiyan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.06.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 3","pages":"Pages 148-149"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contentious politics of welfare in rural India: The interplay between the Maoist insurgency and the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act","authors":"M.F. Kına","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines whether the Indian government used the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) to counter the radical mobilization of rural poor by the Maoist Naxalite movement. Employing an original district-level dataset from 2006 to 2014 and the GLOCON database on political events, it adopts a quasi-experimental method to analyze the strategy's effectiveness. The findings suggest that the government targeted districts with higher rural mobilization using NREGA as a counter-insurgency tool. However, the Naxalites effectively countered this strategy. Analysis of journals from the factions Liberation and People's March shows that the Naxalites actively claimed benefits under NREGA, transforming it from a containment tool to a governmental concession. This study concludes that the government's strategy was unsuccessful due to the effective counter-strategy by the Naxalites.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 3","pages":"Pages 111-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141690589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"","authors":"Aye Lei Tun (Ph.D. Candidate)","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 3","pages":"Pages 146-147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border. By Ong, Andrew. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023. 253 pp","authors":"A.L. Fattal","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 3","pages":"Page 151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141699476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Japanese Talmud – Antisemitism in East Asia. By Schilling, Christopher L. Hurst and Co. London, 2023. 144pp.","authors":"Meron Medzini","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 3","pages":"Page 152"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rural local government and healthcare delivery in an Eastern Indian state","authors":"Das Suman, Ray Sthitapragyan","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.06.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Based on field research in the remote and tribal-dominated Kandhamal district in the eastern Indian state of Odisha during 2019-20, the study examines the extent to which Constitutionally-created rural self-governance institutions (village Panchayats) fulfilled their mandated healthcare functions. Primary data was collected from villagers, front-line public health officials, elected local government (Panchayat) members and party cadres through focus group discussions and interviews. Employing the Foucauldian governmentality framework, the analysis moves away from a depoliticized understanding of decentralized delivery of rural health. The study concludes that Panchayats’ contributions to rural health are influenced by politically motivated factors, which may not be compatible with considerations of democracy and efficiency. Panchayat performance in the study villages remained poor as the state allowed them only regulated freedom and did not create space for their autonomy to flourish. Rural health decentralization led to new forms of governmentality as Panchayats were instrumentally used to consolidate state power at the rural grassroots. Top-down management of political process in these areas makes local government mechanical outpost of the ruling party.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 3","pages":"Pages 135-141"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141978841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resettlement of Bukom Kechil: Southern Islanders and the making of the housing nation in Singapore","authors":"Nurhidayahti Mohammad Miharja","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article seeks to tell the story of how the development of Singapore's multiracial housing nation involved resettling all of the islanders on one of the Southern Islands, Bukom Kechil. Little has been written about the development of the housing nation vis-a-vis the Southern Islands, about its manner and consequences. The aim of the essay is to study the resettlement of a particular small island population into, relatively speaking, a large city with a completely different physical and socioeconomic ecology. In what follows, I will examine four key mechanisms that underpinned the resettlement of the Southern Islands and un-homed its majority Malay population: (1) the harnessing of key institutions, such as <em>gotong royong</em>, for political canvassing, (2) the appropriation of the land by the state, (3) the <em>pecahan</em> (breakup) which un-homed the Malay islanders, and (4) the tight political and economic alliance with global investors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 2","pages":"Pages 86-91"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141410605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}