{"title":"Housing–fertility interdependencies in South Korea: A dynamic analysis across regional disparities and temporal shifts","authors":"Insu Choi , Eun Shim","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100221","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100221","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the interdependencies between apartment prices and fertility rates in South Korea using a moving window-based methodology. By analyzing monthly data from 2013 to 2023, we examine both rental and sales prices' impact on fertility decisions. The research reveals evolving relationships across regions, showing initially strong negative correlations between housing costs and fertility, which weaken over time. Through advanced statistical measures, including Pearson, Spearman, Kendall, and Granger causality, this study provides insights into the temporal and regional dynamics of housing affordability's effect on demographic trends, offering policy implications for mitigating South Korea's fertility crisis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 4","pages":"Article 100221"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145417291","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":"Chen, Ningning, Emily Hertzman, and Sylvia Ang. (2025). Diasporic Chinese voluntary associations in transition: Ethnicity, gender and community (re)making in the Asia pacific. Routledge. 160 pages. ISBN: 9781032979021 (hardcover)","authors":"Mohamad Zreik","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100227","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100227","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 4","pages":"Article 100227"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614237","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":"Sensory, corporeal, and affective processes of socialization in an odissi dance class in Bhubaneswar, India","authors":"Barbara Čurda","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100222","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100222","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article engages with sensory, affective and corporeal methodologies in ethnographic research. It provides an example of the application of such methods in the context of Odissi dance practices in Bhubaneswar (India) in the early 2020s. It explores the sensory, corporeal, affective dimensions of socialization that occur during dance classes. These include hierarchic relationships, corporeal enactments of social values and memory, and also the participant’s affects. It thereby documents how the observation of the action in its sensory, affective and corporeal dimensions allows to understand the ways in which different layers of social experiences concretely unfold in lived situations, in manners that involve senses, the body, and affect.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 4","pages":"Article 100222"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145578958","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":"Migrant disgust: Navigating sensory and emotional experience in Japanese food-processing factories","authors":"Median Mutiara","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100215","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100215","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how Indonesian migrant workers in Japanese food-processing factories navigate disgust as part of everyday sensory labor. While disgust is often studied as a reaction to migrants or as a clinical emotion, this study analyzed disgust as felt and managed by migrants, embedded in sensory, moral, and affective negotiations. Drawing on sensory ethnography in Ōarai, Japan (2016–2018), the study explores how migrant workers endure tasks involving spoiled or decayed food and regulate emotional responses under employers’ supervision. Rather than treating disgust as either a biological reflex or a moral judgment, the study demonstrates how these dimensions intersect and blur. Workers navigate disgust through strategies such as boundary work, emotional compartmentalization, and ritual cleansing across domains. Disgust thus appears not only as a reaction to spoiled material but also as a moral and social practice shaped by multisensorial experience, labor hierarchies, and embodied sensibilities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 4","pages":"Article 100215"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145363463","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":"Reconstructing gendered subjectivity in translation: Imagological analysis of female representation in Mo Yan’s frog","authors":"Jing Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100210","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100210","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>How do translators mediate gendered subjectivity in cross-cultural literary translation? This article explores this question by examining the representation of female characters in Mo Yan’s novel <em>Frog</em> and its English translation by Howard Goldblatt. Adopting an imagological approach—integrating literary imagology with translation studies—we analyze how the translator reconstructs the image of Chinese rural women at lexical, hierarchical, and narrative levels. A comparative corpus of 50 key passages was qualitatively coded for lexical substitutions, hierarchical shifts, and narrative emphases introduced in translation. The findings reveal that Goldblatt employs 3 main strategies in translating female subjectivity: lexical sanitization of derogatory or culture-specific terms, hierarchical equalization of gender power relations, and narrative reinforcement of traditional female imagery.These shifts suggest that the translator, influenced by both translatorial habitus and the target culture’s collective imagination, subtly disciplines the portrayal of women.This study’s imagological analysis highlights the translator’s visible role in shaping cultural images, offering a “cultural filter” model for examining how translation can challenge or reinforce prevailing stereotypes. The research contributes to translation studies by demonstrating how feminist subjectivities and cultural perceptions are negotiated in translation, and it provides insights into the potential of literary translation to either subvert or perpetuate Orientalist biases in global literary exchange.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 4","pages":"Article 100210"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145027798","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":"Devasahayam, T. W. (2023). Little Drops: Cherished Children of Singapore's Past. Singapore: Penguin Random House SEA. 288 Pages. ISBN: 9789815127126.","authors":"Dr Anne-Marie Hilsdon","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100220","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100220","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 4","pages":"Article 100220"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145417293","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":"Ethnic identity, self-esteem, and acculturation dispositions among indigenous adolescents in Taiwan","authors":"Chun-Hao Li , Ming-Chang Tsai","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100212","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100212","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Indigenous people in Taiwan have recently succeeded to reclaim the right to use their native names in formal institutions. This study investigates how using an Indigenous name use and maintaining proficiency in indigenous language influence school experiences, self-esteem, and acculturation strategies among Indigenous adolescents in this island society. Drawing on survey data from 1,144 indigenous adolescents attending in high schools in northern Taiwan, the findings reveal that a strong ethnic identity directly enhances self-esteem. However, ability of indigenous language also elevates academic pressure. Adolescents who embrace their Indigenous identity report a more positive self-concept and favor integration over assimilation in interactions with Han peers. This study underscores the importance of culturally inclusive practices and greater institutional support for Indigenous language and name usage, while also acknowledging the unique challenges faced by Indigenous adolescents in Han-dominated urban school settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 4","pages":"Article 100212"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145221122","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":"Santikarn, Alisa (2025). Indigenous heritage and identity of the last elephant catchers in northeast Thailand. Amsterdam University Press. 260 pages. E-ISBN: 978-90-4856-200-8 (PDF)","authors":"Helle Jørgensen","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100213","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 4","pages":"Article 100213"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050303","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":"Chambers, J. (2024). Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar. Singapore: NUS Press. 209 pages. ISBN: 978-981-325-269-1.","authors":"Erick White (Independent Scholar)","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100211","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 4","pages":"Article 100211"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145097560","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}
Xiaojin Li , Hirofumi Ueda , Pingping Zhao , Qiong Wang , Xin Gao
{"title":"Poetic dwelling and disciplinary configuration in ancestral hall spaces: A Triadic production mechanism study through the lens of everyday life politics","authors":"Xiaojin Li , Hirofumi Ueda , Pingping Zhao , Qiong Wang , Xin Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100207","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2025.100207","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the spatial dynamics of ancestral halls in Shanxi Province, focusing on their ongoing cultural relevance despite the decline of feudal institutions. Drawing on Lefebvre’s spatial production theory, Bourdieu’s habitus, Foucault’s discipline, and De Certeau’s poetic resistance, it proposes a triadic model of “discipline–habitus–poetic resistance.” Rather than viewing ancestral halls as static relics, the study frames them as active cultural fields reproduced through everyday practice. Fieldwork at 22 ancestral halls reveals how these spaces sustain moral norms, reinforce family identity, and support local governance. The paper argues that ancestral halls operate as hybrid mechanisms, where institutional forms are localized and emotionally charged. In this way, they reflect the cultural resilience and adaptive strategies of grassroots Chinese society. This approach highlights the significance of ancestral halls not only as architectural heritage but as living, evolving spaces rooted in social rhythms and symbolic meaning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"53 3","pages":"Article 100207"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144579185","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}