{"title":"McMorran, C. (2022). Ryokan: Mobilizing hospitality in rural Japan, University of Hawaii Press. 206 pages. ISBN: 9780824888978","authors":"Susanne Klien","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.03.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajss.2024.03.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 1","pages":"Page 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156848492400008X/pdfft?md5=0260cf9c3b8d24c157559cf28915caef&pid=1-s2.0-S156848492400008X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140647699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problematising interculturality in international internships: A Taiwanese perspective","authors":"Chiu-Hui (Vivian) Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research has promoted the value of international internships for university students as an alternative to study abroad programs. Yet, little was known about how individual identities shaped student interns’ interactions with people from other cultures. The study examines how five college students from Taiwan, who worked as interns in Singapore and Thailand prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, navigated cultural similarities and differences while personally and socially constructing their identities in relation to others. This study explored the way in which interculturality is constructed in international internships and how that can be problematic because of interns’ limited awareness of hierarchical power dynamics, cultural gender role differences, and their roles as foreigners, and interns. Additionally, findings suggest that universities that engage their students in international internships must offer a preparatory curriculum for students to explore and prepare for the cross-cultural issues that may occur in an international internship programs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 1","pages":"Pages 1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568484923000394/pdfft?md5=1b576a6cc313c1a3c090ef143e8e34be&pid=1-s2.0-S1568484923000394-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134917377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prejudice and discrimination experienced by high-skilled migrants in their daily lives: Focus group interviews with Tokyo metropolitan area residents","authors":"Jiwon Shin , Hwajin Lim , Jiyeon Shin","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.02.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajss.2024.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study focuses on foreign migrants who migrated to Japan in the 2000s to determine how their daily anxiety and discomfort relate to prejudice and discrimination. This study divided prejudice and discrimination in Japan into specific situations from the perspective of foreign migrants. Focus group interviews (FGI) were conducted with high-skilled migrants living in Japan. The thematic analysis produced examples of direct and indirect prejudice. Direct prejudice describes explicit and conscious exclusion. The codes identified in this study were institutional exclusion, social exclusion, and psychological exclusion. Indirect prejudice refers to an unpleasant feeling during communication, the cause of which cannot be instantaneously ascertained. The codes identified were distinction from the Japanese, forcing Japanese-style communication, and lack of understanding of other cultures. To clarify these ambiguities, this study was organized around the axes of direct and indirect prejudice against foreigners.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 1","pages":"Pages 17-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568484924000030/pdfft?md5=1bbf26aebc97f68e128a891ed076c247&pid=1-s2.0-S1568484924000030-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140645898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The rise of urban Salafism in Indonesia: The social-media and pop culture of new Indonesian Islamic youth","authors":"F. Aidulsyah","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In numerous major Indonesian cities, the “Urban Salafism” movement has emerged as the most recent trend among the Muslim population. Urban Muslim youth's spiritual unease is at an all-time high due to their scepticism of mainstream Islamic organisations, most of which are becoming more politically oriented. As a result, Salafism has become more popular as an alternative. Salafism has been successful in recent years in massifying Islamic discourse on social media platforms such YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and even podcast sites. Furthermore, it has defined Islamic narratives in strategic urban locations such as the Central Business District, malls, and wealthier neighbourhoods to conjure the spirit of a new piety which urban Muslims are adopting more widely. With the ability to blend the pop culture of urban youth groups with the Islamic tradition of Arabism, urban Salafis are able to campaign for specific Islamic narratives and cultures in a hybrid style. Salafism was once thought of as an ideologically and culturally conservative movement, but it has now become a digital and modern native. Their ability to enlist urban celebrities, artists, content producers, filmmakers, and businesspeople who continue to engage in popular culture in a devout Salafi manner is evidence of all this. Based on the description provided above, this research will use a socio-anthropological method to further investigate the Urban Salafism issue in Indonesia.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 4","pages":"Pages 252-259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42697931","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":"Canay Özden-Schilling. The Current Economy: Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021, 224pp","authors":"V. Seow","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 4","pages":"Page 273"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49228532","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":"Knowledge production of university-industry collaboration in academic capitalism: An analysis based on Hoffman's framework","authors":"Jinghui Huang , Kui Xiong","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As academic capitalism promotes the transformation of knowledge production globally, both parties in the industry-academia collaboration are repositioned as knowledge creators in the new knowledge circuit, in which the knowledge production process becomes an issue to be explored in depth. Based on the analytical framework of Hoffman and the experience of River City in Guangdong Province-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, we analyse the ontological, epistemological, and applicative knowledge practices of both industry and academia. Both parties acknowledge the inherent uncertainties in knowledge production. Risk discourse for knowledge practices reflects influences of market/market-like logic on industry-academia collaboration. Around the three dimensions, the contradictions revealed in their interactions are multiple. Accordingly, both parties seek consensus on knowledge outcomes by suspending ontological discussions of knowledge, conceding epistemological issues, and imagining applied consensus. Nonetheless, these acts hardly achieve the desired goal of knowledge advancement and create obstacles to the knowledge circuit.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 4","pages":"Pages 227-236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568484923000345/pdfft?md5=c303eb3ec491bede42b3b6e7d203c433&pid=1-s2.0-S1568484923000345-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46720960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lavanya Balachandran: Tamils, social capital and educational marginalization in Singapore. Labouring to learn. Routledge, 2022. 170 pp. GBP £120.00 (eBook £33.29). ISBN: 9780367141288","authors":"C. Kheng","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 4","pages":"Page 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46471478","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":"Science, racism, and nature in India's upper Assam's British tea empire","authors":"Dibyanjoly Hazarika, Tanvhi Ghosh","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The indigenous tea plant in Upper Assam was subjected to multilayered experiments where the 19th century British quest for scientific superiority resulted in a severe and prolonged rejection of it. The article argues that the continuous comparison of the Assamese variety with that of the Chinese was not just the consequence of science but also of racism inherent in it. Even after the successful cultivation of the indigenous variety which emerged as the sole means of rescuing Britain from the “vice like control of China” over tea, negligence toward it was not completely vanished. The article argues this point by locating it within the context of “tropical – temperate” dichotomy that the colonial science invented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 4","pages":"Pages 237-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46837421","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":"Economic compensation for elite dismissals in authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Chinese provincial officials","authors":"Jonghyuk Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Personnel dismissals of high-ranking elites in authoritarian regimes are ubiquitous. However, the consequences of these events have not been thoroughly examined. This study explores the economic consequences of political dismissals in China, one of the most durable authoritarian regimes in the world. In the face of dismissals, a regime's concern lies in ensuring that the dismissed officials do not cause antiregime sentiments toward the public. Therefore, the regime is willing to preempt the possibility by enhancing the state–public relationship. To realize this cooperation, the regime distributes economic benefits to the public. The satisfied public is unlikely to support the dismissed elites against the regime. By examining the government spending data of China's provinces, this paper demonstrates that the Chinese government compensates the local public by increasing government expenditures in the locality that has recently experienced a dismissal of one of its high-ranking officials.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 4","pages":"Pages 260-269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134917376","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}