{"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}
{"title":"Linguistic Landscapes in South-East Asia: The Politics of Language and Public Signage, Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi (Ed.), 2022, London and New York: Routledge, ISBN 9780367764586, 230 Pages","authors":"H. Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.03.018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 4","pages":"Pages 271-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49162935","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":"Indus River Delta: Contested Narratives in the Climate of Change","authors":"Hameed Jamali , Maryam Jamali , Shakeel Hayat , Javed Iqbal","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Indus River delta is characterised by extreme issues: loss of 0.5 million hectares of fertile land and local livelihoods, environmental degradation including salinity and waterlogging, and significant reduction of freshwater flows into the delta where climatic changes further exacerbate existing complexities. These concerns and local people's marginality are typically conceptualised through different but singular lens of either biodiversity conservation, techno-managerial water management solutions, or lately climate change by different actors. Conversely, fishing communities advance a highly political discourse about the delta and situate their marginality in the historical socio-political processes and large-scale projects for taming the Indus River waters for agriculture development by the Pakistani state that reorganised their social space. This paper aims to understand how knowledge(s) about the Indus Delta are produced, legitimized, mobilized, and deployed to “solve” the “problems,” whereas other discourses such as those of the indigenous fishing communities remain marginal. It explores the consequences of this for people living in the delta.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 4","pages":"Pages 215-226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47318596","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":"Land, life, and emotional landscapes at the margins of Bangladesh, Éva Rozália Hölzle. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2022). 224 pp., ISBN: 978 94 6372 175 2","authors":"Khairul Chowdhury","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.04.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 4","pages":"Pages 275-276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48625471","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":"Neither global nor local: Reorienting the study of Islam in South Asia","authors":"Thahir Jamal Kiliyamannil","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.07.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2023.07.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The framework of ‘lived Islam’ overshadows the study of Islam in South Asia, presupposing a ‘local Islam’ against a ‘global Islam’. In the post-9/11 context, the global is immediately associated with the political and the political with the undesirable. On the other hand, the local is portrayed as peaceful, accommodative and, hence, desirable. Such teleological approaches produce a priori desire for the local and undermine the political, foreclosing Muslim political legitimacy. By shifting attention to the Muslim movements in Kerala, I emphasise the significance of the political and jurisprudence in the exploration of Muslim lives. I conclude that while the Muslim subjectivity is decisively framed within the constraints of security concerns, Hindu sensibility and modern citizenship, jurisprudence enables the Muslim subject to engage substantially within and beyond these constellations of power, imagining a sovereign register of Islamic ethos.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"51 4","pages":"Pages 244-251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44486278","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}