E-Symposia

Technique and Sensitivity

Technique and Sensitivity

1st December 2014

The work plan, from which these considerations are made, deals with the consumption of old ... Read More

Sri Lanka in the Context of International Development and Global Politics

1st December 2014

Conflict, as much as cooperation, has been and will continue to be an integral part ... Read More

A Generation of Sociological Training

Prospects and Implications for Social Development in Ethiopia

1st December 2014

Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Africa, next to Nigeria, hosting over 90 ... Read More

Reflections on Publications and the ISA

1st December 2014

The post of ISA Vice-President for Publications (VP) is not, as one might expect, closely ... Read More

Modes of Professionalism

Inscribing Contemporary Dance in an African Context

1st December 2014

Speaking to a group of dance students from the West African region who had gathered ... Read More

Insider Research on Irregular Migration

Transnational Methodology and the Possibility of Multiple Roles

1st July 2014

The paper addresses the limits and opportunities on insider research of irregular migration. Different from ... Read More

Revisiting ‘Nativity’

Doing ‘Anthropology at Home’ in Rural Bangladesh

1st July 2014

Auto-anthropology is where an anthropologist works in his/her own society (Strathern, 1987: 17). It is ... Read More

Master Planning Singapore

From Bo Beh Kang to Queenstown

1st July 2014

In October 1956, J. M. Fraser, Chairman of the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT), officiated the ... Read More

“The Little Things”

Race as Social Problem or Social Phenomenon? Understanding Racial Identities from an Asian/White Perspective

1st March 2014

In 2000, for the first time, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the ... Read More

Localising the State

Gender Policies at Interfaces of Different Knowledge and Social Spaces in West Africa

1st March 2014

The paper aims at engendering development policies with regard to agency and knowledge arenas in ... Read More

Sexual Violence and Physical Health Problems of Married Women in Urban Iran

An Exploratory Research

1st March 2014

Sexual victimisation continues to be a major problem worldwide and patriarchal value system is helping ... Read More

Notes on the Familiar Stranger

Thinking Through Ambivalent Encounters in Public Spaces. Part One

1st March 2014

Thursday evening 6.30pm at the post office in Jurong Point. Standing in line, I notice ... Read More