Title: Asian families as sites of state politics: introduction
Abstract:Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements The papers in this special issue were first presented in April 2007 at a conference, ‘The Changing Asian Family as a Site of (...Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements The papers in this special issue were first presented in April 2007 at a conference, ‘The Changing Asian Family as a Site of (State) Politics’, co-organized by Youyenn Teo and Hsiu-hua Shen and hosted by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. For their support of the conference and/or feedback on various versions of this introduction, I thank Hsiu-hua Shen, Gavin Jones, Chee Heng Leng, Maznah Mohamad, Chua Beng Huat, Bryan S. Turner, Jan Newberry, Sheldon Garon, Chang Kyung-Sup, Mary Crabb and the anonymous reviewers at Economy and Society. Thanks also to Kelvin Kwok Wai Chia for excellent research assistance. Notes 1. See Muninggar Sri Saraswati (2005 Muninggar Sri Saraswati 2005 , July 4 . Susilo orders better family values . The Jakarta Post . [Google Scholar]). 2. There is a substantial body of critical feminist research that examines the role of states in (re)producing gender inequalities. Some of this work has of course advanced our understanding of how states are active producers of particular forms of families. For a recent and excellent example of this scholarship, see Haney and Pollard (2003 Haney , L. A. & Pollard , L. 2003 . Families of a new world: Gender, politics, and state development in a global context . New York : Routledge . [Google Scholar]). The bulk of scholarship on Asian political economy, however, rarely takes the family as a site for serious political analysis. Instead, attention centres on explicitly political activities such as elections and on policies that rest squarely in the economic realm.Read More
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
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