This paper focuses on the phenomenon of gender occupational segregation, i.e. the uneven distribution of men and women across economic sectors and occupations in Taiwan. Examining male and female distribution in different occupations in 1996 and 2006, the paper illustrates…

This paper examines how yajña, a traditional Indian ritual involving sacrificial offerings into fire, has been reshaped through globalizing processes. Traditionally, yajña sacrifices, which can be traced back three thousand years, focused on individual needs such as good health, prosperity,…

Addressing the plight of refugees, whether ensuring their physical protection by preventing refoulement or providing material assistance, has both a rights dimension and a humanitarian dimension. The aim of this paper is to examine the ways in which the languages…

Among the more fascinating themes in contemporary South Asia has been the "success" of democracy in India and its "failure" in neighboring Pakistan. Yet studies of democratic politics in India and the military-dominated authoritarian state in Pakistan have rarely addressed…

This paper analyzes the impact of globalization on the religion, culture, and identity of Hindus in India. It describes how Hinduism, over epochs, adapted to outside influences and retained its unique character, but the sudden onslaught of globalization in our…

For more than two decades successive waves of People Power have acted as a paradoxical instrument of hegemony in the Philippines, serving to contain subversive social forces by reducing pressure for structural change from below. Much as Corazon Aquino forfeited…

This paper argues that globalization - in the sense of an increasing economic interconnectedness and cultural homogeneity - is a recent phenomenon linked to a long historical process with foundations in a specific religious doctrine: Neo-Calvinism. Free trade ideology was…

Territorial disputes in the South China Sea (SCS) have attracted significant attention in the international relations of the Asia-Pacific. Discourses often focus, however, on states as central actors, with sovereignty, national interests, and political and strategic calculations the key themes…

This paper focuses on the Mano River Basin in West Africa, Nigeria, Sudan/Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Great Lakes region of East Central Africa, and argues that the structure of ethno-religious conflicts in Africa, which are largely…

Taiwan and Japan share the related problems of an aging population and low fertility rate, both of which have contributed to labor shortages in their nations. Although the two countries have been importing workers from abroad to compensate for labor…