Islamic Identity in Chiang Mai City
| Author | : Suthēp Sunthō̜nphēsat |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Chiang Mai (Thailand) |
| ISBN | : 9789746727662 |
Islamic Identity In Chiang Mai City
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Urban Narratives: Exploring Identity, Heritage, and Sustainable Development in Cities
| Author | : Mohd Fairuz Shahidan |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 389 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3031485173 |
Spaces of Exception
| Author | : Myint Myint Kyu |
| Publisher | : ศูนย์บริหารงานวิจัย สำนักงานมหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่ |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2018-02-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 6163982177 |
The Union of Myanmar (also known as Burma) is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world. One hundred and thirty-fi ve distinct indigenous groups are offi cially recognized by the government, although this number is believed by many experts to be an underestimate, and the country’s fi rst nationwide census since 1941 is not scheduled to be completed until 2014. Th roughout its existence as a sovereign state following independence from British colonization in 1948, the country has experienced a complex set of confl icts between the national military and various ethnic groups seeking greater autonomy from the Burman-dominated central government. Th e military capacity and influence of the ethnic nationalists has declined signifi cantly over the past two decades, and many armed ethnic groups have entered into ceasefi re agreements with the central government. In exchange for laying down their arms against the Burmese military and agreeing to open their areas to Burman-led development projects, various ethnic factions have been granted at least partial de facto administrative authority over the regions in which they predominate.
Buddhist-Muslim Relations in a Theravada World
| Author | : Iselin Frydenlund |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2020-02-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9813298847 |
This book is the first to critically analyze Buddhist-Muslim relations in Theravada Buddhist majority states in South and Southeast Asia. Asia is home to the largest population of Buddhists and Muslims. In recent years, this interfaith communal living has incurred conflicts, such as the ethnic-religious conflicts in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Experts from around the world collaborate to provide a comprehensive look into religious pluralism and religious violence. The book is divided into two sections. The first section provides historical background to the three countries with the largest Buddhist-Muslim relations. The second section has chapters that focus on specific encounters between Buddhists and Muslims, which includes anti-Buddhist sentiments in Bangladesh, the role of gender in Muslim-Buddhist relations and the rise of anti-Muslim and anti-Rohingya sentiments in Myanmar. By exploring historical fluctuations over time—paying particular attention to how state-formations condition Muslim-Buddhist entanglements—the book shows the processual and relational aspects of religious identity constructions and Buddhist-Muslim interactions in Theravada Buddhist majority states.
Rising China’s Soft Power in Southeast Asia: Impact on Education and Popular Culture
| Author | : Leo Suryadinata |
| Publisher | : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2024-07-24 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9815203045 |
The book addresses the issues of China’s soft power in Southeast Asia during the rise of China. This soft power includes Chinese language education and popular culture. With regard to Chinese education, prior to the rise of China, Chinese schools were catered to mainly overseas Chinese children. Non-Chinese seldom received Chinese education. However, the rise of China and the export of Confucius Institutes (CIs) changed the landscape as CIs are meant for the non-Chinese population as well. China’s educational soft power penetrated the larger non-Chinese community, making Chinese soft power more effective. Chinese popular culture has also infiltrated the non-Chinese population. Various chapters in this book show that rising China’s soft power in Southeast Asia has grown quite significantly, particularly in terms of the Chinese language and Chinese popular culture. Nevertheless, its popularity still lags behind American soft power. The Chinese language is still not as popular as the English language. The same could also be said for Chinese popular culture. The growth of China’s soft power faces tremendous challenges in the Southeast Asian region. Its further growth would depend on China’s continuous economic power and cordial relations with the Southeast Asian countries.
Impact of China's Rise on the Mekong Region
| Author | : Yos Santasombat |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2015-06-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1137476222 |
This volume presents a contemporary analysis of the impact of China's rise on the Mekong Region at a critical point in Southeast Asian history. As the most populated country and the second largest economy in the world, China has become an increasingly influential player in global and regional affairs in recent decades. Economic ties between China and her southern neighbors are particularly strong. Yet relations between China and the Mekong region are embedded in complex socio-cultural and political issues. China's accelerated growth, increasing economic footprint, rapid military modernization, and global search for energy, natural resources, and food security have created a wide range of new challenges for smaller countries in Southeast Asia. These new challenges both encourage and limit cooperation between China and the emerging ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). The authors pay close attention to these challenges with particular focus on the impact of Chinese investment, trade, foreign aid, and migration.
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 21:4
| Author | : Carool Kersten |
| Publisher | : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process.
Who is who in Social Science Research in Thailand
| Author | : Choompol Swasdiyakorn |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Social sciences |
| ISBN | : |
The Muslims of Thailand
| Author | : Michel Gilquin |
| Publisher | : Silkworm Books |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Thailand is usually closely associated with Buddhism, but since 1998 the country has been one of the observer members of the Islamic Conference Organization, and senior figures in the present and previous governments have been Muslim. Some 8 percent of the population is Muslim, and in the three southernmost provinces of the country they constitute a majority. Islam is ever more visible in Bangkok, where the demographic increase of Muslims is marked. Michel Gilquin, a sociologist specializing in the study of Muslim societies and a resident of Morocco, examines the origins of Islam in the kingdom of Siam, Muslim integration into the Thai nation, and the effects of globalization and modernity on a mostly traditional and rural community. In particular he considers the weight of history of the old sultanate of Patani on the present-day Yawi-speaking majority in Narathiwat, Yala, and Pattani, and the circumstances leading to "the troubles" which erupted in 2004 and which, alas, continue. Without proposing any solutions, the book explains the background to the present impasse, and considers how far integration of the minority has been, and can be, successful.
