Pub Date : 2022-08-19DOI: 10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.12
Gonzalo Maire
This article focuses on the study of the terms “collecting” or “collection”— particularly of the Asian type—in Chile, through the lens of the following working thesis: the term “collecting”, which involves both an acquisition practice and a particular relationship with its elements, has been fundamentally studied as an extension of, or in dependence to, the domain of the museum. This cardinal tenet involves, on the one hand, the decidability adopted by the phenomenon of collecting that is determined by its power to be registered or interpreted based on the enunciative dynamics of the museum field; on the other hand, I shall argue that this stems from its failure to constitute itself as an object which can exist outside the museum’s jurisdiction. Regarding this dependence or analogy of Asian Collecting on the area of influence of the museum, this investigation will describe the rules of formation which inform said dependence. By rules of formation, I shall refer to the possibility of a “language”, or special enunciation, dominion of the Museum over its objects, articulations, and its reproducible and verifiable scope areas. Specifically, two laws of museality will be developed in the present article, the museum’s heterotopia and the taxonomy of what is real. The Museum’s domain shall constitute, or rather, express, the positivity which is englobed in the concept of museality in reference to Michel Foucault’s definition. As such, this article focuses on the description of norms and rules which make up museality, and the manner in which Asian Collecting is subsumed to and made visible by the concept. For this article, catalogues of Asian collections—once belonging to private Chilean collectors—available in Chile will be used.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.17
Weihsin Gui
{"title":"BOOK REVIEW Mohammad A. Quayum (Ed.) Reading Malaysian Literature in English: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, 2021.","authors":"Weihsin Gui","doi":"10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies","volume":"104 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72505768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.11
Monica Renee Policarpio, Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach, Ana Grace R. Masalunga, F.P.A. Demeterio
Filipinos are said to have a higher appreciation for lighter skin complexion than the darker one. By manipulating the skin colours of some digitally created photographs of non-existent models, this article tested this Filipino attitude by surveying 527 respondents from Metro Manila. This research has not only validated the Filipinos’ appreciation for lighter skin complexion but also established the differences in how male and female respondents rate the attractiveness of light and dark-complexioned male and female models, as well as the differences in how respondents from Generations X and Z rate the attractiveness of the said clusters of models. This article has established the empirical significance in documenting the appreciation of Filipinos for the lighter skin colour and emphasising that aside from generational and sex variations, the sex variations of the models are major factors as well.
{"title":"GENERATIONAL AND SEX DIFFERENCES AMONG FILIPINOS IN METRO MANILA IN THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF THE ATTRACTIVENESS OF LIGHT AND DARKCOMPLEXIONED MALE AND FEMALE MODELS","authors":"Monica Renee Policarpio, Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach, Ana Grace R. Masalunga, F.P.A. Demeterio","doi":"10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"Filipinos are said to have a higher appreciation for lighter skin complexion than the darker one. By manipulating the skin colours of some digitally created photographs of non-existent models, this article tested this Filipino attitude by surveying 527 respondents from Metro Manila. This research has not only validated the Filipinos’ appreciation for lighter skin complexion but also established the differences in how male and female respondents rate the attractiveness of light and dark-complexioned male and female models, as well as the differences in how respondents from Generations X and Z rate the attractiveness of the said clusters of models. This article has established the empirical significance in documenting the appreciation of Filipinos for the lighter skin colour and emphasising that aside from generational and sex variations, the sex variations of the models are major factors as well.","PeriodicalId":42665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies","volume":"158 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77298199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.16
M. Hawkins
{"title":"BOOK REVIEW Paul Bijl, Grace V. S. Chin (Eds.). Appropriating Kartini: Colonial, National and Transnational Memories of an Indonesian Icon. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2020.","authors":"M. Hawkins","doi":"10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75379178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.15
Choo Chin Low
{"title":"BOOK REVIEW Sverre Molland. Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia. New York: Routledge, 2022.","authors":"Choo Chin Low","doi":"10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42665,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89615731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.10
C. Hoon, Maria Fermin
Using qualitative data collected from interviews with Filipino-Malay Bruneian biracial informants, this article examines the identity conundrum that is grounded in their individual liminal experiences. Growing up in a bicultural family in a conservative society, the Filipino-Malay Bruneian identity is a complex phenomenon as they negotiate their Muslim identity while preserving their Filipino culture. By narrating the shifting identity and boundary crossing among the Filipino-Malay Bruneian individuals, this article discusses the ways they respond to the dominant discourse in the Bruneian social and cultural contexts that perceive identity as singular, fixed, and essentialist. It unpacks the different dimensions of their life experiences, including their struggles with persistent racial and class stereotype of being “anak amah” (child of a maid). Finally, the article analyses how our informants negotiate identity conflicts in their everyday practices and provides nuanced insights into the complexity of the Filipino-Malay Bruneian identity.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.14
Raja Iskandar Raja Halid
Since the thirteenth century, longstanding connections between tariqa (Sufi Orders) and Malay Sultanates brought new Islamic knowledge and practices which were fused with local traditions. The coming of Islam also brought the nobat musical ensemble and religious-related musical practices. From the court of Pasai, North Sumatera, the ensemble later spread to other parts of the Malay world and was still played in the succeeding Aceh sultanate in the early seventeenth century. Evidence for this exists in the court manual, Adat Aceh, which details the use of music in royal religious processions and the practice zikir by the Sultan and his subjects. The Sufi spiritual performativity continued in the 1980s at the court of Perak with the introduction of the Naqshbandi Haqqani tariqa, where certain devotional-musical practices such as zikir, qasida, and mawlid were occasionally performed. However, the nobat was not used in these Sufi practices but replaced by percussion-based musical ensembles. Both these Naqshbandi Sufi tariqa were theologically contested, and their esoteric doctrines were considered blasphemous by those with religious power. This article examines the parallel existence of two Malay sultanates in different times, their connections to branches of Sufi tariqa, musical practices and the contestations that ensued.
自13世纪以来，塔里卡(苏菲派)和马来苏丹国之间的长期联系带来了新的伊斯兰知识和实践，这些知识和实践与当地传统融合在一起。伊斯兰教的到来也带来了新的音乐合奏和与宗教有关的音乐实践。从北苏门答腊的帕赛宫廷开始，这种合奏后来传播到马来世界的其他地方，并在17世纪早期的亚齐苏丹国继续演奏。这方面的证据存在于宫廷手册《Adat Aceh》中，该手册详细描述了苏丹及其臣民在皇家宗教游行中使用音乐以及zikir的做法。20世纪80年代，随着Naqshbandi Haqqani tariqa的引入，苏菲派的精神表演在霹雳州的宫廷继续进行，在那里，某些虔诚的音乐实践，如zikir, qasida和mawlid偶尔会表演。然而，nobat并没有在这些苏菲派实践中使用，而是被以打击乐为基础的音乐合奏所取代。这两个Naqshbandi Sufi tariqa在神学上都有争议，他们的深奥教义被那些拥有宗教权力的人认为是亵渎。本文考察了两个马来苏丹国在不同时期的平行存在，他们与苏菲教派分支的联系，音乐实践和随之而来的争论。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-25DOI: 10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.9
D. Loo, Linda Lagason
In 2018, after winning the Malaysian general elections, Pakatan Harapan (PH) offered a promise to address the issue of statelessness. To better understand the premise of this promise, this study analysed the framing of stateless children in Sabah by conducting a corpus analysis of news articles published online in 2019. Specifically, the researchers created a corpus of 80 news articles from local and regional news portals that provided free access to their news items. The corpus was analysed using AntConc, and five keywords were identified based on their keyness level, which was determined through a comparison with the top 5,000 words from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The keywords served as frames, and they were further conceptualised through their collocates. Through the analysis of the frames and their characterisation, stateless children were portrayed as having restrictive access to education and healthcare, and without the possibility of being legally adopted. Furthermore, while help has been rendered by different agencies or key individuals, this has been done based on the grounds of morality that aim to spur charitable actions, but without offering any impactful legal solutions. Another valuable finding from this study was that all the news portals analysed shared the same sentiment against the stateless children, similar to that held by PH. Not only do the findings of this study provide a comprehensive view through the analysis of various news portals, it also offers evidence explaining why the stateless population and children in Sabah have been perpetually stuck in statelessness.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-15DOI: 10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.3
A. Kumpoh
The global outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic caused unforgiving circumstances, compromising the socioeconomic well-being of migrant workers. In this context, drawing upon qualitative interviews with South Asian male migrant workers in elementary occupations and sales and service roles in Brunei Darussalam, this paper investigates their lived experiences in the country during the pandemic. This paper employs the conceptual lens of diaspora and moral economy, specifically moral remittance, to reveal their connection to their homeland and the ways they demonstrate their responsibility and obligation to their families. Twenty-three research participants were recruited via purposive and snowball sampling techniques, and the interview data were audio-recorded and transcribed before the data analysis. Adopting Clarke and Braun’s (2013) phases of thematic analysis, the interview data were rigorously analysed through the meaning-making process and to explore new themes that underscore the distinctive contribution of the local environment to the lived experiences of the participants. Three prominent themes that capture their experience during the pandemic were identified: employment security, concern for oneself and family, and the responsibility to provide care and protection, which were manifested through remittance and continuing engagement with their families. The subsequent data analysis also reveals that these themes are indeed conscious expressions of responsibility and moral obligation due to the deteriorating pandemic situation in their home country that exacerbated their families’ economic vulnerability and challenging livelihood.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-15DOI: 10.21315/ijaps2022.18.2.7
J. Ferdous, A. Ullah
Migration has appeared as a constitutive aspect of global reality today. While the COVID-19 pandemic has spared no single community, the migrant population has been the hardest hit. The woes of this population have been exacerbated by imposed immobility, restrictions, xenophobic treatment, residential status, poor living conditions, and limited access to health and protection. Millions of jobs have vanished. Millions of migrants got stranded either in their destination or origin countries and are unsure if they can return to their work. Against this backdrop, they try to stand up by seeking resilience. This study looks into how migrants in varying situations—those who returned home, those trapped in transit, and those who remained in the host nations—gain stability in the devastating pandemic. While a wealth of literature has been generated, the issue of migrants’ resilience has received little attention. This article employs content analysis to examine the gravity of the impact of the pandemic on the migrants and the process of developing their resilience. This article contributes to the broader debate about the dynamics of migration, COVID-19, and resilience. This research has implications for the policymakers of both the receiving and sending countries.
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