Article appraising the growth and development of three countries in the Southeast Asian region: Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia

This autumn CMI will host a mini-series of lectures on the social and political role of rights and legal institutions in Latin America.

Introduction: Nationalism in Southeast Asia Edyta Roszko and Claire Sutherland Nations and Nationali

Corrupt judicial systems undermine reforms and are a major impediment to ensuring access to justice and human rights for ordinary citizens across the world, says a new report published by the United Nations Development Programme and U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre on 8 April. Titled, A Transparent and Accountable Judiciary to Deliver Justice for All, the report cites survey data suggesting that the public perceive the judiciary as the second most corrupt public institution, after the police.

Special issue on 'Performing Sovereignty and Nationality in Southeast Asia' Edyta Roszko and Claire

Local entrepreneurs, networks and linkages to the global economy in Southeast Asia and Africa Debor

Across South Asia political dynasties are generally in decline. The Nehru-Gandhi dynasty of the Indian Congress Party and the Bhutto clan of the Pakistan ...

Tone Sissener defends her PhD at the University of Bergen Friday 25 April. In her dissertation Sissener analyses and explores the development and meaning of state in South-Asia.

Book review. Abu Shouk and H. Ibrahim, The Hadrami diaspora in Southeast Asia. Anne Katrine Bang In

Refugees in Asia: Problems and practices of asylum for Indochinese and Afghan refugees Astri Suhrke

The "high-politics" of population movements: Migration, state and civil society in Southeast Asia A

Despite economic growth, and a reduction in poverty, malnutrition is still rampant in South-Asia. This indicates that non-economic factors are important, ...

Nurturance and the Spectre of Negligence: Sasak Ways of Dealing with the Dead. Kari Telle Kinship a

Geographer focusing on GIS analysis and cartography to analyze and communicate socio-environmental issues.

Two different and basically conflicting visions of Afghanistan’s post-transition future were discernible by mid-2012. In one, Afghanistan’s ...

Aid Effectiveness to Infrastructure: A Comparative Study of East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa . Fr

Women''s rights and obligations within marriage are one of the key components of family law and is a highly sensitive political area of intervention across the globe both historically and presently. Despite massive pressures from feminist movements across the world, family law has been surprisingly stubborn to change. This workshop examines the relationship between family law reform and political transitions.

How do societies deal with gross human rights violations after the end of violent conflict? This symposium critically examines the justice and reconciliation processes by comparing the Norwegian post-World War II experience to more recent cases from Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Over the past decade, the study of so-called religious violence has evolved into a veritable cottage industry. Taking a critical view of the 'religious violence industry', this CMI seminar brings together two scholars, Faisal Devji and Kathinka Frøystad, whose historical and ethnographically informed research engages directly with the issues of 'religion' and 'violence.'

This paper focuses on ideology, gender and caste in Tamilnadu, South India. First the epistemological grounding of a critical feminist theory of ideology ...