Multidisciplinary Initiatives: Recent submissions
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Indonesia as an Archipelago: Managing Islands, Managing the Seas
Published 2009-01-01Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state. By the latest official count, the archipelago consists of 18,108 islands, which lie scattered between the mountainous island of Breueh in the west and tiny Sibir Island ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Fluid Boundaries: Modernity, Nation and Identity in the Riau Islands
Published 2009-01-01While there is growing scholarly interest in the everyday meanings and practices of nation building in Indonesia, there has been little consideration of the role the sea plays in drawing the nation together or in the ways ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Southern Sites of Female Agency: Informal Regimes and Female Migrant Labour Resistance in East and Southeast Asia
Published 2007-01-01This chapter focuses on FDWs’ collective activism and middle-class campaigns in sending and receiving countries in East and Southeast Asia around foreign domestic worker issues. The chapter begins with a brief overview of ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Emerging Labour Movements and the Accountability Dilemma: The Case of Indonesia
Published 2006-01-01This chapter begins by examining the arguments most often made about the differences between labor unions and labor NGOs and the effects those differences have on the nature and extent of their accountability to workers. ...Open AccessBook chapter