The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) recently held a seminar on “From the Sociology of the "Social" to the Sociology of the "Cultural": East-West Parallels and the Southeast Asian Context” by Distinguished Professor Victor King (IAS).For more information, please see the flyer below.

Assistant Professor Sanjeev Routray of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) has recently published a book with Stanford University Press entitled The Right to be Counted: The Urban Poor and The Politics of Resettlement in Delhi.The official description of the book is as follows:In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted examines how Delhi’s urban poor, in an effort to…

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to announce that two new researchers have joined its staff: Dr. Lisa Arensen and Dr. Nobumichi Teramura. Dr. Arensen, is an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development in Southeast Asia. Her research focuses on communities that have experienced environmental change, war, and displacement, particularly in Cambodia. Dr. Teramura is an Assistant Professor of ASEAN and Asia-Wide Regionalisation. His research focuses on legal integration in Asia and legal development for Southeast Asian nations severely affected by colonisation and the Cold War, including Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and…

Associate Professor Paul J. Carnegie of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) has just published a co-authored an introductory paper for a special issue of the Journal of Pacific Studies on the elections in Fiji (2018) and Solomon Islands (2019). To view this and the other papers in this special issue, please visit the Journal of Pacific Studies website. For more on Dr. Carnegie’s scholarship, please visit his IAS staff web page. Carnegie, P. J., Naidu, V. and Tarte, S. (2020). Elections and the chain of democratic choice. Journal of Pacific Studies, 40(2): 6-14.…

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