Book Review: State of Authority: The State in Society in Indonesia, Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions, Ethno-Religious Violence in Indonesia: From Soil to God, Islamic Spectrum in Java, the Sociology of Southeast Asia: Transformations in a Developing Region

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-368
Author(s):  
Michael Buehler ◽  
Jonathan Rigg ◽  
Claire Q. Smith ◽  
Konstantinos Retsikas ◽  
Maila Stivens
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Leni Winarni

Regarding Southeast Asia as a multi-ethnics region, this paper attempts to examine about why Buddhist Community turns into religious violence against Rohingyas in the State of Rakhine (formerly known as Arakan). Through understanding the triggers of conflicts, this paper applies historical perspective to analyze why ethnic-religious conflict occur nowadays between Buddhist and Rohingya in Myanmar. This paper also discusses how the influence of history has constructed the government’s policy under military regime to exclude Rohingya. However, the ethno-religious conflict is either an indication of a weak state or failure state in managing diversity.Key words: Ethnic-


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ferdinan ◽  
Moses Glorino Rumambo Pandin

AB Susanto, a writer, wrote a book entitled Management of State Defense: A Modern Approach to Becoming a Great Nation (Manajemen Bela Negara: Pendekatan Modern Menjadi Bangsa yang Besar). Writing this book aims to facilitate understanding for all levels of society regarding state defense management in a broader perspective. The management of state defense more broadly includes the meaning, causes, elements, history, and challenges in defending the state; the condition of the Indonesian nation; main character and role mismatch; what it takes to become a great nation; the existence of economic growth; foreign policy and diplomacy capabilities; multicultural society as an asset; and disaster management as part of defending the nation. The book “Management of State Defense: A Modern Approach to Becoming a Great Nation” is intended by the author for all levels of society, from students, teachers, athletes, technicians, doctors, businessmen, and government officials. The target of the wider community is due to the various capacities and roles of the community. Thus, the community can manage this diversity by implementing the right state defense strategy. This book describes the problem of state defense management from a broader and deeper perspective. The state defense management presented includes the concept of defending the state (to equalize perceptions), the actors who play a role in protecting the state (not only in the form of the Military and Police), and the impacts caused in defending the state. Of course, the information is presented with light language and actual illustrations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quraysha Bibi Ismail Sooliman

This paper considers the effect of violence on the emotions of IS fighters and the resultant consequences of those emotions as a factor in their choice to use violence. By interrogating the human aspect of the fighters, I am focusing not on religion but on human agency as a factor in the violence. In this regard, this paper is about reorienting the question about the violence of IS not as “religious” violence but as a response to how these fighters perceive what is happening to them and their homeland. It is about politicising the political, about the violence of the state and its coalition of killing as opposed to a consistent effort to frame the violence into an explanation of “extremist religious ideology.” This shift in analysis is significant because of the increasing harm that is caused by the rise in Islamophobia where all Muslims are considered “radical” and are dehumanised. This is by no means a new project; rather it reflects the ongoing project of distortion of and animosity toward Islam, the suspension of ethics and the naturalisation of war. It is about an advocacy for war by hegemonic powers and (puppet regimes) states against racialised groups in the name of defending liberal values. Furthermore, the myth of religious violence has served to advance the goals of power which have been used in domestic and foreign policy to marginalise and dehumanise Muslims and to portray the violence of the secular state as a justified intervention in order to protect Western civilisation and the secular subject.


NASPA Journal ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Kraft Fussell

The newest book in the New Directions for Student Services series from Jossey-Bass, "New Challenges for Greek Letter Organizations: Transforming Fraternities and Sororities into Learning Communities," examines issues surrounding Greek letter organizations and their educational value.


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