Times of Uncertainty

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Internal Stability ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
The World

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world to varying degrees. Moreover, different regions of the world have tried to combat the disease in a variety of ways. Since the beginning of the pandemic in Wuhan, China, the world has been looking in particular at South and Southeast Asia, where great successes were initially achieved in 2020. In 2021, however, the situation there has dramatically worsened. The book seeks explanations for this and tries to show how the different successes in combating the pandemic have affected international relations and the internal stability of the affected countries.

scholarly journals The Movement for Global Mental Health

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
Pharmaceutical Drugs ◽  
Biological Origin ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
The World

In this volume, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH), which seeks to export psychiatry throughout the world. They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that "mental disorders" can clearly be identified; that they are primarily of biological origin; that the world is currently facing an "epidemic" of them; that the most appropriate treatments for them normally involve psycho-pharmaceutical drugs; and that local or indigenous therapies are of little interest or importance for treating them. Instead, the contributors argue that labeling mental suffering as "illness" or "disorder" is often highly problematic; that the countries of South and Southeast Asia have abundant, though non- psychiatric, resources for dealing with it; that its causes are often social and biographical; and that many non-pharmacological therapies are effective for dealing with it. In short, they advocate a thoroughgoing mental health pluralism.

Water Loss Assessment and Remediation in South and Southeast Asia

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Liemberger
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Loss Assessment ◽  
Water Losses ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level

One of the major challenges facing water utilities around the world but especially in Low and Middle Income Countries (LAMIC) is the high level of water losses either through physical losses (leakage) or commercial losses (customer meter under-registration and theft of water in various forms). This difference between the amount of water put into the distribution system and the amount of water billed to consumers is known as “Non-Revenue Water” (NRW). Levels of NRW in South and Southeast Asia are among the highest in the world. This paper will give an update of the general NRW situation in the various countries and the ongoing remediation measures.

The Parallel Worlds of Seafarers

Meeting Place ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Davies
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
The World ◽  
Native Place ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
Ethnic Origins

In the godowns, shipping offices, chandleries and dockyards a medley of voice did business in a multiplicity of languages and dialects. The goods they handled, shipped in from all over the world, represented as many ways of seeing and being, eating and dressing, living and dying. Yet there were disconnections as well as connections in this interface of interfaces. This chapter describes how the colonial government set apart seamen of different ethnic backgrounds by issuing different sets of regulations for seamen’s boarding houses according to whether they were lascars (Indians, Malays and others from South and Southeast Asia), Chinese or Westerners. Deepening the divides was the strong native-place and dialect-basis principle under which Chinese boarding houses were organized, indicating a certain degree of segregation among the Chinese themselves. The separateness is also shown in the different church missions, which ministered to seamen according to their ethnic origins.

scholarly journals Daniel W. Brown A New Introduction to Islam, 2nd ed.

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-152
Author(s):  
Tauseef Ahmad Parray
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

A New Introduction to Islam is an excellent undergraduate textbook presentinga thorough history of Islam. It introduces students to the historyand development of Islamic studies as a discipline—showing how Islamicstudies has shaped our understanding of Islam—and it also examineshow the vibrant religious culture of the Near East produced a unique andbrilliant intellectual and religious tradition spanning the fields of Islamiclaw, theology, philosophy, and mysticism. In addition, it shows the waysin which the Islamic tradition has enriched the world, and in turn, how ithas been enriched by interaction with other civilizations. And against thebackground of social and cultural contexts that extend from North Africato South and Southeast Asia, it also considers the opportunities and challengesfacing Muslims today and provides a new and illuminating perspectiveof the development of Muslim beliefs and practices ...

From Southeast Asia to Indo-Pacific: How Far Indonesian Geostrategic Doctrine Shapes Its Position

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Jacob Junian Endiartia
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Government Administration ◽  
Middle Power ◽  
The World ◽  
Strategic Role

Geographically, Indonesia is one of country that has so many potentials. With its location between two continents and oceans, Indonesia could make strategic role in region and the world. Geostrategy of one country play an important role to its foreign policy and diplomacy. Indonesia has ‘national resilience’ as the national geostrategic doctrine. It will be interesting to study how far that geostrategic doctrine influences international relations of Indonesia. This study will discuss in several parts, from the role of Indonesia as a part of middle-power countries in different government administration to the position of Indonesia in the region because of its geostrategic doctrine.

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