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Previous Issues
eSymposium (since 2011)
Volume 3, Issue 1 – 2013
- From The Editor
Kelvin Low, Vineeta Sinha - Social Movement, Conflict and Change
Partha Nath Mukherji - Multiple Belonging and the Challenges to Biographic Navigation
Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka - Migration, Displacement, and Precarity in a Globalised World
Habibul Haque Khondker - Post Card from Shahabag
Seuty Sabur - In Conversation with Professor Michael Douglass
Interview by George Jose
Volume 3, Issue 2 – 2013
- From The Editor
Kelvin Low, Vineeta Sinha - The Rights Illusion
Alice Nah - Secession in the Contemporary World
Ralph Premdas - Socio-economic and Health Impact of Labour Migration in Nepal
Yashoda Rijal - Tribal Identity, Religious Conversion and Violence in India
Sarbeswar Sahoo
Volume 2, Issue 1 – 2012
- From The Editor
Vineeta Sinha - Spatial Ethnic Diversity Patterns in Malaysia
Hans-Dieter Evers - Occupy Toronto
Zaheer Baber - The Sociology of Complex Emergencies
John Clammer - In Conversation with Dr. Raymond Lee
Yeoh Seng Guan - New Car Blessing
Srilata Ravi
Volume 2, Issue 2 – 2012
- From The Editor
Vineeta Sinha - Social Justice and Democratization in the 21st Century
Margaret Abraham - Social Mobility and Social Structure
Partha Nath Mukherji - Modern law, traditional 'Salish' and civil society activism in Bangladesh
Habibul Haque Khondker - Musical Knowledge and the Vernacular Past in Post-War Sri Lanka
Jim Sykes - Neoliberal Morality in Singapore
Teo You Yenn
Volume 2, Issue 3 – 2012
- From The Editor
Vineeta Sinha - Alternative Engagements with 'Homeland'
Mamta Sachan Kumar - Neofundamentalist Thought, Dakwah, and Religious Pluralism among Muslims in Singapore
Mohamed Imran bin, Mohamed Taib - 'Us' and 'Them', Ethnic Minority Gangs in the Singapore Prisons
Ganapathy Narayanan - Towards Internationalism: Beyond Colonial and Nationalist Sociologies
Sujata Patel
Volume 1, Issue 1 – 2011
- From The Editor
Vineeta Sinha - Engendered Capacity Building
Anurekha Chari-Wagh - Challenges of Autonomy in Higher Institutions of Learning in Kenya
Susan Mbula Kilonzo - “Yogi-doctors” and Occult Healing Arts
Makarand R. Paranjape - In Conversation with Professor Judith Ann Nagata
Christopher N. SelvaRaj - Lessons from North Africa
Dennis Smith
Volume 1, Issue 2 – 2011
- From the Editor
Vineeta Sinha - Global Sociology, Live!
Laleh Behbehanian and Michael Burawoy - The Church, The State And The Migrant in Singapore
Theresa W. Devasahayam - The Evolution of Syariah And Postcolonial Modernity: Embedding Malay Authority Through Statutory Law
Maznah Mohamad - The Gender of Democracy: Why It Matters In The Middle East And North Africa
Valentine M. Moghadam - Reflections for eSymposium
Reflections by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Volume 1, Issue 3 – 2011
- From the Editor
Vineeta Sinha - Letting the Other in, Queering the Nation
Ronie Parciack - Actually Existing Religious Pluralism in Kuala Lumpur
Yeoh Seng Guan - On the 'Vulnerability' of the Social Researcher
Noorman Abdullah - In Conversation with Professor Mike Featherstone
A De Dios and K Bhairannavar
e-bulletin (2005-10)
ISA e-bulletin has been published from 2005 till December 2010.
It is now published under the name of eSymposium.
Number 17, December 2010
View PDF- Beyond National Boundaries
Surendra Munshi, Biju Paul Abraham, and Soma Chaudhuri - Rizal and the Sociology of Colonial Society
Syed Farid Alatas - Academic Dependency and Scholarly Publishing among Social Scientists inSelected Universities in Nigeria
Ayokunle Olumuyiwa Omobowale - In Conversation with Maila Stivens
Interview by Seuty Sabur - ISA World Congress (Gothenburg, 11-17 July): A ‘Don Quixote’ in the Middle of Intellectual Inferno: Travels and Travails of a ‘Third World Sociologist’
Arnab Roy Chowdhury
Number 16, July 2010
View PDF- Humanism of Kabir and Gandhi : Their Relevance Today
Saral Jhingran - (Re)locating Northern Modernity: Lines of Tension of the Network Society Model, Looking at Possible Modernities
Vando Borghi - Women for Science in Brazil
Alice Abreu - In Conversation with Aihwa Ong
Interview by Vineeta Sinha
Number 15, March 2010
View PDF- Mapping Sociology’s International Pattern of Knowledge Production
Charles Crothers - The Multiple Crises of the French Universities and the Protest Movement of Spring 2009
Bruno Cousin and Michèle Lamont - Online Access, Consolidation, and the Resurgence of Academic Journals
Paul H. Kratoska - The Intellectual and Institutional Origins of JSEAH and JSEAS
Ho Chi Tim - In Conversation with Prof. Gavin W. Jones
Interview by Sarbeswar Sahoo
Number 14, November 2009
View PDF- Suicide Bombings: Homicidal Killing or a Weapon of War?
Riaz Hassan - Through Feminine Indigenous Eyes: A Palestinian-Bedouin Researcher Reflects on her Identity and Culture
Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder - Child Abuse in Theoretical Debates: Towards an Integrated Modelled Theory
Paulin Mbecke - In Conversation with Prof. Sujata Patel
Interview by Pooja Adhikari
Number 13, July 2009
View PDF- Challenges for Global Sociology: From the Evaluation of Sociology to the Sociology of Evaluation
Michael Burawoy - The Journal Impact Factor and Citation Rankings in Sociology:Nonsense or Necessity?
Melinda Mills - On the Internationalization of Brazilian Academic Sociology
Tom Dwyer - Resistance to Rating: Resource Allocation, Academic Freedom and Citizenship
Tina Uys - Policy-Driven Research, Audit Culture, and Power: Transforming Sociological Practices in the Philippines
Emma Porio - The International Benchmarking of Sociology: The Case of the UK
John Holmwood - Language, Nation State and Diversity: The Case of Sociology in Europe
Christian Fleck - In Conversation with Prof. Dennis Smith
Interview by Karen O Reilly
Number 12, March 2009
View PDF- To Laugh is to Resist? Palestinian Women Negotiating Meaning and Practice of Resistance
Sophie Richter-Devroe - Bedouin Resistance to the Imperial State: Memories from the Naqab during the British Mandate 1917-1948
Mansour Nsasra - Masculinities and the Occupation of the West Bank
Phil Leech - The Western Construction of a Religion: The Philippine Case (1521-1614)
Nicola Mapelli - In Conversation with Prof. Prasenjit Duara
Interview by Lee Kiat Jin
Number 11, November 2008
View PDF- Science and Society Forum: Science and Change
Syed Hussein Alatas - In Conversation with Michael Roberts
Interview by Sophia Rainbird - Murder Murals: A Cultural Adaptation to Urban Violence
James B. O’Kane, James M. O’Kane, and David Carbone - The 14th Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival (Nuoro, Sardinia, 15-21 September 2008)
Roxana Waterson
Number 10, July 2008
View PDF- God Verses Allah: Islam, Pentecostal Christianity and the Contest for PublicSpace in Kenya
Damaris Seleina Parsitau - Religion, Migration, and Confusion: Why Germany and the United States are so different
Michael Werz - In Conversation with Susan A. McDaniel
Interview by Jayme E. Day - Existential Choices faced by Sociologists-in-Training
Justin Lee - It’s Not Just about Food: Exploring the Ordinary Experience of Eating among Filipina Domestic Helpers in Singapore’s Lucky Plaza
Jayeel Serrano Cornelio
Number 9, March 2008
View PDF- Intellectual and Structural Challenges to Academic Dependency
Syed Farid Alatas - Can Microcredit be an Effective Strategy for Gender Mainstreaming?
Anurekha Chari - In Conversation with Elisio Macamo
Interview by Afe Adogame - What They Don’t Teach You at Graduate School
Alice M Nah - Three Months in the Field
Thomas Barker
Number 8, November 2007
View PDF- Southeast Asia as a Form of Knowledge: Locating Ethnicity in Southeast Asian Studies
Shamsul Abri - Conflicts in Fish Trade: A Study among the Riverine Fishing Communities in Kerala, India
Sunil D Santha - Rethinking Indian Villages: A Sociological Appraisal
Ashish Saxena - In Conversation with Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
Interview by Noorman Abdullah and Kelvin Low - Reflections on the Study of Habitus, Biography, NationState, and Trauma
Miri Gal-Ezer
Number 7, July 2007
View PDF- The 419 Code as Business Unusual: Youth and the Unfolding of the Advance Fee Fraud Online Discourse
Afe Adogame - Anti-Semitism and the Arabs
Riaz Hassan - In Conversation with Prof. Chua Beng-Huat
Interview by Sarbeswar Sahoo - Social Memory and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Cambodia: Anticipating What Lies Ahead
Vinita Ramani - Doing Fieldwork at “Home”: the Challenges of “Native” Anthropology
Thakur Sai Arun - The Challenges and Dilemmas of Starting Field Research
David Radford - The Sociology of Religion in China, with reference to the 4th International Symposium of the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Shanghai University 13–15 July 2007
Francis Lim
Number 6, March 2007
View PDF- Rubbing Along? The ‘English’ Drift into North West Wales
Angela Drakakis-Smith, Graham Day and Howard Davis - The Perils and Pitfall of Performance Ethnography
Douglas Farrer - In Conversation with Prof. Wang Gung Wu
Interview by Vineeta Sinha - The Age of New Paradigms
Wang Gungwu - Teaching Visual Ethnography in Singapore: The Potentials of Digital Video for Research in the Social Sciences
Roxana Waterson - Fieldwork and Teaching Contemporary Sociology: Some Experiences from Uganda
Peter Rwagara Atekyereza
Number 5, November 2006
View PDF- Escalating Accountability in the “Impossible Science”: Perils and Pitfalls
Susan McDaniel - Colonial Modernity, the Sociological Study of Religion, and Nineteenth Century Majoritarianism
Sujata Patel - Global Aspects of Professionalism : from defining traits to discourse of organizational control
Julia Evetts - In Conversation with Ms. Ela Gandhi
Interviewed by Vineeta Sinha - Constructing a 'Normal Identity Space' While Doing Field Work with the Bnei Sakhnin Soccer Team
Avipal Kotter - Sex in the Field: Anthropologists’ Sexual Involvement with the People in the Field
Satoshi Ota - Headnotes, Heartnotes and Persuasive Ethnography of Thai Migrant Workers in Singapore
Pattana Kittiarsa
Number 4, July 2006
View PDF- Communitarian Politics of the East
Chua Beng Huat - The Tamil Movement for Eelam
Michael Roberts - In Conversation with Prof. Syed Hussein Alatas
Interviewed by Patrick Pillai - Reflections on “Publishing and Academia” Writing, Politics and Business in the Academe: A View From Afar
Yeoh Seng-Guan - New Media and Representations of the Intellectual in the Network Society
Daniel Goh - Survivor Academia – Your Next Challenge is Publishing!
Julia Rozanova - The Journal Impact Factor and Citation Rankings in Sociology: Nonsense or Necessity?
Melinda Mills
Number 3, March 2006
View PDF- The Social Scene in India at the End of the Century
Prof. Madhav Sadashiv Gore - Biotechnology and Global Governance: Narratives of Risk, Uncertainty, and Responsible Expertise
Lynne Phillips and Suzan Ilcan - Projecting the Future: Some Implications of a Transformed US Military for the Third World
E. C. Ejiogu - In Conversation with Prof. Ueno Chizuko On Japanese Sociology: A Conversation with Ueno Chizuko
John Clammer - Reflections on ‘Globalization and Sociological Practices’ On Globalization, Combined and Uneven
József Böröcz - Challenges to Sociological Practices in India Today
Sujata Patel - Globalisation and Sociological Practice
Habibul Haq Khondker
Number 2, Autumn 2005
View PDF- Women as “Missing Persons” in Social and Political Theory
Lynn McDonald - In Conversation with Prof. Andre Beteille
Surendra Munshi - Academic Colonialism, Corporate Intellectuals, and ‘Lost’ Ideals: Reflections on the State of Sociology in the New Millennium
Noorman Abdullah and Kelvin E.Y. Low - Community and Civil Society
Erka Kosta - Sociological thinking or thinking sociologically?
José Eduardo Szwako
Number 1, Summer 2005
View PDF- Knowledge, Power, and Politics: The Role of an intellectual in an Age of Transition
Immanuel Wallerstein - Religion and Globalisation: Explaining Religio-ethnic Conflict
Bryan S. Turner - Tocqueville as an Enthnographer of American Prison Systems and Democratic Practice
Ananta Kumar Giri - From Classrooms to Field Sites: Qualitative Research and Sociology in the Philippines
Clemen C. Aquino - Teaching Sociology in Japan
John Clammer - Teaching Sociology: One Case, Many Challenges
Carlos Fortuna - Experiences in Using ‘Sketch Presentations’: Teaching Dynamics and Negotiations in Malay Households in Singapore
Suriani Suratman