Volume 1- 2011

Issue 1

• 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

Issue 2

• 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

ISA e-bulletin has been published from 2005 till December 2010. It is now published under the name of eSymposium.

Number 17, December 2010

• 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 in Selected 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

• 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

• Mapping Sociology’s International Pattern of Knowledge
  Production
  Charles Crothers
  
• The Multiple Crises of the French Universities and the ProtestMovement 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• God Verses Allah: Islam, Pentecostal Christianity and the Contest for Public Space 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 4thInternational Symposium of the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Shanghai University 13–15 July 2007 
  Francis Lim

Number 6, March 2007

• 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 Experiencesfrom Uganda
  Peter Rwagara Atekyereza

Number 5, November 2006

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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