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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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