Strong and weak media? On the representation of 'terorisme' in contemporary Indonesia
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Study of the mainstream Indonesian print and online media coverage of the JW Marriott hotel bombing, the Bali bombing and the Christmas Eve bombings are illustrated. The Indonesian media seems to be undergoing certain transformations as it comes to grips with a foreign discourse, the broadly western discourse on terrorism, and this transformation is mainly due to the growing accessibility of the Internet to media practitioners in developing nations.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2006
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Tuberculosis, housing and the colonial state: Hong Kong, 1900-1950
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The continuity between pre-Second World War and post-Second World War government housing policy is explored. The relation of this continuity to the nature of the colonial state of Hong Kong is examined with the help of the government responses to tuberculosis in Hong Kong.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2003
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Property rights dynamics and indigenous communities in Highland Kerala, South India: an institutional-historical perspective
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The article examines the processes of transition of property rights in land and forests in Wyanad, Highland Kerala and the impact of external forces and institutions over time on the system.
Publication Name: Modern Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0026-749X
Year: 2007
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