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Author(s): Ann Brooks
ISBN(s): 9780415551090, 0415551099
Edition: 1
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Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415551099 
ISBN 13: 9780415551090
Author: Ann Brooks

Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously engaged with issues of intimacy, reflexivity and identity. The author analyses the relevance of these debates in the context of contemporary Asia and combines an analysis of significant social theorists including Beck, Giddens, Bourdieu, McNay, Adkins, and Ong with an application of these debates to social, political and cultural contexts. Drawing on empirical research, case studies, global reports, media and academic literature, the book provides a relevant, wide-ranging and contemporary analysis of the debates on Asian culture and society. In the Foreword to the book Bryan Turner comments: ‘Professor Brooks shows consequently that the intimate and emotional cultures that have been described by Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck with respect to the West have not arrived in Asia or at least that they have not become visible and permanent aspects of the social landscape.’

Social Theory in Contemporary Asia 1st Table of contents:

1. Contesting intimacy, reflexivity and identity in contemporary social theory

  • Introduction: models of intimacy and reflexivity in contemporary theorizing

  • Intimacy and social theorizing

  • Theorizing intimacy and reflexivity

  • Reflexivity and the transformation of gender identity

  • Modernity and traditional intimacies

  • Contesting intimacies and identities in social theorizing

  • Conclusion

2. Intimacy, reflexivity and identity in contemporary Asia

  • Introduction

  • Intimacy and sex in Asia

  • Cultural and political interventions in defining intimacy

  • Singlehood and childlessness

  • Modernity, ‘Asian family’ and ‘Asian values’

  • Intersections of gender, ethnicity and class formation in cosmopolitan Asia

  • ‘Postmodernization’ of identities

  • Gender, affluence and consumption in contemporary Asia

  • Conclusion

3. Reflexivity and the transformation of gender identity in cosmopolitan Asia

  • Introduction

  • Identity transformation, everyday practices and agency

  • The Singapore context

  • The transformative potential of critical reflexivity

  • Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)

  • Balancing family and work

  • Singlehood

  • Conclusion

4. Postmodern Confucianism, ‘moral economies’ and ‘biopolitical otherness’ in redefining intimacy and identity in Southeast Asia

  • Introduction

  • Asian values and an ‘imagined Asia’

  • Gender, Islamization and ‘veiling’ in Malaysia

  • ‘Moral economies’ and ‘biopolitical otherness’

  • Redefining the nature of intimacy and identity: social engineering the labour force

  • Female migrant domestic workers: the abuse of intimacy and identity

  • ‘Biopolitical otherness’

  • Human rights abuses: ‘technologies of sterility’, ‘incarceration’, ‘securitization’

  • Conclusion

5. Sex and ‘singlehood’ as a source of tension in contemporary Asia

  • Introduction

  • Demographic and social change in patterns of marriage, non-marriage, divorce and cohabitation

  • Trends in non-marriage patterns for East and Southeast Asia

  • Non-marriage and males

  • ‘Second wives’ and property rights

  • Fertility patterns in Southeast and East Asia

  • Singlehood, reflexivity and agency

  • Statistics on women remaining single

  • Negotiating singlehood: agency and identity

  • Reasons for remaining single

  • Cohabitation and sex

  • What alternative patterns are emerging in relation to singlehood, childlessness and intimacy?

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