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  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025)

    This issue of JASSR Vol. 7, No. 2 (2025) is about how authority, legitimacy, and vulnerability are negotiated in contemporary Asian societies. It examines the everyday sites where people decide who should be trusted, whose voice counts, how institutions gain or lose credibility, and how communities respond to uncertainty, inequality, and moral conflict. The articles approach these questions through diverse cases: mosque imams and online extremism in Pakistan, Islamic iconization and political memory in Madura, divorced women’s experiences in Bangladesh, Indonesia’s role in ASEAN gender mainstreaming, food safety-net delivery in Bangladesh, and apology diplomacy in Philippine tourism. Taken together, the issue shows that contemporary Asia is shaped not only by states, markets, and formal institutions, but also by lived struggles over trust, care, recognition, religious authority, gender justice, welfare, and public accountability.

  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 7 No. 1 (2025)

    This issue of JASSR Vol. 7, No. 1 (2025) is about how people across contemporary Asia respond to change under unequal and uncertain conditions. It focuses on the everyday forms of agency through which students, migrants, conflict-affected communities, language learners, and women educators negotiate pressure, vulnerability, and aspiration. The articles examine AI use among international students, informal railway settlements in the Philippines, the Naxalite conflict in India, Indonesia–Malaysia historical relations, Korean language learning among Indonesian students, and the resilience of Afghan women teachers. Together, they show that social transformation in Asia is shaped not only by large forces such as states, markets, technologies, and institutions, but also by ordinary practices of learning, moving, remembering, adapting, supporting one another, and imagining better futures.

  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 6 No. 2 (2024)

    JASSR Vol. 6, No. 2 (2024) examines how people across Asia encounter power in everyday life and seek dignity within changing institutions. Moving from the Manipuri and Bishnupriya communities in Bangladesh to Benda Kerep village in Cirebon, from Indonesian Islamic higher education to narcotics law reform, from resettled rural workers in Vietnam to becak drivers’ views of Sharia enforcement in Aceh, the issue asks how identities are defended, traditions are adapted, gendered barriers are challenged, laws are reimagined, livelihoods are rebuilt, and religious regulations are judged from below. Together, the articles show that governance is not experienced only through formal policy, but lived through recognition, exclusion, adaptation, negotiation, and the everyday search for fairness.

  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 6 No. 1 (2024)

    This JASSR Vol. 6, No. 1 (2024) presents the themes of labour, care, and just transitions in contemporary Asia. It approaches the issue as an inquiry into how digital, climate, energy, poverty-reduction, and care transitions reshape everyday lives, redistribute risks, and raise questions of fairness. The articles examine short-video entrepreneurship among Chinese smallholder farmers, climate education in Indonesia, Laos’s hydropower geopolitics, community resource mobilization among Dao households in Vietnam, and childcare facilities for working mothers in Dhaka. Together, they show that transition is not only a matter of technology, policy, or growth, but also a social process experienced through labour, welfare, ecological awareness, gender equality, community capacity, and the uneven burdens of development.

  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 5 No. 2 (2023)

    The JASSR Vol. 5, No. 2 (2023) presents an inquiry into legitimacy, recognition, and everyday judgment in Asian societies. The issue brings together studies on populist party politics in India and Japan, Indonesia’s Chinese minority, public perceptions of Rodrigo Duterte’s leadership in the Philippines, customer satisfaction models in e-commerce, women’s education under the Taliban, and Qur’anic family life in Afghanistan. Together, the articles show how power becomes credible, contested, or morally judged in concrete social settings. The issue highlights the value of Asian social science that connects institutions, markets, families, public debates, and lived experience.

  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 5 No. 1 (2023)

    This issue of the Journal of Asian Social Science Research approaches contemporary Asia through the intertwined questions of belonging and recognition. The five articles gathered here examine Indonesian atheists’ search for civic moral ground, educational exclusion among the Hazara people in Afghanistan, misogynic culture in South Korea, Indonesian Muslim diaspora in Western countries, and more than five decades of India–Bangladesh relations. Although they differ in subject matter, national setting, and method, they share a common concern with how individuals, communities, and states negotiate dignity, legitimacy, and voice within unequal social worlds.

  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 4 No. 2 (2022)

    The JASSR Vol. 4, No. 2 (2022) presents a reflection on transition, vulnerability, and social response across Asian and adjacent contexts. The issue brings together studies on risky behaviours among first-year university students in South Africa, online classrooms in Bangladesh during COVID-19, food innovation and local social movements in Lebak, the Wetu Telu community in Lombok, and India’s role in democratic restoration in the Maldives. Together, the articles show how people and institutions respond to uncertainty through adaptation, negotiation, local initiative, religious-cultural reinterpretation, and political repair. The issue highlights the value of social science that moves between structure and agency, showing that transformation is often lived through ordinary practices, institutional pressures, and community efforts to preserve meaning and create possibility.

     

  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 4 No. 1 (2022)

    This issue of JASSR (Vol. 4, No. 1, 2022) is a reflection on how power is organized, normalized, and challenged across different Asian contexts. The issue brings together studies on centrism in social media research, school leadership and identity politics in multicultural Indonesia, adat courts in Indonesia’s judiciary system, Muslim social movements in early twentieth-century Cirebon, and democratic erosion in India. Together, the articles show that institutions and ideas cannot be understood only through formal structures or public rhetoric. They must also be examined through history, culture, exclusion, resistance, and lived experience. The issue highlights the value of Asian social science that is historically attentive, conceptually critical, and ethically responsive to struggles over plurality, justice, and democratic life.

  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 3 No. 2 (2021)

    Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR), Volume 3, Number 2, 2021, appears in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, yet it is not only a pandemic issue. The pandemic is present as context, pressure, and historical condition, but the articles gathered here are interested in something wider: how societies respond when existing arrangements are tested. They ask how institutions learn, how information systems fail or adapt, how vulnerable groups are included or left behind, how small enterprises mobilize digital tools, and how digital capitalism reorganizes labour and value. This issue is therefore about crisis, but also about connectivity. Connectivity appears as administrative learning through overseas training, as information flow during an infodemic, as the fragile link between people with intellectual disabilities and public services, as online consumption networks for small and medium enterprises, and as platform-mediated labour on YouTube. In each case, connection offers possibility, but never without hierarchy. It can enable coordination and survival, yet it can also reproduce exclusion, misinformation, dependency, and alienation.

  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021)

    How do societies negotiate authority when familiar institutions are unsettled by environmental pressure, technological change, religious contestation, democratic uncertainty, and the search for public trust? This issue of the Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR), Vol. 3, No. 1, 2021, invites that question through six studies grounded largely in Indonesia, but relevant to wider Asian debates. The articles examine environmental challenges and the social study of religion; the symbolism of hijab in the Tarbiyah movement; the involvement of the Indonesian National Armed Forces in the Citarum Harum water-governance project; the social dimensions of education in the era of the Internet of Things and the COVID-19 pandemic; higher education, national character, and religious moderation; and public legitimacy in the 2020 West Sumatra regional election. What connects them is not a single topic, but a shared attention to how public life is organized through institutions, beliefs, symbols, policies, technologies, and civic trust.

  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 2 No. 2 (2020)

    The issue of the Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR), Vol. 2, No. 2, 2020, asks us to pay attention to the different faces of authority, not as abstractions, but as lived arrangements that shape political loyalty, gendered aspiration, religious commitment, and everyday conduct. It brings together five studies that are diverse in subject but closely connected in their deeper concern. They examine the political crossover of Islamic conservatism in Indonesia’s 2019 presidential election, the changing dynamics of local elections in post-Suharto Indonesia, the experiences of Muslim women academics in Indonesian state Islamic higher education, the role of women in Tablighi Jamaat’s masturah propagation in East Java, and Haji Hasan Mustapa’s Malay etiquette guidebook for Acehnese people under Dutch colonial rule. Read together, the articles show that power is never sustained by formal institutions alone. It depends on symbols, narratives, networks, gendered expectations, local brokerage, moral discipline, and historical memory.

  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020)

    The JASSR Vol. 2, No. 1 (2020) presents a reflection on marginalization, moral authority, and social change across Asia and the Global South. The issue brings together studies on Roma marginalization in post-communist Bulgaria, grounded Islamic feminism in Indonesia, liberal-progressive Muslim reformism, Sasak anti-colonial resistance in Lombok, and debates over top-down and bottom-up development. Together, the articles show how communities respond to exclusion not only through suffering, but also through reinterpretation, activism, resistance, and institutional negotiation. The issue highlights social science’s capacity to recover voices from the margins and to examine how more dignified and inclusive futures are imagined.

     

  • Journal of Asian Social Science Research
    Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019)

    This inaugural issue of JASSR opens a scholarly conversation on Islam, society, and knowledge in Asian social science. Its five articles examine sharia and citizenship in Indonesia and Malaysia, repression and subjectivity in Babel, the contrasting Islamic political thought of Abdurrahman Wahid and Ayatollah Khomeini, Indonesian Muslim wedding rituals in the Netherlands, and knowledge transmission in Pesantren Miftahul Huda. Together, they show how religion, law, ritual, political authority, migration, education, and cultural texts shape social meaning across different settings. As a first edition, the issue is more than a collection of studies; it marks the journal’s commitment to grounded, comparative, and intellectually open scholarship that links local cases to wider debates in Asian social science.