Editors’ Introduction: Belonging, Recognition, and Negotiated Futures in Asian Social Life

Asep Muhamad Iqbal

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

This issue of the Journal of Asian Social Science Research approachescontemporary Asia through the intertwined questions of belonging andrecognition. The five articles gathered here examine Indonesian atheists’search for civic moral ground, educational exclusion among the Hazarapeople in Afghanistan, misogynic culture in South Korea, IndonesianMuslim diaspora in Western countries, and more than five decades ofIndia–Bangladesh relations. Although they differ in subject matter, nationalsetting, and method, they share a common concern with how individuals,communities, and states negotiate dignity, legitimacy, and voice withinunequal social worlds.