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Journal of Asian Social Sciences Research
Published by Centre for Asian Social Science Research
ISSN : 27219399     EISSN : -     DOI : doi.org/10.15575/jassr
Core Subject : Social,
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Journal of Asian Social Science Research is a peer-reviewed and open access publication since 2019. It aims to contribute to the development of Asian social science by providing a forum for researchers, academics and policy-makers to publish their research on the broad problems on Asian social science. The Journal seeks to publish original research articles and review papers that deal with issues in Asian social science including sociology, anthropology, political science, public administration, education, communication studies, media studies, religious studies, history, and cultural studies. The journal also has strong interest in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies on social science in Asia and related to Asia. The Journal is published twice a year by the Centre for Asian Social Science Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, Indonesia. The Journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
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Editors’ Introduction: Margins, Moral Authority, and the Work of Social Change Asep Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): Journal of Asian Social Science Research
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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.  
Editors’ Introduction: Opening Conversations on Islam, Society, and Knowledge in Asian Social Science Asep Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 1 No. 1 (2019): Journal of Asian Social Science Research
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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.
Walls of Resistance: Graffiti, Language, and Student Protest in the July Movement at Dhaka University Md Sabbir Hossain
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR)
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AbstractUniversity campuses are important sites of student protest, yet limited attention has been paid to how multilingual graffiti functions as political discourse within campus movements. This study examines graffiti produced during the July Movement at Dhaka University to determine how linguistic and semiotic choices shaped political expression, student identity, and activism. Using a qualitative design, the study combines field observation, photographic documentation, content analysis of 18 graffiti samples from different campus locations, and interviews with eight students representing supportive, oppositional, and mixed views. The analysis focuses on borrowing, expression borrowing, code-switching, code-mixing, adaptation, morphological variation, and semiotic meaning across Bangla, English, Persian, Urdu, and Spanish. The findings show that graffiti transformed campus walls into a contested linguistic landscape through which students expressed resistance, solidarity, anger, satire, and collective memory. Code-switching and code-mixing connected local grievances with broader activist vocabularies, while borrowed and adapted expressions linked the movement to historical and transnational repertoires of resistance. The study contributes to protest-language and linguistic-landscape scholarship by demonstrating how multilingual campus graffiti makes activism visible, memorable, and politically contested. It concludes that graffiti should be understood as both a communicative resource and a site of struggle over meaning, identity, and public memory.
Educational Policy, Power, and Gender Inequality in Afghan Secondary Education under Taliban Rule Bibi Zainab Nasiri
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR)
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Abstract Since the Taliban’s return to power in 2021, restrictions on girls’ secondary education in Afghanistan have intensified gender inequality and reinforced political control. Although existing studies document these restrictions, less attention has been given to how education policy operates as a mechanism of patriarchal authority and how affected communities respond. This study examines how current policies restrict girls’ access to secondary schooling, shape their experiences, and sustain wider structures of gendered power. Using a qualitative design, it draws on interviews with female students and teachers from four Afghan provinces, supported by policy documents, NGO reports, and academic literature. The findings indicate that educational exclusion is legitimized through religious and cultural narratives that strengthen male-dominated authority. Participants reported psychological distress, diminished aspirations, unequal treatment, curriculum limitations, and exclusion from decision-making. At the same time, girls, teachers, families, and reform-oriented actors pursued online learning, underground schools, female-led learning spaces, and advocacy framing girls’ education as both an Islamic and human right. The study contributes to debates on gender, education, and authoritarian power by showing how schooling can function as social control. It concludes that restoring access requires inclusive policy reform, protection for alternative learning, and women’s participation in educational governance.  
Silent Suffering and Structured Vulnerability: Rohingya Women in Bangladesh’s Refugee Camps Md. Sohorab Hossain Hossain; Nishat Tabassum
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR)
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Abstract Since the 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar, Rohingya women and girls in Bangladesh’s refugee camps have faced prolonged displacement, statelessness, and insecurity. Although the Rohingya crisis is widely discussed as a humanitarian emergency, its gendered dimensions remain insufficiently examined. This study investigates how gender, displacement, and refugee governance interact to shape the vulnerabilities and coping strategies of Rohingya women. Using a qualitative design based on secondary data analysis, it synthesizes evidence from academic studies, humanitarian reports, NGO documents, and credible media sources. The findings show that Rohingya women experience overlapping risks, including gender-based violence, restricted mobility, limited access to healthcare and education, economic dependency, weak legal protection, and overcrowded living conditions. These vulnerabilities are reinforced by statelessness, patriarchal norms, restrictive camp policies, aid dependency, and implementation gaps in humanitarian assistance. Women nevertheless demonstrate resilience through informal support networks, caregiving, religious practices, participation in women’s centres, and small-scale livelihood activities. The study contributes to gender and refugee-governance scholarship by showing that individual coping cannot substitute for institutional protection. It concludes that humanitarian responses should move beyond emergency relief toward gender-sensitive, rights-based, and participatory governance.
Postpartum Depression in Urban India: A Pilot Study from Prayagraj District, India Shivangi R Kiran; Ritu K. Sureka
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR)
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Abstract Postpartum depression (PPD) affects maternal well-being, infant care, and family functioning. In India, however, postpartum mental health services remain limited, while evidence from urban North India is still insufficient, particularly regarding the influence of household relationships, reproductive expectations, and psychosocial support. This pilot study aimed to estimate PPD risk and examine associated sociodemographic, obstetric, psychosocial, and cultural factors among postpartum women in Chak Dondi, Naini, Prayagraj. Using a cross-sectional design, 30 women within six months of delivery were selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected using the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and a structured questionnaire, then analysed through descriptive statistics and exploratory bivariate tests. Findings show that 23.3% of participants screened positive for possible PPD. Higher risk was associated with younger age, financial dependence, nuclear family structure, psychiatric history, unplanned pregnancy, obstetric complications, son preference, domestic violence, strained family relationships, and limited in-law support, while family support appeared protective. The study contributes preliminary evidence from an under-researched urban North Indian setting. Its findings support integrating routine screening, counselling, referral, and family-centred support into maternal healthcare. Given the small purposive sample, larger studies are required to confirm these patterns.
Urdu as Soft Power: Language, Diaspora, and India’s Cultural Diplomacy in the Gulf States Mohammad Shahnawaz
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR)
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Abstract Large-scale South Asian migration to the Gulf since the 1970s has created enduring linguistic and cultural connections between India and the Gulf Cooperation Council states. Despite the substantial Indian diaspora in the region, research on India’s diaspora diplomacy has concentrated mainly on labour, remittances, trade, and strategic relations, leaving Urdu’s role in cultural influence insufficiently examined. This article investigates how Urdu functions as a soft-power resource in the Gulf and assesses its place within India’s official cultural diplomacy. Using a qualitative multi-method design based on secondary sources, it analyses peer-reviewed scholarship, policy documents, institutional reports, Urdu literary materials, news coverage, organisational records, and digital archives. The findings show that Urdu operates as a heritage language, lingua franca, medium of cultural memory, and platform for transnational interaction through literary events, organisations, cinema, music, education, journalism, and digital media. However, these activities are sustained largely by expatriate civil society and remain weakly incorporated into state policy. The article contributes to soft-power scholarship by conceptualising Urdu as relational linguistic soft power produced through diaspora networks. It concludes that stronger institutional partnerships with Urdu organisations could enhance cultural diplomacy, provided their autonomy and community-based character are preserved.
International Aid Withdrawal as a Systemic Livelihood Shock: Socioeconomic Consequences in Rural Bangladesh Shifat Anwar Tumpa; Ashraful Siddique; Mohammad Anwarul Islam Pathan; Apu Debnath; MD Sayeed Mostafa; Md. Atikul Islam; Rakib Hossain
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR)
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Abstract International aid has supported rural livelihoods, essential services, and climate resilience in Bangladesh. However, recent donor withdrawal has disrupted development interventions, while its community-level consequences remain insufficiently examined, particularly in climate-exposed rural areas. This study investigates how aid cuts affect livelihoods, service access, social vulnerability, and climate-response capacity across four districts. Using a qualitative design, data were collected in Kurigram, Sunamganj, Khulna, and Rajshahi through 12 focus group discussions and eight key informant interviews with farmers, women, youth, former beneficiaries, local officials, NGO personnel, community leaders, and former project staff. The data were transcribed, translated where necessary, and analysed thematically using Braun and Clarke’s six-phase approach, with triangulation and participant validation. The findings show that aid withdrawal functioned as a systemic livelihood shock, disrupting agricultural production, income, healthcare, education, nutrition, women’s economic activities, and disaster preparedness. These effects were most severe where local institutions and markets could not replace withdrawn support. The study contributes a community-level framework for understanding donor exit. It implies that aid transitions should be gradual, institutionally prepared, and designed to protect essential services and adaptive capacity. The study concludes that poorly managed withdrawal can deepen existing rural and climate-related vulnerabilities.
Decentralized Waste Governance and Local Implementation Challenges in Cambodia Monyroth Thlork
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR)
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Abstract Solid waste management is an increasing environmental and governance challenge in Cambodia, where decentralization has transferred responsibilities to subnational administrations without consistently providing sufficient authority, funding, or technical capacity. Although previous studies identify weaknesses at national and municipal levels, district-level implementation of Sub-decree No. 113 remains insufficiently examined. This study investigates implementation challenges, local responses, and policy needs in Leuk Daek District, Kandal Province. Using a qualitative design, it analyses open-ended survey responses from 45 household residents and 45 market vendors, together with five key informant interviews involving three district administrators and two waste collectors in Prek Dach, Prek Tanlop, and Kampong Phnom Communes. The findings reveal that low collection fees, inadequate bins and disposal sites, irregular services, unclear institutional responsibilities, limited fiscal transfers, insufficient technical guidance, and weak local capacity constrain implementation. However, the formation of a district waste-management committee and training on disposal-site management, composting, and the 3Rs indicate emerging local progress. The study contributes district-level evidence that implementation gaps result from the interaction of unclear delegation, resource constraints, and weak service arrangements. It concludes that effective decentralization requires clearer mandates, aligned fiscal support, stronger coordination, viable collection systems, and sustained community and private-sector participation.  
Voice, Vulnerability, and Uneven Governance in Contemporary Asia: Editors’ Introduction Asep Muhamad Iqbal
Journal of Asian Social Science Research Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): Journal of Asian Social Science Research (JASSR)
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This editors’ introduction presents the thematic scope and scholarly contributions of Journal of Asian Social Science Research, Volume 8, Number 1 (2026). Bringing together seven studies from Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Cambodia, India, and South Asia–Gulf contexts, the issue examines how power is negotiated through language, education, refugee governance, household relations, public health, local administration, diaspora networks, and development assistance. The articles converge around three themes: language as political and cultural action, institutionally structured vulnerability, and uneven local governance capacity. Using qualitative, mixed-source, and exploratory quantitative approaches, they connect regional transformations with everyday experiences of protest, exclusion, care, displacement, service provision, and livelihood insecurity. Collectively, the issue shows that social agency and resilience remain constrained when institutional authority, resources, participation, and protection are inadequate. It calls for comparative, empirically grounded research on voice, gendered governance, decentralisation, and development transition across Asia.

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