RESEARCH GUIDES

INTSTDS 4850

Understanding the Global Information Society

Resources

Geography and Natural Environment:

Sources focused on climate, water resources and vegetation

Map quiz game - Central & East Asia

World Geography Volume 2: Asia

People:

Sources focused on population (spatial) distribution, migration, and demographics

Migration, Agrarian Transition, and Rural Change in Southeast Asia (journal article)
Making a “Career” in People-Smuggling in Indonesia: Protracted Transit, Restricted Mobility and the Lack of Legal Work Rights (journal article)
Is the Filipino Diaspora a Diaspora? (journal article)
More Than Just Refugees--A Historical Overview of Vietnamese Professional Immigration to the United States (journal article)
Management of Cross-border Migration: Thailand as a Case of Net Immigration (journal article)
HIV and the Law in South-East Asis
A report prepared for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bangkok Regional Hub and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Taskforce on AIDS.
My Southeast Asia (4 videos)
Video - A Taste for Power - British Colonialism
Asia Pacific Human Development Report-Shaping the Future: How changing demographics can power human development

Development:

Sources focused on the economic sector, urbanization, and economic systems

Conservation and Development in Cambodia
See chapter 3 - Lost in transition: Landscape, ecological gradients and legibility on the Tonle Sap floodplain

Culture:

Sources focused on current and changing ideology, ethnicity, language, religion, and social class

Geography Now! East and South Asia Playlist (YouTube)

Geopolitics:

Sources focused on territorial divisions, cooperation (economic/security/military), and conflict

Southeast Asia: Past and Present
See chapter 27- "Tsunami, Cyclone and Terrorism in Southeast Asia

Maps

Southeast Asia

News Sources

Asian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to more than 60 of the most respected national and regional sources of news and current affairs information in Asia and the Far East. Many titles are available in full text and are updated within 24 hours of publication. Publications include The Wall Street Journal Asia, China News and The Bangkok Post.

New Mandala
New Mandala provides anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia.
The Wall Street Journal - Asia

Local Columbus Events

From: Coral Sand and Associates

Asian Festival
An annual May event in Columbus Ohio that showcases Asian cultural heritage.