Introduction : crossroad civilisations and bricolage identities / Erich Kolig, Sam Wong, Vivienne SM. Angeles
Asia and the global world : identities, values, rights / Elena Asciutti
Creating 'Malaysians' : a case study of an urban kampung in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia / Toru Ueda
Ethnic mosaic and the cultural nationalism of Bhutan / Rup Kumar Barman
Religion and cultural nationalism : socio-political dynamism of communal violence in India / Sali Augustine
Is identity clash inevitable? Identity and network building amongst mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong / Sam Wong
Socio-economic crisis and its consequences on a little known tribal community in West Bengal, India / Samar Kumar Biswas
Post-colonialism, globalism, nativism : reinventing English in a post-colonial space / Krishna Sen
Occidentalism and Asian middle-class identities : notes on birthday cakes in an Indian context / Minna Säävälä
Ode to 'personal challenge' : reconsidering Japanese groupism and the role of Beethoven's Ninth in catering to socio-cultural needs / Eddy Y.L. Chang
Performing cosmopolitan clash and collage : Krishen Jit's stagings of the 'Stranger' in Malaysia / Charlene Rajendran
Constructing identity : visual expressions of Islam in the predominantly Catholic Philippines / Vivienne SM. Angeles
Islam and Orientalism in New Zealand : the challenges of multiculturalism, human rights and national security - and the return of the Xenophobes / Erich Kolig.