Edited by Raechelle Rubinstein and Linda Connor. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1999. 368pp. ISBN 0824821173 (HB).

One of the world's most intensively studied societies, Bali has hosted scholars and writers as renowned as Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Miguel Covarrubias, Fred Barth, and Hildred and Clifford Geertz. Staying Local in the Global Village is part of a continuing tradition in which Balinese and foreign scholars reflect on the processes of transformation that link Bali to Indonesia and the world beyond. The chapters in this volume are based on research carried out in the early 1990s, when Suharto's New Order still enjoyed widespread legitimacy in Indonesia. Even then, political consensus in Bali was weakened by the inhabitants' view of themselves as an exploited minority of Hindus in a nation dominated by Islamic Javanese. As this book reveals, the ambivalent positioning of Balinese vis-à-vis the national and the global in recent decades has been played out in many different spheres of life.

By Kathleen Weekley and Alastair Davidson (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, 1999. ISBN: 0312217986 (HB).

This collection of essays by academics and activists from the Asia-Pacific region considers questions of nationality and citizenship in the countries there. The impact of mass migration, cultural homogenization and other effects of globalization on citizenship and possibilities for transnational citizenship that respects difference are all addressed.