Social Difference and Constitutionalism in Pan-Asia

Part I. Language: 1. Negotiating differences: India's language policy Benjamin B. Cohen; 2. Constitution and language in post-independence Central Asia William Fierman; Part II. Urban/Rural: 3. Dreams of redemption: localist strategies of political reform in the Philippines Paul Hutchcroft; 4. Constitutional rights and dialogic process in socialist Vietnam: protecting rural-to-urban migrants' rights without a constitutional court Huong Nguyen; Part III. Ethnicity and Race: 5. Asymmetrical federalism in Burma David C. Williams; 6. Hu wants something new: discourse and the deep structure of Minzu policies in China Gardner Bovingdon; Part IV. Religion: 7. Sectarian visions of the Iraqi state: irreconcilable differences? Feisal Amin Rasoul al-Istrabadi; 8. Constitutionalism and religious difference in Israel (and a brief passage to Malaysia) Ran Hirschl; Part V. Gender and Sexuality: 9. Australia's gendered constitutional history and future Kim Rubenstein and Christabel Richards-Neville; 10. Islamic feminism(s): promoting gender egalitarianism and challenging constitutional constraints Asma Afsaruddin; 11. India, Nepal, and Pakistan: a unique South Asian constitutional discourse on sexual orientation and gender identity Sean Dickson and Steve Sanders.