Siti Mazidah Mohamad

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam

Women who experience a miscarriage have unique needs for initial supportive care. This is particularly the case when first attending healthcare facilities, prior to referral to further care pathways, especially in the emergency department. This article explores initial care for women who experience a miscarriage, and argues that while this period m...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY • Digital platforms, new media, and popular culture have diversified Muslims' production and consumption of religious content, their forms of religious expression, and even their religiosity. • Tech-savvy and proactive young Muslims who seek and reproduce religious knowledge outside traditional and institutional structures are at...

The development of digital technology has led to transformations in our everyday lives and, as a result, produced new practices and new spatialities. Young people at the heart of these transformations display unique forms of religiosity that are somewhat different from that of their parents’ generation. This chapter examines young Malay Muslim Brun...

This article discusses and evaluates the challenging and complex role of nurses and midwives in providing supportive care for couples after pregnancy loss. A planned pregnancy is usually a positive experience. However, some couples may experience pregnancy loss, which causes grief. While women may be severely affected, partners’ experiences are com...

Social media sites have become the window to the local and global societies’ everyday experiences, adaptation, and management of the new normal during the COVID-19 pandemic. Creative communities are among these social media sites where users express their feelings, perspectives, and concerns via their creative artwork during this period. This chapt...

This book presents the diverse features of Korean wave (H¬allyu) in Islamic South East Asian societies. The Chapters elaborate contemporary issues and themes that present the reader to distinctive Korean wave phenomena in the region while underscoring the cultural proximity between Korean and Islamic society, inclusive dimensional approach and the...

We have witnessed the growth and spread of celebrity culture worldwide, from A-list celebrities to ordinary individuals turned micro-celebrities. However, celebrity studies are still lacking in exploring celebrity culture in the global South that has recently seen growth in their micro-celebrities afforded by rising individualism, commodification,...

In the age of the ever-expanding Internet, peer engagement encouraged youths to mutually become spokespersons for one another amidst the slew of cultural rhetoric and are responsible for defining identities and subjective norms through the now electronic word-of-mouth. Initially, there existed a conundrum of what qualifies as a Muslim woman in Mala...

Bruneian youth are actively searching for opportunities to empower and mobilize themselves economically and socially. Creative industry, an industry that requires passion, creative expression, and individuality, offers them the platform for self-exploration, self-discovery, and self-expression. In a span of just a few years, we witnessed our youth'...

This paper offers an insight into the role of young people in shifting risk perception of the current global pandemic, COVID‐19, via social distancing narratives on social media. Young people are creatively and affectively supporting the social distancing initiatives in Brunei Darussalam through the use of social media platforms such as Instagram,...

International migration is a highly contested topic and has become a critical part of the global security agenda due to the growing fear of terrorism notably after 9/11. There is a lack of relevant baselines and a gap in scholarly work that shows the direct connection between migration and security. This paper aims to identify the circumstances und...

Digital social transactions in the forms of exchanges of knowledge and social interactions have led to the creation of new patterns of socialisation, self-consciousness, self-identification and self-mobilities, which open up new social and economic opportunities for youth. In this period of uncertainty and precarious insecurity, youth are taking ad...

The paper demonstrates the contemporary form of Hallyu 2.0 affective cultural transfer by Hallyu 2.0 Influencers and the audience affective engagement with the cultural material shared by the influencers on social media.

Emphasis on authenticity, everydayness, relatability, ordinariness, and networking on Instagram by the young and ordinary at the expense of their privacy has helped them gain ‘micro-celebrity’ status. Such celebrification is influential in shaping the attitudes of young female Muslims towards perceived quality and status-seeking behaviours. In Brun...

Paper presented at Session 5: Technical Discussion: Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it intends to engage in skill gain–lose debate in the contemporary global skill mobility context; and second, it looks into whether Southeast Asia (SEA) is losing by experiencing skill deficiency due to over outflow of talents. Design/methodology/approach Primary data were collected through in...

Online presence in Brunei Darussalam is not an uncommon sight. Sixtynine per cent of the total population in Brunei is connected to social media monthly and there is a growing individuals’ disposition to self-disclosure on popular social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Unchecked self-disclosure can result to overexposure of...

This chapter reports the results of a study of Acacia Mangium and Acacia Auricaliformis, which are exotic plantation tree species from Australia that have invaded, and spread within, natural habitats in Brunei Darussalam. There are four types of Acacia trees that are spreading in Brunei, mostly within the coastal areas, the deep forest areas as wel...

Today, as societies adapt to new technologies, new ‘spaces’ are created and explored, and although these are not initially intended for religious purposes, they become a space for the performance of religiosity. What we now witness are religious activities and practices conducted in a manner which differs from before. Also, these take place in a sp...

Abstrak Artikel ini mengongsikan penemuan penyelidikan mengenai amalan hijab di kalangan wanita-wanita Melayu di Brunei Darussalam antara tahun 2014 dan 2017. Imej-imej wanita Melayu Brunei dalam menggayakan pelbagai jenis/warna/rekaan tudung sehari-hari dan juga yang dikongsikan di akaun media sosial peribadi dengan menonjolkan trend baru dalam pr...

This working paper proposes an advancement of geographies of religion by putting forward three interconnected key areas for consideration in future research. It starts by briefly looking at the past and current discourse within this field in an attempt to lay out the field’s future directions. The three key areas that this paper proposes to explore...

The first decade of the twenty-first century has seen the outburst of renewed interest in the concept and in the practical elements of cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism, generally accepted as openness to differences, is regarded as fundamental in navigating our increasingly socially, culturally and religiously diverse and globalised world. The renew...

This paper puts forward three key areas for consideration in emerging geographies of religion. First, techno-religious space - online sites or spaces have been used by young people to communicate with others and to share their everyday life with their friends and/or followers. These spaces are inherently social, cultural, and religious. It is obser...

As observed, online sites/spaces have been used by users for communication purpose and for sharing everyday life with their friends/followers. Online spaces are inherently social, cultural and religious. It is observed that religious practices have also been transferred online, performed through everyday uploads on social media sites such as Facebo...

This thesis analyses the potential of Facebook as well as offline social interactions and experiences in cultivating cosmopolitan sensibilities and the performance of cosmopolitanism in both online and offline spaces.This thesis analyses the potential of Facebook as well as offline social interactions and experiences in cultivating cosmopolitan sen...