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Monthly Archives: February 2015
National Reconciliation in Myanmar?
For the still military-dominated regime in Myanmar, national reconciliation seems to translate as a return to national harmony. In a new review at the JCA website, Susanne Prager-Nyein looks at the recent edited book by Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Prisms on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Myanmar, national reconciliation, Susanne Prager-Nyein
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Explaining divergent social outcomes from government policies
In a new article published at the JCA website, Devin K. Joshi and Kathleen McGrath examine the divergences the Indian states of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu on human development outcomes. In Political Ideology, Public Policy and Human Development in India: … Continue reading
Sky high protest in Korea
Yoonkyung Lee of the Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton has a new article posted at the JCA website. Sky Protest: New Forms of Labour Resistance in Neo-Liberal Korea (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1012647) examines the rise of “sky … Continue reading
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Tagged inequality, Labour, Labour protest, Neo-liberalism, sky protest, South Korea, Yoonkyung Lee
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Child Soldiering on Myanmar-China Border
In a new review at the JCA website, co-editor Geoffrey Gunn looks at the book Comparative Study of Child Soldiering on Myanmar-China Border: Evolutions, Challenges and Countermeasures, by Kai Chen (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1015235). Published by Springer in 2014, this slim volume … Continue reading
Development studies downloads
JCA readers may be interested in free downloads available at a Routledge Development Studies page. It includes articles from: – Canadian Journal of Development Studies – Journal of Development Effectiveness – Journal of Development Studies – Journal of Human Development and Capabilities – Journal … Continue reading
Neo-liberal India
Raju J. Das of Canada’s York University has a new Commentary at JCA’s webpage where he examines India’s neo-liberalism. In Critical Observations on Neo-liberalism and India’s New Economic Policy (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2014.1003143), Das “makes a series of critical comments on India’s … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, India, Neo-liberalism, new economic policy, Raju Das, spatial project
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China’s capitalism
JCA co-editor Richard Westra has reviewed the Victor Nee and Sonja Opper authored Capitalism From Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1010560) published by Harvard University Press. Described as “path-breaking,” the book discusses the rise of Chinese capitalism … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, China, Labour, Richard Westra, Sonja Opper, Victor Nee
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Free China downloads
These highly cited articles from Journal of Contemporary China are free to read online until 31st May 2015: Foreign Policy Implications of Chinese Nationalism Revisited: the strident turn Suisheng Zhao Fiscal Decentralization: guilty of aggravating corruption in China? Kilkon Ko … Continue reading
Issue 2 for 2015 published
The latest issue of the Journal of Contemporary Asia is now available online. The issue includes seven research articles, one commentary and six book reviews: Last of the Labour Aristocrats: Restructuring of the Philippine Sugar Industry and the Exportist Labour … Continue reading
Unions and deregulation in Japan
A new article entitled “The Struggle for Revitalisation by Japanese Labour Unions: Worker Organising after Labour-Market Deregulation,” has posted to the JCA website. It is authored by Hiroaki Richard Watanabe of the University of Sheffield. This article analyses the decline … Continue reading
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