The latest issue of the Journal of Contemporary Asia is now available online. The issue includes seven research articles, one review article and seven book reviews:
Articles
Optimism and Education: The New Ideology of Development in Indonesia by Paul K. Gellert (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2014.978352)
Technocracy and the Peasantry: Martial Law Development Paradigms and Philippine Agrarian Reform by Eduardo Climaco Tadem (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2014.983538)
Branding Dissent: Nitirat, Thailand’s Enlightened Jurists by Duncan McCargo & Peeradej Tanruangporn (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2015.1020563)
Sky Protest: New Forms of Labour Resistance in Neo-Liberal Korea by Yoonkyung Lee (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2015.1012647)
Political Ideology, Public Policy and Human Development in India: Explaining the Gap Between Gujarat and Tamil Nadu by Devin K. Joshi & Kathleen McGrath (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2014.1003392)
Nuclear Policy and Regulation in Japan after Fukushima: Navigating the Crisis by Vlado Vivoda & Geordan Graetz (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2014.981283)
The Struggle for Revitalisation by Japanese Labour Unions: Worker Organising after Labour-Market Deregulation by Hiroaki Richard Watanabe (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2015.1007388)
Review Article
Free Markets, Unfree Labour: Old Questions Answered, New Answers Questioned by Tom Brass (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2015.1007517)
Reviews
Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): A Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South, reviewed by Matthew J. Walton (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2014.976924)
Cambodia and the Politics of Aesthetics, reviewed by Geoffrey C. Gunn (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2014.976923)
Resisting Gendered Norms. Civil Society, the Juridical and Political Space in Cambodia, reviewed by Julie Bernath (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2014.988921)
The Politics of Accountability in Southeast Asia: The Dominance of Moral Ideologies, reviewed by Juanita Elias (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2014.969562)
Policing in Taiwan: From Authoritarianism to Democracy, reviewed by Shun-Yung K. Wang (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2014.976833)
Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China, reviewed by A. Tom Grunfeld (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2014.976922)
Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China, reviewed by Richard Westra (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2015.1010560)