Monthly Archives: March 2016
Monarchised Military in Thailand
Another article for the special issue “Military, Monarchy and Repression: Assessing Thailand’s Authoritarian Turn” has been published. Paul Chambers of the Institute of Southeast Asian Affairs, Faculty of Law, Chiang Mai University and Napisa Waitoolkiat of the College of ASEAN … Continue reading
More articles published: Military, Monarchy and Repression Special Issue
Two new articles have just been published by JCA. There remain three articles and an Introduction still in the works. The first is by Thammasat University’s Thorn Pitidol and titled “Redefining democratic discourse in Thailand’s civil society” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1164229). This … Continue reading
Outsourcing legal services
In a new article at the JCA publisher’s website, Ernesto Noronha, Premilla D’Cruz and Sarosh Kuruvilla write about the outsourcing of legal services from the West – mainly the US – to India, and the impacts this has for lawyers … Continue reading
Sweating workers in Asia
A new article is available at the publisher’s website. “Working Overtime in East Asia: Convergence or Divergence?” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1144778) is authored by Ming-Chang Tsai, Michio Nitta, Sang-Wook Kim and Weidong Wang. The authors are, respectively, from: Research Center for Humanities … Continue reading
Indonesia’s economic history
Alec Gordon has reviewed the book An Economic History of Indonesia 1800-2010 for JCA (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1153131). This book is authored by Jan Luiten van Zanden and Daan Marks and published by Routledge. This edition is dated 2014, being the paperback … Continue reading
Inequality in Thailand
A third paper from the forthcoming Special Issue, Military, Monarchy and Repression: Assessing Thailand’s Authoritarian Turn, has been published. “Inequality, Wealth and Thailand’s Politics” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1153701) is by well-known political economist Professor Pasuk Phongpaichit of the Faculty of Economics at … Continue reading
Thailand’s 2014 coup and authoritarianism
A second paper from the forthcoming Special Issue, Military, Monarchy and Repression: Assessing Thailand’s Authoritarian Turn, has been published. “The 2014 Thai Coup and Some Roots of Authoritarianism” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1150500) is by well-known author on Thailand’s politics, economy and history, … Continue reading
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