Monthly Archives: April 2016
China and its challenges
China’s Challenges is a 2015 released book edited by Jacques deLisle and Avery Goldstein. It is published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. The collection is reviewed for JCA by Raj Verma of the School of International and Public Affairs … Continue reading
Media attention to Thailand’s Deep State
In Thailand, currently under a military dictatorship, a JCA article is getting plenty of media attention. Eugénie Mérieau’s article “Thailand’s Deep State, Royal Power and the Constitutional Court (1997–2015)” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1151917) has been mentioned very widely and the article itself … Continue reading
An SBY post-mortem
The Yudhoyono Presidency: Indonesia’s Decade of Stability and Stagnation, an edited collection from Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, is reviewed for JCA by Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1170189). Edited by Edward Aspinall, Marcus Mietzner and Dirk Tomsa, the … Continue reading
Australia as client state
In a new review at the JCA publisher’s website, Kosmas Tsokhas reviews Australia as US Client State: The Geopolitics of De-Democratization and Insecurity (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1172327). The book argues that Australia’s participation in the American-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq has … Continue reading
JCA paper on gaming and Macao gets media attention
In January, JCA published a paper by Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo and Eric King-Man Chong of Hong Kong’s Institute of Education titled “Casino Interests, Fujian Tongxianghui and Electoral Politics in Macao” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2015.1124444). It became a part of Volume 46, Issue … Continue reading
In Thai on Thailand’s authoritarian turn/เผด็จการไทยจักอยู่ไปไม่มีตาย?
Veerayooth Kanchoochat and Kevin Hewison have authored a piece on their JCA special issue, Military, Monarchy and Repression: Assessing Thailand’s Authoritarian Turn, for Prachatai. Prachatai is an “independent, non-profit, daily web newspaper established in June 2004 to provide reliable and … Continue reading
Rural democracy and the failed 2014 elections in Thailand
Two new articles have just been published by JCA in the Military, Monarchy and Repression: Assessing Thailand’s Authoritarian Turn Special Issue. There remains an Introduction still to be published. The first article is by Prajak Kongkirati of Bangkok’s Thammasat University and … Continue reading
BSA and free access to journals
SAGE has made parts of several journals available for free access for a short time as part of a contribution to the 2016 British Sociological Association Annual Conference. Free access to selected articles from Cultural Sociology, Sociology, Work, employment and … Continue reading
Work, employment and society
The SAGE journal, Work, Employment and Society, is celebrating its 30th anniversary by allowing free access to all its articles for 30 days. The topics covered in the journal are certainly of interest for many JCA readers.
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