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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Peace processes in Mindanao
In a new review at the JCA publisher’s site (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1318412), Chiang Mai University’s Ashley South looks at Paul Hutchcroft’s edited collection, Mindanao: The Long Journey to Peace and Prosperity, published by Anvil Publishing in Manila. Over several decades, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashley South, Mindanao, Paul Hutchcroft, peace, Philippines
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Laos and the CIA
JCA editor Kevin Hewison has a new review at JCA (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1319643) that looks at Joshua Kurlantzick’s A Great Place to Have a War. America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA, published by Simon and Schuster. Hewison … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Lair, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Joshua Kurlantzick, Kevin Hewison, Laos, Richard Helms, Tony Poe, Vang Pao, William Colby, Willis Bird
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Cheesman on Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar
Nick Cheesman is a Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University, and a 2016-17 a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has a post at New Mandala, which is extracted and adapted … Continue reading
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Tagged Burma, communal conflict, communal violence, Myanmar, New Mandala, Nick Cheesman
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Malaysia, China and Services
Siew Yean Tham of the ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore and the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia has a new article available from JCA. Examining the Shift to Services: Malaysia and China Compared (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1310273) … Continue reading
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Tagged China, deindustrialisation, industrial development, Lee Poh Ping, Malaysia, manufacturing, policies, Services, Siew Yean Tham
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Communal Violence in Myanmar
As previously posted, Issue 3 of Volume 47 (2017) has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This number is a special issue. Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar has been guest edited by Nick Cheesman from … Continue reading
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Monarchy and money in Thailand
In a new review available at JCA’s website (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1317073), editor Kevin Hewison reviews Working Towards the Monarchy: The Politics of Space in Downtown Bangkok by Serhat Ünaldi, published by the University of Hawaii Press in 2016. Hewison observes that … Continue reading
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Tagged Bhumibol Adulyadej, charisma, Kevin Hewison, monarchy, Serhat Ünaldi
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Myanmar’s border areas, maritime and mountain
Ashley South is based at the Centre for Ethnic Studies and Development at Chiang Mai University. In a new review at the JCA publisher’s website he has a new review of Su-Ann Oh’s collection, Myanmar’s mountain and maritime borderscapes: local … Continue reading
Issue 3 for 2017 published
Issue 3 of Volume 47 (2017) has gone to print and is available electronically. It is at the publisher’s site. This number is a special issue. Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar has been guest edited by Nick Cheesman from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Burma, Chit Win, communal violence, Elaine L.E. Ho, Gerard McCarthy, Gerry van Klinken, Islam, Iza R. Hussin, Jacqueline Menager, Lisa Brooten, Matt Schissler, Matthew Walton, Myanmar, Nick Cheesman, Phyu Phyu Thi, Shirley Worland, Su Mon Thazin Aung, Susanne Prager-Nyein, Thomas Kean, Yola Verbruggen
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Gender and Muslim Scapegoating in Myanmar
The seventh and final article for the forthcoming special issue on Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar, guest edited by Nick Cheesman, is available at the JCA publisher’s site for the journal. This article carries the title, “Gendered Rumours and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, Burma, gender, Gerard McCarthy, Islam, Jacqueline Menager, Myanmar, nationalism, Nick Cheesman, rumour
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Westra on China
JCA co-editor, Richard Westra has an op-ed at The World Financial Review. Titled “China Down: The Weight of the Past on China’s Struggle for Development,” the opening paragraph states: Dr. Richard Westra historically contextualises China’s 21st century meteoric growth in … Continue reading