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Monthly Archives: June 2017
Chinese investment in Malaysia: Chery Autos
The fourth article to appear in a special issue that remembers the late Professor Lee Poh Ping is by Miao Zhang, Rajah Rasiah and John Lee Kean Yew, all of the University of Malaya. They have authored “Navigating a Highly … Continue reading
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Tagged automobiles, China, Chinese multinationals, John Lee Kean Yew, Malaysia, Miao Zhang, Outward investment, Rajah Rasiah
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Unfree Labour and Coffee in Colonial Indonesia
In a new review at JCA, long-time Editorial Board member Alec Gordon reviews Jan Breman’s Mobilizing Labour for the Global Coffee Market: Profits from an Unfree Work Regime in Colonial Java, published by the Amsterdam University Press in 2015. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Alec Gordon, Colonial power, Indonesia, Jan Bremen, Labour
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Everyday Violence in Sri Lanka
Another new article has been published at the JCA’s publisher’s website. “Acute and Everyday Violence in Sri Lanka” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1336783) is authored by Vidura Munasinghe of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, … Continue reading
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Tagged Danielle Celermajer, human rights, police, Sri Lanka, symbolic violence, torture, Vidura Munasinghe, violence
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Capitalism and Indonesia’s Islamic Militia
Interest in the rise of Islamic movements of all kinds has attracted considerable attention. In the country with the world’s largest Islamic population, movements, militia and gangs have long had an influence on politics, from colonial times to the present. … Continue reading
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Tagged Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir, capitalist development, Indonesia, Islamic militias, the state, violence
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Free articles by Fukuoka Prize winners
JCA’s publisher has joined in congratulating Fukuoka Prize winners Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker. The publisher has made three JCA articles by them available for free download. The articles are: The co-authored “Thaksin’s populism“, which appeared in Vol. 38, No. … Continue reading
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Tagged authoritarianism, Chris Baker, Fukuoka Prize, inequality, military coup, Pasuk Phongpaichit, Thailand, Thaksin
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China and Nationalism
In a new article available at the publisher’s website, Qin Pang of the School of International Relations at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangdong, China and Nicholas Thomas of the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong, … Continue reading
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Tagged China, East Asia, identity, nationalism, Nicholas Thomas, Qin Pang, regionalism
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JCA Authors Receive Major Award
JCA authors Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker have been awarded the Grand Prize for 2017 by the Fukuoka Prize Committee. The award citation is available here. The brief on the award states: Prof. Pasuk Phongpaichit and Dr. Chris Baker are … Continue reading
Demystifying the Park Chung-Hee Myth
In “Demystifying the Park Chung-Hee Myth: Land Reform in the Evolution of Korea’s Developmental State” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1334221), Jong-Sung You of the Australian National University’s Department of Political & Social Change, seeks to unravel some of the underpinnings of claims regarding … Continue reading
Malaysia and the Diversity of Southeast Asian Capitalisms
“Diversity of Southeast Asian Capitalisms: Evolving State-Business Relations in Malaysia” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1322629) is by Edmund Terence Gomez of the Department of Administrative Studies and Politics, Faculty of Economics and Administration at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and Elsa … Continue reading
Trade and “Factory Asia”
The second article in a forthcoming special issue that is to be dedicated to the late Professor Lee Poh Ping, Andrew Jia Yi Kam of the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS),Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, has authored “Dynamics of Trade … Continue reading
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