Monthly Archives: August 2017
Elections, Ethnic Politics and Health Policy
In a new JCA Book Review (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1370552), Joseph Harris of the Department of Sociology at Boston University examines Coalitions of the Well-Being: How Electoral Rules and Ethnic Politics Shape Health Policy in Developing Countries. Authored by Joel Sawat Selway … Continue reading
Women’s Parliamentary Representation in Indonesia
Ben Hillman of the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University has a new article with JCA. His article is titled “The Limits of Gender Quotas: Women’s Parliamentary Representation in Indonesia” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1368092). It examines the ways … Continue reading
Political Economy and Securitising “Outside Influences” in Bali
Fabio Scarpello of the Inequality and Peace-Building Department at VJW International and the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University has authored a new article available from JCA. “Beyond Copenhagen: The Political Economy of Securitising “Outside Influences” in Bali” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1362583) has … Continue reading
Ethnic Tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang
Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang. Unrest in China’s West is a new collection edited by Ben Hillman and Gray Tuttle and published by Columbia University Press. It is reviewed for JCA by Colin Mackerras (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1366542). Professor … Continue reading
Introduction to Malaysia and China in a Changing Region: Essays for Lee Poh Ping
The Introduction for the feature collection titled Malaysia and China in a Changing Region: Essays in Honour of Professor Lee Poh Ping has become available at the publisher’s website. At present the paper seems to be available for free download. … Continue reading
Anti-sweatshop Campaigns between China and Hong Kong
A new paper by Yi Xu of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and Chris King-Chi Chan of the City University of Hong Kong is now available at the JCA publisher’s webpage. Conductive Activism: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns across Hong Kong and Mainland … Continue reading
Youth in China
Kosmas Tsokhas has produced another review of a recent book on China. His review of Youth Cultures in China (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1359652) by Jeroen de Kloet and Anthony Y. H. Fung is at the the JCA publisher’s website. The book is … Continue reading
Communal violence and transition in Myanmar
JCA readers in Copenhagen may be able to attend this event. It includes two authors – Nick Cheesman and Gerard McCarthy – from our recent special issue Interpreting Communal Violence in Myanmar: Communal violence and transition in Myanmar Tuesday 22 … Continue reading
Issue 4 for 2017 published
Issue number 4 in Volume 47 (2017) of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically. It is available at the publisher’s site. A collection of diverse articles and book reviews. This issue includes the following Articles: Islamic … Continue reading
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