Monthly Archives: January 2018
Authoritarian Statism, New Right and Asia’s Conservative Democracies
The first article for a new special collection edited by Priya Chacko and Kanishka Jayasuriya to be titled “Crisis, Populism and Right-wing Politics in Asia” has been published. Authored by guest co-editor Jayasuriya, “Authoritarian Statism and the New Right in … Continue reading
Issue 1 for 2018 published
Issue number 1 in Volume 48 (2018) of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically. It is available from the publisher’s site. This number is a regular issue, featuring research articles, a commentary and book reviews. This … Continue reading
Constitutionalism and Myanmar
Constitutionalism and Legal Change in Myanmar, edited by Andrew Harding and Khin Hin Oo and recently published by Hart Publishing is reviewed at JCA (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1427780) by Jonathan Liljeblad of the Law School, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Liljeblad points … Continue reading
Precarious Work and the Elderly in Korea
The elderly work. In South Korea, with a relatively immature welfare system, they are increasingly working in poorly paid and insecure jobs. In “Precarious Elderly Workers in Post-Industrial South Korea” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1423370), Yun-Young Kim and Sophia Seung-Yoon Lee of the … Continue reading
Political Neo-Malthusianism and India’s Green Revolution
Adam B. Lerner is a PhD student with the Centre of Development Studies and St John’s College at the University of Cambridge. He has just published an article with JCA, now available online at the publisher’s website. The abstract for … Continue reading
All JCA’s prize-winning articles
Taylor & Francis have created a page dedicated to all of the articles that have won the JCA Prize and the runners-up. This means all of these articles, back to 2007, may be downloaded at this one-stop-shop, several of them … Continue reading
The Making of Taiwan’s Anti-Nuclear Movement
Ming-sho Ho is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the National Taiwan University. His most recent article with JCA has just been published his most recent JCA article. “Taiwan’s Anti-Nuclear Movement: The Making of a Militant Citizen Movement” … Continue reading
JCA Prize 2018
The editors of the Journal of Contemporary Asia are pleased to announce the annual award for the best article published in 2017. The judging panel awarded the Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize of $1,000, a letter of commendation and a … Continue reading
Free Access: Who Governs and How?
The introductory article “Who Governs and How? Non-State Actors and Transnational Governance in Southeast Asia” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1416423) for the forthcoming special issue bearing the same title, and authored by Helen E. S. Nesadurai and Shaun Breslin, is now made available … Continue reading
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