Monthly Archives: September 2018
Performance mega-churches in Southeast Asia
In a new review, just published at the publishers’ site for JCA, Graeme Lang reviews Pentecostal Megachurches in Southeast Asia: Negotiating Class, Consumption, and the Nation. Published by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, this collection is edited … Continue reading
Peer Review
To mark Peer Review Week, a global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining research quality, our publisher at Taylor & Francis have provided information and updates that might be of interest on the topic, including: … Continue reading
Rural “Rightful” Resistance in Vietnam
“‘Extremely Rightful’ Resistance: Land Appropriation and Rural Agitation in Contemporary Vietnam” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1517896) is a new article by Lam Minh Chau of the Department of Anthropology, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University in Hanoi. The abstract for … Continue reading
China–Africa Mobility and Sojourning
Heidi Østbø Haugen is the author of “China–Africa Exports: Governance Through Mobility and Sojourning” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1517897). Heidi is with the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, in Norway. This is the first article in a special … Continue reading
Poverty and Public Administration in Vietnam
Pham Thi Thanh Binh of the Institute of World Economics and Politics and Vu Van Ha of the Communist Review, both in Hanoi, Vietnam have authored a Commentary for JCA. Titled “Poverty Reduction in Vietnam and the Role of Public … Continue reading
China and Thailand
JCA editor Kevin Hewison has a new review at the publisher’s website. In it, he looks at Thailand. Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China, authored by Benjamin Zawacki and published by Zed Books. Describing the book’s approach … Continue reading
Working on the Border
In a new book review, Kyoko Kusakabe of the Department of Development and Sustainability at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand discusses Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone, authored by Stephen Campbell. Published … Continue reading
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