Monthly Archives: October 2018

India’s right wing government

Posted on October 31, 2018 by journalofcontemporaryasia

In a new Commentary at JCA, Raju J. Das of the Graduate Programmes in Geography, Development Studies, and Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto examines the evidence in declining support for India’s rightist regime. See other work … Continue reading →

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Borders and Bazaars in Central Asia

Posted on October 24, 2018 by journalofcontemporaryasia

A second article in a forthcoming special issue on Checkpoint Politics in Cross-border Exchanges is now available at the publisher’s site for JCA. “Between Border and Bazaar: Central Asia’s Informal Economy” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1532017) is by Hasan H. Karrar of the … Continue reading →

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Critical Realism and the Social Science of Marxian Economics

Posted on October 14, 2018 by journalofcontemporaryasia

JCA co-editor Richard Westra has a new paper available with the Review of Radical Political Economics. Available for free download, “Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism and the Social Science of Marxian Economics,” comes with an abstract that states: This article supports claims … Continue reading →

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Issue 5 for 2018 published

Posted on October 13, 2018 by journalofcontemporaryasia

Issue number 5 for Volume 48 (2018) of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This number of the journal is a special issue. It also features one additional research article and two … Continue reading →

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Councillors and Voters in India

Posted on October 11, 2018 by journalofcontemporaryasia

Tanya Jakimow of the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia has a new article at JCA, titled “The ‘Servants’ of Dehradun: A Changing Relationship between Municipal Councillors and Voters in India” (DOI: … Continue reading →

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Social Media, Politics and the Urban-Rural Divide

Posted on October 9, 2018 by journalofcontemporaryasia

A new article at the publishers’ website, is a product of research co-operation between Caroline Hughes of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame in the USA and Netra Eng of the … Continue reading →

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Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in India

Posted on October 8, 2018 by journalofcontemporaryasia

The recent book by Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India is reviewed for JCA by Sirpa Tenhunen of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki in Finland. Published by Anthem Press, Nielsen’s book, … Continue reading →

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Political Economy of China’s “Near-Abroad”

Posted on October 8, 2018 by journalofcontemporaryasia

“The Development-Insecurity Nexus in China’s Near-Abroad: Rethinking Cross-Border Economic Integration in an Era of State Transformation” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1502802) is a new article available at the publisher’s website. It is authored by Shahar Hameiri of the School of Political Science and International … Continue reading →

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