Monthly Archives: November 2018
Shadow Economies, State and Trade on the Cambodia-Vietnam Frontier
“Shadow Economies and the State: A Comparison of Cassava and Timber Networks on the Cambodia-Vietnam Frontier” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1545917) is a new article by Sango Mahanty of the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University in Canberra. This is … Continue reading
Labour Market Reform in Japan
Jiyeoun Song of the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, South Korea is the author of a new article, “Japan’s Contested Labour Market Reform” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1540720). The article’s abstract states: Over the past few decades, Japan’s labour market … Continue reading
Liberalisation and Employment in India
“Liberalisation in India: Does it Resolve or Aggravate Employment Problems?” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1545916) is a new article by Timothy Kerswell of the Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau and Surendra Pratap of the Centre for Workers Education, New … Continue reading
Korean Trade Union Strategies in Economic and Social Crisis
“Organised Labour, Dualisation and Labour Market Reform: Korean Trade Union Strategies in Economic and Social Crisis” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1536762) is a new article for JCA by Timo Fleckenstein of the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, London, UK and … Continue reading
Living in the Idiocene
JCA co-editor Toby Carroll and Jörg Nowak have authored “Forget the Anthropocene (for a minute); we are living in the Idiocene” at Rupture Magazine. In a hard-hitting article, they argue that: we live in a sort of end times in which … Continue reading
Cross-Border Trade between Xinjiang and Pakistan
A third article in a forthcoming special issue on Checkpoint Politics in Cross-border Exchanges is now available at the publisher’s site for JCA. “Cross-Border Trade and ‘the Market’ between Xinjiang (China) and Pakistan” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1540721) is by Alessandro Rippa of … Continue reading
Precarity and Reciprocity in Myanmar
A first article in a new special issue on Precarity in Asia has been published. “Networks of Reciprocity: Precarity and Community Social Organisations in Rural Myanmar” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1542450) is by Michael Griffiths of the Social Policy & Poverty Research Group, … Continue reading
Macao Cultural Affairs Bureau Research Award
Congratulations to Co-editor Geoffrey Gunn, who has been awarded an Academic Research Grant by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government. The announcement of his award states this of his project: “Twentieth Century Macau in an Age of … Continue reading
Co-editors meet at University of Macau
The editor and co-editors have met at the Centre for Macau Studies at the University of Macau to discuss the progress of the journal and to present papers at a JCA workshop, hosted by Associate Professor Agnes Lam, Director of … Continue reading
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