Monthly Archives: December 2018
On “Chineseness”
Justin Wu is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has reviewed Allen Chun’s Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification, published by the State University of New … Continue reading
Myanmar and the Rohingya Crisis
Myanmar’s “Rohingya” Conflict is a new book authored by Anthony Ware and Costas Laoutides for the publisher, Hurst. It is reviewed for JCA by Ashley South. South states that this is a “balanced, concise and theoretically coherent volume [that] will … Continue reading
A Rightist Perspective on Indian Foreign Policy
In a new book review at JCA, Jon P. Dorschner of the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, looks at Staggering Forward. Narendra Modi and India’s Global Ambition by Bharat Karnad and published … Continue reading
Writing and Using the History of Thailand’s 1932 Revolution
“The Unruly Past: History and Historiography of the 1932 Thai Revolution” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1556319) is a new article by Arjun Subrahmanyan of the School of Arts at Murdoch University in Australia. The abstract for the article states: The monarchy and the … Continue reading
Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges
The seventh and final article for a forthcoming special issue on Checkpoint Politics in Cross-border Exchanges has been published. “The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1555273) is by the guest editors for the special issue, Tak-Wing … Continue reading
Labour Activism in Cambodia and China
“At the Roots of Labour Activism: Chinese and Cambodian Garment Workers in Comparative Perspective” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1555272) is a new article for JCA by Ivan Franceschini. Dr Franceschini is with the Australian Centre on China in the World, College of Asia … Continue reading
Inequality in Malaysia
“Is Inequality Really Declining in Malaysia?” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1551560) is a new article at the JCA publisher’s website. It is authored by Hwok-Aun Lee of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and Muhammed Abdul Khalid of the Centre for … Continue reading
Trading across the Thai-Lao Border
“Navigating Small-Scale Trade Across Thai-Lao Border Checkpoints: Legitimacy, Social Relations and Money” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1551559) is by Sarah Elsing, an independent researcher from Berlin. This is the sixth article for a forthcoming special issue on Checkpoint Politics in Cross-border Exchanges. The … Continue reading
Confronting Corruption in Indonesia
“Addressing Corruption in Post-Soeharto Indonesia: The Role of the Corruption Eradication Commission” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1552983) is a new article available at the website of JCA’s publishers. It is authored by Ahmad Khoirul Umam of the Faculty of Philosophy and Civilization, University … Continue reading
Rubber and Precarity in Northern Laos and Northern Myanmar
A second article in a special issue on Precarity in Asia has been published. “Precarity and Vulnerability: Rubber Plantations in Northern Laos and Northern Shan State, Myanmar” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1554161) is authored by Kyoko Kusakabe of Gender and Development Studies, Department … Continue reading
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