Monthly Archives: February 2019
Economic Survival in Myanmar
Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar is authored by political scientist Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung and recently published by the University of Wisconsin Press. As Stephen Campbell of the School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, writes in his review of the … Continue reading
Malaysia’s political economy
Long-time contributor and member of the editorial board, Alec Gordon has contributed a new review, this time of The Development of Malaysian Capitalism: From British Rule to the Present Day for JCA. This book is authored by another JCA contributor, … Continue reading
Political Economy of Checkpoints
The Introduction to the forthcoming special issue on Checkpoint Politics in Cross-border Exchanges, “The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1555273), by the guest editors Tak-Wing Ngo of the Department of Government and Public Administration, University of … Continue reading
Chaebol and the Turn to Services
A new article is available at the JCA publisher’s website. “Chaebol and the Turn to Services: The Rise of a Korean Service Economy and the Dynamics of Self-Employment and Wage Work” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1565130) is authored by Solee I. Shin of … Continue reading
Complicit Networks and Precarity in Singapore
A fifth article for an upcoming special issue on Precarity in Asia is Chuanfei Chin‘s “Precarious Work and its Complicit Network: Migrant Labour in Singapore” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1572209). Chuanfei is from the Department of Philosophy, National University of Singapore. The abstract … Continue reading
Ideology and water control in Mekong states
“Is Irrigationalism a Dominant Ideology in Securing Hydrotopia in Mekong Nation States?” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1577903) is an article by independent scholar David J. H. Blake from Taunton in the UK. Blake’s abstract states: For over six decades, grandiose proposals calling for … Continue reading
Precarity among fishers and their families
“Secondary Precarity in Asia: Family Vulnerability in an Age of Unfree Labour” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1572772) is a new article by Sallie Yea of the Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. It is a fourth article in an upcoming … Continue reading
Resistance and a Conservative Working Class in China
“Precarity, Cognitive (Non-)Resistance and the Conservative Working Class in China” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1576215) is a new article by Jake Lin of the Institute of International Relations, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. This is a third article for a special issue on … Continue reading
Land Grabbing in China and India
“Land Grabbing in an Autocracy and a Multi-Party Democracy: China and India Compared” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1569253) is a new article by Lynette H. Ong of the Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada. The abstract for the paper states: Both … Continue reading
World Trade Systems, Nagasaki and Bullion
Arturo Giráldez of the School of International Studies at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, USA reviews a new book by JCA co-editor Geoffrey C. Gunn. World Trade Systems of the East and West. Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion … Continue reading
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