Monthly Archives: October 2019
China’s Great Wall of Debt
In his latest book review for JCA, Kosmas Tsokhas looks at Dinny McMahon’s China’s Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle, published by Little, Brown in 2018. In looking at … Continue reading
Politics of Land and Caste in West Bengal
“Narratives of the Dispossessed and Casteless: Politics of Land and Caste in Rajarhat, West Bengal” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1679861), authored by Ritanjan Das of the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Portsmouth in the UK is the fifth article … Continue reading
State Capitalism in Contemporary Indonesia
“Indonesia’s Restrained State Capitalism: Development and Policy Challenges” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1675084) is a new article at JCA, authored by Kyunghoon Kim of the Department of International Development, King’s College London. The abstract for the article is: From the mid-2010s, the Indonesian … Continue reading
Gordon Obituary
As regular readers will know, Alec Gordon, long-time member of the JCA editorial board, passed away in August. His obituary will appear in the journal in issue 1 for 2020. The obituary, listing Alec’s work with JCA and about some … Continue reading
50th Anniversary Editorial
As part of JCA’s 50th anniversary celebrations in 2020, editor-in-chief Kevin Hewison has penned an editorial that briefly looks at the history of the journal. This editorial is free to download. The editorial will appear in Issue 1 in volume … Continue reading
Working in Vietnam and China
Kaxton Siu is with the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Jonathan Unger is at the Department of Political and Social Change, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University. They have a new article … Continue reading
50th Anniversary Special Issue
2020 is JCA’s 50th anniversary. As part of the celebrations for the Journal, with our publisher, we are creating several free-access virtual special issues. The first of these is a collection of 40 articles by former and current editors of … Continue reading
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