Monthly Archives: December 2019
From Migrant to Worker
In a new review for JCA, Jan-Jan Soon of the School of Economics, Finance & Banking at the Universiti Utara Malaysia looks at From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia by Michele Ford and published … Continue reading
Competitive Connectivity and Obsolete Development Agendas in Asia
In the Commentary, “Old Wine in New Bottles? How Competitive Connectivity Revitalises an Obsolete Development Agenda in Asia” (DOI:10.1080/00472336.2019.1705878), Jürgen Rüland of the Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg, Germany, writes of the unacceptably high social costs associated with … Continue reading
Neo-Liberal Agriculture and Smallholder Indebtedness in Bangladesh
“Commercial Micro-Credit, Neo-Liberal Agriculture and Smallholder Indebtedness: Three Bangladesh Villages” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1696386) is a new JCA article. It is authored by Manoj Misra of the Department of Social Sciences, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, USA. The abstract for the paper … Continue reading
Download Prize-winning Papers
The JCA prize-winning papers from 2019 are now available for free download. They are: Chuanfei Chin, “Precarious Work and its Complicit Network: Migrant Labour in Singapore” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1572209). David Bourchier, “Two Decades of Ideological Contestation in Indonesia: From Democratic Cosmopolitanism to Religious … Continue reading
Exceeding 10,000 downloads
The first JCA paper to achieve 10,000 electronic downloads was announced in August 2019. A second paper has now reached that milestone. “Who Governs and How? Non-State Actors and Transnational Governance in Southeast Asia” is by Shaun Breslin and Helen … Continue reading
The Myanmar State and the Uses Law to Exclude the Rohingya
“States of Legal Denial: How the State in Myanmar Uses Law to Exclude the Rohingya” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1691250) is a new article by Melissa Crouch of the Law School at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The article abstract … Continue reading
Caste, Class and Conservation
We have just published “Caste in Stone? Exploring Caste and Class Dimensions of Conservation Displacement in Central India” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1696877) by Asmita Kabra of the School of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University, Delhi, India. This is the sixth article for … Continue reading
Filipino Technocrats and the Cold War
“The Emergence of Filipino Technocrats as Cold War ‘Pawns’” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1694961) is a new article by Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem of the Department of Political Science, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman and the Center … Continue reading
Issue 1 for 2020 published
Issue number 1 of Volume 50 of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This issue is the first of the Journal’s 50th year anniversary. This is a regular issue, beginning with an … Continue reading
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