Monthly Archives: April 2020
Farmers Organising in Singapore
“Farmers in Singapore? Collective Action under Adverse Circumstances” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2020.1734646) is a new article authored by Yu Fong Ho and John A. Donaldson of the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University. The abstract for the paper states: How can … Continue reading
The Defeat of Barisan Nasional
In a new review at JCA, Ross Tapsell looks at The Defeat of Barisan Nasional: Missed Signs or Late Surge? co-edited by Francis E. Hutchinson and Lee Hwok Aun and published by Singapore’s ISEAS Publishing. As Tapsell notes, “Malaysia’s 2018 … Continue reading
Critical Realism and Marxism
Richard Westra is a co-editor of JCA and with the Institute for Political Science, University of Opole in Poland. His latest blog post, drawing on his “Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism and the Social Science of Marxian Economics,”Review of Radical Political … Continue reading
Neo-Liberalism, the Unelected and Policymaking in Thailand
In a new JCA article “Neo-Liberalism, the Rise of the Unelected and Policymaking in Thailand: The Case of the Medical Tourism Industry” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336. 2020.1740294), Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Guanie … Continue reading
Capitalism, Production and Conflict in Southeast Asia’s Development
“Capitalism, Conflict and Contradiction: Southeast Asia’s Development and the Reorganisation of Production” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2020. 1734227) is a new and important article authored by JCA co-editor Toby Carroll of the Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong. … Continue reading
Confronting Corporate Power
In a new review at JCA, editor Kevin Hewison reviews Confronting Corporate Power. Reflections of a United Nations Revolutionary by Frederick Clairmont. The book is an autobiographical account of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of generating progressive scholarship in hostile … Continue reading
Migration, Dreams, Development and Despair
The Migration Myth in Policy and Practice: Dreams, Development and Despair is a new book authored by AKM Ahsan Ullah and Md Shahidul Haque and published by Springer. It is reviewed for JCA by Saleh Shahriar of the College of … Continue reading
Humanity and Ai Weiwei
Humanity: Ai Weiwei is edited by Larry Warsh and published by Princeton University Press. There’s also a website of the same name. The book is reviewed by Kosmas Tsokhas. Kosmas previously reviewed Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei, a popular book edited … Continue reading
Land Control and Regime Survival in Cambodia
After a publishing hiatus of 7 weeks, we are pleased to advise that papers and reviews are now being processed to online publication. The first to make it through the delays at the publisher is “After the Grab? Land Control … Continue reading
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