Monthly Archives: December 2020
Issue 1 for 2021 published
Issue number 1 of Volume 51 of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This issue has a Feature Section on South Korea, Inequality and Labour. The articles in this feature are: Rising … Continue reading
Thailand’s youth protests
Readers may be interested in a recent year-end commentary on Thailand’s recent protests by JCA editor Kevin Hewison. “Thai youth protests undercut political establishment” was published on 27 December 2020 at East Asia Forum. It particularly looks at how 2020’s … Continue reading
Indonesian labour
In a new book review Olle Törnquist of the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo looks at Labor and Politics in Indonesia by Teri L. Caraway and Michele Ford and published by Cambridge University Press. Under Suharto’s … Continue reading
Drums of War, Drums of Development
Drums of War, Drums of Development. The Formation of a Pacific Ruling Class and Industrial Transformation in East and Southeast Asia, 1945–1980 is a mammoth 700+ page book by Jim Glassman, published by Brill. It is reviewed by JCA’s editor, … Continue reading
State, Religion and the South China Sea
Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam is by Edyta Roszko and published by NIAS Press. It is reviewed for JCA by Minh Chau Lam of the Department of Anthropology, College of … Continue reading
Thailand’s King and Buddhism
Tomas Larsson of the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK, has a new article with JCA. His article “Royal Succession and the Politics of Religious Purification in Contemporary Thailand” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2020.1849775 is a timely … Continue reading
The Future of Thailand
Future Forward: The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party is a new book by Duncan McCargo and Anyarat Chattharakul, published by NIAS Press. It is reviewed for JCA by Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang of the Faculty of Law at Chulalongkorn … Continue reading
Download Prize Articles
This year’s prizewinning articles are now free to download. They are: Dong-Min Rieu and Hyun Woong Park, “Unproductive Activities and the Rate of Surplus Value at the Industry Level in Korea, 1995–2015” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2019.1651884). Jim Glassman, “Lineages of the Authoritarian … Continue reading
Critical Perspectives on Chinese Cities
Chinese Urbanism: Critical Perspectives is a collection edited by Mark Jayne and published by Routledge. It is reviewed for JCA by Kosmas Tsokhas. The review notes that the collection aims to “apply alternative empirical and theoretical approaches based on practices, … Continue reading
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