Issue number 2 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 the Political Economy of Southeast Asia, a tribute to Bruce McFarlane and several other articles and book reviews. The articles in this feature are:
Announcement
Journal of Contemporary Asia Prize 2021
A Noble Protagonist of the Proletariat and the Peasantry: A Tribute to Bruce McFarlane by Humphrey McQueen
Feature Section: Southeast Asian Political Economy
Capitalism, Conflict and Contradiction: Southeast Asia’s Development and the Reorganisation of Production by Toby Carroll
Inequality and Political Representation in the Philippines and Singapore by Garry Rodan
Crazy Rich Thais: Thailand’s Capitalist Class, 1980–2019 by Kevin Hewison
Thailand’s Public Secret: Military Wealth and the State by Ukrist Pathmanand and Michael K. Connors
Other Research Articles in the issue are:
Commercial Micro-Credit, Neo-Liberal Agriculture and Smallholder Indebtedness: Three Bangladesh Villages by Manoj Misra
Recognition and Dissent: Constitutional Design and Religious Conflict in Pakistan by Imran Ahmed and Howard Brasted
The book reviews are:
Drums of War, Drums of Development. The Formation of a Pacific Ruling Class and Industrial Transformation in East and Southeast Asia, 1945–1980 reviewed by Kevin Hewison
Chinese Urbanism: Critical Perspectives reviewed by Kosmas Tsokhas