Monthly Archives: March 2023
20,000 reads
Another JCA paper has passed the 20,000 views milestone. It is “Legacies of the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia: An Introduction,” by Eva Hansson, Kevin Hewison, and Jim Glassman. It remains free to view.
L’Asie du Sud-Est 2022
Gabriel Camară of the Department of Geography in the Faculty of Geography and Geology, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, in Romania has a new review of the French-language annual compendium on Southeast Asia, L’Asie du Sud-Est 2022: bilan, enjeux … Continue reading
Social Changes in Contemporary Southeast Asia, December 2023
Call for papers International Conference Social Changes in Contemporary Southeast Asia Exploring New Forms of Labour Regimes 14 -15 December 2023 Penang, Malaysia Background As social, ethnic or religious, identity or position in the political hierarchy is more often pronounced … Continue reading
Roads and Power in South Asia
Highways to the End of the World. Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia is a new book by anthropologist Edward Simpson and published by Hurst. It is reviewed for JCA by Hasan H. Karrar of the Lahore University of … Continue reading
Double Poverty and Precarious Workers in South Korea
“Double Poverty: Class, Employment Type, Gender and Time Poor Precarious Workers in the South Korean Service Economy” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023. 2176782) is a new research article authored by Taehwan Kim of the Department of Comparative Social Policy, University of Oxford in … Continue reading
BRI and a Crisis of Hegemony
In a new book review for JCA, Penelope B. Prime of the China Research Center, Atlanta, USA looks at The China-led Belt and Road Initiative and its Reflections: The Crisis of Hegemony and Changing Global Orders. Edited by Mehdi Parvizi … Continue reading
Australia’s broken immigration system
Readers may be interested in an op-ed “To fix immigration, dismantle Home Affairs” by JCA editor Kevin Hewison on Australia’s broken immigration system. It points to the militarisation and securitisation of the system.
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