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Thailand’s Orange Wave: Progressives, Conservatives, and Monarchy
Editor Kevin Hewison has an opinion piece on the aftermath of of Thailand’s 15 May election. Thailand’s Orange Wave: Progressives, Conservatives, and Monarchy
Parcelled State: Intra-State Crisis in Turkey
“The Parcelled State: A Political and Historical Framework for the Current Intra-State Crisis in Turkey” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2205863) is a new and timely article by Ahmet Bekmen of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Faculty of Political Sciences, Istanbul … Continue reading
Elections
There are elections in Turkey and Thailand this week. JCA makes two related articles available for free download for a month. They are: Thai Youth Liberation as a Politico-Economic Force: A Critique of Hierarchical Capitalism and the Authoritarian State by … Continue reading
Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India
Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India is a new book by By Johan Fischer, published by Routledge. It is reviewed for JCA by editorial board member Kenneth Bo Nielsen of the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. Nielsen points … Continue reading
“Projectment Economy” and China’s Market Socialist Economy
“The (New) Projectment Economy as a Higher Stage of Development of the Chinese Market Socialist Economy” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2201825) is an article for the feature section on socialist China due out later this year. The article is authored by Elias Jabbour … Continue reading
Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA
“From Partnership to Rivalry: China and the USA in the Early Twenty-First Century” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336. 2023.2199760) is a new article by Walden Bello of the Department of Sociology, Binghamton University, USA and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, … Continue reading
Issue 3 for 2023 published
Issue 3 of 2023’s volume 53 has been published. It includes and obituary, seven research articles, a commentary, and four book reviews. The obituary is for a former editor of the Journal by current editor Kevin Hewison: Bruce McFarlane (1936–2022) … Continue reading
Tanaka and High Modernism in Japan
Taro Tsuda is with the School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University in Tokyo, Japan. His new article for JCA is: “High Modernism and Populism in Post-War Japan: Tanaka Kakuei’s Plan for Remodelling the Japanese Archipelago” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2023.2193820). The … Continue reading
Village Funds and Class Dynamics in Indonesia
Fajar Sidik of the Department of Education Policy, Faculty of Science Education, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Muchtar Habibi of the Department of Management and Public Policy, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia have a … Continue reading
China’s COVID-19 Politics
Yida Zhai is from the School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China and the author of a new JCA article. The timely article is titled: “The Politics of COVID-19: The Political Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy” … Continue reading
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