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Tag Archives: borders
Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands: Unsettled Frontiers
Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands is a new book by Sango Mahanty, published by Cornell University’s Southeast Asia Program Publications, and at a reasonable price for the paperback. It is reviewed for JCA by Minh Chau Lam … Continue reading
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Tagged border economy, borders, Cambodia, Lam Minh Chau, Sango Mahanty, Vietnam
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Issue 4 of 2019 published
Issue number 4 of Volume 49 of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This is a special issue titled Precarious Work, Precarious Lives: The Nature and Experience of Precarity in Asia and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aye Chan Myae, borders, China, Chuanfei Chin, Diotima Chattoraj, Edward Aspinall, Geoffrey Gunn, India, Jake Lin, Japan, Jiyeoun Song, Jonathan Rigg, Kevin Hewison, Kyoko Kusakabe, Labour markets, Laos, liberalisation, Michael Griffiths, Myanmar, Precarious work, Precarity, Sallie Yea, Singapore, Surendra Pratap, Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario, Thailand, Timothy Kerswell, Vietnam, working class
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Issue 2 for 2019 published
Issue number 2 for Volume 49 of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This issue is a special issue of seven research articles. In addition, the issue includes a commentary and five … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Alessandro Rippa, border economy, borders, Cambodia, China, cross-border exchanges, cross-border trade, Eva P. W. Hung, Geoffrey Gunn, Hasan H. Karrar, Heidi Østbø Haugen, India, Jan-Jan Soon, Justin Wu, Kevin Hewison, Kosmas Tsokhas, Laos, Pakistan, Penang, Philippines, Raju Das, Sango Mahanty, Sarah Elsing, Southeast Asia, Tak-Wing Ngo, Thailand, Vietnam, Xinjiang
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Political Economy of Checkpoints
The Introduction to the forthcoming special issue on Checkpoint Politics in Cross-border Exchanges, “The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1555273), by the guest editors Tak-Wing Ngo of the Department of Government and Public Administration, University of … Continue reading
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Tagged borders, checkpoints, cross-border exchanges, Eva P. W. Hung, Tak-Wing Ngo
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Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges
The seventh and final article for a forthcoming special issue on Checkpoint Politics in Cross-border Exchanges has been published. “The Political Economy of Border Checkpoints in Shadow Exchanges” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1555273) is by the guest editors for the special issue, Tak-Wing … Continue reading
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Tagged borders, checkpoints, cross-border exchanges, Eva P. W. Hung, Informality, mobility, shadow economy, Tak-Wing Ngo
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Trading across the Thai-Lao Border
“Navigating Small-Scale Trade Across Thai-Lao Border Checkpoints: Legitimacy, Social Relations and Money” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1551559) is by Sarah Elsing, an independent researcher from Berlin. This is the sixth article for a forthcoming special issue on Checkpoint Politics in Cross-border Exchanges. The … Continue reading
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Tagged borders, checkpoints, Laos, Sarah Elsing, small-scale trade, Thailand, trade
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Shadow Economies, State and Trade on the Cambodia-Vietnam Frontier
“Shadow Economies and the State: A Comparison of Cassava and Timber Networks on the Cambodia-Vietnam Frontier” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1545917) is a new article by Sango Mahanty of the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University in Canberra. This is … Continue reading
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Tagged borders, cassava, commodity networks, frontier, Sango Mahanty, shadow economy, timber
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Borders and Bazaars in Central Asia
A second article in a forthcoming special issue on Checkpoint Politics in Cross-border Exchanges is now available at the publisher’s site for JCA. “Between Border and Bazaar: Central Asia’s Informal Economy” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1532017) is by Hasan H. Karrar of the … Continue reading
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Tagged bazaars, borders, Hasan H. Karrar, Informality, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
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China–Africa Mobility and Sojourning
Heidi Østbø Haugen is the author of “China–Africa Exports: Governance Through Mobility and Sojourning” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2018.1517897). Heidi is with the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, in Norway. This is the first article in a special … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, borders, China, Heidi Østbø Haugen, informal trade, logistics, migration
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Myanmar’s border areas, maritime and mountain
Ashley South is based at the Centre for Ethnic Studies and Development at Chiang Mai University. In a new review at the JCA publisher’s website he has a new review of Su-Ann Oh’s collection, Myanmar’s mountain and maritime borderscapes: local … Continue reading