Tag Archives: borders
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Japan’s border issues
Geoffrey C. Gunn has a new book review published at the JCA publisher’s website. In it, he reviews Akihiro Iwashita’s Japan’s Border Issues: Pitfalls and Prospects (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1148189). Based upon an earlier Japanese-language edition, this book, by an established expert … Continue reading
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