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Councillors and Voters in India
Tanya Jakimow of the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia has a new article at JCA, titled “The ‘Servants’ of Dehradun: A Changing Relationship between Municipal Councillors and Voters in India” (DOI: … Continue reading
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Tagged Democracy, India, politicians, state–citizen relations, Tanya Jakimow, urban governance, women
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Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in India
The recent book by Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India is reviewed for JCA by Sirpa Tenhunen of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki in Finland. Published by Anthem Press, Nielsen’s book, … Continue reading
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Tagged India, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, land appropriation, Land conflict, popular politics, Sirpa Tenhunen
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South Asia and Migration
In a new review at the JCA publisher’s website, Diotima Chattoraj reviews Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond edited by Reece Jones and Md. Azmeary Ferdoush. The book is published by Amsterdam University Press. Chattoraj begins with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Diotima Chattoraj, Europe, Fiji, India, Md. Azmeary Ferdoush, Middle East, migrant workers, migration, Reece Jones
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Issue 4 for 2018 published
Issue number 4 for Volume 48 (2018) of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This number of the journal is a special issue. It also features one additional research article, a commentary … Continue reading
Issue 3 for 2018 published
Issue number 3 for Volume 48 (2018) of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This number is a regular issue, featuring six research articles, a commentary and four book reviews. Two of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam B. Lerner, Alec Gordon, Anti-nuclear movement, anti-royalism, Ashley South, Bernice Maxton-Lee, Burma, colonial surplus, conservation, Constitutionalism, deforestation, elderly workers, India, Indonesia, Jacob Ricks, Jonathan Liljeblad, Kevin Hewison, Ming-sho Ho, monarchy, Myanmar, Natasha Hamilton-Hart, Political neo-Malthusianism, Precarious work, Rice politics, Seung-Ho Baek, social movements, Sophia Seung-Yoon Lee, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Yun-Young Kim
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Africa and Asian Solidarity
In a new review available at JCA, Silvia Tieri of the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, writes about a republication of a book that was previously only available in India. Africa in the Indian Imagination: Race … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Antoinette Burton, India, post-colonialism, Silvia Tieri
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JCA authors in the media
Editor Kevin Hewison has an op-ed with East Asia Forum titled “Thai junta’s election facade a political throwback.” His piece briefly examines the machinations of Thailand’s military dictatorship as it seeks to rig an election. Guest editor of a forthcoming … Continue reading
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Tagged authoritarianism, India, Kevin Hewison, populism, Priya Chacko, Thailand
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