Tag Archives: Southeast Asia
Malaysia and the Diversity of Southeast Asian Capitalisms
“Diversity of Southeast Asian Capitalisms: Evolving State-Business Relations in Malaysia” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2017.1322629) is by Edmund Terence Gomez of the Department of Administrative Studies and Politics, Faculty of Economics and Administration at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and Elsa … Continue reading
Trade and “Factory Asia”
The second article in a forthcoming special issue that is to be dedicated to the late Professor Lee Poh Ping, Andrew Jia Yi Kam of the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS),Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, has authored “Dynamics of Trade … Continue reading
Special economic zones
JCA author Eduardo Climaco Tadem has an op-ed at Rappler. Ed is in Asian Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman and President of the Freedom from Debt Coalition. His op-ed, “The pitfalls of Special Economic Zones,” assesses the … Continue reading
Policy on Precarious Work
Heidi Gottfried of the Department of Sociology, Wayne State University reviews (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2016.1233990) Policy Responses to Precarious Work in Asia. Edited by Hsing-Huang Michael Hsiao, Arne L. Kalleberg and Kevin Hewison, the book is published in Taiwan by Academia Sinica. … Continue reading
Production Politics and Migrant Labour Advocacy in Singapore
Charanpal S. Bal, who recently completed his PhD at Murdoch University’s Asia Research Centre, has published his first major journal article with JCA. The article examines the issue of migrant workers in Singapore. Charan’s abstract states: Since 2005, NGO activism, … Continue reading
Introduction to special issue available for free download
The Introduction to the new special issue is now available for free download. It is by Rajah Rasiah, Kee Cheok Cheong & Richard Doner, and is titled: “Southeast Asia and the Asian and Global Financial Crises.” The abstract states: Despite … Continue reading
New special issue
JCA has posted all of the articles that are to be published in a new special issue due out later this year. The topic of the special issue is: The Financial Crises of 1997-98 and 2008-09: How Different Were They … Continue reading
