Jacques Bertrand (Director, Collaborative Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies and Professor, Political Science) has published Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar (Cornell University Press, 2022). Winning by Process asks why the peace...
Tong Lam’s photo essay for positions analyzes the politics of eviction, demolition, resistance, and gentrification in China through an urban village renewal project. Tong Lam; The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege...
Diana Fu and Emile Dirks have co-published a chapter in a new book published by Brookings Press. The book, The Party Leads All: The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party (Brookings Institution Press, 2022). Their chapter, “The Party’s Struggle...
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2022 Emmrich, Christoph, Joseph McQuade, Sana Aiyar and Thibaut d’Hubert. (2022). Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable. Modern Asian Studies, 1-38. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X21000718 Abstract Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed...
Lynette H. Ong (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute) has published Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press, 2022). A compelling examination of China’s engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive solution to...
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March 14, 2022
Joseph Wong, (Professor of Political Science and Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy) has published From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia with co-author Dan Slater (Princeton University Press,...
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February 24, 2022
Lynette Ong (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute) has published The Street and the Ballot Box: Interactions Between Social Movements and Electoral Politics in Authoritarian Contexts (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Summary How do discontented masses and opposition...
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December 20, 2021
Tania Li (University Professor, Department of Anthropology) has co-published with Pujo Semedi (Universitas Gadjah Mada) Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Oil Palm Zone (Duke University Press, 2021). In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance...
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June 21, 2021
Shivaji Mukherjee (Assistant Professor of Political Science, UTM) has published “Colonial Institutions and Civil War: Indirect Rule and Maoist Insurgency in India” (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Book description What explains the peculiar spatial variation of Maoist insurgency in India? Mukherjee develops...
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June 3, 2021
Kajri Jain (Associate Professor, Department of Visual Studies, UTM; Affiliated Faculty, Centre for South Asian Studies) and Tong Lam (Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies UTM; Acting Director, Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies; and Director of the Global...
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May 19, 2021
Jacques Bertrand (Professor of Political Science and Director of the Collaborative Master’s Program in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies) has published “Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia: From Secessionist Mobilization to Conflict Resolution” (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Read a...
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November 25, 2020
Richard Charles Lee Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Joseph McQuade has published A Genealogy of Terrorism: Colonial Law and the Origins of an Idea (Cambridge University Press). Book description Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade demonstrates how the modern concept...
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November 25, 2020
Sida Liu was given the award for his article, co-authored with Di Wang, “Performing Artivism: Feminists, Lawyers, and Online Legal Mobilization in China.”
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January 16, 2020
Urban Studies 2019. Full text: https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019878393 Since the 1960s, urban South Korea has seen a series of real estate booms characterised by a huge surge in the construction of apartment complexes and skyrocketing housing prices. In this environment, many South...
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September 14, 2018
The 2018 floods in the Indian state of Kerala highlight an enduring paradox within the country’s water problems. Even as some parts of the country dealt with water scarcity, the monsoon rains wreaked havoc and caused a flooding disaster that...
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