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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August 29, 2018
Jacques Bertrand and his collaborators are recent recipients of a new IDRC-funded project that continues the Asian Institute’s active involvement in Myanmar’s political and economic transition. The $400,000 project is part of the IDRC and Global Affairs Canada’s Knowledge for...
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July 10, 2018
Professor Fu’s book was awarded the 2018 Gregory Luebbert Prize for the best book on Comparative Politics from the American Political Science Association. Read more about the book and a Q&A with the author.
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April 20, 2018
By Lynette Ong (Perspectives on Politics, 2018) Abstract: Using violence or threat of violence, “thugs-for-hire” (TFH) is a form of privatized coercion that helps states subjugate a recalcitrant population. I lay out three scope conditions under which TFH is the...
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July 18, 2017
Selections from the daily report of the Osaka University students’ experiences in the 9-day intensive program written by 3 Master’s students.
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July 7, 2017
Christine Gibb is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography and Planning and the Asian Institute. She is currently researching how gendered religious practices, institutions and norms determine access to disaster assistance...
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February 8, 2017
Tania Li, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the Asian Institute, has been awarded two book prizes for her monograph Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier (Duke University Press, 2014).
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May 6, 2016
Opening the Second Annual Meeting and Workshop of Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership program (UCRSEA) in Hanoi, H.E. David Devine, Canadian Ambassador to Vietnam, highlighted the importance of building resilient urban futures for the countries in the Mekong...
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October 8, 2015
South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies put together an Editor’s Choice Collection of influential articles, in part to run concurrently with the Annual Conference on South Asia, held at the University of Wisconsin. One of the 10 articles selected is by...
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September 16, 2015
Professor Francis Cody received a SSHRC Insight Grant for his project Mediating the People: Newspapers and Mass Politics in South India. Read more about the project below. This project examines the role of newspapers in shaping political life in Tamil Nadu, India....
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Doctoral student in Comparative Literature and South Asian Studies Pushpa Acharya recently published a book of Poetry, Somnio: The Way We See It. Read an interview with him and the other authors from the Edmonton Arts Council Blog.
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