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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November 26, 2011
Takashi Fujitani, Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia-Pacific Studies, has recently published his latest book, Race for Empire (University of California Press 2011). It offers a profound and challenging reinterpretation of nationalism, racism, and wartime mobilization during the Asia-Pacific war.
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September 16, 2011
By Joseph Wong After World War II, several late-developing countries registered astonishingly high growth rates under strong state direction, making use of smart investment strategies, turnkey factories, and reverse-engineering, and taking advantage of the postwar global economic boom. Among these...
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August 26, 2011
Edited by Jesook Song Despite the common held belief that Asian nations have displayed anti-market tendencies of under-consumption and export-oriented trade since the Asian financial crisis, in the 10 years since the crisis, South Korea has bucked this trend accruing...
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August 26, 2011
Tania Murray Li, Derek Hall, and Philip Hirsch Questions of who can access land and who is excluded from it underlie many recent social and political conflicts in Southeast Asia. Powers of Exclusion examines the key processes through which shifts in land...
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August 26, 2011
By Ritu Birla Gandhi’s thematics of addiction mark him as acutely present in his time, even as they launch his temporal performativity. Publicized via transnational debates on the legality of opium and anxieties about the market as casino, the problem...
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August 26, 2011
By Zaheer Baber “Globalization and Scientific Research In Japan,” appears as Chapter 2 in The Age of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Universities, Knowledge and Society (Brill 2011), edited by James Dzisah and Henry Etzkowitz. http://www.brill.com/age-knowledge
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June 10, 2011 Event details: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ai/event/9562/ Exploring Korea Through Its Foods and Foodways interrogates these fascinating dynamics in the context of Korea. Over the past several years, the South Korean government has attempted to globalize Korean cuisine as a cultural...
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April 26, 2011
By Jayeeta Sharma In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier...
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October 26, 2010
By Marion Bogo Field education is considered by social workers to be the most crucial part of their professional preparation, as it allows students to engage with communities, apply theoretical concepts, and develop their skill sets. In Achieving Competence in Social...
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March 26, 2010
By Jacques Bertrand As countries in Asia try to create unified polities, many face challenges from minority groups within their own borders seeking independence. This volume brings together international experts on countries in all regions of Asia to debate how...
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