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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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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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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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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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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March 24, 2015
“We asked for workers. We got people instead.” Such is the nature of the lives of migrant women in Hong Kong. On March 2, 2015 Nicole Constable, director of anthropology and Asian studies at the University of Pittsburg, visited the...
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February 9, 2015
What does a transition from subsistence agriculture to capitalist agriculture look like? At the January 23, 2015 book launch for Tania Li’s new book, Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier, co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Development...
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February 7, 2015
Judy Han, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, and Jennifer Jihye Chun, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, were guest editors for a special edition of the Journal of Korean Studies on “Gender and Politics in Contemporary Korea.”
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January 15, 2015
Undergraduate student Katy Wang sat down with Professor Janet Poole to talk about her new book and her work as a literary translator.
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January 15, 2015
Undergraduate student Katy Wang sat down with Professor Yiching Wu to talk about his new award-winning book and the website he maintains as part of his on-going research.
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