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focaal_admin , February 3rd, 2021
International media coverage of the February 1st military coup in Myanmar has been rather consistent. The focus, overwhelmingly, has been on the detention of State Counsellor and Nobel…
kgraf , January 15th, 2021
Photograph: coming soon I’m delighted to post this exciting PhD thesis review, which nicely complements the recently posted review of the book Food, Faith and Gender in South-east…
lorenz , January 13th, 2021
When Twitter announced that it had suspended Donald Trump’s account, Twitter also censored the voice of Alexandra Elbakyan, the 32 year old creator of the probably most cherished…
Regina Mühlhäuser, Insa Eschebach , October 14th, 2020
The unveiling of a statue in memory of the victims of sexual violence committed by the Japanese Army in World War II has led to diplomatic tension between…
john hutnyk , October 8th, 2020
The bit where haunted buildings are mentioned strangely has the sound drop out, but there are some great things to explore still… and the drone and inserts could…
Jenny Rosenberg , October 5th, 2020
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Justin Battin In early 2020, news articles documenting a possible coronavirus pandemic began appearing in countries worldwide, and while concerns were…
john hutnyk , October 2nd, 2020
GandhiMarx Cooch Behar pdf slides Youtube link https://youtu.be/eGl7CZvEC6c
john hutnyk , August 23rd, 2020
jasa_55_6.tocjasa_55_6.toc Table of Contents Special Isssue: Sociology in Vietnam Today Previous Issue Volume 55 Issue 6, September 2020 Guest Editor: John Hutnyk Table of Contents (PDF) Editorial Boa…
Rose Deller , June 23rd, 2020
In Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India, Michael Levien examines how the shift from state-directed capitalism to neoliberalism in India from the 1990s has led to…
Rose Deller , May 21st, 2020
In Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts, Frédéric Keck offers a new ethnographic study of how human and animal relations are being reshaped in…
Karoline Buchner , May 13th, 2020
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Achuth Ajit The COVID-19 pandemic has gravitated a shift in teaching practices across the world. The fear of contagion and the…
Karoline Buchner , May 11th, 2020
Hide Press Release (3 Less Words) Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad Image 1: Refugees in Medan making facemasks for an initiative led by a local non-profit organization that covers…
john hutnyk , May 9th, 2020
It seems like that old “goodness gracious me” sketch about the funny uncle that was claiming everything in Britain was ‘Indian’ was, – yup, Indian – accurate after…
Baird Campbell , May 5th, 2020
In celebration and recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, take a look back at some of our favorite past posts from and about the region….
Karoline Buchner , April 27th, 2020
Hide Press Release (10 Less Words) Kristina Großmann, Maribeth Erb, Nicole Weydmann, Novia Tirta Rahayu Tijaja As has been widely reported, a novel coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, China…
Ashley Thuthao Keng Dam , April 16th, 2020
*អត្ថបទនេះមានជាភាសាខ្មែរ។* Editor’s note: This post is the first in our five-part series “COVID-19: Views from the Field.” Click here to read an introduction written by series organi…
Karoline Buchner , April 15th, 2020
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Samata Biswas These are my preliminary thoughts during the first two weeks of being at home from work, in Kolkata (formerly…
focaal_admin , April 15th, 2020
Ramesh Sunam, Waseda University, Tokyo Suraj (name changed), arrived a year ago from Nepal to study at a Japanese language institute in Nagoya, Japan. He was working part-time…
Charlotte Brill , April 13th, 2020
by Charlotte Brill ‘’My eyes were very painful’’, said an Indonesian migrant worker who was caught in a cloud of tear gas on her day off. This tear…
Karoline Buchner , April 10th, 2020
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Juhyun Lee With the spread of the coronavirus, social distancing has become a new imperative. The changes are indeed very fast-paced….
john hutnyk , February 26th, 2020
Somewhere I have a photograph of a piece of graffiti from Kolkata in the early 1990s. It shows three palms behind a brick wall on which is painted…
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john hutnyk , February 22nd, 2020
We should ask V&A head honcho Tristram Hunt if he plans to hand any of the booty back. The famous sepoy being eaten by a tiger should…
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Rose Deller , November 25th, 2019
In Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media, Sarah T. Roberts explores the work conditions and experiences of people employed in ‘commercial content moderation’…
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