Water, Politics and Climate in Southwest China
Andrea Pia’s Cutting the Mass Line examines water supply and increasing scarcity induced by the climate crisis in a rural area of Yunnan, Southwest China. Combining a rich…
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Show Neon Fashion
Since this weblog will be 20 years old in August, some of it will be selectively recycled into pulp, even as much of it was already pulp at…
A Woman’s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India
In this excerpt from A Woman’s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India, Asiya Islam examines the lives of educated young women working in precarious jobs in Delhi’s service sector. The…
Roman Karmen at Điện Biên Phủ
The Soviet documentary maker Roman Karmen at Điện Biên Phủ in 1954 From this English language Doco: His film on Vietnam here:
Rereading Ranajit Guha so remembering this…
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Prof Saibaba
Prof. Saibaba recounts horrific conditions in prison August 26, 2024 Prof Saibaba recalled his nine years of solitary prison life in the ‘anda cell’ of Nagpur jail in a…
Migrants and Machine Politics – review
In Migrants and Machine Politics, Adam Michael Auerbach and Tariq Thachil examine how India’s urban poor navigate and shape political networks to secure representation and accountability within …
Max Ernst (1891-1976)- Die ganze Stadt // The Entire City
Max Ernst (1891-1976)- Die ganze Stadt // aka Die versteinerte Stadt // The Entire City – Paintings from circa 1934-37. Is this Max anticipating Marston mats? The earliest…
Chilli box by Jinan Farming Star import and export. HCMC food & bev trade fair 09.08.24.
Good teh tarik too.
ISSH2024 Conference proceedings
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Languid, tropical, monsoonal time?:net-activism and hype in the context of South East Asian politics – 1999
Languid, tropical, monsoonal time?:net-activism and hype in the context of South East Asian politics. [From The Next Five Minutes3 Workbook (1999)… posted much earlier here: https://hutnyk.wor…
The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India – review
In The Incarcerations, Alpa Shah unpacks the plight of the Bhima Koregaon-16, a group of human rights defenders who were imprisoned without trial for an alleged plot against…
Q and A with Naila Kabeer on Renegotiating Patriarchy
In this interview with Anna D’Alton (LSE Review of Books), Naila Kabeer discusses her new book, Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox, forthcoming from LSE Press in Septe…
Sumanta Banerjee
Seagull Books congratulates Sumanta Banerjee on being honoured with the Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar Gold Plaque by the Asiatic Society. A distinguished cultural historian and journalist, Suman…
Q and A with Sumi Madhok on Vernacular Rights Cultures
In this interview with Anna D’Alton (LSE Review of Books), Sumi Madhok speaks about her latest book, Vernacular Rights Cultures which subverts prevailing frameworks around human rights by exploring ho…
Reframing the problem of India’s street dogs
India’s millions of stray dogs coexist largely peacefully with humans, however, an increase in dog attacks and the prevalence of rabies cases has sparked calls to introduce stronger…
Sexuality and the Rise of China – review
In Sexuality and the Rise of China, sociologist Travis Kong examines the experiences of post-1990s gay men in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Through interviews and historical analysis,…
Rebooting Tourism in Vietnam : The Ho Tram Strip
Asian Perspective, vol. 48, no. 1 2024 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/919884 I have, for personal use only, a pdf copy of this article, which appears in Asian Perspective, vol. 48, no….
ISSH2024
We have extended the deadline for abstracts for ISSH2024 by ten days. Though the deadline for text for the proceedings is still 1st May. Conference is 26-27 July.…
The Discovery of India
“we are too much under the bondage of slogans” Nehru 1947: 545)
Myanmar’s civil society in turbulent times: outside-in and inside-out
Ten years ago I published an article on my research with civil society actors from Myanmar, in which I described the sudden changes in ideological and physical positioning…
More marsten mats
Just a few of a growing collection to accompany the article here – these are the ones that did not fit in the article in Inter Asia Cultural…
Elemental structures of memory: Marston Mats in Vietnam and beyond – preprint
This is a postprint of the article – The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2024, at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/1…
Social challenges for Vietnam
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume 25, Issue 1 (2024) Issue1 Social challenges for Vietnam Introduction Introduction Introduction: challenging transformations for Vietnam John H…