Opium in HCMC
A lockdown post. Looking forward to continuing to explore the city one great meal at a time. Here are some of my notes on La Manufacture d’Opium, at…
Tag: Asia
Bandung Spirit Bulletin #2
This is well worth a look (not only for the conference ad it has): https://bandungspirit.org/
Book Forum: Therapeutic Politics of Care in Asia by Nicholas Bartlett
The six review essays in this collection emerge from a joint launch of five books and one dissertation/ book-in-progress and a panel at the recent annual meeting of…
Spotlight! “Global STS: Transnational Network Building – Asia, Oceania, and Beyond” hosted by the STS Futures Initiative
This week as part of our “ReAssembling Asias through Science” series, we would like to highlight an event held by the STS Futures Initiative last month. This panel…
Japan – Vietnam archives
Another set of items for the exotica files (link below), is a set of documents held in the national Archives of Japan and I think very useful for…
Book Review: The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing by Sonia Faleiro
In The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, Sonia Faleiro investigates the shocking deaths of two teenage girls in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, allowing the reader to…
Book Review: Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death Along a Changing River by Andrew Alan Johnson
In Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death Along a Changing River, Andrew Alan Johnson offers a new anthropological study that explores how infrastructural projects – in this case, hydropower dams…
Book Review: Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite by Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen
In Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite, Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen explores the fact that elite law firms in India display unexpected levels of gen…
Colonial Hyperbole, with gaps
There are some crimes that are longer-term than others… As I am finding from spending part of the morning exploring archival images, such as this one. A ‘British…
China: The Unpopular Winner of the Year in Pandemic Times. Resilience in China under COVID-19 (#WitnessingCorona)
Hide Press Release (2 Less Words) Mengyi Zhang Figure 1: Photo taken by the author’s parents (age 48 and 49) when they got their vaccines in a community…
Book Review: Beyond Tears and Laughter: Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China by Yang Shen
In Beyond Tears and Laughter: Gender, Migration, and the Service Sector in China, Yang Shen examines the life experiences of men and women who have migrated from rural China to…
(Re)Assembling Asias through Science
Call for contributions! Over the past two decades, a proliferation of critiques have emerged from a body of critical inter-asian scholarship to challenge, revise, and situate the conventional…
Stephen Campbell: What can workers expect in post-coup Myanmar?
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…
Thesis Review: Ethical Constellations of Muslim Food Practice in Mumbai
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…
Twitter bans Sci-hub: Interests of the publishing mafia more important than access to science
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…
Contested Memory. The ‘Comfort Women’ Statue in Berlin and Dealing with Sexual Violence in War
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…
Watch “Serampore & Denmark – A Living History by the Ganges” on YouTube
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…
Instagram as a Catalyst for Digital Gemeinschaft During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Vietnam (#WitnessingCorona)
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…
Talk at Cooch Behar
GandhiMarx Cooch Behar pdf slides Youtube link https://youtu.be/eGl7CZvEC6c
Journal of Asian and African Studies – vol 55 no 6
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…
Book Review: Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India by Michael Levien
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…
Long Read Review: Avian Reservoirs: Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts by Frédéric Keck
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…
Teaching in the Times of Corona: Structural Inequalities and the Limitations of Online Pedagogy in North East India (#WitnessingCorona)
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…
“We Cannot Afford to Take Any Risks”: Refugees in Indonesia under Self-Isolation amidst COVID-19 Pandemic (#WitnessingCorona)
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…