Article
Area Studies
Yating Yu
Summary: The article investigates how China's state-run media resisted foreign scrutiny of the COVID-19 pandemic by constructing a discourse of resistance through strategies such as enemification, victimisation, and heroisation. The use of linguistic mechanisms like argumentative topoi, nominations, predications, and metaphors helped shape China's national image and convey geopolitical messages through the media's response to the crisis.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2022)
Book
Cultural Studies
G Song
TELEVISING CHINESENESS: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity
(2022)
Article
Asian Studies
Iymon Majid
Summary: This paper examines the framework of Islamist politics of Jama'at e Islami in the Indian-administered Kashmir region. While Jama'at e Islami challenges the Indian state and its ideology, the provincial relationship between Kashmir and India also constrains its actions. Therefore, this paper conceptualizes the relationship between the Indian state and Islamists in a region with a Muslim majority that demands self-determination, and raises questions about Jama'at e Islami's opposition to Indian secularism and the status of minority rights in the Islamist project.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Asian Studies
Hendri Yulius Wijaya
Summary: This article explores the emergence of digital homophobia in Indonesia, which is characterized by a combination of homophobic discourses, technological infrastructure, and punitive laws targeting non-normative sexualities. The internationalization of LGBT rights has provided anti-LGBT groups with the means to generate fear and moral panic, portraying queer individuals as a threat to national identity, traditional values, and agents of disease. Social media and other technological platforms have facilitated the spread of homophobic rhetoric and enabled citizens to persecute and shame LGBT individuals. This digital homophobia extends beyond the online space and has significant impacts on the lives and activism of the Indonesian queer community.
INDONESIA AND THE MALAY WORLD
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Yating Yu, Felicia F. Tian
Summary: This study examines the construction of the female individualisation discourse in Western English-language news media, revealing three predominant themes and exploring various discursive strategies.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Erika Ningxin Wang, Liang Ge
Summary: This article examines the relationship between fans and state power through a study of a large-scale fan conflict surrounding the popular 'Boys' Love'-adapted drama The Untamed in China. The study reveals a complex picture of two-way exploitation between fans and state power. Fans internalize reporting as a norm of legitimacy in consumer culture, but their practices are exploited by the state to censor media users' speech and cultural production.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Ali Omidi, Gauri Noolkar-Oak
Summary: The trilateral economic agreement signed by Iran, India, and Afghanistan for the development of the Chabahar Port in January 2016 holds immense economic and geopolitical value for both countries. This project helps Iran mitigate US sanctions and sustain trade relations with its neighbors and independent states like India, while also serving as a key point connecting India to Central Asia and Europe. The cooperation between Iran and India in the Chabahar port is seen as a strategic alternative, if not a rival, to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
SOUTH ASIA RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Archaeology
Hassan Karimian, Fatemeh Karimi, Simin Karimian
Summary: Research shows that the Zoroastrian commandments have had a significant impact on the formation of historical residential spaces in Yazd, particularly in terms of respecting the four elements and the order of the cosmos.
IRAN-JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Archaeology
Roberta Tomber, Michela Spataro, Seth Priestman
Summary: This paper examines transport containers known as Torpedo jars, which were widely distributed throughout the western Indian Ocean during the Sasanian to Early Islamic period. The analysis of Torpedo jar samples from southern Iran suggests the existence of regionally related workshops for each class category, indicating a complex process of production. The study provides insights into maritime exchange in the past.
IRAN-JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF PERSIAN STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Anthropology
Arnab Roy Chowdhury, Ahmed Abid
Summary: In Myanmar, the government and society have long been hostile to the Rohingya people, rendering them stateless. Recent democratization has intensified discrimination and violence, leading to a large-scale exodus of the Rohingya. Forced to flee by boat, they face inhumane treatment and marginalization on their journey to other countries.
INTER-ASIA CULTURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Sara Niner, Deborah Cummins, Selver B. Sahin, Stella Mulder, Emily Morrison
Summary: This article discusses the importance of addressing gender gaps in political representation in conflict-affected environments for peacebuilding and development interventions, emphasizing the need to focus on qualitative transformation of deeply entrenched inequitable social structures. Using the case study of Timor-Leste, it illustrates how political institutions are controlled by a small group of privileged male leaders, and suggests that special measures must be accompanied by social change to provide equal opportunities. It aims to contribute to the discussion on identifying and addressing gendered structural limitations for promoting effective women's participation in politics in post-conflict settings.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Archaeology
Felix Hoeflmayer, Sturt W. Manning
JOURNAL OF NEAR EASTERN STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Sreang Chheat
Summary: This article examines contestation over China-funded hydropower projects in Cambodia, focusing on the case of Chhay Areng. By analyzing different social forces, particularly an anti-dam campaign group and the ruling party, the article highlights changing political dynamics that shaped the strategies and outcomes of the contestation. It provides insights into the role of civil society and social media in mobilizing and shaping the outcome of this case, as well as shedding light on the nature of Chinese international development and the impact of the resultant contestation on China's influence regionally and globally.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2022)
Book
Asian Studies
N Vedal
CULTURE OF LANGUAGE IN MING CHINA: Sound Script and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
D. B. Subedi
Summary: This article examines the impact of populist nationalism on Sri Lanka's 'illiberal' peacebuilding, identifying three main dimensions and their relationships, as well as their exacerbation of social conflicts.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Sovinda Po, Kearrin Sims
Summary: This article challenges Beijing's non-interference rhetoric through a case study of Cambodia and makes two core arguments: foreign interference can involve reinforcing regimes lacking popular support, not just challenging leadership, and Beijing has interfered in Cambodia to support Prime Minister Hun Sen during times of political contestation. The article argues that Beijing's actions in Cambodia, which advance Chinese national interests, contradict the notion of non-interference.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Lucille L. S. Ngan, Anita K. W. Chan
Summary: The impact of separation on children's well-being and family relations has long-term effects on life-course transitions and pathways. The study challenges the common understanding of instrumentalism in East Asian transnational families and emphasizes the importance of emotions and cultural values in migration planning. Research on transnational migration would benefit from a life-course perspective and explicit attention to emotional dimensions.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
E. Mara Green
Summary: This article examines the concept of "jat" through the lens of signed conversations in contemporary eastern Nepal. People use gestures to indicate a person's jat identity, such as drinking alcohol. Analyzing signed discourse reveals how individuals adapt to a changing social environment by combining the ontological duality of bodies with their own habits and the prescribed and proscribed practices of jat groups.
SOUTH ASIA-JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Frederic Krumbein
Summary: Taiwan became the first country in Asia to introduce same-sex marriage, thanks to long-term progress in LGBTQ rights and a broad coalition of supporters. The promotion of gender education has shaped a positive attitude towards marriage equality among the younger generation. Furthermore, discussions on rights need to be tailored to fit the country's culture and values.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Sifo Lakaw, P. Kerim Friedman
Summary: This article examines the challenges of Indigenous language revitalisation in Taiwan, focusing on the impact of children's transition from home to school on their linguistic behavior. The article argues for the integration of family language policy with changes in formal schooling, to be implemented by the Indigenous communities themselves.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TAIWAN STUDIES
(2022)
