Article
Area Studies
Gergely Pulay
Summary: This article examines how governance issues in a mixed neighbourhood of Roma and non-Roma Romanians in Bucharest transform into practical challenges, and explores the impact of marketization on men's struggles for value.
EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Sebastian Hoppe
Summary: This essay explores the impact of 'territories of accelerated development' on late Putinism in Russia, revealing that this development model largely reproduces bureaucratic management and rent recycling instead of driving transformative changes in productive investments and capitalist profits.
EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Francesco Colin
Summary: This paper examines the practice of citizens exercising the right to petition and engaging with local government in Morocco. It highlights the interdependence between depoliticization and (re-)politicization at the local level. The study finds that the exercise of the right to petition involves both top-down depoliticization and pathways for the re-politicization of citizens' action.
MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Joanna Wawrzyniak, Malgorzata Sikorska
Summary: This article proposes an analytical framework to explore narratives of return as policy proposals and tools of memory politics. It reveals coexisting versions of return advocated by three Polish political actors and shows that all analyzed political narratives of return draw on Polish collective memory and the politics of memory of the post-1989 transformation.
EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES
(2023)
Correction
Area Studies
Yue Du
Article
Area Studies
Changkun Cai, Na Tang
Summary: This article investigates how China's local governments successfully implement targeted poverty alleviation policies through a campaign-style implementation regime. By integrating policy regimes and campaign theories, the study reveals that the campaign redistributes political attention, constructs institutional arrangements, and aligns interests within the political system. The campaign-style implementation regime offers an escape route for developing countries ensnared in a capacity trap.
JOURNAL OF CHINESE POLITICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Area Studies
James Millward
Summary: This review essay summarizes Yan Sun's argument about ethnic politics in China, critiquing her analysis of different schools of thought and historical background, and challenging her central arguments about PRC's policies. The essay suggests that considering PRC's ethnic politics through a framework of colonialism may be more appropriate.
JOURNAL OF CHINESE POLITICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Book Review
Area Studies
Fadiah Nadwa Fikri
JOURNAL OF CURRENT SOUTHEAST ASIAN AFFAIRS
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Tianyang Liu, Tianru Guan, Randong Yuan
Summary: This study highlights the importance of countermeasures against conspiracy theories in reducing acceptance of radicalism during critical events. Content-targeted methods can prevent the escalation of radicalization, while audience-focused methods can effectively achieve cognitive deradicalization.
JOURNAL OF CHINESE POLITICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Xuan Qin, Catherine Owen
Summary: This paper examines the role of local Chinese Communist Party organizations in public policy implementation in China by examining Shanghai's grassroots COVID-19 management. The study finds that although Party-led policy implementation elicits comprehensive compliance, it also puts pressure on the grassroots governance system.
JOURNAL OF CHINESE POLITICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Jeremy Garlick, Fangxing Qin
Summary: China's influence in the global South encompasses both material aspects, such as trade and infrastructure, and ideational aspects, such as political influence and norm diffusion. The Chinese government attempts to spread its norms through practice-based normative diplomacy, but there is a disparity in the recognition of discursive and non-discursive practices.
Article
Area Studies
Jeremy F. G. Moulton
Summary: This article critically assesses the potential of the European Green Deal (EGD) to become a sacred narrative for the European Union. While the EGD has the significance and development of a mythic capacity, its impact is limited by criticisms from both sides of the climate action debate.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Qiyue Wang, Mingjiang Li
Summary: The study found that nationalism in the Russia-Ukraine war is closely related to anti-USA sentiment, with influential we media focusing their agenda on the USA. The commercialization of cyber-nationalism is a traffic-driven business, where we media practitioners and social media platforms profit by catering to popular demand under political consent, while the party-state and non-state actors form reciprocal triangular relations to serve their respective interests.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Alex Hardy
Summary: This article utilizes shelter theory to analyze Estonia's contemporary digital innovations. By studying three developments - e-Residency program, Data Embassy, and cross-border e-governance, the article concludes that these innovations can be conceptualized as supplementary forms of shelter for Estonia, with varying degrees of effectiveness.
JOURNAL OF BALTIC STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Bei Peng
Summary: This article provides a case study of the reception of pre-modern Chinese music theory in Western scholarship, focusing on the works of Zhu Zaiyu. It discusses the initial reception of Zhu's theories by Joseph-Marie Amiot, the influence of Amiot's work on German musicology, and the later emancipation of Anglophone Zhu Zaiyu studies.
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION OF CHINESE CULTURE
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Mikkel Rytter
Summary: An increasing number of aging Pakistani immigrants in Denmark need help and care, but few receive the homecare-service provided by the welfare state. Instead, family members care for them at home in complex care arrangements. This article discusses how concerns for elderly care shape marriage strategies in the upcoming generation. However, factors such as social mobility, increasing women in the labor market, rising divorce rates, and strict legislation on family reunification make it difficult and insecure to choose a spouse from Pakistan. The interconnection between care arrangements and marriage strategies highlights the intergenerational entrainment in elderly care within the Pakistani migrant community.
SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Selena Daly, Hannah Malone, Vanda Wilcox
Summary: In recent years, there has been a flourishing field of research on the architectural legacy and difficult heritage of Fascist Italy, and these topics have started to be introduced into undergraduate classrooms. However, there has been limited research on the methods used to teach the history of Fascism. This article outlines how problem-based learning and scenario-based learning approaches have been applied to tackle this topic, highlighting the benefits of interdisciplinary, creativity, and authenticity, and providing reflections for colleagues considering a similar approach in their teaching.
Article
Area Studies
Hannah Muzee
Summary: While multiparty politics in Uganda have increased the political space for women, it has also reinforced the patriarchal nature of parliamentary and electoral politics, leading to women being systematically alienated by party politics. The analysis of party constitutions and structures reveals male dominance in top positions and valuable portfolios, delegation of women to subordinate roles, and the use of women's leagues to advance party agendas. Therefore, there is a need for women's leagues to operate autonomously from the party.
JOURNAL OF ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Ming Gao
Summary: This article explores the sociocultural history of opium consumption in Manchukuo and its popularisation through the beauty of female attendants. It reveals the connection between opium consumption and prostitution, highlighting the impact on society and the damage caused by imperialist forces.
ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Area Studies
Catalina Nicolas-Martinez, Maria Lopez-Martinez, Prudencio Jose Riquelme-Perea
Summary: This article analyzes gender inequality in the European labor market and points out that despite some indicators showing positive progress, the gender pay gap continues to widen. Therefore, it is necessary to develop policies to promote gender equality.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES
(2023)
