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Area Studies
Florian Bieber
Summary: The article outlines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nationalism around the world, exploring four aspects that might be shaped by the pandemic: the recent trajectory of nationalism and its social relevance prior to the pandemic, the rise of authoritarianism, biases against some groups associated with the pandemic, and the rise of borders and deglobalization.
NATIONALITIES PAPERS-THE JOURNAL OF NATIONALISM AND ETHNICITY
(2022)
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Area Studies
Jakub Wondreys, Cas Mudde
Summary: This article compares the responses of far-right parties in the European Union to the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring their ideologies, internal heterogeneity, and increasing mainstream positions. The analysis focuses on the narratives, proposed solutions, electoral consequences, and success in dealing with the pandemic. The article also briefly discusses the possible consequences of a highly likely second outbreak of COVID-19.
NATIONALITIES PAPERS-THE JOURNAL OF NATIONALISM AND ETHNICITY
(2022)
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Area Studies
J. Paul Goode, David R. Stroup, Elizaveta Gaufman
Summary: This article examines how people respond to disruptions in their daily routines during the COVID-19 pandemic and seek a return to national normality. It analyzes three categories of everyday practice in different countries, including wearing face masks to show national solidarity, consuming the nation through panic buying and conspiracy theories, and enforcing foreign policies through social media and embodiment. It breaks with existing research on everyday nationalism and banal nationalism, and challenges traditional approaches to contentious politics.
NATIONALITIES PAPERS-THE JOURNAL OF NATIONALISM AND ETHNICITY
(2022)
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Area Studies
Nicoleta Toader Risteiu, Remus Cretan, Thomas O'Brien
Summary: The study explores the controversies surrounding the proposed gold mine in Rosia Montana, Romania, and highlights the differences in understanding extraction between supporters and opponents, focusing on cultural, social, and economic priorities. The local community advocates for traditional mining methods, while the mine owners and neoliberal capitalism envision a globally competitive and technologically advanced form of extraction. The paper reveals that traditional development attitudes among economically marginalized groups may not align with the global connections of neoliberal capitalism.
EURASIAN GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS
(2022)
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Area Studies
Francis L. F. Lee, Edmund W. Cheng, Hai Liang, Gary K. Y. Tang, Samson Yuen
Summary: The Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement in Hong Kong displayed a significant level of tactical radicalization in its first six months, while also maintaining a high degree of solidarity and public support. The article explores how this was achieved through protest survey data, public opinion polls, analysis of digital media content, and field observations, combining relational approach with discursive negotiation.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA
(2022)
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Area Studies
Hussam Hussein, Ahmet Conker, Mattia Grandi
Summary: This paper analyzes the trend of massive hydraulic infrastructure construction and how government elites justify their actions, using insights from major transboundary waterscapes. The study identifies four distinctive discursive practices that are efficiently used in the case studies.
MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS
(2022)
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Area Studies
Marlene Laruelle
Summary: Illiberalism is an emerging concept in social sciences that requires testing through various disciplines and approaches. In this study, the author proposes a detailed framework to stabilize the concept by considering illiberalism as an ideology separate from the literature on regime types, and as being in a permanent situational relation to liberalism.
EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS
(2022)
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Area Studies
Padraig Carmody, Ian Taylor, Tim Zajontz
Summary: The overaccumulation of capital and material resources has driven the Chinese government to pursue solutions overseas, leading to initiatives like the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which aims to address chronic overaccumulation through transregional infrastructure projects. While Chinese projects under the BRI have become widespread in Africa, concerns about debt sustainability and economic viability have been raised, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. These challenges suggest that the hopes for Africa's economic transformation through increased connectivity under the BRI may be difficult to achieve.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES
(2022)
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Area Studies
Azad Singh Bali, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh
Summary: Recent interest in policy design has been hindered by a lack of theorization on the purposes of policy tools in mixes, as well as a failure to recognize the complexity of contemporary policy tool combinations. A revised framework is proposed to distinguish between different levels of instruments used in policy mixes and underscore the importance of procedural tools within them.
JOURNAL OF ASIAN PUBLIC POLICY
(2022)
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Area Studies
Edmund W. Cheng, Francis L. F. Lee, Samson Yuen, Gary Tang
Summary: This article examines the origins and dynamics of the extraordinary wave of protests in Hong Kong from 2019 to 2020. Despite lacking political opportunities and organizational resources, the protest movement attracted unprecedented mass participation. Based on on-site surveys and online datasets, the authors conceptualize the movement as a form of total mobilization from below, driven by activated civil society networks and amplified affective ties. The article analyzes the characteristics of the movement, including protest scale, mobilizing structure, use of alternative spaces, and group solidarity. It also explores the role of threats and emotions in mass mobilizations.
Article
Area Studies
Jokull Johannesson, David Clowes
Summary: This article explains the causes of the Russia-Ukraine war starting in 2014 from the energy and energy markets perspective. It argues that Ukraine's energy deposits and pipeline system pose a direct competitive threat to Russia's energy exports, leading to Russia's annexation of Crimea and the subsequent war in eastern Ukraine.
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Area Studies
Stanley Bill
Summary: This article examines how Poland's ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), applies its strategy of elite replacement to civil society. By pressuring and promoting organizations based on their perceived affiliation with the party, PiS reinforces its political narratives and aims within a right-wing populist framework.
EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES
(2022)
Editorial Material
Area Studies
Rajiv Ranjan
CHINA AND SOUTH ASIA: Changing Regional Dynamics, Development and Power Play
(2022)
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Area Studies
Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt
Summary: This article discusses the formation and operation principles behind China's grassroots governance grid management system, suggesting that it is an extension of existing governance structures while also being influenced by isomorphic pressures. The author supports this argument by analyzing shifts in elite-level discourse, the spread of the grid system, recruitment standards for members, their tasks, and assessments, emphasizing the wide variety of the grid system's implementation at the local level.
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Area Studies
Carin Holroyd
Summary: This paper explores the conceptual background, rationale, policies and programmes Japan has enacted in pursuit of the vision of Society 5.0.
JOURNAL OF ASIAN PUBLIC POLICY
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Hui Huang
Summary: The global COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately intensified the precariousness of insecure work for platform-based food-delivery drivers in China. The crisis has escalated work insecurity, financial instability, and subservient class identity, leading to increased physical risks, livelihood crisis, and inflamed racism among drivers. This is a result of reorganized labor processes and management facilitated by the collaboration of food-delivery platforms and the Chinese state, causing surged workload, unpaid labor, uncompensated prolonged production time, and extra investment in production assets.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA
(2022)
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Area Studies
Yongshun Cai, Chih-Jou Jay Chen
STATE AND SOCIAL PROTESTS IN CHINA
(2022)
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Area Studies
Shaifali Chauhan, Richa Banerjee, Vishal Dagar
Summary: This article analyses the changes in customer behavior for online buying of fashion products and proposes a model for impulse buying of fashion apparel based on consumers' shopping behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study finds that hedonic shopping value and positive emotions have a significant positive impact on impulse buying, while fashion involvement and sales promotion do not have a significant impact. The importance performance map analysis will aid the fashion industry in its recovery.
Article
Area Studies
Amjad Abbas Khan
CHINA AND SOUTH ASIA: Changing Regional Dynamics, Development and Power Play
(2022)
Article
Area Studies
Matthew McCartney
Summary: This paper discusses the potential impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) on economic growth in Pakistan, focusing on corporate logistics, transport routes to China, and local production of cement. The findings suggest that while CPEC may have some growth promoting effects, it is unlikely to be transformative for Pakistan. There is limited evidence of improved corporate logistics and trade is expected to remain seaborne. Positive spillovers have been observed in local construction employment and cement production, but not in bitumen or steel production. The lack of a capable state and commitment to industrial policy in Pakistan also hinders the leverage of transport infrastructure for domestic industrialization.
EURASIAN GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS
(2022)
