Asia How not to study Indian literature: Against chauvinism February 20, 2020 1 Image Credit: Orissa by Dietmut Teijgeman-Hansen/ Flickr; licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Satya P. Mohanty. Let me be blunt: there is an urgent need…
Asia Bangladeshi queer utopia: How activists are reclaiming local narratives to empower the community November 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: UK celebrates ruling on Section 377 by British High Commission / Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. The current…
Africa As the Sino-African relationship flourishes, increasing anti-African sentiment in China is alarming August 30, 2019 0 Image Credit: Weibo Button by bfishadow/Flickr, Licence: CC BY 2.0. By Kwizela Aristide Basebya. Relations between China and Africa today are far less thorny than they used…
Democracy Malaysia today: The demise of a hybrid? Not so fast… May 14, 2019 0 Written by William Case. Samuel Huntington’s notion of a third wave of democratic transitions captured the many dozens of countries whose regimes transitioned from authoritarian…
Ethnic Minorities Japan and the Other II – Caught between Asia and the ‘West’? May 24, 2018 0 Written by Griseldis Kirsch. If Japan tries to appear homogeneous to the outside world, it also has a sizeable and increasing immigrant population. As an…
Ethnic Minorities Japan and the Other – Its (not-so-) hidden minorities May 23, 2018 1 Written by Griseldis Kirsch. When, in 2005, Asō Tarō, then Minister for Interior and Communication, said that Japan consisted of “one nation, one civilization, one…
