Activism New India, new era: Gunpoint democracy December 18, 2019 0 Image Credit: DSC_0920 by Suhas Das/Flickr; Licence : CC BY NC 2.0 Written by Nayan Jyoti. Assam has borne the brunt of a massive influx…
Activism Raging resistance against India’s anti-Muslim citizenship law December 16, 2019 2 Image Credit: Refugees, Climatalk/Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC 2.0 Written by Ashok Swain. India is currently witnessing large-scale protests all over the country. While these protests are…
Activism The party-list system in the Philippines: Is it better or worse for democracy? July 4, 2019 0 Written by Jorge Villamor Tigno. Image Credit: Satur Ocampo & Liza Maza file candidacy for Senate by Victor Villanueva/CC; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The party-list system in the…
Activism Contested centenary: Remembering the May Fourth Movement in the PRC and across Chinese communities July 4, 2019 0 Written by Els van Dongen. Image Credit: 51358-Qingdao by xiquinhosilva /Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. History is no small matter in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Many readers are…
Activism Polarising Dissent: The constructed narrative of Singapore’s new ‘fake news’ law June 10, 2019 0 Written by Howard Lee and Terence Lee. Image Credit: singapore by Matt Madd/Flickr, Licence CC BY 2.0. On 8 May 2019, Singapore passed its fake news legislation.…
Activism Taiwan’s confused reaction to the Tiananmen Incident in 1989 and why Lee Teng-hui was right June 4, 2019 0 Written by Ho Ming-sho. Image Credit: Tiananmen Square #6 by Mike/Flickr, Licence CC BY-SA 2.0. This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a…
Activism Are social media destroying democracy in Southeast Asia? March 14, 2019 0 Written by Ross Tapsell. Recent literature has argued that social media use encourages authoritarianism. Ronald J. Deibert’s January 2019 article in Journal of Democracy argues…
Activism The difficult path of Queerness in the Age of the Postcolonial April 19, 2018 0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. The South Asian subcontinent saw a renewed interest in engaging with colonial history in 2017, as India and Pakistan celebrated 70…
Activism Bangladesh and the crisis of freedom of speech March 21, 2018 8 Written by Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury Bangladesh is a small nation in South Asia, gaining independence in 1971. After 24 years of existence under the religious…
