China The long read: Is cyber-nationalism on the rise in China? February 7, 2020 0 Image Credit: Cyber Café China by Mark oh!/Flickr; licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. Written by Fang Kecheng. European luxury brands had a difficult summer in China. In…
China The spectacle of cuckoldry and the crisis of the libidinal economy November 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: Weibo phone by bfishadow/Flickr; Licence: CC BY 2.0. Written by Dino Ge Zhang. The Weibo page Green Hat Society is an online society for people…
Culture and Society What can a tourism bureau learn from a student protest movement? September 22, 2019 0 Image credit: Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival 2014 in Taiwan by Jirka Matousek/Flickr, license CC BY 2.0 Written by Perl Li Having travelled to Taiwan numerous times, I…
Culture and Society Indigenous media in transformation: Languages and other factors in Taiwan September 21, 2019 0 Image credit: TITV and Alian Radio title on CTV Building 20180101 by Solomon203 /Creative Common, license CC BY-SA 4.0 Written by Chia Sui Crystal Sun What…
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.…
Culture and Society Neo-traditionalist Islam in Malaysia: Neither Salafi nor traditionalist May 8, 2019 0 Written by Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid. At times, labels can be annoying. Yet for political analysts they serve the useful purpose of typifying individuals and…
Democracy Politicising national security, securitising poverty April 23, 2019 1 Written by Ajay Darshan Behera. Increasingly, electoral campaigning in India has become bereft of debate on the policies and programmes of the political parties in…
Congress The 2019 Indian General Elections: The consolidation of BJP dominance? April 16, 2019 0 Written by Wilfried Swenden. The race has started, as on 11 April 2019 approximately 900 million Indian voters were called to cast their vote in…
Elections The dynamics of social media and the Indian Elections 2019 April 12, 2019 1 Written by Amit Prakash. Everything about the Indian elections is grand: about 900 million electors cast their vote over a month-and-a-half to elect 543 members…
Elections Social media, BJP 2.0 and the 2019 general elections in India April 11, 2019 0 Written by Rashmi Singh. With the 2019 general elections hot on its heels, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has finally been forced to reckon…
