Identity politics Setting the stage for race baiting in Malaysia October 18, 2019 0 Image Credit: Mahathir Mohamad face.jpg by Tasnim News Agency; License CC BY 4.0 Written by James Chin. On 20 September 2019 I wrote about the significance…
Burma/Myanmar Book review: ‘Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar’ August 15, 2019 1 Written by Debby Sze Wan Chan. Image Credit: ‘‘Untitled" by gforbes /CC; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Since the dissolution of the military regime in 2011, discussions about…
Burma/Myanmar Myanmar’s stalled peace process April 3, 2019 0 Written by Ashley South. Recent international attention in Myanmar has been focused on the plight of the Rohingya population of Northern Rakhine State, 700,000 of…
China No more singing and dancing? Xinjiang diffractions October 22, 2018 0 Written by Fredrik Fällman. Five years ago the then Deputy Governor of Xinjiang Shi Dagang 史大刚 said that the local minorities were “too busy dancing…
China China’s complex ‘multiculturalism’ with ethnic and religious tensions October 19, 2018 2 Written by Daouda Cissé. In order to propel their propaganda agenda, Chinese officials often wrongly portray China as being a country with a monolithic society…
conflict Is Kashmir facing a new crisis? July 2, 2018 1 Written by Andrew Whitehead. June has been a cruel month in Kashmir. As it opened, there appeared to be a glimmer of hope in one of…
Bangladesh Ethnic cleansing in Bangladesh: the Chittagong Hill Tracts? March 8, 2018 1 Written by Jnan. The Bangladesh government has been hailed by the international community as a champion of humanitarianism for sheltering the Rohingya refugees. Without doubt,…
Burma/Myanmar Why is Myanmar burning while Sri Lanka is not? March 2, 2018 0 Written by Rizwan Zeb. How and when does an ethnic conflict turn violent? Who plays the decisive role in politicising an ethnic group? What are…
Federalism India's Federal Success: Recognition is the Way Forward October 10, 2017 18 Written by Katharine Adeney. Ethnofederalism (where the boundaries of at least some of the federal units coincide with ‘ethnic’ boundaries) has been contested as a solution…
China What Explains the Rise of Ethnic Minority Tensions in China? March 11, 2016 0 Written by Reza Hasmath. Ethnic minority tensions have been on the rise in mainland China. In mid-September 2015, a knife-wielding attack in Aksu, Xinjiang Uyghur…
