Published 4 March 2022 Our alumna Anne Marte Overaa participates in this project. http://norrbotten.konstframjandet.se/projekt/osjungen/

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Published 25 September 2020 Dr Nicholas Loubere has co-authored an article on small-scale gold miners in Ghana in the journal Labour, Capital and Society. The article is titled ‘Unequal Extractions: Reconceptualizing the Chinese Miner in Ghana’, and presents a critical examination of the depiction of Chinese miners in public, media, and academic discourse. Labour, Capital and Society journal (new

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Published 19 October 2020 Marina Svensson has published an article that deals with gentrification, heritage and walking in Beijing. The article entitled “Walking in the historic neighbourhoods of Beijing: walking as an embodied encounter with heritage and urban developments,” appears in the International Journal of Heritage Studies.See the full article here (new window)

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Published 6 November 2020 Shinzo Abe and Donald Trump. Photo Wikimedia Commons. Paul O'Shea has co-authored an article on the Japan-US alliance, focusing on the Trump-Abe era. The title of the article is “Making the alliance even greater”: (Mis-)managing U.S.-Japan relations in the age of Trump." The other author is Sebastian Maslow. It's open-access and published in the journal Asian Security. It

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Published 23 November 2020 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published an article on online news as a governance innovation in the journal Critical Asian Studies. The article is titled "Fresh News, innovative news: popularizing Cambodia’s authoritarian turn". It seeks to advance understanding of how the new logics of an expanding digital media system can be mobilized in the service of authoritarianism, by

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-how-online-news-platform-has-supported-transition-hegemonic-authoritarianism-cambodia - 2025-01-09

Published 14 December 2020 PHOTO: 首相官邸ホームページ on wikimedia commons Paul O'Shea has co-authored an article on the Japan-US alliance, analysing the prospects under new President Joe Biden and new Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide. Written together with Sebastian Maslow, the article considers the prospects for the Japan-US alliance over the coming four years. It finds that the Biden administration will ha

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Published 17 December 2020 nakashi from Chofu, Tokyo, JAPAN, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Paul O'Shea has written an article in the Conversation analyzing Covid exceptionalism in the cases of Japan and Sweden. The article examines national exceptionalism in political and media rhetoric in Japan and Sweden since the onset of the pandemic. It finds that Japanese exceptionalism was 'classic e

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Published 22 January 2021 Photo by Elizabeth Rhoads Elizabeth Rhoads examines dispossession of religious minorities in a new article on Myanmar. Myanmar’s systematic dispossession of religious and ethnic minorities is well-documented as a tool for counterinsurgency through territorialisation. However, the specific contours of the relationship between minorities, territorialisation, and urban dispo

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-property-citizenship-and-invisible-dispossession-myanmars-urban-frontier - 2025-01-09

Published 17 February 2021 Image credit of Utrikesmagasinet. Foto: STR/AFP/TT Marina Svensson has written an article on academic freedom in Utrikesmagasinet published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. The article (in Swedish) provides an overview to the issue of academic freedom in China and its global implications. It also briefly addresses the wider and general debates on academ

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-academic-freedom-china-and-its-global-implications - 2025-01-09

Published 26 February 2021 Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash.com In The Social Construction of Internet Addiction in China: Youth between Reality and Temporal Autonomy in the Documentary Web Junkie, Annika Pissin addresses issues surrounding the social construction of internet addiction, focusing on conceptualisations of reality, escape, hope, and time. Drawing on a critical realist account of semios

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Published 9 March 2021 A page ripped out from The Economist by China's censorship department. Attribution: 闫恩铭／Enming Yan. Wikimedia Commons Since 2017 the international Chinese Studies community has been shocked to discover that many of the major commercial academic publishers have been actively working with the Chinese censors to limit access to ‘politically sensitive’ books and articles within

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-censorship-academic-freedom-and-academic-publishing-inon-china - 2025-01-09

Published 26 March 2021 Photo by Rodion Kutsaev on Unsplash Marina Svensson has published an article in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs entitled “‘Crazy Jack’ and the ‘Gay CEO’: Visions, Entrepreneurship, and the Chinese State in the New Digital Economy.” This article analyses the visions, careers, and companies of Jack Ma of Alibaba and Geng Le of Blue City. Jack Ma is a well-known busines

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Published 19 April 2021 The People’s Map of Global China tracks China’s complex and rapidly changing international activities by engaging an equally global civil society. The Map is the result of a collaboration between academics, NGOs, journalists, trade unions, and the public at large to explore various dimensions of Global China in their localities. It was created with the support of the Centre

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Published 20 May 2021 Image credit of NIAS Astrid Norén-Nilsson discusses her research about the Cambodian online news outlet Fresh News with Duncan McCargo. In this podcast, Astrid Norén-Nilsson  discusses her latest research about the Cambodian online news outlet Fresh News with Duncan McCargo, the Director of NIAS. Fresh News has become an indispensable source of information for Cambodia’s poli

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Published 21 May 2021 Image credit of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre - SSEAC Astrid Norén-Nilsson discussed recent political developments in Cambodia for Sydney Southeast Asia Centre's flagship Politics in Action forum Drawing upon expertise from around the world, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre's flagship Politics in Action forum provides up-to-date information on developments in Southeast Asia releva

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Published 21 May 2021 Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons As Japanese public opinion turns resolutely against summer Olympics, will Tokyo cancel? Paul O'Shea has published an article in the Conversation on the topic of the upcoming Olympic Games. Should Japan cancel the games - can Japan cancel them? Although public opinion is overwhelming against them, there are

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Published 23 June 2021 Paul O'Shea talks to Al Jazeera International about the politics behind the Olympics. Paul appeared on 'The Stream' alongside a panel of academics and experts, sharing his analysis of Japanese politics and how it might affect the staging of the Olympics this summer. You can watch his contribution on the following link, at the 20 minute mark (YouTube)

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Published 24 June 2021 The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies are hiring one or two researchers, preferably with a focus on contemporary China, 50% to 100% according to agreement, during the period 2021-08-16 to 2021-12-31.  The work consists of assisting in the preparation of a EU application with deadline 7 October, and then research and some administrative work.  Deadline 23rd July.  

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Published 13 August 2021 Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has guest edited a special issue for Contemporary Southeast Asia The special issue, guest edited by Neil Loughlin and Astrid Norén-Nilsson, sheds new light on the CPP's ongoing attempts to recalibrate its mode of governance and the future it envisages for Cambodia. It includes two articles by Astrid Norén-Nilsson: "Introduction to Special Issue: The

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Published 18 August 2021 Will the appeal of the Western-led global democratic order triumph over China’s pragmatic approach to infrastructure investments? In this op-ed, Tabita Rosendal Ebbesen, PhD student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, explores the possibility that the two new infrastructure investment initiatives proposed by the US and EU might pose a ch

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/battle-bris-how-west-plans-challenge-chinas-rise-through-infrastructure-and-why-it-might-not-succeed - 2025-01-09