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Transnational Advocacy Networks and Affirmative Action for Dalits in India (2008)
Journal Article
Lerche, J. (2008). Transnational Advocacy Networks and Affirmative Action for Dalits in India. Development and Change, 39(2), 239-261. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00478.x

In India, movements and parties representing the lowest ranking dalit caste groups have followed different strategies in their struggle against social, economic and cultural discrimination. In this article, a new dalit movement making use of a ‘trans... Read More about Transnational Advocacy Networks and Affirmative Action for Dalits in India.

War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central (2008)
Book Chapter
Goodhand, J. (2008). War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central. In M. Pugh, N. Cooper, & M. Turner (Eds.), Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (225-244). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228740_14

Wherever there is violent conflict, boundaries and borders are taken seriously. As the quote above implies, boundaries play an ambiguous role, acting simultaneously as source of security and antagonism, inclusion and exclusion. Which boundaries becom... Read More about War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central.

Samsung in Asia: Transnational Samsung and Asian Workers (Asiaro gan Samsung) (2008)
Book
Arnold, D., Chang, D.-O., George, S., & Wong, M. (2008). D.-O. Chang (Ed.). Samsung in Asia: Transnational Samsung and Asian Workers (Asiaro gan Samsung). Humanitas

This is the Korean translation of the first part of "Labour in Globalising Asian Corporations" published by Asia Monitor Resource Centre in 2006. This volume focuses on Samsung, the transnational electronics giant which owns a production and distribu... Read More about Samsung in Asia: Transnational Samsung and Asian Workers (Asiaro gan Samsung).

Global Construction and Asian Workers: Expansion of TNCs in Asia and Implications for Labour (2008)
Preprint / Working Paper
Chang, D.-O. Global Construction and Asian Workers: Expansion of TNCs in Asia and Implications for Labour

In Asia, the construction industry -- with its long history -- is considered one of the most important industries for national development. Construction workers, however, are treated largely as secondary citizens, deprived of means to protect their d... Read More about Global Construction and Asian Workers: Expansion of TNCs in Asia and Implications for Labour.