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Playing with Fire: How Engagement with Illicit Economies Shapes the Survival and Resilience of Ethnic Armed Organisations in the China-Myanmar Borderlands (2024)
Journal Article
Peng, X. (in press). Playing with Fire: How Engagement with Illicit Economies Shapes the Survival and Resilience of Ethnic Armed Organisations in the China-Myanmar Borderlands. China perspectives, 138(9-20), 9-20. https://doi.org/10.4000/12fwg

This article examines the relationship between the survival and resilience of ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) and their involvement in the illicit economy in the China-Myanmar borderlands of northern Shan State over time. Drawing on fieldwork condu... Read More about Playing with Fire: How Engagement with Illicit Economies Shapes the Survival and Resilience of Ethnic Armed Organisations in the China-Myanmar Borderlands.

Differential and resonant solidarities: A materialist approach to the early career experience (2024)
Journal Article
Leicht, C. V., Bengtsson Meuller, E., Borowetz, T., Hiraide, L., & Pruszynski, K. (online). Differential and resonant solidarities: A materialist approach to the early career experience. Politics, https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957241280237

Navigating academia as early career academics (ECAs) is increasingly challenging, with many facing structural inequities, the rise of precarious work, and the increased marketisation of higher education in the United Kingdom and beyond. The purpose o... Read More about Differential and resonant solidarities: A materialist approach to the early career experience.

Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation (2024)
Book
Akkoyunlu, F. K. (2024). Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399506120

This book offers the first comparative study of the foundations, consolidation and contestation of regime guardianship in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Turkey. For decades, the military in Turkey and the clergy in Iran acted as the... Read More about Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation.

'Instagram is like a karela': transnational digital queer politics and online censorship and surveillance in India (2024)
Journal Article
Kanchan, T. (in press). 'Instagram is like a karela': transnational digital queer politics and online censorship and surveillance in India. Communication, Culture & Critique, 17(3), 162-169. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcae034

This article explores transnational queer political flows and negotiations in Indian queer/trans communities on Instagram, situating this in its limits and restrictions as a public sphere that is corporate- and state-governed and subject to condition... Read More about 'Instagram is like a karela': transnational digital queer politics and online censorship and surveillance in India.

Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations (2024)
Journal Article
Deacon, C. (in press). Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations. International Studies Quarterly, 68(3), Article sqae114. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqae114

Why does contentious history play such an outsized role in some international relationships? Why do these “history wars” endure, overriding incentives to reconcile? Despite their demonstrable importance, history wars have generally been neglected by... Read More about Mnemonic Encounters: The Construction and Persistence of International “History Wars” and the Case of Japan–South Korea Relations.