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Why basic income's emancipatory value exceeds its monetary value (2015)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2015). Why basic income's emancipatory value exceeds its monetary value. Basic Income Studies, 10(2), 193-223. https://doi.org/10.1515/bis-2015-0021

This article argues that the emancipatory value of a basic income is greater than its monetary value, drawing on the results of a large-scale basic income scheme conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh between 2010 and 2013. The scheme was ev... Read More about Why basic income's emancipatory value exceeds its monetary value.

Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan. (2015)
Book
Chang, B.-Y. (2015). Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315765662

In the struggles for political and cultural hegemony that Taiwan has witnessed since the 1980s, the focal point in contesting narratives and the key battlefield in the political debates are primarily spatial and place-based. The major fault line appe... Read More about Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan..

ICT, Intermediaries, and the Transformation of Gendered Power Structures (2015)
Journal Article
Oreglia, E., & Srinivasan, J. (2015). ICT, Intermediaries, and the Transformation of Gendered Power Structures. MIS Quarterly, 40(2), 501-510

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are believed to hold much potential to empower women, both socially and economically, in low-income and rural communities. In this paper, we focus on rural women who mediate ICT use as telecenter oper... Read More about ICT, Intermediaries, and the Transformation of Gendered Power Structures.

East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the 'Left' (2015)
Book Chapter
Chang, D.-O. (2015). East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the 'Left'. In T. Marois, & L. Pradella (Eds.), Polarising Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (180-191). Pluto Press

Over the last few decades, East Asia has truly become a global factory. It produces more than a third of global manufacturing export value while attracting more direct investment and growing more than twice as fast as other developing regions (and se... Read More about East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the 'Left'.

Labour as an Agent of Change: the case of China (2015)
Book Chapter
Pringle, T. (2015). Labour as an Agent of Change: the case of China. In L. Pradella, & T. Marois (Eds.), Polarising Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (192-202). Pluto Press