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Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: the dealignment of state and regime security (2025)
Journal Article
Kong, T. Y., & Chu, Y.-W. (online). Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: the dealignment of state and regime security. Competition & Change, https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251336825

Taiwan’s transition from a miracle of “growth with equity” to inegalitarian growth in the 21st century cannot be fully explained by the prevailing theories of globalization or social politics derived from the study of Western capitalism and social po... Read More about Inegalitarian growth in twenty-first century Taiwan: the dealignment of state and regime security.

How Do Movement Parties Learn Lessons of Defeat in Taiwan? The Case of the Green Party Taiwan (2024)
Journal Article
Fell, D., Peng, Y.-W., Wang, Y.-H., & Jhang, J. R. (online). How Do Movement Parties Learn Lessons of Defeat in Taiwan? The Case of the Green Party Taiwan. International journal of Taiwan studies, https://doi.org/10.1163/24688800-20241377

In this article we examine how Taiwan’s oldest movement party, the Green Party Taiwan, dealt with national electoral defeats in 2012, 2016, and 2020. We examine the theme of electoral defeat from three angles. First, we review the dominant post-defea... Read More about How Do Movement Parties Learn Lessons of Defeat in Taiwan? The Case of the Green Party Taiwan.

Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul (2023)
Book
El-Kazaz, S. (2023). E. Ault (Ed.), Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478027386

In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing contested rapid transformations, she reveals how the... Read More about Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul.

Purpose-built parliament buildings and the institutionalisation of parliament in Lesotho and Malawi (2023)
Journal Article
Batsani-Ncube, I. (2023). Purpose-built parliament buildings and the institutionalisation of parliament in Lesotho and Malawi. Parliamentary Affairs, 76(4), 947-967. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac017

Largely inspired by western donor good governance agenda, the current African parliaments literature has overlooked the significance of new parliament buildings that have been constructed by China and tends to place a premium on appraising the perfor... Read More about Purpose-built parliament buildings and the institutionalisation of parliament in Lesotho and Malawi.

Religion and Civil Society in Southeast Asia (2023)
Book Chapter
Bonura, C. (2023). Religion and Civil Society in Southeast Asia. In M. L. Weiss, & E. Hansson (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia (260-274). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367422080-19

This chapter examines the complexities of religion and civil society in Southeast Asia. Given the importance of religion in the region, religious associations have played an important role in the formation of civil society and the organisation of cha... Read More about Religion and Civil Society in Southeast Asia.

Environmental Protection after Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation: Is Democracy Working for the Environment? (2022)
Book Chapter
Fell, D. (2022). Environmental Protection after Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation: Is Democracy Working for the Environment?. In J. F.-S. Hseih, & R. Cox (Eds.), Democratic Governance in Taiwan. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003314592-7

This chapter examines how Taiwan's democracy has performed in the area of environmental protection in its democratic consolidation period. The success of Taiwan's environmental movement is considered through its sensitizing, procedural, structural, s... Read More about Environmental Protection after Taiwan’s Democratic Consolidation: Is Democracy Working for the Environment?.

Whose building? tracing the politics of the Chinese government-funded parliament building in Lesotho (2022)
Journal Article
Batsani-Ncube, I. (in press). Whose building? tracing the politics of the Chinese government-funded parliament building in Lesotho. Journal of Southern African Studies, 48(5), 883-900. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2022.2122385

When the government of China offered to fund the construction of Lesotho’s parliament building, pre-existing building plans developed by Lesotho government bureaucrats were set aside. Instead, Chinese firms designed and constructed the new parliament... Read More about Whose building? tracing the politics of the Chinese government-funded parliament building in Lesotho.

Securitisation or Autocratisation? Hong Kong’s Rule of Law under the Shadow of China’ Authoritarian Governance (2022)
Journal Article
Lai, Y.-H. (2023). Securitisation or Autocratisation? Hong Kong’s Rule of Law under the Shadow of China’ Authoritarian Governance. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 58(1), 8-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096221124978

This article examines the nature of the legal system in Hong Kong and its process of autocratisation under the Chinese sovereign. This article suggests that, in colonial and post-colonial times, Hong Kong’s legal system follows the global trend of au... Read More about Securitisation or Autocratisation? Hong Kong’s Rule of Law under the Shadow of China’ Authoritarian Governance.

“Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77 (2022)
Journal Article
George, N. (2022). “Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 42(2), 470-488. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9987957

Were the events of 1975–77 in Lebanon, commonly thought of today as an internecine sectarian war between Christians and Muslims, more comparable to the furies of revolution and counterrevolution? This article reframes the Lebanese National Movement's... Read More about “Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77.

A 'Leader-full' Movement Under Authoritarianism: Mobilization Networks in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement (2022)
Book Chapter
Lai, E. (2022). A 'Leader-full' Movement Under Authoritarianism: Mobilization Networks in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement. In A. J. Spires, & A. Ogawa (Eds.), Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia (19-39). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003256809-3

Analysing Hong Kong’s 2019–2020 anti-extradition movement, this chapter suggests that despite the state’s attempts to disenfranchise it by capturing visible leaders, the movement evolved to be ‘leader-full’, or full of leaders. Traditional social mov... Read More about A 'Leader-full' Movement Under Authoritarianism: Mobilization Networks in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement.

Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa (2022)
Journal Article
Gallagher, J. (2022). Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa. Political Geography, 98, Article 102674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102674

Drawing on the example of South Africa, the article explores how the state, an incoherent and opaque set of ideas, discourses and relationships, is made into a ‘thing’ by its citizens. It describes how citizens encounter the state physically when the... Read More about Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa.