Conflict, Justice, Decolonization – Asia in Transition in the 21st Century

2025 年 9 月 23 日

Digital Colonialism in Taiwan: The Crisis of Subjectivity under Dual Technological Violence from the U.S. and China

Article by He, Zixuan Abstract: In an age of accelerated global digitalization and intensifying geopolitical conflict—a conjuncture of “polycrisis”—colonialism reemerges as a digital spectre, haunting the world and materializing as the infiltration and control of sovereign nations by transnational technological power. Yet current discussions, often preoccupied with the influence of […]

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2025 年 9 月 22 日

Migration, Identity, and Digital Media: The Experience of Thai and Indonesian Migrants in Taiwan

Article by Pakorn Phalapong, Danny Widiatmo, Novita Siti Zubaedah, Pacharapol Katjinakul Abstract: The influx of Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan and the ubiquity of digital media uses prompt this paper to explore how digital media uses of migrants shape their identity and belonging in the communities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork […]

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2025 年 9 月 21 日

Colonial Soldiers and the Epistemic Injustice: The Case of Chien Mao-Sung

Article by Ellen Lin Abstract: This article examines the war crimes trial of Taiwanese colonial soldier Chien Mao-Sung to explore how colonial subjects were structurally silenced in the postwar justice system. Mobilized under imperial rule and later tried as a Japanese soldier, Chien’s experience was reduced to personal misconduct. By […]

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2025 年 9 月 20 日

A Case Study of the Bourgeoisification of Bengali Theatre and the Left

Article by Suddhayan Chatterjee Abstract: The article examines my adaptation of Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! in the context of contemporary West Bengal. Fo’s farcical mode, rooted in the Italian struggles of the 1970s, resonates powerfully with the present moment marked by unemployment, price hikes, and agrarian distress in […]

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2025 年 9 月 7 日

Virtual Realities, Real Harms: Rethinking Violence in the Metaverse

Article by Rungrot Tatiyawongwiwat Abstract: In a world where interconnected crises, ranging from climate change and digital warfare to forced migration, reveal mounting human vulnerability, the concept of polycrisis captures the overlapping nature of today’s global risks. Within this context, the Metaverse has emerged as a new digital frontier offering […]

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2025 年 8 月 29 日

地緣政治與戰爭裡的暴力｜ Violence in Geopolitics and War

Article by 黃郁媗 Yu-Hsuan Huang Abstract: In today’s international system shaped by intersecting polycrises, violence is no longer an incidental consequence of disorder but a strategic instrument and structural outcome of geopolitical power reconfiguration. Drawing on geopolitical analysis and realist international relations theory, this article argues that violence is embedded […]

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2025 年 8 月 24 日

從編戶齊民到避秦：數位時代的亞洲身分自主權發展 | From Households to Exiles: Tracing the Rise of Identity Autonomy in Asia’s Digital Age

Article by 黃彥霖 Yen-Lin (mashbean) Huang Abstract: This article analyzes the public administration tradition of “population registration and control” in East Asia and examines digital identity policies enacted by various Asian governments. It explores whether path dependence on centralized authority is manifest in cyberspace. The regulation of individuals’ freedom of […]

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2025 年 8 月 23 日

The Interplay of Female Repression and Violent Desire in Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher

Article by Chung-Jen Chao Abstract: Violence is a widely explored interdisciplinary topic in the humanities and social sciences, including fields such as literature, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and political science. In the field of literature, Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, […]

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Digital Colonialism in Taiwan: The Crisis of Subjectivity under Dual Technological Violence from the U.S. and China

Migration, Identity, and Digital Media: The Experience of Thai and Indonesian Migrants in Taiwan

Digital Colonialism in Taiwan: The Crisis of Subjectivity under Dual Technological Violence from the U.S. and China

Migration, Identity, and Digital Media: The Experience of Thai and Indonesian Migrants in Taiwan

Colonial Soldiers and the Epistemic Injustice: The Case of Chien Mao-Sung

A Case Study of the Bourgeoisification of Bengali Theatre and the Left

Virtual Realities, Real Harms: Rethinking Violence in the Metaverse

地緣政治與戰爭裡的暴力｜ Violence in Geopolitics and War

從編戶齊民到避秦：數位時代的亞洲身分自主權發展 | From Households to Exiles: Tracing the Rise of Identity Autonomy in Asia’s Digital Age

The Interplay of Female Repression and Violent Desire in Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher

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