Article by Monika Verma Abstract: This article examines the Myanmar military junta’s April 4, 2025, announcement regarding the repatriation of 180,000 Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh. By analyzing territorial control dynamics in Arakan (Rakhine) State, historical patterns of state behavior toward the Rohingya population, and international relations considerations, this study argues […]
Article by Yuan-yang Wang Abstract: The conflict between Hamas and Israel has been increasing since Ariel Sharon assumed office as the prime minister in 2001. His tactics of evacuating the Gaza Strip led to many Palestinians being killed. Benjamin Netanyahu and his government have supported more and more policies that […]
Article by Kahlan Alradhi, Katarzyna Szpargala, Hanh T. L. Nguyen Abstract: This study examines how governance systems across diverse sociopolitical contexts regulate women’s bodies, labor, and public presence through intersecting legal, economic, and discursive mechanisms. Focusing on three case studies – Vietnam, the Gulf States, and Poland – we analyze […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
