September 2024

Business Trip: Orientalism, Geopolitics, and Apple’s Thailand Stumble

For a company that prides itself on decades of advertising prowess, 2024 has been a bumpy year for the tech giant Apple. In May, the company was forced to apologise over an iPad ad that featured a slew of creative tools including musical instruments, cameras, and books being crushed by a hydraulic press, with the […]

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More-Than-Human Becomings with Sophie Chao, Winner of the ECR Book Prize 2024

Congratulations on being awarded the ASAA Early Career Book Prize 2024! Can you tell us a bit about the book? What’s the topic explored, and how did you first become interested in the topic? In the Shadow of the Palms is an ethnographic account of one Indigenous community’s encounter with oil palm in the Indonesian-controlled

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Everyday Politics in North Korea

This post is extracted from the introduction to a recent special issue, Everyday Politics in North Korea, published in the Asian Studies Review. The full introduction can be read here and is currently available open access to all readers. The articles in the special issue can be read here. Research on North Korean politics and society has come

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