R. Patrick Alcedo (Dance) is the author of the chapter, “How Black Is Black?: The Indigenous Atis Compete at the Ati-atihan Festival”, which was recently published as a part of Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives: Identity, Embodiment, and Culture, edited by Linda E. Dankworth and Ann R. David (Palgrave Macmillan, February 2014). The edited book […]
Gregory Chin (Political Science) authored a guest post on the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute’s Political Economy blog. The post, “A life of (global) meaning – in memory of Professor Norman Girvan”, considers Girvan’s enduring contribution to the political economy of the world. The post can be accessed at: http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2014/05/01/life-global-meaning-memory-norman-girvan/. Chin commented on the global […]
Asian Futures, Old and New is the newest addition to YCAR’s Asia Colloquia Papers series. The paper is available here: https://yorku.ca/research/ycar/publications/asia-colloquia-papers In this keynote address to the York Centre for Asian Research’s (YCAR) 2013 international graduate student conference, Tania Murray Li (University of Toronto) tackled a number of entrenched ideas about “Asia” as the shining future, […]
The South Asia Research Group, based at YCAR, has been invited to participate in Charting Imperial Itineraries, 1914-2014: Unmooring the Komagata Maru” at the University of Victoria. Four members of SARG will lead a workshop session on how the group has been conceptualizing the relationship between South Asian diaspora studies and area studies, and on […]
YCAR Research Associate Xuan Thuy Nguyen’s article “Education Reform in Vietnam: A Critical Analysis of Inclusion and Management Discourses” was published in The Journal of Asian Critical Education earlier this spring in an issue focusing on Vietnam. The paper examines the construction of educational discourses in the Vietnamese educational system in the context of the […]
YCAR Research Associate Dr. Zahir Sadeque’s chapter,”How Climate Change will Shape the Social Policy Framework,” appears in the third exdition of The Welfare State Reader, edited by C. Pierson, F.G. Castles and I.K. Naumann and published by Polity. The Welfare State Reader first appeared in 2000 and this third edition includes 17 new selections, all reflecting the […]
YCAR is pleased to welcome Dr. Andrew Song to the Centre as its inaugural YCAR/ABMP Postdoctoral Visitor in Asian Governance. Andrew recently completed his PhD in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His research focuses on the governance of natural resource extraction, with particular reference to coastal small-scale fisheries. He has some familiarity with fisheries in […]
International Workshop Series: The Emotions of Migration Young People’s Migration Within and Throughout Asia: Managing Emotions, Identities and Relationships (Workshop 2) Date: 19 August 2014 to 20 August 2014 Venue: York Centre for Asian Research and the Children’s Studies Program (Department of Humanities), York University Call for papers Workshop 2 calls for empirical research papers […]
Analyzing Farmer Suicides in India is the latest addition to YCAR’s Asia Research Brief series. It can be accessed here. The Brief, by Raju Das (Geography) and Mohana Kumar S. (Jaipur Institute of Development Studies, India), concerns the troubling and widespread phenomenon of farmer suicides in India. The paper draws on work undertaken while Mohana Kumar […]
Chinese Women’s History: Local or Global? by Professor Joan Judge (Department of History) is the latest addition to the YCAR Asia Research Briefs series. Dr. Judge’s ARB related to her recent paper on Chinese women’s history – an invited contribution to the Journal of Women’s History last December. The Asia Research Briefs series provides short summaries or perspectives […]