Journal of Contemporary Asia, Volume 50, Issue 5 (2020)

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The Politics of Caste in India’s New Land Wars

Obituary

Obituary
Kraisak Choonhavan (1947–2020)
Pages: 679-683
Published online: 15 Jul 2020
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The Politics of Caste in India’s New Land Wars

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The Politics of Caste in India’s New Land Wars
Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Siddharth Sareen & Patrik Oskarsson
Pages: 684-695
Published online: 18 Feb 2020
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Dalits and Dispossession: A Comparison
Samantha Agarwal & Michael Levien
Pages: 696-722
Published online: 13 Apr 2019
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Anticipating Future Capital: Regional Caste Contestations, Speculation and Silent Dispossession in Andhra Pradesh
Sanam Roohi
Pages: 723-742
Published online: 19 Feb 2020
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The Politics of Land Acquisition in Haryana: Managing Dominant Caste Interests in the Name of Development
Loraine Kennedy
Pages: 743-760
Published online: 02 Sep 2019
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Orchestrating Anti-Dispossession Politics: Caste and Movement Leadership in Rural West Bengal
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Pages: 761-784
Published online: 04 Jul 2019
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Caste in Stone? Exploring Caste and Class Dimensions of Conservation Displacement in Central India
Asmita Kabra
Pages: 785-805
Published online: 06 Dec 2019
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Narratives of the Dispossessed and Casteless: Politics of Land and Caste in Rajarhat, West Bengal
Ritanjan Das
Pages: 806-830
Published online: 29 Oct 2019
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Adivasiness as Caste Expression and Land Rights Claim-Making in Central-Eastern India
Patrik Oskarsson & Siddharth Sareen
Pages: 831-847
Published online: 16 Sep 2019
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The North Korea Problem: Perspectives on the Nuclear Debate, Economic Reforms and Beyond
Jihyun Kim
Pages: 848-859
Published online: 05 Aug 2020
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Semionauts of Tradition: Music, Culture and Identity in Contemporary Singapore
Juliette Yu-Ming Lizeray and Chee-Hoo Lum (Singapore: Springer, 2018)
Rui Oliveira Lopes
Pages: 860-876
Published online: 25 Jul 2019
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Constructing China: Clashing Views of the People’s Republic
Mobo Gao (London: Pluto Press, 2018)
Xie Baohui
Pages: 862-864
Published online: 05 Feb 2020
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Humanity: Ai Weiwei
Larry Warsh (ed.) (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)
Kosmas Tsokhas
Pages: 866-870
Published online: 14 Apr 2020
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The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan
Mubbashir A. Rizvi (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019)
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Pages: 869-871
Published online: 02 Jul 2020
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Authoritarian Capitalism. Sovereign Wealth Funds and State-Owned Enterprises in East Asia and Beyond
Richard W. Carney (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Kevin Hewison
Pages: 871-873
Published online: 19 Jul 2019
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From Migrant to Worker: Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia
Michele Ford (New York: Cornell University Press, 2019)
Jan-Jan Soon
Pages: 873-876
Published online: 27 Dec 2019
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