Outsourcing the Polity offers a new account of social outsourcing in post-independence Myanmar, demonstrating how the bankrupt post-socialist junta mediated market reform in the 1990s and 2000s and forced private and non-state actors to take the burden for social welfare. Informed by research during Myanmar’s decade of partial civilian rule (2011–2021), Gerard McCarthy examines how ideals and …

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This edited volume explores core questions on education and transnational mobility in a time characterized by a global pandemic, recasting them through the lenses of regimes, experiences, and aspirations. The volume brings together 19 short essays in the form of letters addressed to the coronavirus and written by international students, together with nine striking illustrations …

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Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong and explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in gendered migration, precarious labor, and bureaucracy. Focusing on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, anthropologist Nicole Constable considers how these instruments determine legal status and dictate …

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Studies of racism against migrants have recently attempted to move away from the presumed dichotomy between “white” and “Others”, yet the focus of much research remains predominantly trained on “white” people racializing “Others”: whether Black, Asian or Muslim. Attending only to this “white”/”Other” binary homogenises select groups of non-“white” including Asians. This approach also ignores …

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What goes into the ideological sustenance of an illiberal capitalist democracy? While much of the critical discussion of the media in authoritarian contexts focus on state power, the emphasis on strong states tend to perpetuate misnomers about the media as mere tools of the state and sustain myths about their absolute power. Turning to the …

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This book unpacks the organized sets of practices that govern contemporary Asian medicine, from production of medications in the lab to their circulation within circuits and networks of all kinds, and examines the plurality of actors involved in such governance. The chapters analyse the process of industrialization and commercialisation of Asian medicine and the ways …

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