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Issue 4 of Asia in Focus is out!

Issue 4 of Asia in Focus is out!

The latest issue of Asia in Focus, Issue 4, is now out and freely available at http://www.asiainfocus.dk/.  In this issue you can read about the influence of Adat culture on the peace process in North Maluku, Indonesia, and the development

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Michael Mærsk-Møller Hansson workplace student at NIAS

Michael Mærsk-Møller Hansson workplace student at NIAS

I am a Master’s student in Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen.I am currently writing my Master’s thesis with the tentative title ‘Staying pleasurably, staying well – staying Kachin’. In this thesis I explore popular notions of how well-being and the

Asia Portal May 5, 2017 fruits Read more

Michael Mærsk-Møller Hansson workplace student at NIAS

Michael Mærsk-Møller Hansson workplace student at NIAS

I am a Master’s student in Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen.I am currently writing my Master’s thesis with the tentative title ‘Staying pleasurably, staying well – staying Kachin’. In this thesis I explore popular notions of how well-being and the

Asia Portal May 5, 2017 fruits Read more

SUPRA Nordic Scholarship for MA and PhD students Fall 2017

SUPRA Nordic Scholarship for MA and PhD students Fall 2017

SUPRA Nordic Scholarship for MA and PhD students Fall 2017 If you are working on a MA or PhD thesis during Fall 2017 and need some inspiration, literature or simply just time to write on your thesis, then NIAS has

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SUPRA Nordic Scholarship for MA and PhD students Fall 2017

SUPRA Nordic Scholarship for MA and PhD students Fall 2017

SUPRA Nordic Scholarship for MA and PhD students Fall 2017 If you are working on a MA or PhD thesis during Fall 2017 and need some inspiration, literature or simply just time to write on your thesis, then NIAS has

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Craft, Currencies, and Ritual Orders in a Northern Thai village

Henrik Kloppenborg Møller is an anthropologist and PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, Lund University. His PhD project examines the organization of the trade in jade between Northern Myanmar and China, and the role of jade in Chinese cosmology. Henrik

Asia Portal September 18, 2015 minorities, Thailand, Field work No Comments Read more

Japan’s ideal and less ideal victims

The brutal murders of Japanese hostages Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa at the hands of ISIS have understandably captured the interest of the Japanese nation. Opinions on the victims have ranged from the deeply sympathetic to the victim-blaming. Moreover the

Asia Portal April 21, 2015 Japan, terror, cultural studies, victimization No Comments Read more

Report from the streets of Bangkok

For safety reasons I am omitting my name from this account. My apologies. I was in my house, when I heard. A friend messaged me, urging me to turn on the television, and so I did. All channels showed the

Asia Portal May 27, 2014 Thailand, Elections, government, democracy, political parties, social activism, political crisis No Comments Read more

The Creeping Coup

Thailand has an impressive track-record in the department of political coups. There has, in the country’s democratic history (since 1932) been 18 more or less successful coups in Thailand. For this reason, whenever there is political instability, Thai media and

Asia Portal May 8, 2014 Thailand, government, democracy, political parties, political crisis No Comments Read more

Being a tourist in Myanmar

By Kristina Jönsson, Associate Professor Department of Political Science, Lund University The political changes currently seen in Myanmar (former Burma) were for most observers unthinkable only a few years ago. I am not a specialist on Burmese politics, but have

Asia Portal February 24, 2014 development, Burma, politics, regional relations No Comments Read more
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