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#OpenAccess from @jeas-journal.bsky.social -
Myth and Measurement: Spatial Heterogeneity, Ecological Fallacy, and the Urban Narrative in Peninsular Malaysia’s Electoral Politics - https://cup.org/4q8eI77
- Tyler Rongxuan Chen
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Remembering is resistance. On International Day of Peasant Struggles, we honor land defenders killed for justice, connect past and present violence, and affirm memory as defiance against exploitation, dispossession, and ecological destruction. www.tni.org/en/article/c...
Zach gets it exactly right. Orban was an authoritarian who built a rigged election system for his own gain. But Peter Magyar cracked the code - realizing that every vote in the countryside was worth two to three votes in the cities and so racked up countryside support, winning 2/3rds of the seats.
I find amazing the deafening silence from US universities on Trump's explicit threats to commit war crimes. It is astounding how he has managed to silence them/us. Is this what we agreed to when we bought into institutional neutrality?
www.jstor.org/stable/43194...
Most commentators characterize the aftermath of the 2006 Thai coup as a “resurrection of the bureaucratic polity.” But bureaucrats remained influential even during the period from 1992–2006. How should we understand their political influence?
Read more here: t.co/znKFxNkZ1P
My book interview is up on the @NewBooksEAsia podcast! I discuss with Dr. Sarah Bramao-Ramos how I started researching this topic, why global South-South development history matters, how Taiwan constructed a unique model of agrarian development, and more! newbooksnetwork.com/in-the-globa...
If you're looking for an academic Chinese Politics job, apply to this one:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQT568/a...
The Strait of Hormuz is closed just as spring planting starts. Here's a quick illustrated guide on how 'warflation' will make your food more expensive later this year: newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/how-the-wa...
By "non-hegemony", I wonder if the authors are really making a case about the anarchical society?
The $16.6 trillion in net assets held by private funds in 2025 were ultimately managed by just four thousand registered advisors.
New from Lenore Palladino, on the unregulated finance at the heart of the American economy. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fin...
Please join in person at MIT on Friday, February 27 for a fantastic lineup of speakers—including Prakash Kumar, Sigrid Schmalzer, Micah Muscolino, Benjamin Siegel, and Heather Roller—exploring conservation, ecology, and food production in China&India. Hope to see you there!
Artisanal oilfields of Wonocolo
At the artisanal oilfields of Wonocolo again late in the afternoon.
A lot of claims recently about the emergence of "tech feudalism". Regular (garden variety...?) "feudalism" in contemporary times seems overlooked. "Civil oligarchy" may be interlocked with modernization processes, but not all oligarchs are civil or perhaps even see themselves as civilians.
View from near the Kendeng range
Misty morning here
Hi @tompepinsky.com from cosmopolitan rural Java where many millions persist in the countryside (often with migratory experiences) and few protest vote against urban chauvinism... 🤔
"...the inclination among some senior clergy is to blame a few bad eggs for misbehaviour in the monkhood, rather than organisational failings that permit so-called “mafia monks” to thrive." www.economist.com/asia/2026/01...
Coffee
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View of the sea from behind the lighthouse at Marino
Back in Adelaide briefly. Happy New Year to all!
Almost 400 household surveys... Not yet finished. Some elusive larger landholders remain.
Front cover of The Division of Rationalized Labor. The cover includes four pictures: pen and paper, microscope, factory tower, police badge. Modern-looking yellow lines and graphs are superimposed.
My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…
Yes, that one looks well reasoned. So we should expect the WA AI Hub one to have the most influence then...
Do you like any of the submissions to the parliamentary inquiry "on building Asia capability" that closed yesterday?
Hi All! The new issue of Journal of Agrarian Change (25:4) is out now with an entirely open access special section on Land and Labour in Indonesia (among other goodies)... please do check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14710366...
Cropland area nearly doubled in South America between 2000 and 2019 - the largest relative increase in the world. Soybean production replaced rainforests, grasslands & savannas. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/14962... As China refuses U.S. soybeans, this puts more pressure on natural ecosystems.
