Published 21 May 2021 Image credit of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre - SSEAC Astrid Norén-Nilsson discussed recent political developments in Cambodia for Sydney Southeast Asia Centre's flagship Politics in Action forum Drawing upon expertise from around the world, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre's flagship Politics in Action forum provides up-to-date information on developments in Southeast Asia releva

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Published 21 May 2021 Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons As Japanese public opinion turns resolutely against summer Olympics, will Tokyo cancel? Paul O'Shea has published an article in the Conversation on the topic of the upcoming Olympic Games. Should Japan cancel the games - can Japan cancel them? Although public opinion is overwhelming against them, there are

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Published 23 June 2021 Paul O'Shea talks to Al Jazeera International about the politics behind the Olympics. Paul appeared on 'The Stream' alongside a panel of academics and experts, sharing his analysis of Japanese politics and how it might affect the staging of the Olympics this summer. You can watch his contribution on the following link, at the 20 minute mark (YouTube)

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Published 24 June 2021 The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies are hiring one or two researchers, preferably with a focus on contemporary China, 50% to 100% according to agreement, during the period 2021-08-16 to 2021-12-31.  The work consists of assisting in the preparation of a EU application with deadline 7 October, and then research and some administrative work.  Deadline 23rd July.  

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Published 13 August 2021 Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has guest edited a special issue for Contemporary Southeast Asia The special issue, guest edited by Neil Loughlin and Astrid Norén-Nilsson, sheds new light on the CPP's ongoing attempts to recalibrate its mode of governance and the future it envisages for Cambodia. It includes two articles by Astrid Norén-Nilsson: "Introduction to Special Issue: The

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Published 18 August 2021 Will the appeal of the Western-led global democratic order triumph over China’s pragmatic approach to infrastructure investments? In this op-ed, Tabita Rosendal Ebbesen, PhD student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, explores the possibility that the two new infrastructure investment initiatives proposed by the US and EU might pose a ch

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Published 24 August 2021 photo from pexels.com/ Vi vill få en bild av vad svenska ungdomar lär sig om Öst- och sydöstasien i skolan. Detta kan hjälpa oss förstå vilken kunskap unga människor idag har om regionen. I dagens globala samhälle och med Asiens växande betydelse är det intressant att se hur regionen beskrivs, vilka frågor som belyses, och vilka eventuella brister det finns i läroböcker, s

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Published 1 September 2021 Paul O'Shea has published two articles on the latest developments in Japanese politics The Olympics and the related fifth Covid wave have contributed to the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide. Read about how Covid and the Olympics affected his popularity here, and what happens next here.  

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Published 13 September 2021 首相官邸ホームページ, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Paul O'Shea has co-authored an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper on the past, present, and future of Japanese democracy. What makes a democracy democratic? If one-party dominates, and there is no real choice, is it still a democracy? Japan faces an election, but with no viable opposition emerging to challenge the rulin

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Published 6 October 2021 Paul O'Shea has written a chapter on the topic of Japanese foreign policy under the Democratic Party of Japan. Governing from 2009-2012, the landslide election of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) was supposed to usher in a new era in Japanese politics. Within three years, they were out of office, and shortly afterwards the party dissolved. This chapter examines the DPJ'

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Published 19 October 2021 Is China beating the US and EU through its pragmatic approach towards cooperation under the “Belt and Road” Initiative (“一带一路”倡议) (BRI)? In this opinion piece, Tabita Rosendal argues that China’s “pragmatic values”, combined with investments, may outcompete the US’ “Build Back Better World” (B3W) and the EU’s “Connecting Europe Globally” (CEG). Read the full text on E-Int

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Published 22 November 2021 Our PhD student Gina Song Lopez recently got to discuss her research on veg*n and plant-based food advocacy in East Asia with the Society for the Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations (PHAIR). In the interview, she elaborates on the spread of ‘new’ approaches to veganism and vegetarianism in the Sino-cultural context as well as what the animal advocacy and vega

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Published 7 December 2021 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published an article on regal legitimisations in connection with Cambodia's shift to hegemonic authoritarianism The article, published in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, analyses how Cambodia's transition from competitive to hegemonic authoritarianism has been teeming with references to the monarchy. It investigates the meanings and messages att

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Published 10 December 2021 Astrid has received funding from Formas, a government research council for sustainable development, to lead a three-year research project on the intersection between authoritarianism and the pandemic in Cambodia. Nicholas has received funding from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation for a three-year project examining informal Chinese resource extraction globally,

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Published 14 December 2021 Photo by Elizabeth Rhoads Elizabeth Rhoads has co-authored a new article with Jayde Lin Roberts on Myanmar’s social infrastructure of nalehmu. This new article examines nalehmu, a set of informal relational practices for negotiating power across scales which have facilitated access and enforced accountability through mutually recognized norms and social sanctions in Myan

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Published 17 January 2022 The Centre announces two PhD positions. East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on contemporary phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. The subject integrates theoretical and methodological perspectives from area studies with different humanities and social sciences disciplines. Applicatio

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Published 21 January 2022 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has assessed Cambodia's political and social trends of the past year for East Asia Forum The article is part of the annual EAF Year in Review series, in which country experts assess the trends of the past year that are likely to affect the year in prospect. Read the article on the East Asia Forum web site

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Published 15 February 2022 Japanese lay Buddhist women preparing food in the temple kitchen in rural Hiroshima, August 2016. Photo by Paulina Kolata. Paulina Kolata has co-authored a journal article with Gwendolyn Gillson on the importance of food literacy and its aesthetics in contemporary Japanese Buddhism. Along with the other articles in the Numen Special Issue ‘The Aesthetics and Emotions of

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Published 18 February 2022 Family Buddhist altar (butsudan) found in most rural households. Decorated with paper lanterns to guide the spirits of the dead home during the o-bon festival. 14 August 2017. Photo by Paulina Kolata. Paulina Kolata has recently published an article in Allegra Lab on Buddhist material excess in contemporary Japan. The piece contributes to the thematic thread on “Heritage

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Published 1 March 2022 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published an article on strands of liberalism in Cambodian politics The article, published in Asian Studies Review, seeks to recover strands of liberalism in Cambodian politics from the period leading up to Independence onwards. It is part of the Special Issue 'Locating Liberalisms in Southeast Asia'. Read the full article on Taylor&Francis Online we

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