Latest Print Issue — Critical Asian Studies

(formerly the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars)

Spotlight on Thailand

Dynastic Female Politicians in Thailand: Evidence from the 2019 and 2023 Elections

Yoshinori Nishizaki

Thailand’s Contract Farming Act at a Crossroads: Impacts, Shortfalls, and Smallholders

Danny Marks

Expanding Protected Areas Globally Post-2020: A Critical Perspective from Thailand, with Implications for Community Forestry

Mark R. Herse, Naruemon Tantipisanuh, Wanlop Chutipong, and George A. Gale

Articles

Rereading the Indo-Pacific War as Aidagara: Watsuji Tetsurō’s Relevance to Japan’s Foreign Relations

Taku Tamaki

Negotiating between Customs and Beliefs: Han Muslim Converts in China

Usman Khan

Civic Subjecthood: The Hybridization and Reformulation of Subjecthood and Citizenship

in Postcolonial Brunei

Mu’izz Abdul Khalid

A New Neoliberal Offensive in South Korea: The Conservative Politics of Rollback and the Disciplining of Organized Labor

Ji-Whan Yun

Where does Xinjiang fit within the Belt and Road Initiative? Indications from CCP Documents and China’s Steel industry

Justine Franklin and Joel Wainwright