Category: Society
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Event Report: Colonizing Language by Dr Christina Yi
On February 3rd, 2021, the Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs, in…
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Event Report: Sticky Activism: The Gangnam Station Murder Case and New Feminist Practices Against Misogyny and Femicide
Note: This event is based on an article that will be published in the Journal…
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Forgetting Without Forgiving: Japanese (American) Masculinity and the Model Minority
Abstract: From internment camps to military barracks, the U.S. employed Japanese American citizen-soldiers during World…
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Radcliffe’s Line in the Sand: The Colonial Legacy of the Boundary Commission, Lord Mountbatten and the 1947 Partition Plan
Abstract: This paper argues against the claim that despite plunder and exploitation, British colonialism had…
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South Korea’s Soft Power in Middle Power Diplomacy: Enhancing Popular Culture and its Challenges
Abstract This essay focuses on the challenges South Korea faces as a middle power amid…
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Plastic’s Past: The Complex Historical and Cultural Influences Underlying South Korea’s Plastic Surgery Phenomenon
Abstract: South Korea has become known as the “plastic surgery capital of the world,” with…
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Project Runway: Protest Edition – Hong Kong as a Case Study for Fashion and Art in East Asian Protest
Abstract: The ongoing Hong Kong protests have been characterised by the movement’s unprecedented scale as it…
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Yellow Peril Supports Black Liberation! The archive of Asian anti-imperialism offers us Asian/Americans/Canadians another way of un/learning racism and settler-colonial imperialism while educating our communities
Disclaimer: Please note that the views expressed below represent the opinions of the article’s author.…
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K-Pop as Hallyu: The Increasing Economic Integration of South Korean Culture Within the Globalized Capitalist Market
Abstract In recent years, the musical genre of Korean pop (K-Pop) has gained massive international…
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Replacing Anxious Hindu Masculinity with the Muslim Body: Hindu Right-Wing Nation Building Through Hindu-Muslim Sexual Delineation
Abstract: Hindu nationalist sentiments have grown in the past few decades partly as an emergent ideology…
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