This post is inspired by my participation in the 2015 Congrès Asie-Pacifique, held in Paris this past September. Here is an excerpt with the full text available here: While English is often thought of as the international academic lingua franca, there is significant scholarship on Asia in other languages, including French. French-language scholarship on the
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Photo above courtesy of GlobalHigherEd. Kris Olds, editor of GlobalHigherEd, kindly published this guest-blog on October 4th, 2015. It was also simultaneously published by Inside Higher Ed in GlobalHigherEd’s section. The full text is available here. Below is the opening paragraph. Research and scholarship is primarily about asking and answering questions as well as conserving and constantly
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Pacific Affairs invited me to review a new book entitled Living with Risk: Precarity & Bangkok’s Urban Poor by Tamaki Endo, a Japanese scholar. It’s a great read for those with an interest in urbanization and poverty alleviation. What’s also nice is that it cites a lot of Japanese-language scholarship on these issues, which might not normally
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My contribution on social science research and teaching infrastructure in Canada and the USA was published in March 2015 by the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences (Second Edition). Here is the link to the Science Direct version for purchase and downloading. Hats off to editor of the entire, massive second edition, James
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