Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements Volume 21 Number 4 December 2020
Table of Content
Editorial note: COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing
Kuan-Hsing CHEN and CHUA Beng Huat
Essays
Politics of youth survival in times of crisis
Annisa R. BETA
Desiring political opposition beyond COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore
CHUA Beng Huat and Meisen WONG
How Vietnam won the first battle against COVID-19: collectivistic responses in a pandemic
Linh P DINH
The gyroscope-like economy: hypermobility, structural imbalance and pandemic governance in China
XIANG Biao
Enhancing mixed accountability for state-society synergy: South Korea’s responses to COVID-19 with ambidexterity governance
Taekyoon KIM and Bo Kyung KIM
Ghana in COVID-19 pandemic: government responses and impact on local communities
Agnes KHOO
Post-contact zones: en/countering COVID-19
Soyoung KIM
“I hope you’ve washed your hands”: the rebirth of the untouchable
Ashish RAJADHYAKSHA
In times of war and love
Chien-ting LIN
The end of Afropessimism and their-story: Rastafari as ethos
Jahlani A. H. NIAAH
Visual essay
Xenophobic Malaysia, Truly Asia: metonym for the invisible
TAN Zi Hao
COVID in the City: high rise buildings, elevator lifts and fallen symbols
David MORLEY
A crisis of representation in the time of pandemic: the reconfiguration of the South African public sphere
Hui JIANG
Online university, pandemics and the long history of globalization
Shunya YOSHIMI
The pandemic, race and the crisis of the neoliberal university: study notes from lockdown London
Ashwani SHARMA