Current Issue

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements

Volume 21 Number 4 December 2020

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