Chia-Ying Shen

A poetic reflection on care and transition, this piece delves into the quiet power of liminal spaces — where tenderness, attention, and the in-between become sites of transformation.

 

 

Maxi Grindley

This paper investigates how the WGA’s 2023 agreement on AI, despite its apparent restrictions, implicitly reinforces the broader structures of digital surveillance and the inevitability of AI within surveillance capitalism.

 

 

 

Monika Verma

This article examines the role of AI in India’s refugee registration and identity management, considering its benefits in efficiency and fraud prevention and its risks related to surveillance, privacy, and the marginalization of vulnerable groups.

 

 

 

Sergey Zanchevskiy

By studying Wang Bing’s physical presence in his documentaries, this paper reveals how his subtle yet consistent engagement with the diegetic world challenges the objectivity of observational cinema and frames his filmmaking as an ethical act of minjian storytelling.

 

 

 

Fernan Talamayan

This essay explores UI and UX design as a form of power that shapes user interactions, political discourse, and social relations, emphasizing its often-overlooked sociopolitical impact — particularly in the Global South — and the need for critical scrutiny to challenge digital inequalities.

 

 

 

Mukhamad Zulianto

Focusing on Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan, this piece examines how social media platforms foster networked communities that provide support, facilitate communication, and help workers navigate socio-economic challenges in a context of limited institutional protection.

 

Call for Papers | Spring 2025

Violence in Times of Polycrisis | 多重危機時代的暴力

Submission link: https://forms.gle/8d5J1fVXC5cy5V2t9

Deadline for abstract submission: May 1, 2025

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Theories and new perspectives on violence

Violence within geopolitical tensions and wars

Violence and racism

War and gender/sexual violence

Representations of violence in media, literature, art, cinema etc.

Reproduction and perpetuation of violence

Domestic violence

Actions and activism against violence

(Non)-Violence as a means of resistance

Language as violence

Violence and technology

Epistemic and institutional violence

The role of the law in mitigating or perpetrating violence

 

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Conflict, Justice, Decolonization - Asia in Transition in the 21st Century

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