🎉 New article accepted! #AA_accepted #QueerStudies #Indonesia Title: “Examining Indonesian queer groups through Axel Honneth’s perspective on recognition”. Authors: Agus Danugroho, Rustinsyah Rustinsyah & Mohammad Adib. Stay tuned! The full article will be out soon! 🌏✨

🎙️Our podcast is live! @klemensenica.bsky.social & @marcodifrancesco.bsky.social discuss Asian Anthropology’s special issue on research on Japan in (post-)COVID Times. Fieldwork, adaptation, and unexpected insights—thoughtful reflections and funny stories included! 🔗 open.spotify.com/episode/0rMO....

At the T&F journal 'Asian Anthropology', we are looking for new co-editors. If you are interested in this role, please consider applying! You can find all information here: lnkd.in/edwapNw8. @asiananthropology.bsky.social

📢 Introducing the Research Report category! Less theory, more ethnographic insight—perfect for current PhD students 👩‍🎓👨‍🎓 Check out an example from our latest issue: Jia Li's piece on artistic place-making in a Guangzhou urban village 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1683... #AA_ResearchReport #PlaceMaking #China

Did you know that Asian Anthropology publishes book reviews? In our latest issue, Ke Ma (@aissr.bsky.social) reviews 'Modified Bodies, Material Selves' by Julie E. Starr — on beauty, identity & the body in post-reform Shanghai. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1683... #BookReview #Beauty #China #Anthropology

Vol. 24(2) highlight! "Working together for a better life: individuals, family, and society in the rural Mekong Delta, Vietnam" by Setsuko Shibuya As rapid development reshapes Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, what holds people together? Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683... #Vietnam #Migration #Urbanization

Vol. 24(2) is out now! Featuring Gabriel Pereira & Ting-Fai Yu’s powerful piece on housing discrimination against Indian Malaysians in Klang Valley—where landlords’ racial biases and everyday racism shape who gets to rent. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683... #Malaysia #racism #housingdiscrimination

🎭 PhD Highlight! Maheshwar Kumar examines Purulia Chhau (West Bengal) as cultural text from an Indigenous perspective—analyzing and linking ritual, training, audience, and gender through Schechner’s performance model. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683... #AADissertationHighlight #PerformanceStudies

🚆 Why weren’t Tokyo’s packed commuter trains seen as COVID-19 risks? In our latest issue, Christoph Schimkowsky explores why Japan's pandemic discourse framed urban rail as safe — contrasting global narratives of contagion. Read here: doi.org/10.1080/1683... #Anthropology #COVID19 #Japan

🎧Coming soon: Asian Anthropology’s new podcast! In Ep. 1, @klemensenica.bsky.social & Marco Di Francesco join us to explore how fieldwork in Japan changed in (post-)COVID times—methodologically, emotionally, and ethically. Stay tuned, we can’t wait to share it with you! #Anthropology #COVID #Japan

Another gem from our latest issue! ✨ How do young people in China build meaningful connections with strangers? Haoyan Zhuang (Renmin University of China) explores 'lianjie' — a form of relationality emerging in urban co-living spaces. doi.org/10.1080/1683... #UrbanYouth #CoLiving #ChinaStudies

🔎 New in our latest issue! How do Buddhist temples become sites of urban redevelopment? In “Paradoxical postsecularity in the making”, Yang Wang, Junxi Qian, and Yusheng Lei explore religion, commerce, and urban transformation in Chengdu, China. 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1683... #UrbanStudies #Religion

🎉 New article accepted! #AA_accepted #MedicalAnthropology #ObstetricViolence Title: Malay women’s narratives of gender-, class- and race-based obstetric iatrogenesis in Singapore Author: Syahirah Rasheed (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies @kitlv.bsky.social)

We're launching an interview series with leading voices in Asian Anthropology! First up: Prof. James Farrer @sophiauniversitye.bsky.social on youth sexual culture in China, expat life in Shanghai, & global Japanese cuisine—Vol.24(1) doi.org/10.1080/1683... #Anthropology #AsianStudies #Ethnography

🎉 Just in: new research accepted! #AA_accepted #GenderStudies #WomensEmpowerment Title: Women’s Limited Agency as Market Actors in a Patriarchal Marketplace in the Context of Rajshahi City Authors: Shekh Sadia Akter, Most Umma Sumaya & Chowdhury Anika Farah (University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh)

🏆 The 2024 Best Paper Prize goes to Richard Fraser (Arctic University of Norway) for “That-which-must-not-be-named”: hunting, secrecy, and the ontology of meat in northeast China (Asian Anthropology Vol. 23/3). Check out this open-access paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....