Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by THOMPSON Erin L
Two publications offer a window into the workings of Himalayan art collections in the West – where the buyers and sellers are more mysterious than the esoteric artefacts they trade in
Other people’s secrets are especially interesting. Their content hardly matters. Rather, the draw is the (…)
, by McNAMEE Lachlan
Displacing and destroying peoples by colonisation is not just a historical Western evil but a global and contemporary one
In 1931, Japan invaded northeast China and established a client state called Manchukuo (Manchuria). To secure control over Manchuria, over the next 14 years, the Japanese (…)
, by ARIFIN Syarif, Asian Labour Review, CHOU Catta, HONG Myungkyo, KAIN Damni, KUMARR Suraendher, LIN Kevin, Ma Cheria, Nanako Furuse, Nicha Wachpanich, SY Jose Monfred C.
Editor’s Note:
May Day has a long and tortured history in Asia dating back to the early 1900s that reflects the fortunes of the working class movements. It was born out of, mobilized against, and interrupted by colonialism, civil wars, anti-colonial and revolutionary movements, (…)
, by BAHL Aditya
July 1957. A 26-year-old Romila Thapar waits at Prague Airport. She is dressed in a sari. The pockets of her overcoat are bulging with yet more saris. ‘It is blasphemous’, she laments in her diary, to have crumpled ‘the garment of the exotic, the indolent, the unobvious, the newly awakening (…)
, by SCHÄFER Saskia
The standardized designation ‘Southeast Asia’—two words, un-hyphenated, capitalized—originated in the Pacific War. The Allies divided the world into warzones. Mountbatten’s South East Asia Command (seac) comprised most of what was to be wrested from Japan that was not already in the China (…)
, by BELLO Walden
The US military command’s pushback against President Donald Trump’s attempt to use the military against people demanding racial justice has received a lot of good press. But let’s not overdo the praise. For most of their existence, the Armed Forces were racially segregated, and it was only in (…)
, by GREENFIELD Lauren, WILKINSON Alissa
The Kingmaker director Lauren Greenfield talks about her revealing Imelda Marcos documentary.
Lauren Greenfield has built a career partly on chronicling excess. In films like The Queen of Versailles (2012) and Generation Wealth (2018), the documentarian explores the fabulous, over-the-top (…)
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