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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (2): 554–556.
Published: 01 May 2016
... Insurgency: A Sociological Perspective on Civil Wars and Conflict . By Daniel Bultmann . Farnham, Surrey, U.K. : Ashgate , 2015 . 216 pp. ISBN: 9781472443052 (cloth). Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy . By Sophal Ear . New York : Columbia University...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 610–611.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Robin Jeffrey The book provides a valuable compilation of detail about the Punjab insurgency—a narrative that goes year by year and almost month by month at some junctures. I think, however, that readers will find the book's overall treatment of what happened in Punjab leaves them craving a more...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 855–856.
Published: 01 August 1997
...David Hunt From People's War to People's Rule: Insurgency, Intervention, and the Lessons of Vietnam . By Timothy J. Lomperis . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1996 . xvi, 440 pp. $44.76 (cloth); $15.96 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (2): 423–432.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., and religious studies has been produced since January 4, 2004, when a violent Muslim insurgency dramatically erupted in the area. At that time over 100 Muslim insurgents raided an arms depot of the Fourth Army Engineers in Narathiwat Province. On January 22, in south Thailand, two Muslim young men...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 275–277.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Yelena Biberman Colonial Institutions and Civil War: Indirect Rule and Maoist Insurgency in India . By Shivaji Mukherjee . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2021 . 392 pp. ISBN: 9781108844994 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 Colonial Institutions and Civil...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 861–863.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Duncan McDuie-Ra Beyond Counter-Insurgency: Breaking the Impasse in Northeast India . Edited by Sanjib Baruah . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2009 . viii, 383 pp. $55.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Until 15 years ago scholars...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (3): 889–890.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India . By Alpa Shah . Durham and London : Duke University Press , 2010 . xiii, 273 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). ...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 45 (1): 174–177.
Published: 01 November 1985
...Walter Hauser Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India . By Ranajit Guha . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1983 . xi, 361 pp. Rs. 140. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 174 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Commission. Once the latter became...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (2): 345–370.
Published: 01 May 1997
... of unrest, insurgence, and violence. The negative portrait of this region offered by both the press and scholarly studies in India and abroad must be distressing for the people of the Northeastern region. This paper suggests that an excessive preoccupation with violence and a narrow reading...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 991–992.
Published: 01 November 1992
...James F. Guyot Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity . By Martin Smith . London : Zed Books , 1991 . xviii, 492 pp. $69.95 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 991 frequent emphasis...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (3): 828–829.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Jessica Gross Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation . By Vicente L. Rafael . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2016 . 272 pp. ISBN: 9780822360742 (paper, also available in cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (3): 515–519.
Published: 01 May 1977
...Robert N. Kearney Abstract In July 1976, slightly more than five years after the collapse of the 1971 insurrection in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), the protracted series of trials of alleged insurgents wound to a conclusion. Except for the cases of a small number of suspects not in custody, some of whom...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1283–1284.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., in all likelihood, a long and tumultuous way off. It is this future moment, communicated through a number of parallel techniques and methodologies, that stands as a central, if rarely stated, theme throughout The Maoist Insurgency. It is these ethnographic moments that readers must keep in mind...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 508–510.
Published: 01 February 1971
...Charles Wolf, Jr. The Economics of Insurgency in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam . By Robert L. Sansom . Cambridge : The M.I.T. Press , 1970 . xviii, 283 pp. Tables, Figures, Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 508...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1974) 33 (3): 367–384.
Published: 01 May 1974
...Gananath Obeyesekere Abstract Many scholarly articles and some of a polemical nature have been written on the 1971 insurgency in Sri Lanka. Recent studies of this movement (Fernando 1972, Egan 1972, Kearney 1973, Arasaratnam 1972, Warnapala 1972) have helped us to understand some of the underlying...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 655–677.
Published: 01 August 2012
... supporters since 1975. Monks have not become directly involved in armed conflict, as monastic rules do not allow participation in offensive violent acts, or arms trading, but they have played various important roles in supporting armed resistance against the Lao government. Some monks assisting insurgents...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 753–779.
Published: 01 August 2003
... social effects, viewing public theaters with great suspicion. Theaters, in the eyes of the authorities, were notorious hangouts for ruffians, slackers, gamblers, and insurgents, providing these roustabouts with the ideal environment in which to scheme and swindle. In addition to waging campaigns...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 569–577.
Published: 01 August 2020
... for the present. This narrative envisages the reenactment of past scenes, including flight from the cities, victimization of the poor, and the questioning of state authority. The other narrative, here called “insurgent,” questions the value of historical analogies, doubts that history ever substantially repeats...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 305–321.
Published: 01 May 2022
... in the forms of terror, insurgency, mutiny, and putsch. Park Chung Hee's successful assumption of power through his 1961 coup d’état provided an implicit response, recasting the Korean concepts of legality and legitimacy. Han T'ae Yŏn was a key figure in this national dispute. Armed with Carl Schmitt's canon...
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Published: 01 August 2012
Figure 1. Achan Chanh Ly (left) and Achan Ky (right) receiving offerings from a Lao insurgent at Wat Pa Sanamsai in Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand (1982). More