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‘queerqueen: Linguistic Excess in Japanese Media’ by Claire Maree

  • Associate Professor Cindi SturtzSreetharan,

What linguistic anthropologist Miyako Inoue did for Japanese women’s language, Maree has done for onē-kotoba and onē-kyara—the language of queerqueen personalities.

Global civil society must promote linguistic rights for China’s Indigenous peoples

  • Dr Gerald Roche,

China is involved in historical denialism that enables the Party-state to continue human rights abuses against vulnerable linguistic communities.

Politicising the natural environment through Indonesian art

  • Dr Edwin Jurriëns,

Many Indonesian artists discuss natural disasters not in isolation, but in relation to broader social, political and historical processes and injustices.

The year of daring: revisiting the Philippine left’s dalliance with a strongman

  • Emerson M. Sanchez & Dr Jayson S. Lamchek,

Given Duterte’s open endorsement of mass killings and
anti-human rights rhetoric, how was an alliance possible with the left movement?

India’s progress in implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

  • Professor Paul Chaney,

There are more than 27 million persons with disabilities in India and their rights are still not protected.

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