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The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies are hiring one or two researchers

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies are hiring one or two researchers, preferably with a focus on contemporary China, 50% to 100% according to agreement, during the period 2021-08-16 to 2021-12-31.  The work consists of assisting in the preparation of a EU application with deadline 7 October, and then research and some administrative work.  Deadline 23rd July.   For further informatio

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-east-and-south-east-asian-studies-are-hiring-one-or-two-researchers - 2025-10-01

Special Issue on Cambodia's Turn to Hegemonic Authoritarianism

Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has guest edited a special issue for Contemporary Southeast Asia The special issue, guest edited by Neil Loughlin and Astrid Norén-Nilsson, sheds new light on the CPP's ongoing attempts to recalibrate its mode of governance and the future it envisages for Cambodia. It includes two articles by Astrid Norén-Nilsson: "Introduction to Special Issue: The Cambodian People’s Party

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/special-issue-cambodias-turn-hegemonic-authoritarianism - 2025-10-01

Battle of the BRI’s - How the West plans to challenge China’s rise through infrastructure, and why it might not succeed.

Will the appeal of the Western-led global democratic order triumph over China’s pragmatic approach to infrastructure investments? In this op-ed, Tabita Rosendal Ebbesen, PhD student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, explores the possibility that the two new infrastructure investment initiatives proposed by the US and EU might pose a challenge to China’s Belt a

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/battle-bris-how-west-plans-challenge-chinas-rise-through-infrastructure-and-why-it-might-not-succeed - 2025-10-01

Intresserad att skriva en rapport on bilden av Öst- och Sydöstasien i läroböcker/undervisning i skolan?

Vi vill få en bild av vad svenska ungdomar lär sig om Öst- och sydöstasien i skolan. Detta kan hjälpa oss förstå vilken kunskap unga människor idag har om regionen. I dagens globala samhälle och med Asiens växande betydelse är det intressant att se hur regionen beskrivs, vilka frågor som belyses, och vilka eventuella brister det finns i läroböcker, samt om och hur lärare använder annat material. 

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/intresserad-att-skriva-en-rapport-bilden-av-ost-och-sydostasien-i-larobockerundervisning-i-skolan - 2025-10-01

Op-ed in The Guardian on the state of Japanese democracy

Paul O'Shea has co-authored an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper on the past, present, and future of Japanese democracy. What makes a democracy democratic? If one-party dominates, and there is no real choice, is it still a democracy? Japan faces an election, but with no viable opposition emerging to challenge the ruling-LDP, voters are left with little choice. The conservative LDP, dominat

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/op-ed-guardian-state-japanese-democracy - 2025-10-01

New publication on Japanese foreign policy.

Paul O'Shea has written a chapter on the topic of Japanese foreign policy under the Democratic Party of Japan. Governing from 2009-2012, the landslide election of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) was supposed to usher in a new era in Japanese politics. Within three years, they were out of office, and shortly afterwards the party dissolved. This chapter examines the DPJ's foreign policy and how

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-japanese-foreign-policy - 2025-10-01

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Pragmatism over Morals?

Is China beating the US and EU through its pragmatic approach towards cooperation under the “Belt and Road” Initiative (“一带一路”倡议) (BRI)? In this opinion piece, Tabita Rosendal argues that China’s “pragmatic values”, combined with investments, may outcompete the US’ “Build Back Better World” (B3W) and the EU’s “Connecting Europe Globally” (CEG). Read the full text on E-International Relations websi

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-pragmatism-over-morals - 2025-10-01

Veg*nism in the Sino-Cultural Sphere

Our PhD student Gina Song Lopez recently got to discuss her research on veg*n and plant-based food advocacy in East Asia with the Society for the Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations (PHAIR). In the interview, she elaborates on the spread of ‘new’ approaches to veganism and vegetarianism in the Sino-cultural context as well as what the animal advocacy and vegan movements currently looks

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/vegnism-sino-cultural-sphere - 2025-10-01

New publication on Cambodian politics

Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published an article on regal legitimisations in connection with Cambodia's shift to hegemonic authoritarianism The article, published in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, analyses how Cambodia's transition from competitive to hegemonic authoritarianism has been teeming with references to the monarchy. It investigates the meanings and messages attached to these interventio

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-cambodian-politics - 2025-10-01

Congratulations to Astrid and Nicholas who have both received research grants!

Astrid has received funding from Formas, a government research council for sustainable development, to lead a three-year research project on the intersection between authoritarianism and the pandemic in Cambodia. Nicholas has received funding from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation for a three-year project examining informal Chinese resource extraction globally, focusing on small-scale gol

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/congratulations-astrid-and-nicholas-who-have-both-received-research-grants - 2025-10-01

New article on social infrastructure in Myanmar

Elizabeth Rhoads has co-authored a new article with Jayde Lin Roberts on Myanmar’s social infrastructure of nalehmu. This new article examines nalehmu, a set of informal relational practices for negotiating power across scales which have facilitated access and enforced accountability through mutually recognized norms and social sanctions in Myanmar. Nalehmu is Myanmar’s discreet and prolonged prac

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-social-infrastructure-myanmar - 2025-10-01

Two fully funded PhD positions in East and South-East Asian Studies

The Centre announces two PhD positions. East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on contemporary phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. The subject integrates theoretical and methodological perspectives from area studies with different humanities and social sciences disciplines. Application deadline February 15, 20

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/two-fully-funded-phd-positions-east-and-south-east-asian-studies-0 - 2025-10-01

New publication on gender and food in Japanese Buddhism

Paulina Kolata has co-authored a journal article with Gwendolyn Gillson on the importance of food literacy and its aesthetics in contemporary Japanese Buddhism. Along with the other articles in the Numen Special Issue ‘The Aesthetics and Emotions of Religious Belonging: Examples from the Buddhist World’ that it contributes to, the article explores the generative and disruptive force of affects tha

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-gender-and-food-japanese-buddhism - 2025-10-01

New publication on material religion, excess, and depopulation in Japan

Paulina Kolata has recently published an article in Allegra Lab on Buddhist material excess in contemporary Japan. The piece contributes to the thematic thread on “Heritage out of Control” that developed from the ‘Heritage out of Control: Waste, Spirits, Energies’ Workshop hosted by the Max Planck Research Group “Empires of Memory.” The thematic thread offers a collection of short articles explori

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-material-religion-excess-and-depopulation-japan - 2025-10-01

New publication on liberalism in Cambodia

Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published an article on strands of liberalism in Cambodian politics The article, published in Asian Studies Review, seeks to recover strands of liberalism in Cambodian politics from the period leading up to Independence onwards. It is part of the Special Issue 'Locating Liberalisms in Southeast Asia'. Read the full article on Taylor&Francis Online website

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-liberalism-cambodia - 2025-10-01

Denmark – the People’s Map of Global China

Tabita Rosendal, PhD student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, has written an article on the Sino-Danish relationship for the People’s Map of Global China. In the article she argues that while Denmark retains its pragmatic approach to China and largely frames the Sino-Danish relationship in terms of economic diplomacy, controversies related to human rights have strained bilatera

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/denmark-peoples-map-global-china - 2025-10-01

Visual Methods and Practices in Research: New Work, Ideas and Approaches

Workshop 21-22 April at the Centre This workshop will discuss ethical, methodological, and practical issues and choices when using visual methods. Five keynote speakers from different disciplines will share and discuss their work using images, multimedia and film as part of their research. The workshop invites a limited number of participants at Lund University to present and discuss either previo

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visual-methods-and-practices-research-new-work-ideas-and-approaches - 2025-10-01

New publication on food safety after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Paul O'Shea has co-authored an article on the communication of food safety risk in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster (2011-2020). Tine Walravens, Nicolai Ahrenkiel, and Paul O'Shea published '‘Let's eat Fukushima’: communicating risk and restoring ‘safe food’ after the Fukushima disaster (2011-2020)' in Japan Forum this month. The article draws on three case studies, spanning 2011 to 2020, t

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-food-safety-after-fukushima-nuclear-disaster - 2025-10-01