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Duty, Discipline, and Dreams: Childhood and Time in Hindutva Nation
No full textChildhood and time constitute key sites of regulation for nationalist authoritarian regimes. However, the influence of time on contemporary nationalist discourses of childhood located in the Global South remains an underresearched area. This paper critically analyzes two spectacles involving Hindu nationalist Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and secondary school students on the occasions of Teachers Day 2014 and 2015. Temporal language, markers, and symbols rooted in discourses of colonialism/Orientalism, Brahminical Hinduism, and capitalist development are deconstructed to show how nationalist constructions of childhood can penetrate deep into the everyday lives of particular children who are deemed worthy to serve their nation. The paper concludes by highlighting specific ways in which time and temporality are weaponized to reproduce and legitimize a social hierarchy of childhoods that is necessary to sustain Hindu ethno-religious nationalism
An Asylum Seeker’s Time between Being a “Refugee” and a “Migrant"
No full textThe aim of this article is to investigate the asylum process based on the experiences of asylum seekers. Two axes of the asylum procedure are examined: a) the interview and b) the decisions produced by the asylum committees on the requests. The text argues that, in order to understand the construction of the category of asylum seekers on the one hand and the institutional practices and forms of their control and management on the other, these two dimensions should be considered together. The interview process is based on the articulation of speech, while the decision constitutes an element of a written text document. Since there is no decision without the interview, the objective is to trace the practices and methods through which the meaning of the text of the decision is produced and the form of the speech narrative that asylum seekers are required to deliver in front of asylum committees. The research took place in Athens ,Greece, from January 2018 until July 2019
Serendipity during the pandemic: Taking a community-partnered study about young, forced migrants online
No full textThis research update describes the transformation of a partnership project between a university-based team in Canada and a migrant-serving community organization in Thailand occasioned by the pandemic. Travel restrictions preventing the Canada-based team from carrying out project activities directly with young, forced migrants provided the impetus to explore an entirely online collaboration over 18 months. This shift flattened what would likely have been a hierarchical role structure, with the Canada-based team members positioned as experts and primary actors in conducting the project. The partners deliberated together about the cultural fit, desirability, feasibility and potential variations of the novel Peer Mediated Story Board Narrative method, which is intended both as a means of data collection and an intervention for migrant youth needing psychosocial support. In consultation with the Canada-based team, the Thailand-based partners undertook participant recruitment and piloted the method with diverse groups of migrant youth living in Myanmar and Thailand, using creative approaches including conducting the method online with groups of youth using smart phones. The serendipitous benefit of moving the partnership online highlights the potential for a more probing, mutually interdependent, less costly collaboration in which partners enter into an ethical space between partners’ worlds. In this space, assumptions, core constructs, and methodological fidelity can be challenged, new understandings can be forged and, in the case of this project, a sustainable approach to psychosocial support for forced migrant youth can be co-created. 
Anarchism in Vietnam: Claudia Lodia interviews Mèo Mun
No full textMèo Mun is an anarchist collective working to make anarchist materials and ideas more accessible to a Vietnamese audience while providing an analysis of social struggles from a Vietnamese anarchist lens.
Guest editor Claudia Lodia is a lecturer in the Department of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University
Beyond Republics: Apichatpong Weerasethakul\u27s Fever Room
No full textNoah Viernes is Associate Professor in the Global Studies Program at Akita International University, Yuwa, Akita-city, Japan. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies; Pilikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema; and the Review of Human Rights. Most recently he contributed “In Dark Times: Poetic Dissonance in the Thai-Malay Borderlands” to Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology, Iris Haukamp, Christin Hoene, Martyn Smith, eds. (London: Routledge, 2022
The Filipino as Libertarian Contemporary Implications of Anarchism
No full textCharles J-H MacDonald is senior fellow emeritus, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Université d’Aix-Marseille, Faculté de Médecine Secteur Nord, CS80011 – Bat A, Bd Pierre Dramard, 13344 Marseille Cedex 15, France. He has done extensive fieldwork with the Palawan indigenous community in the southern Philippines as well as with the Raglai culture and society of southern Vietnam and has published extensively on Palawan ethnography and on various other topics. Recent publications include Uncultural Behavior: An Anthropological Investigation of Suicide in the Southern Philippines (2007); an edited volume on naming systems; and several papers relating to anarchic, egalitarian, and open-aggregated organizations. This article is reprinted with permission from Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnoraphic Viewpoints vol. 61 no. 4 (2013): 413–36
Letter of Introduction
No full textThe long-awaited and much anticipated new issue of Borders in Globalization Review is here! This outstanding collection of scholarship and artwork enriches border studies and cultural reflections on (and against) borders ..
Navigating the Medicine Line: A Review of Hogue’s Métis Borderlanders
No full textA book review of Michael Hogue\u27s Métis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People, published by University of Regina Press, 2015.
 
