Conflict, Justice, Decolonization: New Publications & Call for Papers
The Transit Asia Research Network is pleased to announce new publications and a Call for Papers (Cfp) from ICCS's Conflict, Justice, Decolonization project.
New Publications & Call for Papers | CJD Updates April 2025
- Die Behandlung, Tenderness of the In-between, Chia-Ying Shen, A poetic reflection on care and transition, this piece delves into the quiet power of liminal spaces — where tenderness, attention, and the in-between become sites of transformation.
- A Pyrrhic Victory?: Reflecting on WGA’s 2023 MBA, Maxi Grindley, This paper investigates how the WGA’s 2023 agreement on AI, despite its apparent restrictions, implicitly reinforces the broader structures of digital surveillance and the inevitability of AI within surveillance capitalism.
- Artificial Intelligence: Refugee Registration and Identity Management in India, Monika Verma, This article examines the role of AI in India’s refugee registration and identity management, considering its benefits in efficiency and fraud prevention and its risks related to surveillance, privacy, and the marginalization of vulnerable groups.
- Physical Presence of Wang Bing in His Documentaries: An Expression of Minjian Ethics, Sergey Zanchevskiy, By studying Wang Bing’s physical presence in his documentaries, this paper reveals how his subtle yet consistent engagement with the diegetic world challenges the objectivity of observational cinema and frames his filmmaking as an ethical act of minjian storytelling.
- Beyond Algorithms: Exploring the Power and Sociopolitical Impact of UI and UX Design, Fernan Talamayan, This essay explores UI and UX design as a form of power that shapes user interactions, political discourse, and social relations, emphasizing its often-overlooked sociopolitical impact — particularly in the Global South — and the need for critical scrutiny to challenge digital inequalities.
- Digital Platforms and the Formation of Networked Communities: The Case of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Taiwan, Mukhamad Zulianto, Focusing on Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan, this piece examines how social media platforms foster networked communities that provide support, facilitate communication, and help workers navigate socio-economic challenges in a context of limited institutional protection.
Call for Papers | Spring 2025
Violence in Times of Polycrisis | 多重危機時代的暴力
Submission link: https://forms.gle/8d5J1fVXC5cy5V2t9
Deadline for abstract submission: May 1, 2025
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
● Theories and new perspectives on violence
● Violence within geopolitical tensions and wars
● Violence and racism
● War and gender/sexual violence
● Representations of violence in media, literature, art, cinema etc.
● Reproduction and perpetuation of violence
● Domestic violence
● Actions and activism against violence
● (Non)-Violence as a means of resistance
● Language as violence
● Violence and technology
● Epistemic and institutional violence
● The role of the law in mitigating or perpetrating violence
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Conflict, Justice, Decolonization - Asia in Transition in the 21st Century
Supported by the International Center for Cultural Studies, NYCU, this student-led online journal aims to make scholarly writings more readable and accessible, and circulate faster. It is envisioned as a project to encourage the free association of young scholars from around the world in the spirit of literary communism.