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Announcement: Change in Publication Month

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASIA PACIFIC STUDIES Published: Categories: English

Dear Readers and Contributors, We would like to inform you of an important update regarding our journal’s publication schedule. Starting 2025, we will be changing the publication cycle, with the issues published in February and August instead of January and July. This decision has been made to ensure that we continue to deliver the highest … Continue reading →

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L’ENNUI DES SYRTES OR THE BOREDOM OF EMPIRES

Mariusz Finkielsztein Published: Categories: English

The paper presents the phenomenon of boredom in Julien Gracq’s novel Le Rivage des Syrtes (The opposing shore). The book describes Orsenna, oligarchic city-state loosely based on Venetian republic and empire, which is in a state of phoney war with Farg…

Rethinking Language

Gastor Mapunda Published: Categories: English

The importance of language is consistently ignored within teacher training across Africa, with training designed based on the assumption that learners are fully competent in the medium of instruction (MOI). This causes widespread challenges and often m…

The Poetics of Second Liberation

Vincent R. Ogoti Published: Categories: English

This article examines Césaire’s The Tragedy of King Christophe as a fundamental text for understanding the complexities of decolonization in postcolonial contexts. The essay rereads the play, focusing on the concepts of ‘bad decolonization’,…

Gender within the Pursuit of Doctoral Education

Efiritha Chauraya Published: Categories: English

This study investigates the challenges faced by female PhD students in the pursuit of their doctoral education in Zimbabwe. The study’s broad aim was to explore female PhD students’ experiences within their doctoral studies. The study sample…

On fuzziness

Nancy Munn Published: Categories: English

This article is a consideration of the conceptual power of Verdery’s concept of “fuzzy property.” “Fuzzy property” has helped me understand the phenomenon of lupiaje in Guanajuato, Mexico—where men enter silver-gold mines at night to extract ore—by fol…

Suspicion, empathy, and the archival imagination

Nancy Munn Published: Categories: English

This article celebrates Katherine Verdery’s impact on the discipline of cultural anthropology through an exploration of the intersection of suspicion, empathy, and the archival imagination in ethnographic research, drawing on Verdery’s experiences duri…