Christopher Choong

Volume 32 Issue 3 | Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society | Oxford Academic Publishes incisive analyses of gender, politics and policies in an international context. The journal?s mission is to stimulate cross-fertilisation in scholarship in the social sciences, with gender a...

read the other contributions here academic.oup.com/sp/issue/32/3 the outcome of book launch events at the LSE Gender Institute and SOAS

Working with Depletion Depletion: The Human Cost of Caring (Oxford University Press, 2024) is a book that I’ve followed closely, from its origin in a 2014 journal publication (Ra

My contribution to a forum on Shirin Rai's book Depletion: The Human Cost of Caring - out now in social politics academic.oup.com/sp/article/3...

Financing the border: racial capitalism, migration, and the practices of the Canadian state Canada is often recognised as one of the most progressive nations in the world when it comes to the acceptance of refugees and multiculturalism as national policy. However, the longer history of bo...

New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me

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Imperial money and the making of currency hierarchies: evidence from Nigeria The contemporary currency hierarchy is neither natural nor neutral: It’s an imperial construct. This paper traces the origins of today’s currency hierarchy back to the violent imposition of imperia...

Don’t miss this fantastic piece by Carla Coburger tracing the origins of today’s currency hierarchy back to the violent imposition of imperial money!

Just out in @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gendering Global Trade, Recentering Women’s Labour Gender and trade, Women’s labor, Trade liberalization , Tariffs, Free Trade, Malaysia, Unpaid care work,

Gendering Global Trade, Recentering Women’s Labour

This article, which I co-authored with Alya Sarah, delves into the gendered impacts of global trade and explores how women’s labor is positioned often precariously within shifting economic structures.

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Article reporting the Pope's call for a ceasefire at his last public appearance yesterday.

Until his last breath. 🇵🇸

Also: the Pope called the Catholic priest in Gaza every week to check in on him, the Palestinian people and the situation.

Reading Through Global South Lenses: Order Behind the Disorder in Trump’s Tariffs Trump’s tariffs, Global South, US hegemony, trade policy, currency politics, economic nationalism

Global South Forum has cross-posted my article on Trump's tariffs, giving it a stronger Global South framing. GSF has other articles on Trump (& other topics too). It's a great platform that centres Global South solidarity and perspectives, check them out!

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Trump’s Tariffs: Order Behind the Disorder Is there order behind Trump’s disorder? This article considers more systemic issues underlying the escalating trade war and delves deeper into the economic logic of the Trump camp.

Some thoughts on Trump's tariffs

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Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People: A Call for Decolonial Praxis Against Complicity Click on the article title to read more.

Must read: 'Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "Feminist resistance cannot be conditional. Silence is complicity, and complicity kills" 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Christopher Choong Weng Wai's article in our latest issue won the BISA CPD working group early career researcher best paper prize. It's out now in issue 51(1)!

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Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia

The latest Element in Politics & Society in SE Asia is out: Diana Kim's "Rethinking Colonial Legacies across SE Asia"! Kim explores the significance & legacies of Japan's WWII occupation of SE Asia for understanding colonial legacies. Download FREE through 2 April.
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📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction

📅 20 March 5.15pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom

Register➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
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I guess this is apt as my first post here. Thanks @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @lenarethel.bsky.social @feministonmarx.bsky.social Ben Richardson, and Andreas Murr (who took the pic)!

No Other Land airs on Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March. Not to be missed. Witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist. Oscar for BEST DOCUMENTARY.

Hi Bluesky friends! I am part of this research group at Warwick - we are very new to Bluesky so it would be really helpful if you could follow us and spread the word so more people get to know about us and what we do 💫

Antipode Volume 57, Number 1 -- our January 2025 issue -- is out now, with 18 of the 20 articles #OpenAccess antipodeonline.org/2025/01/17/v...

Our work is not done!

A ceasefire is only the most important first step to end the genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.

‘No contact’ with staff, patients as Israeli forces burn Gaza hospital Gaza Health Ministry says contact lost with last north Gaza hospital, fate of roughly 75 patients there is unknown.

The last hospital in North Gaza is burning. Its heroic doctors are missing, dead or displaced - along with their patients. Resigned to its complicity, the West is turning a blind eye. The genocide continues... www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

AHE 2025 Conference: Call for Papers We invite submissions of papers and panels for the 27th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on June 18-20, 2025 at King’s College, London (Waterloo Campus), in Londo…

The Association for Heterodox Economics Call for Papers/Panels just opened!

Bunch of really cool streams, ranging from feminist econ, imperialism & finance + subordination, to history of thought, quantitative PE, technology, ecology & Palestine 🔥

Deadline: Feb 14th!
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🎉 We're in the final stretch of celebrating 50 volumes! 🎉

Check out the 2019 most-cited article: "Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence" by Juanita Elias & Shirin M. Rai.

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Syria after Assad The Assad regime, which ruled over Syria for more than fifty years, has ended. The scenes of people being freed from some of the world’s most brutal and notorious torture prisons were deeply m…

"Syria after Assad" - On the coexistence of relief, uncertainty & fear, and Israel's (re)invasion of Syria.

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The Spectre of State Capitalism YouTube video by Adam Smith's Panmure House

Video of a book launch and roundtable we did in Edinburgh early October
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Very excited! We just handed in the final manuscript for our edited volume on state, capitalism & finance in emerging markets /w @brisunipress.bsky.social
With fabulous contributions by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @ingridhk.bsky.social, @anninak.bsky.social, @c-westermeier.bsky.social & many others /1

The BISA Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial Working Group Early Career Researcher Paper Prize YouTube video by MyBISA

Why enter @mybisa.bsky.social CPD ECR paper prize? 1. A great group of supportive scholars 2: Winners receive pre-submission mentorship @risjnl.bsky.social Here's what 2023 winner Christopher Choong Weng Wai had to say about it, with former EIC Martin Coward

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