Rising Asia Journal
Rising Asia Foundation
ISSN 2583-1038
PEER REVIEWED | MULTI-DISCIPLINARY | EASTERN FOCUS

VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1 (WINTER/SPRING)
JANUARY TO APRIL 2025

CONTENTS

PERSPECTIVE

VIMAL KHAWAS,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
THE DREADED KNOCK OF DROUGHT ON THE DOOR OF NORTH-EAST INDIA

RESEARCH ARTICLES

S. HOHOI,
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Indian Council of Social Science Research
WEANING HILL TRIBES OFF THE POPPY
“Shifting Cultivation” in the Hill Areas of the State of Manipur

HM IZHAR ALAM, AND ARSHI KHAN,
Aligarh Muslim University,
AND MD. NAWAZ SHARIF,
Dhanamanjuri University
MANIPUR’S MEITEI PANGALS IN THE CROSSHAIRS
A Muslim Minority Stereotyped, Marginalized, and Sometimes Forgotten in History, 1597-2025

NENGPINEM HAOKIP,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
GERMAN MÄRCHEN AND KUKI THUSIM
The Universality and Cultural Specificity of Fairy Tales and Tribal Tales

MUSTAKIM KHAN,
University of Rajshahi
INSIDE THE WORLD’S LARGEST REFUGEE CAMP
Partial Success in Educating Rohingya Children in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

MD. NASIR UDDIN,
University of Rajshahi
AN ARMED “TRAINING ALLIANCE” OF MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN EXTREMISTS
Fueling Terrorism in South Asia

JACKSON MATTOCKS,
University of Calgary
THE ASIAN AMERICAN FILM EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, NORM MACDONALD’S COMEDY, AND THE METAMODERN MOMENT

YUFEI ZHU,
Goldsmiths, University of London
THE ANONYMOUS MYANMAR DIARIES AND FILMIC ACTIVISM
Cultural Trauma and Protest in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Chile, and Vietnam

JIAYING CHEN,
University of Montreal
LINGERING IN-BETWEEN
The Hesitant, Affect, and Borderline Moments in Chinese Cinema

AMAN TRIPATHI,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
REALMS OF REALITY
Social Realism and Female Representation in the Cinematic Worlds of Kim Ki-young and Satyajit Ray

THE RISING ASIA REVIEW OF BOOKS

REVIEW BY ASAD LATIF, Senior Singapore Journalist
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (London: Penguin, 2024), 358 pages.
THE END OF THE “LONG PEACE” MAY BE COMING
A Foreboding Book for These Times

REVIEW BY VINOD KUMAR PILLAI,
Independent Scholar
Lina Knorr, Andrea Fleschenberg, Sumrin Kalia, and Claudia Derichs, editors, Local Responses to Global Challenges in Southeast Asia (Singapore: World Scientific, 2023), 452 pages.
SOUTHEAST ASIANS TRYING TO SPEAK UP
In Multiple Voices, They Seek Change

REVIEW BY SALIKYU SANGTAM,
Tetso College, Nagaland
Dwi Noverini Djenar and Jack Sidnell (eds.), Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations across Southeast Asia Speech Communities (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2023), 260 pages.
THE MYSTERY OF LANGUAGE AND THOUGHTS
Signifying the Person in Southeast Asia

 

 

Front Cover Photo Credits:

  • A woman dressed in traditional Vietnamese dress in the film Surname Viet Given Name Nam. Available at: https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/surname-viet-given-nam-nam