HKRB Essays: From Umbrella to Anti-Extradition
Emily Chow-Quesada reflects on the ongoing social unrest in Hong Kong.
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Archive for: HKRB Politics
Found in Transition
Ka-Lee Wong reviews an assessment of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Sasha Dovzhyk on the haunting banality of Europe’s biggest nuclear catastrophe.
I Have Become the Tide
As the Bharatiya Janata Party looks set to take a general election majority in an India increasingly hostile to minorities, Ragini Mohite reviews Githa Hariharan’s important novel on caste inequality and Dalit experience
Why Does Patriarchy Persist?
Ophelia Tung discusses the necessity of loss and vulnerability to the resistance of patriarchy.
Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason
Thomas L. Lynn, Jr. reviews David Harvey’s new work on the madness of capitalism.
A Serf’s Journal
Grafton Tanner reviews a memoir that looks at the working conditions of big industry – how corporatism breaks, imprisons, and sometimes kills its workers.
Psychopolitics
Brian Haman reviews Byung-Chul Han’s Psychopolitics and explores a regime of domination that has discovered the force of the psyche.
