Mainstream WeeklyAs a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organisation, the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF) wields influence in shaping the discourse and progress of women’s rights in various aspects at the state level. But because the ACWF must walk a fine line between adhering to CCP discourse and advocating for women’s issues, the extent to which it functions as a feminist organisation is limited.
The ACWF holds the dual responsibility of representing the interests of women and assisting with the (…)
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How Women’s Federations balance feminism and Party discourse in China | Junyi Cai
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18 August 2023, by M R Narayan SwamyBOOK REVIEW
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The Raging Himalayas and A Warming Planet: Recollections of the 2003 Himalayan Floods and Reflections on Global Warning by Asokan Vengassery Krishnan
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Carol Winkler Review of The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate by Neil Krishan Aggarwal
18 August 2023BOOK REVIEW
Reviewed by Carol Winkler (Georgia State University)
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The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate: The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community
by Neil Krishan Aggarwal
Columbia University Press
2016. xix + 211 pp. Ill. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-17426-8
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The Indian parliament’s monsoon session that began on 20 July, was marked by repeated protests from the opposition parties demanding that Prime Minister Narendra Modi make a statement in Parliament on the continuing violence in the state of Manipur. For months they had called out the unacceptable silence of the Prime Minister The opposition parties stood up together and supported a no-confidence motion in Parliament to compel the Prime Minister as head of (…)