Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2023.122.845.209
Levi McLaughlin
The shocking murder of Japan’s former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe by a gunman motivated by anger at the politician’s ties to the controversial Unification Church sparked a massive outcry that amplified long-standing anxieties about religion in Japan. This article surveys reasons for persistent tensions between a Japanese public that tends to reject self-identifying as religious and the influence of religion-affiliated organizations on Japanese politics. It also identifies Abe’s assassination in July 2022 and local-level elections in April 2023 as potential beginning and end points of the latest moral panic about religion in Japan’s public sphere.
{"title":"The Abe Assassination and Japan’s Nexus of Religion and Politics","authors":"Levi McLaughlin","doi":"10.1525/curh.2023.122.845.209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2023.122.845.209","url":null,"abstract":"The shocking murder of Japan’s former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe by a gunman motivated by anger at the politician’s ties to the controversial Unification Church sparked a massive outcry that amplified long-standing anxieties about religion in Japan. This article surveys reasons for persistent tensions between a Japanese public that tends to reject self-identifying as religious and the influence of religion-affiliated organizations on Japanese politics. It also identifies Abe’s assassination in July 2022 and local-level elections in April 2023 as potential beginning and end points of the latest moral panic about religion in Japan’s public sphere.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73625403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2023.122.845.235
Kristin Vekasi
Trade agreements and production networks have made the Asia-Pacific an area of peaceful economic interdependence. An accelerating trend of protectionist measures in the name of economic security could pull the region apart.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2023.122.845.203
Yige Dong
Struggles for women’s rights, and the state’s responses, have shifted over the history of the People’s Republic of China. In an initial period of socialist state feminism, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated “women’s liberation” and offered child-friendly services to facilitate women’s entry into the workforce. During the era of post-socialist economic modernization, services were curtailed, shifting family responsibilities back to women and reinforcing patriarchal norms. Most recently, a form of made-in-China feminism has emerged, characterized by everyday resistance to prevailing gender expectations. Now, the state is suppressing feminist activists while adopting some of their proposals into law and policy.
{"title":"Chinese Feminists Face Paradoxical State Policies","authors":"Yige Dong","doi":"10.1525/curh.2023.122.845.203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2023.122.845.203","url":null,"abstract":"Struggles for women’s rights, and the state’s responses, have shifted over the history of the People’s Republic of China. In an initial period of socialist state feminism, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated “women’s liberation” and offered child-friendly services to facilitate women’s entry into the workforce. During the era of post-socialist economic modernization, services were curtailed, shifting family responsibilities back to women and reinforcing patriarchal norms. Most recently, a form of made-in-China feminism has emerged, characterized by everyday resistance to prevailing gender expectations. Now, the state is suppressing feminist activists while adopting some of their proposals into law and policy.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74411325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2023.122.845.238
Catherine S. Chan
From the arrival of Portuguese colonialism to its present incarnation as the world’s biggest gambling center, Macau has long made the most of its liminal position at China’s edge.
从葡萄牙殖民主义到来到如今成为全球最大的博彩中心，澳门长期以来一直充分利用其在中国边缘的有限地位。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2023.122.845.224
Lisandro E. Claudio
In 2022, the presidential candidacy of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., son of the late dictator, raised fears the Philippines would slide further toward illiberalism. Marcos vowed to follow the example of his populist predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, enlisting Duterte’s daughter, Sara, as his running mate to create a powerful winning coalition. But Marcos was also the most socially liberal candidate. Since taking office, he has governed with relative moderation, repairing relations with the United States, pulling back on Duterte’s brutal drug war and persecution of critics, and restoring a sense of bureaucratic stability and normalcy.
{"title":"The Tensions of the New Marcos Presidency","authors":"Lisandro E. Claudio","doi":"10.1525/curh.2023.122.845.224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2023.122.845.224","url":null,"abstract":"In 2022, the presidential candidacy of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., son of the late dictator, raised fears the Philippines would slide further toward illiberalism. Marcos vowed to follow the example of his populist predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, enlisting Duterte’s daughter, Sara, as his running mate to create a powerful winning coalition. But Marcos was also the most socially liberal candidate. Since taking office, he has governed with relative moderation, repairing relations with the United States, pulling back on Duterte’s brutal drug war and persecution of critics, and restoring a sense of bureaucratic stability and normalcy.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81240591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2023.122.844.163
E. Obadare
Once highly regarded as centers of excellence, Nigerian universities now uniformly occupy the basement of most global university rankings. At the same time, the nation’s academia is all but shorn of the social prestige that previously attached to it. This essay argues that neither the specific degradation of the professoriate, nor the broader crisis of higher education, can be understood without attention to the crisis of the postcolonial Nigerian state. Accordingly, restorative strategies must take into account the historicity of the crisis, and its insertion into a whirlpool of national, regional, and global forces.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2023.122.844.193
Hlonipha Mokoena
In South Africa, where the current movement to decolonize universities and cultural institutions has drawn international attention, its arguments often clash with the historical realities of apartheid.
在南非，目前的大学和文化机构非殖民化运动引起了国际关注，其论点往往与种族隔离的历史现实相冲突。
{"title":"Who Owns ‘Black’? Decolonization and Its Aporias","authors":"Hlonipha Mokoena","doi":"10.1525/curh.2023.122.844.193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2023.122.844.193","url":null,"abstract":"In South Africa, where the current movement to decolonize universities and cultural institutions has drawn international attention, its arguments often clash with the historical realities of apartheid.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83624036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2023.122.844.172
A. Tripp
Twenty years after the African Union adopted the Maputo Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, constitutional and legislative provisions on women’s rights have proliferated across the continent. Sub-Saharan Africa has achieved some of the world’s highest rates of improvement in women’s economic empowerment. African women have also been at the forefront of global efforts to increase female representation in political and business leadership, peacebuilding, and other areas. But progress on women’s rights has been weaker in the domain of family law on issues including inheritance rights and reproductive freedom. Africa also ranks lowest in closing the gender gap in education, despite major gains at the primary school level.
{"title":"The Expansion of Women’s Rights in Africa","authors":"A. Tripp","doi":"10.1525/curh.2023.122.844.172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2023.122.844.172","url":null,"abstract":"Twenty years after the African Union adopted the Maputo Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, constitutional and legislative provisions on women’s rights have proliferated across the continent. Sub-Saharan Africa has achieved some of the world’s highest rates of improvement in women’s economic empowerment. African women have also been at the forefront of global efforts to increase female representation in political and business leadership, peacebuilding, and other areas. But progress on women’s rights has been weaker in the domain of family law on issues including inheritance rights and reproductive freedom. Africa also ranks lowest in closing the gender gap in education, despite major gains at the primary school level.","PeriodicalId":45614,"journal":{"name":"Current History","volume":"410 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84877292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2023.122.844.167
Ellison Tjirera
German colonial rule, followed by South African occupation, left Namibia with lasting patterns of extreme inequality in land ownership. Reform plans issued in recent decades have yielded little relief for the landless majority, including urban dwellers. Despite the emergence of new social movements demanding change, political elites who have become large landowners show few signs of willingness to pursue transformative measures. A recent agreement with Germany to make amends for genocide has also failed to satisfy calls for land reparations.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1525/curh.2023.122.844.185
Aleksi Ylönen
Strategic and security analysis of the Horn of Africa systematically portrays the roots of instability as external. However, the region’s stability or instability is largely determined by local actors and conditions. Local agency and context largely set the conditions for the involvement of external actors. This article discusses how state and nonstate actors have conducted their engagement with outside powers, especially the Gulf states, at a time of increasing rivalry for influence in the Horn of Africa, with examples ranging from Ethiopia to Somalia, and from Djibouti to Somaliland.
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