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Memory struggles: Narrating and commemorating the Aum Affair in contemporary Japan, 1994-2015
(2017-10-11)This dissertation investigates how different stakeholders have competed over the interpretation and commemoration of the Aum Affair. The Aum Affair was a series of crimes committed by new religious movement Aum Shinrikyō ... -
Trade Unions and the Media: Exercising and Revitalising Power After the Financial Crisis of 2008
(2017-09-21)The Great Recession that followed the financial crisis of 2008 had a devastating impact on workers, leading to high levels of unemployment and underemployment, increased job insecurity and stagnant or declining wages. While ... -
Development Challenges for Chinese Private Manufacturing Firms in Globalisation
(2017-10-01)Since the late 1970s, China has gradually transformed from a planned system towards a market economy and its private sector has played increasingly important roles in the national development. During the process, Chinese ... -
The Financialization of a Cure: A Political Economy of Biomedical Innovation, Pricing, and Public Health
(2017-10-03)Sofosbuvir-based medicines, approved in late 2013, offer a long-sought after cure for patients with hepatitis C, a virus that disproportionately affects marginalized populations around the world. But the prices set by its ...
