Christopher Choong
chrischoongww.bsky.social
Christopher Choong
@chrischoongww.bsky.social
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Don’t miss this fantastic piece by Carla Coburger tracing the origins of today’s currency hierarchy back to the violent imposition of imperial money!

Just out in @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Imperial money and the making of currency hierarchies: evidence from Nigeria
The contemporary currency hierarchy is neither natural nor neutral: It’s an imperial construct. This paper traces the origins of today’s currency hierarchy back to the violent imposition of imperia...
www.tandfonline.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Gendering Global Trade, Recentering Women’s Labour

This article, which I co-authored with Alya Sarah, delves into the gendered impacts of global trade and explores how women’s labor is positioned often precariously within shifting economic structures.

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Gendering Global Trade, Recentering Women’s Labour
Gender and trade, Women’s labor, Trade liberalization , Tariffs, Free Trade, Malaysia, Unpaid care work,
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May 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Until his last breath. 🇵🇸

Also: the Pope called the Catholic priest in Gaza every week to check in on him, the Palestinian people and the situation.
April 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Global South Forum has cross-posted my article on Trump's tariffs, giving it a stronger Global South framing. GSF has other articles on Trump (& other topics too). It's a great platform that centres Global South solidarity and perspectives, check them out!

www.globalsouthforum.org/article/read...
Reading Through Global South Lenses: Order Behind the Disorder in Trump’s Tariffs
Trump’s tariffs, Global South, US hegemony, trade policy, currency politics, economic nationalism
www.globalsouthforum.org
April 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Must read: 'Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "Feminist resistance cannot be conditional. Silence is complicity, and complicity kills" 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People: A Call for Decolonial Praxis Against Complicity
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Christopher Choong Weng Wai's article in our latest issue won the BISA CPD working group early career researcher best paper prize. It's out now in issue 51(1)!

📄 👉 buff.ly/xRr14KS

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March 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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The latest Element in Politics & Society in SE Asia is out: Diana Kim's "Rethinking Colonial Legacies across SE Asia"! Kim explores the significance & legacies of Japan's WWII occupation of SE Asia for understanding colonial legacies. Download FREE through 2 April.
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Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia
Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia
www.cambridge.org
March 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction

📅 20 March 5.15pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom

Register➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
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March 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I guess this is apt as my first post here. Thanks @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @lenarethel.bsky.social @feministonmarx.bsky.social Ben Richardson, and Andreas Murr (who took the pic)!
📣 Congratulations @chrischoongww.bsky.social who passed his PhD viva today for the thesis 'The Everyday Political Economy of Raced Capitalism in Malaysia: Reinscribing Malay Women’s Lives, Labour, and Households'
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March 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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No Other Land airs on Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March. Not to be missed. Witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist. Oscar for BEST DOCUMENTARY.
March 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Hi Bluesky friends! I am part of this research group at Warwick - we are very new to Bluesky so it would be really helpful if you could follow us and spread the word so more people get to know about us and what we do 💫
Hello Bluesky people!

We are a University of Warwick research group and we organise regular research seminars on the politics and international relations of the East Asian region 🌏

Most of our seminars are in hybrid format so follow us to be up to date and participate in our research activities!
January 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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52% of young people polled say UK better would be off if “strong leader was in charge who does not have to bother with parliament or elections”
www.thetimes.com/article/a7ce...
Gen Z doubts about democracy laid bare in ‘worrying’ survey
More than half believe the UK should be a dictatorship and there’s a stark gender divide over equality, research for Channel 4 shows
www.thetimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Antipode Volume 57, Number 1 -- our January 2025 issue -- is out now, with 18 of the 20 articles #OpenAccess antipodeonline.org/2025/01/17/v...
January 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Our work is not done!

A ceasefire is only the most important first step to end the genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.
January 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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The last hospital in North Gaza is burning. Its heroic doctors are missing, dead or displaced - along with their patients. Resigned to its complicity, the West is turning a blind eye. The genocide continues... www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
‘No contact’ with staff, patients as Israeli forces burn Gaza hospital
Gaza Health Ministry says contact lost with last north Gaza hospital, fate of roughly 75 patients there is unknown.
www.aljazeera.com
December 27, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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The Association for Heterodox Economics Call for Papers/Panels just opened!

Bunch of really cool streams, ranging from feminist econ, imperialism & finance + subordination, to history of thought, quantitative PE, technology, ecology & Palestine 🔥

Deadline: Feb 14th!
hetecon.net/2024/12/17/a...
AHE 2025 Conference: Call for Papers
We invite submissions of papers and panels for the 27th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on June 18-20, 2025 at King’s College, London (Waterloo Campus), in Londo…
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December 18, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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🎉 We're in the final stretch of celebrating 50 volumes! 🎉

Check out the 2019 most-cited article: "Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence" by Juanita Elias & Shirin M. Rai.

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December 18, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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"Syria after Assad" - On the coexistence of relief, uncertainty & fear, and Israel's (re)invasion of Syria.

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Syria after Assad
The Assad regime, which ruled over Syria for more than fifty years, has ended. The scenes of people being freed from some of the world’s most brutal and notorious torture prisons were deeply m…
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December 11, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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Video of a book launch and roundtable we did in Edinburgh early October
@adamdixon.bsky.social
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The Spectre of State Capitalism
YouTube video by Adam Smith's Panmure House
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December 11, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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Very excited! We just handed in the final manuscript for our edited volume on state, capitalism & finance in emerging markets /w @brisunipress.bsky.social
With fabulous contributions by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @ingridhk.bsky.social, @anninak.bsky.social, @c-westermeier.bsky.social & many others /1
December 6, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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Why enter @mybisa.bsky.social CPD ECR paper prize? 1. A great group of supportive scholars 2: Winners receive pre-submission mentorship @risjnl.bsky.social Here's what 2023 winner Christopher Choong Weng Wai had to say about it, with former EIC Martin Coward

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The BISA Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial Working Group Early Career Researcher Paper Prize
YouTube video by MyBISA
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December 3, 2024 at 10:44 PM