Issue 5: Gender Issues

• Guest editor: Urvashi Butalia
• > A Collective Battle for Space (Maria Hartiningsih / Indonesia)
• > Gender Equality: The View from the UN (Sawanishi Mikiko / Japan)
• > Unpaid Care Work: Why Does It Matter Whose Work It Is? (Sepali Kottegoda / Sri Lanka)

Issue 4: Culture and Identity

• Guest editor: Samrat Choudhury
• > With Love to Insiders and Outsiders (Samrat Choudhury / India)
• > How Ethnic Solidarity and Development in Yunnan Are Made Possible (Huang Jiansheng / China)
• > Madness in Culture and Art (Aziz Ali Dad / Pakistan)
• > The Man-Made Construct of Nationality and the Multilayered Nature of Cultural Identity (Lee Soo im / Japan)

Issue 3: Arts and Society

• Guest editor: Janet Pillai
• > Socially Engaged Arts in Asia Today (Janet Pillai / Malaysia)
• > Emotion and Logic: The Communication Art of Randooga (Ashiwa Yoshiko / Japan)
• > Visual Arts, Society and Politics in Sri Lanka (Sasanka Perera / Sri Lanka)
• > A Film, a Moment (Marian Pastor Roces / Philippines)
• > It Is Ultimately Culture That Humanizes (Bina Sarkar Ellias / India)

Issue 2: Climate Change

• Guest editor: Marco Kusumawijaya
• > Changing Climate Poses a Grave Threat to Indian Farmers (Jaideep Hardikar / India)
• > Can Southeast Asia Respond to Climate Effect? (Saroj Srisai / Thailand)
• > Fire, Water, and Soil: The Simple Life as Resistance and Renewal (Kamata Yoji / Japan)

Issue 1: Democracy

• Guest editor: Kunda Dixit
• > Free Media and Democracy in the Age of Elected Demagogues (Kunda Dixit / Nepal)
• > Reviewing the Demos in Democracy (Goenawan Mohamad / Indonesia)
• > #PushBack for Freedom and Democracy (Jose Luis Martin C. Gascon / Philippines)
• > Populism behind the Great Firewall of China (Ako Tomoko / Japan)
• > The Democratization of Democracy (Mahendra P. Lama / India)
• > Korea’s Candlelight Revolution and Participatory Democracy (Lee Taeho / Korea)