Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

 

Journal Articles

 2022. “China's Landmass and Maritime Relations on the Edges: The Implications of Russia-Ukraine Conflict on the Cases of Kazakhstan and the Philippines.” Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations 8 (3): 637-69. (Co-authored with Hugo Tierny). 

2018. “Symbolic Production of Coffee-drinking: Genealogy, Problematization and the Case of Cordillera Coffee.” Jurnal Transformasi Global 5 (2): 40-67.  

2018. “Biopolitics of Knowledgeable Neglect: The Case of Famine in Kazakhstan in 1931-1933.” Jurnal Hubungan Internasional 7 (2) 2018, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 

2017. “The Rights of the Wronged: Norms of Nuclearism, the Polygon and the Making of Wastelife.” Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations 3 (1): 285-330.

2015. “‘Kazakhstani’ Identity, Eurasian Regionalism and Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Biopolitics of Forced Migration, Modernity and Multilateralism.” Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations 1 (2): 247-302.