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Overview

Kevin Hewison is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans the Social Sciences, with key contributions in the subfields of Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, and Public Administration.

The research topics most frequently addressed by Hewison include Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies, Vietnamese History and Culture Studies, Asian Studies and History, Cambodian History and Society, Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography, Employment and Welfare Studies, and Digital Economy and Work Transformation.

Hewison has published extensively in a variety of academic journals, notably the Journal of Contemporary Asia, where they have contributed 14 publications. Other publication venues include Sociology Compass, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Melbourne Asia Review, and Perspectives on Politics.

Recent papers authored by Hewison include:

  • Black Site: The Cold War and the Shaping of Thailand's Politics, 2020, Journal of Contemporary Asia
  • States, Civilisations and the Reset of World Order., 2022, Journal of Contemporary Asia
  • Infiltrating Society. The Thai Military's Internal Security Affairs, 2022, Journal of Contemporary Asia

Hewison has worked in collaboration with several frequent co-authors, among them Arne L. Kalleberg, Kwang-Yeong Shin, Eva Hansson, and Jim Glassman.

The scholar has also contributed to book publications, with three titles published by Stanford University Press eBooks that include "Precarious Asia" released in 2021 in multiple editions.

Best Publications

  • Precarious Work and the Challenge for Asia

    Arne L. Kalleberg;Kevin Hewison

  • Southeast Asia in the 1990s: authoritarianism, democracy and capitalism

    Kevin Hewison;Richard Robison;Garry Rodan

  • Resisting globalization: a study of localism in Thailand

    Kevin Hewison

  • The political economy of South-East Asia : conflicts, crises, and change

    Garry Rodan;Kevin Hewison;Richard Robison

  • Neo-liberalism and Domestic Capital: The Political Outcomes of the Economic Crisis in Thailand

    Kevin Hewison

  • Precarious Work and Flexibilization in South and Southeast Asia

    Kevin Hewison;Arne L. Kalleberg

  • Exploitation in global supply chains: Burmese workers in Mae Sot

    Dennis Arnold;Kevin Hewison

  • The political economy of South-East Asia : markets, power and contestation

    Garry Rodan;Kevin Hewison;Richard Robison

  • Social movements and political opposition in contemporary Thailand

    Kengkij Kitirianglarp;Kevin Hewison

  • Crafting Thailand's new social contract

    Kevin Hewison

  • THE ANTIPOLITICS OF GOOD GOVERNANCE From Global Social Policy to a Global Populism

    Kanishka Jayasuriya;Kevin Hewison

  • Preserving the one-party state in contemporary Singapore

    R. Robison;K. Hewison;G. Rodan

  • A book, the king and the 2006 coup

    Kevin Hewison

  • Introduction: Thailand and the “good coup”

    Michael K. Connors;Kevin Hewison

  • Political change in Thailand : democracy and participation

    Kevin Hewison

  • Bankers and bureaucrats : capital and the role of the state in Thailand

    Ansil Ramsay;Kevin Hewison

  • Transnational Migration and Work in Asia

    Kevin Hewison;Ken Young

  • THAILAND’S CAPITALISM BEFORE AND AFTER THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

    Kevin Hewison

  • The ebb and flow of civil society and the decline of the Left in Southeast Asia

    K. Hewison;G. Rodan

  • Introduction: East Asia and the Trials of Neo-liberalism

    Richard Robison;Kevin Hewison

  • Owners of the Map. Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok

    Kevin Hewison

  • Thai village life: Culture and transition in the northeast

    Sērī Phongphit;Kevin Hewison

  • The financial bourgeoisie in Thailand

    Kevin J. Hewison

  • The political economy of South-East Asia : an introduction

    Garry Rodan;Kevin Hewison;Richard Robison

  • Thaksin Shinawatra and the reshaping of Thai politics

    Kevin Hewison

  • Considerations on inequality and politics in Thailand

    Kevin Hewison

Frequent Co-Authors

Arne L. Kalleberg
Arne L. Kalleberg University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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