Institute of Asian Research

Founded in 1978, the Institute of Asian Research (IAR) is the premier Asia-focused research institute and think tank in Canada, serving as an active hub for research, teaching, policy support, and community engagement. From its home in the C. K. Choi Building on the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus, the Institute seeks to build knowledge and networks to support effective policy action on a wide range of domestic, regional, and global issues centred on Asia.

79
Master's Students
(2020)
35
Graduate Degrees Awarded
(2020)
 
 

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Mankala Chronicles: Nuclear Energy Financing and Cooperative Corporate Form in Finland

Drawing on 32 months of interview-based ethnographic fieldwork, Postdoctoral Fellow Vincent Ialenti examines Finland’s “mankala” nuclear energy companies through the lens of anthropological theories of corporate form. He explains that mankalas are “limited liability companies run like zero-profit...

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Criticism Over B.C.’s Social Media Communication

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More Nuclear Reactors (SMRs): A Bad Investment for New Brunswick

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China’s Gone Fishing

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SMRs Are a Bad Investment for New Brunswick

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