The August 2024 issue of Democracy and Autocracy is dedicated to the theme “Polarization and the Past,” for which the Center for Emerging Democracies held a roundtable in October 2023. Newsletter authors include Adam Hjorthén (Uppsala University), Adam Kaul (Augustana College), Agnes Mondragón Celis (University of Rochester), Elisabeth Niklasson (University of Aberdeen), Tahmina Rahman (Rollins College), Tania Islas Weinstein (McGill University). Aram Hur (Tufts University) and Charlotte Setijadi (Singapore Management University) also exchange reviews of their recent books, Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Hur, Cornell University Press, 2022) and Memories of Unbelonging: Ethnic Chinese Identity Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia (Setijadi, University of Hawaii Press, 2023). Jennifer McCoy (Georgia State University) serves as guest editor.
