Wiley recognises TCI researchers

Kearrin Sims and Denis Tolkach were both recognised with the "Top Downloaded Article" category. Both papers were listed as one of the most downloaded during its first twelve months of publication. Dr Denis Tolkach's paper was titled "Affective and coping responses to quarantine hotel stays" in the Stress & Helath Journal. This was among work published in an issue between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022.

Dr Kearrin Sims' paper titled ‘BRI as cognitive empire: Epistemic Violence, ethnonationalism and alternative imaginaries in Zomian highlands’, was published in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. His article discusses how discourses of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) have the potential to produce new forms of epistemic violence against subaltern populations. The article has an empirical focus on China-Laos relations, and the epistemic positioning of highland ethnic minority groups in northern Laos. The central argument of the article is that the BRI’s often-state-centric narratives of mutual benefit and win-win exchanges have facilitated state (and non-state) enclosures of minority communities. The wider implications of the study beyond Laos are twofold. First, we must be attentive to the ways in which BRI discourses can contribute to a reworking, and even erasing, of minority ways of life, and second, scholars of the BRI must take care not to contribute to such erasure through the normative adoption of BRI discourses.