New Books in Southeast Asian Studies
Episodes
Ethnography of "Development": Tania Li on Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What can years of ethnographic engagement with rural Indonesia teach us about capitalism, development, and resistance? On this episode of Ethnographic...
Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam: Between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Does ‘citizenship’ exist in a socialist or communist context? If it does, what would this mean in the case of Vietnam? To what extent do the Vietn...
Export China: Reimagining Chineseness through the Ceramics Trade in Southeast Asia
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, a team of divers led by renowned maritime archaeologist Dr Michael Flecker and sponsored by the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute surveyed two hist...
Stan BH Tan-Tangbau and Quyền Văn Minh, "Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Quyền Văn Minh (b. 1954) is not only a jazz saxophonist and lecturer at the prestigious Vietnam National Academy of Music, but he is also one of th...
Rommel Argamosa Curaming, "Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia: State and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines" (Routledge, 2019)
03 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why did leading historians in both Indonesia and the Philippines become involved in projects to write national histories during the 1970s? How far wer...
Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
31 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aro Velmet's Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology in France, Its Colonies, and the World (Oxford UP, 2020) is a complex history of the Pasteur Institut...
Diana S. Kim, "Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition Across Southeast Asia" (Princeton UP, 2020)
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia (Princeton University Press, 2020) Diana Kim situates the regulation of vi...
Albert Samaha, "Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes" (Penguin, 2021)
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
One of the first members of Albert Samaha’s family introduced in his memoir Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes (Riverhead Books, 2021) ...
The Storytelling State: Performing Life Histories in Singapore
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today, oral histories of everyday Singaporeans are more widely circulated in the nation’s mediascape than ever before. At first glance, storytelling...
A Conversation with Vasudha Narayanan about Hindu Studies
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Raj Balkaran has a candid conversation with seasoned scholar Dr. Vasudha Narayanan about her academic journey, the current state of Hindu Studies and ...
Mary Talusan, "Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music During US Colonization of the Philippines" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines published in 2021 by the...
Overseas Remittances in Vietnam’s Reform Era
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why was there a large flow of overseas remittances into Vietnam after 1975, and how were they channelled? Why was there so little public discussion of...
James Kelly Morningstar, "War and Resistance in the Philippines 1942-1944" (US Naval Institute Press, 2021)
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
December 2021 marks the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the American entry into the Second World War. In fact, this interview was recorded on Dec...
Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., "Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The United States is the world's largest donor of foreign aid, and in this profound analysis, Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. demonstrates the links...
Hidden in Plain Sight: How Nalehmu is Disrupting Conventional Power Structures in Myanmar
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In April 2021, three months into Myanmar’s most recent and increasingly more violent coup d’état, local residents managed to obstruct the junta b...
Nishaant Choksi, "Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Investigating the communicative practices of indigenous Santali speakers in eastern India, this book examines the overlooked role of script in regiona...
COP26 from a Southeast Asian Perspective
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
COP26 was billed as the make or break event in the fight against climate change. In conversation with Quynh Le Vo, Sharon Seah, coordinator of the ISE...
Saskia E. Wieringa and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, "Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia" (Routledge, 2018)
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Several months ago, Saskia Wieringa joined her co-authors Jess Melvin and Annie Pohlman on the show to talk about their edited volume The Internation...
Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway, "Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
02 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, I speak with Till F. Paasche and James D. Sidaway about their new book, Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq...
Shawn F. McHale, "The First Vietnam War: Violence, Sovereignty, and the Fracture of the South, 1945-1956" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
01 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When people think of the “Vietnam War” they usually think of the hugely devastating and divisive conflict between North Vietnam and a United State...
‘Network Monarchy’ and Its Challengers: Making Sense of Thai Politics with Duncan McCargo
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does a cup of coffee tell us about Thailand’s intricate power relations? Where does the country’s monarchy come into this? And why does it ma...
Shaking the World: How Geology Can Help Us Address the Big Challenges of the 21st Century
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Southeast Asia is the most tectonically and geologically active region on Earth. These processes have enriched the mountains and basins with world-fam...
Melissa Macauley, "Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier" (Princeton UP, 2021)
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“The Europeans raise all the cattle, but the Chinese get all the milk.” This joke, told in colonial Singapore, was indicative of the importance of...
Alice Beban, "Unwritten Rule: State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why do so many Cambodian small landholders live in fear? How did the issuance of official land titles contribute to growing indebtedness in rural are...
In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South - Implications for the North
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South - Implications for the North (Zed-Bloomsbury), Olle Törnquist has return...
The Politics of Public Prosecution in Malaysia and the Problem of Corruption
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On 16 August 2021, Muhyiddin Yaseen resigned as Prime Minister of Malaysia, with Ismail Sabri Yaakub sworn in as the new Prime Minister a week later, ...
Don F. Selby, "Human Rights in Thailand" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Don F. Selby’s Human Rights in Thailand (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018) is a rich anthropological study of the emergence of human rights in Thailand ...
Bertil Lintner, "The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest For Global Dominance" (NIAS Press, 2021)
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who are the Wa of Myanmar and how, in three decades, have they built a force that is now the largest non-state military actor in Asia-Pacific? How doe...
Carlos M. Piocos, "Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration" (Routledge, 2021)
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration (Routledge, 2021), Carlos M. Piocos explores the politics of gendered labor migrati...
Anjalee Cohen, "Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand: Fitting in and Sticking Out" (Routledge, 2020)
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand (Routledge, 2020) examines how young people in urban Chiang Mai construct an identity at the interse...
Giuseppe Bolotta, "Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok's Margins" (NIAS, 2021)
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How is childhood experienced in the slums of Bangkok and how does it relate to socio-political processes in Thailand? What role do mothers play in the...
Wonders of the Mekong: Rethinking Sustainable Development and Resilience in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cambodia’s Tonle Sap is the largest inland lake in Southeast Asia. Each year, during the monsoon, this freshwater lake experiences an incredible hyd...
Thongchai Winichakul, "Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The massacre of student protestors at Thammasat University on 6 October 1976 is one of the most infamous incidents in modern Thai political history. I...
Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai, "The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I chatted with Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai, two scholars of film, about their new anthology The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has...
Beyond a Shadow: Southeast Asia Transcending US-China Rivalries
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why do Southeast Asia specialists get tired of explaining that the politics of the region cannot be reduced to a zero-sum game of Chinese-US great pow...
Beyond a Shadow: Southeast Asia Transcending US-China Rivalries
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why do Southeast Asia specialists get tired of explaining that the politics of the region cannot be reduced to a zero-sum game of Chinese-US great pow...
From Animal Rights to Human Rights: Supporting Sustainable Farming Practices to Improve Livelihoods
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In September-October 2021, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advoc...
Mirjam Lücking, "Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims" (SAPP, 2021)
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mirjam Lücking's Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims (Southeast Asia Program Publications, 20...
David Brenner, "Rebel Politics: A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar's Borderlands" (Cornell UP, 2019)
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can we best understand ethnic armed organizations on the borderlands of Myanmar? Why did the Karen embrace the military-initiated peace process in...
Jeevan Vasagar, "Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone looks to Singapore as a role model for what they want their country to be. Several countries from China to Rwanda hope to emulate its high ad...
The Turbulence and Controversies of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission, with Sofie Schütte
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Indonesia’s corruption eradication commission, known as the KPK has widely been considered one of the most powerful and successful anti-corruption a...
Stepping in to Improve Women’s and Babies’ Lives in Southeast Asia
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In September-October 2021, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advoc...
Chris Chaplin, "Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and National Identity in Contemporary Indonesia" (NIAS Press, 2021)
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How important is Islam to Indonesia’s identity? How different is Salafism from a more mainstream Sunni Islam? Why is it popular with mostly young In...
Preserving Local Languages to Protect Cultural and Environmental Rights in Laos
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In September-October 2021, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advoc...
Tom G. Hoogervorst, "Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 (Cornell UP, 2021) explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts – ...
Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia
10 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is image-based abuse? Why has it been on the rise in Asia, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic? What has been done to tackle the issue? Raquel...
Elaine Pearson: Grappling with the intersections of academia, advocacy and activism
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the next four weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advocat...
A European Perspective on the Indo-Pacific: A Conversation with Camilla Sørensen
20 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Camilla T.N. Sørensen joins Andreas Bøje Forsby from NIAS for a conversation about the Indo-Pacific region as seen from a Danish an...
Spirits, Development and Chinese (Hydro)power: Ethnographic (Hi)stories from Upland Laos
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the extreme north of Laos, in Phongsali Province, lies a tiny village home to around 24 households. Until recently it was a monoethnic Khmu village...
Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu, "Tuberculosis: The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018" (Routledge, 2021)
16 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tuberculosis: The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018 (Routledge, 2021), co-written by Dr. Loh, a historian and Dr. Hsu Li Yang, a medical doctor offers ...
Karen Sanctuaries: Memory, Biodiversity and Political Sovereignty
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Seeds, plants and food can act as repositories of memory and identity, thus countering the alienation caused by displacement. How does this manifest i...
Nina Trige Andersen, "Labor Pioneers: Economy, Labor, and Migration in Filipino-Danish Relations, 1950-2015" (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2019)
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What happened to the Filipinas who migrated to Denmark to staff iconic new international hotels in the 1960s and 1970s? Why did the Philippine governm...
From the Archives: Disaster Resilience and Humanitarian Response in the Philippines with Dr Aaron Opdyke
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Philippines is one of the most natural hazard-prone countries in the world. With the social and economic cost of disasters in the country increasi...
Ruth Streicher, "Uneasy Military Encounters: The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand" (Cornell UP, 2020)
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2004 the Malay-Muslim majority provinces in the border region of southern Thailand have been wracked by a violent insurgency. Over 7000 people h...
Ismail Fajrie Alatas, "What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia" (Princeton UP, 2021)
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia (Princeton UP, 2021) by Ismail Fajrie Alatas draws on groundbreaking anth...
David Veevers, "The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. In The Origins of the British Emp...
Francis Wade, "Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'" (Zed Books, 2017)
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of widespread targeted violence against its Rohingya minority. The horrific atrocities was later descr...
Popular Protests in the Age of #MilkTeaAlliance
23 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What influence can online and visual activism have on protest movements? With a wave of anti-establishment protests sweeping over East and Southeast A...
From the Archives: Building a Sustainable Future through Urban Governance with Dr Sophie Webber
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With two megacities and strong economic growth, Indonesia has seen dramatic rates of rural-urban migrations. According to the World Bank, nearly 70 pe...
Jacques Bertrand, “Exploring Southeast Asia” (Open Agenda, 2021)
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring Southeast Asia is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Jacques Bertrand, Professor of Political Science and Di...
Christian C. Lentz, "Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam" (Yale UP, 2019)
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why is Vietnam's modern history so closely associated with a place that lies only just within the country's borders? What was at stake in the contest ...
John T. Sidel, "Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Early 20th century Southeast Asia was arguably home to the once of the most vibrant and diverse caldrons of revolutionary ferment in world history. R...
Christian Lund, "Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia" (Yale UP, 2021)
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why are land rights so bitterly contested in Indonesia, even after the end of Suharto’s New Order in 1998? What methods have grassroots movements us...
From the Archives: Supporting Sustainable Farming Practices in Cambodia with Professor Daniel Tan
08 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Improper pest management has led to significant yield loss in rice and other crop harvests in Cambodia, causing economic losses to farmers and environ...
Nicole Curato, "Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedies to Deliberative Action" (Oxford UP, 2019)
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Curato's Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedies to Deliberative Action (Oxford UP, 2019) investigates how democratic pol...
Eve Monique Zucker and Ben Kiernan, "Political Violence in Southeast Asia Since 1945: Case Studies from Six Countries" (Routledge, 2021)
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Southeast Asia was home to many of the hot battles of the Cold War. Even after the fall of the Soviet Union the region has been beset by legacies of p...
Remembering President Noynoy Aquino: A Discussion with Sheila Coronel
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Former Philippine President Noynoy Aquino (in office from 2010 to 2016) recently passed away at the age of just 61. How should we assess the legacy of...
Business as Usual? International Responses to the Military Coup in Myanmar
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Nordic Asia Podcast Kenneth Bo Nielsen of the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies is joined by Htwe Htwe Thein (Curtin Universi...
Building Bridges Across the Seas: A Discussion of Australia-Indonesia Cooperation for the Preservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage
24 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Indonesia is the world’s largest archipelagic state, its waters home to hundreds, if not thousands, of shipwrecks. As maritime neighbours with both ...
In China’s Shadow: China and Southeast Asia
21 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Does Southeast Asia face a stark choice between aligning with China or the United States? Can we understand domestic developments in the region as dri...
Homeland Activists Without a Home: Why Proximity and Precarity Matter for Myanmar’s Refugees
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
February 2021 witnessed yet another military coup in Myanmar. Whether it was unexpected or entirely predictable is, perhaps, a matter of debate. But w...
Aim Sinpeng, "Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age: The Yellow Shirts in Thailand" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why did hundreds of thousands of Thai people rise up in opposition to elected governments in 2006, 2008 and 2013-14? What were the ideological underpi...
Photography and Human Rights in Thailand: A Discussion with Karin Zackari
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What do startling photographic images of state violence from events such as the 6 October 1976 massacre at Thammasat University tell us about the natu...
Connectivity and Displacement in Laos: Exploring Intersectional Infrastructure Violence with Dr Kearrin Sims
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
More than anywhere else in the world, Asia is experiencing an infrastructure boom. Although it is driven by both internal and external factors, this b...
Exploring the Diasporic Imagination in Recent Indonesian Popular Novels and Films (2000-2020)
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since 2000, there has been a boom in Indonesian popular novels and films set overseas, showing young Indonesians living in foreign countries and havin...
Duncan McCargo and Anyarat Chattharakul, "Future Forward: The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party" (NIAS Press, 2020)
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thailand has been in a deep political crisis since the royalist-military coup against the Thaksin government in 2006. A second coup, in 2014, ushered ...
Myanmar’s Failed Coup: A Roundtable Discussion
31 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why has the military junta that seized power in Myanmar on February 1 failed to gain popular support and legitimacy? How credible are attempts by the ...
Dictatorship on Trial in Thailand: A Discussion with Tyrell Haberkorn
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How could we turn the tables on the military junta who held power in Thailand between 2014 and 2019, by using legal mechanisms to challenge the cultur...
Pirates of the South China Sea: A Brief Introduction to Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia with Professor Justin Hastings
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since the decline of piracy off the coast of the Horn of Africa, Southeast Asia has re-emerged as the world’s hotspot for maritime piracy, with 85 r...
Keeping Lungs Healthy: A Discussion of Respiratory Health in Vietnam with Professor Gregory Fox
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 virus has brought the spotlight to respiratory health. Over the past year, we have become more aware than ever of cough and cold-like sym...
Farabi Fakih, "Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia's Early Independence Period" (Brill, 2020)
14 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There has been a resurgent global interest in the origins and formation of authoritarian regimes as many states around the world drift away from liber...
Opening Australia's Multilingual Archives to Rethink Australian Identity in the Asia-Pacific
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Australia has always been multilingual. Yet English language sources have dominated political and popular discourses over the last few centuries, over...
Of Rice and Men: How Food Production is Driving Antimicrobial Resistance amongst Fungi in Vietnam
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fungal infections are amongst the leading infectious disease killers globally. They result in more deaths than malaria, and almost as many as tubercul...
The Politics of Online News in Cambodia
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Astrid Norén-Nilsson of Lund University discusses her latest research about the Cambodian online news outlet Fresh News with Duncan...
E. Aspinall and W. Berenschot, "Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2019)
03 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In post-Suharto Indonesian politics the exchange of patronage for political support is commonplace. Clientelism saturates the political system through...
Tales of Unsung Heroes: How Thailand’s Village Health Volunteers Helped Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On 13 January 2020, Thailand confirmed the first known case of COVID-19 outside of China. As one of the world's most popular tourism destinations, wit...
Back from the Barracks?: A Discussion of Civil-Military Relations and the Erosion of Philippine Democracy with Professor Aries Arugay
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From drugs, communism and terrorism, and now the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippines under Duterte can been characterised as a rolling series of securi...
Teri L. Caraway and Michele Ford, "Labor and Politics in Indonesia" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How did Indonesia’s labour movement go from being small and divided at the demise of the New Order regime in 1998 to play lead parts in politics som...
Decolonising Research Collaboration Practices in Indonesia: A Discussion with Elisabeth Kramer
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the next five weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts on research partnerships in Southeast Asia. In the context of COVID...
Anand A. Yang, "Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia" (U California Press, 2021)
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (University of California Press, 2021) (University of California Press, 2021) focus...
The Subject and the Partner in Malaysia: A Discussion with Fiona Lee
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the next five weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts on research partnerships in Southeast Asia. In the context of COVID...
New Ethnographies of the Global South: In Conversation with Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How can Sociology be nudged away from its traditional parochialism to embrace empirical work that focuses on the global south? Marco Garrido (assistan...
Arunima Datta, "Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2021) disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing ...
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong" (SUNY Press, 2020)
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Angkarn Kallayanapong (1926-2012) was arguably Thailand’s most famous poet of the modern period. His career spanned the era from the 1940s to the 19...
Building Relationships in Vietnam from a Distance: A Discussion with Jeffrey Neilson
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the next five weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts on research partnerships in Southeast Asia. In the context of COVID...
Delving into the Unknown in Myanmar: A Discussion with Michael Dibley
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the next five weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts on research partnerships in Southeast Asia. In the context of COVID...
Working with Government in Timor-Leste: A Discussion with Jenny-Ann Toribio
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the next five weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts on research partnerships in Southeast Asia. In the context of COVID...
Juno Salazar Parreñas, "Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation" (Duke University Press, 2018)
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation (Duke University Press, 2018) presents a multi-species ethnography of orangutan...
Exploding the Archive: A Reimagining of Archival Records in Malaysia with Dr Beth Yahp
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly is an archive? Who and what are involved in the making and naming of memory projects as archives? What kinds of stories become told throu...
Christina Schwenkel, "Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam" (Duke UP, 2020)
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Following a decade of U.S. bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity....