Daily Archives: February 9, 2014

Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya: Tangled Strands of Modernity Kah Seng Loh, Edgar Liao, Cheng Tju Lim, and Guo-Quan Seng Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012, 347p., with bibliography and index. This book examines the history of the University Socialist Club (USC) […]

Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 Mapping the Acehnese Past R. Michael Feener, Patrick Daly, and Anthony Reid, eds. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2011, xvi+292p. One of the underlying themes in this edited volume on Aceh is that “a fresh look at the . . . archives suggests that new histories can […]

Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 Religion, Politics and Gender in Indonesia: Disputing the Muslim Body Sonja van Wichelen New York: Routledge, 2010, xxvi+154p. Democratization and Islamization are the two most important developments that are shaping and influencing the socio-political landscape of Post-Suharto Indonesia. As the biggest Muslim majority country in […]

Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 The “Other” Karen in Myanmar: Ethnic Minorities and the Struggle without Arms Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012, xxxii+197p. For decades, the face of the Karen people to the outside world has been rebels fighting the Government of the Union of Myanmar. The year […]

Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 Southeast Asian Independent Cinema Tilman Baumgärtel, ed. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012, 304p. The prolific production of independent films in one of the fastest growing economic regions of the world impels filmmakers, critics, and scholars to seriously study Southeast Asian (hereon referred as […]

Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 From Modern Production to Imagined Primitive: The Social World of Coffee from Papua New Guinea Paige West Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012, xvii+316p., with illustrations, endnotes, and index. If you’re reading this with a cup of fair-trade, organically grown, single-origin coffee in your […]

Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 From the Ground Up: Perspectives on Post-Tsunami and Post-Conflict Aceh Patrick Daly, R. Michael Feener, and Anthony Reid, eds. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012, xxxi+262p. On the book cover, the words “Lebih baik disini kampung kita sendiri” are scrawled on a wall of […]

Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism Megan C. Thomas Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012, 277p. In Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Coloni­alism, Megan C. Thomas illustrates the myriad political meanings […]

Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia Erik Martinez Kuhonta Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011, xxiii+342p. The Institutional Imperative provides an argument for equitable development, that is, economic growth with income equality. The research is conducted through a comparative-historical approach with […]

Contents>> Vol. 2, No. 2 BOOK REVIEWS The Birth of Vietnamese Political Journalism: Saigon 1916–1930 Philippe M. F. Peycam New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, xiii+306p. The early 1920s in Saigon saw a florescence of newspaper publishing in the lively tradition of Parisian canards of the 1890s. French and Vietnamese language […]