Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 The Spirit of Things: Materiality and Religious Diversity in Southeast Asia Julius Bautista, ed. Ithaca, NY: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2012, x+220p. Southeast Asia is a region of great religious diversity. A variety of ethnic religions interact with world religions such as Christianity, Islam, […]
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Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Greater Mekong Subregion: From Geographical to Socio-economic Integration Omkar L. Shrestha and Aekapol Chongvilaivan, eds. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2013, xvi+270p. The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), arguably the most glittering development opportunity in Asia, is steadily attracting an international audience. After a period of mistrust and […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Oral History in Southeast Asia: Memories and Fragments Kah Seng Loh, Stephen Dobbs, and Ernest Koh, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, xiv+205p. Oral History in Southeast Asia brings together a number of committed young scholars who discuss the applicability of oral history in two […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Words in Motion: Language and Discourse in Post-New Order Indonesia Keith Foulcher, Mikihiro Moriyama, and Manneke Budiman, eds. Singapore: NUS Press and Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2012, xi+312p. This book is the outcome […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Redeeming REDD: Policies, Incentives and Social Feasibility for Avoided Deforestation Michael I. Brown London: Routledge and New York: Earthscan, 2013, xii+330p. In September 2013 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN global authority on climate change, presented its fifth assessment report. Its main […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Saigon’s Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City Erik Harms Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011, xiv+294p. In his introduction to the book, Erik Harms states that there are no Vietnamese poems about Hóc Môn, a district lying on the outskirts of Ho […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 The Family in Flux in Southeast Asia: Institution, Ideology, Practice Yoko Hayami, Junko Koizumi, Chalidaporn Songsamphan, and Ratana Tosakul, eds. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press and Bangkok: Silkworm Books, 2012, ix+546p. The Family in Flux in Southeast Asia: Institution, Ideology, Practice is a long-awaited addition to […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 Strangers at Home: History and Subjectivity among the Chinese Communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia Hui Yew-Foong Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2011, xvi+342p. Hui Yew-Foong has written a highly nuanced ethnographic monograph on how the Chinese of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, negotiate their stranger-subjectivity with their host […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 The Cardamom Conundrum: Reconciling Development and Conservation in the Kingdom of Cambodia Timothy J. Killeen Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, xxviii+354p. Cambodia is facing two main issues in its struggle over development after a long period of social unrest: development and conservation. Between the 1990s and […]
Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 1 BOOK REVIEWS Energy and Non-Traditional Security (NTS) in Asia Mely Caballero-Anthony, Youngho Chang, and Nur Azha Putra, eds. Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, ix+121p. Human Security: Securing East Asia’s Future Benny Teh Cheng Guan, ed. Dordrecht and New York: Springer, 2012, xiii+255p. At present, non-traditional security issues […]