Monthly Archives: August 2014

Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Achieving the ASEAN Economic Community 2015: Challenges for Member Countries and Businesses Sanchita Basu Das, ed. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012, xxvi+347p. The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2015 is the most anticipated economic integration project for the people in ASEAN countries. Despite being […]

Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca Eric Tagliacozzo New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, ix+356p. In The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and Pilgrimage to Mecca, Eric Tagliacozzo presents a magisterial historical survey of the “undertaking of the Hajj from Southeast Asia […]

Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Space and the Production of Cultural Difference among the Akha Prior to Globalization: Channeling the Flow of Life Deborah E. Tooker Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012, 344p. The Akha were the last highland group to move to Thailand in substantial numbers. On reaching Chiang Rai, […]

Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, vi+300p. Is memory a cul-de-sac? At long last, an anthology of case studies on social memory used the frame that defined memory studies in the 80s and 90s. At […]

Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia Laurence Monnais and Harold J. Cook, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, xxxi+290p. This edited volume contributes to the growing scholarly literature dealing with the history of medicine. The editors collaborated with 12 scholars of Southeast […]

Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Thailand’s Political Peasants: Power in the Modern Rural Economy Andrew Walker Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012, xiii+277p. This is a very important book for understanding political conflict in contemporary Thailand. The stated aim of this book is to investigate “the underlying economic, political, […]

Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Consoling Ghosts: Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile Jean M. Langford Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013, vii+263p. Consoling Ghosts focuses on how Southeast Asians in the United States—Khmer from Cambodia, and Hmong, Kmhmu, and Lao from Laos; all refugee emigrants […]

Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia: The Illegal Trade in Arms, Drugs, People, Counterfeit Goods and Natural Resources in Mainland Southeast Asia Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy, ed. London: I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2013, x+214p. In the context of regional integration, Mainland Southeast Asia is subject […]

Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 Organising under the Revolution: Unions and the State in Java, 1945–48 Jafar Suryomenggolo Singapore and Kyoto: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2013, xiii+215p. Visitors to Lawang Sewu might be confused as to the building’s significance. Situated in the heart of Semarang on […]

Contents>> Vol. 3, No. 2 BOOK REVIEWS Popular Culture Co-productions and Collaborations in East and Southeast Asia Nissim Otmazgin and Eyal Ben-Ari Singapore and Kyoto: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2013, x+276p. The recent growth of Asian media markets coincides with the emergence of an academic area […]