Yearly Archives: 2015

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 1 BOOK REVIEWS The State and Illegality in Indonesia EDWARD ASPINALL and GERRY VAN KLINKEN, eds. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2010, 328 p, with bibliography and index. What do analysts do, or ought to do, when the embodiments of legality—the state and state functionaries—are the ones often […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 1 RESEARCH REPORT Decision Support System Research and Development Network for Agricultural and Natural Resource Management in Thailand: A TRF-DSS Experience Attachai Jintrawet,1) Chanchai Saengchyosawat,2) Thaworn Onpraphai,2) Methi Ekasingh,3) Phrek Gypmantasiri,3) Benchaphun Ekasingh,4) Chada Narongrit,5) Daroonwan Kamthonkiat,6) Honda Kiyoshi,7) Vinai Sarawat,8) Sukit Ratanasriwong,9) Panjai Tantassanawong,10) Surat […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 1 Javanese Women and Islam: Identity Formation since the Twentieth Century Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi* * Center for Political Studies, the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI); Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, 46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan e-mail: kurniawatihastutidewi[at]yahoo.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.1_109 […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 1 State Recognition or State Appropriation? Land Rights and Land Disputes among the Bugkalot/Ilongot of Northern Luzon, Philippines Shu-Yuan Yang* *楊淑媛, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan e-mail: syyang[at]gate.sinica.edu.tw DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.1_77 The Bugkalot/Ilongot were awarded the Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) issued […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 1 Caring for the Dead Ritually in Cambodia John Cliff ord Holt * * Department of Religion, 7300 College Station, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 04079, U.S.A. e-mail: jholt[at]bowdoin.edu DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.1.1_3 Buddhist conceptions of the after-life, and prescribed rites in relation to the dead, were modified adaptations […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore: Making Future Citizens SHIRLEY HSIAO-LI SUN London and New York: Routledge, 2011, 208 p. There is growing awareness that persistent low fertility constitutes a significant threat to the future of developed societies. Birth rates well below replacement level are […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 Contested Waterscapes in the Mekong Region: Hydropower, Livelihoods and Governance FRANÇOIS MOLLE, TIRA FORAN and MIRA KÄKÖNEN, eds. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2009, xviii+426 p. One of the most important undertakings of this book is that it seeks to understand critical issues of livelihood, development, […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development DAROMIR RUDNYCKYJ Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2010, 304 p. Daromir Rudnyckyj’s book casts spiritual reform as a specific intervention designed to address economic crisis in the late 1990s brought about by what some perceived as a […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 The Floracrats: State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia ANDREW GOSS Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011, 264 p. In The Floracrats: State-Sponsored Science and the Failure of the Enlightenment in Indonesia, Andrew Goss examines in sharp and engaging detail the relationship […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 Queer Bangkok: 21st Century Market, Media, and Rights PETER A. JACKSON, ed. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011, xi+308 p. The project of decentering Western experiences in theorizing the issues of gender and sexualities has led concerned scholars to consider and include the experiences […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 Reading Bangkok ROSS KING Singapore: NUS Press, 2011, 272 p. Two long-standing issues in modern Thai history lie at the heart of Reading Bangkok: the country’s independence and authoritarianism. “Was Thailand really independent?” is a question that has engaged numerous historians, as has why the […]

Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 2 Governing the Other: Exploring the Discourse of Democracy in a Multiverse of Reason AGUSTIN MARTIN RODRIGUEZ Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2009, 234 p. Like other developing democracies in the Global South, the current state of electoral democracy in post-1986 Philippines is not […]