Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia JOHAN SARAVANAMUTTU, ed. London: Routledge, 2009, 188 p, with index. The present volume seeks to understand “political Islam” which the editor, Johan Saravanamuttu, describes as “aspirations to political power and the remolding of state and society in accordance with […]
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Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 Natural Potency and Political Power: Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos SARINDA SINGH Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012, 192 p. “Muang Metaphysics” The question of how the Lao state maintains legitimacy and authority in the countryside is a key topic of interest for […]
Contents>> Vol. 1, No. 3 BOOK REVIEWS Political Authority and Provincial Identity in Thailand: The Making of Banharn-buri YOSHINORI NISHIZAKI Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2011, xvii+254p. When Adhemar de Barros ran as candidate for the governor of São Paulo in the 1947, he anchored his campaign on the […]
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Born Out of Place: Migrant Mothers and the Politics of International Labor Nicole Constable Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2014, xvii+259p. Scholars have theoretically couched late twentieth century and early twenty-first century human migration in terms of metaphors that invoke global fluidity, risk, uncertainty, and the dismantling of previous […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 2 The Chinese Question: Ethnicity, Nation, and Region in and beyond the Philippines Caroline S. Hau Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2014, ix+379p. Close observers of Philippine politics and society might have recently come across two newsworthy stories of the year […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 2 Subversive Lives: A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years Susan F. Quimpo and Nathan Gilbert Quimpo Manila: Anvil Publishing, 2012, 468p. In recent years, there have been a number of publications which reflect on the troubled history of the Philippines during the Marcos years, a […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 2 Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920–1960 Freek Colombijn and Joost Coté, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2015, 351p. Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920–1960 is a commendable collection of essays that present modernization and the city not […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 2 Living with Risk: Precarity and Bangkok’s Urban Poor Tamaki Endo Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2014, 360p. Given the paucity of books and articles written about the day-to-day living of the poor and the informal economy in Bangkok, this book […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 2 Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in Colonial Malaya Donna J. Amoroso Petaling Jaya, Selangor: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre; Singapore: NUS Press, 2014, 276p. The recently concluded November 2014 United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) General Assembly saw strident calls for […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 2 The Palm Oil Controversy in Southeast Asia: A Transnational PerspectiveOliver Pye and Jayati Bhattacharya, eds. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Publishing, 2013, xxi+283p. This book of 12 chapters demonstrates the effects of rapidly growing palm oil industry in Southeast Asia from a variety of […]
Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 2 The Golden Lands: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam (Architecture of the Buddhist World) Vikram Lall Kuala Lumpur: JF Publishing, 2014, 280p. This is a large-format (335×260 mm) book with a hard cover, printed on glossy art-quality paper, and contains numerous color photographs by professional […]