Daily Archives: January 6, 2016

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 The Politics of Protection Rackets in Post-New Order Indonesia: Coercive Capital, Authority and Street Politics Ian Douglas Wilson Oxon, NY: Routledge, 2015, xxii+198p. Seventeen years have passed since the fall of Suharto’s New Order regime. Indonesia’s reformasi has since been lauded as a successful case […]

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Beyond Borders: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma Wen-Chin Chang Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014, xiii+278p. Responding to a call for studies on the varied ethnic Chinese societies in host countries around the world, Wen-Chin Chang’s Beyond Borders explores the whereabouts of […]

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Champions of Buddhism: Weikza Cults in Contemporary Burma Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière, Guillaume Rozenberg, and Alicia Turner, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2014, xxvii+261p. Exciting things are happening in the study of Burmese Buddhism. Recent years have seen the publication of very important contributions to […]

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier Tania Murray Li Durham: Duke University Press, 2014, 240p. Land’s End is an intimate analysis of the effects of capitalist relations and a fascinating complement to Li’s previous work The Will to Improve (see Murray Li 2007). […]

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 The Eurasian Core and Its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World Ooi Kee Beng Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014, 254p. Scholars from, or based in, Europe, North America, or Australia have shaped most of the writing on world […]

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Migration Revolution: Philippine Nationhood and Class Relations in a Globalized Age Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2014, xii+293p. The central argument made by Filomeno Aguilar in Migration Revolution is that overseas migration, as it is occurring […]

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Indonesian Women and Local Politics: Islam, Gender and Networks in Post-Suharto Indonesia Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2015, xxi+246p. Indonesia began its political reform almost 15 years ago following the collapse of Suharto’s authoritarian administration in 1998. […]

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Taming People’s Power: The EDSA Revolutions and Their Contradictions Lisandro E. Claudio Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2013, 240p. People power is the foundationalist myth of the ruling Aquino regime which began with the presidency of Corazon (“Cory”) C. Aquino who replaced the […]

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 “Good Coup” Gone Bad: Thailand’s Political Developments since Thaksin’s Downfall Pavin Chachavalpongpun, ed. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014, xv+290p. Come back, General Sonthi—all is forgiven! The 2006 coup may have turned bad, but compared with the 2014 coup it now looks positively benign. […]

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 BOOK REVIEWS Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia Khoo Boo Teik, Vedi Hadiz, and Yoshihiro Nakanishi, eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, xv+298p., index. The key intervention this timely volume makes is to question whether political agitation […]