Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3 When Memory Speaks: Transnational Remembrances in Vietnam War Literature Quan Manh Ha* * Department of English, The University of Montana, 32 Campus Drive, Missoula, Montana 59812, USA e-mail: Quan.Ha[at]mso.umt.edu DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.3_463 This article offers a brief overview of the problems in representations of the Vietnam […]
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Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3 Rare Earth Plant in Malaysia: Governance, Green Politics, and Geopolitics Kai Lit Phua* * School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, 46150 Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia e-mail: phuakl[at]hotmail.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.3_443 A rare earth elements (REE) extraction plant was built […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3 Political Dynamics of Foreign-Invested Development Projects in Decentralized Indonesia: The Case of Coal Railway Projects in Kalimantan Morishita Akiko* * 森下明子, Research Administration Office (KURA), Kyoto University, Research Administration Office Bldg., Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan e-mail: akikomori77[at]gmail.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.3_413 Resource-rich Indonesia has been […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3 Economic Development via Dam Building: The Role of the State Government in the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy and the Impact on Environment and Local Communities Andrew Aeria* * Faculty of Social Sciences, University Malaysia Sarawak, 94300 Kota Samarahan Sarawak, Malaysia e-mail: andrewaeria[at]gmail.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.3_373 […]
Published in December, 2016 CONTENTS Special Focus Global Powers and Local Resources in Southeast Asia: Political and Social Dynamics of Foreign Investment Ventures Guest Editor: Morishita Akiko Introduction ・・・ MORISHTA Akiko Economic Development via Dam Building: The Role of the State Government in the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy and […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 3 SPECIAL FOCUS Introduction Morishita Akiko* * 森下明子, Research Administration Office (KURA), Kyoto University, Research Administration Office Bldg., Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan Corresponding author’s e-mail: akikomori77[at]gmail.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.5.3_367 Southeast Asia has been an attractive destination for foreign investors during recent decades, given the abundant […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 Javaphilia: American Love Affairs with Javanese Music and Dance Henry Spiller Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015, xii+266p. In this monograph, Henry Spiller has critically examined the self-fashioning of four North American figures who positioned themselves as masters of Javanese dance and/or music to Western […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations through Java Albertus Bagus Laksana Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, xiii+252p. Albertus Bagus Laksana’s Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations through Java is a rich, intricately textured comparative ethnography of Muslim and Catholic pilgrimage traditions in south central Java. The empirical […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 Potent Landscapes: Place and Mobility in Eastern Indonesia Catherine Allerton Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013, xi+221p. Potent Landscapes, by Catherine Allerton, is an engagingly written anthropological study of place and culture in Southeast Asia. Its ethnographic focus is a two-placed, partly resettled village (p. 5) […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 Unequal Thailand: Aspects of Income, Wealth and Power Pasuk Phongpaichit and Chris Baker, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2015, 216p. Does Thailand have an Oligarchy? If so, how do we define it for the national case of Thailand? And most importantly for this collection of essays, […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 The Barefoot Anthropologist: The Highlands of Champa and Vietnam in the Words of Jacques Dournes Andrew Hardy Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2015, 160p. The Barefoot Anthropologist follows the footprints left by the unconventional priest-turned-anthropologist Jacques Dournes. This is an excellent book about this unusual scholar […]
Contents>> Vol. 5, No. 2 Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968 Nha Ca. Translated with an Introduction by Olga Dror Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014, 378p. Literary fiction has long provided some of the most evocative images of warfare, and the struggle for […]