Monthly Archives: August 2017

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 2 From World City to the World in One City: Liverpool through Malay Lives Tim Bunnell Chichester and Malden: John Wiley & Sons, 2016, xvii+284pp. One day in September 2005, this reviewer was enjoying “authentic Malaysian cuisine that is 100% HALAL Food” at Mawar (“Rose”) Restaurant […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 2 The Oil Palm Complex: Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia Rob Cramb and John F. McCarthy, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016, xvi+470pp. The Oil Palm Complex: Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia consists of 14 chapters written by 16 […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 2 Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam Pamela D. McElwee Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016, xxvi+283pp. Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam is made of gold, both the woody and the intellectual kind. Its title is drawn […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 2 Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok Michael Herzfeld Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016, xii+267pp. Heritage is not the first thing that springs to mind when people think of Bangkok. Rather, modern skyscrapers, traffic snarls, glitzy shopping malls, chaotic markets, red […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 2 The Hybrid Tsinoys: Challenges of Hybridity and Homogeneity as Sociocultural Constructs among the Chinese in the Philippines Juliet Lee Uytanlet Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2016, xx+261pp. How do present-day Tsinoys (colloquial term for Chinese living in the Philippines) self-identify? How can Christian churches in the Philippines […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 2 Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America Christine Bacareza Balance Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, xviii+230pp. Tropical Renditions by Christine Bacareza Balance tracks the sounding of Filipino America through its social and cultural geographies of popular music. These geographies traverse three conceptual boundaries that […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 2 Tulong: An Articulation of Politics in the Christian Philippines Soon Chuan Yean Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015, xvii+275pp. The dominant analytical framework of elite rule in the Philippine local politics has been the patron-client relationship and machine politics in which politicians provide […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 2 Burma/Myanmar: Where Now? Mikael Gravers and Flemming Ytzen, eds. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2014, xiv+447pp. Metamorphosis: Studies in Social and Political Change in Myanmar Renaud Egreteau and François Robinne, eds. Singapore: NUS Press in association with IRASEC, 2015, xiv+428pp. Political developments in Burma/Myanmar in recent years […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 2 Rural Thailand: Change and Continuity Porphant Ouyyanont Trends in Southeast Asia, No. 8. Singapore: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, 2016, 31pp. Rural Thailand is a slim, 25-page publication in the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute’s Trends in Southeast Asia series. The aim of the series is to “act as a […]

Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 2 BOOK REVIEWS Indonesia’s Changing Political Economy: Governing the Roads Jamie S. Davidson Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, xvii+292pp. Jamie S. Davidson’s Indonesia’s Changing Political Economy: Governing the Roads starts by raising an intriguing question: “How does a weakened democratic government with a checkered past of […]