Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 English as an Islamic Cosmopolitan Vernacular: English-Language Sufi Devotional Literature in Singapore Lin Hongxuan* *林宏轩, Department of History, University of Washington, 318 Smith Box 353560, Seattle, WA 98195-3560, USA e-mail: linhx[at]uw.edu DOI: 10.20495/seas.6.3_447 The key question this paper addresses is why Sufi devotional literature has […]
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Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 Military, Gender, and Trade: The Story of Auntie Duan of the Northern Thai Borderlands Wen-Chin Chang* * 張雯勤, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, RCHSS, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan e-mail: wencc[at]gate.sinica.edu.tw DOI: 10.20495/seas.6.3_423 This paper explores Auntie Duan’s life story, a story that mirrors […]
Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 The Extension of State Power and Negotiations of the Villagers in Northeast Thailand* Ninlawadee Promphakping,** Maniemai Thongyou,*** and Viyouth Chamruspanth† * This article is part of a Sociology dissertation in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, titled “The Construction of Social […]
Published in December, 2017 CONTENTS Articles The Extension of State Power and Negotiations of the Villagers in Northeast Thailand ・・・ Ninlawadee PROMPHAKPING Maniemai THONGYOU Viyouth CHAMRUSPANTH Military, Gender, and Trade: The Story of Auntie Duan of the Northern Thai Borderlands ・・・ Wen-Chin CHANG English as an Islamic Cosmopolitan Vernacular: English-Language […]
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 […]