Yearly Archives: 2018

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Vol. 7, No. 1, BOOK REVIEWS, Yi LI

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Yearning to Belong: Malaysia’s Indian Muslims, Chitties, Portuguese Eurasians, Peranakan Chinese and Baweanese Patrick PillaiSingapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2015. What are the experiences of ethnic minority communities in present-day Malaysia? How do they negotiate their often multiple and fluid identities with national policies and politics that […]

Vol. 7, No. 1, BOOK REVIEWS, Gde Dwitya Arief METERA

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia: Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots Edward Aspinall and Mada Sukmajati, eds.Singapore: NUS Press, 2016. A central theme in the debate regarding Indonesian politics after democratization concerns its underlying logic. Democracy qua institution promises a heightened mobilizational power of […]

Vol. 7, No. 1, BOOK REVIEWS, LE Hoang Anh Thu

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace Ann Marie LeshkowichHonolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. Bến Thành Market, where Ann Marie Leshkowich did her field research for Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace, is the most famous market in Ho Chi Minh […]

Vol. 7, No. 1, BOOK REVIEWS, William B. NOSEWORTHY

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Animism in Southeast Asia Kaj Århem and Guido Sprenger, eds.London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Animism in Southeast Asia is a rich study that reaches well beyond the bounds of regional and disciplinary expertise. Surely, anthropologists of religion in Southeast Asia will have some commentary […]

Vol. 7, No. 1, BOOK REVIEWS, Dat Manh NGUYEN

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism Janet Alison HoskinsHonolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. Founded in 1926 in colonial Cochinchina, Caodaism remains one of the least understood Vietnamese religious traditions. Although the Great Temple of Caodaism in Tây Ninh attracts […]

Vol. 7, No. 1, BOOK REVIEWS, Dinah ROMA

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature Brian BernardsSeattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. Wrought from Water: “Nanyang” as Transoceanic Imaginary of the South Seas This book is one of expanse. Of waterways, currents, borders shifting […]

Vol. 7, No. 1, BOOK REVIEWS, YEN VU

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate Trần Đình Trụ. Translated by Bac Hoai Tran and Jana K. LipmanHonolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2017. Among the first words to describe Trần Đình Trụ’s Ship of Fate: […]

Vol. 7, No. 1, BOOK REVIEWS, Faizah ZAKARIA

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network Julia Martínez and Adrian VickersHonolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015. Transnational histories from below are notoriously difficult to access through conventional archives. The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s […]

Vol. 7, No. 1, BOOK REVIEWS, Seb RUMSBY

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 BOOK REVIEWS The New Way: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam Tâm T. T. NgôCritical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. Ever since the release of James Scott’s The Art of Not Being Governed (2009), academic research on the […]

Vol. 7, No. 1, PIYADA CHONLAWORN

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Jit Phumisak and His Images in Thai Political Contexts Piyada Chonlaworn* *ปิยดา ชลวร, Faculty of International Studies, Tenri University, 1050 Somanouchi, Tenri, Nara 632-8510, Japan e-mail: 2515226[at]gmail.com DOI: 10.20495/seas.7.1_103 Jit Phumisak (1930–66) is one of the most well-known figures among Thai leftist scholars and activists […]

Vol. 7, No. 1, Yerry WIRAWAN

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Independent Woman in Postcolonial Indonesia: Rereading the Works of Rukiah Yerry Wirawan* *Department of History, Sanata Dharma University, Mrican, Gejayan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia e-mail: yerry.wirawan[at]gmail.com DOI: 10.20495/seas.7.1_85 This paper discusses the strategic essentialism of gender and politics in modern Indonesia by rereading literary works of Siti […]

Vol. 7, No. 1, TEO Lee Ken

Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Liberational Justice in the Political Thought of Ahmad Boestamam Teo Lee Ken* *Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore, Blk AS8 #06-01, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Singapore e-mail: teoleeken[at]u.nus.edu DOI: 10.20495/seas.7.1_65 This article reads Ahmad Boestamam’s Testament Politik API (1946) to understand […]