Published in August, 2019 CONTENTS Articles Local Agency in Development, Market, and Forest Conservation Interventions in Lao PDR’s Northern Uplands ・・・ Robert COLE Maria BROCKHAUS Grace Y. WONG Maarit H. KALLIO Moira MOELIONO Land Use and Land Cover Changes during the Second Indochina War and Their Long-Term Impact on a […]
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Published in August, 2019 CONTENTS Articles Local Agency in Development, Market, and Forest Conservation Interventions in Lao PDR’s Northern Uplands ・・・ Robert COLE Maria BROCKHAUS Grace Y. WONG Maarit H. KALLIO Moira MOELIONO Land Use and Land Cover Changes during the Second Indochina War and Their Long-Term Impact on a […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 2 Transforming Malaysia: Dominant and Competing Paradigms Anthony Milner, Abdul Rahman Embong, and Tham Siew Yean, eds. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014. Racial divisions in Malaysia have long dominated academic and public discourse concerning Malaysia’s domestic politics, its development, and its society. As Anthony […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 2 Liberalism Disavowed: Communitarianism and State Capitalism in Singapore Chua Beng Huat Singapore: NUS Press, 2017. In his latest book, Chua Beng Huat offers the reader a thoughtful and provocative interpretation of the principles and the operation of the Singapore government over a 50-year period, though […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 2 Monastery, Monument, Museum: Sites and Artifacts of Thai Cultural Memory Maurizio Peleggi Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. “How plausible [. . .] is it to assume the existence of a shared Thai cultural memory?” (p. 4). This is the promising question that sets Thailand historian […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 2 BOOK REVIEWS Islam, State and Society in Indonesia: Local Politics in Madura Yanwar Pribadi Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018. Taking into account the historical concept that always presents continuity and change, Islam, State and Society in Indonesia: Local Politics in Madura examines the factors […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 2 Chinese Business in Indonesia and Capital Conversion: Breaking the Chain of Patronage Trissia Wijaya* * Asia Research Center, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150, Australia e-mail: trissiawijaya92[at]gmail.com; trissia.wijaya[at]murdoch.edu.au DOI: 10.20495/seas.8.2_295 Taking issues from mainstream research, which has overly coalesced the discussion around […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 2 An Ethnography of Pantaron Manobo Tattooing (Pangotoeb): Towards a Heuristic Schema in Understanding Manobo Indigenous Tattoos Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio* and Myfel D. Paluga* * Department of Social Sciences, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of the Philippines-Mindanao, Barangay Mintal, Davao City, Philippines; Institute […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 2 Dear Thai Sisters: Propaganda, Fashion, and the Corporeal Nation under Phibunsongkhram Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk* * กัญจนา เทพบริรักษ์ Department of World Languages and Culture, Northern Illinois University, 335 Watson Hall, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA; Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, 520 College View Court, […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 2 Land Use and Land Cover Changes during the Second Indochina War and Their Long-Term Impact on a Hilly Area in Laos Nakatsuji Susumu* * 中辻󠄀 享，Faculty of Letters, Konan University, 8–9–1 Okamoto, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 658–8501, Japan e-mail: nakatuji[at]konan-u.ac.jp DOI: 10.20495/seas.8.2_203 Armed conflicts create drastic […]
Contents>> Vol. 8, No. 2 Local Agency in Development, Market, and Forest Conservation Interventions in Lao PDR’s Northern Uplands Robert Cole,* Maria Brockhaus,** Grace Y. Wong,*** Maarit H. Kallio,† and Moira Moeliono†† * Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, AS2 03-01 1 Arts Link, Kent Ridge Singapore 117568; Center […]
Published in April, 2019 CONTENTS Articles Wrestling Beetles and Ecological Wisdom: How Insects Contribute to the Cosmopolitics of Northern Thailand ・・・ Stéphane RENNESSON History that Slithers: Kra-Dai and the Pythonidae ・・・ James R. CHAMBERLAIN Application of Center-Periphery Theory to the Study of Vietnam-China Relations in the Middle Ages ・・・ Nguyen […]