Published in August, 2020 CONTENTS Stories across Borders: Myths of Origin and Their Contestation in the Borderlands of South and Southeast Asia Guest Editors: Monica JANOWSKI and Erik DE MAAKER Borderland Narratives ・・・ Erik DE MAAKER Monica JANOWSKI Narrating Loss and Differentiation: Lahu Origin Stories on the Margins of Burma, […]
Yearly Archives: 2020
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Contents>> Vol. 9, No. 1 Siamese Melting Pot: Ethnic Minorities in the Making of Bangkok Edward Van Roy Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2017. Throughout the nineteenth century, observers estimated that non-Thai residents made up more than two-thirds of Bangkok’s total population. Yet, by 1919, excepting a substantial Chinese […]
Contents>> Vol. 9, No. 1 Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer Alexander Laban Hinton Durham: Duke University Press, 2016. The Khmer Rouge regime (1975–79) oversaw a tragic period in Cambodian history in which people were forced to work extremely hard, provided with little food, and offered […]
Contents>> Vol. 9, No. 1 The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War Jeremy A. Yellen Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. This book is probably the first English book exploring the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire during the late 1930s and early 1940s with […]
Contents>> Vol. 9, No. 1 The Vortex of Power: Intellectuals and Politics in Indonesia’s Post-Authoritarian Era Airlangga Pribadi Kusman Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. There has been substantive growth in the scholarship of post-authoritarian Indonesian politics in the past two decades. We know more about the achievements and limitations of Indonesian […]
Contents>> Vol. 9, No. 1 BOOK REVIEWS The State and Religious Violence in Indonesia: Minority Faiths and Vigilantism A’an Suryana London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Violence against the minority Ahmadiyah and Shi’a Indonesia increased during the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2004–14). Perhaps the most horrific act of […]
Contents>> Vol. 9, No. 1 Theatrical Governmentality and Memories in Champasak, Southern Laos Odajima Rie* * 小田島理絵, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Toyama 1-24-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8644, Japan e-mail: lectoda[at]aoni.waseda.jp DOI: 10.20495/seas.9.1_99 In this article, I discuss cultural governmentality, its growth—as highlighted by multiple views in the […]
Contents>> Vol. 9, No. 1 The Arts of Everyday Peacebuilding: Cohabitation, Conversion, and Intermarriage of Muslims and Christians in the Southern Philippines Yoshizawa Asuna* and Kusaka Wataru** * 吉澤あすな, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, 46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan Corresponding author’s e-mail: yoshizawa[at]asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp […]
Contents>> Vol. 9, No. 1 De-commercialization of the Labor Migration Industry in Malaysia Choo Chin Low* * History Department, School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang 11800, Malaysia e-mail: lowc[at]usm.my DOI: 10.20495/seas.9.1_27 This paper focuses on irregularities as a result of the privatization of migrant worker recruitment and the […]
Contents>> Vol. 9, No. 1 Thai Adaptations of the Javanese Panji in Cosmopolitan Ayutthaya Christopher Joll* and Srawut Aree** *The Centre of Excellence for Muslim Studies, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 3rd Floor, Prajadhipok-Rambhai Barni Building Phyathai Road, Bangkok 10330, Thailand; Religious Studies Program, School of Social and Cultural […]
Published in April, 2020 CONTENTS Articles Thai Adaptations of the Javanese Panji in Cosmopolitan Ayutthaya ・・・ Christopher JOLL Srawut AREE De-commercialization of the Labor Migration Industry in Malaysia ・・・ Choo Chin LOW The Arts of Everyday Peacebuilding: Cohabitation, Conversion, and Intermarriage of Muslims and Christians in the Southern Philippines ・・・ […]
Published in December, 2019 CONTENTS Articles “Moving the Kitchen out”: Contemporary Bugis Migration ・・・ MUKRIMIN Did Jose Rizal Die a Catholic? Revisiting Rizal’s Last 24 Hours Using Spy Reports ・・・ Rene ESCALANTE Between State and Family: Biopolitics of Elderly Care and a Case of Emerging Communality in Northern Thailand ・・・ […]