Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 2 Capitalism Magic Thailand: Modernity with Enchantment Peter A. Jackson Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2022. Customers in malls shop for amulets that attract money like magnets. Monks pronounce incantations for businesspeople to win over customers. Spirit mediums become possessed to predict winning lottery numbers. Anyone familiar with […]
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Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 2 BOOK REVIEWS Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market Giang Nguyen-Thu Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2019. Television in Post-Reform Vietnam: Nation, Media, Market by Giang Nguyen-Thu discusses the reordering of Vietnam’s nationhood and nationalism in the post-Reform era and how this reordering took place […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 2 Malaysia’s New Economic Policy: Fifty Years of Polarization and Impasse Hwok-Aun Lee* *ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119614 e-mail: lee_hwok_aun[at]iseas.edu.sg https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4513-5235 DOI: 10.20495/seas.11.2_299 The New Economic Policy has transformed Malaysia since 1971. Pro-Bumiputera affirmative action has been intensively pursued and continuously […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 2 Sustainability of Acacia catechu Forest Management for Cutch Production in Magway Region, Myanmar Wai Phyoe Maung* and Takeda Shinya** *ဝေဖြိုးမောင်, 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: waiphyoemaung.fd[at]gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5066-7108 **竹田晋也, Graduate School […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 2 Two Dark Stories from Rural Indonesia: Comparing the Poverty in Turah (2016) and Siti (2014) Muhammad Taufiqurrohman* and Aidatul Chusna** *Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Jenderal Soedirman, Jl. Dr. Suparno, Kampus Unsoed Karangwangkal, Purwokerto, 53123, Indonesia Corresponding author’s e-mail: muhammad.taufiqurrohman[at]unsoed.ac.id https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2128-8088 **Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Jenderal […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 2 Dharmawara Mahathera, Sihanouk, and the Cultural Interface of Cambodia’s Cold War Relations with India John A. Marston* *Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México AC, Picacho Ajusco 20 Fuentes de Pedregal, Ciudad de Mexico, CDMX 14110, Mexico e-mail: jmars[at]colmex.mx https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2542-4710 DOI: 10.20495/seas.11.2_219 […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 2 The Struggling Aristocrats? Noble Families’ Diminishing Roles after the Splitting of Tana Toraja Region Ratri Istania* *NIPA School of Administration (STIA LAN Polytechnic Jakarta), Jl. Administrasi II Pejompongan Jakarta Pusat DKI Jakarta 10260, Indonesia e-mail: ratri.istania[at]stialan.ac.id; ristania[at]gmail.com http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7446-1414 DOI: 10.20495/seas.11.2_195 How did the splitting of […]
Contents>> Vol. 11, No. 2 KMT Troops and the Border Consolidation Process in Northern Thailand Cui Feng* *崔峰, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Blk AS8, Level 6, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260 e-mail: cui.feng[at]u.nus.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0955-5163 DOI: 10.20495/seas.11.2_177 After the Kuomintang (KMT) lost control of […]
Published in August, 2022 CONTENTS Articles KMT Troops and the Border Consolidation Process in Northern Thailand ・・・ Cui Feng The Struggling Aristocrats? Noble Families’ Diminishing Roles after the Splitting of Tana Toraja Region ・・・ Ratri Istania Dharmawara Mahathera, Sihanouk, and the Cultural Interface of Cambodia’s Cold War Relations with India […]