Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 August 23, 2024 In Chai Skulchokchai's “Smirking against Power: Cynicism and Parody in Contemporary Thai Pro-Democracy Movement (2020–2023)” which appeared in Volume 13, Number 2, August 2024 of Southeast Asian Studies, there are two errors. Page 323, first paragraph, the 7th sentence should read “Later, […]
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Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship, the Racial Cold War, and Filipino America Josen Masangkay Diaz Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023. Josen Masangkay Diaz’s book is a timely intervention on issues of Filipino identity vis-à-vis the Philippine diaspora, postcolonial specificity, and authoritarian history. Indeed, Bongbong Marcos’s […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 Infiltrating Society: The Thai Military’s Internal Security Affairs Puangthong Pawakapan Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2021. All of the Thai rulers’ traditional rivals—Burmese, Khmer, Lao, and Vietnamese—were demilitarized by being subjected to European colonialism. As a result, the “modern Thai” army (and navy) had […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia: From the Past to the Present Bérénice Bellina, Roger Blench, and Jean-Christophe Galipaud, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2021. Sea Nomads of Southeast Asia: From the Past to the Present offers a fresh perspective on sea nomad-related issues by presenting, linking, […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 Just Another Crisis? The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Southeast Asia’s Rice Sector Jamie S. Davidson, ed. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023. Nearly all fields of social science have analyzed the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Just Another Crisis? focuses on the […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health Governance, Migrant Labour, and International Health Crises Anoma P. van der Veere, Florian Schneider, and Catherine Yuk-ping Lo, eds. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. Global Health and South Asia in a Time of Crisis: A […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human-Becomings in West Papua Sophie Chao Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. Nausea. Anger. Grief. With these three words, Sophie Chao introduces the reader to the feelings that overwhelm her whenever she drives through the vast, monotonous fields of monocrop […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 Ramayana Theater in Contemporary Southeast Asia Madoka Fukuoka, ed. Singapore: Jenny Stanford Publishing, 2023. Ramayana Theater in Contemporary Southeast Asia provides an introduction to Ramayana performances across contemporary Southeast Asia, with chapters on Cambodia (Sam-Ang Sam on a range of Khmer art forms inspired by […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image-Event in Indonesia Karen Strassler Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020. It took a decade for Karen Strassler to come up with her second and much-awaited book. Indeed, it could have taken much longer to do the ethnographic […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 BOOK REVIEWS A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine C. Pierce Salguero New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. In her review of C. Pierce Salguero’s 2014 book Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China, Janet Gyatso observed: “There has been a small explosion in the study […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 Transformations of Anisong Manuscripts in Luang Prabang: Application of Modern Printing Technologies* Silpsupa Jaengsawang** *The research for this article was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy–EXC 2176 “Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures,” project […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 Correction This article was published on August 22, 2024 and amended on August 28, 2024 because the earlier version misidentified Pavin Chachavalpongpun as “an exiled anti-monarchy academic” and Somsak Jeamteerasakul as “another exiled antimonarchy activist-scholar” (page 323). Both Pavin Chachavalpongpun and Somsak Jeamteerasakul are exiled […]