Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 A Study on Indonesian Sociopolitical Design Objects within the Framework of Gesamtkunstwerk Christophera Ratnasari Lucius,* Imam Santosa,** Widjaja Martokusumo,*** and Adhi Nugraha† *Doctoral Program in Visual Art and Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jl. Ganesha No. 10, Bandung 40132, Jawa Barat, Indonesia Corresponding author’s e-mail: 37019008[at]mahasiswa.itb.ac.id […]
Yearly Archives: 2024
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 Thailand’s Plural Identities: Contesting the National Imagination in Fiction and Ethnography Hjorleifur R. Jonsson* *School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, 900 S Cady Mall Rm 233, Tempe, Arizona 85287-2402, United States e-mail: HJonsson[at]asu.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-0608 DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.2_255 This article examines notions of […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 Inter-Construction Goals: Navigating Thailand’s Digital Economy from a Sustainable Development Perspective Zeng Damei* and Duan Haosheng** *曾大妹, School of International Relations, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University, No. 422 Siming South Road, Siming District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China e-mail: 25520190154418[at]stu.xmu.edu.cn https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5800-9214 **段皓升, The […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 2 US-Vietnam Defense Diplomacy: Challenges from the Ukraine War Pham Thi Yen* *Faculty of Oriental Studies, Van Hien University, HungHau Campus: Nguyen Van Linh Avenue, Southern City Urban Area, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam e-mail: yenpt[at]vhu.edu.vn https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7717-5472 DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.2_201 This article analyzes activities of defense diplomacy […]
Published in August, 2024 CONTENTS Articles US-Vietnam Defense Diplomacy: Challenges from the Ukraine War ・・・ Pham Thi Yen Inter-Construction Goals: Navigating Thailand’s Digital Economy from a Sustainable Development Perspective ・・・ Zeng Damei Duan Haosheng Thailand’s Plural Identities: Contesting the National Imagination in Fiction and Ethnography ・・・ Hjorleifur R. Jonsson A […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour: Interlocutor Reference and Self-Other Relations across Southeast Asian Speech Communities Dwi Noverini Djenar and Jack Sidnell, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2023. The edited collection Signs of Deference, Signs of Demeanour is an important milestone in bringing the insights of […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia Katharine E. McGregor Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. The issue of “comfort women” is about the history of sexual violence and Japan’s military-enforced slavery system in Asia. At the same time, it touches on issues […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred Jane M. Ferguson Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. Since its independence in 1948, Myanmar has not experienced prolonged political stability either with respect to relations between ethnic groups or with respect to civil-military relations. One could […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar’s Opening—and Closing Erin Murphy Ann Arbor: Association of Asian Studies, 2022. The United States has diverse national interests and poses strategic threats in several Asian states, with significant diplomatic, economic, security, and geopolitical implications. China’s rising power challenges the […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory Kevin Blackburn Singapore: NUS Press, 2022. Kevin Blackburn’s The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory broadens understanding of “comfort women”1) by uncovering the “disappeared” collective memory of Singapore as a onetime “centre for comfort […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands Jonathan Padwe Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories delves into the relationship the Jarai of Tang Kadon village have forged with their land as it has been tested through […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia Holly High, ed. Singapore: NUS Press, 2022. While Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia initially introduces itself rather humbly as an examination of “stone veneration in mainland Southeast Asia” (p. 5), it quickly expands into a […]