Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Migratory Aspirations of the New Middle Class: A Case Study of Thai Technical Intern Training Program Workers in Japan Jessadakorn Kalapong* *เจษฎากร กาละพงศ์, Department of Inter national Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kodo, Kyotanabe City, Kyoto 610-0395, Japan e-mail: […]
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Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Roles of Marriage Matching, Land, and Education in the Rapid Deagrarianization of Cambodian Rural Youths during the 2010s Yagura Kenjiro* *矢倉研二郎, Faculty of Economics, Hannan University, 5-4-33 Amami-Higashi, Matsubara, Osaka 580-8502, Japan e-mail: k-yagura[at]hannan-u.ac.jp https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8174-4658 DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.3_419 This study, using data on ever-married children aged […]
Published in December, 2024 CONTENTS Articles Roles of Marriage Matching, Land, and Education in the Rapid Deagrarianization of Cambodian Rural Youths during the 2010s ・・・ Yagura Kenjiro Migratory Aspirations of the New Middle Class: A Case Study of Thai Technical Intern Training Program Workers in Japan ・・・ Jessadakorn Kalapong The […]
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, […]
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 […]