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 […]
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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 […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 BOOK REVIEWS The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia Faizah Zakaria Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023. The accolades for Faizah Zakaria’s The Camphor Tree and the Elephant (on the publisher’s website)—“Absolutely fantastic” and “Insightful work on such […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Negotiation under Authoritarian Environmentalism: A Case Study of Mangrove Shrimp Farming in Vietnam Watanabe Hiroki* and Ubukata Fumikazu** *渡邉大樹, Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, 3-1-1, Tsushima-naka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan Corresponding author’s e-mail: pt0e5qtc[at]s.okayama-u.ac.jp https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7817-4543 **生方史数, Faculty of Environmental, Life, Natural […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Where Do the Ravenous Spirits (Phi Pop) Go? Nakasang Village in Southern Laos as a Place of Cultural Healing Ian G. Baird* *Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 550 N. Park St. Madison, WI, USA 53706 e-mail: ibaird[at]wisc.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-2485 DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.1_109 Spirits are ubiquitous and […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Appropriating State Techniques for Effective Rituals: Funerals of the Raglai in Contemporary Vietnam Kang Yanggu* *康陽球, National Museum of Ethnology, Senri Expo Park 10-1, Suita City, Osaka 565-8511, Japan e-mail: ygkang926[at]gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3778-1168 DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.1_73 Since the relaxation of religious regulations in Vietnam in the 1990s, […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Narrative and Framing of a Pandemic: Public Health Communication in the Vietnamese Public Sphere Mirjam Le* and Franziska Susana Nicolaisen** *Chair of Development Politics, Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences, University of Passau, Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 14 d 94032 Passau, Germany Corresponding author’s e-mail: mirjam.le[at]united-le.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8611-8445 **Chair […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 Vietnamese Carescapes in the Making: Looking at Covid-19 Care Responses in Berlin through the Affective Lens of Face Masks Max Müller,* Anita von Poser,** Edda Willamowski,*** Tạ Thị Minh Tâm,† and Eric Hahn†† *CRC 1171 Affective Societies, Freie Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, […]
Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 1 SPECIAL FOCUS Collective Care in Three Vietnamese Contexts: The Intersection of Health, Community, and the State Introduction Liam C. Kelley,* Catherine Earl,** and Jamie Gillen*** *Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Tunku Link, Gadong, BE1410, Brunei Darussalam Corresponding author’s e-mail: liam.kelley[at]ubd.edu.bn https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6770-8535 **School of […]
Published in April, 2024 CONTENTS Special Focus Collective Care in Three Vietnamese Contexts: The Intersection of Health, Community, and the State Guest Editors: Liam C. Kelley, Catherine Earl, and Jamie Gillen Introduction ・・・ Liam C. Kelley Catherine Earl Jamie Gillen Vietnamese Carescapes in the Making: Looking at Covid-19 Care Responses […]