BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: November 28, 2025 Michael Goldman, Nancy Lee Peluso, and Wendy Wolford, eds. The Social Lives of Land. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024. Reviewed by Philip Hirsch* *Emeritus Professor of Human Geography, University of Sydney https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3887-6203 DOI: 10.20495/seas.br25018
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BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: November 28, 2025 Rudolf Mrázek. Amir Sjarifoeddin: Politics and Truth in Indonesia, 1907–1948. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2024. Reviewed by Lin Hongxuan* *Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4517-6769 DOI: 10.20495/seas.br25017
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: November 28, 2025 Marina Welker. Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. Reviewed by Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir* *Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship; GIGA Institute for Asian Studies; Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study; Political Science, University of […]
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: November 28, 2025 Philip Fountain. The Service of Faith: An Ethnography of Mennonites and Development. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024. Reviewed by Sumanto Al Qurtuby* *Graduate Program in Sociology of Religion, Faculty of Theology, Satya Wacana Christian University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6475-945X DOI: 10.20495/seas.br25015
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: November 28, 2025 Ryan Wolfson-Ford. Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024. Reviewed by Martin Rathie* *Independent Researcher DOI: 10.20495/seas.br25014
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: November 28, 2025 Amy H. Liu and Joel Sawat Selway, eds. State Institutions, Civic Associations, and Identity Demands: Regional Movements in Greater Southeast Asia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. Reviewed by Jacques Bertrand* *Department of Political Science, University of Toronto https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5008-9440 DOI: […]
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: November 28, 2025 Chua Beng Huat. Public Subsidy / Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore’s Public Housing. Singapore: NUS Press, 2024. Reviewed by Nabekura Satoshi* *鍋倉 聰, Faculty of Economics, Shiga University DOI: 10.20495/seas.br25012
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: November 28, 2025 Kai Chen. Children Affected by Armed Conflict in the Borderlands of Myanmar: 2021 and Beyond. Singapore: Springer, 2024. Reviewed by William Plowright* *School of Government and International Relations, Durham University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9893-9985 DOI: 10.20495/seas.br25011
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: November 28, 2025 Edward Aspinall and Amalinda Savirani, eds. Governing Urban Indonesia. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2024. Reviewed by Freek Colombijn* *Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4815-8590 DOI: 10.20495/seas.br25010
BOOK REVIEWS Advance Publication Published online: November 28, 2025 Nguyễn-võ Thu-hương. Almost Futures: Sovereignty and Refuge at World’s End. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024. Reviewed by Quan Tue Tran* *Yale University DOI: 10.20495/seas.br25009