Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 2 Understanding the Importance of “Patient’s Choice” in the Early Environmental Justice Activism of the Karen of Klity Creek (Thailand) Malee Sitthikriengkrai* and Nathan Porath** *มาลี สิทธิเกรียงไกร, Center for Ethnic Studies and Development, Chiang Mai University, 239, Huay Kaew Road, Muang District, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand […]
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Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Jit Phumisak and His Images in Thai Political Contexts Piyada Chonlaworn* *ปิยดา ชลวร, Faculty of International Studies, Tenri University, 1050 Somanouchi, Tenri, Nara 632-8510, Japan e-mail: 2515226[at]gmail.com DOI: 10.20495/seas.7.1_103 Jit Phumisak (1930–66) is one of the most well-known figures among Thai leftist scholars and activists […]
Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Independent Woman in Postcolonial Indonesia: Rereading the Works of Rukiah Yerry Wirawan* *Department of History, Sanata Dharma University, Mrican, Gejayan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia e-mail: yerry.wirawan[at]gmail.com DOI: 10.20495/seas.7.1_85 This paper discusses the strategic essentialism of gender and politics in modern Indonesia by rereading literary works of Siti […]
Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Liberational Justice in the Political Thought of Ahmad Boestamam Teo Lee Ken* *Department of Malay Studies, National University of Singapore, Blk AS8 #06-01, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Singapore e-mail: teoleeken[at]u.nus.edu DOI: 10.20495/seas.7.1_65 This article reads Ahmad Boestamam’s Testament Politik API (1946) to understand […]
Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Polytechnicians and Technocrats: Sources, Limits, and Possibilities of Student Activism in 1970s Singapore Loh Kah Seng* *The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway Perth WA 6009, Australia e-mail: lkshis[at]gmail.com DOI: 10.20495/seas.7.1_39 Making a case for studying student activism outside of elite university students, this […]
Contents>> Vol. 7, No. 1 Blood-Brothers: The Communist Party of the Philippines and the Partai Komunis Indonesia Ramon Guillermo* *Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature, College of Arts and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City 1101 Philippines e-mail: rgguillermo[at]up.edu.ph DOI: 10.20495/seas.7.1_13 This paper discusses the significant role of […]
Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 Feeding a Crowd: Hybridity and the Social Infrastructure behind Street Food Creation in Bandung, Indonesia Prananda Luffiansyah Malasan* *Graduate School of Human and Socio-Environment Studies, Kanazawa University, Kakumamachi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture 920-1192, Japan e-mail: pranandaluffiansyah[at]gmail.com DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.6.3_505 Based on ethnographic research on street vendors’ activities […]
Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 The Is and the Ought of Knowing: Ontological Observations on Shadow Education Research in Cambodia Will Brehm* * Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, 1-6-1 Nishi Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan e-mail: willbrehm[at]aoni.waseda.jp DOI: 10.20495/seas.6.3_485 This article focuses on the limitations of terms and […]
Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 English as an Islamic Cosmopolitan Vernacular: English-Language Sufi Devotional Literature in Singapore Lin Hongxuan* *林宏轩, Department of History, University of Washington, 318 Smith Box 353560, Seattle, WA 98195-3560, USA e-mail: linhx[at]uw.edu DOI: 10.20495/seas.6.3_447 The key question this paper addresses is why Sufi devotional literature has […]
Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 Military, Gender, and Trade: The Story of Auntie Duan of the Northern Thai Borderlands Wen-Chin Chang* * 張雯勤, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies, RCHSS, Academia Sinica, Nankang, Taipei 115, Taiwan e-mail: wencc[at]gate.sinica.edu.tw DOI: 10.20495/seas.6.3_423 This paper explores Auntie Duan’s life story, a story that mirrors […]
Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 3 The Extension of State Power and Negotiations of the Villagers in Northeast Thailand* Ninlawadee Promphakping,** Maniemai Thongyou,*** and Viyouth Chamruspanth† * This article is part of a Sociology dissertation in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kaen University, titled “The Construction of Social […]
Contents>> Vol. 6, No. 2 Recent Changes in Agricultural Land Use in the Riverine Area of Nakhon Phanom Province, Northeast Thailand Sorat Praweenwongwuthi,* Tewin Kaewmuangmoon,**Sukanlaya Choenkwan,*** and A. Terry Rambo† * โสรัจจ ์ ประวีณวงศว์ ฒุ ิ, Faculty of Agriculture and Technology, Nakhon Phanom University, 103 Moo 3, Tambon Kham Thao, […]