SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES: Book Review

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Vol. 13, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Tom Hoogervorst

Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia Guo-Quan Seng Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023. Tom Hoogervorst Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV); Universitas Negeri Malang https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6678-4301 DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.3_610

Vol. 13, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Ward Keeler

Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Innovation, Style and Spectacle in Wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the Evolution of an Indonesian Performing Art Kathryn Emerson Singapore: NUS Press, 2022. Ward Keeler Depertment of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1214-8435 DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.3_607

Vol. 13, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Patrick Jory

Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand Sinae Hyun Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023. Patrick Jory School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8462-128X DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.3_603

Vol. 13, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Guanie Lim

Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Anwar Ibrahim: Tenacious in Dissent, Hopeful in Power Khoo Boo Teik Petaling Jaya: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2023. Guanie Lim 林鏆湙 National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9083-8883 DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.3_600

Vol. 13, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Antje Missbach

Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Global Anti-Asian Racism Jennifer Ho, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. Antje Missbach Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1378-146X DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.3_596

Vol. 13, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Ehito Kimura

Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development Anto Mohsin Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Ehito Kimura Department of Political Science, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.3_593

Vol. 13, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Soksamphoas Im

Contents>> Vol. 13, No. 3 The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Power, Politics, and Resistance in Transitional Justice Julie Bernath Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. Soksamphoas Im Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5161-2264 DOI: 10.20495/seas.13.3_589

Vol. 13, No. 2, BOOK REVIEWS, Vincent Pacheco

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 […]

Vol. 13, No. 2, BOOK REVIEWS, Sinae Hyun

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 […]

Vol. 13, No. 2, BOOK REVIEWS, Wengki Ariando and Narumon Arunotai

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, […]

Vol. 13, No. 2, BOOK REVIEWS, Matsuda Masahiko

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 […]