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 […]
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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. 12, No. 3 Siting Postcoloniality: Critical Perspectives from the East Asian Sinosphere Pheng Cheah and Caroline S. Hau, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. Is it still meaningful to speak of the postcolonial today? Scholars of postcolonial studies may recall how Arif Dirlik once criticized the term’s overt […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 3 Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines Sony Coráñez Bolton Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023. In this stunning theoretical and archival work, Sony Coráñez Bolton dives into the interstices of global colonial strategies and postcolonial projects […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 3 In Search of Justice in Thailand’s Deep South: Malay Muslim and Thai Buddhist Women’s Narratives John Clifford Holt, ed.; Soraya Jamjuree, comp.; and Hara Shintaro, trans. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022. In May of 2008, Saimah Che’nae was nursing a newborn at her home […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 3 Early Theravādin Cambodia: Perspectives from Art and Archaeology Ashley Thompson, ed. Singapore: NUS Press with the Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme, SOAS, University of London, 2022. TheravādaBuddhism is a branch of Buddhism that has been practiced in mainland Southeast Asia from as early as the […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 3 At the Edge of Mangrove Forest: The Suku Asli and the Quest for Indigeneity, Ethnicity, and Development Osawa Takamasa Kyoto: Kyoto University Press; Tokyo: Trans Pacific Press, 2022. Discussion of indigenous groups in contemporary society is very interesting and relevant, especially in these times of […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 3 Wayward Distractions: Ornament, Emotion, Zombies and the Study of Buddhism in Thailand Justin Thomas McDaniel Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2021. The book Wayward Distractions by Justin McDaniel comprises nine articles on Thai Buddhism, along with an introduction. This work is […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 3 Participatory Forest Management in a New Age: Integration of Climate Change Policy and Rural Development Policy Makoto Inoue, Kazuhiro Harada, Yasuhiro Yokota, and Abrar Juhar Mohammed, eds. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2019. Historically, local and indigenous populations have been stewards of tropical rainforests, including […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 3 Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyah, eds. Singapore: NUS Press with the Southeast Asian Art Academic Programme, SOAS, University of London, 2021. Illegal trafficking of antiquities and/or illicit trade in antiquities or cultural property, as well as human […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 3 Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature Cheow Thia Chan New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. Perspectives from Mahua Literature’s Counterintuitively Privileged Position of Intermarginality Chan Cheow Thia’s incisively written Malaysian Crossings presents a literary historiography of understudied Malayan-Malaysian realities […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 3 BOOK REVIEWS Everyday Modernism: Architecture & Society in Singapore Jiat-Hwee Chang, Justin Zhuang, and Darren Soh Singapore: NUS Press, 2023. Social housing is central to the history of modernism in architecture. It was in the Siedlungen of industrialized Central Europe that architects first began to […]