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 […]
SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES: Book Review
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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 […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Taiwan Maritime Landscapes from Neolithic to Early Modern Times Paola Calanca, Liu Yi-chang, and Frank Muyard, eds. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2022. Located some 130 km from the Asian mainland, the island of Taiwan is sufficiently large to have been home to inland populations whose lives […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila Marco Z. Garrido Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. The work of Marco Z. Garrido has served as a foundation for understanding Metro Manila and has inspired many young scholars, myself included. Focusing on the […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos Rosalie Stolz Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2021. At one point in Rosalie Stolz’s fieldwork in Laos, the people of Pliya village told her “Paa hooc nɨŋ eem, nɨŋ khəəy” (You now know the wife-givers and […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam Thy Phu Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2022. At long last, a book-length study of Vietnamese multi-genre photography! Vietnam commanded the world’s attention with its spectacle of violence and destruction during its war years. Viewers then, who are now […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Marginalisation and Human Rights in Southeast Asia Al Khanif and Khoo Ying Hooi, eds. New York: Routledge, 2023. The topic of human rights for marginalized people in Southeast Asia is gaining more exposure in contemporary discourse. Marginalisation and Human Rights in Southeast Asia, edited by […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama Eric Tagliacozzo Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. In Asian Waters is Eric Tagliacozzo’s third volume of a trilogy that begins with the illicit trade in Southeast Asia, then “expands” to a second volume on Southeast Asians […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Dynastic Democracy: Political Families in Thailand Yoshinori Nishizaki Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022. Summary In Dynastic Democracy, Nishizaki Yoshinori shows that political families exist in Thailand and that they are important. The author defines a “political family” as (1) a family that has produced […]
Contents>> Vol. 12, No. 2 Community Movements in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective of Assemblages Ryoko Nishii and Shigeharu Tanabe, eds. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2022. In Community Movements in Southeast Asia, Nishii Ryoko and Tanabe Shigeharu center the idea of community movements as forms of assemblages in which power […]