SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES: Contents_Vol4-3

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Vol. 4, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, NAKAMURA Shohei

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 The Politics of Protection Rackets in Post-New Order Indonesia: Coercive Capital, Authority and Street Politics Ian Douglas Wilson Oxon, NY: Routledge, 2015, xxii+198p. Seventeen years have passed since the fall of Suharto’s New Order regime. Indonesia’s reformasi has since been lauded as a successful case […]

Vol. 4, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Caroline GRILLOT

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Beyond Borders: Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma Wen-Chin Chang Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014, xiii+278p. Responding to a call for studies on the varied ethnic Chinese societies in host countries around the world, Wen-Chin Chang’s Beyond Borders explores the whereabouts of […]

Vol. 4, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Ben Van OVERMEIRE

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Champions of Buddhism: Weikza Cults in Contemporary Burma Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière, Guillaume Rozenberg, and Alicia Turner, eds. Singapore: NUS Press, 2014, xxvii+261p. Exciting things are happening in the study of Burmese Buddhism. Recent years have seen the publication of very important contributions to […]

Vol. 4, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Faizah ZAKARIA

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier Tania Murray Li Durham: Duke University Press, 2014, 240p. Land’s End is an intimate analysis of the effects of capitalist relations and a fascinating complement to Li’s previous work The Will to Improve (see Murray Li 2007). […]

Vol. 4, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Craig A. LOCKARD

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 The Eurasian Core and Its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World Ooi Kee Beng Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014, 254p. Scholars from, or based in, Europe, North America, or Australia have shaped most of the writing on world […]

Vol. 4, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Fiona-Katharina SEIGER

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Migration Revolution: Philippine Nationhood and Class Relations in a Globalized Age Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr. Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2014, xii+293p. The central argument made by Filomeno Aguilar in Migration Revolution is that overseas migration, as it is occurring […]

Vol. 4, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Dina AFRIANTY

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Indonesian Women and Local Politics: Islam, Gender and Networks in Post-Suharto Indonesia Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2015, xxi+246p. Indonesia began its political reform almost 15 years ago following the collapse of Suharto’s authoritarian administration in 1998. […]

Vol. 4, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Mark R. THOMPSON

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Taming People’s Power: The EDSA Revolutions and Their Contradictions Lisandro E. Claudio Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2013, 240p. People power is the foundationalist myth of the ruling Aquino regime which began with the presidency of Corazon (“Cory”) C. Aquino who replaced the […]

Vol. 4, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Duncan McCARGO

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 “Good Coup” Gone Bad: Thailand’s Political Developments since Thaksin’s Downfall Pavin Chachavalpongpun, ed. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014, xv+290p. Come back, General Sonthi—all is forgiven! The 2006 coup may have turned bad, but compared with the 2014 coup it now looks positively benign. […]

Vol. 4, No. 3, BOOK REVIEWS, Faisal CHAUDHRY

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 BOOK REVIEWS Between Dissent and Power: The Transformation of Islamic Politics in the Middle East and Asia Khoo Boo Teik, Vedi Hadiz, and Yoshihiro Nakanishi, eds. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, xv+298p., index. The key intervention this timely volume makes is to question whether political agitation […]

Vol. 4, No. 3, CHIA

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Inclusive Spirituality: The Bodhisattva Kuan-yin as Moral Exemplar and Self-Cultivation in a Malaysian Dharma House Arthur C. K. Chia* *谢志健, Division of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 e-mail: ckchia[at]ntu.edu.sg DOI: doi.org/10.20495/seas.4.3_581 Based on an ethnographic study of a lay Buddhist organization in […]

Vol. 4, No. 3, PALANCA-TAN et al.

Contents>> Vol. 4, No. 3 Tourism and Crime: Evidence from the Philippines Rosalina Palanca-Tan,* Len Patrick Dominic M. Garces,* Angelica Nicole C. Purisima,* and Angelo Christian L. Zaratan* * Department of Economics, Ateneo de Manila University, Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City, 1108, Metro Manila, Philippines Corresponding author (Palanca-Tan)’s e-mail: rtan[at]ateneo.edu DOI: […]