Published in April, 2019

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Articles
Wrestling Beetles and Ecological Wisdom: How Insects Contribute to the Cosmopolitics of Northern Thailand	・・・	Stéphane RENNESSON
History that Slithers: Kra-Dai and the Pythonidae	・・・	James R. CHAMBERLAIN
Application of Center-Periphery Theory to the Study of Vietnam-China Relations in the Middle Ages	・・・	Nguyen Thi My HANH
Regional Cooperation in Higher Education: Can It Lead ASEAN toward Harmonization?	・・・	Jamshed KHALID Anees Janee ALI Nordiana Mohd NORDIN Syed Fiasal Hyder SHAH
Politicizing the Fear of Crime in Decentralized Indonesia: An Insight from Central Lombok	・・・	Yogi Setya PERMANA
Revitalization of Tradition through Social Media: A Case of the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand	・・・	Jakraphan CHAOPREECHA
Book Reviews
Bruce Shoemaker and William Robichaud, eds. Dead in the Water: Global Lessons from the World Bank’s Model Hydropower Project in Laos. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018.	・・・	Keith BARNEY
Hjorleifur Jonsson. Slow Anthropology: Negotiating Difference with the Iu Mien. Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2014.	・・・	Nathan PORATH
Ooi Keat Gin, ed. Brunei—History, Islam, Society and Contemporary Issues. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2016.	・・・	Iyas SALIM
Geoffrey B. Robinson. The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66. Oxford and Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Jess Melvin. The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder. Rethinking Southeast Asia. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2018. .	・・・	Amado Anthony G. MENDOZA III

Published in December, 2018

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Divides and Dissent: Malaysian Politics 60 Years after Merdeka

Guest Editor: Khoo Boo Teik

Preface	・・・	KHOO Boo Teik
Introduction: A Moment to Mull, a Call to Critique	・・・	KHOO Boo Teik
Ethnicity and Class: Divides and Dissent in Malaysian Studies	・・・	ABDUL RAHMAN Embong
Rents, Accumulation, and Conflict in Malaysia	・・・	Jeff TAN
Domination, Contestation, and Accommodation: 54 Years of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysia	・・・	FAISAL S. Hazis
Shifting Trends of Islamism and Islamist Practices in Malaysia, 1957–2017	・・・	AHMAD FAUZI Abdul Hamid
Law and the Judiciary: Divides and Dissent in Malaysia	・・・	Azmi SHAROM
Getting More Women into Politics under One-Party Dominance: Collaboration, Clientelism, and Coalition Building in the Determination of Women’s Representation in Malaysia	・・・	MAZNAH Mohamad
Creativity in Dissent: From the Politics of Pedagogy to the Art of Pedagogy	・・・	Simon SOON
Borne by Dissent, Tormented by Divides: The Opposition 60 Years after Merdeka	・・・	KHOO Boo Teik
Book Reviews
Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit, trans. and eds. The Palace Law of Ayutthaya and the Thammasat: Law and Kingship in Siam. Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2016.	・・・	KAMOLNICH Swasdiphanich
Sir Anril Pineda Tiatco. Performing Catholicism: Faith and Theater in a Philippine Province. Quezon City: The University of the Philippines Press, 2016.	・・・	Darlene Machell de Leon ESPENA
Kishore Mahbubani and Jeffery Sng. The ASEAN Miracle: A Catalyst for Peace. Singapore: Ridge Books, an imprint of NUS Press, 2017.	・・・	Jim PLACZEK
L. Ayu Saraswati. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013.	・・・	Nathan PORATH
Pál Nyíri and Danielle Tan, eds. Chinese Encounters in Southeast Asia: How People, Money, and Ideas from China Are Changing a Region. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016.	・・・	Phill WILCOX
Ang Cheng Guan. Southeast Asia’s Cold War: An Interpretive History. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018.	・・・	Brandon Kirk WILLIAMS
Tiantian Zheng, ed. Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016.	・・・	Arunima DATTA
Gerard Sasges. Imperial Intoxication: Alcohol and the Making of Colonial Indochina. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017.	・・・	Chi P. PHAM
Wataru Kusaka. Moral Politics in the Philippines: Inequality, Democracy and the Urban Poor. Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2017.	・・・	Rizal G. BUENDIA
Edwin de Jong. Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja: The Practice of Everyday Life of a South Sulawesi Highland Community in Indonesia. Leiden: Brill, 2013.	・・・	Quynh Huong NGUYEN

Published in August, 2018

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Understanding the Importance of “Patient’s Choice” in the Early Environmental Justice Activism of the Karen of Klity Creek (Thailand)	・・・	Malee SITTHIKRIENGKRAI Nathan PORATH
Art Auctions and the Poorer Rich: The Impact of the 2015 Stock Market Sell-off on the Emerging Philippine Art Market	・・・	Rosalina PALANCA-TAN J. Sedfrey S. SANTIAGO
Constructing the Charisma of Khruba (Venerable Monks) in Contemporary Thai Society	・・・	PISITH Nasee
Book Reviews
Ian Harris. Buddhism in a Dark Age: Cambodian Monks under Pol Pot. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013.	・・・	Kelly Meister BRAWN
Patrick F. Campos. The End of National Cinema: Filipino Film at the Turn of the Century. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2016.	・・・	Darlene Machell de Leon ESPENA
Gregory M. Simon. Caged in on the Outside: Moral Subjectivity, Selfhood, and Islam in Minangkabau, Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014.	・・・	Mahmood KOORIA
Sari K. Ishii, ed. Marriage Migration in Asia: Emerging Minorities at the Frontiers of Nation-States. Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2016.	・・・	Ibrahima Amadou DIA
Martin F. Manalansan IV and Augusto F. Espiritu, eds. Filipino Studies: Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora. New York: New York University Press, 2016.	・・・	Christian T. YLAGAN
Matthew Isaac Cohen. Inventing the Performing Arts: Modernity and Tradition in Colonial Indonesia. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016.	・・・	Ofita PURWANI
Benjamin Zawacki. Thailand: Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China. London: Zed Books, 2017.	・・・	Jim PLACZEK
Christina Elizabeth Firpo. The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890–1980. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016.	・・・	Anh Sy Huy LE
Ooi Keat Gin and Hoàng Anh Tuấn, eds. Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1350–1800. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2016.	・・・	Mohamed EFFENDY Bin Abdul Hamid

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Rereading Leftist Writings from Southeast Asia

Guest Editor: Jafar SURYOMENGGOLO

Introduction	・・・	Jafar SURYOMENGGOLO
Blood-Brothers: The Communist Party of the Philippines and the Partai Komunis Indonesia	・・・	Ramon GUILLERMO
Polytechnicians and Technocrats: Sources, Limits, and Possibilities of Student Activism in 1970s Singapore	・・・	LOH Kah Seng
Liberational Justice in the Political Thought of Ahmad Boestamam	・・・	TEO Lee Ken
Independent Woman in Postcolonial Indonesia: Rereading the Works of Rukiah	・・・	Yerry WIRAWAN
Jit Phumisak and His Images in Thai Political Contexts	・・・	PIYADA CHONLAWORN
Book Reviews
Tâm T. T. Ngô. The New Way: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam. Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016.	・・・	Seb RUMSBY
Julia Martínez and Adrian Vickers. The Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015.	・・・	Faizah ZAKARIA
Trần Ðình Trụ. Ship of Fate: Memoir of a Vietnamese Repatriate. Translated by Bac Hoai Tran and Jana K. Lipman. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2017.	・・・	YEN VU
Brian Bernards. Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015.	・・・	Dinah ROMA
Janet Alison Hoskins. The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015.	・・・	Dat Manh NGUYEN
Kaj Århem and Guido Sprenger, eds. Animism in Southeast Asia. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.	・・・	William B. NOSEWORTHY
Ann Marie Leshkowich. Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014.	・・・	LE Hoang Anh Thu
Edward Aspinall and Mada Sukmajati, eds. Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia: Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016.	・・・	Gde Dwitya Arief METERA
Patrick Pillai. Yearning to Belong: Malaysia’s Indian Muslims, Chitties, Portuguese Eurasians, Peranakan Chinese and Baweanese. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2015.	・・・	Yi LI
Christopher Goscha. The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam. London: Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.	・・・	Chi P. PHAM

Published in December, 2017

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The Extension of State Power and Negotiations of the Villagers in Northeast Thailand	・・・	Ninlawadee PROMPHAKPING Maniemai THONGYOU Viyouth CHAMRUSPANTH
Military, Gender, and Trade: The Story of Auntie Duan of the Northern Thai Borderlands	・・・	Wen-Chin CHANG
English as an Islamic Cosmopolitan Vernacular: English-Language Sufi Devotional Literature in Singapore	・・・	LIN Hongxuan
The Is and the Ought of Knowing: Ontological Observations on Shadow Education Research in Cambodia	・・・	Will BREHM
Feeding a Crowd: Hybridity and the Social Infrastructure behind Street Food Creation in Bandung, Indonesia	・・・	Prananda Luffiansyah MALASAN
Book Reviews
Kurasawa Aiko and Matsumura Toshio, eds. G30S dan Asia: Dalam bayang-bayang Perang Dingin [The September 30, 1965 coup and Asia, under the shadows of the Cold War]. Jakarta: Penerbit Buku Kompas, 2016, xxvi+308pp.	・・・	Jafar SURYOMENGGOLO
Samson Lim. Siam’s New Detectives: Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016, viii+213pp.	・・・	Kevin HEWISON
Jayde Lin Roberts. Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016, xvii+200pp.	・・・	Robert TAYLOR
Daniel F. Doeppers. Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850–1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016, xvii+443pp.	・・・	Francis A. GEALOGO
Yeoh Seng Guan, ed. The Other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the Shadows of a Globalising Southeast Asian City. London and New York: Routledge, 2014, xiii+220pp.	・・・	Sarah MOSER
Bernard Berendsen, Ton Dietz, Henk Schulte Nordholt, and Roel van der Veen, eds. Asian Tigers, African Lions: Comparing the Development Performance of Southeast Asia and Africa. Leiden: Brill, 2013, xiv+524pp.	・・・	YAMANE Yumi
Rachmi Diyah Larasati. The Dance That Makes You Vanish: Cultural Reconstruction in Post-Genocide Indonesia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013, xxii+196pp.	・・・	Joe KINZER
Vicente L. Rafael. Motherless Tongues: The Insurgency of Language amid Wars of Translation. Durham: Duke University Press; Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2016, xii+255pp.	・・・	Vincenz SERRANO
Zane Goebel. Language, Migration, and Identity: Neighborhood Talk in Indonesia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, xvii+221pp.	・・・	Nishaant CHOKSI
Brian Russell Roberts and Keith Foulcher, eds. Indonesian Notebook: A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, xxiv+262pp.	・・・	Taomo ZHOU

Published in August, 2017

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Rural Northeast Thailand in Transition: Recent Changes and Their Implications for the Long-Term Transformation of the Region Guest Editors: Kono Yasuyuki, Arunee Promkhambut, and A. Terry Rambo
Introduction	・・・	KONO Yasuyuki ARUNEE Promkhambut A. Terry RAMBO
The Agrarian Transformation in Northeastern Thailand: A Review of Recent Research	・・・	A. Terry RAMBO
Household Dynamics, the Capitalist Economy, and Agricultural Change in Rural Thailand	・・・	CHAI Podhisita
Household Structure and Sources of Income in a Rice-Growing Village in Northeast Thailand	・・・	SHIRAI Yuko A. Terry RAMBO
Improvement in Rainfed Rice Production during an Era of Rapid National Economic Growth: A Case Study of a Village in Northeast Thailand	・・・	WATANABE Kazuo
Factors Influencing Variations in the Density, Extent of Canopy Cover, and Origin of Trees in Paddy Fields in a Rainfed Rice-Farming Village in Northeast Thailand	・・・	WATANABE Moriaki PATMA Vityakon A. Terry RAMBO
Multiple Cropping after the Rice Harvest in Rainfed Rice Cropping Systems in Khon Kaen Province, Northeast Thailand	・・・	ARUNEE Promkhambut A. Terry RAMBO
Trends in Hybrid Tomato Seed Production under Contract Farming in Northeast Thailand	・・・	CHALEE Gedgaew SUCHINT Simaraks A. Terry RAMBO
Recent Changes in Agricultural Land Use in the Riverine Area of Nakhon Phanom Province, Northeast Thailand	・・・	SORAT Praweenwongwuthi TEWIN Kaewmuangmoon SUKANLAYA Choenkwan A. Terry RAMBO
Book Reviews
Jamie S. Davidson. Indonesia’s Changing Political Economy: Governing the Roads. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, xvii+292pp.	・・・	KONISHI Tetsu
Porphant Ouyyanont. Rural Thailand: Change and Continuity. Trends in Southeast Asia, No.8. Singapore: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, 2016, 31pp.	・・・	Jonathan RIGG
Mikael Gravers and Flemming Ytzen, eds. Burma/Myanmar: Where Now? Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2014, xiv+447pp. Renaud Egreteau and François Robinne, eds. Metamorphosis: Studies in Social and Political Change in Myanmar. Singapore: NUS Press in association with IRASEC, 2015, xiv+428pp.	・・・	Ward KEELER
Soon Chuan Yean. Tulong: An Articulation of Politics in the Christian Philippines. Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015, xvii+275pp.	・・・	KUSAKA Wataru
Christine Bacareza Balance. Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, xviii+230pp.	・・・	Anjeline DE DIOS
Juliet Lee Uytanlet. The Hybrid Tsinoys: Challenges of Hybridity and Homogeneity as Sociocultural Constructs among the Chinese in the Philippines. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2016, xx+261pp.	・・・	Richard T. CHU
Michael Herzfeld. Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016, xii+267pp.	・・・	Sophorntavy VORNG
Pamela D. McElwee. Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016, xxvi+283pp.	・・・	Michitake ASO
Rob Cramb and John F. McCarthy, eds. The Oil Palm Complex: Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016, xvi+470pp.	・・・	TERAUCHI Daisuke
Tim Bunnell. From World City to the World in One City: Liverpool through Malay Lives. Chichester and Malden: John Wiley & Sons, 2016, xvii+284pp.	・・・	TOMIZAWA Hisao

Published in April 2017

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Living under the State and Storms: The History of Blood Cockle Aquaculture in Bandon Bay, Thailand	・・・	NIPAPORN RATCHATAPATTANAKUL WATANABE Kazuya OKAMOTO Yuki KONO Yasuyuki
Volunteers from the Periphery (Case Studies of Survivors of the Lapindo Mudflow and Stren Kali, Surabaya, Forced Eviction)	・・・	Cornelis LAY
Conflict over Landownership in the Postcolonial Era: The Case of Eigendom Land in Surabaya	・・・	SUKARYANTO
Multiple Reactions to Land Confiscations in a Hanoi Peri-urban Village	・・・	NGUYEN Thi Thanh Binh
Karma versus Magic: Dissonance and Syncretism in Vernacular Thai Buddhism	・・・	Kanya WATTANAGUN
Research Report
Indonesian Theosophical Society (1900–40) and the Idea of Religious Pluralism	・・・	Media Zainul BAHRI
Book Reviews
Tharaphi Than. Women in Modern Burma. London and New York: Routledge, 2014, 182pp.	・・・	IIKUNI Yukako
Yoshiko Nagano. State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898–1941: The Mismanagement of an American Colony. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2015, 272pp.	・・・	Hidde VAN DER WALL
Premjai Vungsiriphisal, Dares Chusri, and Supang Chantavanich, eds. Humanitarian Assistance for Displaced Persons from Myanmar: Royal Thai Government Policy and Donor, INGO, NGO and UN Agency Delivery. Cham: Springer, 2014, xxi+245pp. Benjamin Harkins and Supang Chantavanich, eds. Resettlement of Displaced Persons on the Thai-Myanmar Border. Cham and New York: Springer, 2014, xix+116pp.	・・・	Kai CHEN
T. J. Pempel and Keiichi Tsunekawa, eds. Two Crises, Different Outcomes: East Asia and Global Finance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015, viii+267pp.	・・・	Walden Flores BELLO
Kosuke Mizuno, Motoko S. Fujita, and Shuichi Kawai, eds. Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia’s Peatlands: Ecology, Economy and Society. Singapore: NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, 2016, xxvii+466pp.	・・・	Bondan WIDYATMOKO
Shun Ohno. Transforming Nikkeijin Identity and Citizenship: Untold Life Histories of Japanese Migrants and Their Descendants in the Philippines, 1903–2013. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2015, xiv+284pp.	・・・	Michiyo YONENO-REYES
Edward Aspinall, Marcus Mietzner, and Dirk Tomsa, eds. The Yudhoyono Presidency: Indonesia’s Decade of Stability and Stagnation. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2015, 362pp.	・・・	Wahyu PRASETYAWAN
Marie-Sybille de Vienne. Brunei: From the Age of Commerce to the 21st Century. Singapore: NUS Press in association with Institute De Recherche Sur L’Asie Du Sud-Est Contemporaine (Research Institute of Contemporary Southeast Asia), 2015, xviii+345pp.	・・・	SAKUMA Kyoko
Holger L. Fröhlich, Pepijn Schreinemachers, Karl Stahr, and Gerhard Clemens, eds. Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 2013, x+490pp.	・・・	TOMITA Shinsuke
Frédéric Bourdier, Maxime Boutry, Jacques Ivanoff, and Olivier Ferrari. From Padi States to Commercial States: Reflections on Identity and the Social Construction Space in the Borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015, 168pp.	・・・	SOON Chuan Yean

Published in December, 2016

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Political Networks in Asia

Guest Editors: Onimaru Takeshi and Khoo Boo Teik

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Savings Groups in Laos from a Comparative Perspective
Editors: OHNO Akihiko and FUJITA Koichi

Published in December, 2014

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Upland Peoples in the Making of History in Northern Continental Southeast Asia

Guest Editor: Christian DANIELS

Published in December, 2012

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