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Emily Conroy-Krutz, "Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Mar 24, 2024
Financial Access and Socio-Economic Development in Indonesia
Mar 19, 2024
Amber Worlds: The Global Amber Trade in the China-Myanmar Borderlands
Mar 15, 2024
Charlotte Setijadi, "Memories of Unbelonging: Ethnic Chinese Identity Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Mar 15, 2024
David E. Gilbert, "Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land: A Social Movement Ethnography" (U California Press, 2024)
Mar 12, 2024
Diego Javier Luis, "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History" (Harvard UP, 2024)
Mar 05, 2024
Ryan Wolfson-Ford, "Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos" (U Wisconsin Press, 2024)
Mar 01, 2024
Steve Ferzacca, "Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore" (NUS Press, 2021)
Feb 29, 2024
Airports, Buses, Internet Cables, and the Local and National Politics in the Philippines
Feb 28, 2024
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, "Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam" (Duke UP, 2021)
Feb 26, 2024
Cheow Thia Chan, "Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Feb 10, 2024
Use of Bacteriophages as Natural Antimicrobials to Manage Bacterial Pathogens in Aquaculture in Vietnam and Australia
Feb 02, 2024
Petra Alderman, "Branding Authoritarian Nations: Political Legitimation and Strategic National Myths in Military-Ruled Thailand" (Routledge, 2023)
Feb 01, 2024
Alka Vaid Menon, "Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards" (U California Press, 2023)
Jan 28, 2024
Genevieve Alva Clutario, "Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941" (Duke UP, 2023)
Jan 25, 2024
Bliss Cua Lim, "The Archival Afterlives of Philippine Cinema" (Duke UP, 2024)
Jan 24, 2024
Hannah Gould and Gwyn McClelland, "Aromas of Asia: Exchanges, Histories, Threats" (Penn State UP, 2023)
Jan 23, 2024
Thomas Baudinette, "Boys Love Media in Thailand: Celebrity, Fans, and Transnational Asian Queer Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 16, 2024
Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Dec 26, 2023
Reading the Stars: When Divination Meets Politics in Thailand
Dec 22, 2023
Vineeta Sinha. "Temple Tracks: Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia" (Berghahn Books, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023
Sally Frances Low, "Colonial Law Making: Cambodia Under the French" (NUS Press, 2023)
Dec 15, 2023
Kawi Culture: Exploring Indonesia’s Classical Civilisation
Dec 15, 2023
Yan Slobodkin, "The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Dec 11, 2023
Nur Sobers-Khan et al., "Beyond Colonial Rupture: Print Culture and the Emergence of Muslim Modernity in Nineteenth-Century South Asia" (2023)
Dec 04, 2023
SSEAC Cambodia Field School: Anti-Microbial Resistance in Cambodia
Dec 01, 2023
Sinae Hyun, "Indigenizing the Cold War: The Border Patrol Police and Nation-Building in Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
Dec 01, 2023
SSEAC Timor Leste Field School: Disability and Work
Nov 23, 2023
Konstantinos Retsikas, "A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Nov 17, 2023
Arupjyoti Saikia, "The Quest for Modern Assam: A History, 1942-2000" (India Allen Lane, 2023)
Nov 16, 2023
Eve Warburton, "Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Nov 15, 2023
Briana L. Wong, "Cambodian Evangelicalism: Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2023)
Nov 15, 2023
SSEAC Philippines Field School: Disaster Risk and Resilience
Nov 14, 2023
SSEAC Indonesia Field School: Social Justice
Nov 08, 2023
Gerard McCarthy, "Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Nov 01, 2023
Chris Stowers, "Bugis Nights" (Earnshaw Books, 2023)
Oct 19, 2023
Hyun Bang Shin et al., "COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a Post-pandemic World" (Ubiquity Press, 2021)
Oct 15, 2023
Working Children: The Luxury and Complexity of Childhood in Lombok, Indonesia
Oct 13, 2023
Alexandra Kaloyanides, "Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 05, 2023
Lynette J. Chua, "The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Oct 01, 2023
Kathrin Eitel, "Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh" (Routledge, 2022)
Sep 21, 2023
Piers Kelly, "The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 19, 2023
Joshua Ehrlich, "The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Sep 16, 2023
Development and Migration in Contemporary Asia
Sep 15, 2023
Gregory Cahill, "The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen" (Life Drawn, 2023)
Sep 14, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Inequality as a Leading Cross-Cutting Development Issue: Indonesia and Beyond
Sep 11, 2023
Allan Punzalan Isaac, "Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor" (Fordham UP, 2021)
Sep 03, 2023
Amy H. Liu and Jacob I. Ricks, "Ethnicity and Politics in Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Sep 01, 2023
Digital Repression in Thailand
Sep 01, 2023
Kalyani Ramnath, "Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Aug 27, 2023
Civil Society Elites: Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia
Aug 18, 2023
Edyta Roszko, "Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam" (NIAS/University of Hawaii Press 2021
Aug 16, 2023
What Can We Learn from Indonesian Democracy? A Conversation with Dan Slater
Aug 16, 2023
Van Nguyen-Marshall, "Between War and the State: Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975" (Southeast Asia Program, 2023)
Aug 13, 2023
Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
Aug 11, 2023
Why Consumers Choose Private Over Public Health Services in Vietnam
Aug 10, 2023
Traditional Medicine in Laos (with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh)
Aug 08, 2023
Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia
Aug 04, 2023
Marnie Feneley, "Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu" (National U of Singapore Press, 2023)
Aug 01, 2023
Helen Ting M. H. and Donald L. Horowitz, "Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia" (NIAS, 2022)
Jul 21, 2023
Jenna Grant, "Fixing the Image: Ultrasound and the Visuality of Care in Phnom Penh" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Jul 15, 2023
Ethnicity and Nation-Building in Myanmar
Jul 14, 2023
Callie Wilkinson, "Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jul 14, 2023
Is Laos a Criminal State?: Kearrin Sims on the Current Status of Laos
Jul 13, 2023
Anne Giblin Gedacht, "Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan" (Brill, 2022)
Jul 11, 2023
Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada, "Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land" (Routledge, 2023)
Jul 02, 2023
Allan E. S. Lumba, "Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines" (Duke UP, 2022)
Jul 01, 2023
Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Jun 29, 2023
Alexandra Kaloyanides, "Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 21, 2023
Lin Poyer, "War at the Margins: Indigenous Experiences in World War II" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Jun 17, 2023
Can Thailand Move Forward?
Jun 16, 2023
Michael Magcamit, "Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jun 15, 2023
Agricultural Shocks and Social Conflict in Southeast Asia
Jun 12, 2023
Creating Sustainable Value in Social Enterprises in Philippines
Jun 09, 2023
Patrick Jory, "A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 02, 2023
Amitav Acharya, "Tragic Nation: Burma--Why and How Democracy Failed" (Penguin Random House, 2023)
May 27, 2023
Matthew Jagel, "Khmer Nationalist: Sơn Ngc Thành, the CIA, and the Transformation of Cambodia" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
May 15, 2023
Aarie Glas, "Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 15, 2023
Tamas Wells, "Narrating Democracy in Myanmar: The Struggle Between Activists, Democratic Leaders and Aid Workers" (Amsterdam UP, 2021)
May 15, 2023
Locating Human Dignity in Cambodia: Prospects for Human Rights Education
May 13, 2023
Global Asia
May 12, 2023
Amitav Acharya, "Tragic Nation: Burma--Why and How Democracy Failed" (Penguin Random House, 2023)
May 04, 2023
Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, "A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942" (SEA Program Publications, 2022)
Apr 30, 2023
Kaamil Ahmed, "I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers" (Hurst, 2023)
Apr 27, 2023
George Black, "The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam" (Knopf, 2023)
Apr 23, 2023
Nicole Constable, "Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations" (U California Press, 2022)
Apr 23, 2023
The Promise of Multispecies Justice
Apr 21, 2023
Mai Nardone, "Welcome Me to the Kingdom: Stories" (Random House, 2023)
Apr 20, 2023
Sylvia Ang, "Contesting Chineseness: Nationality, Class, Gender and New Chinese Migrants" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Apr 19, 2023
Mina Roces, "Gender in Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Apr 15, 2023
Lachlan McNamee, "Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Apr 12, 2023
Visibility as Threat: The Targeting of Micro-Sized Groups in Indonesia
Apr 07, 2023
Oliver Slow, "Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar’s Military Must Go Back to the Barracks" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 06, 2023
Eli Elinoff, "Citizen Designs: City-Making and Democracy in Northeastern Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Apr 01, 2023
Yoshinori Nishizaki, "Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand" (U Wisconsin Press, 2022)
Apr 01, 2023
Trent Walker, "Until Nirvana's Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia" (Shambhala, 2022)
Mar 22, 2023
Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of We-Formation Among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon
Mar 18, 2023
Sango Mahanty, "Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Mar 15, 2023
Film Chat: Vietnamese Refugee Camps in Penghu
Mar 14, 2023
Arve Hansen, "Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations and Everyday Life" (Springer, 2022)
Mar 10, 2023
The Politics of Ethnicity in the Malay World
Mar 09, 2023
Eugénie Mérieau, "Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand's Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Mar 06, 2023
Chien-Wen Kung, "Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970s" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Mar 03, 2023
Seiji Shirane, "Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 24, 2023
Helena Hof, "The EU Migrant Generation in Asia: Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities" (Policy Press, 2022)
Feb 22, 2023
Michael Schiltz, "Accounting for the Fall of Silver: Hedging Currency Risk in Long-Distance Trade with Asia, 1870-1913" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Feb 20, 2023
Challenging the Malayan Nationhood: Imaginations and Activism by the Peranakan Chinese
Feb 17, 2023
Kevin Blackburn, "The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
Feb 17, 2023
Elisabeth Eittreim, "Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and Us Imperial Education 1879-1918" (UP of Kansas, 2019)
Feb 16, 2023
Risa J. Toha, "Rioting for Representation: Local Ethnic Mobilization in Democratizing Countries" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Feb 15, 2023
Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock, "The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia" (Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023
Mark Eveleigh, "Kopi Dulu: Caffeine-Fuelled Island-Hopping Through Indonesia" (Penguin Southeast Asia, 2022)
Feb 09, 2023
A New Hope? Japanese Retirement Migration to Malaysia
Feb 09, 2023
Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman, "Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Feb 05, 2023
Brooke Schedneck, "Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Feb 01, 2023
Matthew Galway, "The Emergence of Global Maoism: China's Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949-1979" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jan 30, 2023
Myanmar Jewellers in China
Jan 27, 2023
Shaping Civilisations: The Sea in Asian History
Jan 26, 2023
Surviving the State: Struggles for Land and Democracy in Myanmar
Jan 20, 2023
Benjamin Hegarty, "The Made-Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jan 15, 2023
Malaysia’s GE15: Reflections on a Snap Election
Jan 13, 2023
Ronald H. Spector, "A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955" (Norton, 2023)
Jan 05, 2023
Magnus Fiskesjö, "Stories from an Ancient Land: Perspectives on Wa History and Culture" (Berghahn Books, 2021)
Jan 01, 2023
Annuska Derks et al. "Fragrant Frontier: Global Spice Entanglements from the Sino-Vietnamese Uplands" (NIAS Press, 2022)
Dec 23, 2022
Making Sense of the 2022 General Elections in Malaysia
Dec 23, 2022
The Future of Global Trade: A Discussion with Shannon K. O'Neil
Dec 22, 2022
Dan Slater and Joseph Wong, "From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022
Philippe Peycam, "Cultural Renewal in Cambodia: Academic Activism in the Neoliberal Era" (Brill and ISEAS, 2020)
Dec 16, 2022
Elaine Pearson, "Chasing Wrongs and Rights: My Experience Defending Human Rights Around the World" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
Dec 16, 2022
Sarah Milne, "Corporate Nature: An Insider's Ethnography of Global Conservation" (U Arizona Press, 2022)
Dec 12, 2022
Safe and Sound? On the Intersection of Child Protection and Child and Youth Residential Care in the Philippines
Dec 08, 2022
Transforming Journalism in Vietnam: An Exploration of Two Swedish Media Aid Projects
Dec 02, 2022
Lan Anh Hoang, "Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Dec 01, 2022
Alexander Laban Hinton, "Anthropological Witness: Lessons from the Khmer Rouge Tribunal" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Nov 25, 2022
Public Participation and Contested Hydropower Development in the Mekong River Basin
Nov 24, 2022
Eric Tagliocozzo, "In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Nov 17, 2022
Natali Pearson, "Belitung: The Afterlives of a Shipwreck" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Nov 15, 2022
Earvin Charles B. Cabalquinto, "(Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the Age of Mobile Media" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 14, 2022
U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part Two, What’s Next?
Nov 11, 2022
Sustainable Peatland Management and Transboundary Haze in Southeast Asia
Nov 10, 2022
Michael Herzfeld, "Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage" (Duke UP, 2022)
Nov 02, 2022
Civil Society, Capitalism, and Political Regimes in Southeast Asia
Oct 27, 2022
Michael Francis Laffan, "Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Oct 24, 2022
Ethics, Utopia and Materiality: Glimpses of Everyday Creativity and Hope in Indonesian Papua
Oct 13, 2022
U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part One, Roots
Oct 07, 2022
Christopher Goscha, "The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Oct 03, 2022
Beyond Meat? Dietary Shifts and Meat Contestations in China, India and Vietnam
Sep 30, 2022
Johanna O. Zulueta, "Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei" (Routledge, 2022)
Sep 30, 2022
Social Media and Political Participation in the Philippines
Sep 29, 2022
Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Sep 26, 2022
Tanya Jakimow, "Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 22, 2022
Transcendence and Sustainability: Asian Visions with Global Promise
Sep 16, 2022
David Reeve, "To Remain Myself: The History of Onghokham" (ASAA Southeast Asia Publications Series / NUS Press, 2022)
Sep 15, 2022
Material Matters: Reflections on the History of Settlement Development Across Mainland Southeast Asia
Sep 15, 2022
Pamela N. Corey, "The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Sep 13, 2022
Jini Kim Watson, "Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization" (Fordham UP, 2021)
Sep 08, 2022
Vietnam and China: Strange Bedfellows in the Era of Strategic Competition
Sep 01, 2022
Ken MacLean, "Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar" (U California Press, 2022)
Sep 01, 2022
Bert Becker, "France and Germany in the South China Sea, c. 1840-1930: Maritime Competition and Imperial Power" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Aug 29, 2022
Edging Towards New Politics? Reflections on Malaysia’s Democracy after GE14
Aug 18, 2022
Angela Ki Che Leung et al., "Moral Foods: The Construction of Nutrition and Health in Modern Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Aug 16, 2022
Anoma Van Der Veere et al., "Public Health in Asia During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Amsterdam UP, 2022)
Aug 15, 2022
Baogang He et al., "Deliberative Democracy in Asia" (Routledge, 2022)
Aug 15, 2022
East Timorese Politics: A New Dawn or Return to Business as Usual?
Aug 05, 2022
Nicholas Ferns, "Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945–1975: Colonial and Foreign Aid Policy in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Aug 05, 2022
Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit, "A History of Thailand" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
Aug 01, 2022
Indonesia’s Response to the War in Ukraine
Jul 29, 2022
Duy Lap Nguyen, "The Unimagined Community: Imperialism and Culture in South Vietnam" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Jul 25, 2022
Ethan Mark, "Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Jul 21, 2022
Opposing Power: Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies
Jul 21, 2022
Elisabeth Kramer, "The Candidate's Dilemma: Anticorruptionism and Money Politics in Indonesian Election Campaigns" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Jul 15, 2022
Publishing in Asian Studies Journals
Jul 15, 2022
Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones, "Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Jul 12, 2022
Reshaping the Politics of Science: Bioscience Governance in Indonesia
Jul 08, 2022
Supalak Ganjanakhundee, "A Soldier King: Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X" (ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022)
Jul 04, 2022
Tehmton S. Mistry, "The 24th Mile: An Indian Doctor's Heroism in War-torn Burma" (HarperCollins, 2021)
Jun 21, 2022
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson, "Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted" (NIAS Press, 2022)
Jun 20, 2022
Paul Van Der Velde, "Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-Colonialist Jacob Haafner" (NUS Press, 2020)
Jun 20, 2022
Sokphea Young, "Strategies of Authoritarian Survival and Dissensus in Southeast Asia: Weak Men versus Strongmen" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Jun 15, 2022
Stan BH Tan-Tangbau et al., "Jazz in Socialist Hà Nội: Improvisations Between Worlds" (Routledge, 2022)
Jun 08, 2022
Popular Demand for Strongman Rule? Reflections on the 2022 Philippine Election
Jun 06, 2022
Rosalind Galt, "Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jun 06, 2022
Erin Murphy, "Burmese Haze: US Policy and Myanmar's Opening--And Closing" (Association for Asian Studies, 2022)
Jun 02, 2022
Jonathan Saha, "Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jun 01, 2022
The Race for the Governor: Talking Bangkok Elections with Saksith Saiyasombut
May 30, 2022
Boys Love and Japanese Queer Popular Culture across Southeast Asia
May 26, 2022
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, "Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization Across Guam and Israel-Palestine" (U California Press, 2022)
May 23, 2022
Holly High, "Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
May 16, 2022
Abby Seiff, "Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
May 12, 2022
Geopolitics in the Mekong Region: The Role of Chinese Energy Politics in Laos and Cambodia
May 12, 2022
Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann, "Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond" (NIAS Press, 2021)
May 06, 2022
J. Lorenzo Perillo, "Choreographing in Color: Filipinos, Hip-Hop, and the Cultural Politics of Euphemism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 06, 2022
Puangthong Pawakapan, "Infiltrating Society: The Thai Military’s Internal Security Affairs" (ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2021)
May 02, 2022
Lukas Ley, "Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
Apr 29, 2022
The Politics of Ethnic Integration in Thailand
Apr 28, 2022
Scott Stonington, "The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand" (U California Press, 2020)
Apr 25, 2022
What Remains: Textiles from Tuol Sleng
Apr 22, 2022
Harry Verhoeven and Anatol Lieven, "Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Apr 21, 2022
Merging the Local with the Global: A Conversation with a Malaysian Youth Climate Advocate
Apr 18, 2022
East Timor Elections: José Ramos-Horta in Conversation with Amber Woortman
Apr 15, 2022
Kris Ruijgrok, "Internet Use and Protest in Malaysia and Other Authoritarian Regimes" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Apr 15, 2022
Gregg Huff, "World War II in Southeast Asia: Economy and Society under Japanese Occupation" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Apr 15, 2022
Greater Angkor and Global Urbanism
Apr 14, 2022
Melissa M. Lee, "Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Apr 04, 2022
Urban Climate Change and Adaptation: Messages from the IPCC Report for Southeast Asia
Apr 04, 2022
Nu-Anh Tran, "Disunion: Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Apr 01, 2022
China, Buddhism and the Belt and Road Initiative in Mainland Southeast Asia
Mar 31, 2022
Jeremy Friedman, "Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Mar 24, 2022
Understanding East Timor's 2022 Presidential Elections
Mar 21, 2022
Understanding the Drivers of Vaccine Acceptance in Southeast Asia
Mar 18, 2022
Jane M. Ferguson, "Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
Mar 15, 2022
Excluded from Society and Rights: The Experiences of Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border
Mar 11, 2022
Thai Totalitarians? Why the Love of Authoritarian Symbols?
Mar 04, 2022
Architecture, Climatic Privilege, and Migrant Labour in Singapore
Mar 03, 2022
Adele Webb, "Chasing Freedom: The Philippines Long Journey to Democratic Ambivalence" (Sussex Academic Press, 2022)
Mar 01, 2022
Michelle Gordon, "Extreme Violence and the ‘British Way’: Colonial Warfare in Perak, Sierra Leone and Sudan" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Feb 25, 2022
Claudio Sopranzetti and Sara Fabbri, "King of Bangkok" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
Feb 24, 2022
For the Love of Translation: A Discussion of King Vajiravudh’s Translations of Western Literature in Early 20th-Century Siam
Feb 17, 2022
Craig J. Reynolds, "Power, Protection and Magic in Thailand: The Cosmos of a Southern Policeman" (ANU Press, 2019)
Feb 15, 2022
The Politics of Protest in Myanmar, with Van Tran
Feb 04, 2022
Where the Wild Things Are: Reimagining the More-Than-Human City
Feb 04, 2022
Sebastian Strangio, "Cambodia: From Pol Pot to Hun Sen and Beyond" (Yale UP, 2020)
Feb 01, 2022
Motorbike Madness in Vietnam, with Hue-Tam Jamme
Jan 28, 2022
Speaking Bones: Unearthing Ancient Stories of Illness and Disease
Jan 21, 2022
Ethnography of "Development": Tania Li on Indonesia's Oil Palm Zone
Jan 14, 2022
N. J. Enfield, "The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jan 14, 2022
Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam: Between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression
Jan 10, 2022
Export China: Reimagining Chineseness through the Ceramics Trade in Southeast Asia
Jan 07, 2022
Stan BH Tan-Tangbau and Quyền Văn Minh, "Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam: Quyền Văn Minh and Jazz in Hà Nội" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Jan 04, 2022
Rommel Argamosa Curaming, "Power and Knowledge in Southeast Asia: State and Scholars in Indonesia and the Philippines" (Routledge, 2019)
Jan 03, 2022
Aro Velmet, "Pasteur's Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 31, 2021
Diana S. Kim, "Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition Across Southeast Asia" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Dec 30, 2021
The Storytelling State: Performing Life Histories in Singapore
Dec 23, 2021
Albert Samaha, "Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes" (Penguin, 2021)
Dec 23, 2021
A Conversation with Vasudha Narayanan about Hindu Studies
Dec 21, 2021
Mary Talusan, "Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music During US Colonization of the Philippines" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
Dec 20, 2021
Overseas Remittances in Vietnam’s Reform Era
Dec 17, 2021
James Kelly Morningstar, "War and Resistance in the Philippines 1942-1944" (US Naval Institute Press, 2021)
Dec 16, 2021
Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr., "Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021
Hidden in Plain Sight: How Nalehmu is Disrupting Conventional Power Structures in Myanmar
Dec 09, 2021
Nishaant Choksi, "Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dec 08, 2021
COP26 from a Southeast Asian Perspective
Dec 06, 2021
Saskia E. Wieringa and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, "Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia" (Routledge, 2018)
Dec 03, 2021
Till F. Paasche and James Derrick Sidaway, "Transecting Securityscapes: Dispatches from Cambodia, Iraq, and Mozambique" (U Georgia Press, 2021)
Dec 02, 2021
Shawn F. McHale, "The First Vietnam War: Violence, Sovereignty, and the Fracture of the South, 1945-1956" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Dec 01, 2021
Shaking the World: How Geology Can Help Us Address the Big Challenges of the 21st Century
Nov 26, 2021
‘Network Monarchy’ and Its Challengers: Making Sense of Thai Politics with Duncan McCargo
Nov 26, 2021
Melissa Macauley, "Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Nov 24, 2021
Alice Beban, "Unwritten Rule: State-Making through Land Reform in Cambodia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Nov 15, 2021
The Politics of Public Prosecution in Malaysia and the Problem of Corruption
Nov 12, 2021
In Search of New Social Democracy: Insights from the South - Implications for the North
Nov 12, 2021
Don F. Selby, "Human Rights in Thailand" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
Nov 09, 2021
Bertil Lintner, "The Wa of Myanmar and China’s Quest For Global Dominance" (NIAS Press, 2021)
Nov 05, 2021
Carlos M. Piocos, "Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration" (Routledge, 2021)
Nov 04, 2021
Anjalee Cohen, "Youth Culture and Identity in Northern Thailand: Fitting in and Sticking Out" (Routledge, 2020)
Nov 01, 2021
Giuseppe Bolotta, "Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok's Margins" (NIAS, 2021)
Oct 29, 2021
Wonders of the Mekong: Rethinking Sustainable Development and Resilience in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake
Oct 28, 2021
Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai, "The Cinema of Rithy Panh: Everything Has a Soul" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
Oct 15, 2021
Thongchai Winichakul, "Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Oct 15, 2021
Beyond a Shadow: Southeast Asia Transcending US-China Rivalries
Oct 15, 2021
Beyond a Shadow: Southeast Asia Transcending US-China Rivalries
Oct 15, 2021
From Animal Rights to Human Rights: Supporting Sustainable Farming Practices to Improve Livelihoods
Oct 14, 2021
Mirjam Lücking, "Indonesians and Their Arab World: Guided Mobility Among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims" (SAPP, 2021)
Oct 04, 2021
David Brenner, "Rebel Politics: A Political Sociology of Armed Struggle in Myanmar's Borderlands" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Oct 04, 2021
Jeevan Vasagar, "Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia" (Pegasus Books, 2022)
Sep 30, 2021
The Turbulence and Controversies of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission, with Sofie Schütte
Sep 24, 2021
Stepping in to Improve Women’s and Babies’ Lives in Southeast Asia
Sep 23, 2021
Chris Chaplin, "Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and National Identity in Contemporary Indonesia" (NIAS Press, 2021)
Sep 17, 2021
Preserving Local Languages to Protect Cultural and Environmental Rights in Laos
Sep 16, 2021
Tom G. Hoogervorst, "Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021
Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia
Sep 10, 2021
Elaine Pearson: Grappling with the intersections of academia, advocacy and activism
Sep 02, 2021
A European Perspective on the Indo-Pacific: A Conversation with Camilla Sørensen
Aug 20, 2021
Spirits, Development and Chinese (Hydro)power: Ethnographic (Hi)stories from Upland Laos
Aug 19, 2021
Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu, "Tuberculosis: The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018" (Routledge, 2021)
Aug 16, 2021
Karen Sanctuaries: Memory, Biodiversity and Political Sovereignty
Aug 13, 2021
Nina Trige Andersen, "Labor Pioneers: Economy, Labor, and Migration in Filipino-Danish Relations, 1950-2015" (Ateneo de Manila UP, 2019)
Aug 06, 2021
From the Archives: Disaster Resilience and Humanitarian Response in the Philippines with Dr Aaron Opdyke
Aug 06, 2021
Ruth Streicher, "Uneasy Military Encounters: The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Aug 02, 2021
Ismail Fajrie Alatas, "What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jul 30, 2021
Francis Wade, "Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'" (Zed Books, 2017)
Jul 28, 2021
David Veevers, "The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 28, 2021
Popular Protests in the Age of #MilkTeaAlliance
Jul 23, 2021
From the Archives: Building a Sustainable Future through Urban Governance with Dr Sophie Webber
Jul 22, 2021
Jacques Bertrand, “Exploring Southeast Asia” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Jul 19, 2021
Christian C. Lentz, "Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam" (Yale UP, 2019)
Jul 15, 2021
John T. Sidel, "Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Jul 13, 2021
Christian Lund, "Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia" (Yale UP, 2021)
Jul 09, 2021
From the Archives: Supporting Sustainable Farming Practices in Cambodia with Professor Daniel Tan
Jul 08, 2021
Nicole Curato, "Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedies to Deliberative Action" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jul 01, 2021
Eve Monique Zucker and Ben Kiernan, "Political Violence in Southeast Asia Since 1945: Case Studies from Six Countries" (Routledge, 2021)
Jun 29, 2021
Remembering President Noynoy Aquino: A Discussion with Sheila Coronel
Jun 28, 2021
Business as Usual? International Responses to the Military Coup in Myanmar
Jun 25, 2021
Building Bridges Across the Seas: A Discussion of Australia-Indonesia Cooperation for the Preservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage
Jun 24, 2021
In China’s Shadow: China and Southeast Asia
Jun 21, 2021
Homeland Activists Without a Home: Why Proximity and Precarity Matter for Myanmar’s Refugees
Jun 17, 2021
Aim Sinpeng, "Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age: The Yellow Shirts in Thailand" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
Jun 15, 2021
Photography and Human Rights in Thailand: A Discussion with Karin Zackari
Jun 11, 2021
Connectivity and Displacement in Laos: Exploring Intersectional Infrastructure Violence with Dr Kearrin Sims
Jun 10, 2021
Exploring the Diasporic Imagination in Recent Indonesian Popular Novels and Films (2000-2020)
Jun 03, 2021
Duncan McCargo and Anyarat Chattharakul, "Future Forward: The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party" (NIAS Press, 2020)
Jun 01, 2021
Myanmar’s Failed Coup: A Roundtable Discussion
May 31, 2021
Dictatorship on Trial in Thailand: A Discussion with Tyrell Haberkorn
May 28, 2021
Pirates of the South China Sea: A Brief Introduction to Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia with Professor Justin Hastings
May 27, 2021
Keeping Lungs Healthy: A Discussion of Respiratory Health in Vietnam with Professor Gregory Fox
May 20, 2021
Farabi Fakih, "Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia's Early Independence Period" (Brill, 2020)
May 14, 2021
Opening Australia's Multilingual Archives to Rethink Australian Identity in the Asia-Pacific
May 13, 2021
Of Rice and Men: How Food Production is Driving Antimicrobial Resistance amongst Fungi in Vietnam
May 06, 2021
E. Aspinall and W. Berenschot, "Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2019)
May 03, 2021
The Politics of Online News in Cambodia
May 03, 2021
Tales of Unsung Heroes: How Thailand’s Village Health Volunteers Helped Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic
Apr 29, 2021
Back from the Barracks?: A Discussion of Civil-Military Relations and the Erosion of Philippine Democracy with Professor Aries Arugay
Apr 22, 2021
Teri L. Caraway and Michele Ford, "Labor and Politics in Indonesia" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Apr 15, 2021
Decolonising Research Collaboration Practices in Indonesia: A Discussion with Elisabeth Kramer
Apr 15, 2021
The Subject and the Partner in Malaysia: A Discussion with Fiona Lee
Apr 08, 2021
Anand A. Yang, "Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia" (U California Press, 2021)
Apr 08, 2021
New Ethnographies of the Global South: In Conversation with Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido
Apr 08, 2021
Arunima Datta, "Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Apr 05, 2021
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong" (SUNY Press, 2020)
Apr 01, 2021
Building Relationships in Vietnam from a Distance: A Discussion with Jeffrey Neilson
Apr 01, 2021
Delving into the Unknown in Myanmar: A Discussion with Michael Dibley
Mar 25, 2021
Working with Government in Timor-Leste: A Discussion with Jenny-Ann Toribio
Mar 18, 2021
Juno Salazar Parreñas, "Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation" (Duke University Press, 2018)
Mar 15, 2021
Exploding the Archive: A Reimagining of Archival Records in Malaysia with Dr Beth Yahp
Mar 11, 2021
Christina Schwenkel, "Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam" (Duke UP, 2020)
Mar 10, 2021
Jean Debernardi, "Christian Circulations: Global Christianity and the Local Church in Penang and Singapore, 1819-2000" (NUS Press, 2020)
Mar 10, 2021
Rethinking Rural Livelihoods and Food Security in Myanmar with Assistant Professor Mark Vicol
Mar 04, 2021
Alan Klima, "Ethnography #9" (Duke UP, 2019)
Mar 03, 2021
Duncan McCargo, "Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Mar 01, 2021
A Thai Contemporary Artist on Identity, Power, and the Space In-Between: A Discussion with Phaptawan Suwannakudt
Feb 25, 2021
Decolonising Conservation Practices and Research: Seeing the Orangutan in Borneo with Dr June Rubis
Feb 18, 2021
Lynette J. Chua, "The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life" (Stanford UP, 2018)
Feb 15, 2021
Combating African Swine Fever in Timor-Leste with Associate Professor Paul Hick
Feb 11, 2021
Teren Sevea, "Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Feb 10, 2021
Reducing Poverty through Digital Finance Schemes in Myanmar: A Discussion with Dr Russell Toth
Feb 04, 2021
Olga Dror, "Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965-1975" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Feb 01, 2021
P. Chachavalpongpun, "Coup, King, Crisis: A Critical Interregnum in Thailand" (Yale SEA Studies, 2020)
Jan 27, 2021
A. Pohlman et al., "The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide" (Routledge, 2019)
Jan 25, 2021
A. M. Thawnghmung, "Everyday Economic Survival in Myanmar" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
Jan 22, 2021
Jonathan Padwe, "Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories: Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands" (U Washington Press, 2020)
Jan 15, 2021
B. J. Tria Kerkvliet, "Speaking Out in Vietnam: Public Political Criticism in a Communist Party-Ruled Nation" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Dec 31, 2020
Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck, "Buddhist Tourism in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Dec 22, 2020
Enze Han, "Asymmetrical Neighbors: Borderland State-Building Between China and Southeast Asia" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Dec 21, 2020
Ben Bland, "Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia" (Penguin, 2021)
Dec 21, 2020
COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in Southeast Asia: A Discussion with Emeritus Professor Philip Hirsch
Dec 17, 2020
Beating Plastic Pollution in Timor-Leste with Professor Thomas Maschmeyer
Dec 10, 2020
Jack Meng-Tat Chia, "Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 09, 2020
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, "Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Dec 09, 2020
Transforming Breast Cancer Diagnosis in Vietnam: A Discussion with Professor Patrick Brennan
Dec 03, 2020
Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village with Associate Professor Holly High
Nov 25, 2020
Sebastian Strangio, "In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century" (Yale UP, 2020)
Nov 23, 2020
Michael D. Barr, "Singapore: A Modern History" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Nov 20, 2020
Social Media, Grassroots Activism and Disinformation in Southeast Asia: A Discussion with Dr Aim Sinpeng and Dr Ross Tapsell
Nov 19, 2020
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, "Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia" (Cornell UP, 2020)
Nov 16, 2020
Southeast Asian Performance, Ethnic Identity and China’s Soft Power: A Discussion with Dr Josh Stenberg
Nov 12, 2020
Improving Food Security in Laos and Cambodia: A Farmer’s Perspective with Associate Professor Russell Bush
Nov 05, 2020
Jana K. Lipman, "In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates" (U California Press, 2020)
Oct 30, 2020
Myanmar’s Disciplined Democracy and the 2020 Elections: A Discussion with Dr Roger Lee Huang
Oct 29, 2020
Gregory Forth, "A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019)
Oct 23, 2020
Lost Temples of the Jungle: A History of Mrauk-U with Dr. Bob Hudson
Oct 22, 2020
Melissa Crouch, "The Constitution of Myanmar: A Contextual Analysis" (Hart, 2019)
Oct 20, 2020
The Street and the Ballot Box: How Indonesia’s Labour Movement Rose from the Ashes-Professor Michele Ford
Oct 15, 2020
Christopher Capozzola, "Bound By War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century" (Basic Books, 2020)
Oct 06, 2020
Ronit Ricci, "Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 28, 2020
S. Lawreniuk and L. Parsons, "Going Nowhere Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Sep 22, 2020
Brian Eyler, "Last Days of the Mighty Mekong" (Zed Book, 2019)
Sep 21, 2020
Kris Alexanderson, "Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Sep 14, 2020
Alicia Turner, "The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 31, 2020
Ravi Palat, "The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650" (Palgrave, 2015)
Aug 19, 2020
Roman David and Ian Holliday, "Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 17, 2020
Leah Zani, "Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos" (Duke UP, 2019)
Aug 05, 2020
Edward Alpers, "The Indian Ocean in World History" (Oxford UP, 2014)
Jul 22, 2020
Angela S. Chiu, "The Buddha in Lanna: Art, Lineage, Power, and Place in Northern Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
Jul 20, 2020
Vincent Bevins, "The Jakarta Method" (Public Affairs, 2020)
Jul 01, 2020
Kevin W. Fogg, "Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Jun 30, 2020
John Roosa, "Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965-1966 in Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
Jun 24, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 02, 2020
Chiara Formichi, "Islam and Asia: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
May 30, 2020
Viet Thanh Nguyen, "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War" (Harvard UP, 2016)
May 28, 2020
Wasana Wongsurawat, "The Crown and the Capitalists: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation" (U Washington Press, 2019)
May 18, 2020
Laurence Monnais, "The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
May 04, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Sara E. Davies, "Containing Contagion: The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Apr 15, 2020
C. Baker and P. Phongpaichit, "From the Fifty Jātaka: Selections from the Thai Paññāsa Jātaka" (Silkworm Books, 2019)
Apr 02, 2020
Marco Z. Garrido, "The Patchwork City: Class, Space and Politics in Metro Manila" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Apr 02, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020
Cosmopolitan Printing in a Hybrid Language: A Discussion of the Sino-Malay Literary Tradition (1870-1949) with Dr Tom Hoogervorst
Mar 18, 2020
Sumit K. Mandal, "Becoming Arab: Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Mar 10, 2020
Jerome Whitington, "Anthropogenic Rivers: The Production of Uncertainty in Lao Hydropower" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Mar 06, 2020
Sher Banu Khan, "Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Feb 28, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
Christopher J. Shepherd, "Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters: Ethnography and Animism in East Timor, 1860-1975" (NIAS Press, 2019)
Feb 18, 2020
Howard Jones, "My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Feb 07, 2020
Timothy Barnard, "Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942" (NUS Press, 2019)
Feb 07, 2020
Ivan V. Small, "Currencies of Imagination: Channeling Money and Chasing Mobility in Vietnam" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Feb 06, 2020
In the Aftermath of the Rohingya Genocide: Our Failure to Protect
Jan 31, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020
Taomo Zhou, “Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia and the Cold War” (Cornell UP, 2019)
Dec 17, 2019
Victoria Reyes, "Global Borderlands: Fantasy, Violence, and Empire in Subic Bay, Philippines" (Stanford UP, 2019)
Dec 04, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
Michael G. Vann, "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Nov 26, 2019
Jeremy Yellen, "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Nov 25, 2019
Pierre Asselin, "Vietnam’s American War: A History" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Nov 18, 2019
Claire Edington, "Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam" (Cornell UP, 2019)
Nov 13, 2019
Alicia Izharuddin, “Gender and Islam in Indonesian Cinema” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Nov 12, 2019
Alexander L. Hinton, "Man or Monster?: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer" (Duke UP, 2016)
Nov 04, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 03, 2019
Wang Gungwu, "Home is Not Here" (NUS Press, 2018)
Nov 01, 2019
David Biggs, "Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam" (U Washington Press, 2018)
Oct 31, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019
Erik Harms, "Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon" (U California Press, 2016)
Oct 22, 2019
Michitake Aso, "Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975" (UNC Press, 2018)
Oct 11, 2019
Stephen Hamnett, "Planning Singapore: The Experimental City" (Routledge, 2019)
Oct 07, 2019
Benjamin Tausig, "Bangkok is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and Constraint" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Sep 30, 2019
Nicholas Walton, "Singapore Singapura: From Miracle to Complacency" (Hurst, 2019)
Sep 27, 2019
Julia Cassaniti, "Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Aug 12, 2019
Tyrell Haberkorn, "In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
Jul 23, 2019
Chika Watanabe, "Becoming One: Religion, Development, and Environmentalism in a Japanese NGO in Myanmar" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Jul 15, 2019
Ashley Thompson, "Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor" (Routledge, 2016)
Jul 04, 2019
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, "The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace" (Harper, 2018)
Jun 13, 2019
Long T. Bui, "Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory" (NYU Press, 2018)
Jun 07, 2019
Gregory V. Raymond, "Thai Military Power: A Culture of Strategic Accommodation" (NIAS Press, 2018)
May 07, 2019
Ward Keeler, "The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
Apr 01, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019
Christopher Goscha, "Vietnam: A New History" (Basic Books, 2016)
Feb 26, 2019
Thomas Patton, "The Buddha’s Wizards: Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Feb 11, 2019
Andray Abrahamian, "North Korea and Myanmar: Divergent Paths" (McFarland, 2018)
Jan 28, 2019
Daromir Rudnyckyj, "Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
Jan 24, 2019
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema" (Duke UP, 2016)
Jan 22, 2019
Tania Li, "Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier" (Duke UP, 2014)
Jan 07, 2019
James R. Rush, "Hamka's Great Story: A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2016)
Dec 13, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 06, 2018
Peter Zinoman, “Vietnamese Colonial Republican: The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung” (U California Press, 2013)
Nov 19, 2018
Max Hastings, “Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975” (Harper, 2018)
Nov 06, 2018
Vennessa Hearman, “Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia” (NUS Press, 2018)
Oct 22, 2018
Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang, eds., “The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China’s Borders” (Amsterdam UP, 2017)
Oct 18, 2018
Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit, “A History of Ayutthaya: Siam in the Early Modern World” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Oct 03, 2018
Jess Melvin, “The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder” (Routledge, 2018)
Oct 01, 2018
Jan M. Padios, “A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines” (Duke UP,
Sep 10, 2018
Gerald Gems, “Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines: Bats, Balls, and Bayonets” (Lexington Books, 2016)
Aug 14, 2018
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, “The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age” (U Illinois Press, 2018)
Aug 13, 2018
Katherine A. Bowie, “Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand” (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)
Jul 27, 2018
Katherine McGregor et al, “The Indonesian Genocide of 1965: Causes, Dynamics and Legacies” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Jul 26, 2018
Michael L. Sullivan, “Cambodia Votes: Democracy, Authority and International Support for Elections 1993–2013” (NIAS Press, 2018)
Jun 29, 2018
Geoffrey Robinson, “The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-1966” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Jun 04, 2018
Michele Zack, “The Lisu: Far from the Ruler” (UP of Colorado, 2017)
May 30, 2018
Jessica Elkind, “Aid Under Fire: Nation Building and the Vietnam War” (U Kentucky Press, 2016)
May 09, 2018
Kathlene Baldanza, “Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
May 07, 2018
Guillaume Rozenberg, “The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma” (U Hawaii Press, 2015)
Apr 30, 2018
Karen Teoh, “Schooling Diaspora: Women, Education, and the Overseas Chinese in British Malaya and Singapore, 1850s to 1960s” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Apr 17, 2018
Max Boot, “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam” (Liveright, 2018)
Apr 13, 2018
Lee Morgenbesser, “Behind the Facade: Elections under Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia” (SUNY Press, 2016)
Mar 27, 2018
Christopher B. Patterson, “Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
Mar 26, 2018
Claudio Sopranzetti, “Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility and Politics in Bangkok” (U California Press, 2017)
Mar 09, 2018
Gregory A. Daddis, “Westmoreland’s War: Reassessing America’s Strategy in Vietnam” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Feb 09, 2018
Harrod Suarez, “The Work of Mothering: Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora” (U Illinois Press, 2017)
Feb 08, 2018
Nicholas Trajano Molnar, “American Mestizos, the Philippines, and the Malleability of Race, 1898-1961” (U Missouri Press, 2017)
Feb 07, 2018
Tam T. T. Ngo, “The New Way: Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam” (U. Washington Press, 2016)
Jan 09, 2018
Roderic Broadhurst et.al., “Violence and the Civilising Process in Cambodia” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Nov 29, 2017
Eric J. Pido, “Migrant Returns: Manila, Development, and Transnational Connectivity” (Duke UP, 2017)
Oct 27, 2017
Astrid Noren-Nilsson, “Cambodia’s Second Kingdom: Nation, Imagination, and Democracy (Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 2016)
Oct 03, 2017
Patricia Sloane-White, “Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Aug 29, 2017
Bradley Camp Davis, “Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands” (U of Washington Press, 2017)
Jul 29, 2017
Peter Eisner, “MacArthur’s Spies: The Solider, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in WWII” (Viking, 2017)
Jul 20, 2017
Sverre Molland, “The Perfect Business? Anti-Trafficking and the Sex Trade along the Mekong” (U. Hawaii Press, 2012)
Jun 30, 2017
Megha Amrith, “Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia” (NIAS Press, 2016)
May 22, 2017
Matthew J. Walton, “Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Apr 27, 2017
Serhat Unaldi, “Working Towards the Monarchy: The Politics of Space in Downtown Bangkok” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2016)
Mar 28, 2017
Jayde Lin Roberts, “Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese” (U. Washington Press, 2016)
Feb 17, 2017
Samson Lim, “Siam’s New Detectives: Visualizing Crime and Conspiracy in Modern Thailand” (U of Hawaii Press, 2016)
Jan 21, 2017
Erik W. Davis, “Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia” (Columbia UP, 2015)
Jan 20, 2017
Pamela McElwee, “Forest are Gold: Trees, People and Environmental Rule in Vietnam” (U. Washington Press, 2016)
Dec 17, 2016
Patrick Jory, “Thailand’s Theory of Monarchy: The Vessantara Jataka and the Idea of the Perfect Man” (SUNY Press, 2016)
Nov 20, 2016
Doreen Lee, “Activist Archives: Youth Culture and the Political Past in Indonesia” (Duke UP, 2016)
Oct 28, 2016
Stephen Dupont, “Piksa Niugini” (Peabody Press/Radius Books, 2013)
Oct 18, 2016
Megan C. Thomas, “Orientalists, Propagandists, and Ilustrados: Filipino Scholarship and the End of Spanish Colonialism” (U. of Minnesota Press, 2012 )
Sep 30, 2016
Marie Lall, “Understanding Reform in Myanmar: People and Society in the Wake of Military Rule” (Hurst, 2016)
Aug 15, 2016
Simon Creak, “Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)
Jul 27, 2016
Nick Cheesman, “Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Jun 30, 2016
Eric Tang, “Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto” (Temple UP, 2015)
Jun 28, 2016
Charles Keith, “Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation” (U of California Press, 2012)
Jun 06, 2016
Brooke Schedneck, “Thailand’s International Meditation Centers” (Routledge, 2015)
May 16, 2016
Mary M. Steedly, “Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence” (U of California Press, 2013)
May 15, 2016
Tran Ngoc Angie, “Ties that Bind: Cultural Identity, Class, and Law in Vietnam’s Labor Resistance” (Cornell UP, 2013)
Apr 19, 2016
Deirdre de la Cruz, “Mother Figured: Marian Apparitions and the Making of a Filipino Universal” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Mar 02, 2016
Khairudin Aljunied, “Radicals: Resistance and Protest in Colonial Malaya” (Northern Illinois UP, 2015)
Feb 24, 2016
Annette Miae Kim, “Sidewalk City: Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Jan 20, 2016
Shane Strate, “The Lost Territories: Thailand’s History of National Humiliation” (U of Hawaii Press, 2015)
Dec 15, 2015
Anthony Reid, “A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads” (Wiley Blackwell, 2015)
Nov 20, 2015
Ken MacLean, “The Government of Mistrust: Illegibility and Bureaucratic Power in Socialist Vietnam” (U of Wisconsin Press, 2013)
Oct 27, 2015
Christopher R. Duncan, “Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and Its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia” (Cornell UP, 2013)
Sep 15, 2015
Donald M. Nonini, “‘Getting By’: Class and State Formation Among Chinese in Malaysia” (Cornell UP, 2015)
Jul 31, 2015
Allison Truitt, “Dreaming of Money in Ho Chi Minh City” (U of Washington Press, 2013)
Jun 15, 2015
Holly High, “Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos” (NUS Press, 2014)
May 18, 2015
Meredith Weiss, “Student Activism in Malaysia: Crucible, Mirror, Sideshow” (Cornell SEAP/NUS Press, 2011)
Apr 11, 2015
Alicia Turner, “Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma” (U Hawaii Press, 2014)
Mar 13, 2015
Andrew Walker, “Thailand’s Political Peasants: Power in the Modern Rural Economy” (U Wisconsin Press, 2012)
Feb 16, 2015
Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert, Helen Tiffin, “Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of the Orangutan” (U of Hawaii Press, 2014)
Jan 15, 2015
Erik Braun, “The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Jan 08, 2015
Jothie Rajah, “Authoritarian Rule of Law: Legislation, Discourse and Legitimacy in Singapore” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
Dec 15, 2014
Michael Hawkins, “Making Moros: Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines’ Muslim South” (NIU Press, 2012)
Dec 12, 2014
Dan Slater, “Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia” (Cambridge UP, 2010)
Nov 14, 2014
Denise Cruz, “Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina” (Duke UP, 2012)
Nov 04, 2014
Thierry Cruvellier, “The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer” (Ecco, 2014)
Oct 31, 2014
Lynette J. Chua, “Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State” (Temple UP, 2014)
Oct 15, 2014
Tyrell Haberkorn, “Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law and Violence in Northern Thailand” (U of Wisconsin Press, 2011)
Sep 13, 2014
Tine M. Gammeltoft, “Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam” (University of California Press, 2014)
Jul 22, 2014
Rachel Rinaldo, “Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Feminism in Indonesia” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Jun 23, 2014
Peter Maguire and Mike Ritter, “Thai Stick” (Columbia Press, 2013)
Mar 29, 2014
Robyn Rodriguez, “Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World” (University of Minnesota Press, 2010)
Oct 30, 2013
Eric Jennings, “Imperial Heights: Dalat and the Making and Undoing of French Indochina” (University of California Press, 2011)
Oct 29, 2013
Deborah Mayersen and Annie Pohlman, “Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia: Legacies and Prevention” (Routledge, 2013)
Oct 27, 2013
Michael Laffan, “The Makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past” (Princeton UP, 2011)
Jul 22, 2013
Gina Chon and Sambeth Thet, “Behind the Killing Fields: A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of his Victims” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
Aug 25, 2012
Noboru Ishikawa, “Between Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a South East Asian Borderland” (NUS Press, 2010)
May 31, 2011
David J. Silbey, “A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902” (Hill and Wang, 2008)
Apr 08, 2011
Mark Bradley, “Vietnam at War” (Oxford UP, 2009)
Mar 14, 2011
Mark Bradley and Marilyn Young, “Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars” (Oxford UP, 2008)
Mar 14, 2011
Richard Fogarty, “Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French Army, 1914-1918” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2008)
Nov 03, 2008
James Willbanks, “Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War” (University of Kansas Press, 2008)
Sep 19, 2008