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Southeast Asian Studies
SSEAC Stories November 23, 2023

Disability and Work

SSEAC Timor Leste Field School

Hosted by Natali Pearson
In the fourth of five special podcasts about from the recent SSEAC field schools to Southeast Asia, we will be hearing from students and staff from the field school to …

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Interviews with scholars of Southeast Asia about their new books hosted by Michele Ford, Patrick Jory, Duncan McCargo, and Faizah Zakaria.

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Anthropology November 17, 2023

A Synthesis of Time

Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia

Konstantinos Retsikas

Hosted by Yadong Li
In A Synthesis of Time: Zakat, Islamic Micro-finance and the Question of the Future in 21st-Century Indonesia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Konstantinos Retsikas has anthropological investigation into the different forms the …
Asian Review of Books November 16, 2023

The Quest for Modern Assam

A History, 1942-2000

Arupjyoti Saikia

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
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The northeast Indian state of Assam has had a complex history. As independence loomed, Assam was a large British province, bordering the fellow British colony of Burma and covering a …
World Christianity November 15, 2023

Cambodian Evangelicalism

Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience

Briana L. Wong

Hosted by Byung Ho Choi
The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and ’70s left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that continues to reverberate through the community. In Cambodian …
Southeast Asian Studies November 15, 2023

Resource Nationalism in Indonesia

Booms, Big Business, and the State

Eve Warburton

Hosted by Michele Ford
In Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State (Cornell UP, 2023), Eve Warburton traces nationalist policy trajectories in Indonesia back to the preferences of big local business …
SSEAC Stories November 14, 2023

Disaster Risk and Resilience

SSEAC Philippines Field School

Hosted by Natali Pearson
In the third of five special podcasts about from the recent SSEAC field schools to Southeast Asia, we will be hearing from students and staff from the field school to …
SSEAC Stories November 8, 2023

Social Justice

SSEAC Indonesia Field School

Hosted by Natali Pearson
In the second of five special podcasts about from the recent SSEAC field schools to Southeast Asia, we will be hearing from students and staff from the field school to …
Southeast Asian Studies November 1, 2023

Outsourcing the Polity

Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar

Gerard McCarthy

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
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In late 2015 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led Myanmar’s National League for Democracy to a smashing general election victory. In one of her first public appearances since the win …
Asian Review of Books October 19, 2023

Bugis Nights

Chris Stowers

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
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In 1987, Chris Stowers ditches his dull job in the UK and embarks on a trip throughout the Asia-Pacific, following countless other adventurers traveling with just a backpack and a …
Southeast Asian Studies October 15, 2023

COVID-19 in Southeast Asia

Insights for a Post-pandemic World

Hyun Bang Shin, Murray McKenzie, and Do Young Oh

Hosted by Nicole Curato
COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: Insights for a Post-pandemic World (Ubiquity Press, 2021) brings together an ensemble of social scientists who offer critical reflections on how the pandemic was experienced in …
SSEAC Stories October 13, 2023

Working Children

The Luxury and Complexity of Childhood in Lombok, Indonesia

María Florencia Amigó

Hosted by Natali Pearson
The International Labour Organization estimates that in Southeast Asia there are 30 million children engaged in paid work, 17 million in engaged in unpaid work and 50 million who don’t …
Asian Review of Books October 5, 2023

Baptizing Burma

Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom

Alexandra Kaloyanides

Hosted by Nicholas Gordon
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Adoniram Judson was the 19th-century version of an American celebrity. Americans flocked to listen to his tales of being one of the first missionaries to enter the Kingdom of Burma …
Southeast Asian Studies October 1, 2023

The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia

Lynette J. Chua

Hosted by Erron Medina
The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (Cambridge UP, 2022) offers an empirically-grounded approach to understanding the mobilisation of rights in the region. Instead of deriving definitions of rights from …
Southeast Asian Studies September 21, 2023

Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia

Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh

Kathrin Eitel

Hosted by Michele Ford
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Kathrin Eitel's book Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh (Routledge, 2022) examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It considers the circular flows of …
Language September 19, 2023

The Last Language on Earth

Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines

Piers Kelly

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
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In the southern Philippines, the Bohol community speaks a language they say one man, Pinay, created long ago, leaving it for a modern Filipino named Mariano Datahan to rediscover and …
British Studies September 16, 2023

The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge

Joshua Ehrlich

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
The East India Company is remembered as the world's most powerful, not to say notorious, corporation. But for many of its advocates from the 1770s to the 1850s it was …
Nordic Asia Podcast September 15, 2023

Development and Migration in Contemporary Asia

A Discussion with Jonathan Rigg and Marta Bivand Erdal

Jonathan Rigg and Marta Bivand Erdal

Hosted by Arve Hansen
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Is migration good or bad for development? How does migration affect those who leave and those who stay behind? How are rural and urban livelihoods interconnected in Asian cities? What …
General History September 14, 2023

The Golden Voice

The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen

Gregory Cahill

Hosted by Michael Vann
The Golden Voice: The Ballad of Cambodian Rock's Lost Queen (Life Drawn, 2023) is very well-researched graphic novel based on the life of beloved Cambodian singer Ros Serey Sothea, whose …
SSEAC Stories September 13, 2023

Inequality as a Leading Cross-Cutting Development Issue

Indonesia and Beyond

Zulfan Tadjoeddin

Hosted by Natali Pearson
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Inequality has always been key to understanding Indonesia’s development. But this is a multidimensional issue, and one that has manifested in vastly different ways in Indonesia over the years: from …
Mobilities and Methods September 3, 2023

Filipino Time

Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor

Allan Punzalan Isaac

Hosted by Alize Arıcan
From spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a call center, Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor (Fordham UP, 2021) examines how contracted service labor performed …