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Southeast Asian Studies
Interviews with scholars of Southeast Asia about their new books hosted by Nick Cheesman, Michele Ford, Patrick Jory, and Duncan McCargo.
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November 15, 2024
The Pulse of the Earth
In The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java (Duke UP, 2023), Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from t…
November 8, 2024
Tak Bai and Beyond, Thailand’s Southern Insurgency
In the wake of the twentieth anniversary of the dreadful Tak Bai massacre, what are the prospects for a resolution of the long-standing insurgency in …
November 8, 2024
"The Languages of Indonesian Politics" Revisited
In 1966 Benedict Anderson published 'The Languages of Indonesian Politics', a seminal paper exploring the development of Indonesian as a new language …
November 5, 2024
Unpacking Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia
Today’s episode focuses on a major issue of enduring importance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies: authoritarianism. Even today, variou…
October 28, 2024
Thailand: Contestation, Polarization, and Democratic Regression
Why has Thailand’s politics been so contested and so intensely polarized in recent decades? How can we account for the persistent democratic regressio…
October 24, 2024
Nehru's Bandung
In 1955, the leaders of 29 Asian and African countries flock to the small city of Bandung, Indonesia, for the first-ever Afro-Asian conference. India …
October 23, 2024
The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt
A funny thing happened to historian Michael Vann* on the way to his PhD thesis. While he was doing his research on French colonialism and the urbanist…
October 21, 2024
Electrifying Indonesia
Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) tells the story of the entanglement of politic…
October 17, 2024
Liquid Empire
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land surface of the planet. These…
October 15, 2024
Winning by Process
Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar (Southeast Asia Program Publications/Cornell UP, 2022) asks why the p…
October 11, 2024
Talking Thai Politics: Kunthika Nutcharut, Defending Disruptors
What is it like to be a human rights lawyer in Thailand? How does the new generation of 2020s political activists differ from those of previous eras? …
October 8, 2024
Awaiting MacArthur's Return
Over the course of World War II, guerrillas from across the Philippines opposed Imperial Japan's occupation of the archipelago. Although the guerrilla…
October 7, 2024
The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838
Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known…
October 6, 2024
Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, gl…
October 2, 2024
Prabowo Subianto and the Decline of Indonesian Democracy
Today’s episode focuses on Indonesia, the presidential election held in February 2024, and the impending inauguration of the winner of that election, …
October 1, 2024
Subjects and Sojourners
When we think of the history of French colonialism in Indochina, we tend to think of the French in Indochina. Yet during the colonial period about 200…
September 30, 2024
The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road
From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China’s rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. …
September 27, 2024
Mark Tamthai: Remembering Chaiwat Satha-Anand
Why was the late Ajarn Chaiwat Satha-Anand so passionate about bringing peace to Thailand’s deep south? How did he try to speak nonviolence to Thai po…
September 24, 2024
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
In the twenty-first century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once concentrated in Europe and North America, global inf…
September 21, 2024
Philosophies of Appropriated Religions
The open-access edited volume Philosophies of Appropriated Religions: Perspectives from Southeast Asia (Springer, 2023) collects philosophical approac…