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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 …

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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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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 …
Southeast Asian Studies September 1, 2023

Ethnicity and Politics in Southeast Asia

Amy H. Liu and Jacob I. Ricks

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
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What explains the varying treatment of ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia? Why have some states in the region been far more successful than others in handling relations with minorities? And …
Nordic Asia Podcast September 1, 2023

Digital Repression in Thailand

A Conversation with Janjira Sombatpoonsiri

Janjira Sombatpoonsiri

Hosted by Petra Alderman
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How serious an issue is digital repression in Thailand? Who is behind it? And what effects does it have on Thai people? Listen to Janjira Sombatpoonsiri as she talks to …
Indian Ocean World August 27, 2023

Boats in a Storm

Law, Migration, and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia, 1942-1962

Kalyani Ramnath

Hosted by Ahmed Almaazmi
For more than a century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This …
Nordic Asia Podcast August 18, 2023

Civil Society Elites

Field Studies from Cambodia and Indonesia

Astrid Norén-Nilsson, Amalinda Savirani, and Anders Uhlin

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
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What does civil society look like in Indonesia and Cambodia, and who are civil society elites? In this podcast interview, editors of the recently published NIAS Press edited volume Civil …
Anthropology August 16, 2023

Fishers, Monks and Cadres

Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam

Edyta Roszko

Hosted by Adam Bobeck
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This remarkable and timely ethnography explores how fishing communities living on the fringe of the South China Sea in central Vietnam interact with state and religious authorities as well as …
People, Power, Politics August 16, 2023

What Can We Learn from Indonesian Democracy?

A Conversation with Dan Slater

Dan Slater

Hosted by Petra Alderman
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What can we learn from Indonesia about democratic resilience and backsliding? Why should we think of Indonesian democracy as a useful example? And what are the three key lessons we …
General History August 13, 2023

Between War and the State

Civil Society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975

Van Nguyen-Marshall

Hosted by Michael Vann
The history of South Vietnam (1954-1975) is in the midst of a major revision. Historians such as Van Nguyen-Marshall are rejecting old clichés of corruption and subservience to the United …
Nordic Asia Podcast August 11, 2023

Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos

The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia

Phrae Chittiphalangsri, Vicente L. Rafael, and Vicente L. Rafael

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
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What does a map of Southeast Asia as a pegasus have to do with translation and Southeast Asia? How can we think of translation as anything other than a …
SSEAC Stories August 10, 2023

Why Consumers Choose Private Over Public Health Services in Vietnam

Reflective Accounts of Health Providers in Vietnam with Dr Mai Nguyen

Mai Nguyen

Hosted by Natali Pearson
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Demographic changes, rise in disposable income, and steady economic growth has led to a growing demand for healthcare services in Vietnam. But the public healthcare system struggles to meet the …
Buddhist Studies August 8, 2023

Traditional Medicine in Laos

A Discussion with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh

Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh

Hosted by Pierce Salguero
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Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with two guests, Ounkham Souksavanh and Elizabeth Elliott, to talk about community engagement and community health in Laos. They discuss how Elizabeth as a medical …
Nordic Asia Podcast August 4, 2023

Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia

A Discussion with Tim Mann

Tim Mann

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
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Why have issues of human rights become so contentious in Indonesia, 25 years after the much-heralded post-Suharto democratic transition? What kind of role has the Indonesian Foundation of Legal Aid …
Southeast Asian Studies August 1, 2023

Reconstructing God

Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu

Marnie Feneley

Hosted by Patrick Jory
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In December 1936, a villager was led by a dream to the ruins of the West Mebon shrine in Angkor where he uncovered remains of a bronze sculpture. This was …
Nordic Asia Podcast July 21, 2023

Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia

Helen Ting M. H. and Donald L. Horowitz

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
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Why is Malaysia in need of electoral reform? How can we explain recent changes including the anti-party hopping law and the successful UNDI18 campaign to lower the voting age? And …