New Books in Southeast Asian Studies
Vennessa Hearman, “Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia” (NIAS Press, 2018)
Vennessa Hearman
Unmarked Graves
Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia
NIAS Press, 2018

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network October 22, 2018 Kelly McFall

This interview is the fourth and and final interview in a short series of podcasts about the mass violence in Indonesia.  Earlier this year I talked with Geoff Robinson, Jess Melvin and Kate McGregor and Annie Pohlman about their works. All of them have written thoughtful, carefully researched and richly... Read More
Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang, eds., “The Art of Neighbouring: Making Relations Across China’s Borders” (Amsterdam UP, 2017)
Martin Saxer and Juan Zhang, eds.
The Art of Neighbouring
Making Relations Across China's Borders
Amsterdam University Press, 2017

New Books in Central Asian StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books in World AffairsNew Books Network October 18, 2018 Ed Pulford

China’s growing presence in all of our worlds today is felt most keenly by those living directly on the country’s borders. They, together with the Chinese people who also inhabit the borderlands, are parties to a dazzling array of of China-driven transformations unfolding on a vast scale in economics, politics,... Read More
Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit, “A History of Ayutthaya: Siam in the Early Modern World” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit
A History of Ayutthaya
Siam in the Early Modern World
Cambridge University Press, 2017

New Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network October 3, 2018 Nick Cheesman

The dramatic fall and destruction of Ayutthaya at the hands of the Burmese in 1767 has been the subject of films, television shows, songs and books for popular audiences and classrooms, many of them aimed at stoking nationalist sentiment among the citizens of contemporary Thailand and Myanmar by invoking a... Read More
Jess Melvin, “The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder” (Routledge, 2018)
Jess Melvin
The Army and the Indonesian Genocide
Mechanics of Mass Murder
Routledge, 2018

New Books in Genocide StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Southeast Asian StudiesNew Books Network October 1, 2018 Kelly McFall

It’s not often that you run across a smoking gun. Jess Melvin did, at an archive in Banda Aceh. Since the massacres in Indonesia in 1965-66, academics, journalists, politicians and military officials  have argued about the motivations for the killing.  With little documentation to draw from, these debates relied on careful... Read More
Jan M. Padios, “A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines” (Duke UP,
Jan M. Padios
A Nation on the Line
Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines
Duke University Press, 2018

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Asian American StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in SociologyNew Books in Southeast Asian Studies September 10, 2018 Christopher B. Patterson

Jan M. Padios‘ new book A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines (Duke University Press, ) sheds light on the industry of offshore call centers in the Philippines, and attempts to understand the narratives cast upon call center workers as laborers whose main resource... Read More

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