New Books in Southeast Asian Studies

S. Lawreniuk and L. Parsons, “Going Nowhere Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality” (Oxford UP, 2020)

Sabina Lawreniuk and Laurie Parsons
Going Nowhere Fast
Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Geography New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books in World Affairs New Books Network September 22, 2020 Dino Kadich

Going Nowhere Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality (Oxford UP, 2020) brings together more than a decade’s worth of research during one of the most consequential moments in Cambodian history. After years of staggering economic growth and a political breakthrough in 2013, disappointment set in as the fruits... Read More

Brian Eyler, “Last Days of the Mighty Mekong” (Zed Book, 2019)

Brian Eyler
Last Days of the Mighty Mekong

Zed Books, 2019

New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in Environmental Studies New Books in Geography New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Science & Technology New Books in Southeast Asian Studies September 21, 2020 Patrick Jory

The Mekong River is one of the world’s great rivers. From its source in the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau it snakes down through southern China and then borders or runs through all the countries of mainland Southeast Asia: Myanmar, Thailand, Lao, Cambodia and Vietnam. Almost 70 million people depend either directly or... Read More

Kris Alexanderson, “Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire” (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Kris Alexanderson
Subversive Seas
Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire
Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books in the Indian Ocean World New Books in World Affairs New Books Network September 14, 2020 Michael G. Vann

In Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire (Cambridge UP, 2019), Kris Alexanderson offers a revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It highlights the importance of shipping, port cities, and maritime culture to the political struggles... Read More

Alicia Turner, “The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire” (Oxford UP, 2020)

Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, and Brian Bocking
The Irish Buddhist
The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in Biography New Books in British Studies New Books in Buddhist Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network August 31, 2020 Patrick Jory

Buddhism has always been a world religion, but its popularity in the West really dates only from the late nineteenth century, when much of the Buddhist world was subject to European colonial rule. Of all those Westerners who became interested in, and sought to promote Buddhism at this time, perhaps... Read More

Roman David and Ian Holliday, “Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar” (Oxford UP, 2018)

Roman David and Ian Holliday
Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar

Oxford University Press, 2018

New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Sociology New Books in Southeast Asian Studies August 17, 2020 Nick Cheesman

Democracy is a popular topic among scholars of politics in Southeast Asia. Liberalism is not. Or at least it hadn’t been up until the last few years, which have seen a spate of books with liberalism in the title: on Islam in Indonesia, capitalism in Singapore, post-colonialism in the Philippines,... Read More

Leah Zani, “Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos” (Duke UP, 2019)

Leah Zani
Bomb Children
Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos
Duke University Press, 2019

New Books in Anthropology New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Military History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Poetry New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Southeast Asian Studies August 5, 2020 Lachlan Summers

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Leah Zani, a public anthropologist and poet based in California, about her truly wonderful book Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos (Duke University Press, 2019). Her research takes place half a century after the CIA’s Secret War in Laos –... Read More

Edward Alpers, “The Indian Ocean in World History” (Oxford UP, 2014)

Edward Alpers
The Indian Ocean in World History

Oxford University Press, 2014

New Books in African Studies New Books in History New Books in Middle Eastern Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in South Asian Studies New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books in the Indian Ocean World New Books Network July 22, 2020 Ahmed Yaqoub AlMaazmi and Kelvin Ng

Edward Alpers’s The Indian Ocean in World History (Oxford University Press, 2014) is a concise yet an immensely informative introduction to the Indian Ocean world, which remains the least studied of the world’s geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from... Read More

Angela S. Chiu, “The Buddha in Lanna: Art, Lineage, Power, and Place in Northern Thailand” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)

Angela S. Chiu
The Buddha in Lanna
Art, Lineage, Power, and Place in Northern Thailand
University of Hawaii Press, 2017

New Books in Art New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Buddhist Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network July 20, 2020 Olivia Porter

For centuries, wherever Thai Buddhists have made their homes, statues of the Buddha have provided striking testament to the role of Buddhism in the lives of the people. The Buddha in Lanna: Art, Lineage, Power, and Place in Northern Thailand (University of Hawaii Press, 2017) offers the first in-depth historical study... Read More

Vincent Bevins, “The Jakarta Method” (Public Affairs, 2020)

Vincent Bevins
The Jakarta Method
Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
Public Affairs, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Genocide Studies New Books in History New Books in National Security New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network July 1, 2020 Michael G. Vann

Why did the word “Jakarta” appear as graffiti on the streets of Santiago in 1973? Why did left-wing Chilean activists receive postcards in the mail with the ominous message “Jakarta is coming”? Why did a Brazilian general lose his temper in an interview with university students, threaten their safety, and... Read More

Kevin W. Fogg, “Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution” (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Kevin W. Fogg
Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution

Cambridge University Press, 2019

New Books in History New Books in Islamic Studies New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Political Science New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Religion New Books in Religion & Faith New Books in Southeast Asian Studies New Books Network June 30, 2020 Faizah Zakaria

As Indonesia nears the 75th anniversary of its proclamation of independence this year, the socio-political debates surrounding her birth as a nation-state take on contemporary salience. In Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution (Cambridge UP, 2019), Kevin W. Fogg analyzes the religious aspirations that motivated many Muslim revolutionaries to fight the return of... Read More