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Southeast Asian Studies May 14, 2021

Authoritarian Modernization in Indonesia's Early Independence Period

The Foundation of the New Order State (1950-1965)

Farabi Fakih

Hosted by Faizah Zakaria
There has been a resurgent global interest in the origins and formation of authoritarian regimes as many states around the world drift away from liberal democracy. Indonesia’s experiences with such …

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SSEAC Stories May 13, 2021

Opening Australia's Multilingual Archives to Rethink Australian Identity in the Asia-Pacific

An interview with Adrian Vickers

Adrian Vickers

Hosted by Natali Pearson
Australia has always been multilingual. Yet English language sources have dominated political and popular discourses over the last few centuries, overshadowing the significant contribution made by other languages and cultures …
SSEAC Stories May 6, 2021

Of Rice and Men

How Food Production is Driving Antimicrobial Resistance amongst Fungi in Vietnam

Justin Beardsley

Hosted by Natali Pearson
Fungal infections are amongst the leading infectious disease killers globally. They result in more deaths than malaria, and almost as many as tuberculosis. However, they are often overlooked, and receive …
Southeast Asian Studies May 3, 2021

Democracy for Sale

Elections, Clientelism, and the State in Indonesia

Edward Aspinall and Ward Berenschot

Hosted by Michele Ford
In post-Suharto Indonesian politics the exchange of patronage for political support is commonplace. Clientelism saturates the political system through everyday practices of vote buying, influence peddling, manipulating government programs, and …
Nordic Asia Podcast May 3, 2021

The Politics of Online News in Cambodia

A Discussion with Astrid Norén-Nilsson

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
In this episode Astrid Norén-Nilsson of Lund University discusses her latest research about the Cambodian online news outlet Fresh News with Duncan McCargo, the Director of NIAS. Fresh News has …
SSEAC Stories April 29, 2021

Tales of Unsung Heroes--How Thailand’s Village Health Volunteers Helped Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Discussion with Anjalee Cohen

Anjalee Cohen

Hosted by Natali Pearson
On 13 January 2020, Thailand confirmed the first known case of COVID-19 outside of China. As one of the world's most popular tourism destinations, with the majority of its travellers …
Nordic Asia Podcast April 26, 2021

Thai Student Protests Past and Present

A Discussion with Thongchai Winichakul

Thongchai Winichakul

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
This episode is from the opening session of the 2021 Thailand Update Conference, held annually at Columbia University and co-hosted by NIAS. Distinguished Thailand historian Thongchai Winichakul is in conversation …
SSEAC Stories April 22, 2021

Back from the Barracks?

A Discussion of Civil-Military Relations and the Erosion of Philippine Democracy with Professor Aries Arugay

Aries Arugay

Hosted by Natali Pearson
From drugs, communism and terrorism, and now the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippines under Duterte can been characterised as a rolling series of security threats. To manage these threats, the Duterte …
Southeast Asian Studies April 15, 2021

Labor and Politics in Indonesia

Teri L. Caraway and Michele Ford

Hosted by Nick Cheesman
How did Indonesia’s labour movement go from being small and divided at the demise of the New Order regime in 1998 to play lead parts in politics some two decades …
SSEAC Stories April 15, 2021

Decolonising Research Collaboration Practices in Indonesia

Research Partnerships in Southeast Asia Series

Elisabeth Kramer

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
For the next five weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts on research partnerships in Southeast Asia. In the context of COVID-19, it has become clear that …
Ethnographic Marginalia April 8, 2021

New Ethnographies of the Global South

In Conversation with Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido

Victoria Reyes and Marco Garrido

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
How can Sociology be nudged away from its traditional parochialism to embrace empirical work that focuses on the global south? Marco Garrido (assistant professor of sociology at the University of …
Indian Ocean World April 8, 2021

Empire of Convicts

Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia

Anand A. Yang

Hosted by Kelvin Ng
Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia (University of California Press, 2021) (University of California Press, 2021) focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia …
SSEAC Stories April 8, 2021

The Subject and the Partner in Malaysia

Research Partnerships in Southeast Asia Series

Fiona Lee

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
For the next five weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts on research partnerships in Southeast Asia. In the context of COVID-19, it has become clear that …
Indian Ocean World April 5, 2021

Fleeting Agencies

A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya

Arunima Datta

Hosted by Kelvin Ng
Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (Cambridge UP, 2021) disrupts the male-dominated narratives by focusing on gendered patterns of migration and showing how South …
Southeast Asian Studies April 1, 2021

Teardrops of Time

Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong

Arnika Fuhrmann

Hosted by Patrick Jory
Angkarn Kallayanapong (1926-2012) was arguably Thailand’s most famous poet of the modern period. His career spanned the era from the 1940s to the 1980s when Thai society was fundamentally transformed …
SSEAC Stories April 1, 2021

Building Relationships in Vietnam from a Distance

Research Partnerships in Southeast Asia Series

Jeffrey Neilson

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
For the next five weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts on research partnerships in Southeast Asia. In the context of COVID-19, it has become clear that …
Nordic Asia Podcast March 26, 2021

Thailand's New Political Generation with Duncan McCargo - Forward to the Future?

Duncan McCargo

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
In this podcast, Andrew Nathan of Columbia University talks to Duncan McCargo about the origins of Thailand's recent youth-led street political demonstrations. How far did the success of the short-lived Future Forward …
SSEAC Stories March 25, 2021

Delving into the Unknown in Myanmar

Research Partnerships in Southeast Asia Series

Michael Dibley

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
For the next five weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts on research partnerships in Southeast Asia. In the context of COVID-19, it has become clear that …
Nordic Asia Podcast March 22, 2021

Myanmar After the Coup with Kristian Stokke and Marte Nilsen

Kristian Stokke and Marte Nilsen

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
In this episode, Kristian Stokke, Professor at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, talks to Marte Nilsen, Senior Researcher at PRIO, about the consequences of …
Nordic Asia Podcast March 19, 2021

The state of regional connectivity between China and Southeast Asia with Xiangming Chen

Xiangming Chen

Hosted by Andreas Forsby
In this episode, Professor Xiangming Chen from Trinity College in Hartford joins Andreas Bøje Forsby from NIAS to talk about his new co-authored book The Belt and Road Initiative as …