Southeast Asian Studies

Southeast Asian Studies

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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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James Villanueva, "Awaiting MacArthur's Return: World War II Guerrilla Resistance against the Japanese in the Philippines" (UP of Kansas, 2022)

October 8, 2024

Awaiting MacArthur's Return

James Villanueva
Hosted by Ari Barbalat

Over the course of World War II, guerrillas from across the Philippines opposed Imperial Japan's occupation of the archipelago. Although the guerrilla…

Juan José Rivas Moreno, "The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

October 7, 2024

The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838

Juan José Rivas Moreno

Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known…

Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives

October 6, 2024

Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives

Alyssa Paredes

This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, gl…

Prabowo Subianto and the Decline of Indonesian Democracy

October 2, 2024

Prabowo Subianto and the Decline of Indonesian Democracy

Edward Aspinall

Today’s episode focuses on Indonesia, the presidential election held in February 2024, and the impending inauguration of the winner of that election, …

Charles Keith, "Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France" (U California Press, 2024)

October 1, 2024

Subjects and Sojourners

Charles Keith
Hosted by Patrick Jory

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…

James A. Anderson, "The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road: Trade, Security, and State Formation" (U Washington Press, 2024)

September 30, 2024

The Dong World and Imperial China's Southwest Silk Road

James A. Anderson
Hosted by Huiying Chen

From the eighth to thirteenth centuries along China’s rugged southern periphery, trade in tribute articles and an interregional horse market thrived. …

Mark Tamthai: Remembering Chaiwat Satha-Anand

September 27, 2024

Mark Tamthai: Remembering Chaiwat Satha-Anand

Mark Tamthai
Hosted by Duncan McCargo

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…

Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky, "Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)

September 24, 2024

Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia

Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky
Hosted by Yadong Li

In the twenty-first century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once concentrated in Europe and North America, global inf…

Soraj Hongladarom et al., "Philosophies of Appropriated Religions: Perspectives from Southeast Asia" (Springer, 2024)

September 21, 2024

Philosophies of Appropriated Religions

Soraj Hongladarom, Jeremiah Joven Joaquin, and Frank J. Hoffman
Hosted by Malcolm Keating

The open-access edited volume Philosophies of Appropriated Religions: Perspectives from Southeast Asia (Springer, 2023) collects philosophical approac…

Beng Huat Chua, "Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore's Public Housing" (NUS Press, 2024)

September 19, 2024

Public Subsidy, Private Accumulation

Beng Huat Chua
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

The achievement of Singapore’s national public housing program is impressive by any standard. Within a year of its first election victory in 1959, the…

Talking Thai Politics: Pannika Wanich, Progressive Activist

September 12, 2024

Talking Thai Politics: Pannika Wanich, Progressive Activist

Pannika Wanich
Hosted by Duncan McCargo

In this inaugural episode of Talking Thai Politics, Pannika Wanich of the Progressive Movement talks about generational contestation in Thailand, as w…

Lesbian Poetry in the Philippines

September 12, 2024

Lesbian Poetry in the Philippines

Naomi Cammayo
Hosted by Natali Pearson

Lesbian poetry as a form of socio-political praxis in the Philippine context. This episode’s guest argues that lesbian writing – by lesbians and about…

Sharon M. Quinsaat, "Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

September 9, 2024

Insurgent Communities

Sharon M. Quinsaat
Hosted by Michael Johnston

When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form a diaspora? In Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Dia…

Faizah Zakaria, "The Camphor Tree and the Elephant: Religion and Ecological Change in Maritime Southeast Asia" (U Washington Press, 2023)

September 4, 2024

The Camphor Tree and the Elephant

Faizah Zakaria
Hosted by Colum Graham

Recurring tropes about fragmented communities living on frontier forestlands living in Southeast Asia are that they are either guardians of flora and …

Constance L. Kirker and Mary Newman, "Mango: A Global History" (Reaktion Books, 2024)

August 31, 2024

Mango

Constance L. Kirker and Mary Newman
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Mango: A Global History (Reaktion, 2024) by Constance L. Kirker & Dr Mary Newman is a beautifully illustrated book that takes us on a tour through the…

Francisca Yuenki Lai, "Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires" (Hong Kong UP, 2021)

August 25, 2024

Maid to Queer

Francisca Yuenki Lai
Hosted by Qing Shen

Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires (Hong Kong UP, 2021) is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop…

Justine Chambers, "Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar" (NUS Press, 2024)

August 15, 2024

Pursuing Morality

Justine Chambers
Hosted by Patrick Jory

What is the right way to live? This is an old question in Western moral philosophy, but in recent years anthropologists have turned their attention to…

How – and How Much – has Malaysian Politics Changed Since 2018, and Why?

August 10, 2024

How – and How Much – has Malaysian Politics Changed Since 2018, and Why?

Meredith Weiss

In this episode, host LSE Southeast Asia Centre Director John Sidel speaks with Meredith Weiss, Professor of Political Science at SUNY Albany and a le…

Lio Mangubat, "Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves: Lost Tales from the Philippine Colonial Period, 1565-1946" (Faction Press, 2024)

August 8, 2024

Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves

Lio Mangubat
Hosted by Nicholas Gordon

Baseball’s introduction to the Philippines. The slot machine trade between Manila and Shanghai. A musical based extremely loosely on the life of the s…

Politics in Action 2024: Myanmar Update

August 2, 2024

Politics in Action 2024: Myanmar Update

Moe Thuzar
Hosted by Natali Pearson

Politics in Action is an annual forum in which invited experts provided an analysis of the current political situation in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, M…