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SSEAC Stories September 23, 2021

Stepping in to Improve Women’s and Babies’ Lives in Southeast Asia

Human Rights and Research in Southeast Asia Series

Camille Raynes-Greenow

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
In September-October 2021, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advocating for human rights in Southeast Asia. Maternal and …

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Nordic Asia Podcast September 17, 2021

Salafism and the State

Islamic Activism and National Identity in Contemporary Indonesia

Chris Chaplin

Hosted by Petra Desatova
How important is Islam to Indonesia’s identity? How different is Salafism from a more mainstream Sunni Islam? Why is it popular with mostly young Indonesian Muslims? And what effect does …
SSEAC Stories September 16, 2021

Preserving Local Languages to Protect Cultural and Environmental Rights in Laos

Human Rights and Research in Southeast Asia Series

Nick Enfield

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
In September-October 2021, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advocating for human rights in Southeast Asia. In the …
Southeast Asian Studies September 15, 2021

Language Ungoverned

Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949

Tom G. Hoogervorst

Hosted by Faizah Zakaria
Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 (Cornell UP, 2021) explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts – writings produced by the Chinese community in the Malay language – in …
Nordic Asia Podcast September 10, 2021

Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia

A Conversation with Raquel Carvalho

Raquel Carvalho

Hosted by Joanne Kuai
What is image-based abuse? Why has it been on the rise in Asia, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic? What has been done to tackle the issue? Raquel Carvalho, Asia Correspondent …
SSEAC Stories September 2, 2021

Grappling with the intersections of academia, advocacy and activism

Human Rights and Research in Southeast Asia Series

Elaine Pearson

Hosted by Thushara Dibley
For the next four weeks, SSEAC Stories will be hosting a mini-series of podcasts exploring the role that research plays in understanding and advocating for human rights in Southeast Asia …
Southeast Asian Studies September 1, 2021

Susceptibility in Development

Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia

Tanya Jakimow

Hosted by Michele Ford
Tanya Jakimow's book Susceptibility in Development: Micropolitics of Local Development in India and Indonesia (Oxford UP, 2020) offers a novel approach to understanding power in development through theories of affect and …
Nordic Asia Podcast August 27, 2021

Pandemic Precarity and the Livelihoods of Migrant Workers in China and Cambodia

A discussion with Dennis Arnold and Thomas Sætre Jakobsen

Dennis Arnold and Thomas Sætre Jakobsen

Hosted by Arve Hansen
Creating jobs and providing decent employment is central to global development agendas. Indeed, Sustainable Development Goal 8 targets nothing less than decent work for all by 2030. Yet precarious—simply put …
Nordic Asia Podcast August 20, 2021

A European Perspective on the Indo-Pacific

A Conversation with Camilla Sørensen

Camilla Sørensen

Hosted by Andreas Forsby
In this episode, Camilla T.N. Sørensen joins Andreas Bøje Forsby from NIAS for a conversation about the Indo-Pacific region as seen from a Danish and broader European perspective. Camilla was …
SSEAC Stories August 19, 2021

Spirits, Development and Chinese (Hydro)power: Ethnographic (Hi)stories from Upland Laos

A Conversation with Paul-David Lutz

Paul-David Lutz

Hosted by Natali Pearson
In the extreme north of Laos, in Phongsali Province, lies a tiny village home to around 24 households. Until recently it was a monoethnic Khmu village. The Khmu have had …
Southeast Asian Studies August 16, 2021

Tuberculosis - the Singapore Experience, 1867-2018

Disease, Society and the State

Kah Seng Loh and Li Yang Hsu

Hosted by Faizah Zakaria
Tuberculosis: The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018 (Routledge, 2021), co-written by Dr. Loh, a historian and Dr. Hsu Li Yang, a medical doctor offers an inter-disciplinary analysis of the way in the …
Nordic Asia Podcast August 13, 2021

Karen Sanctuaries

Memory, Biodiversity and Political Sovereignty

Terese Gagnon

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
Seeds, plants and food can act as repositories of memory and identity, thus countering the alienation caused by displacement. How does this manifest in the case of Karen refugee communities …
Nordic Asia Podcast August 6, 2021

Labor Pioneers

Economy, Labor, and Migration in Filipino-Danish Relations, 1950-2015

Nina Trige Andersen

Hosted by Duncan McCargo
What happened to the Filipinas who migrated to Denmark to staff iconic new international hotels in the 1960s and 1970s? Why did the Philippine government encourage so many talented people …
SSEAC Stories August 6, 2021

Disaster Resilience and Humanitarian Response in the Philippines

A Discussion with Dr Aaron Opdyke

Aaron Opdyke

Hosted by Natali Pearson
The Philippines is one of the most natural hazard-prone countries in the world. With the social and economic cost of disasters in the country increasing due to population growth, migration …
Southeast Asian Studies August 2, 2021

Uneasy Military Encounters

The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand

Ruth Streicher

Hosted by Patrick Jory
Since 2004 the Malay-Muslim majority provinces in the border region of southern Thailand have been wracked by a violent insurgency. Over 7000 people have been killed and many thousands more …
Indian Ocean World July 30, 2021

What Is Religious Authority?

Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia

Ismail Fajrie Alatas

Hosted by Kelvin Ng
What Is Religious Authority?: Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia (Princeton UP, 2021) by Ismail Fajrie Alatas draws on groundbreaking anthropological insights to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious authority, showing …
Law July 28, 2021

Myanmar's Enemy Within

Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'

Francis Wade

Hosted by Jane Richards
In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of widespread targeted violence against its Rohingya minority. The horrific atrocities was later described by United Nations experts as genocide. This had been building …
South Asian Studies July 28, 2021

The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750

David Veevers

Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
This is an important, revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. In The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600-1750 (Cambridge University …
Nordic Asia Podcast July 23, 2021

Popular Protests in the Age of #MilkTeaAlliance

A Discussion with Wasana Wongsurawat and Mai Corlin Fredriksen

Wasana Wongsurawat and Mai Corlin Fredriksen

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
What influence can online and visual activism have on protest movements? With a wave of anti-establishment protests sweeping over East and Southeast Asia over the past couple of years, the …
SSEAC Stories July 22, 2021

From the Archives: Building a Sustainable Future through Urban Governance with Dr Sophie Webber

Sophie Webber

Hosted by Natali Pearson
With two megacities and strong economic growth, Indonesia has seen dramatic rates of rural-urban migrations. According to the World Bank, nearly 70 percent of Indonesia's population are expected to live …