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About Nick Cheesman
Proud NBN host and podcasting advocate. Also co-founder of the Interpretive Methods Research Group, Australian Political Studies Association, and director of the Myanmar Research Centre at the Australian National University. Open links on the right for more.NBN Episodes hosted by Nick:
January 27, 2026
How to Conduct Interpretive Research
What happens when an academic supervisor and their former student get together to write and edit a book on researching our social world? In How to Con…
November 1, 2025
Calibrated Engagement
This episode of New Books in Southeast Asian Studies features Stéphen Huard talking about Calibrated Engagement: Chronicles of Local Politics in the H…
October 1, 2025
Researching Street-Level Bureaucracy
Researching Street-level Bureaucracy: Bringing Out the Interpretive Dimensions (Routledge, 2024) is the first among a number of new titles in the Rout…
July 17, 2025
Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Myanmar
Systemic sexual violence by the Myanmar army and proxies began to be widely reported in the 2010s, in the course of genocidal violence against Rohingy…
July 9, 2025
Moving Memory
Two juxtaposed years frame the subject matter of Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile. In one, 1973, General Augusto Pinoche…
April 22, 2025
The Grammar of Time
In The Grammar of Time: A Toolbox for Comparative Historical Analysis (Cambridge UP, 2023), political scientist Marcus Kreuzer synthesises the differe…
March 3, 2025
The Art and Craft of Comparison
There are many books giving advice about research methods on the market, but The Art and Craft of Comparison (Cambridge UP, 2019) is the first monogra…
October 22, 2024
Behavioural Public Policy in Australia
Max Weber once remarked that bureaucracy’s power comes from its massing of expert and factual knowledges. It amasses this power, in part, by keeping m…
August 6, 2024
Lost in Ideology
If ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as it appears to be today then, Jason Blakely argues in his n…
May 15, 2024
States of Subsistence
In 1974 the government of Jordan established a new ministry to oversee a nationwide scheme to buy and distribute subsidized flour and regulate bakerie…
April 16, 2024
Rights Refused
Over three years have passed since a military coup of February 2021 in Myanmar precipitated a popular uprising that has since transformed into a revol…
March 10, 2024
Lights, Camera, Feminism?
Recent years have brought an upsurge in celebrity activism. Not a day goes by without an actor or musician taking to a stage, a podium or the internet…
November 1, 2023
Outsourcing the Polity
In late 2015 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi led Myanmar’s National League for Democracy to a smashing general election victory. In one of her first public appea…
September 20, 2023
Rooted Globalism
Triumphant capitalism has in our time engendered a new global class that lives and works in a borderless world, beyond the reach of national politics …
July 31, 2023
Analyzing Social Narratives
Analyzing Social Narratives (Routledge, 2015) is one of the concise and informative volumes in the Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods, whose tit…
June 2, 2023
A History of Manners and Civility in Thailand
If you’ve visited Thailand even for a short time you’ve probably been given, or have come across, some basic instructions on dos and don’ts — where to…
May 18, 2023
Freedom Inside?
Are meditation and yoga offered to prisoners merely to have them acquiesce to being incarcerated and degraded? Or can they help prisoners interrogate …
March 13, 2023
Marriage Unbound
In recent years the authors of a slew of books and articles have debated whether China is moving toward or away from the rule of law. Against this end…
January 1, 2023
Stories from an Ancient Land
In 2013, the Journal of Burma Studies published an article titled “An Introduction to Wa Studies.” It seems that even within the last decade the Wa, a…
October 18, 2022
Bread and Freedom
A decade has passed since the Arab Spring of 2011, during which an uprising in Egypt ended three decades of rule by Hosni Mubarak without realizing a …
September 1, 2022
Crimes in Archival Form
Though human rights monitors talk of fact-finding missions and reports, human rights facts are, like all social phenomena, not in fact found but made …
August 9, 2022
Mobilizing in Uncertainty
Anastasia Shesterinina begins Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia (Cornell University Press, 2021) with an account of…
April 22, 2022
Rethinking Comparison
With Rethinking Comparison: Innovative Methods for Qualitative Political Inquiry (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Erica S. Simmons and Nicholas Rush…
February 15, 2022
Power, Protection and Magic in Thailand
In this episode of New Books in Southeast Asian Studies we travel with Craig J. Reynolds to the mid-south of Thailand in the first half of the twentie…