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About Patrick Jory

Patrick Jory teaches Southeast Asian History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. He can be reached at: p.jory@uq.edu.au.

NBN Episodes hosted by Patrick:

Southeast Asian Studies August 1, 2023

Reconstructing God

Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu

Marnie Feneley

Hosted by Patrick Jory
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In December 1936, a villager was led by a dream to the ruins of the West Mebon shrine in Angkor where he uncovered remains of a bronze sculpture. This was …
Southeast Asian Studies April 1, 2023

Dynastic Democracy

Political Families of Thailand

Yoshinori Nishizaki

Hosted by Patrick Jory
When scholars analyse Thai politics, they tend to give importance to institutions like the monarchy, the military, the parliament, and political parties; or, political ideas like ‘royalist nationalism’ or democracy …
Southeast Asian Studies February 1, 2023

Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand

Encounters with Buddhist Monks

Brooke Schedneck

Hosted by Patrick Jory
The city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand has become the destination for a growing segment of the international tourism market: religious tourism. International tourists visit Buddhist temples, volunteer as …
Southeast Asian Studies December 1, 2022

Vietnamese Migrants in Russia

Mobility in Times of Uncertainty

Lan Anh Hoang

Hosted by Patrick Jory
Vietnam and Russia share a common socialist history dating back to the Cold War. But since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and Vietnam’s đổi mới reforms, Russia …
Southeast Asian Studies October 3, 2022

The Road to Dien Bien Phu

A History of the First War for Vietnam

Christopher Goscha

Hosted by Patrick Jory
The Vietnamese victory over the French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, which ended almost a century of French colonial rule in Indochina, is one of the most famous …
Southeast Asian Studies August 1, 2022

A History of Thailand

Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit

Hosted by Patrick Jory
This year sees the publication of the fourth edition of the book, A History of Thailand (Cambridge UP, 2022), by Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit. Remarkably, the Thai language translation of …
Southeast Asian Studies June 1, 2022

Colonizing Animals

Interspecies Empire in Myanmar

Jonathan Saha

Hosted by Patrick Jory
Colonial Myanmar was teeming with animals, both wild and domesticated. Yet few histories have devoted close attention to the importance of animals to British colonial rule in Myanmar. Jonathan Saha’s …
Southeast Asian Studies April 1, 2022

Disunion

Anticommunist Nationalism and the Making of the Republic of Vietnam

Nu-Anh Tran

Hosted by Patrick Jory
In popular understandings of the modern history of Vietnam we are familiar with Ho Chi Minh’s anti-imperialism, but we know much less about the anticommunist nationalism of South Vietnam – …
Southeast Asian Studies February 1, 2022

Cambodia

From Pol Pot to Hun Sen and Beyond

Sebastian Strangio

Hosted by Patrick Jory
For many people Cambodia’s modern history is overshadowed by the devastation and horror of the Khmer Rouge era between 1975 and 1979. Yet arguably the period since the fall of …
Southeast Asian Studies December 1, 2021

The First Vietnam War

Violence, Sovereignty, and the Fracture of the South, 1945-1956

Shawn F. McHale

Hosted by Patrick Jory
When people think of the “Vietnam War” they usually think of the hugely devastating and divisive conflict between North Vietnam and a United States-backed South Vietnam that finally ended in …
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 …
Southeast Asian Studies June 1, 2021

Future Forward

The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party

Duncan McCargo and Anyarat Chattharakul

Hosted by Patrick Jory
Thailand has been in a deep political crisis since the royalist-military coup against the Thaksin government in 2006. A second coup, in 2014, ushered in a hard-line military dictatorship. The …
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 …
Southeast Asian Studies February 1, 2021

Making Two Vietnams

War and Youth Identities, 1965-1975

Olga Dror

Hosted by Patrick Jory
We are familiar with the history of the division of Vietnam in 1954 into two states, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the north and the Republic of Vietnam in …
Southeast Asian Studies December 21, 2020

Man of Contradictions

Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia

Ben Bland

Hosted by Patrick Jory
Joko Widodo, or “Jokowi”, as he is popularly known, famously rose from a riverside shack to become president of Indonesia in 2014. In a country better known for decades of …
Southeast Asian Studies September 21, 2020

Last Days of the Mighty Mekong

Brian Eyler

Hosted by 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 …
Southeast Asian Studies August 31, 2020

The Irish Buddhist

The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire

Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, and Brian Bocking

Hosted by 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 …
Southeast Asian Studies May 18, 2020

The Crown and the Capitalists

The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation

Wasana Wongsurawat

Hosted by Patrick Jory
One can’t understand modern Thailand without understanding the role of the ethnic Chinese. And one can’t understand the role of the ethnic Chinese without understanding the history of their relationship …
Southeast Asian Studies February 18, 2020

Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters

Ethnography and Animism in East Timor, 1860-1975

Christopher J. Shepherd

Hosted by Patrick Jory
Anyone who tries to understand the history, religion, and especially the “culture” of Southeast Asia, will soon encounter the phenomenon of animism, the belief that landscapes, natural objects, trees and …
Southeast Asian Studies November 1, 2019

Home is Not Here

Wang Gungwu

Hosted by Patrick Jory
Wang Gungwu has long been recognized as a world authority on the history of China and the overseas Chinese. His work has been inspired by his own experience growing up …
Southeast Asian Studies September 30, 2019

Bangkok is Ringing

Sound, Protest, and Constraint

Benjamin Tausig

Hosted by Patrick Jory
The political protests of the “Red Shirts” movement in Thailand in April-May 2010 ended in tragedy, with the security forces killing over 90 people and injuring thousands more. Thailand’s political …
Southeast Asian Studies July 4, 2019

Engendering the Buddhist State

Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor

Ashley Thompson

Hosted by Patrick Jory
Thanks to the international tourism industry most people are familiar with the spectacular ruins of Angkor, the great Cambodian empire that lasted from about the 9th to the early 15th …
Southeast Asian Studies May 7, 2019

Thai Military Power

A Culture of Strategic Accommodation

Gregory Raymond

Hosted by Patrick Jory
Thailand is one of the world’s last remaining military dictatorships, and the last in Asia. While we are familiar with the Thai military’s frequent interventions in Thai politics, we know …
Southeast Asian Studies February 26, 2019

Vietnam

A New History

Christopher Goscha

Hosted by Patrick Jory
More than forty years after its end the Vietnam War casts a long shadow over our understanding of Vietnam’s modern history. But the acute focus on the war has perhaps …