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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:
October 1, 2024
Subjects and Sojourners
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…
August 15, 2024
Pursuing Morality
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…
June 1, 2024
Incomplete Conquests
When the Spanish colonization of the Philippines began in 1565, early reports boasted of mass conversions to Christianity and ever-increasing numbers …
April 5, 2024
Silver Screens and Golden Dreams
Within the social sciences and the humanities, international research in Burma/Myanmar studies tends to lean toward political science and Buddhist st…
March 1, 2024
Forsaken Causes
Ryan Wolfson-Ford’s provocative new book, Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos (U Wisconsin Press, 2024), is an intel…
December 15, 2023
Colonial Law Making
In 1863 the French established a protectorate over the kingdom of Cambodia. The protectorate, along with Vietnam and Laos, later became part of the co…
December 1, 2023
Indigenizing the Cold War
Historians have tended to view the Cold War as a global ideological confrontation between an expansionist communist Soviet Union and a capitalist Unit…
August 1, 2023
Reconstructing God
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…
April 1, 2023
Dynastic Democracy
When scholars analyse Thai politics, they tend to give importance to institutions like the monarchy, the military, the parliament, and political parti…
February 1, 2023
Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand
The city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand has become the destination for a growing segment of the international tourism market: religious tourism. I…
December 1, 2022
Vietnamese Migrants in Russia
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 …
October 3, 2022
The Road to Dien Bien Phu
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 t…
August 1, 2022
A History of Thailand
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.…
June 1, 2022
Colonizing Animals
Colonial Myanmar was teeming with animals, both wild and domesticated. Yet few histories have devoted close attention to the importance of animals to …
April 1, 2022
Disunion
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 antico…
February 1, 2022
Cambodia
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…
December 1, 2021
The First Vietnam War
When people think of the “Vietnam War” they usually think of the hugely devastating and divisive conflict between North Vietnam and a United States-ba…
August 2, 2021
Uneasy Military Encounters
Since 2004 the Malay-Muslim majority provinces in the border region of southern Thailand have been wracked by a violent insurgency. Over 7000 people h…
June 1, 2021
Future Forward
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 …
April 1, 2021
Teardrops of Time
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 1980…
February 1, 2021
Making Two Vietnams
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 …
December 21, 2020
Man of Contradictions
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…
September 21, 2020
Last Days of the Mighty Mekong
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 bor…
August 31, 2020
The Irish Buddhist
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 Buddhis…