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About Duncan McCargo
Duncan McCargo writes about Southeast Asia, especially Thailand's politics. Other interests include contemporary fiction, Victorian literature, photography and the Titanic disaster. Duncan is President's Chair in Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where he is also a professor of English. He edits the Talking Thai Politics podcast, founded the Nordic Asia Podcast and is a host for the Literature and Southeast Asian Studies Channels on NBN. Contact: duncan.mccargo@ntu.edu.sgDuncan McCargo is an eclectic, internationalist political scientist, and literature buff: his day job is teaching Southeast Asian politics at NTU in Singapore.
NBN Episodes hosted by Duncan:
November 8, 2024
Tak Bai and Beyond, Thailand’s Southern Insurgency
In the wake of the twentieth anniversary of the dreadful Tak Bai massacre, what are the prospects for a resolution of the long-standing insurgency in …
October 28, 2024
Thailand: Contestation, Polarization, and Democratic Regression
Why has Thailand’s politics been so contested and so intensely polarized in recent decades? How can we account for the persistent democratic regressio…
October 11, 2024
Talking Thai Politics: Kunthika Nutcharut, Defending Disruptors
What is it like to be a human rights lawyer in Thailand? How does the new generation of 2020s political activists differ from those of previous eras? …
September 27, 2024
Mark Tamthai: Remembering Chaiwat Satha-Anand
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…
September 12, 2024
Talking Thai Politics: Pannika Wanich, Progressive Activist
In this inaugural episode of Talking Thai Politics, Pannika Wanich of the Progressive Movement talks about generational contestation in Thailand, as w…
February 1, 2024
Branding Authoritarian Nations
What does nation-branding mean to you? For many listeners, the term probably conjures up ideas of catchy slogans and international tourism or trade pr…
December 19, 2023
Saving the Brontë Birthplace
Where were the Brontë sisters actually born? If this was a quiz question, most people would give the wrong answer. Even standard books on the Brontë f…
September 1, 2023
Ethnicity and Politics in Southeast Asia
What explains the varying treatment of ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia? Why have some states in the region been far more successful than others in…
August 4, 2023
Cause Lawyering and Human Rights in Indonesia
Why have issues of human rights become so contentious in Indonesia, 25 years after the much-heralded post-Suharto democratic transition? What kind of …
July 21, 2023
Electoral Reform and Democracy in Malaysia
Why is Malaysia in need of electoral reform? How can we explain recent changes including the anti-party hopping law and the successful UNDI18 campaign…
July 14, 2023
Ethnicity and Nation-Building in Myanmar
Did the bloody 1 February 2021 military coup in Myanmar produce an unexpected ‘solidarity dividend’ by unifying opponents of the new regime from a ran…
May 27, 2023
Tragic Nation
What went wrong with Burma’s democratic experiment? How are we to understand the country’s turbulent politics in the wake of the 2021 coup? In this c…
March 6, 2023
Constitutional Bricolage
Why has Thailand had 20 constitutions since 1932? What accounts for the remarkable veneration Thais often feel towards these short-lived documents? Ho…
February 24, 2023
Beijing's Global Media Offensive
How is China trying to influence media across Asia and indeed globally? Why has this ambitious project achieved rather mixed results so far? And how s…
December 16, 2022
Cultural Renewal in Cambodia
How far did post-UNTAC Cambodia exemplified an expanded Habermasian public sphere? What happened when a range of aid agencies, private donors, activis…
November 4, 2022
Civil-Military Relations and Global Security Governance
What are the problems with Samuel Huntington’s views about civil-military relations? Why do military coups persist in countries such as Pakistan, and …
July 22, 2022
Japanese Immigration and the Korean Minority
Why does Japanese immigration policy have such a bad name? What are the historical origins of tight immigration policies? Where have these policies le…
July 15, 2022
Publishing in Asian Studies Journals
How can we get our articles in Asian studies published? What criteria should we use in selecting what journals to target? On what basis do journal edi…
July 4, 2022
A Soldier King
What is the relationship between the military and the monarchy in Thailand? How has that relationship changed since King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X) assum…
July 1, 2022
The Struggle for Hong Kong
Why should we view the anti-China protests that began in Hong Kong in 2019 through a comparative lens? How do earlier episodes in Hong Kong’s history …
May 2, 2022
Infiltrating Society
Why is the Thai military so deeply embedded in socio-economic development projects, longer after the end of the Cold War? How come serving generals co…
April 29, 2022
The Future of Japanese Studies
Does the rise of China mean that studying Japan is inexorably declining? Many students become interested in Japan because of popular culture, such man…
March 21, 2022
Understanding Timor-Leste's 2022 Presidential Elections
Timor-Leste is choosing a president. What is the significance of the 2022 presidential elections in Timor-Leste? Has Asia’s youngest and newest countr…
March 1, 2022
Chasing Freedom
In conversation with Duncan McCargo about her new book Chasing Freedom: The Philippines Long Journey to Democratic Ambivalence (Sussex Academic Press,…