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Power and ritual in the city: Mourning and political juncture at Bangkok's Sanam Luang Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Trude Renwick, Bronwyn Isaacs
This article argues that ritual remains a potent instrument for the generation of national identity and citizenship in Southeast Asia. We focus our analysis on the ritualisation of public space in Bangkok, Thailand, under the military-led government of General Prayut Chan-o-cha. The authors provide an ethnographic analysis of Sanam Luang, arguing that between 2016 and 2017 funeral rites held in this
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Eunuchs in Burmese history: An overview Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Katherine A. Bowie
Despite the fact that Burmese courts had sizeable harems and that eunuchs are typically associated with harems, little attention has been paid to the presence of eunuchs in Burmese courts. This essay provides an overview of the existing English-language literature on eunuchs in Burmese courts, focusing on the three Burmese courts for which mention of eunuchs has survived in the historical record, namely
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Hanging for murder in late colonial Burma Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ian Brown
The first decades of the twentieth century saw a marked rise in the number of recorded murders in British-ruled Burma. The sentence for murder prescribed by the Indian Penal Code—in force in Burma as a province of British India—was death or transportation for life. However, while Burma's murder count was rising sharply, the number of executions taking place in the province's jails remained broadly
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Spectres of a dictatorship: Law's limit concepts in Lino Brocka's Orapronobis Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 José Duke Bagulaya
This article reads Filipino director Lino Brocka's film Orapronobis (1989) as a commentary on the 1987 Philippine Constitution, a post-dictatorship document which the director helped draft as a member of the Philippine Constitutional Commission. Using a ‘law and film’ approach, the article argues that the film visualises law's limit concepts such as the state of exception, hostis generis humani, and
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The origins of scientific Buddhism in nineteenth-century Thai intellectual thought Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Davisakd Puaksom
This essay proposes a revisionist interpretation of the debates between Buddhists and Protestants in nineteenth-century Siam. It argues that the Buddhist–Protestant debates were different in nature from the earlier Buddhist–Catholic clashes, which were interwoven with colonial ambitions and occasionally erupted in acts of persecution against the Catholics. The debates among Protestant missionaries
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The fall of Singapura: The necessity of unjust violence in the Sejarah Melayu Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Zi Hao Tan
In the Sejarah Melayu or Malay Annals, the fall of Singapura is widely appraised as an act of divine retribution unleashed upon rulers who have committed injustice. Implicit in this theodicy is the promise of moral justice enshrined in the Bukit Siguntang covenant, which ensures mutual reciprocity between the rulers and the ruled. But a cautious approach to the narrative of Singapura's demise reveals
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Rethinking the causes of Islamisation: Ontological (in)security, postcoloniality, and Islam in Malaysia Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Nicholas Chan
Theories about state-led Islamisation tend to attribute the phenomenon to domestic dynamics, such as political competition, institutional co-optation, and changing social norms. When exogenous factors are considered, they usually refer to imported ideologies. Moreover, Islamisation is often depicted as a firm rejection of the West. This article seeks to complicate those explanations. Using insights
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The eradication of Cham Muslim women's ethnic identity in Cambodia, 1975–79 Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Francis Williams
Between 1975 and 1979 the genocidal regime of Democratic Kampuchea (DK) in Cambodia targeted minorities including the Cham Muslim population. To hold the regime to account for its crimes against the Cambodian people, the Cambodian government in 2001 formed the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Using transcripts of testimonies and judgements from the ECCC, this article examines
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The Johor–Singapore Causeway: Celebrating and conceptualising its centenary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Francis E. Hutchinson, Shaun Lin, Tim Bunnell
The Johor–Singapore Causeway was inaugurated on 28 June 1924. With this, Singapore became physically connected to the Malay Peninsula via a 1,056-metre-long raised track across the Johor Strait. Since then, this understated piece of infrastructure has come to underpin many aspects of life in Singapore and Malaysia. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated 300,000 people crossed between Malaysia and
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Co-opting the stars: Divination and the politics of resistance in Buddhist Thailand Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Edoardo Siani
Beginning in 2020, young people in Thailand have led rallies to protest the interference of the military and the monarchy in politics. They have also condemned the role played by Buddhist discourse and court ritual in celebrating kings as divine. ‘No God, No King, Only Human’ reads a protest sign. Simultaneously, however, some groups of protesters have used the same ‘religious’ repertoire, such as
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Localised impacts on Islamist political mobilisation in Indonesia: Evidence from three sub-provincial units Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Jung Hoon Park
What explains the regionally varying electoral outcomes of Islamist parties in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim democracy? By employing a three-stage approach inspired by Evan Lieberman's nested analysis, this article aims to gain a better understanding of how adaptability to local political contexts matters in determining the vote share of the Islamist Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) at the sub-provincial
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Temoq, Semelai, Semaq Beri and Jakun: Using Orang Asli ethnonyms to reconstruct Orang Asli ethnohistory Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Rosemary Gianno
This article investigates the history of the ethnonyms Temoq, Semelai, Semaq Beri and Jakun, which label Orang Asli groups in the south-central lowlands of Peninsular Malaysia. It combines ethnographic and historical accounts and census analysis to argue that each of these ethnonyms, in the twentieth century, became attached to the groups that now carry them by R.J. Wilkinson and other colonial ad
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Folk magic in the Philippines, 1611–39 Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Stephanie Joy Mawson
While studies of commerce and trade in Manila's ‘Golden Age’ are common, the impact of the city's multiethnic society on the daily lives of its inhabitants has often been harder to gauge. Based on 98 Inquisition cases, this article examines the widespread use of folk magic in colonial Manila, offering new insights into cultural interactions and inviting new reflections on the nature and extent of colonial
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The flower, then the sword: The militarisation of Burma's most beautiful book Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Alexandra Kaloyanides
This article examines the highly ornamented Burmese manuscript known as the Kammavāca to understand what its luxurious materials and distinctive illustrations reveal about Buddhist practice and politics in Burma's last kingdom, the Konbaung dynasty (1752–1885). This article shows that the illustrations on Kammavāca manuscripts transformed during the Konbaung dynasty to feature new sword-wielding guardians
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Disenchanted: Thailand's indigenisation of the American Cold War, seen through the experience of Gordon Young Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Sinae Hyun
Oliver Gordon Young was a third-generation American Baptist missionary who served with the Central Intelligence Agency during the 1950s and the United States Agency for International Development during the 1960s. He left Southeast Asia in 1974 disenchanted with his missions in the border areas of Thailand, Burma, and Laos. His ‘disenchantments’ with these two preeminent American Cold War agencies illustrated
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Settler cities in the Dutch Indies: Race, class and the emergence of settler colonialism Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Farabi Fakih
This article explores the colonial land tenure system which evolved in the municipalities of the Dutch Indies in the early twentieth century, resulting in structural differences in urban property ownership. The development of a formal and informal property regime during this period created the logic of racialised capitalism that underpinned settler colonialism. By looking at the actions of the Indo-Europeesche
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Opium consumption and living standards in Singapore, 1900 to 1939 Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Keen Meng Choy, Ichiro Sugimoto
Studies on opium consumption in Southeast Asia have thus far not addressed the issue from an economic welfare perspective. This article assembles data from colonial sources to derive estimates of aggregate opium consumption in Singapore during the early decades of the twentieth century. It shows that an alternative measure of welfare that includes opium in the consumption basket led to a declining
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‘Rice ambiguity’ and the taste of modernity on Siberut Island, Indonesia Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Darmanto
Indigenous Mentawai on Siberut Island (Indonesia) consume sago and tubers as their staple foods. Since the early twentieth century, Dutch colonial officers, missionaries, migrants, and Indonesian state agencies have strongly encouraged the cultivation and consumption of rice in lieu of these native staples. While Mentawai find rice tastier, easier to serve, and more prestigious, they also discover
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Utsana Phloengtham's The Story of Jan Dara as a Buddhist modernist novel Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Paul Lewis McBain
Utsana Phloengtham's The Story of Jan Dara is one of the most widely known stories in Thailand. It is remembered as ‘erotic fiction’ as well as an ‘immortal classic’. It has also been praised as a Buddhist treatise. Yet, despite being replete with Buddhist terminology and references, it has never been analysed in English as a work of Buddhist fiction. This article argues that Jan Dara is one of the
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Colonial heritage as bricolage: Interpreting the colonial built environment in Surabaya, Indonesia Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Freek Colombijn
One of the most visible and enduring vestiges of colonialism is its buildings. In this article I address the question of how current approving references to the colonial buildings in Indonesia should be explained, looking at one particular city, Surabaya. The cheerful, innovative adoption of colonial themes defies an analysis in terms of ‘imperial debris’. I propose to borrow the term ‘bricolage’ from
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Peace pacts and contentious politics: The Chico River Dam struggle in the Philippines, 1974–82 Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Markus Balázs Göransson
In the 1970s, communities of the Kalinga sub-ethnic group in the Cordillera Mountains in northern Philippines successfully halted the construction of a series of hydroelectric dams along their main waterway, the Chico River, which would have caused their displacement. Based on interviews and archival research, the article examines the role played by a Kalinga political institution known as the bodong
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Historical and cultural negotiations in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah: Beyond the utopia of ‘unity in diversity’ Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Yulia Nurliani Lukito
There have been some changes to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, a popular ethnographic theme park built nearly five decades ago during President Suharto's New Order era to present a utopian version of ‘Unity in Diversity’ (Bhinneka Tunggal Ika), Indonesia's state motto. This article discusses the changes and continuities manifested in the present-day slightly expanded Taman Mini. Unlike earlier scholarship
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‘A ruinous infatuation’: Nutmeg cultivation in early Penang Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Christina Skott
Between 1786 and the 1860s, Penang Island was transformed from a lush tropical island into a British colony covered in ordered plantations. As a consequence of Britain's temporary possession of the fabled Spice Islands, nutmeg emerged as the most important crop, but after decades of experimentation and uncertainty, its cultivation ultimately failed. Although the struggle for nutmeg to become commercially
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The cultural meaning of ‘female genital mutilation’ in rural Malaysia: The female body and sexuality through the medical gaze Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Yufu Iguchi, Abdul Rashid
This article explores increasing medical control over sexuality and the female body in rural Malaysia by examining the formation of the global discourse of ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM) through local discourses on sunat (circumcision). Regarding FGM as a Foucauldian discourse, the article analyses interviews with traditional practitioners and villagers’ statements. The expansion of modern medical
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Praxis and policy: Discourse on Cham Bani religious identity in Vietnam Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 William B. Noseworthy, Pham Thi Thanh Huyen
Past scholarship has described the Cham Bani religious community as a heterodox and syncretic version of Islam. We argue for a more nuanced interpretation: assertions of orthopraxy and heteropraxy shape contemporary debates in Cham communities in Vietnam. Based on a robust selection of source material—including the positions of government officials, high-ranking clerics, community members, and local
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The twofold challenge for Karen Baptist intellectuals in colonial Burma: A national claim and its failure Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Hitomi Fujimura
Two years after the Anglo-Burmese War, with the British colonial takeover of Burma complete and yet still subject to outbreaks of rebellions, a small group of Karen Baptist intellectuals in Rangoon who formed the Karen National Association (KNA), attempted to assert a political claim to Karen nationhood. This article focuses on two letters, in English and Sgaw Karen, presented by Karen delegates on
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Remembering a forgotten war: The Vietnamese state, war veterans and the commemoration of the Sino-Vietnamese War (1979–89) Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Martin Grossheim
This article argues that in the last few years the Vietnamese state and the Vietnamese Communist Party have upgraded the commemoration of a Sino-Vietnamese War (1979–89) that had fallen into oblivion after the normalisation of Sino-Vietnamese relations in 1991. The first part of the article analyses the way in which Vietnam officially commemorated the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of the war against
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Islamic particularity and academic freedom: Public institutions and doctrinal difference in contemporary Indonesia Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Usep Abdul Matin, Julian Millie
The Indonesian Muslim community includes segments dedicated to contrasting pious projects and doctrinal positions, yet the nation's Ministry of Religion (MORA) manages aspects of Islamic life while purporting to more or less transcend such contrasts. This tension recently emerged in Indonesian public life when a state Islamic university defended the autonomy of its research practices against a challenge
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Bangkok electric Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Samson Lim
Visitors to the city of Bangkok are often struck by the sight of exposed, dangling, and dangerous electrical wires and a multitude of inconveniently placed utility posts that impede pedestrian circulation. This article argues that the city's seemingly dysfunctional electric power infrastructure is not a failure of modernisation but the outcome, or ‘style’, of a socio-technological system built by and
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On the cultural politics of representing Dutch Moluccans at Barak 1B in the Netherlands Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Hamzah Muzaini
This article considers heritage-making associated with Moluccans who, in 1951, were forced out of political necessity to migrate from what is present-day Indonesia to the Netherlands. Specifically, it examines how this story of movement has been represented at Barak 1B, a museum that marks the presence of the minority group within the Dutch nation. Following a brief history of the community, the article
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Nusakambangan in context: Life and labour conditions in a late colonial penal plantation in the Netherlands Indies, 1905–42 Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Klaas Stutje
This article examines the history of the Indonesian penal island of Nusakambangan between 1905 and 1942, based on quantitative and qualitative archival research. It compares labour conditions of inmates in Nusakambangan to those of workers in private plantations to intervene in a decades-long scholarly debate over the colonial state's role in managing labour conditions in the late colonial period.
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Our mountains and rivers have changed: Nature and empire in the Ming colonisation of Đại Việt, 1407–28 Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Kathlene Baldanza
Scholars have yet to fully recognise the central role environment played in inspiring, and stymying, the Ming dynasty invasion and colonisation of Đại Việt (1407–27) and subsequent Vietnamese resistance movement. During the initial campaign, the Yongle emperor and his generals identified miasma, the illness-inducing hot and misty climate of the Sino-Vietnamese uplands (‘the Dong World’), as their primary
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Shifting policies for shifting cultivation: A history of anti-swidden interventions in Vietnam Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Pamela McElwee
Swidden cultivation has long been seen as incompatible with state goals for development, modernisation and environmental protection in Vietnam. This article provides a history of anti-swidden programmes since the French colonial period: how targets were selected, how different justifications were used, how interventions were implemented, and what the impacts were. Shifts occurred over time in targets
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A deliberately forgotten battle: The Lapiang Manggagawa and the Manila Port Strike of 1963 Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Joseph Scalice
This article documents a significant and previously unknown episode in the history of Philippine labor, the explosive Manila Port Strike of the arrastre service workers—stevedores and longshoremen—in 1963. The strike was among the largest, costliest and most politically charged labor struggles in the nation's history and yet not only has no account of it been written, it has found no mention in over
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Resistance and collaboration: The Japanese Occupation of Leyte, Philippines, and the role of the masses in wartime violence Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Satoshi Ara
Philippine historiography has long ignored the significant but complex role played by the people at the margins of society during the Japanese Occupation, except for some rural movements such as the Hukbalahap in central Luzon. During the Second World War, besides the coercion and violence perpetrated or orchestrated by the Japanese occupying forces from 1942, the people of Leyte experienced many kinds
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A forgotten philology Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Thomas M. Hunter
Richard Fox's More than words represents a sea change in the way we look at philology and textuality by decisively addressing a problem that was identified by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in Metaphors we live by. In this work, Lakoff and Johnson developed the idea of conduit metaphors, the notion that thought is communicated by first being packaged and conveyed in script language and then unpackaged
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Beyond words: Going off script in Theravada Southeast Asia Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Penny Edwards
Accounts of Buddhism in Thailand, Burma and Cambodia offer detailed descriptions of ‘the power attributed to inscribed amulets, tattoos, and related forms of writing’ (p. 8). But earlier scholarship on Southeast Asia ‘often looked down on non-literary uses of script’, treating it as either a ‘non-Buddhist “cultural” accretion or the ignoble trappings of popular superstition’ (p. 8). Such judgements
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The protective power of ‘wearing letters’ and ‘attiring texts’ in eighteenth-century Bali Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Kaja M. McGowan
When confronted with Hindu and Islamic script-bearing objects in Southeast Asia, I often find myself asking ‘What is a text?’ Such dynamic objects are often believed to be imbued with life and to partner with humans and other sentient beings in ritual exchanges, particularly where protection is required. This question has deeply informed my own work so, when reading Richard Fox's More than words: Transforming
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Bali, Java and Kawi letters: Translating more than words Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Laurie J. Sears
I am not a specialist on Bali. I did live in Bali for more than a year in total over the past several decades, thus witnessing first hand its changing lifeways. I am a cultural and intellectual historian of Bali's neighbouring island of Java, and I carried out research on the central Javanese, specifically Solonese, shadow theatre in the early part of my career. I spent around five years in the city
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Balinese concepts of letters in a Burmese context Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Thomas Nathan Patton
Over the years of studying the magical powers of words in the Burmese Buddhist context, I spent much of my research on the inner workings of the letter and phrase combinations and how the correct construction, combination and usage of these words, known in Burmese as inn, aing, and sama made for a potent prophylactic against a host of maladies. So focused had I been on the words that I had not taken
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Writing, complexity, translation Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Richard Fox
Let me begin with an expression of gratitude to Verena Meyer, Thomas Hunter, Penny Edwards, Laurie Sears, Tom Patton and Kaja McGowan. It is a rare privilege to be read with such nuance and generosity by one's colleagues. I have learned much from their comments here, as I have from their work more generally. Given the brevity of my response it will have to be selective, focusing on a couple of the
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More than diacritics: Writing, power, and the porosity of script and language in Java Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Verena Meyer
The world, Fox shows in More than words, tends to be a lot more open-ended than we imagine, with more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of, not just in our philosophy but also our philology. As a student of Javanese literature, I had encountered glimpses of this open-endedness on the pages of manuscripts where we sometimes find little dots on top of Javanese letters. These dots often appear
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France, the IUCN and wildlife conservation in Cambodia: From colonial to global conservationism Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Mathieu Guérin
The history of wildlife conservation in Cambodia in the twentieth century reveals the tensions that existed between the Khmer kingdom and international nature conservation networks, colonial or global. Wildlife conservation in Cambodia was not a priority for the French colonial administration. It only regulated hunting. While the global conservation movement was expanding via international conferences
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The Lumberman and the lumber industry in the 1950s Philippines Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Brendan Luyt
In 1954, a new Philippine trade periodical published its first issue, one of many to follow. The Lumberman, as well as providing a wealth of detail about the early postwar logging and lumber industry in the Philippines, also records a sustained attempt to imbue readers with a progressive forestry ethos capable of combating entrenched notions of the forests as wastelands and trees as a hindrance to
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Making a spectacle of the colony: Producing and consuming Pasar Gambir in the Dutch East Indies Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Esti Asmira
This article examines the first decade of Pasar Gambir as an annual week-long festival held in the Dutch East Indies in conjunction with Queen Wilhelmina's birthday. As a study of colonial spectacles, it seeks to address the dearth of scholarly literature that analyses how the Western exhibitionary complex functioned in a colonised environment. In producing Pasar Gambir, the Dutch colonisers did not
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Imagining Manila's future: Advertising's ideals for postwar reconstruction Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Paul Hogben
This article examines the role played by commercial advertising in promoting images of city reconstruction and architectural modernity within Manila in the years immediately following the end of the Second World War. It concentrates on the leading English-language daily, the Manila Times, which, from early 1946, began publishing advertisements that featured dramatic images of a future city of skyscrapers
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The Philippines. Martial law melodrama: Lino Brocka's cinema politics By José B. Capino Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. 328. Illustrations, Notes, Index. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Darlene Machell de Leon Espena
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Asia. The quotidian revolution: Vernacularization, religion, and the premodern public sphere in India By Christian Lee Novetzke New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. Pp. xxiv + 402. Maps, Plates, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Yigal Bronner
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The Philippines. Philippine modernities: Music, performing arts, and language, 1880 to 1941 Edited by José S. Buenconsejo Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 2017. Pp. 523. Plates, Notes, Bibliography, Index. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Sooi Beng Tan
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Southeast Asia. Shaṭṭārīyah silsilah in Aceh, Java, and the Lanao area of Mindanao By Oman Fathurahman Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2016. Pp. 139. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Michael Laffan
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Asia. The sharp knife of memory By Kondapalli Koteswaramma, trans. VB Sowmya New Delhi: Zubaan, 2015. Pp. 120. Notes. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-04-06 J. Devika
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Cambodia's orphan dance shows: From cultural salvation to child exploitation? Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (IF 0.673) Pub Date : 2022-01-14 Kathie Carpenter
In Cambodia, orphan dance shows were once popular as a way to preserve endangered art forms and to cultivate children's dignity and well-being. But they came to be seen as exploitative instead, and today are nearly nonexistent. This article examines the confluence of changes that caused this reversal of opinion. The reversal is due to both covert factors such as changes in constructions of childhood