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- Frontiers in the Duri Highlands, South Sulawesi: Control, Extraction and
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Abstract: Frontiers are often thought of in terms of material processes. These processes, however, are usually shaped by the identities and concepts of the people and groups living in an area that becomes a frontier. This article argues that material and political processes of resource extraction and control are best understood together with identities in these regions. It analyses the frontier processes in the Duri highlands in South Sulawesi, but similar processes in other parts of Indonesia are also of relevance, where the distinction between a coastal or lowland realm (pesisir) and an interior (pedalaman) often structures spaces of identities and political economies. Located between the Bugis-dominated lowlands and the ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Blackness in Malaysia: Indigenous Kensiu Semang and Tamil Indians
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Abstract: Indigenous Semang, Indians and dark-skinned visitors from Africa and North America experience anti-Black racism in Malaysia, a former British colony with white supremacist legacies. Attempting to explain contemporary racism in Malaysia, scholars often stress postcolonial racialization and Otherness stemming from Malay supremacy (Ong 1999, p. 221; Kahn 2006; Peletz 2020, p. 94). For instance, Kahn (2006, p. xv) states, “Like many others, I have been disturbed by the high levels of racism, patriarchy and exclusion that continue to exist at all levels of Malaysian society, a consequence of the hegemony of a particular nationalist narrative of Malay indignity.” The complex connections of colonial white supremacy to ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Parallel Developments: Reform, Renovation, and the Language of Change in
Chinese Scholarship on Vietnam since the 1980s-
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Abstract: The Vietnamese political economy underwent critical reforms in the 1980s that boosted the country’s development. Over the past four decades, Vietnam has transitioned from one of the world’s poorest and most diplomatically isolated countries into a middle-income nation and a respected member of organizations like the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations. 1 This transformation has drawn the attention of scholars globally. Chinese academia was among the earliest to study Vietnamese reform and changes in its political economy after 1975. This interest was driven by diverse factors, such as geographical proximity and similarities in political and ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-19T00:00:00-05:00
- On Other Indonesians: Nationalism in an Unnative Language by J. Joseph
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Abstract: The book’s title is provocative—who or what are Other Indonesians' And regarding the subtitle, I wondered, what is an “unnative” language' As a cultural anthropologist who has worked primarily with Papuans in eastern Indonesia since 2003, I am familiar with Indonesian citizens who do not necessarily see themselves as orang Indonesia (literally, Indonesian people) and who are often regarded by orang Indonesia as orang Papua (Papuans), but I was not sure whether these are the Other Indonesians mentioned in the title. Not to spoil the surprise, but they are not.The overarching argument of the book, as I understand it, is that because Indonesian is no-one’s native language, it affords opportunities for diversity ... Read More
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- Heritage and the Making of Political Legitimacy in Laos: The Past and
Present of the Lao Nation by Phill Wilcox (review)-
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Abstract: In Laos, there is an odd co-presence of symbols of its royalist past on the one hand and of present-day socialist structures and rhetoric on the other. Phill Wilcox aims to study the question of how both get together. Luang Prabang, the study site, manifests this rub between the royal and colonial past, as preserved in the context of the UNESCO world heritage status, and the socialist present particularly.Using the example of the National Museum, which was once the Royal Palace, Wilcox shows that the past is encompassed by the socialist present by means of silencing potentially contestable aspects of the past, most notably the end of the last king, his wife the queen, and the crown prince. Exhibition and tour ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-19T00:00:00-05:00
- From Tribalism to Nationalism: The Anthropological Turn in Laos—A
Tribute to Grant Evans ed. by Yves Goudineau and Vanina Bouté (review)-
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Abstract: This collection of essays provides a sample of the research done in Laos by Western scholars in anthropology and related fields over the last twenty years. Many of the chapters first appeared in French in 2008, while some others were published in journals since that time. But for the wider readership beyond the small group of scholars who focus on Laos, the essays present new insights.Yves Goudineau’s introduction provides an overview of research on society and culture in Laos. N.J. Enfield describes problems and prospects regarding studies of the languages of Laos and points to the importance of nurturing local research skills. Official reluctance to allow or enable field research has repeatedly been an obstacle ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Consumption and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes: Societal Transformations
and Everyday Life by Arve Hansen (review)-
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Abstract: Ethnographies of economic transition and accompanying social transformations can have short shelf lives for contemporary societal analysis in a country like Vietnam, where GDP growth has been one of the highest in Asia for over a generation. Situated field research is essential to document the rapid developments that have long been under way in the country and region. Nonetheless, given the inevitable temporal lag of long-term fieldwork and subsequent academic publishing, book-length studies of economic transitions often make their strongest contributions as archives of the everyday anticipations and apprehensions that accompanied accumulated structural changes. Such in situ reflections are often forgotten as the ... Read More
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- Wayward Distractions: Ornament, Emotion, Zombies and the Study of Buddhism
in Thailand by Justin Thomas McDaniel (review)-
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Abstract: Wayward Distractions is the first of a two-volume collection of essays by Justin McDaniel. An influential and widely read scholar of Buddhism and Thailand, McDaniel has also published some relatively difficult-to-access articles. Such collected essays are especially valuable: they collect very specific and disciplinarily important arguments, evidence and analysis, opening up new perspectives on the subject as well as introducing the scholarly communities that produce that knowledge.McDaniel calls these articles side projects—studies that were important to him, but which emerged out of what were initially distractions from his primary subjects, drawn by an attraction to a sense of abundance in Thai Buddhist life. ... Read More
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- In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua by
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Abstract: Sophie Chao’s book asks readers to rethink the existing paradigms of multispecies worldmaking by questioning facile assumptions of the inherent morality of non-human species in relation to human communities through a rich ethnographic analysis of the Marind, a community of lowland Indigenous peoples in Merauke, West Papua. Chao’s sympathetic and urgent voice brings readers deep into the ontological crisis caused by the oppressive presence of the palm oil sector.As something both obscured yet ever-present in transnational commodity chains, palm oil is largely discussed within the conceptual frames of expansion, extraction and extinction. The book explores these themes from the lens of the Marind communities that ... Read More
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- The Candidate’s Dilemma: Anticorruptionism and Money Politics in
Indonesian Election Campaigns by Elisabeth Kramer (review)-
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Abstract: As the largest democracy in Southeast Asia, Indonesia has held several democratic elections since the fall of the authoritarian regime in 1998, which have been lauded for their fairness and transparency. But while Indonesia has made significant progress in terms of democratic consolidation, it still faces significant challenges in terms of corruption and money politics, particularly during election campaigns. Elizabeth Kramer’s book provides a comprehensive analysis of these challenges and the strategies that political candidates use to navigate them.The Candidate’s Dilemma is based on extensive political ethnographic work and interviews with political candidates, party officials and campaign managers in ... Read More
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- Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts: Spiritual Places in Urban Spaces by Terence
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Abstract: The oft-unspoken reality for any scholar working on religion is that the subject of our study is something that is often difficult, if not impossible, to accurately capture in words. No matter how lyrical the writer, or how lucid the prose, the accurate presentation of the numinous often evades scholars. Perhaps this is the point. Notwithstanding this, it is difficult to escape the feeling that something is lacking from discourses of religion. This is the void that Terence Heng’s contribution fills. Emanating from his expertise in visual sociology, but speaking to cognate disciplines, the book is unique in that it is an image-led academic text.Spanning nine chapters—of which seven are substantive, and using the ... Read More
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- The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte by
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Abstract: Written during the height of the pandemic in the Philippines, Vicente Rafael’s book offers a “prismatic” history of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s regime through a sustained engagement with the aesthetics of death, authoritarian discourse and colonial history (p. 3). Rafael draws upon Michel Foucault’s concept of biopolitics and Achille Mbembe’s thoughts on necropolitics to interrogate why Duterte was popular (enjoying a ninety-one per cent approval rating in 2020) despite his regime’s impotent response to the pandemic. He makes the case that Duterte was popular because he was a “sovereign trickster” (p. 83) who was endearing precisely because of his vulgarity and brutality. The “war on drugs”, which has left ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Riverine Border Practices: People’s Everyday Lives on the Thai-Lao
Mekong Border by Thanachate Wisaijorn (review)-
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Abstract: While projects to dam the waters of the Mekong move forward, infrastructures of crossing expand to facilitate and regulate movement. The fifth Friendship Bridge connecting Thailand and Laos is slated for completion in early 2024, ready to change the flow of people and goods across this winding water border. The many meanings of “border crossing” in the lives of local people living along the river is taken up by Thanachate Wisaijorn in this book, with particular interest in understanding how people practise mobility around quasi-official border points.Wisaijorn employs Homi Bhabha’s notion of the Third Space, stressing the importance of hybridity in the expression of transitional identities in this borderland area. ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion,
Ethics and Property by Minh-Ha T. Pham (review)-
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Abstract: Don’t read the comments. For many a news article, that simple advisory serves to caution liberal readers that egregious voices, cloaked in ethereal anonymity, have already spewed their vitriolic misogyny, racism or homophobia into the response section. But what about social media posts and comments ostensibly motivated by good intentions' Can everyday internet practices expose wrongdoing and ultimately effect positive change in the consumer marketplace' These are some of the questions that underlie Min-ha T. Pham’s compelling book.This book is centred on the global fashion market, exploring recent controversies on the internet. Pham’s lucid analysis describes how these battles to enforce ethical boundaries ... Read More
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- A Muslim of Chinese Descent in Soekarno’s Cabinet: The Multifaceted
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Abstract: On the sunny morning of 7 April 2019, a solemn procession filed slowly at Kalibata Cemetery in South Jakarta to lay to rest the exhumed remains of H. Mohammad Hasan 1 with full military honours. Hasan, a Chinese Indonesian Muslim, had a multifaceted life. He was an active member of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), a former member of parliament and a former minister under President Soekarno, as well as a passionate chess enthusiast and a major cocoa planter. In 1998, seven years after his death, President B.J. Habibie posthumously awarded Hasan the prestigious Bintang Mahaputra Adipradana, an award given to those who have made significant contributions to the country’s integrity, continuity and unity (Hedi 2021). This brief ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Life and Livelihood Experiences of Myanmar’s Displaced Women in
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Abstract: Forcible displacement is one of the most serious human rights violations that affect the daily lives and livelihoods of people. Myanmar has had a long history of political instability since its independence in 1948 (Harrell 2013, pp. 22–23), which has caused internal and cross-border displacement of millions of people (UNHCR 2022). The first displaced people from Myanmar arrived at Thailand’s western border with Myanmar in 1984,1 and the resulting temporary refugee camps have remained for almost four decades (Kung 2021). In February 2021, history repeated itself when the Myanmar military staged a coup, which has led to the displacement of more than two million people, including women of diverse socio-economic ... Read More
PubDate: 2024-07-19T00:00:00-05:00
- Author’s Rejoinder to Maurizio Peleggi’s Review of Subversive
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Abstract: Maurizio Peleggi’s respectful but critical review of Subversive Archaism (vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 473–75) opens up space for productive further discussion. His impressive historiography was an early inspiration for my involvement in Thai Studies. While he is certainly entitled to find my argument unpersuasive, I am puzzled that, while he uses the term “crypto-colonial” (Herzfeld 2002), he has difficulty in seeing the parallels—admitted differences notwithstanding—between the respective historical conditions of Thailand and Greece and the position of marginalized communities within each.We agree on one consequential point: subversive archaism often fails. It is a recognizable social tactic rather than a coherent social ... Read More
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