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Abstract: We have a working definition of Indigenous Peoples and it excludes the dominant Burmans. Yet we must be careful. Many are still not ready to hear us. For now it is wiser to avoid the question of who is and isn’t Indigenous.1We never think of any nationality groups as left-behind or marginalized, or whatever term they are using.2In playing the indigenous card, the activists would only further stoke the flames of ethnic politics in Myanmar, where the differences between Burmans and non-Burmans have long been hyper-accentuated since the British colonial period.3 In this article, I discuss the challenges ethnically non-Burman activists in Myanmar encounter in articulating a politics of Indigenous identity in the face ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: What does the future of Southeast Asian societies after the COVID-19 pandemic look like for social scientists working in the region' It is clear that the practices of academic work—specifically the kinds that problematize power and side with those on the margins of society—have become increasingly complex as the pandemic has caused socio-economic inequalities to surface and deepened the precariousness of societies that are already grappling with unbalanced ecological, economic and social development. The urgent need to link health to other dimensions of society and unpack social inclusion and exclusion in COVID-19 responses has emerged as a key concern in social science discussions, and the articles in this Special ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In comparison with other countries in Southeast Asia, such as Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia, in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indonesia implemented looser measures to contain the spread of the virus (Amul et al. 2022, pp. 105–6). From the beginning of 2020 to mid-2021, it had the highest number of infections in Asia together with one of the lowest testing rates (France 24 2021). At one point it exceeded India in the number of infections among children, with the global media asserting that the Indonesian government had not taken COVID-19 seriously since the beginning of the outbreak (New York Times 2021). International reports stated that the Indonesian government was slow to respond to COVID-19 ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Government funding for social science research is generally minimal in the Philippines compared with the funding that the sciences receive, which may explain why funding for social science research centres is generally a rarity in the country’s universities. Any available funding for such centres is generally small and sometimes is not even sustainable. Although the situation in the wealthier private universities may differ, most universities typically struggle to obtain government allocations for research activities that may not have been previously budgeted for.The University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP CIDS) is no exception. Established in 1985, the UP CIDS is the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world at unprecedented speed, transcending territorial borders and highlighting the importance of both international collaboration as well as effective state responses in pandemic management. To this end, the role of science and scientists has come to the fore, especially in connection with fields such as virology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, vaccinology and medicine more generally. But science and medicine do not operate in a social vacuum, and we cannot neglect the importance of social science in developing effective responses to health crises. But what exactly is the role of social science in pandemic management' In February 2022, the World Health Organization ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Across the world, COVID-19 has proven to be a “threat multiplier”, exacerbating such pre-existing stress factors as environmental degradation, demographic burdens, economic inequity and social vulnerability, thus causing a “synchronous failure”, a complex type of crisis of biophysical origin, but interlocked and inter-systemic in nature (Homer-Dixon et al. 2015; Sciortino 2023a, p. 1). This feature makes it urgent to better understand how the implications of the pandemic intersect with human behaviour and societal and environmental systems in different settings in order to advocate context-specific action for structural change during the crisis and thereafter. Here, the contribution of the social sciences can help ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A plantation is a giant—an inefficient and lazy giant—but still a giant. It takes up a huge amount of space. It is greedy and careless, destroying everything around it. It is alien, strange and unpredictable.A plantation is a machine that assembles land, labour and capital in huge quantities to produce monocrops for the world market. It is intrinsically colonial, based on the assumption that the people on the spot are incapable of efficient production.The two authors, Tania Li and Pujo Semedi, open their book with two complementary descriptions of the phenomenon of a plantation, letting us know that their work is a collective effort, and the result of years of dialogue. When the reader reaches the end of the book ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Archaism—the espousal of antiquated cultural norms—is prevalently a conceited posture, but in his latest book the prolific anthropologist Michael Herzfeld theorizes it counterintuitively as a cultural practice that marginalized social groups deploy to reject the subaltern role in which they are cast by the state. This subversive use of archaism makes people into the “troubling traditionalists” of the subtitle. In the commonplace liberal view, traditionalism is troubling because its mobilization of cultural heritage to inform a nation’s envisioned future bespeaks reactionary ideologies. Herzfeld reverses this perspective by casting traditionalists as clever parodists who “challenge the moral and cultural authority ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This book is excellent on at least two counts. First, it provides an empirically rich and compelling account of land disputes in Indonesia. Such disputes are an enduring feature of Indonesia’s sociopolitical landscape and have proven to be remarkably resilient to regime change. During authoritarian and democratic periods alike, poor people occupying land in rural, urban and urbanizing settings have routinely been pushed aside to make way for plantations, housing estates, industrial zones, infrastructure projects and other purposes—often through violently coercive processes of dispossession. At the same time, some poor people, despite the legal and political obstacles they confront, have acquired broadly recognized ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In post-Soeharto Indonesia, religion should be an uncomplicated matter. Since the second of four constitutional amendments, which was made on 18 August 2000, Indonesia’s 1945 Constitution has guaranteed a raft of liberal democratic rights, including the rights to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly. In practice, however, Indonesia’s authorities and judiciary typically enforce and uphold these guarantees in an inconsistent manner. Indeed, religion in contemporary Indonesia continues to be the subject of corporatist capture, with religious umbrella organizations often working with the authorities to prioritize the protection of religious orthodoxy and the sensibilities of the supposed ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Common in the literature on political Islam is the trope pitting the forces of the state against those of Islamists. Islamists—whether they be institutional Islamists, radical Islamists or downright violent Islamists—are assumed to be working against the state, whose ideology usually has a secular basis and a broadly nationalist outlook.Maznah Mohamad’s The Divine Bureaucracy, however, proffers a very different take on the subject. Going beyond what Norshahril Saat (2018) contends is a partial Islamist capture of the Malaysian state, Maznah offers incriminating evidence of the internal workings of a Malaysian polity comprehensively Islamicized by means of rational, secular and routinized processes of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In this recounting of stories of rural transformation, the anthropologist Holly High uses the concept of “Lao socialism” rather than “post-socialism”. High emphasizes that Lao socialism is not purely economic, but social and cultural as well, encompassing the values, beliefs, ideas, aesthetics, moral positions and symbolic meanings that have been commonly institutionalized in many different forms in the daily lives of the people. Projectland also tells the story of modernity in the context of Lao socialism and Lao indigenous culture. The author describes the various modernizing programmes taking place in New Kandon village in southern Laos in the wake of its relocation from the mountains to a plateau following the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A biography of Dutch UN adviser Albert Winsemius (1910–96)—important for the post-independence development of Singapore but also for his European homeland after 1945—was missing until now. Stoelinga, a former businessman who lived in Singapore during the crucial 1965–1971 period, aims to fill that void with an adaptation of his dissertation for a general audience. His work on Winsemius merits attention from scholars of Singapore and of the intellectual history of development.Pivotal work by Hong Lysa, Huang Jianli, Loh Kah Seng and others revised the orthodox Singapore story of Lee Kuan Yew’s introduction to the anti-colonial Chinese student activists. Stoelinga’s work offers tantalizing clues into what helped Lee ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Rare is the opportunity to be treated to “a history of an art historian’s work” (p. 15) in Southeast Asia. Rarer still if this history is arrayed in the form of an anthology of writings that span more than four decades. Writing the Modern, more than a tender work of homage, is also an anthology of significant value for readers interested in the historiography of modern and contemporary art in Southeast Asia.Edited by Ahmad Mashadi, Susie Lingham, Peter Schoppert and Joyce Toh under the auspices of the Singapore Art Museum, where Sabapathy played a central role in shaping its regionalist institutional vision from its early years, the publication compiles Sabapathy’s past writings into four broad themes: (1) The ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This valuable new book is unprecedented. The early years of Thai music recording history are almost entirely unresearched beyond scattered magazine articles and a few dissertations in Thai. The author is an ethnomusicologist whose careful scholarship often addresses topics long missing from the English language scholarship on Thai music. His first book addressed the history and cultural impact of the popular music form known as luk thung, and it reflected similarly exhaustive research (Mitchell 2015). His new book intersects with several bodies of scholarship, including popular music studies, historical ethnomusicology and Thai history. Research on the earliest years of the global recording industry has been ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: After two and a half years of renewed civil war, Myanmar’s pro-democracy coalition contests half of the country. The forces of the State Administration Council (SAC) junta, reliant upon air power and artillery to hold the country’s urban areas, are weakening under the pressure of an increasingly capable alliance of a few longstanding ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) and the National Unity Government (NUG) along with its People’s Defence Forces (PDF) (Ye Myo Hein 2023; Davis 2023b). Yet, in spite of the tactical successes of the resistance against a demoralized enemy, the war remains stalemated at the strategic level (The Irrawaddy 2023b; Ye Myo Hein and Myers 2023a).In this volatile political-security landscape ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00
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