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- Interrogating Myanmar's 'Transition' from a Post-coup Vantage Point
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Abstract: Pondering, sometime in 1931, the ironies of post-hoc historical understanding, Walter Benjamin invoked a Hegelian aphorism. "Only when it is dark", he wrote (1968, p. 9), "does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehended." That an adequate grasp of the whole comes only after the fact will undoubtably also prove true for analysis of Myanmar's so-called 'democratic transition'—the ten-year period of quasi-civilian electoral rule that came to an end with the military coup of 1 February 2021. Yet in the years leading up to the coup there were, nonetheless, increasingly sober assessments and lucid analyses exposing the political knots and contradictions that had come to ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-22T00:00:00-05:00
- The Three Faces of Jean-Paul Sartre in Communist Vietnam, 1946–1986: New
Light on the Intellectual History of Contemporary Vietnam-
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Abstract: From its very earliest years, the Communist Party of Indochina (ICP)—founded in 1930 and later to become the Vietnamese Worker's Party (VWP) and then the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV)—distinguished two groups of French writers. On the one hand there were the 'progressives' (tiến bộ), whom the party addressed as 'comrades' (đồng chí) and considered the 'True Left'. This group was represented by Louis Aragon, Romain Rolland and Henri Barbusse. On the other hand there were the 'traitors' (phản trắc) and the 'bourgeois' (tư sản), such as André Gide and subsequently Françoise Sagan, Albert Camus and Simone de Beauvoir (Sông Hương 1937, p. 3).1 Oscillating between these two poles, the reception given to Jean-Paul ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-22T00:00:00-05:00
- "Nearest to the Norm": The Cultural Politics of Elite Youth Activism in
1960s Singapore-
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Abstract: On 20 November 1960, the undergraduates of the English-medium University of Malaya in Singapore surprised the self-governing state's prime minister Lee Kuan Yew when they mobilized to condemn the treatment by the People's Action Party (PAP) government of their newly appointed Professor of English, the British writer-academic Dennis Joseph Enright. PAP ministers construed comments that Enright made during his inaugural lecture as criticism of the government's cultural policies and berated him for interference in Singapore's politics (Enright 1969, p. 127). The next day, about five hundred students—one-third of the undergraduate population at the time—boycotted classes and protested the government's attempt "to ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Safe Migration and the Politics of Brokered Safety in Southeast Asia by
Sverre Molland (review)-
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Abstract: Safe migration has become the new buzzword among both government and non-governmental organizations concerned with cross-border labour migration, including in Southeast Asia. Sverre Molland's monograph is the first book-length, critical academic treatment of the subject for the Southeast Asian region. He defines safe migration as "migrant assistance that comprises pre-emptive and protective measures to enhance labour migrants' work conditions and wellbeing—which has become an emergent aid modality in the Mekong region and elsewhere" (p. 3). The book undoubtedly provides much-needed critical insights into the emergence of safe migration as discourse, policy and practice. Building on his previous book titled The ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-22T00:00:00-05:00
- The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia by
Arash Khazeni (review)-
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Abstract: This book explores the Indian Ocean World through the eyes of Persian, Mughal and British travellers during the transition from Mughal rule to British colonial rule. Based largely on neglected Persian language sources, it illuminates the eighteenth-century borderland sociopolitics of South and Southeast Asia, particularly with regards to what is now Myanmar, Bangladesh and South India. Persian was a key language of diplomacy and commerce during this period, and insights gleaned from studying a corpus of communications in this language go a long way towards balancing a history that had earlier relied heavily on British sources. Divided into two parts—"Indian Ocean Wonders" and "Mughal Meridian"—that examine travels ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech by Ronan
Lee (review)-
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Abstract: The plight of the Rohingyas became a global cause célèbre after the Myanmar army's brutal 'cleansing' operations in Rakhine State in 2016–17. Ronan Lee's book adds to the considerable activist literature exposing the humanitarian and legal aspects of an ongoing crisis. Lee, a former Australian politician and currently a fellow at Loughborough University's Institute for Media and Creative Industries, has crafted a book based on research going back to the outbreak of violence in 2012 and interviews conducted between 2015 and 2017. The voice of the author is pervasive in the style and content. As an activist-researcher, he backs key assertions of the Rohingya ideology that argues for their indigeneity based on the ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok's
Margins by Giuseppe Bolotta (review)-
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Abstract: Focusing on dek salam (slum children) in Bangkok, Belittled Citizens offers the readers a thorough examination of the lives of children living on the margins of society. This comprehensive and easy-to-read book is dedicated to a different way of thinking about children, culture, place and politics. Written in a highly accessible manner, free from disciplinary jargon and dense theory, the book conveys a strong ethnographic sense of young people's identity and agency in the adult world. Moreover, it offers intimate glimpses into the complex ways in which forms of domination by adults combine to model and shape children's minds and bodies as well as how children make sense of these forms of domination.Giuseppe ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Thai Politics in Translation: Monarchy, Democracy and the
Supra-constitution ed. by Michael K. Connors and Ukrist Pathmanand
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Abstract: Michael Connors and Ukrist Pathmanand frame the writings collected in their imaginatively conceived and thoughtfully executed collection, Thai Politics in Translation, with a discussion of a 2007 lecture delivered by Chiang Mai University legal scholar Somchai Preechasilpakul. They present the English translation of the text of that lecture, on "The Thai Supra-Constitution", as their book's second chapter. The chapter follows two pieces of the editors' own: an introduction titled "Debating the Bhumibol Era" and a first chapter on "Understanding Thai Conservatism".Somchai understands Thailand's aphiratthathammanun—the term that Connors and Ukrist deftly and rather ingeniously render into English as ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920–1945 by
Christina Elizabeth Firpo (review)-
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Abstract: Christina Firpo's latest book is a lively social history of the black market sex industry in late French colonial northern Vietnam, known then as Tonkin (1920–45). Focusing on impoverished Vietnamese women, an understudied group in the historical scholarship, Firpo maintains that the booming underground sex industry thrived because of what she calls the "spaces of tension" (p. 3) brought about by the inequality and discord of colonial policies. The policies led to inconsistencies in law, culture, economics, geography and demography that incentivized historical actors—pimps, madams, kidnappers, traffickers, sex workers—to exploit loopholes to seek out more favourable economic opportunities. The portrait that the ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Alluring Monsters: The Pontianak and Cinemas of Decolonization by Rosalind
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Abstract: The pontianak, a mythic ghostly figure in the form of an undead stillborn child, has long informed and shaped the Malaysian and Singaporean popular imagination to the extent that she has invariably become a popular subject of the silver screen. This book by Rosalind Galt is the first comprehensive study of the pontianak film subgenre, which has become part of popular culture in postcolonial Malaysia and Singapore.Galt argues that the pontianak's ubiquitous presence across the history of Singaporean and Malaysian cinemas offers rich and multiple site(s) of meaning pertaining to identity politics within the discourses and historical processes of decolonization while embodying intersecting anxieties: tradition and ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia by Anand
A. Yang (review)-
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Abstract: Penal transportation was a key facet of British Imperial rule. Beginning with the earliest deportations to America and Australia, the policy was subsequently replicated in other British colonies. In Empire of Convicts, Anand Yang focuses on the exile of Indian prisoners and their detention in British colonial outposts across Southeast Asia over the course of the 'long' nineteenth century—a trajectory of penal transportation that has received scant scholarly attention. In addressing this lacuna, Yang provides fascinating insights into the experience of the Indian convicts in these colonies with a masterful exposition of the circumstances that led to their deportation and the faculty with which the prisoners ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-22T00:00:00-05:00
- Politics as Usual: Online Political Disinformation Sharing among
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Abstract: According to recent findings from DataReportal (2022), Thais are among the most socially connected internet users in the world. As of the first quarter of 2022, about 78 per cent of the Thai population had access to the internet. The time that Thais spend online is remarkable. An average Thai spends about nine hours and eleven minutes on the internet each day, of which a little over three hours are spent on social media (Suchit 2019). That Thailand is highly connected in the online sphere has many positive social impacts. Nonetheless, it also brings about the spread of online disinformation, commonly known as 'fake news'. The use of disinformation for political gain almost assuredly dates to the early existence of ... Read More
PubDate: 2023-03-22T00:00:00-05:00
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