Eli Elinoff

From the Editor: Environmental Politics in and after Military Authoritarianism in Thailand

This special collection for the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia explores the ongoing legacies of environmental politics in, and perhaps after, military rule in Thailand. The five scholars in the collection explore various directions Thailand’s environmental policy and politics have taken under the Thai military. Their work shows how ecological change in Thailand is shaped by struggles between democratic conflict, authoritarian impunity, capitalist extraction, and, more recently, advancing climate change. [...]

Julius Bautista

  • From the Editor– Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching Continuity in Times of Global Disruption

    The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis that has caused an unprecedented disruption of the foundational institutions in the public health and economic sectors. Given that 190 countries have mandated the complete or partial closure of schools – a measure that has affected more than 1.7 billion students worldwide (World Bank 2020) – it is important to underscore that the pandemic should also be considered a global educational crisis. Audrey Azouley, the Director-General of UNESCO, has declared that COVID-19 has caused “the most unprecedented disruption in the history of education.“ (UNESCO 2020: iii).   Educational institutions around the world have responded by implementing measures with the intent of maintaining the continuity and inclusiveness of their programs while safeguarding the interests [...]

A Publication | AT THE CROSSROADS

Message from the Editor:

 

KRSEA has achieved its new milestone both in terms of greater global reach and its continued promotion of indigenous languages of Southeast Asia. It is now time to celebrate our achievement with the launch of this book. At the Crossroads unravels a critical juncture in Southeast Asia, from 2017 to 2021, a juncture replete with changes, contestations and challenges facing the region, from different viewpoints: political, economic, social, and cultural. This time, we bring together all the English articles published from January 2017 to December 2020 into one volume.

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TRENDSETTERS

Myanmar Under Siege

by Jeff Kingston in Issue 30

Myanmar’s abounding despair gave way to euphoria when the National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, won a landslide victory in the 2015 general elections. Another landslide in 2020 suggested the possibility of consolidating democracy, but the military had other ideas and launched a coup on February 1st to thwart the will of the people just as it did thirty years ago. But unlike then, the people have had a taste of democracy and the genie is out of the bottle. The military can gun down protestors but is powerless to kill the ideals that motivate the pro-democracy movement. At best the junta can win a Pyrrhic victory in relying on its ghastly tactics of repression, but this is a recipe for prolonged instability and a national catastrophe. Unleashing paramilitary goon squads to roam the streets beating and killing unarmed peaceful [...]

Book Reviews

A Publication | The Blooming Years

This collection of articles from the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (KRSEA) is published with the financial support of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University. We have compiled all the English articles from Issue 13 (March 2013), to Issue 20 (September 2016). This period marked a turning point for KRSEA with the re-launch of the website in March 2013 and the new online archive of earlier issues.

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