Title: Asian Workers Stories Author: ZHANG, Luka Lei (ed.) Publisher: Brooklyn, NY: Hard Ball Press, 2024 Working class stories are often pigeonholed as low-quality narratives about gritty reality or even worse, collectively labelled as a […]
Title: Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism & State Violence in Myanmar Author: Elliott Prasse-Freeman Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2023 Up until the 1960s, the field of Burma Studies benefited from the grounded, village-level work of scholars […]
Title: The United States, Southeast Asia, and Historical Memory Editors: Mark Pavlick, Caroline Luft Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2019 This collection of essays, evidence and interviews represents a searing indictment of United States Cold War foreign […]
Title: In the Year of the Rabbit: A Novel Author: Terence Harkin Publisher: Silkworm Books, 2021 The Vietnam War is a phrase that, whenever it is recalled, usually bears a range of different emotions, particularly for those […]
Title: Change and Identity in the Music Cultures of Lombok, Indonesia Author: David D. Harnish Publisher: Brill, 2021 This book completes its promise to “encapsulate the variety of musics and identities generated on the island […]
Title: 베네딕트 앤더슨(Benedict Anderson) Author: Suh Jiwon Publisher: Seoul: CommunicationBooks Inc, 2018. http://commbooks.com/도서/베네딕트-앤더슨/ This is the first book in Korean that exclusively introduces the academic life of Benedict Anderson. As we know, Anderson “was born […]
Book title: 众女喧哗 ─ 从性别政治到生命叙事 (Heteroglossia: From Gender Politics to Life Narrative) Editors: 杨洁(Yong Kiat), 张溦紟 (Cheong Wey Jin) Publisher: Women’s Group of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall The book is a compilation […]
Title: “Indonesia: Twenty Years of Democracy” Author: James S. Davidson Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018 “Indonesia: Twenty Years of Democracy” (Cambridge University Press, 2018) by Jamie Davidson provides an in-depth analysis of Indonesia’s politics two […]
Title: Mythbusting Vietnam: Facts, Fictions, Fantasies Edited by: Catherine Earl Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2018 Based on its title, Mythbusting Vietnam: Facts, Fiction, Fantasies, would appear to be a revisionist attempt to correct […]
Title: Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand Author: Dominic Faulder Editions Didier Millet 2018 By the time long-time foreign correspondent Dominic Faulder completed his biography of Anand Panyarachun, he had spent six years […]
Title: Working Towards the Monarchy: The Politics of Space in Downtown Bangkok Author: Serhat Ünaldi Publisher: Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016 For decades, journalists and scholars treated the Thai monarchy with a light touch. […]
Title: Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok Author: Claudio Sopranzetti Publisher: Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2017, xiv+305pp Claudio Sopranzetti’s Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, […]
Title: 50 Years of ASEAN and Singapore Authors: Tommy Koh, Sharon Seah Li-Lian, and Chang Li Lin Publisher: Singapore: World Scientific (2017) The edited volume by Tommy Koh and his colleagues on fifty years of ASEAN illustrates Singapore’s […]
Title: Cambodia’s Foreign Relations in Regional and Global Contexts Authors: Sok Udom Deth, Suon Sun and Serkan Bulut (Eds.) Publisher: Cambodia: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2017. 438 pages This is a wonderful book, which should be […]
Title: Khaki Capital: The Political Economy of the Military in Southeast Asia Authors: Paul Chambers and Napisa Waitoolkiat (Eds.) Publisher: Thailand: NIAS Press, 2017, 304 pages After taking power in a coup in 2014, Thailand’s […]
Title: Wars of Extinction: Discrimination and the Lumad Struggle in Mindanao Author: Arnold P. Alamon Publisher: Illigan City: RMP-NMR, Inc., 2017 In an age where postmodern cultural pluralism is the dominant research program in the […]
Title: Thailand: Shifting Ground Between the US and a Rising China (Asian Arguments) Author: Benjamin Zawacki Paperback. Zed Books, London. 15 October, 2017 Over the past three years, as Thailand-United States relations soured following the May 2014 coup […]
Title: Spiaking Singlish: A Companion to how Singaporeans communicate Author: Gwee Li Sui Publisher: Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2017 Varieties of English around the world have long been recognised as having unequal status and value […]
Title: The Khmer Lands of Vietnam: Environment, Cosmology, and Sovereignty Author: Philip Taylor Publisher: Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), Southeast Asia Publications Series, 2014 The Khmer Lands of Vietnam, by Philip Taylor, offer an alternative […]
Gusmanuddin Natawijaya, Maen Pukulan: Pencak Silat Khas Betawi (Fist-play: the pencak silat of Betawi) Jakarta: Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia, 2016, 342 p. Few books are dedicated to the phenomenon of martial initiations in the Malay […]
Title: The End of UMNO?: Essays on Malaysia’s Dominant Party Author: Bridget Welsh (ed.) Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD), 2016. UMNO (United Malays National Organisation) has been in power for almost 60 […]
Title: Elite: An Anthology Edited by: Caroline S. Hau, Katrina Tuvera, Isabelita O. Reyes Mandaluyong City: Anvil Publishing, 2016 Elite: An Anthology brings together a kaleidoscope of caricatures of the Filipino elite in a collection […]
Book title: ทาง: รวมเรื่องสั้นชุดซ ายผ านศึก (The Path: stories of the veteran leftists) Author: เสกสรรค์ ประเสริฐกุล (Seksan Prasetkul) Publisher: Samanchon Books, 2016 Stories of the Lost Generation Seksan Prasertkul is a well-known figure in Thailand for […]
Title: 入門 東南アジア近現代史 (Introduction of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian History) Author: 岩崎郁夫 (Iwasaki Ikuo) Publisher: Kodansha, January 2017 In Japan, over the last five years we have witnessed an interesting development with the publication of […]
Title: Keyakinan dan Kekuatan: Seni Bela Diri Silat Banten (Faith and Force: The Silat Martial Arts of Banten) Author: Gabriel Facal Translator: Arya Seta Jakarta: Yayasan Pustaka Obor Indonesia and O’ong Maryono Pencak Silat Award, […]
Basagan ng Trip makes theorizing and “discourse” chic. In the Preface, Lisandro E. Claudio notes that “Walang basagan ng trip” mirrors an “anti-critic tradition in Philippine arts” (p. ix). Through this lens, the Filipino psyche encourages creation and discourages criticism as this ruins the vibe of the imaginative process that produces something new. […]
Mata Hati Kita, The Eyes of Our HeartsCompiled by: Angela M. Kuga Thas and Jac SM Kee Petaling Jaya: Gerakbudaya Enterprise, 2016, 142 pages The recent widespread impression that religion, especially Islam, is to blame […]
Muhammadiyah JawaAuthor: Ahmad Najib BurhaniYogyakarta: Suara Muhammadiyah, 2016. 184 pages A Muslim organization in Javanese culture Muhammadiyah Jawa is an important work written on historical development of Muhammadiyah, an Islamic organization established in 1912. […]
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