01 October, 2024

Buddhist division and polarisation in Myanmar’s revolutionary situation

Phyo Wai & Iselin Frydenlund

Widespread co-optation by the junta sits alongside significant monastic resistance

Ideological (mega)projects: Xiong’an and Nusantara

Two problematic planned cities, one postcolonial utopia

Ethnonationalism and Myanmar’s future

Framing the war in Myanmar as a ‘fight for democracy’ obscures the crisis of the nation-state at the conflict’s heart

Clerics to coal miners: the decline of Indonesia’s Islamic civil society

Indonesia’s biggest Islamic organisations have dealt away their freedom to criticise government

REVIEWS & NEWS

Jim Scott in memoriam, Southeast Asian studies in perpetuum

“The field of Southeast Asian studies has come to resemble the region as he saw and celebrated it, warts and all”

Review: “On the Shadow Tracks”

“This is a book with a whole lot of heart for Myanmar and her people.”

Review: “Thai Diplomacy”

Edited interviews with Tej Bunnag provide "unvarnished insights" and "nuanced history" for students of Thai foreign policy.

Defection and revolution in Myanmar

For the first time, a resistance movement against military rule is welcoming and aiding soldiers who choose to join the ‘people’s side’

OTHER COUNTRIES

OUR ARCHIVE

Reclaiming Phnom Penh’s streets for citizens

On the promise of “spontaneous tactical urbanism” to renew Cambodia’s capital

Ayungin Shoal and the spectre of informal international law

What an alleged gentleman’s agreement tells us about China’s vision of international law

The growing contradictions of Singapore’s HDB scheme

A notionally egalitarian public housing program has come to fuel class and intergenerational inequalities

ARTSEA

The land moves west

Artists at the Makassar Biennale grapple with the social and environmental consequences of land reclamation.

Carl Josef Kleingrothe: capturing the colonial life of Deli, Sumatra

A look at the life of the photographer whose work captivated European audiences' looking for images of the 'exotic' Indies.

Memories of Burma’s art scene in the 1970s

Andrew Selth recalls an era of flourishing artistic expression amid heavy-handed censorship.