Buddhist division and polarisation in Myanmar’s revolutionary situation

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

Two problematic planned cities, one postcolonial utopia

New evidence for the overriding importance of money in electoral success

An industry that markets itself as socially responsible is failing in its duty to protect worker safety

The kretek cigarette industry and its devastating public health impacts are sustained via a huge apparatus of labour, and appeals to cultural nationalism

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

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

On the end of the “transition paradigm” and the meanings of the present revolution

“To become good and dynamic, political science must be broadened and cooperate with, among others, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians”

“The prisoner’s body is a political, but perishable, weapon.”