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Two problematic planned cities, one postcolonial utopia
ASIAN STUDIES
A new direction for the New Colombo Plan. Maybe.
Australia’s flagship study-in-the Asia Pacific program does a good job of changing student behaviour, but not so much that of their universities
INDONESIA
INDONESIA ARCHIVES
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
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Clerics to coal miners: the decline of Indonesia’s Islamic civil society
about 6 days ago
Indonesia’s biggest Islamic organisations have dealt away their freedom to criticise government
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Ideological (mega)projects: Xiong’an and Nusantara
about 2 weeks ago
Two problematic planned cities, one postcolonial utopia
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The price of representation in Indonesia
about 2 months ago
New evidence for the overriding importance of money in electoral success
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The workers paying the price for Indonesia’s nickel boom
about 3 months ago
An industry that markets itself as socially responsible is failing in its duty to protect worker safety
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Indonesia’s killer commodity
about 4 months ago
The kretek cigarette industry and its devastating public health impacts are sustained via a huge apparatus of labour, and appeals to cultural nationalism
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.
MYANMAR
MYANMAR ARCHIVES-
Revolution and solidarity in Myanmar
about 21 hours ago
On the end of the “transition paradigm” and the meanings of the present revolution
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James C. Scott: against the myopic study of politics
about 1 month ago
“To become good and dynamic, political science must be broadened and cooperate with, among others, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians”
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In Myanmar, prison protests are revolutionary
about 2 months ago
“The prisoner’s body is a political, but perishable, weapon.”
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Amid revolution, Myanmar’s NGOs face a deficit of donor solidarity
about 2 months ago
Relationships need to move beyond oversight to solidarity
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Forgotten war in Burma, ignored war in Myanmar
about 3 months ago
International media outlets’ clichéd descriptions of the ongoing conflict are at best self-incriminating
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.