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Revolution and solidarity in Myanmar

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

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

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

Ideological (mega)projects: Xiong’an and Nusantara

Two problematic planned cities, one postcolonial utopia

Apply for New Mandala’s Emerging Scholar Award

Showcase your doctoral research via New Mandala

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”

James C. Scott: against the myopic study of politics

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

The price of representation in Indonesia

New evidence for the overriding importance of money in electoral success

In Myanmar, prison protests are revolutionary

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

Amid revolution, Myanmar’s NGOs face a deficit of donor solidarity

Relationships need to move beyond oversight to solidarity

Reclaiming Phnom Penh’s streets for citizens

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

Forgotten war in Burma, ignored war in Myanmar

International media outlets’ clichéd descriptions of the ongoing conflict are at best self-incriminating