Emerging Scholars

At the coalface of military indoctrination: the Thai ROTC

Propaganda versus apathy, defiance

Buying, boycotting, and the politics of modernity

Nationalism and consumer culture in colonial Southeast Asia

“Slow resistance” in the Salween River Basin

Grassroots activism gums up the wheels of hydro-development

Javanese candhi beyond abandonment and discovery

Decolonising the heritage of Indonesia

Insurgent planning versus discretionary urbanism in Jakarta

Jakarta’s informal settlements are finding new ways to assert their rights and reshape their city

From flickers to full power: when reliable electricity arrived in Banmai

An ethnography of rural electrification in Laos

Sea space, conflict and state building in Sulawesi

What happened when global markets arrived in two seaweed-fishing villages

Indonesia’s new economy of speed

Why are millions of Indonesian workers taking up methamphetamine?

Coffee, conflict, and inadvertent state-building in Vietnam

How state-building can work from the bottom up

Introducing our Emerging Scholar Award authors

New essays to highlight the work of next-gen Southeast Asia scholars

Gender, dynasticism and representation in the Philippine Congress

Surprising evidence in support of the case for gender quotas