Latest Articles
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12 Dec 2025
While shared repertoires of resistance may form affective chains of reference, the under-the-same-flag discourse risks reducing diverse political struggles to a universal template of youthful rebellion.
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14 Nov 2025
Historian Jonathan Galka explores the human, scientific, and political currents shaping mid-20th century deep-sea mining
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08 Nov 2025
The Suharto debate reveals a larger truth: once reputation hardens into heritage, it becomes difficult to separate memory from myth.
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29 Oct 2025
The relationship between Indonesia and Singapore has long oscillated between pragmatic cooperation and historical discomfort. At its heart lies the question of memory how both nations remember their shared past.
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16 Oct 2025
Urban design, through the creation of walkable neighborhoods and the provision of recreational spaces for instance holds the potential to promote health equity, but only when it takes into account the needs of those most affected.
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15 Sep 2025
Two recent dramatic characterisations of folkloric masculinity—goblin Kim Shin and nine-tailed fox Lee Yeon—challenge dominant anthropocentric portrayals of infantilised, flowery, or wealthy chaebol men in South Korean screen culture. This animistic trope raises feminist anthropological questions about the epistemic and geological foundations of subregional Anthropocene struggles.
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10 Sep 2025
“Movement across borders has always been at the heart of my work...”
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29 Aug 2025
This article explores insights from the ‘ASEAN Spice: The Connecting Cultures of Southeast Asia’ program held in Yogyakarta in May 2024. Beyond conventional narratives of spices as commodities in maritime trade, it examines how plant knowledge reflects embodied cultural practices across Southeast Asia.
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28 Jul 2025
Centering migrant workers’ embodied, everyday experiences reveals not only their exploitation and alienation within restrictive labour migration regimes—such as those in Taiwan—but also highlights their agency and demands a critical rethinking of how migrant labour is framed beyond sensationalist portrayals of modern slavery or trafficking.
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26 Jun 2025
Meme culture in China, when read critically, reveals how history is weaponised in ways that mock former colonisers, assert postcolonial confidence, and shape new forms of national identity.
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16 May 2025
"My main motivation aligns with my punk roots, focusing on social justice issues. Sociology helps explain structural inequalities and other phenomena that fuel my curiosity."
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13 May 2025
Using remoteness as an analytic, this article analyses a recent work of Thai experimental dance, Mali Bucha, by Kornkarn Rungsawang, a performance piece that brings together traditional ritual with VR technology.