Mochtar Lubis adalah seorang pemimpin redaksi, pengarang, dan tokoh budaya Indonesia yang paling dikenal, baik di tingkat nasional, regional, maupun internasional, yang ia pertahankan dari awal tahun 1950-an hingga wafatnya tahun 2004. Buku ini menelusuri peristiwa-peristiwa besar dalam jagad kehidupan Mochtar Lubis: seorang tokoh yang memberikan makna pada penafsiran sejarah pascaproklamasi kemerdekaan Indonesia. Selain menggambarkan …

Jurnalisme dan Politik di Indonesia: Biografi Kritis tentang Mochtar Lubis 1922-2004 sebagai Pemimpin Redaksi dan Pengarang Read More »

This latest book by award-winning researcher Duncan McCargo, one of the world’s leading specialists on contemporary Thailand, builds on previous projects to elucidate new aspects of the intractable Southern conflict that has claimed more than 4500 lives since 2004. Mapping National Anxieties locates the insurgency in the context of Thailand’s wider political conflicts, exploring the ambiguous …

Mapping National Anxieties: Thailand’s Southern Conflict Read More »

Aceh has become best known in our times for its twin disasters – the worst earthquake and tsunami of modern times in December 2004, and a long-running separatist conflict that rent Indonesia for most of its independent history. Although this book emerged from the process of recovery from those traumas, it turns the spotlight on …

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This book is about a statue of Christ as a boy worshipped by millions of Filipinos from all walks of life. Today the Santo Niño–said to be the same wooden figure brought to the islands by Ferdinand Magellan at the moment of his 1521 “discovery” of the Philippines–is enshrined in a bullet-proof glass case in …

Figuring Catholicism: An Ethnohistory of the Sto. Niño de Cebu Read More »

Every political aspirant and activist knows the media are important. But there is little agreement on how an increasingly diversified media operate in post-authoritarian transitions and how they might promote, or impede, the pathways to a sustainable liberal democracy in the 21st century. This book examines the role of the media during Indonesia’s longest experiment …

Politics and the Media in Twenty-First Century Indonesia: Decade of Democracy Read More »

Centering his analysis in the dynamic forces of modern East Asian history, Kuan-Hsing Chen recasts cultural studies as a politically urgent, global endeavor. He argues that the intellectual and subjective work of decolonization begun across East Asia after the Second World War was stalled by the cold war. At the same time, the work of …

Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization Read More »

Despite active scholarly interest in the phenomenon of cross-border marriage migration between Southeast and East Asia—a majority of which marriages are between men from wealthier regions and women from regions that are less economically developed—we know very little about who these women are and why they choose to marry and migrate. This volume provides an …

Asian Cross-border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues Read More »