Mapping National Anxieties: Thailand’s Southern Conflict

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 […]

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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 the Acehnese Past

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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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

ARI Annual Report 2010

MESSAGE FROM CHAIR OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Prof Tommy Koh Time flies. In the twinkle of an eye, ten years have gone by. I still remember meeting the former President of NUS, Prof Shih Choon Fong and Prof Wang Gungwu, at a reception at the French Embassy. They pulled me aside and shared with me

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MESSAGE FROM CHAIR OF INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Prof Tommy Koh Time flies. In the twinkle of an eye, ten years have gone by. I still remember meeting the former President of NUS, Prof Shih Choon Fong and Prof Wang Gungwu, at a reception at the French Embassy. They pulled me aside and shared with me

INTER-ASIA ROUNDTABLE 2011 – Recycling Cities

Cities are at once generators of waste of various kinds and key sites for innovative practices of reuse and recycling through which waste products become revalued. The Inter-Asia Roundtable 2011 examined waste practices and products in urban Asia. The framing of the Roundtable included, but also extended beyond, conventional definitions of recycling (as making new

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Cities are at once generators of waste of various kinds and key sites for innovative practices of reuse and recycling through which waste products become revalued. The Inter-Asia Roundtable 2011 examined waste practices and products in urban Asia. The framing of the Roundtable included, but also extended beyond, conventional definitions of recycling (as making new

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization

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

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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

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

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

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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