Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from February 2009

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from February 2009

Thai Buddhism, Thai Buddhists and the southern conflict.(Essay)
February 1, 2009... Thailand's 'southern border provinces' of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat--along with four districts of neighbouring Songkhla--are the site of fiery political violence characterised by daily killings. (1) The area was historically a Malay...

The politics of Buddhist identity in Thailand's deep south: the Demise of civil religion?(Essay)
February 1, 2009... The fact that Buddhism is the national religion of Thailand should be accepted and declared, for the sake of the security of the nation, religion and monarchy, which would make it possible for Thailand to have enduring peace...

Appropriating a space for violence: state Buddhism in southern Thailand.(Essay)
February 1, 2009... On 9 November 2006, the Bangkok Post published a brief article about 100 Thai Buddhist villagers fleeing their homes in Yala, one of the southernmost provinces in Thailand. Women, men and children, abandoning their homes and livelihood,...

Landscapes of fear, horizons of trust: villagers dealing with danger in Thailand's insurgent south.(Essay)
February 1, 2009... Since the explosion of militant-driven violence in Thailand's southern border provinces from January 2004 up until October 2008, over 3,200 people have been killed and many more injured. The casualties of this violence are mostly civilians...

Making new space in the Thai literary canon.(Critical essay)
February 1, 2009... Preamble and caveat As someone not trained in literary studies and teaching in America, I am contesting the Thai literary canon from the margins--disciplinarily and geographically. This paper examines three early Thai novels that have not...

Garuda, Vajrapani and religious change in Jayavarman VII's Angkor.(Essay)
February 1, 2009... Since the 1920s, when French scholars discovered, in astonishment, that King Jayavarman VII's (r.1182-c.1218) great state temple, the Bayon, was originally Buddhist, there has been little work on how this king achieved the momentous shift of...

Semelai agricultural patterns: toward an understanding of variation among indigenous cultures in southern peninsular Malaysia.(Report)
February 1, 2009... Introduction Compared to the more mountainous north, rivers in the low-lying southern interior of peninsular Malaysia (1) are often navigable to their headwaters as well as linked by portages, providing avenues of water to transport goods...

Decent colonialism? Pure science and colonial ideology in the Netherlands East Indies, 1910-1929.(Essay)
February 1, 2009... In 1914, at the opening of a visitor's laboratory on the grounds of the Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens, the director of the gardens, J.C. Koningsberger tried to convince the gathered colonial officials to broaden their support of science to...

Myanmar (Burma) since 1962: The Failure of development.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Myanmar Myanmar (Burma) since 1962: The Failure of development By PETER JOHN PERRY Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 208, Index, Bibliography. doi:10.1017/S0022463409000095 Dr Peter John Perry is an unusual, serious writer on...

Forest guardians, forest destroyers: The Politics of environmental knowledge in northern Thailand.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Thailand Forest guardians, forest destroyers: The Politics of environmental knowledge in northern Thailand By TIM FORSYSTH and ANDREW WALKER Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. Pp. 303. Photos, Tables, Notes,...

Securing a place: Small-scale artisans in modern Indonesia.(Book review)
February 1, 2009... Indonesia Securing a place: Small-scale artisans in modern Indonesia By ELIZABETH MORRELL Ithaca: Cornell University Southeast Asia Program) 2005, p. 220. Figures, Tables, Bibliography. doi: 10.1017/S0022463409000113 In...