Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from June 2003

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from June 2003

Discourse without discussion: representations of piracy in colonial Indonesia 1816-25.
June 1, 2003... In Almayer's Folly, Joseph Conrad's first novel, Captain Tom Lingard is presented to the reader as ruler of the waves and opponent of pirates. During one of his fights he finds a young girl among the dead pirates in a captured prahu (ship). She...

From 'Sons of the Yellow Emperor' to 'children of Indonesian soil': studying Peranakan Chinese based on the Batavia Kong Koan archives.
June 1, 2003... After more than a thousand years of immigration, by the nineteenth century the ethnic Chinese in the Netherlands East Indies demonstrated a considerable degree of diversity. (1) More than anything else, those third-, fourth-, fifth-generation...

The terminology of terrorism: Malaya, 1948-52.
June 1, 2003... In so far as the Cold War was a psychological war for the 'hearts and minds' of populations at home and abroad, the language used by combatants on both sides of the ideological divide assumed immense significance. Those fighting on the front...

Introduction to the symposium on localising and globalising patterns in natural resource use in Southeast Asia.
June 1, 2003... Focusing on land, forests and coastal resources of Southeast Asia, this collection of articles explores an emerging interest in exploring local development and change in national, regional (Asia Pacific) and global terms. (1) Specifically, the...

The international political ecology of industrial shrimp aquaculture and industrial plantation forestry in Southeast Asia.
June 1, 2003... During the 1980s and 1990s, industrial shrimp aquaculture and industrial plantation forestry took their places in the long history of 'boom' natural resource sectors in Southeast Asia. The development of these two sectors has been marked by a...

Maps and counter-maps: globalised imaginings and local realities of Sarawak's plantation agriculture.
June 1, 2003... Mr. Tan had gone to great length to criticise the other evidence adduced on behalf of the Plaintiffs some of which I have already mentioned and some I will not mention specifically but have considered them, and I am of the view that all of them...

Cultivating new local futures: remittance economies and land-use patterns in Ifugao, Philippines.
June 1, 2003... Circular migration for contract work overseas is recreating translocalities from what were previously imagined as isolated, peripheral communities. (1) Migration changes these local communities not just through flows of remittances and...

New beginnings in East Timorese forest management.
June 1, 2003... East Timor's remarkable emergence as a new democratic nation-state following twenty-four years of military repression under Indonesian rule brings with it a whole new set of challenges for the small and impoverished island territory. Following...

Public land for the people: the institutional basis of community forestry in Thailand.
June 1, 2003... Thailand is one of the few countries where communal rights to productive forests have no formal recognition. This does not mean that they are non-existent, however; in reality, we see many examples of communal forest use throughout the country,...

The global in the local: contested resource-use systems of the Karen and Hmong in Northern Thailand.
June 1, 2003... Through globalisation, rapid mass communication systems and experiences of pollution crossing national boundaries, people have become sensitised to the global scale of locally produced environmental problems. It is an important assumption of...

The dominion of North Sumatra. A history of the sultanates of Samudera-Pasai and Aceh and their relations with the Portuguese (1500-1580).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... O Dominio do Norte de Samatra. A historia dos sultanatos de Samudera-Pacem e de Achem e das suas relacoes com os Portugueses (1500-1580) By JORGE MANUEL DOS SANTOS ALVES, with a preface by LUIs FILIPE THOMAZ Lisbon: Sociedade Historica da...

The politics of multiculturalism: Pluralism and citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Edited by ROBERT W. HEFNER Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2001. Pp. ix, 319. Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463403220300 In this edited volume, anthropologist Robert Hefner has brought together Indonesian, Malaysian and...

A sudden rampage: the Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By NICHOLAS TARLING London: Hurst, 2001. Pp. xv, 286. Map, Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463403230307 Nicholas Tarling, a senior scholar noted for his studies on the British role in Southeast Asia, has, over the past decade,...

Angkor Wat. A royal temple.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By HELENE LEGENDRE DE KONINCK Weimar: Verlag und Datenbank fur Geisteswissenschaften, 2001 [Architektur der Welt Series-4]. Pp. 93. Plates, Notes, Bibliography. DOI: S0022463403240303 For such a small, thin book (98 pages, 35 drawings, 27...

Foremost among scholars of language: Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk, linguist in the service of the Dutch Bible Society 1847-1873.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Een vorst onder de taalgeleerden: Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk, taalafgevaardigde voor Indie van het Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap 1847-1873 By KEES GROENBOER Leiden: KITLV, 2002. Pp. 965. Maps, Plates, Bibliography, Index. DOI:...

Life in the kampongs of Kuching, fifty years ago.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By A. ZAINAL ABIDIN and ABDULLAH SALLEH Kuching: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 2002. Pp. x, 85. Maps, Photographs, Tables, Appendices. DOI: S0022463403260306 The establishment of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of...

Modern dreams: an inquiry into power, cultural production, and the cityscape in contemporary urban Penang, Malaysia.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By BENG-LAN GOH Ithaca: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program, 2002. Pp. 224. Tables, Notes, Maps, Appendices. DOI: S0022463403270302 This is a finely crafted monograph focusing on the complex nexus between economic development,...

Malaysian cinema, Asian film: Border crossings and national cultures.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By WILLIAM VAN DER HEIDE Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2002. Pp. 301. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463403280309 While the film cultures of China, Japan, India and in the Southeast Asian context, Thailand, have...

Democracy in Malaysia: Discourses and practices.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... Edited by FRANCIS LOH KOK WAH and KHOO BOO TEIK Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 274. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463403290305 While scholars have variously described Malaysian politics as 'quasi'--or...

Brave men of the hills: Resistance and rebellion in Burma, 1824-1932.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By PARIMAL GHOSH London: Hurst, 2000. Pp. 197. Maps, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: S002246340330030X Addressing the chronologically disjointed manner in which resistance and rebellion in Burma have been studied, Parimal Ghosh...

Woman, man, Bangkok: Love, sex and popular culture in Thailand.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By SCOT BARME Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. Pp. vii, 273. Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index. DOI: $0022463403310306 Scot Barme's new book animates early twentieth-century Bangkok, a raucous urban space and population trying to...

The politics of ruins and the business of nostalgia.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By MAURIZIO PELEGGI Bangkok: White Lotus, Studies in Contemporary Thailand No. 10, 2002. Pp. x, 100. Bibliography, Index. DOI: S0022463403320302 In the first part of this short book, Maurizio Peleggi traces how some of the numerous relics...

Bangkok.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... By WILLIAM WARREN London: Reaktion Books, 2002. (Southeast Asian edition, Singapore: Talisman Publishing, 2002.) Pp. 160. Photographs, Bibliography. DOI: S0022463403330309 A resident of Bangkok since 1960, biographer of Jim Thompson and...

A world transformed: the politics of culture in revolutionary Vietnam, 1945-1965.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... A world transformed: The politics of culture in revolutionary Vietnam, 1945-1965 By KIM N. B. NINH Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. 317. Notes, Bibliography, Index. Culture, ritual and revolution in Vietnam By SHAUN...

Books received.
June 1, 2003... Asia Rural capitalism in Asia: A comparative analysis of India, Indonesia and Malaysia. By MARIO RUTTEN. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. ISBN 0 7007 1627 0 Trans-status subjects: Gender in the globalization of South and Southeast Asia....