Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from October 2008

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from October 2008

Contextualising fisheries policy in the Lower Mekong Basin.(Essay)
October 1, 2008... Introduction The Lower Mekong River Basin has emerged as one of the most contested natural resource frontiers in Southeast Asia as resource-dependent communities, sovereign riparian governments and the international community all assert...

Reconfiguring rural spaces and remaking rural lives in central Thailand.(Essay)
October 1, 2008... Introduction: Grounding the Asian economic miracle It has become normal to comment on the scale and pace of change in the growth economies of East and Southeast Asia. From the mid-1960s, when the original tiger economies--Taiwan, South...

Strange brew: global, regional and local factors behind the 1690 prohibition of Christian practice in Nguyen Cochinchina.(Essay)
October 1, 2008... Introduction Systematic Christian evangelisation began in the area of modern Vietnam in the early seventeenth century, after the 1614 anti-Catholic prohibition in Japan sent a handful of Jesuit missionaries to explore this new field. The...

Imperial historicism and American military rule in the Philippines' Muslim south.(Essay)
October 1, 2008... Introduction When American imperialists seized the Philippines at the dawning of the twentieth century, their guiding philosophy was predicated upon broadly conceived notions of cultural and political historicism. The unwavering...

Comparing Indonesia's party systems of the 1950s and the post-Suharto era: from centrifugal to centripetal inter-party competition.
October 1, 2008... In 1957, Indonesia's party system collapsed after seven years of protracted political and ideological conflict. Amid calls for alternative forms of governance, the breakdown of party politics contributed to the downfall of parliamentary...

The ethnography of failure: middle-class Malays producing capitalism in an 'Asian miracle' economy.(Essay)
October 1, 2008... At first glance, the subjects of 'failure' and 'the Malay middle class' would seem to have little in common, for Malaysia has come to be known as a classic case study in the successful engineering of a new middle class. Much journalistic and...

Archaeology of Asia.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Archaeology of Asia Edited by MIRIAM T. STARK Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Pp. 364. Illustrations, Maps, Tables, Index. doi:10.1017/S0022463408000386 The editor begins her introduction with the disclaimer that this...

Elections as popular culture in Asia.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Elections as popular culture in Asia Edited by CHUA BENG HUAT New York and London: Routledge Press, 2007. Pp. 197. Index. doi:10.1017/S0022463408000398 This edited volume of accounts of election practices in nine Asian...

Cambodge: The Cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Cambodge: The Cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945 By PENNY EDWARDS Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. Pp. 349. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. doi:10.1017/S0022463408000404 Historical scholarship on...

Worshiping Siva and Buddha: The Temple art of east Java.(Violence and Serenity)(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Worshiping Siva and Buddha: The Temple art of east lava By ANN R. KINNEY with MARIJKE J. KLOKKE and LYDIA KIEVEN Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003. Pp. 303. Illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Violence and...

The Revival of tradition in Indonesian politics: The Deployment of adat from colonialism to indigenism.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... The Revival of tradition in Indonesian politics: The Deployment of adat from colonialism to indigenism Edited by JAMIE S. DAVIDSON and DAVID HENLEY New York and London: Routledge Press, 2007. Pp. 377. Figures, Maps, Tables, Index. ...

State terrorism and political identity in Indonesia: Fatally belonging.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... State terrorism and political identity in Indonesia: Fatally belonging By ARIEL HERYANTO London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xii, 242. Glossary, Notes, References, Index. doi: 10.1017/S002246340800043X This book...

Politics in Malaysia: The Malay dimension.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Politics in Malaysia: The Malay dimension By EDMUND TERENCE GOMEZ London & New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 160. References and Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463408000441 Published in 2007, this book may seem dated given the recent...

Politics and governance in Singapore: an Introduction.(Book review)
October 1, 2008... Politics and governance in Singapore: An Introduction By BILVEER SINGH Singapore: McGraw Hill Education, 2007. Pp. 201. Figures, Tables, Bibliography, Index. doi: 10.1017/S0022463408000453 Singapore's nation building story is...

Books received May-July 2008.
October 1, 2008... Asia General Assembling women: The Feminization of global manufacturing By TERI L. CARAWAY Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007 ISBN: 9780801473654 Advancing East Asian regionalism By MELISSA G. CURLEY and NICHOLAS...