SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles

Recent articles from SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia

The most influential books of Southeast Asian Studies.(Editor's Note)(List)
April 1, 2009... A brief note is in order to explain this special issue, which is quite unlike most special issues of journals. To mark the 40th Anniversary of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in 2008, the editorial team of SOJOURN decided to come up with a list of "Ten Most Influential Books on...

Nationalism in Southeast Asia: revisiting Kahin, Roff, and Anderson.(Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia / The Origins of Malay Nationalism / Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia. By George McTurnan Kahin. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1952. The Origins of Malay Nationalism. By William R. Roff. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994 (1967). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism....

The (un)changing world of peasants: two perspectives.('Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia' and 'The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia')(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia. By Clifford Geertz. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1963. The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia. By James C. Scott. New Haven: Yale...

Furnivall's plural society and leach's political systems of highland Burma.(Colonial Policy and Practice: A Comparative Study of Burma and Netherlands India)(Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Colonial Policy and Practice: A Comparative Study of Burma and Netherlands India. By J.S. Furnivall. New York: New York University Press, 1956 (1948). Political Systems of Highland Burma: A Study of Kachin Social Structure. By Edmund R. Leach. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965 (1954). ...

Revisiting two classics: charting the mental world of the oppressed.(Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1980-1910)(Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance)(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Pasyon and Revolution: Popular Movements in the Philippines, 1980-1910. By Reynaldo Clemena Ileto. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1979. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. By James C. Scott. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1985. ...