SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from April 2006

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from April 2006

Globalizing local knowledge: social science research on Southeast Asia, 1970-2000.
April 1, 2006... 1. Academic Dependency and Reflexive Modernization Southeast Asian academics, observing the development of the social sciences in Southeast Asia, have bemoaned the "academic dependency" on North American and European scholarship (Alatas...

"Join together, work together, for the common good--solidarity": village formation processes in the rural south of Laos.(Column)
April 1, 2006... In a village situated among the lowland rice fields of Champassak province, Laos, a village chief, Bunmii, has just heard that the village statistics are due this afternoon--it is a surprise and there is a rush to complete them. (1) He, the...

Bright celestial: progress in the political thought of Tan Teck Soon.(cultural politics)
April 1, 2006... This article focuses on the work of an outstanding Chinese Singaporean scholar who was active in the significant cultural and political movements that took place in Singapore around the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century....

Women, nation, and the ambivalence of subversive identification along the Thai-Burmese border.
April 1, 2006... In July 2002, amidst the Burmese military offensive against Shan rebels in the northern border between Thailand and Burma, a report "Licence to Rape" (1) was presented by the Shan Women Action Network (SWAN) and the Shan Human Rights Foundation...

Towards a poststructuralist southeast Asian studies?(Research Notes and Comments)
April 1, 2006... Observers had it that the heyday of conventional area studies, in general, and Southeast Asian studies, in particular, has long faded in the horizon (Anderson 1984, 1992; McVey 1998). The initial outburst of optimism and excitement has been...

Why I'm a Foucauldian.(Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida's works)
April 1, 2006... The differences between Mr Curaming and myself can begin to be seen more clearly if we avoid the generic term "poststructuralism" and instead focus on the work of the theorists that he and I, respectively, draw upon. In my recent work on...

The Leiden Legacy: Concepts of Law in Indonesia.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Leiden Legacy: Concepts of Law in Indonesia. By Peter Burns. Leiden: KITLV, 2004. xvi, 269 pp. The Leiden Legacy is a particularly apt title. "Discovery" of Indonesian customary law (adat recht), eloquently defended by Cornelis Van...

Hard Bargaining in Sumatra: Western Travelers and Toba Bataks in the Marketplace of Souvenirs.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Hard Bargaining in Sumatra: Western Travelers and Toba Bataks in the Marketplace of Souvenirs. By Andrew Causey. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. 292 pp. With this publication Andrew Causey has delivered a most accessible and...

Acting Authoritatively: How Authority Is Expressed through Social Action among the Bentian of Indonesian Borneo.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Acting Authoritatively: How Authority Is Expressed through Social Action among the Bentian of Indonesian Borneo. By Kenneth Sillander. SSKH Skrifter 17. Finland: Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki, 2004. x, 388 pp. As...

Investing in Miracles: El Sjaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Investing in Miracles: El Sjaddai and the Transformation of Popular Catholicism in the Philippines. By Katherine L. Wiegele. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. 207 pp. El Shaddai (the name reportedly comes from that used by Abraham...