SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from April 1 2009

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from April 1 2009

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...

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:...

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...

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....

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...

Fruits of the orchard: land, space, and state in Kepulauan Riau.(Indonesia)(Report)
April 1, 2009... Kepulauan Riau (popularly and hereafter referred to as Kepri)--is Indonesia's youngest province. In 2004, it formally seceded from the wider province of Riau, doing so largely on a Malay ethnonationalist platform (see Colombijn 2003; Faucher...

Unsettled post-revolutionaries in the online public sphere.(Lao People's Democratic Republic )(Report)
April 1, 2009... Introduction: Into Cyberspace "One day, we'll make it!", exclaims the website of a Lao students association in Australia below a picture of a cosmonaut with a Lao flag on his shoulder. (1) Laos has not made it into space, but it is making...

Teaching Dharma, grooming Sangha: the Buddhist College of Singapore.(Research Notes and Comments)(Report)
April 1, 2009... Introduction 13 September 2006 marks the official opening of the Buddhist College of Singapore (BCS, [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]). Over one thousand Sangha members and laity from Singapore and overseas attended this significant event....

Powers of Blessing from the Wilderness and from Heaven: Structure and Transformations in the Religion of the Toraja in the Mamasa Area of South Sulawesi.(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Powers of Blessing from the Wilderness and from Heaven: Structure and Transformations in the Religion of the Toraja in the Mamasa Area of South Sulawesi. By Kees Buijs. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2006. 262 pp. Inhabiting large portions of the...

Indonesian Literature vs. New Order Orthodoxy: The Aftermath of 1965-1966.(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Indonesian Literature vs. New Order Orthodoxy: The Aftermath of 1965-1966. By Anna-Greta Nilsson Hoadley. Copenhagen: Nias Press, 2005. xiii, 159 pp. Since the Reformasi movement of 1998, which toppled the thirty-two year-long New Order...

Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion.(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Asian and Pacific Cosmopolitans: Self and Subject in Motion. Edited by Kathryn Robinson. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 237 pp. The rationalization of research funding under global university reforms over the last ten years has...

Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region.(Book review)
April 1, 2009... Challenging the Limits: Indigenous Peoples of the Mekong Region. Edited by Prasit Leepreecha, Don McCaskill, and Kwanchewan Buadaeng. Chiang Mai: Mekong Press, 2008. 379 pp. Over the past three decades the Mekong region has experienced...