SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia articles from October 2004

SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia archives from October 2004

Nation, transnation, diaspora: locating East Timorese long-distance nationalism.
October 1, 2004... This article explores the complex transnational dimensions and trajectories of East Timorese long-distance nationalism (Anderson 1998, p. 73) (1) and reflects on the implications of interconnections with "outside" groups and discourses. Based...

The Thai regime of images.
October 1, 2004... In this article I draw together the observations of a range of scholars of modern Thailand who, despite disciplinary and analytical differences, present remarkably similar accounts of the distinctiveness of Thai forms of power. While they do...

The performative state: semi-coloniality and the tyranny of images in modern Thailand.
October 1, 2004... The contemporary Thai political system remains authoritarian. To a considerable extent this is a legacy of the country's semi-colonial history when, as a strategic response to the challenges that nineteenth century colonialism presented to...

Regional development programmes and the life-dynamics of Tomohonese women.
October 1, 2004... In this article we consider local development programmes and their contributions to the life-dynamics of Tomohonese women in a peripheral region of Indonesia. In examining industrialization, tourism, and international labour migration, we will...

Rethinking approaches to the study of the Central Highlands of Vietnam: a review of Oscar Salemink's The Ethnography of the Central Highlanders of Vietnam and Gerald Hickey's Window on a War.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Despite the compendium of material available on the histories of Vietnam, the Indochina wars, and developments in post--doi moi Vietnam, writings in the English language about the Central Highlands of Vietnam remain limited.(1) Yet, two...

Chinese Minority in a Malay State: the Case of Terengganu in Malaysia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Chinese Minority in a Malay State: The Case of Terengganu in Malaysia. By Tan Chee-Beng. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2002. 162 pp. This short ethnographic study focuses on Chinese residents of Terengganu, an east coast Malaysian...

Kings, Country and Constitutions: Thailand's Political Development 1932-2000.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Kings, Country and Constitutions: Thailand's Political Development 1932-2000. By Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian. Richmond: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. 276 pp. Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian's latest book is a detailed yet readable overview of Thailand's...

Chinese Studies of the Malay World: a Comparative Approach.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Chinese Studies of the Malay World: A Comparative Approach. Edited by Ding Choo Ming and Ooi Kee Beng. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2003. Pp. 271. The Chinese have had a long tradition of curiosity about its southern neighbours,...

State, Society and Religious Engineering: Towards a Reformist Buddhism in Singapore.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... State, Society and Religious Engineering: Towards a Reformist Buddhism in Singapore. By Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng. Singapore: Eastern University Press, 2003. viii + 328 pp. In 1976, Vivienne Wee published Buddhism in Singapore, her paper on the...