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

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

Introduction: to look at the local close-up.
October 1, 2006... The articles in this special issue originated from a panel on "Local Power, Money, and Religion in Southeast Asia" that I convened as a part of the National University of Singapore's Centennial Conference held in Singapore, on 1-3 August 2005....

Little Bear sells CDs and Ai Theng drinks Coke: sacred clowning and the politics of regionalism in South Thailand (1).(Essay)
October 1, 2006... During my visit to the southern Thai province of Nakhon Sri Thammarat in 1999, Maengmum (The Spider) was one of the largest music stores in the town centre. Located in the heart of Nakhon Sri Thammarat's bustling commercial district, Maengmum...

Grounded cosmopolitans and the bureaucratic field: musical performance at two Yogyakarta state institutions.
October 1, 2006... Introduction (1) In 2001, Indonesians experienced and negotiated intense power struggles involving religious, national, and local aspects of their identities. Three years after the collapse of the Soeharto state, the optimism of the Reform...

Between empowerment and power: the rise of the self-supporting Church in Western Flores, Eastern Indonesia (1).(Essay)
October 1, 2006... Conflicts in Democratizing Indonesia Accusations of "money politics" have been increasing steadily in Indonesia since the end of the New Order in 1998 and the introduction of regional autonomy in 2001 (Hadiz 2005). This process of...

Understanding the Cham identity in mainland Southeast Asia: contending views.
October 1, 2006... Introduction I had a chance encounter with a Cham man on a boat trip from Chau Doc (Vietnam) to Phnom Penh. His name was Iskandar and a native from Kompong Cham, Cambodia. On the journey, the passengers (most of them were from Western...

Muhammadiyah, local politics and local identity in Kotagede.(Research Notes and Comments)
October 1, 2006... This article is based on two research field trips I made to Kotagede, Indonesia, in 2005. (1) My long-term research plan is to document the political ethnography of Kotagede during the post-Soeharto period, exploring the interplay between local...

Singapore Civil Society and British Power.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Singapore Civil Society and British Power. By E. Kay Gillis. Singapore: Talisman, 2005. 259 pp. Without exception, most students of contemporary Singapore politics and society are awed by the dominance of the governing People's Action...

A State of Ambivalence: The Feminist Movement in Singapore.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... A State of Ambivalence: The Feminist Movement in Singapore. By Lenore Lyons. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004. Series: Social Sciences in Asia. 191 pp. Feminism has no seminal book or founding philosopher that gives it unity worldwide. It is...

History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... History, Buddhism, and New Religious Movements in Cambodia. Edited by John Marston and Elizabeth Guthrie. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. 320 pp. John Marston and Elizabeth Guthrie have assembled a fascinating collection of...

Constituting Unity and Difference: Vernacular Architecture in a Minangkabau Village.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Constituting Unity and Difference: Vernacular Architecture in a Minangkabau Village. By Marcel Vellinga. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2004. 53 figures (line drawings, house plans, black-and-white photographs), 2 maps, xii, 337 pp. The Minangkabau...