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Future-making and frictional mobility in the return of Burmese migrants 缅甸移民回归中的未来创造和摩擦流动

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-28 DOI: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0011

Prasert Rangkla

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The new politics of debt in the transition economy of Vietnam 越南转型经济中的新债务政治

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-28 DOI: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0015

H. Nguyen, Viet-Ha T. Nguyen, Thu-Trang Vuong, Manh-Tung Ho, Q. Vuong

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引用次数: 9

Excluding migrant labor from the Malaysian bioeconomy: Working and living conditions of migrant workers in the palm oil sector in Sabah 从马来西亚生物经济中排除移民劳工:沙巴棕榈油部门移民工人的工作和生活条件

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-28 DOI: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0012

Janina Puder

{"title":"Excluding migrant labor from the Malaysian bioeconomy: Working and living conditions of migrant workers in the palm oil sector in Sabah","authors":"Janina Puder","doi":"10.14764/10.ASEAS-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0012","url":null,"abstract":"In 2012, Malaysia launched its bioeconomy program, with the palm oil sector as one of the main pillars. In focusing on the societal processes that accompany the Malaysian plans to establish a bioeconomy, it is of special interest to understand which occupation groups in the palm oil sector are included and which are excluded from the socio-economic targets of the program. Research on the bioeconomy, as well as a green economy more broadly, often neglect the possible effects of green economy models on labor markets. I argue that low-skilled migrant workers employed in the Malaysian palm oil sector are structurally excluded from the national goal of enhancing the living and working conditions of the population by transforming into a bioeconomy. This exclusion intersects with a specific precarity caused by the socio-economic status of low-skilled migrant workers. The article shows that Malaysia’s bioeconomy program reinforces the precarity of this group of workers, expressed in the lack of perspectives for upward mobility, their discrimination on the labor market, and in social barriers preventing them from further training. The findings presented are based on expert interviews and semi-structured qualitative interviews with workers from Sabah.","PeriodicalId":37990,"journal":{"name":"Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79244542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 8

Book Review: Werning, R. & Schwieger, J. (2019). Handbuch Philippinen. Gesellschaft-Politik-Wirtschaft-Kultur

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-28 DOI: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0017

Ralph Chan, Joshua Makalintal

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The third wave of Indonesia’s food market: Practices at small community markets in Yogyakarta 印尼食品市场的第三波浪潮:日惹小型社区市场的做法

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-28 DOI: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0013

Dodi Widiyanto

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Recalling hydraulic despotism: Hun Sen’s Cambodia and the return of strict authoritarianism 回顾水力专制:洪森的柬埔寨与严格威权主义的回归

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-28 DOI: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0014

D. Blake

{"title":"Recalling hydraulic despotism: Hun Sen’s Cambodia and the return of strict authoritarianism","authors":"D. Blake","doi":"10.14764/10.ASEAS-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0014","url":null,"abstract":"Mirroring trends elsewhere in Southeast Asia, Cambodia has witnessed a pronounced shift towards stricter authoritarianism over recent years. The state appears more firmly ruled by prime minister Hun Sen than at any time during the past three decades, while the de facto status of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) more closely resembles the single party regimes of neighboring states. One of the major tools of political control and expansion of authority employed by the hierarchical CPP network is the construction of major infrastructure projects, most notably hydropower dams and irrigation schemes. This article focuses attention on the hydraulic infrastructure aspects of exacting political authority and social control by the elite over the nation, drawing upon Wittfogelian perspectives for a conceptual framework. It maintains that Cambodia increasingly represents a modern variant of a hydraulic society, but primarily functions as a satellite hydraulic state of China. The growing influence of China over Cambodia’s hydraulic development has helped elevate Hun Sen to resemble a neo-classic hydraulic despot. Hydraulic society concepts help provide partial understanding of contemporary power relations and party-state ascendency, including the longevity and resilience of Hun Sen’s supremacy.","PeriodicalId":37990,"journal":{"name":"Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74439474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 12

The contestation of social memory in the new media: A case study of the 1965 killings in Indonesia 新媒体下的社会记忆之争:以1965年印尼大屠杀为例

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-28 DOI: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0010

Hakimul Ikhwan, V. I. Yulianto, Gilang Desti Parahita

{"title":"The contestation of social memory in the new media: A case study of the 1965 killings in Indonesia","authors":"Hakimul Ikhwan, V. I. Yulianto, Gilang Desti Parahita","doi":"10.14764/10.ASEAS-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0010","url":null,"abstract":"While today’s Indonesian democratic government remains committed to the New Order orthodoxy about the mass killings of 1965, new counter-narratives challenging official history are emerging in the new media. Applying mixed-methods and multi-sited ethnography, this study aims to extend our collaborative understanding of the most recent developments in this situation by identifying multiple online interpersonal stories, deliberations, and debates related to the case as well as offline field studies in Java and Bali. Practically and theoretically, we ask how the tragedy of the 1965 killings is contested in the new media and how social memory plays out in this contestation. The study finds that new media potentially act as emancipatory sites channeling and liberating the voices of those that the nation has stigmatized as ‘objectively guilty’. We argue that the arena of contestation is threefold: individual, public vs. state narrative, and theoretical. As such, the transborder space of the new media strongly mediates corrective new voices to fill missing gaps in the convoluted history of this central event of modern Indonesian history.","PeriodicalId":37990,"journal":{"name":"Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85065087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 10

China’s cultural diplomacy in Malaysia during Najib Razak’s premiership 纳吉布·拉扎克担任总理期间，中国在马来西亚的文化外交

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2019-06-28 DOI: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0016

Jakub Hrubý, Tomáš Petrů

{"title":"China’s cultural diplomacy in Malaysia during Najib Razak’s premiership","authors":"Jakub Hrubý, Tomáš Petrů","doi":"10.14764/10.ASEAS-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0016","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to provide an analysis of China’s cultural diplomacy (CCD) in Malaysia in the latter years of the premiership of Najib Razak (2015-2018). It intends to reflect on the efforts China has been exerting in order to increase its soft power in the Southeast Asian nation. The authors have identified and analyzed four major fields of CCD: the activities of two Confucius Institutes; the first overseas campus of a renowned Chinese university; invocations of shared history, embodied mainly by the figure of the legendary admiral-eunuch Zheng He, regularly commemorated as China’s historic envoy of peace; and Malay translations of classical Chinese novels. The article’s findings reveal an intricate pattern of networks involving various actors, both Chinese and Malaysian, state, semi-state, and non-state, pursuing their own particular interests, which tend to converge and overlap with the aims of Chinese cultural diplomacy. The implementation of CCD has also been formed by the local political and societal structures: a) a ‘special’ relation between Razak’s cabinet and the PRC leadership, revolving around party-based diplomacy and intensive economic cooperation especially between 2015 and May 2018; b) the presence of a large Chinese community, which provides opportunities and, at the same time, creates limitations for the China´s cultural diplomacy practice in Malaysia.","PeriodicalId":37990,"journal":{"name":"Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75171344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

Is Makassar a 'sanctuary city'?: migration governance in Indonesia after the 'local turn' 望加锡是一个“庇护城市”吗?:印尼“本土化转向”后的移民治理

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-29 DOI: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0003

Antje Missbach, Yunizar Adiputera, Atin Prabandari

{"title":"Is Makassar a 'sanctuary city'?: migration governance in Indonesia after the 'local turn'","authors":"Antje Missbach, Yunizar Adiputera, Atin Prabandari","doi":"10.14764/10.ASEAS-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Taking into consideration three levels of government (regional, national, and sub-national) that potentially offer protection to refugees, this paper is concerned with changes initiated by the 2016 Presidential Regulation on Handling Foreign Refugees. This regulation has delegated more responsibility for managing refugees to the sub-national levels of administration in Indonesia, which, like other nations in the Southeast Asia, has been reluctant to provide protection for refugees or any options for their integration into society. The reason for this is that, despite many vociferous demands in favor of a ‘regional solution’ in the aftermath of the 2015 Andaman Sea Crisis, most attempts ended up in abeyance. Following suit with the so-called ‘local turn’ in migration studies, which increased attention to the local dimensions of refugee protection due to the receding capacities in the major actors involved both in global refugee protection and international migration management, we direct attention to the sub-national level of refugee management in Indonesia using as a case study the city of Makassar, which has hitherto enjoyed a fairly positive reputation for welcoming refugees. By examining the current living conditions of asylum seekers and refugees in Makassar and comparing them to other places in Indonesia, we ask whether the concept of ‘sanctuary city’ is applicable to a non-Western context and, in doing so, hope to enhance current discussions of creating alternative models for refugee protection beyond the national and regional level.","PeriodicalId":37990,"journal":{"name":"Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87765693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 18

Workshop Report: Central Kalimantan in the Year 2030: Natural Resources, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development 研讨会报告:2030年的加里曼丹中部:自然资源、社会正义和可持续发展

Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies Pub Date : 2018-12-29 DOI: 10.14764/10.ASEAS-0006

Kristina Großmann

{"title":"Workshop Report: Central Kalimantan in the Year 2030: Natural Resources, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development","authors":"Kristina Großmann","doi":"10.14764/10.ASEAS-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14764/10.ASEAS-0006","url":null,"abstract":"The one-day kick-off workshop that took place in Palangkaraya – the provincial capital of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia – is part of the transdisciplinary research project “FuturEN: Governance, Identities, and Future along Categories of Differentiation: The Case of Coal Mining in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia”.1 This project explores environmental conflicts, especially those related to coal mining, focusing on the nexus between ethnicity, gender, and status in Central Kalimantan.2 The aim of the workshop was to elaborate on diverging future visions regarding coal mining on an intersectoral expert level and to find correspondences between different scenarios. The workshop organizers – Kristina Großmann, Alessandro Gullo, Pinarsita Juliana, Marko Mahin, Semiarto Aji Purwanto, and Meta Septalisa – invited representatives of relevant groups on the provincial level, including representatives from the government, the business sector, universities, and civil society organizations.3 In the further course of the research project, Kristina Großmann plans to conduct a series of workshops in Murung Raya, the northernmost district of Central Kalimantan, where coal mining is prevalent. The closing workshop is again to be held in Palangkaraya. During the workshop, two discussion groups were formed and discussed the following four guiding questions relating to Central Kalimantan:","PeriodicalId":37990,"journal":{"name":"Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91106484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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