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{"title":"The power of the blood: myths and practices surrounding menstruation in Indonesian diamond mining","authors":"R. Priandhita, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2197256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2197256","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper is a feminist investigation into the beliefs and practices surrounding menstruation among traditional artisanal diamond mining women in the Muslim Banjar ethnic community in rural parts of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Based on feminist ethnographic field methods, it investigates how these women interpret the religious and cultural restrictions in their everyday lives as miners, and how their beliefs influence their attitudes toward diamond mining. While the women have different economic and social backgrounds, and have experienced and experience menstruation differently, they are all involved in diamond mining. This article shows that, contrary to popular belief, menstrual blood is considered lucky in this traditional diamond mining community, and it considers the wider implications for a deeper understanding of gender in mining.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"72 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48489782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘The buffalo skin written word’: the cultural politics of orality and writing in mainland South East Asia","authors":"Micah F. Morton","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2193705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2193705","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Throughout mainland South East Asia, there are numerous indigenous histories of the loss and return of the written word. These histories are often linked to narratives of Christian conversion, and the desire for literacy and modernity. In this article, I revisit questions about the cultural politics of orality and the written word from the perspectives of certain Akha communities in the Thai–Myanmar borderlands that are relative newcomers to both Christianity and the desire for literacy. I discuss three different histories of the loss and return of the written word as found among Akha Old Traditionalists, Neo-Traditionalists and Baptist Christians in the region. I highlight the ways in which these histories speak to Akha Neo-Traditionalists’ and Baptist Christians’ competing efforts to reimagine the boundaries of Akhaness in a modern, authentic and religious fashion. I conclude by noting how these particular Akha cases contribute to a resurgence of scholarship on the region and its peoples inspired by James Scott’s reframing of the region as ‘Zomia’. I especially narrow in on the fruitful debate inspired by Scott’s most controversial claim that so-called Zomians intentionally discarded their prior writing systems and adopted orality as a means of evading the state.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"1 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44200004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The candidate’s dilemma: anticorruptionism and money politics in Indonesian election campaigns","authors":"R. Mcleod","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2179251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2179251","url":null,"abstract":"island’s fate for the Asia-Pacific and the wider world, underline the importance of promoting global awareness and understanding of its undeniable “historical humane achievements” (p. xvii). In order to do so effectively, however, it is crucial that scholars diligently cultivate their own “self-consciousness” and regard for complexity, especially when dealing with slippery concepts such as “modernity,” “development” and “colonialism.” Showcasing Taiwanese scholars’ capacity for sophisticated, nuanced historical analysis, and their freedom to exercise it – both evident in many contributions to this volume – constitutes one very significant way in which Taiwan can offer a model to other contemporary societies, whether “developing” or “developed.”","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"107 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48219551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Histories of scale: Java, the Indies and Asia in the imperial age, 1820–1945","authors":"S. Ravensbergen","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2177441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2177441","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"102 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41921130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Pa-uli na’: Filipino familial intimacy and entreaties to returning interprovincial migrants","authors":"Eric N. Awi","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2173641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2173641","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores how family intimacy and traditional values interplay in the return of rural interprovincial migrants in the Philippines, in response to entreaties made by family members. Specifically, it looks at how Filipino behavioural patterns for social acceptance underlie interprovincial migrants’ decision to return. Jacqui Gabb’s concept of family intimacy and Virginia Miralao’s discourse on Filipino family and traditional values provide a theoretical framework to further understand the complexities of family practices and interprovincial migration in the country. Ethnographic narratives and observations were collected to highlight family intimacy and the cultural foundation of ‘pa-uli na’ entreaties. By unravelling the different forms of entreaties and patterns of the decision to return, this article conceptualizes family as an affective space of intimacy that constitutes the socio-cultural context for the analysis.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"35 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43406597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Between chili farms and an aerotropolis: the struggle against the new airport in Yogyakarta, Indonesia","authors":"Heronimus Heron, Min Seong Kim","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2208371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2208371","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Yogyakarta International Airport (YIA), which opened on 28 August 2020, represents one of the largest infrastructure developments in the modern history of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. While, for some, the airport project was proof of the Indonesian government’s commitment to invest in the region, to the farmers of the Temon area on which the airport now stands, it represented the threat of eviction and loss of their farmlands. Thus, in 2012, the Temon farmers formed an organization called Wahana Tri Tunggal to carry out anti-airport activities and protect their interests. The farmers were joined by activists of diverse ideological backgrounds, and together they continued to resist the development of the new airport until 2018, when they eventually decided to end the struggle. Based on interviews with farmers and activists who participated in the anti-YIA campaign, this article describes the attachment the farmers had to their land in Temon and the reason why they rejected the compensation package offered to them, the pluralistic composition of the anti-YIA struggle, as well as the recollections of the movement by its former participants.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"51 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48216904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dynastic democracy: political families in Thailand","authors":"J. Sidel","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2023.2216975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2216975","url":null,"abstract":"election outcome in favour of candidates who have every intention of abusing their position if successful. With these thoughts in mind, it is easy to see why legislating against ‘vote buying’ has superficial appeal to politicians – especially corrupt politicians in no way threatened by an unenforceable law. The important point to note, however, is that the underlying problem is endemic corruption, not gift-giving per se, which, in principle at least, may actually reflect high-minded intentions. Making ‘vote buying’ illegal simply allows the political class to appear to care about eradicating corruption, while contributing little if anything towards achieving that objective. The author notes that some analysts have advocated the provision of public funding to allow ‘clean’ candidates to compete on more equal terms with those minded to recoup the cost of getting elected using corruptly generated future income. The logical flaw here is that the cost of an election campaign is not fixed. Each campaigner would have to be given the same amount, and if all campaigners find an extra, say, $10,000 in their bank account, it can be assumed that all those with a reasonable prospect of success will increase their campaign spending by about that amount. There is no obvious reason to assume this extra spending will generate more votes for ‘clean’ candidates, so this policy seems incapable of achieving the desired result. In summary, this book will be useful to those with a general interest in election campaigning in Indonesia and other countries characterized by endemic corruption, but its analytical contribution is compromised by Kramer’s perception of ‘vote buying’ as a cause of corruption rather than a consequence. The experienced and accomplished candidate, Bontor, seeing no conflict between anticorruptionism and ‘vote buying’ – or, rather, gift-giving – seems to this reviewer to have the more commonsense view of this issue.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"110 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48247043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Postcolonial hangups in Southeast Asian cinema","authors":"Dag Yngvesson","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2114714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2114714","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"510 - 514"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46767835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"State of disorder: privatised violence and the state in Indonesia","authors":"Gerry van Klinken","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2128400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2128400","url":null,"abstract":"There seem to be semi-organized young men with a potential for disorder everywhere in Indonesia. From parking attendants in Jakarta to chainsaw gangs in the jungles of Borneo; from ‘security units’ for political parties to martial arts clubs; from neighbourhood watches to military auxiliaries, these groups often serve multiple purposes beyond their stated one. In an environment of high youth underemployment, poorly regulated markets and competitive inter-elite politics, they are an unruly, though photogenic, face of Indonesian politics at many levels. This book is a welcome addition to an already extensive literature about political thuggery in Indonesia. It is an ambitious project. A great range of episodes in which gangs of young men known colloquially as preman have been controversial passes the revue. There are historical sections on the semi-criminal jago that indirectly propped up the colonial plantation economy in Java and on the mostly religious gangs that assisted the military in wiping out the communist party in 1965. There are contemporary sections on the Pancasila Youth groups in North Sumatra helping plantation companies secure the land they want and on the Islamic groups that intimidate alcohol-sellers and nightclubs in Javanese cities like Solo and Jakarta. There are ethnic gangs helping Dayak gubernatorial candidates in Kalimantan and jihadist groups trying to steer politics towards an Islamist revolution. The central thrust of the book is that, behind their diversity, these activities are all driven by one fundamental mechanism: ‘predatory capitalism’. This is another term for the more commonly understood Marxian concept of ‘primitive accumulation’. Marx intended it to portray an early stage of capitalism, in which capitalists first separate themselves by violently expropriating the means of production from others. But Mudhoffir sees the process alive and well in Indonesia today. Indeed, the violence that these gangs practise serves largely to reproduce the system of primitive accumulation, while preventing it from growing into the more regulated modern form. Other authors on preman gangs have often seen them as vehicles by which the poor acquire some agency. Mudhoffir, by contrast, sees them only as instruments in the hands of powerful state and business elites. The poor enrol in them for the pragmatic reason that there is money to be made from these disruptive activities. One of them told him (108):","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"508 - 510"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47577242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eunuchs in Vietnam: what’s missing?","authors":"Katherine A. Bowie","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2153724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2153724","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In comparison with other historical courts of South East Asia, in which eunuchs had minimal presence, Vietnamese courts were outliers in the large numbers, in-country origins, administrative importance and long duration of their use of eunuchs, lasting into the early twentieth century. Given their importance in Vietnamese courts, it is remarkable that eunuchs have received little explicit attention. For scholars who are not specialists of Vietnam, it would be easy to overlook the important historical role eunuchs have played. Divided into four sections, this essay provides an overview of the literature on eunuchs in the Vietnamese court. The first section describes the importance of eunuchs within the palace, in national administration and in international relations. The second section discusses the sourcing of eunuchs, noting possible differences in the Vietnamese and Chinese patterns with regard to age, social status and hermaphrodism. The third section reviews the evidence of historical shifts over time. The final section suggests that the more deliberate inclusion of eunuchs presents additional avenues by which to better understand the political logics and dynamics of Vietnamese history.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"409 - 425"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48693764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}