{"title":"The phantom world of Digul: policing as politics in colonial Indonesia, 1926–1941","authors":"V. Houben","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2081306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2081306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"280 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44709703","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":"Aung San Suu Kyi and ethnic cleansing: the dark side of ‘Myanmar way’ democracy","authors":"I. Zahed, B. Jenkins","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2086062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2086062","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After more than half a century of military rule in Myanmar, a democratic transition started in 2011. General Thein Sein established a civilian government from 2011 to 2016, and then in 2016 Aung San Suu Kyi, the daughter of the ‘father of the nation’, came to power. But Suu Kyi’s government had to share power with the military, as the constitution provided them vital privileges. Subsequently, following brutal actions against the Rohingya ethnoreligious group during Suu Kyi’s tenure, the international community accused her government of doing nothing to stop ethnic cleansing and genocide. This article examines why Aung San Suu Kyi, as leader of a fledgling democracy, failed to protect the Rohingya from ethnic cleansing. The arguments centre on the countrywide anti-Rohingya sentiment, Myanmar’s unstable democracy, Suu Kyi’s election process, the power imbalance between military and civilian governments and Suu Kyi’s policy tilt towards the military, and how these factors contributed to ethnic cleansing and genocide. Michael Mann’s theory on the ‘dark side’ of democracy, here applied to Myanmar’s democracy under Aung San Suu Kyi, examines how it connects with repression, ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Rohingya minority.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"202 - 218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42296433","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":"Imperial borderlands: maps and territory-building in the Northern Indochinese Peninsula (1885–1914)","authors":"Eric Tagliacozzo","doi":"10.1080/0967828x.2022.2066859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2022.2066859","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"282 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46691484","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":"Thai politics in translation: monarchy, democracy and the supra-constitution","authors":"Tomas Larsson","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2066858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2066858","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"271 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42851004","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":"Tản Đà (1889–1939) and the making of new literature in colonial Vietnam","authors":"Cam Thi Doan","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2065215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2065215","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In addressing the emergence of the modern writer in the north of Vietnam at the dawn of the twentieth century, this article offers a reading of the itinerary of Tản Đà (1889–1939), a Confucian scholar who became one of the founders of the new literature movement. Caught midway between the end of the literature-as-sacred era and the colonial period where it became a consumer product, without having completed his studies in Chinese or in French, he embraced quốc ngữ (romanized script) as an opportunity to innovate and discovered his vocation for the pen. To what extent can his work be considered an indictment of the mandarin recruitment system and a plea in favour of the emancipation of literature in relation to political power? How did Tản Đà articulate his own destiny with historical events to create the fable of the modern writer? In his case, what does ‘modern’ mean? How and in what way does his commitment allow us to consider the literature of his generation in terms of transition rather than hiatus?","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"255 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48947210","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":"On creoles and technologies of nation-making: Nick Joaquin as a theorist of nationalism","authors":"Lisandro E. Claudio","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2067003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2067003","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article compares the historical work of Filipino fictionist Nick Joaquin with Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities. It contends that Joaquin developed ideas comparable to Anderson’s roughly the same time. Joaquin, like Anderson, traces the origins of modern nationalism to creoles (Europeans born in the colonies) and views nationalism as a product of technological change. In comparing Joaquin’s work with one of the twentieth century’s most important historical works, this article makes a case for Joaquin as an important theorist of nationalism.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"145 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48835068","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":"South East Asian countries’ policies toward a rising China: lessons from Vietnam’s hedging response to the Belt and Road Initiative","authors":"Dung Viet Trinh","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2064762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2064762","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) not only marks a significant change in Chinese foreign policy but also brings benefits and challenges to countries in its region, especially those South East Asian states that have long existed under Beijing’s influence. This article argues that South East Asian countries have followed different policies in response to the BRI because of their different levels of economic development and each state’s political and strategic calculations regarding their relations with China. The article also points out that having bordered China for more than 2000 years, and having experienced ups and downs in their bi-lateral relations, Vietnam has hedged against the BRI by showing support to the initiative but limiting its participation in it. Vietnam has pushed back against BRI investments due to the fear of falling into China’s debt trap and the consequent adverse impacts on security and sovereignty, and it has enhanced cooperation with other states in infrastructure investments to avoid depending on Chinese capital. Vietnam’s hedging policy towards the BRI also offers lessons for regional countries about diversifying relations with other powerful states and avoiding dependence on or opposition to an emergent power.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"237 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48002724","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 city in time: contemporary art and urban form in Vietnam and Cambodia","authors":"N. Taylor","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2057007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2057007","url":null,"abstract":"with living pawangs. These are especially valuable as they provide a greater understanding of the earlier material, and enabled texts and concepts to be clarified. A Glossary of Malay terms, and details of the manuscripts and archival sources consulted, follows the Conclusion. As manuscripts are one of the main sources that were used in the research and provide the basis for many of the arguments, it would have been useful to have the original Malay texts included within the book. In some instances, English translations of phrases and passages are used, but the Malay equivalents are not given. The inclusion of these texts would have helped further support the arguments provided, and they would make the book even more valuable as an academic resource since many of them have yet to be published. The book contains ten black and white photographs of various subjects, including pawangs, manuscripts and shrines. More images like these might have given more flavour to the individuals, activities and places discussed. Altogether, Miracles and Material Life has ably demonstrated the importance of the pawang in Malaya during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Indeed the main impression that can be gained was how many economic activities had a spiritual dimension, hence the central role played by the pawangs. Perhaps this will lead to a similar approach being applied to historical research on other industries (such as manufacturing and fishing), which would help provide a more holistic view of the economic and social aspects of Malayan life during this period.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"277 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42807256","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":"Indonesia–Malaysia relations from below: Indonesian migrants and the role of identity","authors":"A. Maksum","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2055489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2055489","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Empirical studies on relationships between Indonesians and Malaysians, especially those living in Penang, Malaysia, diverge significantly from the narratives commonly found in mainstream media. At the national level, the two countries have frequently been involved in problems that have led to inter-state tensions. However, at the grassroots level of personal relationships, specifically between Indonesian migrants and local Malaysians, harmony and cohesion as well as mutual benefits are more often expressed by those involved. This article argues that a similarity of identity has made it easier for Indonesian migrants to build cohesion with the local Malaysian population and with Malays in particular. As a consequence of these similar identities and cohesive relationships, Indonesian migrants experience various benefits and feel safer when facing legal issues. This article outlines the origins of Indonesian migrant identity and discusses specific elements to elaborate on the role of identity at the personal level of Indonesia–Malaysia relations.","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"219 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43727221","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":"Miracles and material life: rice, ore, traps and guns in Islamic Malaya","authors":"Farouk Yahya","doi":"10.1080/0967828X.2022.2083824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2083824","url":null,"abstract":"Miracles and Material Life by Terenjit Sevea feels like the grand open ing of an independent bookstore you just happened to pass by. The vaults of an enthusiastic collector are finally opened, and every nook and cranny you investigate promises an exhilarating, unexpected spark. The central focus of Sevea’s microhistory is the Islamic miracle worker (“pawang” or “bomoh”) in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Malaya. Building on his creative engagement with Jawi manuscripts, and wide-ranging scholarship on Sufism, Islamic material culture, and Islam in South and Southeast Asia, Sevea demonstrates how these extraor-dinary figures manifested Islamic tradition and shaped colonial labor practices, and show how the Sufi networks, local forms of life, and labor contingencies in which these Islamic miracle workers were enmeshed animated their Islamic practice and impacted modern Malaya. This monograph will be especially valuable to scholars working on Islam and modernity, Sufism, and Islam in Southeast Asia. For those fields, Sevea fleshes out critically overlooked facets of Islamic tradition. But Sevea’s analysis will also add to fields as wide-ranging as history of science, material religion studies, gender studies, ethnic studies, ecocriticism,","PeriodicalId":45498,"journal":{"name":"South East Asia Research","volume":"30 1","pages":"275 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48073418","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}