{"title":"Myanmar. Everyday justice in Myanmar: Informal resolutions and state evasion in a time of contested transition Edited by Helene Maria Kyed Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2020. Map, Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index.","authors":"Nicholas Farrelly","doi":"10.1017/s0022463422000728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463422000728","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"823 - 825"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44382182","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":"Cambodia. The social order of postconflict transformation in Cambodia: Insurgent pathways to peace By Daniel Bultmann Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2018. Pp. 182. Figure, Table, Notes, Bibliography and Index.","authors":"Y. Kubota","doi":"10.1017/s0022463422000820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022463422000820","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"809 - 810"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49053242","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 cultural meaning of ‘female genital mutilation’ in rural Malaysia: The female body and sexuality through the medical gaze","authors":"Yufu Iguchi, A. Rashid","doi":"10.1017/S002246342200087X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S002246342200087X","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores increasing medical control over sexuality and the female body in rural Malaysia by examining the formation of the global discourse of ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM) through local discourses on sunat (circumcision). Regarding FGM as a Foucauldian discourse, the article analyses interviews with traditional practitioners and villagers’ statements. The expansion of modern medical systems, along with the medical gaze, has brought notions of sexuality in rural areas of Malaysia as revealed from local discourses on sunat that mention it as a means of controlling female sexuality. By examining the cultural gaps between global discourse and categories of FGM and the local practice of sunat, the article concludes that the incorporation of local practices in the global is ongoing rather than complete.","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"709 - 732"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42905653","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. The Kakawin Ghaṭotkacāśraya by Mpu Panuluh Edited and translated by Stuart Robson Tokyo: Research School for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2016. Pp. 332. Foreword, Plate, Notes, Bibliography, Index.","authors":"P. Worsley","doi":"10.1017/S0022463422000716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463422000716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"816 - 818"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45045142","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":"Denouncing the ‘Việt Cộng’: Tales of revolution and betrayal in the Republic of Vietnam","authors":"Nu-Anh Tran","doi":"10.1017/S0022463422000790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463422000790","url":null,"abstract":"The Denounce the Communists Campaign (1955–c.1960) was a key moment in the conflict between the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, South Vietnam) and the Vietnamese communist movement and would eventually escalate to become the Vietnam War. The RVN launched the campaign to turn public opinion against communism and destroy the underground communist network. Building on previous scholarship, this article examines the propaganda associated with the initiative. During the campaign, state propagandists and allied intellectuals developed a historical narrative about the Anti-French Resistance (1945–54) that vilified the communists. Although highly partisan, the narrative illuminates the longer history of violence between communists and anti-communists in Vietnam.","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"686 - 708"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43467030","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":"Staging Chinese student activism in Cold War Singapore: Performing Chineseness and embodying the Malayan nation, 1950s–60s","authors":"Beiyu Zhang","doi":"10.1017/S0022463422000789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463422000789","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a re-examination of Chinese student activism in Singapore through the lens of cultural performance, which has yet to garner due attention. Tracing the ebb and flow of Chinese school concerts in the politically volatile atmosphere of Cold War era Singapore and Malaya complicates current understanding about student activism in the city state. Whereas the official narratives by the British colonial administration and later, the PAP, often cast Chinese student activism as part of a communist insurgency, this article argues that school concerts—comprising folk dances, songs, choirs and theatre—were an alternative space for Chinese youth to articulate their visions of building an independent socialist state and an integrated multiracial Malayan nation. Unlike the student activism expressed through mass strikes, these school concerts enable one to see how the Chinese students displayed sophisticated ways of discipline, organisation skills, and creative energy through the performing arts in 1950s and 1960s Singapore.","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"786 - 806"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44578217","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":"Peace pacts and contentious politics: The Chico River Dam struggle in the Philippines, 1974–82","authors":"M. Göransson","doi":"10.1017/S0022463422000777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463422000777","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1970s, communities of the Kalinga sub-ethnic group in the Cordillera Mountains in northern Philippines successfully halted the construction of a series of hydroelectric dams along their main waterway, the Chico River, which would have caused their displacement. Based on interviews and archival research, the article examines the role played by a Kalinga political institution known as the bodong or peace pact in the Kalingas’ mobilisation against the dam project, using an analytical framework drawn from Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's work on contentious politics.","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"641 - 663"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46423834","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":"Malaysia. Sharia transformations: Cultural politics and the rebranding of an Islamic judiciary By Michael G. Peletz Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. 238. Maps, Table, Figures, Bibliography, Index.","authors":"Dominik M. Müller","doi":"10.1017/S0022463422000650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463422000650","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"821 - 823"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48389692","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":"Praxis and policy: Discourse on Cham Bani religious identity in Vietnam","authors":"W. Noseworthy, Pham Huyen","doi":"10.1017/S0022463422000868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463422000868","url":null,"abstract":"Past scholarship has described the Cham Bani religious community as a heterodox and syncretic version of Islam. We argue for a more nuanced interpretation: assertions of orthopraxy and heteropraxy shape contemporary debates in Cham communities in Vietnam. Based on a robust selection of source material—including the positions of government officials, high-ranking clerics, community members, and local activists, along with historicised anthropological accounts, Cham manuscripts, and government documents—our multidisciplinary approach, combining in-depth interviews and historical analysis, suggests religious classifications cannot be viewed as static in Cham communities, especially in the case of the ‘Cham Bani’, currently best thought of as a Cham particularist religious community.","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"733 - 761"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46771608","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":"Vietnam. Speaking out in Vietnam: Public political criticism in a Communist Party–ruled nation By Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. 243. Illustrations, Notes, Index.","authors":"Anh-Susann Pham Thi","doi":"10.1017/S0022463422000662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463422000662","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46213,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Southeast Asian Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"834 - 835"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49431062","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}