New Books in Southeast Asian Studies
Interviews with Scholars of Southeast Asia about their New Books
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- http://newbooksnetwork.com/category/peoples-places/southeast-asian-studies/
- Description
- Interviews with Scholars of Southeast Asia about their New Books
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-03-01 22:10
- last episode published
- 2025-03-01 09:00
- publication frequency
- 9.81 days
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- Marshall Poe
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- Number of Episodes
- 613
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-03-01 | Before the creation of the European colonial states in the nineteenth century, Southeast Asia had hundreds of royal families, large and small. Today, only a small number survive. In his book, Champassak Royalty and Sovereignty: Within and Between Natio... |
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| 2025-02-27 |
Kishore Mahbubani, "Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir" (Public Affairs, 2024) Kishore Mahbubani, longtime Singaporean diplomat and academic, opens his new memoir with a provocative line: “Blame it on the damn British.” Kishore, who later served as Singapore’s ambassador to the UN and founding dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of P... |
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| 2025-02-25 | In Chasing Archipelagic Dreams: The Expansion of Foreign Influence in Sabah amid the End of Empire, 1945–1965 (Cornell University Press, 2024), Dr. David R. Saunders demonstrates that the withdrawal of the British imperial state from Sabah did not resu... |
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| 2025-02-16 |
Joshua Barker, "State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City" (Duke UP, 2024) The relationship between fear people experience in their lives and the government often informs key questions about the rule of law and justice. In nations where the rule of law is unevenly applied, interpreting the people involved in its enforcement a... |
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| 2025-02-13 | Four years ago, on Feb. 1 2021, the Burmese military overthrew the fledgling democratic government in the Southeast Asian country of Burma, officially known as Myanmar. That sparked a civil war that continues today–with neither the military junta nor t... |
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| 2025-02-13 | Agriculture remains a key sector of the economies of most Southeast Asian countries. It is supposed to provide nutritious, affordable, accessible and safe food to the people of SE Asia, and livelihood to more than 400 million farmers across the region.... |
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| 2025-02-05 | **Warning: This episode contains potentially disturbing content!** On this episode of the Black Beryl, I sit down with Justin McDaniel, a scholar of Theravada Buddhist literature and art. Together we explore the darker side of Thai Buddhism, including ... |
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| 2025-01-27 |
Talking Thai Politics: Chanintorn Pensute, The Cost of Politics in Thailand How much does it cost to become an MP in Thailand? Is entering parliamentary politics prohibitively expensive for ordinary people? Has the rise of the Move Forward Party (now the People’s Party) changed the landscape as regards candidate selection and ... |
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| 2025-01-26 | In this podcast, the host, Lara Momesso, introduces a book she co-edited with Dr Polina Ivanova (University of Bremen) titled Refugees and Asylum Seekers in East Asia: Perspective from Japan and Taiwan (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024), and she interviews one... |
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| 2025-01-19 | The system of prostitution imposed and enforced by the Japanese military during its wartime occupation of several countries in East and Southeast Asia is today well-known and uniformly condemned. Transnational activist movements have sought to recogniz... |
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