[{"id": "aseas-2430", "words": "805", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "18", "author": "Gerstl, Alfred; Schweitzer, Erwin", "title": "S\u00fcdostasienwissenschaften publizieren: Open-Access, thematischer Pluralismus, Internationalit\u00e4t", "date": "2008", "keywords": "aseas; der; die; f\u00fcr; sich; s\u00fcdostasienwissenschaften; und; von", "summary": "Im Gegenteil, ASEAS will die Bedeutung der S\u00fcdostasienforschung in \u00d6sterreich f\u00f6rdern, indem es bewusst auf das Wissen der internationalen akademischen Gemeinschaft aus diversen Disziplinen und Perspektiven zur\u00fcckgreift. Die Gesellschaft f\u00fcr S\u00fcdostasienwissenschaften/Society for South-East Asian Studies (SEAS), die Herausgeberin von ASEAS, widmet sich seit ihrer Gr\u00fcndung der F\u00f6rderung der S\u00fcdostasienwissenschaften in \u00d6sterreich durch wissenschaftliche und \u00f6ffentliche Weiterbildung, Vernetzung und Kommunikation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2431", "words": "6109", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Slama, Martin", "title": "Islam Pribumi. Der Islam der Einheimischhen, seine \"Arabisierung\" und arabische Diasporagemeinschaften in Indonesien", "date": "2008", "keywords": "aber; als; arabischen; arabisierung; aseas; auch; auf; aus; das; dass; den; der; des; des islam; die; diese; eine; f\u00fcr; indonesien; indonesischen; islam; islam pribumi; islamischen; ist; mit; nahdlatul; nicht; nur; organisationen; press; pribumi; sich; sind; ulama; und; vertreter; von; vor; werden; wie; wird; zum; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "gesichtet am \ufffd\ufffd. Der Islam der Einheimischen, seine \u201eArabisierung\u201c und arabische Diasporagemeinschaften in Indonesien / Islam Pribumi.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2432", "words": "3768", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Heilmann, Matthias", "title": "Islamismus in Indonesien - Der Erfolg der Gerechtigkeits- und Wohlfahrtspartei und seine m\u00f6glichen Auswirkungen", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; aseas; auch; auf; das; dem; den; der; des; die; eine; f\u00fcr; ihre; indonesia; islam; ist; jakarta; keadilan; mit; nach; nicht; partai; pks; politik; politischen; sejahtera; sich; sie; und; von; werden", "summary": "Aus dieser Doppelgesichtigkeit, die von den Funktion\u00e4ren der Partei durch zweideutige Aussagen m\u00f6glicherweise bewusst aufrechterhalten wird, erkl\u00e4ren sich die verschiedenen Bewertungen, die der PKS zufallen (Heilmann 2007: \ufffd\ufffd5f.). 27.\ufffd\ufffd.2006, Jakarta.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2433", "words": "10198", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Arnez, Monika", "title": "Kunst, Kosmos, Kaste. Weibliche K\u00f6rperinszenierungen, Tanz und Aspekte der Bewahrung balinesischer Kultur in Oka Rusminis Tarian Bumi", "date": "2008", "keywords": "aber; als; arnez; aseas; auch; auf; aus; autorin; bali; balinese; balinesischen; bei; bumi; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; durch; eigenen; ein; eine; familie; frauen; f\u00fcr; haben; hat; heirat; hier; ihre; ist; jahre; jedoch; kambren; kaste; kosmos; kritik; kultur; kunst; k\u00f6rper; leben; luh; mehr; mit; monika; nach; nicht; noch; nur; oka; rolle; roman; rusmini; sch\u00f6nheit; sekar; sich; sie; sind; status; taksu; tanz; tarian; telaga; t\u00e4nzerinnen; und; von; vor; war; wenn; werden; wie; wird; wurde; zum; zwischen; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "K\u00f6rperinszenierungen, Tanz und Aspekte der Bewahrung der balinesischen Kultur aufzuzeigen. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der Frage, wie die K\u00f6rperinszenierungen genutzt werden, um die Rolle der Frau in der balinesischen Gesellschaft innerhalb des Spannungsfeldes des hinduistischen Kastensystems, der Hierarchie und vor dem Hintergrund der Problematik von Tourismus,", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2434", "words": "5172", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Z\u00f6llner, Hans-Bernd", "title": "Die Rohingyas - Konstruktion, De-Konstruktion und Re-Konstruktion einer ethnisch-religi\u00f6sen nationalen Identit\u00e4t", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; arakan; aseas; auch; auf; aus; birmanischen; burma; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; dieser; eine; f\u00fcr; geschichte; hans; identit\u00e4t; ist; konstruktion; mit; muslime; myanmar; rohingyas; sich; sie; sind; und; von; werden; wie; wird; wurde; zur", "summary": "Vor dem Ende der 50er Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts taucht der Begriff kaum auf.\ufffd5 Vor allem finden \ufffd\ufffd Siehe f\u00fcr die buddhistischen Arakanesen: Arakan Information Website (2007b) unter \u201eScholars column\u201c, f\u00fcr die Rohingyas: Arakan Rohingya National Organisation (2007) unter \u201eHistory\u201c. Vgl. In: Distelrath (u.a.) 2007: \ufffd\ufffd\ufffd-\ufffd\ufffd5. Yegar, Moshe (2002).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2435", "words": "5759", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Grigoleit, Grit", "title": "Globale Diaspora der Hmong", "date": "2008", "keywords": "2004; als; aseas; auch; auf; aus; beispielsweise; bewusstsein; dabei; das; dem; den; der; des; diaspora; die; durch; eine; f\u00fcr; gemeinschaft; heimat; hmong; identit\u00e4t; ist; jedoch; konstruktion; laos; mit; nach; nicht; oder; pao; sich; und; usa; vang; vgl; von; werden; wie; wird; wurde; \u00fcber; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "78 Grit Gigoleit - Globale Diaspora der Hmong Konstruktion und Bewahrung der Hmong Identit\u00e4t Living locally \u2013 Acting globally: Transnationale Netzwerke Die Bewahrung einer einheitlichen Hmong Identit\u00e4t wird durch die weltweite Vernetzung der diasporischen Hmong Gemeinschaften erm\u00f6glicht.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2436", "words": "2419", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Zimmermann, Reinhart", "title": "\u00d6sterreichs Wirtschaftsbeziehungen in S\u00fcdostasien", "date": "2008", "keywords": "asean; auch; das; den; der; die; f\u00fcr; ist; mit; region; south; sowie; s\u00fcdostasien; und; von; \ufffd \ufffd", "summary": "Relativ betrachtet besteht f\u00fcr \u00d6sterreich das gr\u00f6\u00dfte Wachstumspotenzial in den L\u00e4ndern Malaysia und Philippinen, da unser Marktanteil noch niedrig ist. in EUR Einfuhr Ausfuhr 2005 2006 +/- % 2005 2006 +/- % Brunei \ufffd9.8\ufffd\ufffd \ufffd\ufffd9.0\ufffd0 60\ufffd,6 56\ufffd.\ufffd0\ufffd \ufffd.596.6\ufffd7 54\ufffd,0 Indonesien \ufffd58.\ufffd46.48\ufffd \ufffd67.\ufffd89.620 5,7 \ufffd\ufffd2.75\ufffd.0\ufffd7 \ufffd\ufffd9.7\ufffd9.564 -9,8 Kambodscha 2\ufffd.47\ufffd.\ufffd\ufffd5 28.5\ufffd\ufffd.650 \ufffd2,8 702.\ufffd65 488.\ufffd\ufffd0 -\ufffd0,5 Laos \ufffd.48\ufffd.700 \ufffd.757.0\ufffd8 7,8 27.\ufffd69 \ufffd7.622 -\ufffd5,\ufffd Malaysia 256.092.587 \ufffd77.\ufffd\ufffd9.767 47,\ufffd 20\ufffd.298.007 2\ufffd6.077.\ufffd5\ufffd \ufffd6,\ufffd Myanmar 9.77\ufffd.767 \ufffd0.428.869 6,7 4.955.797 5.\ufffd82.\ufffd57 8,6 Philippinen 7\ufffd.82\ufffd.540 \ufffd\ufffd2.\ufffd\ufffd7.764 56,4 54.44\ufffd.705 70.544.457 29,6 Singapur \ufffd24.855.6\ufffd8 \ufffd28.529.74\ufffd 2,9 \ufffd87.\ufffd07.748 28\ufffd.607.027 5\ufffd,6 Thailand 285.7\ufffd\ufffd.754 \ufffd28.86\ufffd.707 \ufffd5,\ufffd \ufffd24.642.\ufffd89 \ufffd5\ufffd.049.9\ufffd8 22,8 Vietnam \ufffd49.\ufffd45.624 \ufffd90.005.\ufffd7\ufffd 27,4 \ufffd5.082.\ufffd57 55.456.258 58,\ufffd ASEAN \ufffd.080.542.20\ufffd \ufffd.\ufffd46.884.\ufffd\ufffd7 24,6 74\ufffd.57\ufffd.257 927.959.\ufffd0\ufffd 24,8 Welt 96.498.905.742 \ufffd04.200.577.\ufffd29 8,0 94.705.447.\ufffd\ufffd0 \ufffd0\ufffd.74\ufffd.778.\ufffd8\ufffd 9,5 \u00d6sterreichs Au\u00dfenhandel mit ASEAN, 2005 und 2006 (Statistik Austria) Ebenso besteht auch bei \u00f6sterreichischen Direktinvestitionen (FDI) Aufholbedarf, wo der Abstand zu vergleichbaren EU-Staaten wie D\u00e4nemark, Schweden und Finnland teilweise eklatant ist. \ufffd0.965.028 -4,\ufffd 220.655 \ufffd\ufffd5.966 -\ufffd8,4 Laos \ufffd.48\ufffd.295 \ufffd.702.\ufffd99 \ufffd4,8 \ufffd4.\ufffd55 \ufffd\ufffd.47\ufffd -6,\ufffd Malaysia \ufffd95.849.6\ufffd8 \ufffd5\ufffd.449.790 -2\ufffd,6 \ufffd28.5\ufffd9.\ufffd76 \ufffd28.840.709 0,\ufffd Myanmar 4.725.286 4.78\ufffd.09\ufffd \ufffd,2 2.95\ufffd.279 2.920.949 -\ufffd,\ufffd Philippinen 50.778.294 69.279.4\ufffd0 \ufffd6,4 \ufffd7.26\ufffd.6\ufffd2 \ufffd5.679.902 -4,2 Singapur 60.\ufffd50.4\ufffd\ufffd 50.6\ufffd7.769 -\ufffd5,8 \ufffd\ufffd4.756.800 \ufffd64.070.\ufffd22 4\ufffd,0 Thailand \ufffd5\ufffd.4\ufffd7.6\ufffd9 \ufffd79.0\ufffd7.706 \ufffd6,7 74.255.4\ufffd9 92.0\ufffd4.505 2\ufffd,9 Vietnam 94.44\ufffd.00\ufffd \ufffd04.954.690 \ufffd\ufffd,\ufffd \ufffd8.\ufffd\ufffd7.867 \ufffd6.764.464 \ufffd00,7 ASEAN 65\ufffd.\ufffd45.276 650.928.7\ufffd\ufffd -0,\ufffd 445.866.968 550.852.8\ufffd7 2\ufffd,5 Welt 50.75\ufffd.\ufffd82.69\ufffd 54.647.\ufffd77.5\ufffd9 7,7 50.40\ufffd.786.494 55.584.48\ufffd.\ufffd56 \ufffd0,\ufffd \u00d6sterreichs Au\u00dfenhandel mit ASEAN, 1.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2437", "words": "1668", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "31", "author": "Gerstl, Alfred", "title": "Vom Multilateralismus zum Bilateralismus: Das APEC-Treffen in Sydney im September 2007", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; apec; auch; auf; das; den; der; des; die; doch; einen; f\u00fcr; mit; nicht; sydney; und; von", "summary": "Doch auf der anderen Seite markierte der Sydney Gipfel gleich in doppelter Hinsicht einen Abschied: Die urspr\u00fcnglich als zentral betrachteten Selbst GipfelteilnehmerInnen wunderten sich \u00fcber das Ausma\u00df an polizeilichen Kontrollen, welche die nahezu obsessiv mit tats\u00e4chlichen und (oft sehr) vermeintlichen Bedrohungen der nationalen Sicherheit befasste konservativ-nationale Regierung angeordnet hatte. 86 ASEAS 1 (1) An greifbaren politischen oder wirtschaftlichen Ergebnissen brachte der Gipfel dagegen wenig.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2438", "words": "1210", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Z\u00f6llner, Hans-Bernd", "title": "The Myanmar Literature Project - Starting with an Investigation into the NAGANI BOOK CLUB", "date": "2008", "keywords": "book; club", "summary": "On the other hand, the Club by familiarising its readers with current international developments, knowledge and literature placed Burma into an international context and took up the demand of the British administrators that the Burmese had to be educated and Burma had to be modernised as a prerequisite to the country\u2019s independence. With the foundation of the Club, the demand for abolishing and replacing the British \u201cslave education\u201d was taken up, a demand that formed a golden thread through Burma\u2019s independence movements since the end of the \ufffd9th century.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2439", "words": "1600", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "28", "author": "Gerstl, Alfred", "title": "Book review: Maly, C.-A., Emmers, R. & Amitav, A. (Eds.) (2006). Non-traditional security in Asia: Dilemmas in securitisation.", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; auf; bedrohung; das; der; des; die; eine; ist; mit; nicht; oder; sie; und; von; wie", "summary": "Milit\u00e4rische Bedrohungen der nationalen Sicherheit, also gewaltsame Konflikte und Kriege zwischen zwei oder mehr Staaten, spielen in der Forschung nach wie vor eine wesentliche Rolle, doch im letzten Jahrzehnt hat sich die Wissenschaft der Internationalen Beziehungen verst\u00e4rkt mit sogenannten nicht-traditionellen, also nicht-milit\u00e4rischen, Konflikten auseinandergesetzt. Eine Bedrohung ist f\u00fcr sie dann \u201csekuritisiert\u201d worden, wenn diese von der Lobby-Gruppe der Allgemeinheit oder einer bestimmten (betroffenen) Gruppe erfolgreich als existenziell gef\u00e4hrlich pr\u00e4sentiert wurde, zu deren Bew\u00e4ltigung es rascher Ma\u03b2nahmen ausserhalb der angestammten politischen Prozesse bedarf \u2013 allerdings, dies ist ein zentraler Punkt, innerhalb der angestammten staatlichen Strukturen, mit der Regierung als dominanter Akteurin.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2440", "words": "1746", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Stange, Gunnar; Sakdapolrak, Patrick", "title": "Forced Migration in Southeast Asia", "date": "2018", "keywords": "11(2; asia; asylum; migration; refugees; southeast", "summary": "Thus far, we know little about the current state of refugees and internally dis- placed persons in Southeast Asia, and we have only estimations on the actual number of people that migrate involuntarily to or within the region. Southeast Asia has one of the weakest protection frameworks for refugees and asylum seekers worldwide.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2441", "words": "9040", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Brown, Thomas Mitchell", "title": "Building Resilience: The Emergence of Refugee-Led Education Initiatives in Indonesia to Address Service Gaps Faced in Protracted Transit", "date": "2018", "keywords": "asylum; centers; cisarua; community; education; indonesia; initiatives; learning; living; refugee community; refugees; seekers; self; social; unhcr", "summary": "Although refugees in such situations are commonly perceived to be passive agents resigned to helplessness and in need of outside assistance, refugee communities are challenging this notion by working together to independently address their collective needs. This immersion in refugee communities in Cisarua allowed for meaningful participa- tory observation, and led to the development of rapport with respondents.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2442", "words": "8232", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Lego, Jera", "title": "Making Refugees (Dis)Appear: Identifying Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Thailand and Malaysia", "date": "2018", "keywords": "asylum; asylum seekers; authorities; border; consortium; international; malaysia; ngos; refugees; registration; seekers; state; thai; unhcr", "summary": "Understanding the interplay between the state, the UNHCR, and NGOs in terms of varied rationalities serves to highlight: (1) the extent to which states, when focused on asserting their sovereign power, can disregard refugee norms, even as they inter- act and accommodate IOs and rights groups; (2) the importance of the UNHCR\u2019s continued functioning; and (3) the crucial role that NGOs play in supporting forced migrants given the UNHCR\u2019s tendency to homogenize refugee populations by vir- tue of its nature as a governmentalizing agent.7 It is hoped that the UNHCR, NGOs, and RCOs are continuously empowered, and that the state is socialized not just into adopting refugee norms but also away from an excessive focus on its sovereign sensi- bilities. Making Refugees (Dis)Appear This announcement by an RCO interestingly reveals the UNHCR\u2019s governmen- tal compulsion to rationalize information on refugee populations, which in turn underpins a program for fixing these populations to particular places.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2443", "words": "9385", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Missbach, Antje; Adiputera, Yunizar; Prabandari, Atin", "title": "Is Makassar a \u2018Sanctuary City\u2019? Migration Governance in Indonesia After the \u2018Local Turn\u2019", "date": "2018", "keywords": "asylum; asylum seekers; cities; city; government; indonesia; international; iom; makassar; management; migration; missbach; national; protection; refugees; sanctuary; seekers; turn", "summary": "This view is also reflected in the findings of the UN Joint Migration and Development Initiative (JMDI), which say that \u201cthe drivers and impact of migration are often most strongly felt at the local level\u201d, but at the same time \u201clocal governments have not received the same level of attention as other stakeholders, while their involvement and potential impact on the connections between migration and development is crucial\u201d (JMDI, 2008). In this context, local governments (pemerintah daerah) are given, to a certain extent, both authority and responsibility caring for refugees in their jurisdictions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2444", "words": "7793", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Seise, Claudia", "title": "Women Remembering the Prophet\u2019s Birthday: Maulid Celebrations and Religious Emotions Among the Alawiyin Community in Palembang, Indonesia", "date": "2018", "keywords": "alawiyin; birthday; celebrations; community; emotions; indonesia; islamic; maulid; maulid celebrations; muhammad; muslim; palembang; press; prophet; university; women", "summary": "Women remembering the Prophet\u2019s birthday: Maulid celebrations and religious emotions among the Alawiyin community in Palembang, Indonesia. In Palembang in South Sumatra, Indonesia, Maulid celebrations are considered an im- portant religious event in the lives of many Muslims.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2445", "words": "1380", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Gro\u00dfmann, Kristina", "title": "Workshop Report: Central Kalimantan in the Year 2030: Natural Resources, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development", "date": "2018", "keywords": "kalimantan; land; participants; society; workshop", "summary": "Participants described not only the marginalization of opposition as a problem, but also the strong profit-seeking mentality and lack of courage among politicians, villagers, and members of civil society organizations. Participants saw opportunities for change in the establishment and strengthening of civil society organizations, which should challenge, control, and change the execu- tive and the legislative branches of government.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2446", "words": "3682", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Stange, Gunnar", "title": "\u201cFrom Frustration to Escalation in Marawi\u201d: An Interview on Conflict Transformation in Southeast Asia With the Indonesian Peace and Conflict Advisor Shadia Marhaban", "date": "2018", "keywords": "aceh; conflict; government; group; marawi; peace; people; philippines; stange", "summary": "The primary aim is to learn from experiences of non-state armed groups that have been engaging in peace processes in other coun- tries. Therefore, parties must be open and ready to face those challenges, use them as a tool in exploring new approaches and perspectives to sustain the installed political settlement and other peace mechanisms that are already working on the ground.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2447", "words": "1066", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Lego, Jera", "title": "Book Review: Vatikiotis, M. (2017). Blood and Silk: Power and Conflict in Modern Southeast Asia.", "date": "2018", "keywords": "asia; southeast; vatikiotis", "summary": "This is con- sistent with much of the literature on Southeast Asia highlighting elite-driven, clientelistic, patronage relationships as characteristic of politics and governance in the region. Writing again about unresolved conflicts, Vatikiotis declares that motives ascribed to sovereignty only disguise selfish personal interest \u2013 compromise in Southeast Asia is seen as a sign of weakness and loss of face (p. 224).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2448", "words": "1981", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Helmke, Belinda; Gerstl, Alfred", "title": "Editorial", "date": "2008", "keywords": "aseas; asia; auf; den; der; die; dieser; east; f\u00fcr; gerstl; south; und; von", "summary": "Die Konferenz demonstrierte, dass der beherrschende Schwerpunkt in S\u00fcdostasien weiterhin auf internen Angelegenheiten, wie wirtschaftlichen, sozialen, politischen und kulturellen Belinda Helmke & Alfred Gerstl - Editorial 02 Currently, in South-East Asia the spotlight is on the recent core concern in the region: the global financial crisis and its potential political and social implications. Die Bekr\u00e4ftigung mulitlateraler anstelle social inequality, separatist aspirations, missing governmental authority and power struggles is regularly visible, most recently in Thailand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2449", "words": "5624", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "von Bloh, Hannah", "title": "Small Towns as Interfaces for Interaction, Exchange and Transition in Vietnam", "date": "2008", "keywords": "approach; centres; development; interaction; interfaces; level; population; processes; resources; role; towns; urban; vietnam", "summary": "While rural development projects require a longer time to have a visible impact on the living conditions of the target group, smaller urban centres are quick to take up impulses for development. As increasingly important regional nodes of political, economic and social networks, the development of smaller urban centres in consequence has an impact on its rural hinterland.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2450", "words": "5949", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Noltze, Martin", "title": "Backyard Living - Intergrative Policies Towards Migrant Workers: Housing Microfinance in Greater Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam", "date": "2008", "keywords": "chi; city; development; hcmc; housing; institutions; market; microfinance; migrants; minh; new; services; urban; vietnam; vietnamese; workers", "summary": "Although higher income perspectives are the major pull effect for migration processes in Vietnam, especially in Ho Chi Minh City migrants do have considerably lower incomes in contrast to non-migrants (GSO & UNFPA 2005: 5). Keywords: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Housing, Migrants, Microfi nance 1 During the last years, Martin Noltze has researched urban development and social issues in Vietnam.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2451", "words": "12347", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Reese, Niklas", "title": "We are Living in a Different Time Zone Transnational Working Places and the Concept of a \"Glocalized Intermediary Class\"", "date": "2008", "keywords": "agents; center; center agents; class; culture; fabros; gics; global; job; middle; new; people; philippines; places; reese; sense; service; society; time; way; workers; working; zone", "summary": "Transcending Dichotomy: The Three-Layer-Approach In my eyes this purely dichotomical and dualizing model of global class society (of winners and losers, of competitive and superfluous) in the tradition of Marxism is too simple and should at least be amended by an intermediary stratum the way Robert Castel (Castel 2000: 336 et sqq.) He furthermore argues that \u201cconsumption becomes a symbolic act signalling \u2018modernity\u2019 and membership in the ascriptive category \u2018middle class\u2019 \u201d(Gehrke 2000: 145).15", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2452", "words": "9762", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Koch, Sebastian; Faust, Heiko; Barkmann, Jan", "title": "Differences in Power Structures Regarding Access to Natural Resources at the Village Level in Central Sulawesi (Indonesia)", "date": "2008", "keywords": "access; community; forest; governance; indonesia; institutions; land; llnp; management; migrants; pool; power; resource; rights; structures; sulawesi; use; village", "summary": "These local institutions are effectively in control of access to local natural resources, i.e. mainly to the forest resources assigned to the village. Furthermore, we hoped that a qualitative approach would provide us with deeper insights into processes and background influences on village level resource management.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2453", "words": "4249", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Jordan, Rolf", "title": "Armut im Wohlstand - Zunehmende soziale Disparit\u00e4ten in Singapur", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; armut; auch; auf; dass; den; der; des; die; eine; f\u00fcr; ist; jahren; jordan; mehr; menschen; mit; nicht; noch; nur; prozent; regierung; seit; sich; singapore; singapur; situation; sozialen; und; von; vor; wohlstand; zahl", "summary": "Diese von Ramesh (2000) in seiner Studie zur sozialpolitischen Situation in Singapur angef\u00fchrten Unterst\u00fctzungss\u00e4tze liegen dabei deutlich unter jenen S$950, die von der Regierung als Existenzminimum angesehen werden. Die Argumentation wird dabei von der These geleitet, dass die fehlende oder nur mangelhafte soziale Unterst\u00fctzung wesentlich zu den sozialen Problemen eines wachsenden Teils der Bev\u00f6lkerung in dem von gro\u00dfem Wohlstand gepr\u00e4gten Stadtstaat beitragen und ein", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2454", "words": "3500", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "65", "author": "Gottowik, Volker", "title": "The Barong Wants to go out Again: Krisis moneter and the Resurgence of Rituals in Indonesia", "date": "2008", "keywords": "bali; balinese; barong; chinese; gottowik; indonesia; masks; ritual; white", "summary": "These impacts are twofold: the democratization of Indonesia led not only to a revival of cultural activities of ethnic Chinese of which the reappearance of Barongsai dance troupes after more than 30 years of oppression is only one feature; the economic crises also raised the demand for new Barong masks on the side of the local Balinese people and fi nally caused a boom of ritual activities connected with these sacred fi gures. In other words: many new Barong masks were ordered in these days of political and economic insecurity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2455", "words": "4847", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Grossmann, Kristina", "title": "Agents of Change - Frauenaktivistinnen in Aceh", "date": "2008", "keywords": "aceh; acehnesischen; agents; als; aseas; auf; bei; change; das; dem; den; der; des; die; durch; eine; frauen; frauenaktivistinnen; f\u00fcr; gam; gender; innerhalb; islam; ist; lokalen; mit; nach; nicht; nur; politischen; scharia; sich; sie; sind; tsunami; und; von; vor; wird; wurde; zur", "summary": "M\u00e4nner als tapfere K\u00e4mpfer f\u00fcr die Unabh\u00e4ngigkeit und Frauen als reproduktive Unterst\u00fctzerinnen \u2013 das waren die von der GAM propagierten dichotomen Stereotype. Die Einbeziehung von Frauen in den Friedensprozess in Aceh wird international als wichtig erachtet und von Regierungen und Nichtregierungsorganisationen vielfach eingefordert (Gender Working Group 2007; Kamaruzzaman 2000).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2456", "words": "9278", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Gerstl, Alfred", "title": "The China Factor in Regional Security Cooperation: The ASEAN Regional Forum and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization", "date": "2008", "keywords": "arf; asean; asia; beijing; central; china; collaboration; cooperation; east; east asia; forum; international; mearsheimer; nations; new; offensive; power; regional; relations; sco; security; security cooperation; south", "summary": "The research question asks, first, whether regional security cooperation in East Asia has altered China\u2019s diplomatic behaviour. China Engages Asia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2457", "words": "7097", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Spreitzh\u00f6fer, G\u00fcnter", "title": "Zwischen Khao San und Lonely Planet: Aspekte der postmodernen Backpacking-Identit\u00e4t in S\u00fcdostasien", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; aseas; asia; auch; auf; aus; backpacker; backpacking; bereits; cohen; das; dem; den; der; des; die; durch; eine; entwicklung; f\u00fcr; g\u00fcnter; ist; jahre; khao; khao san; mehr; mit; nach; nicht; nur; oder; planet; research; road; rucksacktourismus; san; seit; sich; sind; spreitzhofer; s\u00fcdostasien; tourism; traveller; und; vgl; von; vor; werden; wie; wird; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Trotz Terrorangst, SARS und Vogelgrippe bl\u00fcht das Gesch\u00e4ft mit den Rucksackreisenden, die sich von der derzeit reiseunfreundlichen Grundstimmung nicht von Reisen nach S\u00fcdostasien abhalten lassen. Die Geheimtipps der Backpacker werden l\u00e4ngst digital verbreitet, Aspekte der pers\u00f6nlichen Befindlichkeit und Spartipps geben ein bezeichnendes Bild f\u00fcr die Reisemotivation vieler Rucksackreisender, denen Begegnungen und", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2458", "words": "3739", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Volk, Bettina", "title": "Religion und Identit\u00e4t bei den Dia\u2019ang auf Pantar, Indonesien: Eine ethnographische Fallstudie eines gewaltt\u00e4tigen Konflikts", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; bara; bei; dass; den; der; des; dia\u2019ang; die; diese; eine; f\u00fcr; identit\u00e4t; ist; mauta; mit; muriabang; nach; nicht; pantar; religion; sich; sie; und; von; werden; zwischen", "summary": "Die Religion wird als identit\u00e4tsstiftend und Mittel zur Abgrenzung gegen\u00fcber anderen Gruppen wahrgenommen. ASEAS 1-2 final (au\u00dferGottowik).indd Forschungswerkstatt / Research Workshop Religion und Identit\u00e4t bei den Dia\u2019ang auf Pantar, Indonesien:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2459", "words": "7475", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Heiling, Robert", "title": "Conflict Resolution in Aceh in Light of Track One and a Half Diplomacy", "date": "2008", "keywords": "aceh; ahtisaari; conflict; conflict resolution; diplomacy; gam; hdc; indonesia; mediation; negotiations; parties; peace; process; resolution; track", "summary": "Looking at the pre-negotiation stage, these shall be theories on the timing of mediation (ripeness), as well as on characteristics of conflict parties. He concludes that a political or military stalemate between conflict parties can constitute such a moment that he labels as mutually hurting stalemate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2460", "words": "2936", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "69", "author": "Wawrinec, Christian", "title": "An Interview with Geoffrey Benjamin", "date": "2008", "keywords": "benjamin; research; singapore; university", "summary": "GB: Well, there has been quite a lot of research in recent years and we have a bibliography on Orang Asli studies put together by Lye Tuck-Po (2001) which has many hundreds of items 191 in it. Yes, four of those early essays on aspects of Temiar social organization will be chapters in one of the new books.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2461", "words": "741", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "MASKE, Editorial Board", "title": "Anthropologie in die \u00d6ffentlichkeit - Kultur reflektiert", "date": "2008", "keywords": "das; der; die; f\u00fcr; maske; sich; und; von", "summary": "DIE MASKE erscheint derzeit zweimal pro Jahr, ein viermaliges Erscheinen und eine weitere Auflagensteigerung ist angedacht. Als Herausgeberinnen und Herausgeber wagen wir auf gut 92 A4-Seiten pro Heft den Br\u00fcckenschlag zwischen wissenschaftlichem Erkenntnisgewinn und einer interessierten \u00d6ffentlichkeit.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2462", "words": "1780", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Slama, Martin", "title": "Book review: Sidel, J. T. (2006). Riots, Pogroms, Jihad. Religious Violence in Indonesia.", "date": "2008", "keywords": "als; bis; das; den; der; die; dieser; f\u00fcr; gewalt; indonesien; nicht; sich; sidel; und; von", "summary": "Die verschiedenen Formen religi\u00f6ser Gewalt reflektieren laut Sidel vielmehr die sozialen und politischen Ver\u00e4nderungen in Indonesien und somit die Rahmenbedingungen daf\u00fcr, die Religion der Mehrheit, n\u00e4mlich den Islam zu artikulieren, zu repr\u00e4sentieren, sich f\u00fcr ihn einzusetzen bzw. durch ihn zu mobilisieren. Im Zuge der Abdankung Suhartos nahm diese einen Charakter an, der der islamischen Elite, die mit B.J. Habibie als Suhartos Nachfolger und Vorsitzender der islamischen Intellektuellenorganisation Ikatan Cendekiawan Muslim Indonesia (ICMI) pl\u00f6tzlich", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2463", "words": "1564", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Helmke, Belinda; Wawrinec, Christian", "title": "Editorial", "date": "2009", "keywords": "aseas; asian; dem; der; die; east; f\u00fcr; south; studies; und; von", "summary": "Entwicklungen urspr\u00fcnglich positiv wahrnahmen, argumentiert Spreitzho- fer, dass die st\u00e4dtische Transformation und das rapide Bev\u00f6lkerungswachstum weitere sozialen Spannungen und Um- weltzerst\u00f6rung mit sich brachten, und dass die mangelnde lokale Kooperation und unzureichende regionale Gover- nance Durch die von der Wiener Gesell- schaft f\u00fcr S\u00fcdostasienwissenschaften (SEAS) organisierte und im", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2464", "words": "9044", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Tappe, Oliver", "title": "Nachbarschaftsstreit am Mekong: K\u00f6nig Anuvong und die Geschichte der prek\u00e4ren Lao-Thai-Beziehung", "date": "2009", "keywords": "als; anuvong; april; aseas; auch; auf; aus; bangkok; bis; chao; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; durch; ein; eine; f\u00fcr; gegen; geschichte; habe; historiographie; history; hrsg; ist; jahr; kaeo; k\u00f6nig; laos; laotischen; luang; mayoury; mekong; mik; mit; nach; nachbarschaftsstreit; nation; nicht; oliver; pheuiphanh; press; siamesen; sich; sie; tappe; thailand; thail\u00e4ndischen; und; university; unter; vgl; vientiane; von; war; werden; wie; wird; wurde; zuletzt; zum; zur; zwischen", "summary": "Zuletzt er\u00f6ffnete ein gemeinsames Film- projekt, der von Lao und Thai gleicherma\u00dfen begeistert aufgenommene Kinostreifen Mit diesen Gemeinwesen (Lao/Thai: m\u00fcang) beginnt die auf- gezeichnete Geschichte in der Region, die zunehmend von der buddhistischen Kultur gepr\u00e4gt wurde.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2465", "words": "7414", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Bakker, Laurens", "title": "Policies and Polls: Elections and Land Conflicts in Paser, Indonesia", "date": "2009", "keywords": "adat; aseas; bupati; company; district; elections; government; indonesia; land; lap; new; ngos; paser; paserese; pba; policies; population; suwidi", "summary": "The responsibilities of the public administration division can be broadly described as studying, developing, implementing and reviewing district government policies, and advising the district government when this is deemed necessary. The creation of new local governments in a decentralizing Indonesia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2466", "words": "8395", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Arnez, Monika", "title": "Tobacco and Kretek: Indonesian Drugs in Historical Change", "date": "2009", "keywords": "aseas; betel; cigarettes; clove; companies; company; djarum; government; health; indonesia; industry; kretek; kretek industry; nitisemito; people; percent; smoking; tobacco; women", "summary": "Why has betel chewing increasingly been replaced by smoking kretek cigarettes? The kretek company Djarum, for instance, gives the following ingredients for the sauce: licorice, chocolate, maple candy, plum skin, coffee, dried jackfruit and other dried fruit.9 The \u2018Kretek King\u2019 Nitisemito and the Role of Marketing Concepts Nitisemito was the first Indonesian who produced kretek cigarettes on a larger scale.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2467", "words": "9109", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Spreitzhofer, G\u00fcnter", "title": "Au\u00dfer Rand und Band: Regionalentwicklung in Metro-Jakarta", "date": "2009", "keywords": "als; aseas; asia; auch; auf; aus; au\u00dfer; band; bekasi; bev\u00f6lkerung; bis; city; das; dem; den; der; des; development; die; durch; eine; f\u00fcr; g\u00fcnter; indonesia; international; ist; jabotabek; jakarta; kampung; land; mai; mega; metro; millionen; mit; nach; new; nicht; oder; post; prozent; rand; regionalentwicklung; sich; sind; southeast; spreitzhofer; und; university; unter; urban; von; vor; werden; wie; wird; zugegriffen; zuletzt; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Die Folgen der gegenw\u00e4rtigen globalen Finanzkrise sind derzeit weder absch\u00e4tzbar noch empirisch zu belegen. Die Sch\u00e4tzungen der Stadtregierung sind optimistischer, denen zufolge 4,8 Prozent (2.855 ha) der Stadtfl\u00e4che Jakartas von Slums belegt sind, in denen knapp 10 Prozent der Gesamtbev\u00f6lkerung der Metropole leben \u2013 bei der \u00fcberwiegenden Mehrheit handelt es sich um saisonale Migrantinnen und Migranten.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2468", "words": "2365", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Weiss, Simon", "title": "Im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Marco B\u00fcnte", "date": "2009", "keywords": "auch; b\u00fcnte; das; den; der; die; eine; f\u00fcr; giga; ich; institut; ist; mit; sind; und; von; wir", "summary": "im \u00dcbrigen der Zusammenschluss der fr\u00fcher einzelnen Regionalinstitute (Insti- tut f\u00fcr Asienkunde, Institut f\u00fcr Afrikakunde, Institut f\u00fcr Nahoststudien, Institut f\u00fcr Lateinamerikaforschung). Magisterarbeit mit Fragen der Konsolidierung der Demokratie in Thailand besch\u00e4ftigt habe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2469", "words": "2958", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Gerstl, Alfred", "title": "Book Review: Emmerson, D. K. (Ed.) (2008). Hard Choices: Security, Democracy, and Regionalism in Southeast Asia", "date": "2009", "keywords": "asean; asia; democracy; human; regionalism; security", "summary": "Also in regard to the promotion of human security ASEAN was after the cyclone Nargis in 2007 successful: Unlike Western relief organizations, ASEAN relief teams could access \u201csensitive\u201d regions. Logically, from a moral point of view, a humanitarian intervention to topple the regime might be in certain cases the only solution to guarantee human security.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2470", "words": "1335", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Wawrinec, Christian", "title": "Editorial", "date": "2009", "keywords": "aseas; christian; der; die; east; south; studies; und; university", "summary": "Param Cumaraswamy spricht in dem von Christian Bothe (ASEAS) gef\u00fchrten Interview \u00fcber die St\u00e4rkung der Men- schenrechte in S\u00fcdostasien und seine eigene Rolle als Mitglied Malaysias in der regionalen Arbeitsgruppe zur Ent- wicklung eines ASEAN-Menschenrechts- mechanismus.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2471", "words": "8584", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Amer, Ramses", "title": "The Association of Southeast Asian Nations\u2019 (ASEAN) Conflict Management Approach Revisited: Will the Charter Reinforce ASEAN\u2019s Role?", "date": "2009", "keywords": "asean; asean concord; association; conflict; conflict management; council; disputes; management; member; security; states", "summary": "In terms of conflict resolution the Plan stresses that disputes and conflicts involving ASEAN members shall be resolved in a \u201cpeaceful way\u201d. Mechanisms for conflict management within ASEAN Introduction The mechanisms for conflict management are drawn from seven key ASEAN documents: The \u2018ASEAN Declaration\u2019 (Bangkok Declaration), the \u2018Declaration of ASEAN Concord\u2019, the \u2018Treaty of Amity and Cooperation\u2019 (TAC), the \u2018Rules of Procedure of the High Council of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia\u2019; the \u2018Declaration of ASEAN Concord II\u2019 (Bali Concord II), the \u2018ASEAN Security Community Plan of Action\u2019, and the \u2018Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations\u2019 (ASEAN Charter).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2472", "words": "9347", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Schmeier, Susanne", "title": "Regional Cooperation Efforts in the Mekong River Basin: Mitigating river-related security threats and promoting regional development", "date": "2009", "keywords": "basin; china; cooperation; development; economic; gms; mekong; mekong river; mrc; projects; regional; riparian; river; river basin; states; thailand; vietnam; water", "summary": "ASEAS 2-2 - Regional Cooperation Efforts in the Mekong River Basin:Mitigating river-related security threats and promoting regional management ASEAS 2 (2) Aktuelle S\u00fcdostasienforschung / Current Research on South-East Asia Regional Cooperation Efforts in the Mekong River Basin: Although most of the water war studies focus on the Middle East, the Mekong River Basin (MRB) has also often been referred to as a basin likely to experience major conflicts (Wolf, Yoffe, & Giordano, 2003).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2473", "words": "11937", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Amer, Ramses; Thao, Nguyen Hong", "title": "Regional Conflict Management: Challenges of the Border Disputes of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam", "date": "2009", "keywords": "affairs; agreement; amer; border; border disputes; cambodia; china; countries; disputes; foreign; laos; maritime; mfa; mfa vietnam; nguyen; sea; south; talks; thailand; vietnam", "summary": "In the South China Sea the disputes with China have to be continuously managed and the same applies to Vietnam disputes with other claimants in the area, i.e. Malaysia, Taiwan, the Philippines, and potentially Brunei. See also a report carried by VNA News Agency reproduced in BBC/FE 2975, B/6-7. 54 ASEAS 2 (2) Border Treaty on November 27, 2007 (MFA Vietnam, 2007a).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2474", "words": "8359", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Pye, Oliver", "title": "Palm Oil as a Transnational Crisis in South-East Asia", "date": "2009", "keywords": "agrofuels; aseas; asia; biodiversity; change; climate; crisis; development; east; emissions; energy; european; expansion; indonesia; industry; malaysia; new; palm oil; percent; plantations; south", "summary": "This is not so much because of the plant itself, which is actually quite useful, but because of the rapid expansion of oil palm plantations across South-East Asia which is seen as causing the destruction of rainforests (Buckland, 2005; Goossens et al., 2006; Nellemann, Miles, Kaltenborn, Virtue, & Ahlenius, 2007), as well as a lot of social problems (Wakker, 2005; Marti, 2008). EU climate policy is thereby contributing to an unprecedented expansion of oil palm plantations across South-East Asia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2475", "words": "8093", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Humphreys, Andrew", "title": "Continuity in a Changing World: Malaysia\u2019s Coercive Security Apparatus in the Age of Terror and Beyond", "date": "2009", "keywords": "abdullah; apparatus; aseas; election; government; hindraf; isa; malaysia; minister; opposition; pas; policy; regime; security; state; terrorism", "summary": "Notably, Malaysia\u2019s use of coercion has become increasingly less criticized by other governments, notably those in the West. This provision is so vague that many legitimate activities, including criticisms of government policy, could fall within its scope.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2476", "words": "8621", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Ting, Ming Hwa", "title": "Singapore-India Relations: A Return to History", "date": "2009", "keywords": "aseas; asian; china; cold; east; economic; government; history; india; new; policy; relations; singapore; south; southeast; states; war", "summary": "Manmohan Singh believed that to \u201cmarket New India, [we] would have to begin in Singapore\u201d (M. Singh quoted in Goh, 2008, para. 23), India\u2019s post-Cold War interaction and engagement with Singapore provided the former with access to the region, and laid the foundations for the later establishment of the Mekong- Ganga Cooperation and the BIMSTEC Forum, which entrenched India\u2019s presence in South-East Asia. In 2004, SINDEX 04 was held in central India.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2477", "words": "2758", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Bothe, Christian", "title": "Institutionalizing Human Rights in South-East Asia: The birth of ASEAN\u2019s Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights - An Interview with Param Cumaraswamy", "date": "2009", "keywords": "asean; body; charter; cumaraswamy; rights", "summary": "Although the preceded ASEAN Charter, which in its Art.1 specifically identifies \u201crespect for and protection of human rights\u201d as one of its core purposes and \u201crespect for fundamental freedoms, the promotion and protection of human rights, and the promotion and protection of social justice\u201d as a core principle under Art.2, the AICHR has not given powers to monitor, investigate or report on human rights records, it rather has a mandate to \u201cpromote\u201d than to protect human rights. Cumaraswamy: If we go back in history and if you look at the regions in the world, Asia is the only region which has no regional mechanism of human rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2478", "words": "1248", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Trupp, Alexander; Butratana, Kosita", "title": "Images of Hans Manndorff \u2019s Anthropological Research on the \u2018Hill Tribes\u2019 of Northern Thailand (1961-1965)", "date": "2009", "keywords": "aseas; hans; manndorff; research; thailand", "summary": "Akha village, Chiang Rai Province 1965 Alexander Trupp & Kosita Butratana - Images of Hans Manndorff\u2018s Anthropological Research 159 ASEAS 2 (2) collaborated with Prasit Leepreecha (SRI), Alexander Trupp (DGRR) and the SAC in order to identify precisely the slides and to complete captions4. In the years 1961 and 1962, the Austrian anthropologist who later became director of the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, Hans Manndorff, was working on behalf of the United Nations on a research and development project in the highlands of Northern Thailand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2479", "words": "2296", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Wawrinec, Christian", "title": "Democratisation, Security, and Justice: Preliminary Remarks on Current Trends in South-East Asia", "date": "2010", "keywords": "asia; auch; democracy; der; des; die; east; human; security; south; thailand; und; von", "summary": "Thaksins Ab- setzung zwar das von der PAD gefor- derte Ergebnis \u2013 Ruhe im politischen Geschehen des Landes kehrte jedoch keine ein (vgl. While \u2018human security\u2019, despite its beschuldigt \u2013 der Diktatur der Mas- se, der Elite oder des Geldes. Offen- sichtlich ist jedoch, dass es seit dem Putsch von 2006 wieder vermehrt zu Interventionen des Milit\u00e4rs in den po- litischen Entscheidungsprozess und zu weitreichenden Einschr\u00e4nkungen der B\u00fcrgerInnenrechte", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2480", "words": "10124", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Pampalk, Madalena", "title": "Accountability for Serious Crimes and National Reconciliation in Timor-Leste: Progress or Wishful Thinking?", "date": "2010", "keywords": "accountability; commission; crimes; east; east timor; february; general; indonesia; international; justice; leste; national; reconciliation; rights; security; timor", "summary": "UN Transitional Administration in East Timor Regulation No. 2000/11 on the Organization of Courts in East Timor, 6 March 2000. UN Transitional Administration in East Timor Regulation No. 2000/16 on the Organization of the Public Prosecution Service in East Timor, 6 June 2000.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2481", "words": "7899", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Heikkil\u00e4-Horn, Marja-Leena", "title": "Santi Asoke Buddhism and the Occupation of Bangkok International Airport", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aseas; asoke; asoke group; bangkok; buddhist; centres; chamlong; group; heikkil\u00e4; horn; international; monks; nuns; party; people; santi; santi asoke; thailand; thaksin", "summary": "Known as the \u2018Dharma Army\u2019, hundreds of Santi Asoke monks, nuns and lay people participated in PAD demonstrations. The demonstrators specifically opposed any amendments to the Constitution to pardon Prime Minister Thaksin and the one hundred and eleven Thai Rak Thai Members of Parliament banned from politics 30 Inside the Asoke, Asoke group ( Inside the Asoke, Asoke group (klum Asoke) refers to all the followers of Bodhiraksa.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2482", "words": "11276", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Gerstl, Alfred", "title": "The Depoliticisation and \u2018ASEANisation\u2019 of Counter-Terrorism Policies in South-East Asia: A Weak Trigger for a Fragmented Version of Human Security", "date": "2010", "keywords": "acharya; asean; aseanisation; asia; counter; depoliticisation; east; east asia; human; national; policies; regional; security; south; southeast; southeast asia; state; studies; terrorism; threat", "summary": "The \u2018ASEANisation\u2019 method has on the one hand contributed to reaching a political consensus among ASEAN members and developing specific counter-terrorism measures, while on the other hand however it has proved an impediment to a credible and strong common counter-terrorism approach. ASEAN Counter Terrorism Convention (ACCT).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2483", "words": "10251", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Maier-Knapp, Naila", "title": "A Friend in Need. A Friend in Deed? ASEAN-EU Interregionalism in the Light of Non-Traditional Security Crises in South-East Asia", "date": "2010", "keywords": "actorness; asean; asia; assistance; case; crisis; east; east asia; eu member; european; financial; friend; international; member; member states; nts; security; south; states", "summary": "In addition to the emphasis on the interregional dimension, the article will also take into account bilateral responses between the individual ASEAN and EU member states in order to contextualise the interregional activities. The ASEAN member states constitute the sociological other of the EU\u2019s interregional interaction defining EU security actorness according to their security conceptualisation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2484", "words": "4245", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Scharinger, Julia", "title": "Thailand in the Face of the 1997 Asian Crisis and the Current Financial Crisis: An Interview With Johannes Dragsb\u00e6k Schmidt", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aseas; crisis; dragsb\u00e6k; dragsb\u00e6k schmidt; labour; scharinger; society; thai; thailand; thaksin", "summary": "In your article \u2018Financial crisis, social crisis and unequal development in the Republic of Korea and Thailand\u2019 (Dragsb\u00e6k, 2008) There is great danger that the current overemphasis on civil society detracts or hijacks the focus away from what is of immediate importance in any country with high levels of poverty, inequality and social crisis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2485", "words": "1646", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Warta, Christian", "title": "Book review: Heidb\u00fcchel, E. (2007). The West Papua Conflict in Indonesia: Actors, Issues and Approaches.", "date": "2010", "keywords": "als; auf; autorin; den; der; des; die; eine; mit; papua; sie; und; west", "summary": "Der Komplexit\u00e4t des Konflikts entsprechend umfasst diese Analyse eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Bereiche und Prozesse, wie Sicherheitsinteressen, die Gesch\u00e4fte des staatlichen Sicherheitsapparats, rechtliche Unsicherheit und Defizite in der Implementierung der Sonderautonomie, Menschenrechtsdiskurse, Korruption, Ressourcenausbeutung und die Herausbildung einer Papua-Identit\u00e4t, um nur einige zu nennen. Die Wahl dieses Terminus, der bewusst der christlichen", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2486", "words": "1588", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Kraft, Gerhard", "title": "Book review: Chua, C. (2008). Chinese Big Business in Indonesia: The state of capital.", "date": "2010", "keywords": "business; chinese; chua; economic", "summary": "ISBN: 978-0-415-45074-4. 192 pages This book considers itself to be about the political economy of Chinese big business in Indonesia. The author manages to set the stage for a complicated play involving the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, international investors, the collapsing Indonesian regime and Chinese big business.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2487", "words": "2084", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Amer, Ramses", "title": "Book Review: Gainsborough, M. (Ed.). (2009). On The Borders of State Power: Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region.", "date": "2010", "keywords": "border; chapter; china; issues; vietnam", "summary": "Chapter 3 is more detailed than chapter 2 given that it deals with a shorter period of time and hence provides more data and information about the collaboration between China and Vietnam in combating bandits in the border area after the Taiping rebellion in China. Chapter 2 by Emmanuel Poisson deals with the interplay between Kinh and ethnic minority rule on the Sino-Vietnamese frontier from the fifteenth to twentieth century (pp. 12-24).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2488", "words": "1344", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "37", "author": "Krebl, Harald", "title": "Book review: Grabowski, M., Herold, H., & Jordan, R. (Hrsg.). (2009). Sicherheit kontra Menschenrechte: Antiterrorpolitik in Asien.", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aber; auf; den; der; des; die; mit; nicht; oder; und; von; wie", "summary": "Der europ\u00e4ische Konsens hinsichtlich der prinzipiellen ASEAS 3(1) 127 Ablehnung von Folter und Willk\u00fcr unabh\u00e4ngig von der Schuldfrage der Inhaftierten wird dabei oft \u00fcberlagert; bei manchen Argumenten scheint es so, als meinten die AutorInnen, es w\u00e4re es blo\u00df inakzeptabel \u201eUnschuldige\u201czu foltern oder zu t\u00f6ten. die Entpolitisierung von Terrorismus am Beispiel ASEAN betrachtet.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2490", "words": "1539", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Gerstl, Alfred; Wawrinec, Christian", "title": "Editorial", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aseas; den; der; die; east; philippines; south; und; university; von", "summary": "der Rolle und den Impli- kationen des \u201eThaiseins\u201c auf die pola- risierte Ausgegrenzt werden in Thailand auch Homosexu- elle wie Santi Leksakun (Sem Pringpu- angkeo Foundation) am Beispiel der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Homo- sexuellen und diese ablehnende Akti- visten in der Stadt Chiang Mai zeigt.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2491", "words": "6399", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Reese, Niklas", "title": "\u201cStill Working on it\u201d: An Overview on the Current State of Public Activism of Women in the Philippines", "date": "2010", "keywords": "activism; aseas; gender; male; overview; philippines; politics; public; reese; roces; society; state; women; working", "summary": "Niklas Reese - \u201cStill Working on it\u201d: An Overview on the Current State of Public Activism of Women in the Philippines ASEAS 3(2) 138 139 patriarchy is only a kind of icing with women pulling the strings in the background. This also implies that they have to pursue the interests of their clan first and are less geared towards a pro-women agenda dissolving patriarchal structures, putting an end to the socio-economic and cultural discrimination of women, or bringing more women into the corridors of power.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2492", "words": "9313", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Qibtiyah, Alimatul", "title": "Self-identified Feminists Among Gender Activists and Scholars at Indonesian Universities", "date": "2010", "keywords": "activists; aseas; communication; family; feminist; gender; gender activists; identity; indonesian; islamic; muslim; research; respondents; scholars; self; term; women", "summary": "In terms of inheritance, Indonesian women have been able to inherit land and other property; however, certain African women have been able to inherit only houses and other property but not land, since production from the fields is reserved for male offspring (Goody, 1976). An equally important point relating to the concept of power is that commonly Indonesian women have more ASEAS 3(2) 170 171 power in terms of managing the financial aspect of the family than their husbands.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2493", "words": "6921", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Pichler, Melanie", "title": "Agrofuels in Indonesia: Structures, Conflicts, Consequences, and the Role of the EU", "date": "2010", "keywords": "agrofuels; aseas; communication; companies; conflicts; expansion; indonesia; international; land; oil; palm; palm oil; plantation; production; role", "summary": "Meanwhile, many surveys have confirmed the involvement of palm oil companies in illegal deforestation, logging, and clearance of peatlands. Conflicts arise mainly over land, including conflicts over land tenure, as well as uneven bargaining power between palm oil companies, state authorities, and villagers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2494", "words": "6725", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Lautensach, Alexander; Lautensach, Sabina", "title": "Prioritising the Variables Affecting Human Security in South-East Asia", "date": "2010", "keywords": "aseas; asia; countries; development; east; footprint; human; lautensach; national; population; security; south; sustainability; term; variables", "summary": "Human security is usually framed as a multidimensional concept that depends on socio-political, economic, health-related, and ecological \u2018pillars\u2019. An assessment of human security requires an analysis of the nested relationships between those variables.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2495", "words": "11464", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Gonzalez, Eduardo; Mendoza, Magdalena", "title": "Mainstreaming Human Security in the Philippines: Options and Prospects for Non-State Actors in Light of the \u2018ASEAN Way\u2019", "date": "2010", "keywords": "actors; approach; asean; asia; development; government; health; human; international; making; ngos; non; organisations; people; philippines; policy; power; rights; security; society; state; track; way", "summary": "Progress in human security in the Philippines is infl uenced by the \u2018ASEAN Way\u2019, which underscores consensual approach to decision-making, informal structures and processes, and the principle of non-interference in member-countries\u2019 internal aff airs. Schlagworte: Menschliche Sicherheit, Nichtstaatliche Akteure, ASEAN, Sekuritisierung, Diplomati- sche Ebenen Introduction The central purpose of this paper is to show how non-state actors (NSA) in the Philippines translate the concept of human security from discourse to action, and consequently, how the state can correspondingly calibrate its own human security outlook.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2496", "words": "2946", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Bunyavejchewin, Poowin", "title": "Constructing the \u2018Red\u2019 Otherness: The Role and Implications of Thainess on Polarised Politics", "date": "2010", "keywords": "abhisit; nationhood; power; shirts; thailand; thainess", "summary": "In this article, I will give some background information on current politics in Thailand and review theoretical concepts of nation and nationhood as well as conceptualising Thai nationhood or Thainess. Thai nationhood or Thainess is highly problematic.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2497", "words": "1896", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Leksakun, Senti", "title": "Chiang Mai: The Gay and the City", "date": "2010", "keywords": "chiang; gay; mai; people", "summary": "One striking example was the Gay Pride Parade in downtown Chiang Mai in 2009. This article aims to take a closer look at the local experiences relating to the relationship between the city (of Chiang Mai) and the marginal group of gay people.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2498", "words": "4307", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "68", "author": "Gerlach, Ricarda", "title": "Gender Politics in Indonesia - Recent Developments: An Interview with Yuniyanti Chuzaifah", "date": "2010", "keywords": "chuzaifah; gender; gerlach; human; indonesia; rights; women", "summary": "Our mandate is to ensure the government\u2019s policy about a debate and discourse on human rights and to publish human rights violations. We constitute transnational meetings with other human rights organisations in other countries like Pakistan, Switzerland, India, Bangladesh, and Iran.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2499", "words": "2795", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Honisch, Pascal", "title": "Soziale Netzwerke philippinischer MigrantInnen in \u00d6sterreich: Ein Interview mit Arlene Casta\u00f1eda", "date": "2010", "keywords": "auch; auf; casta\u00f1eda; das; den; der; die; ein; eine; f\u00fcr; honisch; ist; mit; nicht; oder; philippinen; sehr; sie; sind; und; von; wie; wurde; \u00f6sterreich", "summary": "im SAS Palais Hotel, 1010 Wien, gef\u00fchrt. ASEAS 3(2) 266 267 \u00f6sterreichische und philippinische Kultur und Sprache (Sentro ng Kultura at Wika ng Pilipinas at Austria) ist, den Kindern und Jugendlichen die Muttersprache und Kultur der Eltern n\u00e4herzubringen und die Wichtigkeit der beiden Kulturen zu betonen. Die Kinder und Jugendlichen wurden gemeinsam von zehn \u00f6sterreichischen und philippinischen Trainern betreut.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2500", "words": "1242", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Husa, Karl; Trupp, Alexander", "title": "Research on South-East Asia in Austria: Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna", "date": "2010", "keywords": "asia; east; research; south; vienna", "summary": "Research on South-East Asia in Austria: Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna ASEAS 3(2) 274 275 Netzwerk S\u00fcdostasienforschung / Network South-East Asia Research Research on South-East Asia in Austria: Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna Karl Husa1 & Alexander Trupp2 University of Vienna, Austria University of Vienna, Austria & ASEAS Editorial Board Citation Husa, K. & Trupp, A. (2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2501", "words": "1172", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Jablon, Philip", "title": "The \u2018Southeast Asia Movie Theater Project\u2019", "date": "2010", "keywords": "movie; project; thailand; theater", "summary": "As of May 2010, the bulk of movie theatres in Myanmar cities between Yangon and Mandalay have been found to be in working order, though frequently with low customer turnout. The images exhibited here are just a sample of the many hundreds of theatres already archived by the \u2018Southeast Asia Movie Theater Project\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2502", "words": "2019", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Amador III, Julio", "title": "Book Review: Haacke, J\u00fcrgen & Morada, Noel M. (Eds.) (2010). Cooperative Security in the Asia-Pacifi c: The ASEAN Regional Forum.", "date": "2010", "keywords": "arf; asean; book; chapter; regional; security; states", "summary": "There are many contradictory positions and stances on security issues in the ARF. Choosing Indonesia and the Philippines as case studies, they try to determine whether security practices in the two states\u2019 national affairs have affected ASEAN and the ARF\u2019s regional responses to security challenges, finding that the two states\u2019 proactive position on transnational challenges do have an impact on ASEAN\u2019s security co-operation agenda.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2503", "words": "1992", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Scharinger, Julia", "title": "Book Review: Kingsbury, Damien (2009). East Timor: The Price of Liberty.", "date": "2010", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; book; den; der; des; die; kingsbury; leste; mit; nach; oder; sich; timor; und; von", "summary": "So konzentrierte sich die UN eher auf die Wiederherstellung und Gew\u00e4hrleistung der \u00f6ffentlichen Sicherheit durch UN- Mitarbeiter, anstatt den Fokus auf die Partizipation timoresischen Personals zu legen (S. 79-88). Nach Kingsbury erm\u00f6glichte dies neue Wege aus der politischen Sackgasse, weil dadurch mit der Aufl\u00f6sung der von den Unruhen stammenden Camps f\u00fcr Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) begonnen werden konnte.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2504", "words": "1710", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Amer, Ramses", "title": "Book Review: Hensengerth, Oliver (2010). Regionalism in China-Vietnam Relations: Institution-building in the Greater Mekong Subregion.", "date": "2010", "keywords": "book; china; gms; gulf; tonkin; vietnam", "summary": "This book by Oliver Hensengerth addresses two interlinked research topics, namely relations between China and Vietnam and collaboration within the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). The author aims for a comprehensive approach to the two topics and studies the importance of the GMS collaboration in the China-Vietnam relationship as well as the policies of China and Vietnam, respectively, with reference to the GMS. ASEAS 3(2) 296 297 Hensengerth also examines regionalism \u2013 and, more specifically, new regionalism \u2013 with special reference to \u201csubregional\u201d co-operation in the context of the theoretical discussion in the book.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2505", "words": "2754", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Trupp, Alexander", "title": "Editorial - Tourism in Focus", "date": "2011", "keywords": "aseas; das; der; die; editorial; focus; mit; nach; thailand; tourism; tourismus; trupp; und; university; vienna; von; wien", "summary": "Abseits des Tourismus-Schwer- punktes analysiert Otto von Feigen- blatt (Millenia Atlantic University) die Governance-Strukturen und den Kon- flikt im von der malaiischen Minder- heit bewohnten S\u00fcdthailand. Wir hof- fen, in den n\u00e4chsten ASEAS-Ausgaben diesen Pilotversuch zur st\u00e4rkeren Re- pr\u00e4sentation von S\u00fcdostasien in Wien fortf\u00fchren zu k\u00f6nnen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2506", "words": "7575", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Bui, Huong Thanh; Jolliffe, Lee", "title": "Vietnamese Domestic Tourism: An Investigation of Travel Motivations", "date": "2011", "keywords": "aseas; asia; demand; east; factor; family; motivations; percent; research; south; study; tourism; tourists; travel; travellers; vietnam; vietnamese", "summary": "This article approaches domestic tourism in Vietnam from a native Asian perspective aiming to examine Vietnamese domestic travel motivations. While the significance of this huge domestic market is ignored by government policy, planning, and promotion efforts, there has been some attention paid to the emergence of domestic tourism in Vietnam in the literature (Gillen, 2008; 2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2507", "words": "8833", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Nate-Chei, Achariya", "title": "Beyond Commodification and Politicisation: Production and Consumption Practices of Authenticity in the White Tai Tourist Market in the Uplands of Vietnam", "date": "2011", "keywords": "aseas; chau; consumption; guests; host; mai; market; tai; tourism; tourists; vietnamese; villagers; visitors; white; white tai", "summary": "White Tai hosts may respond Achariya Nate-Chei - Beyond Commodification and Politicisation ASEAS 4(1) 40 41 to this behaviour simply enduring it, or calling the attention of visitors towards some cultural taboo. Ordinarily, White Tai hosts are patient and gentle when dealing with tourists.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2508", "words": "10876", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Gantner, Bianca", "title": "Schattenwirtschaft unter Palmen: Der touristisch informelle Sektor im Urlaubsparadies Patong, Thailand.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "4(1; als; aseas; auch; auf; aus; bangkok; besch\u00e4ftigten; betriebe; bianca; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; des tis; die; diese; durch; eine; entwicklung; f\u00fcr; gantner; ilo; informellen; jahre; jedoch; meist; mit; modell; nach; nicht; nur; oder; palmen; patong; personen; phuket; prozent; schattenwirtschaft; sektor; sich; sie; sind; sowie; strandbereich; tat; tfs; thailand; tis; tourism; tourismus; touristinnen; touristisch; tsunami; typ; und; unter; vgl; von; vorlaufer; waren; welche; werden; wie; wird; wurde; zugegriffen; zuletzt; zum; zur; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "und Besch\u00e4f- tigtenzahl des TIS pendelt sich aber mit fortschreitendem Wachstum auf einem hohen Niveau ein, und die Variante eines nachhaltigen Niederganges, die als eine M\u00f6glichkeit in Vorlaufers Schema dargestellt wird (Abb. 1), kann In einer fr\u00fchen Wachstumsphase, in der die Tourismusank\u00fcnfte steigen, erh\u00f6ht sich die Zahl der Besch\u00e4ftigten und Betriebe sowohl", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2509", "words": "10380", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Byczek, Christian", "title": "Blessings for All? Community-Based Ecotourism in Bali Between Global, National, and Local Interests \u2013 A Case Study.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "4(1; aseas; asia; bali; balinese; byczek; communities; community; der; development; ecotourism; global; indonesia; interests; island; jed; national; new; nusa; people; tourism; tourism development; und", "summary": "Generally, reactions to tourism development among host societies may cover the full range from euphoria to apathy and antagonism (Fennel, 2008, p. 47). While the economic effects of tourism development could be considered, if not necessarily leading to equitable benefits, at least predominantly positive, the social effects are heavily discussed, while the ecological effects tend to be primarily negative, apart from existing potential for environmental protection and conserva- tion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2510", "words": "8568", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "von Feigenblatt, Otto F.", "title": "An Alternative Policy Proposal for the Provinces Populated by the Malay Ethnonationality in the South of Thailand.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "asia; feigenblatt; government; malay; military; muslim; perkasa; policy; provinces; region; south; southern; thailand; ungpakorn; von; von feigenblatt", "summary": "Bureaucrats in Thailand are generally very conservative and nationalist and tend to come from Bangkok and central Thailand. In 2004 an important army armoury was raided and several bombs detonated in the Southern provinces (\u201cChild Recruitment and Use in Southern Thailand\u201c, 2008, p. 6; Perkasa, 2008).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2511", "words": "3783", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Dolezal, Claudia", "title": "Community-Based Tourism in Thailand: (Dis-)Illusions of Authenticity and the Necessity for Dynamic Concepts of Culture and Power.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "authenticity; cbt; community; culture; power; thailand; tourism; tourists", "summary": "Despite its exotic appeal, a large number of tourists decide to experience it from inside all-inclusive hotels and resorts with little contact with the local population. Research in tourism has shown that tourists increasingly demand \u2018authentic\u2019 experi- ences (Butcher, 2003, MacCannell, 1999, & Wang, 1999).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2512", "words": "4172", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Trupp, Alexander", "title": "Exhibiting the \u2018Other\u2019 Then and Now: \u2018Human Zoos\u2019 in Southern China and Thailand.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "blanchard; china; colonial; eds; kayan; thailand; theme; tourism; trupp; villages; zoos", "summary": "Ethnic theme parks or villages can be seen as part of the phenomenon of ethnic tourism, which is defined as a type of travel aimed at visiting \u2018alien\u2019 and \u2018aboriginal\u2019 cultures that posits the local inhabit- ants and their cultural practices as the main objects of interest. Kayan ethnic tourism has certainly played an important role in preserving the \u2018long-neck\u2019 tradition and in providing a basic income for the refugees (Ismail, 2008, p. 54).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2513", "words": "2482", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Wollnik, Christian", "title": "Lieber Bhutan als Bali? Perspektiven nachhaltiger Tourismusentwicklung in Timor-Leste.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "als; auf; bali; bhutan; das; der; des; die; eine; f\u00fcr; leste; mit; perspektiven; sich; timor; tourismus; tourismusentwicklung; touristischen; und; von", "summary": "Ammerland, Deutschland: Studienkreis Tourismus und Entwicklung. Ammerland, Deutschland: Studien- kreis Tourismus und Entwicklung.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2514", "words": "2546", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Proyer, Michelle; Schiemer, Margarita; Luciak, Mikael", "title": "CLASDISA \u2013 Classifications of Disabilities in the Field of Education in Different Societal and Cultural Contexts: Insights Into the Current State of Research.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "disabilities; disability; education; field; phase; research", "summary": "In addition, a methodological framework as well as research instruments for the second phase of field research are being devel- oped. A team of three researchers from the University of Vienna conducted the first phase of field research.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2515", "words": "2217", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "J\u00f6stl, Julia; Wieser, Birgit", "title": "Auf der Suche nach dem Paradies? Einblicke in eine Studie zu \u201eAmenity Migration\u201c in Cha-am und Hua Hin, Thailand.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "amenity; auf; cha; dem; den; der; die; eine; f\u00fcr; hin; hua; ist; migration; nach; sich; thailand; und; von", "summary": "Die Meinung der Betroffenen, warum das Untersuchungs- ASEAS 4(1) 170 171 gebiet ein so beliebtes Ziel f\u00fcr den Zuzug von Expats darstellt, wurde erfragt. Die Fragen wurden anhand eines strukturierten Leitfadens gestellt, der den InterviewpartnerInnen ge- nug Raum f\u00fcr eigene Reflexionen und freie Antworten lie\u00df.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2516", "words": "1990", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Proyer, Michelle", "title": "Kindersextourismus: Ein s\u00fcdostasiatisches Ph\u00e4nomen? Im Dialog mit Astrid Winkler von ECPAT Austria.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "auf; child; das; den; der; die; ecpat; ein; ist; mit; proyer; und; von; winkler; \u00f6sterreich", "summary": "Die gr\u00f6\u00dfte Herausforderung f\u00fcr die kommenden Jahre, neben Struktur- schaffung, wird darin bestehen, ein praktikables und standardisiertes Prozedere f\u00fcr internes und externes Monitoring der Umsetzung der sechs Kriterien des Kinder- schutzkodex zu entwickeln. Es kommen bestimmte Faktoren dazu: Man ist weit weg vom sozialen Umfeld, also von der normalen sozialen Kontrolle befreit.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2517", "words": "1629", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Dannecker, Petra; Schaffar, Wolfram", "title": "Research on South-East Asia in Austria: Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "department; development; east; south; studies", "summary": "Negotiations for a joint study Petra Dannecker & Wolfram Schaffar - Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna ASEAS 4(1) 182 183 programme with Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, where Wolfram Schaffar used to teach in the MA in International Development Studies programme are under way. Still, it has always been pos- sible for students to specialise in South-East Asian issues since a number of lecturers (for example Dr Silvia Michal-Misak, Ms Yuki Seidler, and Mr Valentin Seidler) as well as the cooperation with other departments (Prof. R\u00fcdiger Frank from the Depart- ment of East Asian Studies, Prof. Karl Husa and Prof. Helmut Wohlschl\u00e4gl from the Department of Geography) made it possible to visit seminars focusing on South-East Asia and even choose aspects of South-East Asian development as topics for diploma theses.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2518", "words": "1718", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Butratana, Kosita; Trupp, Alexander", "title": "Thai Communities in Vienna.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "austria; east; south; thai; vienna", "summary": "Thai Communities in Vienna ASEAS 4(1) 182 183 S\u00fcdostasien sehen / South-East Asia Visually Thai Communities in Vienna Kosita Butratana1 & Alexander Trupp2 University of Vienna, Austria University of Vienna, Austria / ASEAS Editorial Board Citation Butratana, K., & Trupp, A. (2011). Thai Communities in Vienna.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2519", "words": "1883", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Dolezal, Claudia", "title": "Book Review: Hitchcock, M., King, V. T., & Parnwell, M (Eds.) (2009). Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "asia; challenges; east; south; tourism", "summary": "The fact that Laos is only as of recently experiencing growth rates in tourism means that it can still learn from the mistakes its neighbouring countries (such as Thailand) made in tourism development. The topic of sex tourism is included in the volume with a Claudia Dolezal - Book Review: Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions ASEAS 4(1) 194 195 contribution by Heidi Dahles who discusses the phenomenon of women looking for male gigolos and sexual encounters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2520", "words": "1750", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Schiele, Kerstin", "title": "Book Review: Hitchcock, M., King, V. T., & Parnwell, M (Eds.) (2010). Heritage Tourism in Southeast Asia.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "asia; book; heritage; tourism; university", "summary": "Heritage tourism is one of the issues most recently discussed within the tourism discourse. These developments make this book a timely contribution to heritage tourism in the aca- demic discourse.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2521", "words": "4071", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Horstmann, Alexander", "title": "Editorial: Borderlands and Border Studies in South-East Asia", "date": "2011", "keywords": "alexander; als; apichatpong; aseas; border; borderlands; dass; den; der; die; editorial; farzana; grenzregionen; horstmann; karen; mit; people; rohingya; sich; state; studies; und; university; von; werden", "summary": "Die gro\u00dfe Zahl an Parlamentsabgeordneten, die von der regierenden Partei gestellt werden, ist weniger eine Reflexion der eigentlichen Die Beitr\u00e4ge betonen,", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2522", "words": "8943", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Farzana, Kazi Fahmida", "title": "Music and Artistic Artefacts: Symbols of Rohingya Identity and Everyday Resistance in Borderlands", "date": "2011", "keywords": "arakan; artefacts; aseas; bangladesh; burma; camp; form; government; homeland; identity; life; military; music; people; refugees; resistance; rohingyas; song", "summary": "Kazi Fahmida Farzana - Music and Artistic Artefacts ASEAS 4(2) 218 219 tions: first, the methodology and data used in this research; second, an examination and analysis of the documentary records of music and artwork; and finally, a reflec- tive analysis of arts and artefacts in refugee life. This then opened the door to other \u2018non-conventional\u2019 aspects such as drawings and music in refugee life.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2523", "words": "6741", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Eilenberg, Michael", "title": "Flouting the Law: Vigilante Justice and Regional Autonomy on the Indonesian Border", "date": "2011", "keywords": "aseas; border; borderland; district; eilenberg; iban; illegal; indonesia; kalimantan; law; logging; malaysia; national; online; police; sarawak; state; west", "summary": "6 The following account comes from correspondence with local Iban who were not involved in the incident. In the Kapuas Hulu District, such processes involving Malaysian entrepreneurs (known locally as tukei) and local Iban have been widely in play.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2524", "words": "7531", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Horstmann, Alexander", "title": "Sacred Spaces of Karen Refugees and Humanitarian Aid Across the Thailand-Burma Border", "date": "2011", "keywords": "aid; aseas; border; buddhist; burma; burma border; burmese; christian; karen; karen refugees; knu; networks; refugees; spaces; state; thailand", "summary": "7 There is a slight danger of essentialising Karen refugees in the academic exercise of demystifying and deconstructing Karen national or Karen Christian Protestant identity (Malkki, 1992; 1996). In the nightmarish experience of the civil war, the Christian landscape at the Thai-Burmese border uses education as a crucial resource to socialise Karen refugees.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2525", "words": "7278", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Ullah, AKM Ahsan; Hossain, Mallik Akram", "title": "Gendering Cross-Border Networks in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Drawing Invisible Routes to Thailand", "date": "2011", "keywords": "asia; border; children; human; lao; mekong; percent; research; respondents; routes; sex; thailand; trafficked; trafficking; ullah; victims; women", "summary": "Human trafficking within and from South-East Asia is likely to remain substantial in the coming years in view of the region\u2019s recent slow economic recovery from the Global Economic Crisis, and its weak and porous inter-state borders (UNODC, 2008). Supang (2003) argues that human trafficking from South-East Asia started in the 1960s during the presence of the United States in Indochina, and that clients of the sex trade at that time were American soldiers who used Thailand as a relaxation point, with some also seeking temporary partners. One study by Ullah (2009) discovered a number of routes trafficked victims travelled to get to 7 As is true today within the ASEAN and European Union and to some extent in the SAARC.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2526", "words": "6282", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Boehler, Natalie", "title": "The Jungle as Border Zone: The Aesthetics of Nature in the Work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul", "date": "2011", "keywords": "apichatpong; border; characters; cinema; films; human; jungle; nation; nature; region; state; thai; zone", "summary": "Accordingly, Thai films often revel in the country\u2019s natural beauty, presenting iconic images of beaches, palm trees and paddy fields that seem to cater to the gaze of foreign tourists. In Apichatpong\u2019s films, nature is highly visible \u2013 neither as an agricultural landscape nor as the iconic tourist spots that often figure in Thai film but in the form of the jungle.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2527", "words": "3157", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Jordan, Rolf", "title": "\u201eNormalisierung\u201c der Verh\u00e4ltnisse? Eine Analyse der Parlamentswahl 2011 in Singapur", "date": "2011", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; dem; den; der; des; die; eine; f\u00fcr; jordan; kandidatinnen; mit; noch; nur; opposition; pap; parlamentswahl; party; prozent; singapore; singapur; und; von", "summary": "7 2006 hatte die SDA, zu der seinerzeit auch die National Solidarity Party (NSP) und die SPP geh\u00f6rten, knapp 13 Prozent der Stimmen und einen Parlamentssitz erringen k\u00f6nnen. Entscheidend d\u00fcrfte im Hinblick auf zuk\u00fcnftige Wahlchancen aber auch die An- k\u00fcndigung sein, die hohen Einkommen der Kabinettsmitglieder zu beschneiden.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2528", "words": "4286", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Kittisenee, Napakadol", "title": "Rethinking Conceptions of Borders in the Greater Mekong Subregion: An Interview With Chayan Vaddhanabhuti (RCSD)", "date": "2011", "keywords": "border; chayan; countries; development; napakadol; people; thailand", "summary": "In this interview he introduces the work of RSCD and discusses the changing perceptions of the concept of \u2018border\u2019 in the context of Thailand and the Greater Mekong Subregion. We have seen a diminishing role of the border where the respective countries changed their concepts towards na- tional boundaries, allowing people to move across borders.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2529", "words": "2854", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Ryniewicz, Kuba; Bothe, Christian", "title": "Capturing Singapore\u2019s \u2018Little India\u2019: The Search for Identity in Traditional Photo Studios", "date": "2011", "keywords": "cultural; digital; india; photo; sajeev; singapore; studio", "summary": "The proximity of these studios to Singapore\u2019s spatial testimonials of modernity makes the appearance of traditional photo studios even more superficial and has them constitute a kind of borderland/zone not only between different economic and cultural logics but also between progress and past, digital vs. analogue era and techniques. There are not many cultures like the Indian one where folk and visual documents are so firmly connected to the photographic industry, making photo studios and their products strong rich symbols and carriers of cultural identity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2530", "words": "1732", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Schippers, Lan-Katharina", "title": "Book Review: Phraxayavong, V. (2009). History of Aid to Laos: Motivations and Impacts.", "date": "2011", "keywords": "aid; assistance; laos; phraxayavong", "summary": "Phraxayavong\u2019s critical stance towards foreign aid is made clear by the following statement: \u201cForeign aid has therefore been a force for anti-development in that it retards growth through reduced savings and worsens income inequalities\u201d (p. 41). The focus of assistance was in the field of military aid, and development aid only played a minor role.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2531", "words": "2015", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Warta, Christian", "title": "Rezension: Schr\u00f6ter, S. (Hrsg.) (2010). Christianity in Indonesia: Perspectives of Power", "date": "2011", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; christianity; das; den; der; des; die; eine; f\u00fcr; indonesien; ist; mit; nicht; religi\u00f6sen; sich; und; von; wie", "summary": "Stattdessen entschied sich die Herausgeberin f\u00fcr einen Sammelband aus sozialanthropologischer Perspektive \u201ein the broadest sense\u201c (S. 5), der auf der besagten Konferenz aufbaut und Steenbrink erw\u00e4hnt in seiner Conclusio auch die islamischen Bildungseinrichtungen, die seit den 1990er-Jahren zunehmend mit den kirchlichen Institutionen gleichziehen und gibt seiner Verwunderung Ausdruck, dass diese auff\u00e4llige Konkurrenz", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2532", "words": "1003", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Pokorny, Lukas", "title": "Book Review: Fjelstad, K. & Nguy\u00ean, T. (2011). Spirits without Borders: Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational Age", "date": "2011", "keywords": "m\u1eabu; vietnamese; \u0111\u1ea1o; \u0111\u1ed3ng", "summary": "The rich pantheon of Vietnamese folk traditions is often seen to be represented by \u0110\u1ea1o M\u1eabu, the \u2018Mother Goddess Religion\u2019, which comprises a variety of beliefs and practices, as- sociated with legions of deities and spirits. Central to \u0110\u1ea1o M\u1eabu is l\u00ean \u0111\u1ed3ng, a spirit pos- session ritual that is slowly overcoming political proscription and social ostracism, and, despite re-emerging urgent concern by the authorities, seems to develop into a veritable \u2018cultural heritage\u2019 (di s\u1ea3n v\u0103n h\u00f3a).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2533", "words": "3139", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Liamputtong, Pranee; Proyer, Michelle", "title": "Editorial: Determinants of Health in South-East Asia / Umfeldfaktoren \u00f6ffentlicher Gesundheit in S\u00fcdostasien", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aseas; asia; auf; australia; den; der; determinants; die; east; f\u00fcr; gesundheit; health; liamputtong; south; s\u00fcdostasien; und; university; von", "summary": "As a qualitative researcher her central foci are related to topics regarding the interrelations between health issues and gender, HIV/AIDS, immigration, as well as reproduction. It is ar- gued that it is essential for health and environmental agencies to communi- cate information about health risks to local people.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2534", "words": "8850", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Reis, Nadine; Mollinga, Peter P.", "title": "Water Supply or \u2018Beautiful Latrines\u2019? Microcredit for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam", "date": "2012", "keywords": "delta; development; households; latrine; loan; mekong; microcredit; programme; rwss; sanitation; supply; tho; vbsp; vietnam; water; water supply", "summary": "The present paper analyses the contradictory results of such a microcredit programme for rural water supply and sanitation in the context of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, through a qualitative study primarily based on semi-structured interviews in rural communes of Can Tho City. The paper shows how the outcome of rural water supply and sanitation policies are strongly infl uenced by the local ecological, technological, and social settings, in particular by stakeholders\u2019 interests.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2535", "words": "8937", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Ibitz, Armin", "title": "Environmental Policy Coordination in ASEAN: The Case of Waste From Electrical and Electronic Equipment", "date": "2012", "keywords": "asean; basel; convention; cooperation; coordination; countries; eee; environmental; hand; member; national; policy; region; states; trade; waste; weee", "summary": "E-waste: An assessment of global production and environmental impacts. Competition among ASEAN member countries, a narrow focus on national interests, and the fear of losing sovereignty hinder deeper cooperation and policy coordination in ASEAN.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2536", "words": "8495", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Tuler, Seth; Langkulsen, Uma; Chess, Caron; Vichit-Vadakan, Nuntavarn", "title": "Health and Environmental Risk Communication in Thailand: An Analysis of Agency Staff\u2019 Perspectives on Risk Communication With External Stakeholders", "date": "2012", "keywords": "activities; communication; factor; health; information; pcd; people; perspectives; public; risk; risk communication; statements; study; thailand", "summary": "Perspective 2: PCD risk communication should focus on science The focus of this perspective is on risk communication that improves people\u2019s under- standings of the science about risks, pollution control, and pollution mitigation (8, 24). Tuler, Langkulsen, Chess, & Vichit-Vadakan - Health and Environmental Risk Communication in Thailand ASEAS 5(1) 62 63 Perspective 1: PCD risk communication requires resources to reduce conflict This factor represents a perspective on the role of PCD risk communication to reduce conflict (3).6 As the focus is on reducing conflict, the PCD should not take sides \u2013 or be perceived as taking sides in disputes (22).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2537", "words": "10746", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Lai, Allen Yu-Hung; Tan, Teck Boon", "title": "Combating SARS and H1N1: Insights and Lessons From Singapore\u2019s Public Health Control Measures", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aseas; cases; control; crisis; general; government; h1n1; health; health control; healthcare; measures; moh; outbreak; pandemic; public; quarantine; sars; singapore; surveillance; tan", "summary": "Most notably, the state introduced a clear line of command and control to monitor the eff ectiveness and effi cacy of public health control measures as well as to oversee their implementation. Even though the two major outbreaks were eventually contained through an ar- ray of public health control measures instituted by the Ministry of Health (MoH) of Singapore, SARS and H1N1 brought about severe public health and economic con- sequences for the country as a whole (Leo, 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2538", "words": "10199", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Wright, Cassandra; Lewis, Belinda", "title": "On the Edge of Crisis: Contending Perspectives on Development, Tourism and Community Participation on Rote Island, Indonesia", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aseas; communication; community; cultural; delha; development; health; indonesia; informants; land; lewis; people; perspectives; research; rote; stakeholders; study; tourism", "summary": "This dynamic poses a threat to the health, well-being, and sustainability of local communities. The practical implications of this finding for community development and sustainability will be discussed further in the following themes.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2539", "words": "3637", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Wetzlmaier, Marina", "title": "Pro- oder Anti-Life? Die katholische Kirche in der Debatte um reproduktive Gesundheit auf den Philippinen", "date": "2012", "keywords": "als; auf; bill; cbcp; dass; den; der; die; eine; frauen; f\u00fcr; gesundheit; health; kirche; life; philippines; sie; und; unter; von; zugegriffen; zuletzt; zur", "summary": "Die Bedeutung der katholischen Kirche Die \u00c4u\u00dferungen der Bisch\u00f6fe der CBCP pr\u00e4gen unter anderem deshalb die \u00f6ffent- Die Po- litik Corazon Aquinos wurde von VertreterInnen der katholischen Kirche beeinflusst, was unter anderem an Aquinos Bringschuld gegen\u00fcber den Bisch\u00f6fen lag, die sie w\u00e4hrend der People Power Revolution unterst\u00fctzt hatten (Umali, 2010, S. 60).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2540", "words": "4368", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Anshari, Muhammad; Almunawar, Mohammad N.; Low, Patrick K. C.; Wint, Zaw", "title": "Customer Empowerment in Healthcare Organisations Through CRM 2.0: Survey Results From Brunei Tracking a Future Path in E \u2013 Health Research", "date": "2012", "keywords": "brunei; crm; customers; empowerment; healthcare; networks; online; organisations; patients; social", "summary": "Patient empowerment in theory and practice: Polyse- my or cacophony? Patient empowerment and feedback did not decrease pain in seriously ill hospitalised patients.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2541", "words": "3436", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Viwatpanich, Kanvee", "title": "Consumption and Nutritive Values of Traditional Mon Food", "date": "2012", "keywords": "consumption; curry; food; mon; paste; salt; shrimp", "summary": "It aims to identify traditional Mon food, describe its nutri- tive values, and illuminate selected aspects of food consumption behaviour. The 10 most frequently consumed foods were purposively selected as representative samples in the study of nutritive values of traditional Mon food.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2542", "words": "1540", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Reckordt, Michael", "title": "Das philippinische Gesetz zur reproduktiven Gesundheit und seine Bedeutung f\u00fcr feministische sowie entwicklungspolitische (Bildungs-)arbeit", "date": "2012", "keywords": "das; den; der; deutschland; die; diskussion; eine; f\u00fcr; gesetz; gesundheit; ist; und; von; zur", "summary": "Eleanor Koch von PhilNetz, einem Verein, der sich aus der philippinischen Diaspora in Deutschland gegr\u00fcndet hat und als Netzwerk an Themen zur Integration und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit arbeitet, zeigte anhand ihrer eige- nen Biographie Kontinuit\u00e4ten in der Diskussion auf. In vielen europ\u00e4ischen L\u00e4ndern ist diese Pille in Apotheken frei zu- g\u00e4nglich, in Deutschland ist sie immer noch verschreibungspflichtig, obwohl dies 2002 von der EU und 2003 von einem Sachverst\u00e4ndigenrat kritisiert wurde.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2543", "words": "3439", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Schippers, Lan-Katharina", "title": "Der lange Schatten struktureller Fehlentscheidungen: Fach\u00e4rztInnenmangel in der Frauenheilkunde in Laos und Vietnam. Im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Michael Runge (Universit\u00e4t Freiburg)", "date": "2012", "keywords": "als; auch; dann; das; dass; den; der; die; eine; f\u00fcr; haben; hat; ich; ist; laos; man; mehr; mit; nicht; noch; sich; sie; und; vietnam; von; vor; wir", "summary": "im Bildungssektor und in der Gesundheit brauchen inte- grierte ExpertInnen vor Ort, die mit den KollegInnen vor Ort Weiterbildung organisieren, f\u00fcr Qualit\u00e4t sorgen, gemeinsam Pr\u00fcfungen abnehmen, neues Wissen Dies war der urspr\u00fcngliche Kon- 1 Lan-Katharina Schippers hat Politikwissenschaft mit den Schwerpunkten Entwicklungspolitik, Migrationspolitik und Staatstheorie an der Universit\u00e4t Wien, \u00d6sterreich, und der University of Nottingham, Gro\u00dfbritannien, studiert. 2 Anmerkung der ASEAS-Redaktion:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2544", "words": "4609", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Tomancok, Anna-Sophie", "title": "Entwicklungs- und Gesundheitsarbeit des \u00d6sterreichischen Roten Kreuzes in S\u00fcdostasien: Im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Max Santner und Gerlinde Astleithner", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aber; astleithner; auch; beispiel; dann; das; dass; den; der; des; die; ein; eine; f\u00fcr; gibt; immer; ist; man; mit; nicht; oder; santner; sich; sie; sind; s\u00fcdostasien; und; von; werden; wie; wir; wird; zum", "summary": "Das sind einfach menschliche Mechanismen, die dahinterliegen, die behindernd wirken und die man schwer im Vorfeld einsch\u00e4tzen kann. und die Kinder sind die einzelnen Nationalgesellschaften.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2545", "words": "1424", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Kuhnt-Saptodewo, Sri Tjahjani", "title": "S\u00fcdostasienforschung in \u00d6sterreich: Die Sammlung Insulares S\u00fcdostasien des Museums f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde Wien", "date": "2012", "keywords": "das; den; der; des; die; f\u00fcr; mit; museum; sammlung; und; v\u00f6lkerkunde; wien", "summary": "Als Institution befasst sich un- ser Museum mit der kulturellen Vielfalt der Welt und bietet sich daher als geeigneter Ort f\u00fcr eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Diversit\u00e4t in unserer Gesellschaft an. Wien, \u00d6sterreich: Museum f\u00fcr V\u00f6lkerkunde Wien. Kuhnt-Saptodewo, S. T., Bohle, B., Brandl-Straka, U., & Moiseanu, O. (Hg.).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2546", "words": "1375", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Schippers, Lan-Katharina", "title": "Book Review: Gainsborough, M. (2010). Vietnam: Rethinking the State", "date": "2012", "keywords": "gainsborough; state; vietnam", "summary": "1- 14 ASEAS 5(1) 190 191 cal analyses over the years, Gainsborough challenges such notions and makes clear that \u201cthe book is not very sympathetic towards ideas of state retreat\u201d (p. 2). Vietnam: Rethinking the State ASEAS 5(1) 190 191 Rezensionen / Book Reviews Gainsborough, Martin (2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2547", "words": "1496", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Gerstl, Alfred", "title": "Book Review: Yahuda, M. (2011). The International Politics of the Asia-Pacific (Third Edition)", "date": "2012", "keywords": "asia; china; pacific; yahuda", "summary": "Apart from China\u2019s rise, two other developments have gained pace in the last two decades: India\u2019s re-engagement with Asia and Russia\u2019s increasingly marginal position. Realistically, due to China\u2019s geographic size and economic power, transna- tional threats such as climate change, terrorism, organised crime, and migration can only be resolved with Beijing\u2019s involvement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2548", "words": "4129", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Pye, Oliver", "title": "Editorial: Changing Socio-Natures in South-East Asia", "date": "2012", "keywords": "asia; colonial; east; forest; indonesia; nature; press; socio; south; southeast; thailand; university", "summary": "The colonial state in general and forest admin- istrations in particular strived to exclude customary use of forest resources by the peasant population (Bryant, 1997; Cleary, 2005; Kathirithamby-Wells, 2005; Peluso, 1992; Vandergeest, 1996). However, Donal Yeang argues that given the right condi- tions, REDD projects can be designed in such a way that supports local communities\u2019 rights to land and forest resources.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2549", "words": "9051", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Lounela, Anu", "title": "Contesting State Forests in Post-Suharto Indonesia: Authority Formation, State Forest Land Dispute, and Power in Upland Central Java, Indonesia", "date": "2012", "keywords": "authority; district; forest; forest land; indonesia; java; javanese; land; order; pak; pak wahid; power; sfc; state; state forest; village; villagers; wahid", "summary": "Peasant Organisations and Authority Building Pak Wahid, who had been recruited by the central Javanese peasant union SEPKUBA5, started to mobilise peasants in his and neighbouring villages in support of the Re- gional Regulation Perda PSDHBM and peasants\u2019 rights to state forest land in the hope that peasants could continue to manage state forest lands through independ- ent peasant organisations and share the harvest with SFC, with which they were in continual negotiation. ASEAS 5(2) 211210 I conducted 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork between 2003 and 2004 in the forest village that I call Wanasana2 in Wonosobo district, with a specific focus on power relations between the actors in a dispute about rights of access to and con- trol over actual state forest land and forests around the villages which were located close to state forest land.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2550", "words": "5716", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Maryudi, Ahmad", "title": "Restoring State Control Over Forest Resources Through Administrative Procedures: Evidence From a Community Forestry Programme in Central Java, Indonesia", "date": "2012", "keywords": "community; control; forest; forestry; indonesia; java; maryudi; people; perhutani; phbm; procedures; resources; state", "summary": "there have been calls for the devolution of forest control from the central state to local communities. \u201cTraditions\u201d of forest control in Java: Implications for social forestry and sustain- ability.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2551", "words": "8563", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Bullinger, Cathrin; Haug, Michaela", "title": "In and Out of the Forest: Decentralisation and Recentralisation of Forest Governance in East Kalimantan, Indonesia", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aseas; barat; case; communities; decentralisation; district; forest; forestry; governance; government; idr; indonesia; kalimantan; kutai; logging; management; payments; rights; studies; usd; village; villagers", "summary": "However, this acknowledgement of customary rights in state forests only provides people with forest management rights and rights to collect forest products but does not recognise ownership rights. However, undesired outcomes of decentralisa- tion have been counteracted by an immediate eff ort to recentralise forest governance.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2552", "words": "4954", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Yeang, Donal", "title": "Community Tenure Rights and REDD+: A Review of the Oddar Meanchey Community Forestry REDD+ Project in Cambodia", "date": "2012", "keywords": "cambodia; carbon; climate; communities; community; forest; forestry; land; meanchey; oddar; project; redd+; rights; tenure; tenure rights", "summary": "Thus, it is largely recognised that the success of REDD+ will depend on the support of forest communities and indigenous peoples (e.g. Cotula & Mayers, 2009; Hatcher & Bailey, 2009; Yeang, 2010). The secondary goals include supporting the implementation of the national community forestry programme, securing long- term tenure rights for forest dependent communities, responding to rural livelihood needs, conserving biodiversity, and supporting hydrological regimes (Poffenberger, De Gryze, & Durschinger, 2009).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2553", "words": "7037", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Rossi, Amalia", "title": "Turning Red Rural Landscapes Yellow? Sufficiency Economy and Royal Projects in the Hills of Nan Province, Northern Thailand", "date": "2012", "keywords": "army; bangkok; development; economy; farmers; forest; lua; northern; people; projects; province; red; rossi; royal; shirts; sufficiency; thailand; thaksin", "summary": "Conclusion The recent bout of new Royal Projects in Northern Thailand needs to be understood within the changing and polarised political situation and represents an attempt to regain hegemony over the developmental discourse in rural Thailand. As reported by Mr. A., an ex-employee of Phu Fa Royal Project (a project promoted by the Princess Sirindhorn in Bo Kluea district), this lack of interest is connected to the weakness of participation devices enacted within the Phu Payak and other Royal Projects:", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2554", "words": "9295", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Middleton, Carl", "title": "Transborder Environmental Justice in Regional Energy Trade in Mainland South-East Asia", "date": "2012", "keywords": "asia; bank; dam; development; egat; electricity; energy; environmental; greacen; hydropower; international; justice; laos; mekong; middleton; myanmar; power; projects; sector; south; thailand; trade; transborder", "summary": "These cases, summarised below, are representative of a number of other protests against power projects in Thailand. In principle, power projects in Laos and Myanmar could stimulate economic growth through investment and its secondary effects, encourage job creation, and generate revenues for the governments to reinvest into development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2555", "words": "6897", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Cohen, Erik", "title": "Flooded: An Auto-Ethnography of the 2011 Bangkok Flood", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aseas; auto; bangkok; cohen; disaster; estate; ethnography; flood; home; house; october; post; research; thailand; water", "summary": "However, when floods struck the town of Pai, which I had previously studied for several years (Cohen, 2006), I rushed there and did a comparative study on the tsunami and flash floods (Cohen, 2007). Bangkok floods: FROC evacuated from Don Mueang.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2556", "words": "4183", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Wetzlmaier, Marina", "title": "Cultural Impacts of Mining in Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Ancestral Domains in the Philippines", "date": "2012", "keywords": "communities; community; domains; impacts; june; mining; peoples; philippines; rights; scale", "summary": "One suggestion is to explicitly in- clude ancestral domains in the \u201cno-go zones\u201d for mining companies (Brawner Bagui- lat, 2011). About 60 percent of mining operations in the Philippines take place in ancestral domains2 and often with- out the consent of the affected communities, which fall victim to displacement and numerous human rights violations, such as arbitrary detention, persecution, killings of community representatives, demolition of houses, destruction of property, rape, and forced recruitment (Brawner Baguilat, 2011).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2557", "words": "3613", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Plitschka, Till; Radjawali, Irendra", "title": "Progress and Challenges of Combating Climate Change in Indonesia: An Interview with Prof. Rachmat Witoelar, the President\u2019s Special Envoy for Climate Change", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aseas; change; climate; indonesia; percent; plitschka; witoelar; year", "summary": "As the Kyoto Protocol \u2013 which includes binding targets for countries in the Global North (so-called Annex 1 countries) \u2013 is drawing to an end, negotiations revolve around a new protocol, but last year\u2019s high level talks in Durban only came up with a fairly vague result \u2013 the Durban Platform \u2013 without binding emission reduction targets. In the past, all these efforts have been surrounded by cynicism, but now we are sure that it has been done as it is checked by 3 The acronym REDD refers to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and is a UN programme that aims to offer incentives for countries in the Global South to reduce emissions from deforestation by creating financial values for the forest carbon stocks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2558", "words": "3735", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Pye, Oliver", "title": "Carbon Markets and REDD in South-East Asia: An Interview with Chris Lang from REDD-Monitor", "date": "2012", "keywords": "carbon; forest; interview; lang; monitor; project; pye; redd", "summary": "Four or five years ago, the Ulu Masen Project was a very high profile REDD project, there was even a film made about setting up the project. Merril Lynch/Bank of America promised 9 million dollars to the project and this was how REDD projects were going to be set up and run in the future.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2559", "words": "1333", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Lukas, Martin C.; -, Julia; Radjawali, Irendra; Flitner, Michael; Pye, Oliver", "title": "The Conflict-Laden Multi-Functionality of the Kapuas River in Kalimantan, Indonesia", "date": "2012", "keywords": "aseas; kalimantan; kapuas; river; water", "summary": "in some villages, river water had also been used for human consumption until recently but was then replaced by alternative water sources to reduce the incidence of water borne diseases, like cholera and typhoid. The Conflict-Laden Multi-Functionality of the Kapuas River ASEAS 5(2) 369368 PoLitiCised river BanKs - one of the palm oil companies, which have received scorching inter- national criticism for the disastrous environmental and social impacts of their rapidly expanding operations in Kalimantan, publicly highlights its compliance with the statutory buffer zone of 100 metres along the river by sparing a strip of the smallholder rubber forest from conversion into an oil palm plantation as contribution to wildlife protection.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2560", "words": "1085", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Gruber, Florian; Degelsegger, Alexander; Blasy, Cosima", "title": "Research on South-East Asia in Austria: The Project SEA-EU-NET at the Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI)", "date": "2012", "keywords": "asia; east; project; south", "summary": "International science and technology cooperation policies of South East Asian countries. ASEAS 5(2) 371370 Since the start of SEA-EU-NET, ZSI has further expanded its activities to regions such as South Asia, East Asia, and South America.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2561", "words": "1332", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "G\u00e4rtner, Jessica", "title": "Rezension: Schneider, H., Jordan, R., & Waibel, M. (Hrsg.) (2012). Umweltkonflikte in S\u00fcdostasien.", "date": "2012", "keywords": "auf; das; dass; den; der; des; die; f\u00fcr; sich; umweltkonflikte; und; von; werden", "summary": "Die Herausgeber machen bereits in der Einleitung des Sammelbandes darauf auf- merksam, dass sie sich nicht nur auf eine theoretische Analyse der Fallbeispiele ein- lassen, sondern konkrete L\u00f6sungsvorschl\u00e4ge aufzeigen wollen. Die Autoren des Einleitungskapitels argumentieren, dass sich Umweltkonflikte in Zukunft weiter ver- sch\u00e4rfen werden.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2562", "words": "1714", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Pichler, Melanie", "title": "Book Review: Pye, O. & Bhattacharya, J. (Eds.) (2013). The Palm Oil Controversy in Southeast Asia. A Transnational Perspective.", "date": "2012", "keywords": "asia; industry; oil; palm; palm oil", "summary": "The Sumatran province occupies the largest share of palm oil plantations in Indonesia with 24 percent of the working population directly linked to this industry. With 50 percent of all products in European supermarkets containing palm oil and a rising demand for biofuels in the EU, palm oil has emerged as the fastest growing monoculture in the world.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2563", "words": "2236", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Parvanova, Dayana; Pichler, Melanie", "title": "Activism and Social Movements in South-East Asia", "date": "2013", "keywords": "activism; asia; east; movements; south", "summary": "Editorial: Activism and social movements in South-East Asia. Social movements and collective activism have played a crucial role in these upheavals.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2564", "words": "9796", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Noseworthy, William", "title": "Lowland Participation in the Irredentist \u2018Highlands Liberation Movement\u2019 in Vietnam, 1955-1975", "date": "2013", "keywords": "aseas; cham; champa; french; fulro; government; highland; history; khmer; kosem; les; liberation; lowland; movement; nguyen; participation; peoples; press; relations; south; vietnam; vietnamese", "summary": "William B. Noseworthy - Lowland Participation in the Irredentist \u2018Highlands Liberation Movement\u2019 in Vietnam ASEAS 6(1) 1514 Cham nationalism had its roots in the responses to early nineteenth century cam- paigns against Cham peoples, when the Vietnamese emperor Minh Menh (1820-1841) suppressed Cham culture and annexed the last Cham kingdom (C: negar) of Panduran- ga, now Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces, in 1832. Thus, the term Chiem Thanh does not include substantial portions of Cham territory in the province of Quang Binh or the territory deep into the hinterlands of the Annamite Chain, despite evidence that Chams did control this territory (Gafour-Meth, 1991, p. 443; Li, 1998, pp. 80-86, 99-116, 139-158; Ngo Si Lien, 2010, pp.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2565", "words": "13470", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Morton, Micah", "title": "\u201cIf You Come Often, We Are Like Relatives; If You Come Rarely, We Are Like Strangers\u201d: Reformations of Akhaness in the Upper Mekong Region", "date": "2013", "keywords": "akha; aqkaqzanr; aseas; asia; border; china; conference; culture; efforts; elite; geusau; hani; international; language; laos; myanmar; press; region; sense; state; thailand; transborder; university; wang", "summary": "In contrast, in Thailand Akha are in a very poor position along with the Lisu and Lahu \u2013 although the Akha seem to be in the poorest position. Nevertheless, a rapidly expanding regional infrastructure of highways, bridges, tunnels, and telecommunications coupled with the transborder efforts of certain elite is increasingly bringing Akha and cultural productions of Akhaness from other parts of the region into the everyday realities of local Akha communities lacking ASEAS 6(1) 3534 kinds of transborder ties among members of the transnational Dai-Lue minority (Da- vis, 2003; Wasan, 2013).10 Since the early 1990s, a particular faction of Akha elite has been working to (re-) establish more formal ties with other Akha in the region by building on what they identify as a common history, ancestral genealogy, and language.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2566", "words": "9714", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Buchanan, James", "title": "Translating Thailand\u2019s Protests: An Analysis of Red Shirt Rhetoric", "date": "2013", "keywords": "analysis; aseas; bangkok; country; crackdown; democracy; kan; king; language; mai; military; monarchy; movement; pad; people; protests; queen; red; rhetoric; shirts; thailand; thaksin; word", "summary": "Royal Bullets: \u201cKilling the Children for the Father\u201d After the crackdown, with many grassroots Red Shirts seething at the monarchy, the topic could no longer be ignored by the Red Shirt leadership. This \u2018all singing, all dancing\u2019 Red Shirt movement was in sharp contrast to the rioting Red Shirts who had caused havoc in the city in 2009, pointing to a better organized, more savvy movement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2567", "words": "8117", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Gro\u00dfmann, Kristina", "title": "Kontinuit\u00e4ten im Wandel: Handlungskoordinationen von Frauenrechtsaktivistinnen in Aceh", "date": "2013", "keywords": "aceh; aktivistinnen; als; arbeit; aseas; auch; auf; aus; banda; das; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; eine; engagement; frauen; frauenrechtsaktivistinnen; f\u00fcr; gender; gro\u00dfmann; handlungskoordinationen; ihre; indonesia; innerhalb; interview; islam; jahr; kontinuit\u00e4ten; lokalen; mit; nach; nicht; oder; organisationen; pers\u00f6nliches; politischen; programme; sich; sie; sind; sozialen; syariat; tsunami; und; von; wandel; werden; wie; women; wurde; ziele; zum; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Die Kritik von muslimischen Aktivis- tinnen bleibt jedoch Syariat Islam-immanent und betrifft in erster Linie die in ihren Augen konservative, inhumane und patriarchale theologische Grundlage, die deren Umsetzung dominiere. Die Autonomie von Organisationen ist ein sehr kompliziertes Thema.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2568", "words": "7489", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Scharinger, Julia", "title": "Participatory Theater, Is It Really? A Critical Examination of Practices in Timor-Leste", "date": "2013", "keywords": "approaches; arts; aseas; communities; development; groups; leste; participatory; people; practices; process; theater; theatre; timor", "summary": "Most commonly, participatory theater groups are either asked to create a per- formance based on issues and concerns they explored together with members of communities, which will then be presented to the relevant communities along with 4 Shakespearean and Brechtian theater are two well researched and discussed examples of how artists in different centuries have been able to utilize drama for the purposes of analyzing and challenging political power structures and social behavior (cf. Cultural Practices in Timor-Leste Throughout the emergence of DC and participatory theater approaches, Timor-Leste was fighting to come into existence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2569", "words": "8006", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Beers, Steve", "title": "Thinking Globally, Framing Locally: International Discourses and Labor Organizing in Indonesia", "date": "2013", "keywords": "aquila; campaign; claims; discourses; framing; grand; hotel; ilo; indonesia; international; labor; labor rights; organizing; rights; state; union; workers", "summary": "Capital mobility and neoliberal policy reforms have led to weakened regulation of work conditions and safety, increased \u201cflexible production\u201d and contract work, de- creased job security and density of union representation, and reduced wages due to the weakened bargaining position of labor unions (Deyo, 1997; Lerner, 2007; Ma- zur, 2000; Tilly, 1995). Labor unions face a complex and transnational corporate envi- ronment in which corporations can shift capital and jobs across borders (Bronfren- brenner, 2007, pp. 1-2), while mobile capital pressured states to adopt policies that discourage workers\u2019 organization and weaken measures to protect workers\u2019 welfare (Deyo, 1997, pp. 103-104).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2570", "words": "8411", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Reese, Niklas; Soco-Carreon, Joefel", "title": "No Call for Action? Why There Is No Union (Yet) in Philippine Call Centers", "date": "2013", "keywords": "action; agents; aseas; center; company; management; people; philippines; protest; reasons; reese; research; resistance; union; work; workers; working", "summary": "Why collective action is not chosen by call center agents as an option to tackle the above mentioned problems \u2013 this is what the research project this article is based on tried to understand. After having ruled out the more general assumption that precarity triggers despair and thus inaction, we will rather concentrate on identifying alternative reasons of why collective action is not arising among call center agents.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2571", "words": "9332", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ginting, Longgena; Pye, Oliver", "title": "Resisting Agribusiness Development: The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate in West Papua, Indonesia", "date": "2013", "keywords": "agribusiness; aseas; development; energy; estate; food; forest; government; grab; indonesia; land; merauke; mifee; military; national; new; papua; people; project; resistance; rights; west; west papua", "summary": "Journalist\u2019s death overshadows launch of Papua food project Resisting Agribusiness Development: The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate in West Papua, Indonesia ASEAS 6(1) 161160 do i 1 0. 42 32 /1 0.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2572", "words": "2053", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Schaffar, Wolfram; Guth, Ralph", "title": "Constitutionalism in Thailand: Key Questions of an On-Going Research", "date": "2013", "keywords": "constitutionalism; development; research; rights; schaffar; social; thailand", "summary": "Since the military coup of 2006, the introduction of far- reaching media censorship, and the curtailment of political rights and civil liberties, Thailand is widely regarded as an example of the return of authoritarianism (Case, 2009). Secondly, the project is based on a micro-level analysis of the strategic positioning of and debates within social movements concerning a quest for funda- mental rights and a rejection of a \u2018judicialization\u2019 of politics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2573", "words": "3428", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "67", "author": "Kois, Bethany", "title": "Discussing the Social Entrepreneurial Movement as a Means of Provoking Normative Change in West Kalimantan, Indonesia: An Interview With Kinari Webb", "date": "2013", "keywords": "change; kinari; kois; logging; people; webb; work; working", "summary": "Replication first, but I also want to think about social change on a global scale. But, in reality, these parks are just paper parks and a few major factors have led local people to continue cutting down the forest.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2574", "words": "3628", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "Pichler, Carina", "title": "A Buddhist Way of Drug Rehabilitation in Thailand - Approaching Drug Addiction With Loving Kindness: An Interview With Phra Maha Narong Chaiyatha", "date": "2013", "keywords": "center; chaiyatha; drug; participants; people; program; society", "summary": "A buddhist way of drug rehabilitation in Thailand - Approaching drug addiction with loving kindness: An Interview with Phra Maha Narong Chaiyatha. The Quality Development of Life Center is an alterna- tive program of dealing with drug addiction in Thailand and was established in 1993.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2575", "words": "1631", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "32", "author": "B\u00fcck, Philipp", "title": "S\u00fcdostasien in \u00d6sterreich: Dreik\u00f6nigsaktion, Hilfswerk der Katholischen Jungschar \u00d6sterreichs", "date": "2013", "keywords": "auf; den; der; die; dka; eine; f\u00fcr; hilfswerk; ist; jungschar; katholischen; mit; philippinen; sind; sowie; und; unserer; von", "summary": "Die Erfahrungen und Selbstbestimmung benachteiligter Menschen in der von Ausbeutung und Ungerechtigkeit bestimmten Gesellschaft stehen Die philippinische Zivilgesellschaft ist zudem ideo- logisch komplex und von internen Konflikten durchzogen.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2576", "words": "1807", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Manhartsberger, Helena", "title": "One Mountain \u2013 One Struggle: A Story About Zombies, Dragons, Punks, and Farmers in Their Fight Against Giants", "date": "2013", "keywords": "aseas; farmers; indonesia; movement; sedulur; sikep", "summary": "What makes the movement, borne by traditional Sedulur Sikep and the young generation, so successful, is the efficient communication and cooperation with the local population as well as among the generations. A big part of the population living in the region belongs to the movement of Sa- minists; they call themselves Sedulur Sikep (term for siblings) or Wong Sikep (term for 1 Helena Manhartsberger studies International Development Studies at the University of Vienna, works as freelance journalist, and is currently studying photography abroad at the Institute Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta, Indonesia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2577", "words": "1402", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "30", "author": "Schuh, Leila", "title": "Rezension: Ford, M. (Hrsg.). (2013). Social activism in Southeast Asia.", "date": "2013", "keywords": "activism; aktivismus; als; asia; den; der; des; die; durch; f\u00fcr; mit; sich; southeast; und; von", "summary": "Social Activism in Southeast Asia bietet einen qualitativen \u00dcberblick zu sozialem Ak- tivismus in der Region und arbeitet die kontroverse Rolle historischer und aktueller internationaler Einfl\u00fcsse heraus. Mit 8,5 Prozent der Weltbev\u00f6lkerung hat S\u00fcdostasien eine der weltweit h\u00f6chsten Be- v\u00f6lkerungsdichten und ist gleichzeitig eine der ethnographisch heterogensten Regio- nen der Erde.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2578", "words": "1314", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Kastenhofer, Marion", "title": "Rezension: Hall, D., Hirsch, P. & Li, T. M. (Hrsg.). (2011). Powers of exclusion. Land dilemmas in Southeast Asia.", "date": "2013", "keywords": "als; den; der; exclusion; hall; land; powers; sich; und; von; werden", "summary": "Anhand dieser powers of exclusion analysieren Hall et al. sechs Schl\u00fcsselprozes- se, die in Transformationsprozessen um den Zugang zu und Ausschluss von Land in S\u00fcdostasien eine treibende Rolle spielen. Hall et al. zeigen, dass dies oftmals auch zum Ausschluss einer gro\u00dfen Anzahl von BewohnerInnen von Land f\u00fchrt, denn durch die Konzipierung einer Landschaft als Umweltschutzgebiet \u2013 ein", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2579", "words": "991", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Amer, Ramses", "title": "Book Review: Jones, L. (2012). ASEAN, sovereignty and intervention in Southeast Asia.", "date": "2013", "keywords": "asean; book", "summary": "150-179); Chapter 8 deals with ASEAN policies towards Burma (pp. 180-210). ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia. ASEAS 6(1) 233232 do i 1 0. 42 32 /1 0.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2580", "words": "2625", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Trupp, Alexander; Dolezal, Claudia", "title": "Editorial: Mobilities in South-East Asia", "date": "2013", "keywords": "asia; east; migration; mobilities; mobility; south; studies; tourism", "summary": "However, potential obstacles to mobility remain, supporting the argument that our times are characterized not only by large flows of various forms of mobilities but also by immobilities. In a study Alexander Trupp & Claudia Dolezal - Editorial: Mobilities in South-East Asia ASEAS 6(2) 239238 on mobility and immobility of asylum seekers passing through Indonesia, Antje Miss- bach further focuses on international migration flows to Indonesia by comparing In- dochinese asylum seekers between the 1970s and mid-1990s and more recent asylum seekers coming from the Middle East.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2581", "words": "5660", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Cohen, Erik", "title": "Bus Paintings in Thailand: A Post-Modern Urban Art Form in Comparative Perspective", "date": "2013", "keywords": "art; aseas; bus paintings; buses; cohen; culture; motifs; paintings; photo; popular; post; styles; thailand; trucks", "summary": "Bus paintings in Thailand: As limited as they are, these studies raise some important comparative issues regard- ing the recent proliferation of bus paintings in Thailand: Has a distinct painting style (or distinguishable sub-styles) emerged in Thailand?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2582", "words": "6727", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Setyawati, Dinita", "title": "Assets or Commodities? Comparing Regulations of Placement and Protection of Migrant Workers in Indonesia and the Philippines", "date": "2013", "keywords": "agencies; aseas; countries; employment; government; indonesian; international; labor; law; migrant; migration; overseas; philippine; placement; protection; rights; state; workers", "summary": "In the post-Suharto period starting from 1998, the government increased its ef- forts to protect Indonesian migrant workers through the introduction of several regulations and policies. The role of private agencies in educating Indonesian migrant workers also becomes a source of problems since the monitoring of those agencies is still weak.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2583", "words": "10604", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Missbach, Antje", "title": "Waiting on the Islands of 'Stuckedness': Managing Asylum Seekers in Island Detention Camps in Indonesia: From the Late 1970s to the Early 2000s", "date": "2013", "keywords": "aseas; asylum; asylum seekers; australia; camp; countries; detention; east; eastern; galang; indochinese; indonesia; islands; middle; people; protection; refugees; resettlement; unhcr; vietnamese; waiting", "summary": "Managing Asylum Seekers in Island Detention Camps in Indonesia: From the Late 1970s to the Early 2000s Antje Missbach1 Citation Missbach, A. (2013). Managing asylum seekers in island detention camps in Indonesia from the late 1970s to the early 2000s.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2584", "words": "9911", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Limpangog, Cirila", "title": "Migration as a Strategy for Maintaining a Middle-Class Identity: The Case of Professional Filipino Women in Melbourne", "date": "2013", "keywords": "aseas; australia; children; class; family; filipino; gender; identity; informants; life; lifestyle; manila; melbourne; migration; motives; philippines; strategy; studies; women; work", "summary": "Beyond the trailing spouse: The commuter partnership as an alternative to family migration. So far, studies on Filipino migration have emphasized economic motives that are directed towards the \u2018left-behind\u2019 family remaining in the Philippines.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2585", "words": "9995", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Pasgaard, Maya; Chea, Lily", "title": "Double Inequity? The Social Dimensions of Deforestation and Forest Protection in Local Communities in Northern Cambodia", "date": "2013", "keywords": "activities; aseas; benefits; cambodia; case; communities; community; deforestation; equity; forest; forestry; inequity; land; meanchey; members; oddar; project; protection; redd+; resources; study; tenure", "summary": "While the Sub-decree on CF management states that Cambodian citizens liv- ing within the participating communities can be members, it also lists the roles and duties of community forestry members, including participation in forest resources management, in monitoring the use of community forest resources, and in conserv- ing, protecting, and planting the forest (RGC, 2003). Threats to an Equitable Distribution of Benefits The risk of social exclusion from forest benefits has been studied and documented in various forest conservation projects, indicating problems with elite capture and exclu- sion of certain groups (Edmunds & Wollenberg, 2003; Dahal, Larson, & Pacheco, 2010).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2586", "words": "3732", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Endres, Kirsten W", "title": "Traders, Markets, and the State in Vietnam: Anthropological Perspectives", "date": "2013", "keywords": "border; economy; endres; markets; perspectives; scale; state; traders; vietnam; vietnamese", "summary": "In Vietnam\u2019s largely local, relationship-based economy, informality in fact constitutes a particular mode of so- cial interaction and economic exchange and should, therefore, be treated analytically as an aspect of the moral economy rather than as a separate sector from the formal. Further research into the complex web of interlinkages between the economic sphere and the metaphysical assumptions that govern and guide Vietnam- ese perceptions of the self and the world is expected to contribute valuable insights to our understanding of local economic practices, the moral implications of wealth, and ideas about human agency.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2587", "words": "4030", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "79", "author": "Dolezal, Claudia", "title": "Community-Based Tourism in Bali: On the Road Towards Empowerment? An Interview with Djinaldi Gosana", "date": "2013", "keywords": "bali; community; dolezal; gosana; tourism; village", "summary": "Bali CoBTA is an NGO that engages with CBT in Bali\u2019s least developed regions and strives to build stronger communities by assisting them in using, above all, their cultural assets to engage in a type of tourism that is fi nancially benefi cial for the com- munity and at the same time helps preserve local culture. Concerning empowerment, Bali CoBTA states on its website that its mission is to build strong communities and empower them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2588", "words": "2275", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Gantner, Bianca; Weninger, Philip", "title": "Filipin@ Communities in Austria: Barrio Fiesta sa Vienna 2013", "date": "2013", "keywords": "austria; barrio; fiesta; filipin@; igorot; philippine", "summary": "Mars Sahulga and a Filipino church choir is well attended although it starts at 11 a.m Association of Novo Ecijanos (ANEA; inhabitants of Nueva Ecija Province on the Island of Luzon) and many other associations are joining the parade. ASEAS 6(2) 379378 PHOTO 1: Igorot Cordillera Austria is the winner of the best booth 2013. ASEAS 6(2) 379378 PHOTO 1: Igorot Cordillera Austria is the winner of the best booth 2013.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2589", "words": "2053", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Seixas, Paulo Castro", "title": "Science on the Move: The 7th EuroSEAS Conference in Lisbon in 2013", "date": "2013", "keywords": "conference; euroseas; isc; lisbon; science", "summary": "Although research on international conferences has increased lately (e.g. Cutting, 1995; Green, 2008; Drife, 2008; Ngamsom & Beck, 2000; Olsen, 2004), analyses focused on motivations and constraints of attending an ISC and the economics of the event itself rather than a thick analysis of the role of ISCs in the global cultural dimensions and the scientific system in this context. The conscience of the economic relevance of international conferences creates two para- doxical trends: a) the continuous scattering creation of new ISCs as a way to promote science production poles and b) continuous attempts to captivate, even to institu- tionalize in a certain locale, the ISC which already represents a brand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2590", "words": "1379", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Gerstl, Alfred", "title": "Research on South-East Asia in Austria: The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna", "date": "2013", "keywords": "asian; east; south; studies", "summary": "In addition to six professors, the Department of East Asian Studies currently has a staff of about 50 permanent and temporary researchers and lecturers (Institut f\u00fcr Ostasienwissenschaften der Universit\u00e4t Wien, 2001\u20132013). The Department of East Asian Studies applies a broad area defini- tion of East Asia by incorporating North-East and South-East Asia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2591", "words": "978", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Jones, William J.", "title": "Conversations with Thaksin - From Exile to Deliverance: Thailand\u2019s Populist Tycoon Tells His Story", "date": "2013", "keywords": "book; exile; thaksin", "summary": "With campaign posters saturating the landscape and displaying slogans such as \u201cThaksin thinks, Phuea Thai acts\u201d, as well as periodic reports of Skype cabinet meetings with Thaksin orchestrating party politics as mediation in policy, there is no doubt that the ex-Prime Minister is very much involved in Thai politics, albeit from afar. The author\u2019s elaboration on personal notes of what it is like to be in ex- ile, traveling as a luxurious vagabond, and the very personal politics of the region are of interest regarding the conception of Thai politics since Thaksin\u2019s exile.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2592", "words": "1624", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "33", "author": "Parvanova, Dayana", "title": "Faith and the State: A History of Islamic Philanthropy in Indonesia", "date": "2013", "keywords": "islamic; practices; society; state", "summary": "Amelia Fauzia\u2019s thorough analysis of Islamic philanthropic practices in Indonesia from the early decades of Islam in the archipelago to today is more than a timely review of a tradition that both perpetuates and influences state-civil society relations. Amelia maintains this idea throughout her book without ignoring the complexity of the specific historical, socio-political, and cultural contexts. ASEAS 6(2) 399398 Faith and the State deals exclusively with Islamic philanthropic practices in Indone- sia and their development from the early centuries of Islamization to the more recent events of the post-New Order regime.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2593", "words": "1663", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Stange, Gunnar; O'Rourke, Iris", "title": "Conflict Dynamics and Transformations in Southeast Asia", "date": "2014", "keywords": "asean; asia; conflict; peace; southeast; studies", "summary": "Managing armed conflict in Southeast Asia: The role of mediation. Yet, the role Malaysia did play bilaterally in brokering the recently signed path-breaking peace ac- cord between the MILF and the Government of the Philippines gives reason to be- lieve that ASEAN as an organization will play a more proactive and institutionalized role in regional conflict management in the years to come.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2594", "words": "7979", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Borchers, Henning", "title": "ASEAN\u2019s Environmental Challenges and Non-Traditional Security Cooperation: Towards a Regional Peacekeeping Force?", "date": "2014", "keywords": "asean; asia; challenges; community; conflict; cooperation; force; indonesia; member; military; non; peacekeeping; regional; response; security", "summary": "RI must explain ASC to ASEAN members. Indonesia proposes ASEAN peacekeeping force.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2595", "words": "10011", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Rupprecht, Kathrin", "title": "Separatist Conflicts in the ASEAN Region: Comparing Southern Thailand and Mindanao", "date": "2014", "keywords": "asean; asia; bangsamoro; conflict; government; malaysia; mindanao; muslim; patani; peace; philippines; region; security; separatist; southeast; southern; state; thailand", "summary": "Separatist conflicts in the ASEAN region: Comparing Southern Thailand and Min- danao. This paper examines two cases of separatist conflict, namely the conflict in Southern Thailand and the conflict in the southern Philippines.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2596", "words": "8798", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Kowalewski, Sina", "title": "\u201eIn Our Hearts, We Do Not Have Trust\u201c: Frieden und bewaffnete Gruppen in Myanmar", "date": "2014", "keywords": "als; auch; auf; aus; beispielsweise; besonders; bewaffneten; burma; dass; dem; den; der; des; die; diese; durch; eine; ethnischen; frieden; friedensprozess; f\u00fchrungskreise; f\u00fcr; government; gruppen; ihre; interview; ist; jedoch; kachin; karen; kia; kio; knu; milit\u00e4r; mit; myanmar; nach; nicht; nur; oktober; perspektive; pers\u00f6nliches; politische; regierung; sich; sie; sind; strategie; trust; und; unfc; unter; von; werden; wie; wird; zur; zwischen", "summary": "Woods (2011) f\u00fchrt den Begriff des Waffenstillstandskapitalismus (ceasefire capitalism) ein, der die wirt- schaftlichen und politischen Beziehungen zwischen Gesch\u00e4ftsleuten, dem Milit\u00e4r und der ethnischen Elite in Gebieten unter Waffenstillstand regelt. Die F\u00fchrungskreise der bewaffneten Gruppen zeigen", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2597", "words": "6620", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Adam, Jeroen; Verbrugge, Boris", "title": "Informal Conflict Management in Exclusivist Political Orders: Some Observations on Central Mindanao", "date": "2014", "keywords": "conflict; conflict management; development; executive; institutions; management; mechanisms; mindanao; mnlf; order; peace; philippines; settlement; state; violence", "summary": "Informal conflict management in exclusivist political orders: Some ob- servations on Central Mindanao. Considering the positive atmosphere that has surrounded the recent consultations between the MILF and the GRP, it is generally expected that this BBL will be finished 63Informal Conflict Management in Exclusivist Political Orders Notwithstanding the notable progress made in these negotiations, important questions remain with regards to their impact on the everyday security situation in Mindanao, where a broad variety of local conflicts continue to proliferate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2598", "words": "8212", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Beckert, Barbara; Dittrich, Christoph; Adiwibowo, Soeryo", "title": "Contested Land: An Analysis of Multi-Layered Conflicts in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia", "date": "2014", "keywords": "access; area; asiatic; batin; bungku; concession; conflicts; forest; indonesia; international; jambi; land; oil; palm; persada; province; sembilan; sumatra; village", "summary": "By highlighting the path dependency of land conflicts, the article shows that access to land results from concurring but ambivalent institutional regimes and power asymmetries, leading to an ostensible state of equilibrium in a post-frontier area. This quote illustrates the severity of land conflicts on the village level as each \u2018time bomb\u2019 represents one major land conflict.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2599", "words": "8715", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Duile, Timo", "title": "Naturkonzepte und indigene Identit\u00e4tsentw\u00fcrfe im Kontext \u00f6kologischer Konflikte in Kalimantan", "date": "2014", "keywords": "adat; als; andere; auch; auf; aus; bamba; borneo; dabei; das; dass; dayak; dem; den; der; der natur; des; descola; deutschland; die; diese; durch; eine; epistemische; form; f\u00fcr; geist; hegemonialen; hier; indigene; interiorit\u00e4t; ist; jedoch; kalimantan; kann; konflikte; kultur; k\u00f6nnen; management; menschen; mit; nach; natur; naturalismus; nicht; nur; oder; sich; sie; sind; und; von; werden; west; wie; wird; wissen; zum; zwischen; \u00fcber", "summary": "Die Dayak sind daher kulturell und linguistisch betrachtet eine \u00fcberaus heterogene Gruppe, allein in West-Kalimantan hat das Institut Dayakologi (2011) 151 verschiedene Dayak-Sprachen gez\u00e4hlt. Dabei haben sich besonders kapitalistische Konzeptio- nen als wirkm\u00e4chtig erwiesen, die Natur als das Andere des (wei\u00dfen) menschlichen Geistes konzipierten, die als Rohstoff f\u00fcr die kapitalistische Inwertsetzung mit dem Zweck der Kapitalakkumulation zur Verf\u00fcgung stand (zu kolonialen Herrschaftskon- zeptionen \u00fcber Natur, siehe Plumwood, 2003, S. 52\u201358).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2600", "words": "4108", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Khoo, Ying Hooi", "title": "Mobilization Potential and Democratization Processes of the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) in Malaysia: An Interview With Hishamuddin Rais", "date": "2014", "keywords": "bersih; democratization; elections; general; isham; khoo; malaysia; movement; people; protests", "summary": "Sometimes the functions are just for Bersih, like Bersih Johor Bah- ru and Bersih Malacca. Mobilization Potential and Democratization Processes of the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) in Malaysia: An Interview With Hishamuddin Rais Ying Hooi Khoo \u25ba Khoo, Y. H. (2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2601", "words": "1884", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Altmeyer, Vera", "title": "Intimidation Versus Inclusion: New Strategies in Indonesian Election Campaigning", "date": "2014", "keywords": "basuki; campaign; campaigning; fauzi; jokowi; nara", "summary": "While Indonesian election campaigns are typically complex and may involve a wide range of other strategies as well, the abovementioned should be recognized rather as standard features than exceptions \u2013 especially when a powerful and rich in- cumbent is seeking reelection. The team carried out two main kinds of public campaign events: The first consisted of staged media events mostly held at their media center for journalists only; the second type took place outdoors and usually involved VIP pavilions, a stage, and micropho- nes to bridge the distance between speakers and voters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2602", "words": "1366", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "K\u00f3cz\u00e1n-V\u00f6r\u00f6s, Viola", "title": "Book Review: Wintle, C. (2013). Colonial Collecting and Display. Encounters With Material Culture From the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.", "date": "2014", "keywords": "andaman; colonial; islands; wintle", "summary": "This reception was formed by three major factors: by the pictorial depictions of this Asian colony on the pages of the Illustrated London News (ILN), by the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in 1886 where the Nicobar and Andaman Islands were brought to the fore as a curiosity, and finally by Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s popular Sherlock Holmes novella The Sign of Four (1890). Colonial Collecting and Display is a must read for anyone interested in the peoples and material culture of India as well as the Nicobar and Andaman Islands.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2603", "words": "1147", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Chen, Kai", "title": "Book Review: Mietzner, M. (Ed.) (2013). The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia: Conflict and Leadership.", "date": "2014", "keywords": "military; resurgence; southeast", "summary": "Indeed, insecurity caused by the tensions between militaries and ethnic-based militias is also one of the main reasons for military resurgence in Southeast Asia. Chapter 1 illustrates the literature of military resurgence in Southeast Asia and outlines the book's content.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2604", "words": "2277", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Missbach, Antje; Myrttinen, Henry", "title": "Imagining Indonesia From Afar: Exploratory Thoughts on Utopian, Nostalgic, and Embodied Longing for the Homeland", "date": "2014", "keywords": "diaspora; homeland; indonesia; issue; missbach; myrttinen", "summary": "By not limiting our gaze to more or less established diasporic groups with in- ternet presence and regular media outlets, this special issue seeks to also include less formalized and temporary group activities of Indonesians overseas that complement the already existing assemblies of Indonesian homeland narratives and imaginaries. Imagining Indonesia From Afar: Exploratory Thoughts on Utopian, Nostalgic, and Embodied Longing for the Homeland Antje Missbach & Henri Myrttinen \u25ba Missbach, A., & Myrttinen, H. (2014).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2605", "words": "10123", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Hertzman, Emily", "title": "Returning to the Kampung Halaman: Limitations of Cosmopolitan Transnational Aspirations Among Hakka Chinese Indonesians Overseas", "date": "2014", "keywords": "business; chinese; cosmopolitan; food; friends; groups; hakka; halaman; home; identity; indonesian; kampung; mandarin; migrants; new; overseas; people; singkawang; status; study; working", "summary": "However, when he meets Chinese people, including his Cantonese boss, he tells them he is Chinese Indonesian, and speaks Mandarin and Hakka, downplaying the Indonesian aspects of his identity, and emphasizing the ethnically Chinese aspects in order to find acceptance and a common ground. When people from Singkawang travel to countries with other groups of Chinese people, the politics of these sub-ethnic group stereotypes play out in terms of how they are perceived by locals and therefore whom they feel comfortable asso- ciating and communicating with.14 As a way of refuting these negative stereotypes of Hakka sub-ethnic identity, people frequently cite the fact that some famous people including Sun Yat-Sen, Deng Xiaoping, and Lee Kuan Yew were/are Hakka.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2606", "words": "8758", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Utomo, Ariane", "title": "Mother Tongue, Mothering, and (Transnational) Identity: Indonesian Mothers in Canberra, Australia", "date": "2014", "keywords": "australia; bahasa; canberra; children; club; families; identities; identity; indonesian; language; migration; mothering; mothers; practices; research; retention; social; women", "summary": "Here, I present my relatively recent involvement in a community organization that aims at promoting native language (Bahasa Indonesia) use in early childhood among young second-generation children of Indonesian migrant mothers. Mother tongue, mothering, and (transnational) identity: Indonesian mothers in Can- berra, Australia. ASEAS \u2013 Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 7(2), 165-182.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2607", "words": "7918", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Hasyim, Syafiq", "title": "Challenging a Home Country: A Preliminary Account of Indonesian Student Activism in Berlin, Germany", "date": "2014", "keywords": "activism; activists; activities; berlin; consulate; country; germany; home; indonesian; islamic; members; muslim; politics; ppi; ppi berlin; ppme; regime; student; suharto", "summary": "Challenging a home country: A preliminary account of Indonesian student activism in Berlin, Germany. This article gives an overview on Indonesian student activism in Berlin, Germany.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2608", "words": "9645", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Askland, Hedda Haugen", "title": "East Timorese in Australia: Affective Relations, Identity, and Belonging in a Time of Political Crisis", "date": "2014", "keywords": "askland; australia; community; crisis; east; east timor; east timorese; emotions; events; exiles; identity; people; practice; reciprocity; shame; timorese", "summary": "More specifically, it explores how a group of East Timorese exiles living in Mel- bourne, Australia, who left East Timor or were born in exile from the time of the 1975 civil war up to the end of the Indonesian occupation of the territory in 1999, was affected by the 2006\u20132007 political conflict in East Timor. The thought of East Timorese fighting East Timorese, of East Timorese people themselves causing suffering and pain to the nation\u2019s young and old, had been a distant fear, for many too surreal to consider a possibility.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2609", "words": "10609", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Chaplin, Chris", "title": "Imagining the Land of the Two Holy Mosques: The Social and Doctrinal Importance of Saudi Arabia in Indonesian Salafi Discourse", "date": "2014", "keywords": "arabia; example; holy; indonesia; islamic; islamiyah; kingdom; movement; muslims; new; order; salafi; salafism; saudi; saudi arabia; scholars; social; society; university; variety; wahdah; yogyakarta", "summary": "The relationship between Salafi religious discourse and the imagined ideal of the Arabian Peninsula provides an interesting case study of both socio-political imagi- naries and contemporary religious movement. He provides an interesting example of reversion outside of \u2013 but linked to \u2013 Indonesia, something catalyzed by Indonesian religious students based in Saudi Arabia who can provide such classes for their compatriots.4 SAUDI ARABIA AND THE RELIGIOUS IDEAL The abovementioned linkages between Saudi Arabian religious institutions and religious actors in Indonesia, maintained through personal, professional, and even virtual ties, are thus integral in augmenting the importance of the Arabian Penin- sula among Indonesian Muslims interested in the movement.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2610", "words": "2398", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Missbach, Antje", "title": "Seeing Indonesia From Behind Bars: An Interview With Vannessa Hearman", "date": "2014", "keywords": "friends; hearman; indonesia; lestario; letters; missbach; pen", "summary": "Letters prisoners wrote to their families are not publicly available, as many family members probably still feel concerned about disclosing that they had rela- tives in prison. So, it\u2019s about dealing with ethical issues in terms of personal letters.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2611", "words": "1316", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Manhartsberger, Helena", "title": "Tirolesia: A Trans-Medial Art Project Bridging Two Regions", "date": "2014", "keywords": "indonesia; people; project", "summary": "Based on photographs, people are encouraged to invent stories about this \u2018other\u2019 place and the conscious reception of these \u2018foreign\u2019 stories at home gives the opportunity to inquire into stereotypes, clich\u00e9s, and prejudices regarding an often \u2018unknown\u2019 or remote reality. Consequently, they told me stories that were as diverse as the people I met.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2612", "words": "1560", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Nasrat, Sayed", "title": "Book Review: Ear, S. (2013). Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy.", "date": "2014", "keywords": "aid; cambodia; dependence; governance; panel", "summary": "Chapter 2 describes the recent economic growth in Cambodia and shows the ineffectiveness of foreign aid and government policies in three main economic sectors (garment, rice, and livestock). Moreover, the author offers no successful example of tax collection as a substitute for foreign aid from other postconflict and aid-dependent countries.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2613", "words": "2658", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Vo\u00dfemer, Christiane; Ehlert, Judith; Proyer, Michelle; Guth, Ralph", "title": "Sovereignties of Food: Political Struggle and Life-World Encounters in Southeast Asia", "date": "2015", "keywords": "asia; food; journal; peasant; research; southeast; sovereignty; studies", "summary": "This obviously raises complex questions about food and health and has led several states in the region to adopt a discourse of food sovereignty, re-evoking the need for a strong developmental state as a guardian over food safety and accessibility as argued by Lassa and Shrestha (2014) for Indonesia. The contributions enquire into very different struggles and sites of food sovereignty exploring the meanings of \u2018the right to define own food and agricultural systems\u2019, as well as the plural \u2018sovereignties\u2019 of food related to the multiple actors, topics, understandings and practices of food sovereignty Three articles in this issue discuss different struggles for what we may broadly call food sovereignty based on empirical studies into settings as diverse as a remote peas- ant community in Indonesia, soup-pot restaurants in Phnom Pen, and a network of activists in the north of Thailand promoting alternative forms of agriculture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2614", "words": "9559", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Ehlert, Judith; Vo\u00dfemer, Christiane", "title": "Food Sovereignty and Conceptualization of Agency: A Methodological Discussion", "date": "2015", "keywords": "actors; agency; agriculture; development; food; food regime; food security; food sovereignty; global; knowledge; life; movement; peasant; regime; research; security; south; studies; world", "summary": "Food sovereignty and conceptualization of agency: A methodological discussion. From an actor-oriented perspective, the article presents a methodological reflec- tion of the concept of food sovereignty in opposition to the concept of food security, both agendas highly relevant in terms of food policies in Southeast Asia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2615", "words": "8122", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Cuevas, Sophia Maria Mable; Fernandez, Juan Emmanuel Capiral; Olvida, Imelda de Guzman", "title": "Where Peasants Are Kings: Food Sovereignty in the Tagbanua Traditional Subsistence System", "date": "2015", "keywords": "agriculture; aporawan; community; daan; development; farmers; food; order; philippines; production; research; rice; seeds; sitio; sovereignty; swidden; system; tagbanua; upland", "summary": "Open-ended ethnographic interviews and focus group discussions with Tagbanua farmers as well as migrant, non-Tagbanua residents were conducted in order to explore the role of swidden cul- tivation in ensuring food sovereignty in the Tagbanua villages. In order to reach a more in-depth understanding of the current role of swidden agriculture among Tagbanua farmers, the research explores the complex meanings and functions related to the cultivation of the swidden.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2616", "words": "10584", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Feuer, Hart Nadav", "title": "Urban Brokers of Rural Cuisine: Assembling National Cuisine at Cambodian Soup-Pot Restaurants", "date": "2015", "keywords": "age; agriculture; cambodia; city; cuisine; culinary; dining; dishes; feuer; fish; food; ingredients; khmer; national; order; penh; phnom; pot; pot restaurants; restaurants; soup", "summary": "pot restaurants consistently reported that they expect the chef to arrange the dishes to complement each other in a balanced way that follows dietary customs (and avoids food taboos, such as serving steamed rice without soup to wash it down). In the quotes below, the inertia behind the abstract of Khmer cuisine becomes apparent: I like to try many kinds of new food, but to fill my belly every day I still prefer Khmer food.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2617", "words": "10116", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Heis, Alexandra", "title": "The Alternative Agriculture Network Isan and Its Struggle for Food Sovereignty \u2013 a Food Regime Perspective of Agricultural Relations of Production in Northeast Thailand", "date": "2015", "keywords": "aan; aan isan; agriculture; alternative; communication; development; farmers; food; food regime; food sovereignty; global; health; isan; network; october; peasants; production; regime; relations; sovereignty; thailand", "summary": "This paper uses the food regime analysis to visualize relations of domination and ex- ploitation within the realm of food production and supply. The field of action of AAN Isan member groups is predetermined by the global food regime manifesting in the Thai context \u2013 a set of food production and supply relations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2618", "words": "3212", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Heckelman, Amber A.; Wittman, Hannah", "title": "Food Sovereignty: A Framework for Assessing Agrarian Responses to Climate Change in the Philippines", "date": "2015", "keywords": "change; climate; development; food; philippines; security; sovereignty; systems", "summary": "the perception of food as a human right versus a commodity; 2. the value placed on equity and empowerment for all food providers; 3. the emphasis on the social and ecological benefits of localizing food systems; 4. The principles of food sovereignty provide a framework for developing a systems- based approach that can assess food security and climate resiliency among agrarian communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2619", "words": "4341", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Einzenberger, Rainer; Hochmuth, Michaela", "title": "\u201cPlant Some Plants, Plant Some Hope, Plant Some Future\u201d. Urban Gardening at Lingnan University of Hong Kong: An Interview with Prof. Kin-Chi Lau", "date": "2015", "keywords": "campus; einzenberger; food; hong; kong; lau; people; project; students; university", "summary": "Einzenberger: How important is healthy (organic) food for Hong Kong people, and is it affordable? Lau: This question is related to a much more complex context about value change, cultural change, and social change. Organic food from abroad is available in certain supermarkets in Hong Kong for the upper and middle classes, and organic vegetables are even imported from mainland China to Hong Kong.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2620", "words": "1087", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Spandler, Kilian", "title": "Building Interregional Networks Among Young Researchers: IFAIR\u2019s 2nd EU-ASEAN Perspectives Dialogue", "date": "2015", "keywords": "asean; dialogue; perspectives", "summary": "Building Interregional Networks Among Young Researchers: IFAIR\u2019s 2nd EU-ASEAN Perspectives Dialogue Kilian Spandler \u25ba Spandler, K. (2015). The EUAP II was organized by the Young Initiative on Foreign Affairs and Inter- national Relations e.V. (IFAIR), a student-led, Germany-based initiative that pro- motes youth exchange and projects related to international affairs.1 Following the inaugural project in late 2013 and early 2014, the second edition of the Dia- logue ran under the heading \u2018Building Global Partnerships \u2013 Which Role for the EU and ASEAN?\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2621", "words": "1293", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Duile, Timo", "title": "Book Review: Pichler, M. (2014). Politische \u00d6kologie der Palm\u00f6l- und Agrartreibstoffproduktion in S\u00fcdostasien.", "date": "2015", "keywords": "als; auch; dass; den; der; des; die; pichler; und; von; werden; wird", "summary": "Melanie Pichler hat eine Studie vorgelegt, die nicht nur f\u00fcr WissenschaftlerIn- nen interessant ist, sondern auch wichtige Anregungen f\u00fcr die politische Arbeit von Umwelt-, Entwicklungs- Diese sind, wie Pi- chler in der Analyse der historischen Entwicklung der AkteurInnen, Strukturen und Kr\u00e4fteverh\u00e4ltnisse ausf\u00fchrt, in transnationale Wirtschaftszusammenh\u00e4nge einge- bunden, erm\u00f6glichen aber einer regionalen Elite ebenfalls eine effektive Akkumula- tion von Kapital.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2622", "words": "2427", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Benedikter, Simon; K\u00f6ster, Ute", "title": "Book Review: Gravers, M., & Flemming, Y. (Eds.). (2014). Burma/Myanmar\u2014Where now?", "date": "2015", "keywords": "book; government; gravers; myanmar; peace; process; state", "summary": "While the preceding part describes changes due to political reforms, this section analyzes the challenges inherent in the current transformation and legacies of the past. The Southeast Asian country gained sad notoriety through po- litical repression, massive human rights abuses, armed conflicts, socioeconomic decline, and extreme poverty.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2623", "words": "3437", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Dolezal, Claudia; Trupp, Alexander", "title": "Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia", "date": "2015", "keywords": "asia; development; dolezal; hitchcock; research; southeast; thailand; tourism", "summary": "Tourism in Africa: Harnessing tourism for growth and improved livelihoods. Tourism is no longer only regarded as a mere income generator, creator of jobs, or socio-cultural phenomenon, but also serves as a tool to fos- ter beneficial and locally driven development in all its dimensions (Scheyvens, 2002).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2624", "words": "8757", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Truong, V. Dao; Hall, C. Michael", "title": "Exploring the Poverty Reduction Potential of Social Marketing in Tourism Development", "date": "2015", "keywords": "alleviation; audience; development; hall; marketing; people; poor; potential; poverty; reduction; sapa; tourism; truong; women", "summary": "Exploring the poverty reduction potential of social marketing in tour- ism development. Although social marketing has been demonstrated to be an effective tool of behavior change in a variety of contexts, its poverty reduction potential in tourism development has captured limited research attention.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2625", "words": "11424", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Erb, Maribeth", "title": "Sailing to Komodo: Contradictions of Tourism and Development in Eastern Indonesia", "date": "2015", "keywords": "bajo; development; eastern; erb; event; flores; government; indonesia; komodo; labuan; money; national; ntt; park; people; sail; sail komodo; tourism; tourists", "summary": "TOURISM EVENTS, TOURISM PROMOTION, AND UNDERSTANDINGS OF TOURISM IN WESTERN FLORES Let us hope that every cent that drops from the hands of tourists will fall into the pockets of people here in Labuan Bajo. They suggested creating a permanent calendar of tourism events to be published on their website so that tourists could plan their jour- neys around these events.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2627", "words": "7127", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Bui, Huong T.; Lee, Timothy J.", "title": "Commodification and Politicization of Heritage: Implications for Heritage Tourism at the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, Hanoi (Vietnam)", "date": "2015", "keywords": "ashworth; citadel; commodification; hanoi; heritage; heritage tourism; identity; interpretation; long; site; thang; tourism; tourists; vietnam", "summary": "His research interests are health and wellness tourism, ethnicity and identity in tourism and hospitality industry, cultural heritage tourism, and dark tourism in the Asia-Pacific region. Heritage tourism, a form of economic use of heritage is an arena operationalized by both commodifica- tion and politicization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2628", "words": "2898", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Bergmeister, Felix Magnus", "title": "Shaping Southeast Asia: Tracing Tourism Imaginaries in Guidebooks and Travel Blogs", "date": "2015", "keywords": "asia; blogs; guidebooks; southeast; tourism; travel", "summary": "In a second step, I search for travel blog entries that relate to these topics. Travel blogs have gained im- portance in this regard as travelers frequently use them to share their holiday experi- ences with friends and the general public (Chandralal, Rindfleish, & Valenzuela, 2015, p. 681).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2629", "words": "2656", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "74", "author": "Vogler, Christina", "title": "Change and Challenges for Foreign Retirees in Thailand. An Interview with Nancy Lindley", "date": "2015", "keywords": "chiang; lindley; mai; people; vogler", "summary": "The northern city of Chiang Mai in Thailand has become a popular destination for na- tional and international tourists as well as for a growing number of expatriates and retire- ment migrants. Compared to Thailand\u2019s southern destinations such as Phuket or Pattaya, Chiang Mai features a cooler climate and interesting cultural and environmental sur- roundings.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2630", "words": "1681", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Einzenberger, Rainer", "title": "Conference Report: Land Grabbing, Conflict, and Agrarian-Environmental Transformations: Perspectives From East and Southeast Asia, 5-6 June 2015, Chiang Mai University", "date": "2015", "keywords": "asia; conference; grabbing; land; southeast; university", "summary": "Academic interest in what is now globally known as land grab followed the sudden increase in large-scale, cross border land acquisitions in the Global South that began around 2007 (Hall, 2013, p. 95). Other panels explored the intersection of land grabs and climate change mitiga- tion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2631", "words": "1340", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "McCargo, Duncan", "title": "Reflections on the 8th EuroSEAS Conference, 11\u201314 August, Vienna", "date": "2015", "keywords": "august; conference; euroseas; southeast; vienna", "summary": "The creation of these new prizes reflects the wider mis- sion of EuroSEAS to promote the academic study of Southeast Asia. Reflections on the 8th EuroSEAS Conference Reflections on the 8th EuroSEAS Conference, 11\u201314 August, Vienna Duncan McCargo \u25ba McCargo, D. (2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2632", "words": "799", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "G\u00f6dde, Heinz", "title": "Konferenzbericht: Die Schattenseiten des Wirtschaftswachstums in Su\u0308dostasien. 19.\u201320. Juni 2015, Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt a. M.", "date": "2015", "keywords": "den; der; des; die; s\u00fcdostasien; und; universit\u00e4t", "summary": "Dabei wurde aufgezeigt, dass der Prozess der Demokratisierung in den einzelnen L\u00e4ndern jeweils eine unterschiedliche Entwicklung durchl\u00e4uft, die bis hin zur Stagnation des Demokratisierungsprozesses oder gar zu einem R\u00fcckschritt reicht. Die Tagung, organisiert von Patrick Ziegenhain (Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt), brach- te einen gelungenen Einblick in die Schattenseiten des Wirtschaftswachstums in S\u00fcdostasien.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2633", "words": "1700", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Stange, Gunnar", "title": "Book Review: K\u00f6ster, U., Trong, P. L., & Grein, C. (Eds.). (2014). Handbuch Myanmar. Gesellschaft, Politik, Wirt- schaft, Kultur, Entwicklung.", "date": "2015", "keywords": "auf; das; den; der; des; die; eine; f\u00fcr; kapitel; landes; mit; myanmar; sich; und; von; vor; wird", "summary": "Myanmar befindet sich nach einer fast 50-j\u00e4hrigen Milit\u00e4rdiktatur seit dem Jahre 2010 in einem von \u201eoben\u201c gesteuerten demokratischen Transformations- prozess, der gleichzeitig die wirtschaftliche und politische \u00d6ffnung des gr\u00f6\u00df- ten Landes Festlands\u00fcdostasiens bedeutete. Die Beitr\u00e4ge besch\u00e4ftigen sich mit dringenden Themen wie der Reform des Wahlsystems und der Verfassung \u2013 unter anderem in Bezug auf die Frage einer angemessenen politischen Repr\u00e4senta- tion der ethnischen Minderheiten des Landes \u2013 sowie der Rolle der (lange Zeit staat- lich gelenkten)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2634", "words": "1239", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Lubenovic, Vedad", "title": "Book Review: Creak, S. (2015). Embodied Nation. Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos.", "date": "2015", "keywords": "als; auf; creak; den; der; des; die; f\u00fcr; kapitel; laos; sich; und; von", "summary": "Das fundierte Wissen, das der Autor nicht nur \u00fcber die Geschichte des Landes, sondern auch \u00fcber die Sprache Lao vorweisen kann, erm\u00f6glicht es ihm, 231Book Review auf die Bedeutung des Verh\u00e4ltnisses von Sprache/Rhetorik und Sport hinzuweisen und eine gro\u00dfe Vielfalt historischer Dokumente in seine Analyse einzubinden. Die Analyse der Teilnahme an bzw.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2635", "words": "5338", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Pichler, Melanie; Brad, Alina", "title": "Political Ecology and Socio-Ecological Conflicts in Southeast Asia", "date": "2016", "keywords": "asia; conflicts; control; development; ecology; environmental; indonesia; land; power; resources; socio; southeast; state", "summary": "Social metabolism, ecological distribution conflicts, and languages of valuation. Environmental conflict.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2636", "words": "12311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "64", "author": "de Vos, Rosanne Elisabeth", "title": "Multi-Functional Lands Facing Oil Palm Monocultures: A Case Study of a Land Conflict in West Kalimantan, Indonesia", "date": "2016", "keywords": "area; company; conflict; farmers; forest; gardens; indonesia; kalimantan; labor; land; oil; oil palm; palm; people; plantation; project; property; rice; rubber; village", "summary": "Review of legal, environmental and social practices of oil palm plantation companies of the Wilmar Group in Sambas District, West-Kalimantan (Indonesia). While this is recog- nized in most research, some researchers and policy makers subsequently argue that palm oil related land conflicts originate from a lack of \u2018clear\u2019 land rights in rural areas (Rist, Feintrenie, & Levang, 2010; World Bank & IFC, 2011, p. 20).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2637", "words": "9490", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Hennings, Anne", "title": "Assembling Resistance Against Large-Scale Land Deals: Challenges for Conflict Transformation in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea", "date": "2016", "keywords": "assemblage; bougainville; conflict; deals; land; land deals; new; panguna; peace; politics; processes; resistance; scale; state; territorialization; war", "summary": "10 Clan membership is mainly determined by matrilineal lines and in many parts of Bougainville land is owned by women (Kangsi & Damana, 2014). Testing claims about large land deals in Africa: Findings from a multi-country study.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2638", "words": "8070", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Roberts, Kimberly", "title": "It Takes a Rooted Village: Networked Resistance, Connected Communities, and Adaptive Responses to Forest Tenure Reform in Northern Thailand", "date": "2016", "keywords": "communities; community; community forest; forest; forestry; government; huai; huai lu; lahu; lu luang; luang; national; networks; park; thailand; use; village", "summary": "At the end of the 1980s, groups of activities, academics, and NGOS began to argue for de jure local control of resources through community forests as an alternative to the forest conservation strategy of the RFD (Buergin, 2000, p. 11). Although Huai Lu Luang is a predominately Baptist Lahu village, Buddhist students from Chi- ang Mai visited Huai Lu Luang and recommended that they dedicate a portion of the forest (not already designated as community forest) to the King in order to prevent the government from taking the land.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2639", "words": "9157", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Camba, Alvin Almendrala", "title": "Philippine Mining Capitalism: The Changing Terrains of Struggle in the Neoliberal Mining Regime", "date": "2016", "keywords": "capital; communities; companies; development; environmental; government; groups; industry; mineral; mining; mining companies; mining sector; national; ncip; peoples; philippine; sector; state", "summary": "Mining communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have resisted mining companies (Kirsch, 2014; Nem Singh & Bourgouin, 2013; Peet & Watts, 2004), but the vast networks of corporations facilitate transactions between the extractive sector and commodity producers, making the mining companies rela- tively anonymous and invulnerable to consumer boycotts, inter-state regulatory ef- forts, and labor unrest (Kirsch, 2014). First, technologies of subjection have elevated state mining institutions to choose and put into effect the processes aimed at addressing the demands of local communities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2640", "words": "9323", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Dewi, Rosita", "title": "Gaining Recognition Through Participatory Mapping? The Role of Adat Land in the Implementation of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate in Papua, Indonesiatudy: Implementation of Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate, Papua, Indonesia", "date": "2016", "keywords": "adat; adat communities; adat land; communities; company; district; duku; government; head; indonesia; land; mapping; merauke; mifee; papua; participatory; project; recognition; village", "summary": "The role of adat land in the imple- mentation of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate in Papua, Indonesia. Furthermore, the legal recognition of communal adat land ownership is facilitating the buy-out of adat land by companies and/or the state.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2641", "words": "10307", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Ley, Lukas", "title": "\u201cDry Feet For All\u201d: Flood Management and Chronic Time in Semarang, Indonesia", "date": "2016", "keywords": "arief; chronic; crisis; deni; dutch; flooding; government; house; indonesia; infrastructure; land; management; nature; neighborhood; people; polder; project; residents; river; semarang; time; urban; water", "summary": "They have two equally unsatisfying options: Waiting for government projects and doing nothing in the meantime, which puts them at risk 118 Lukas Ley \ue050 ASEAS 9(1) of gradually losing their homes to the rising tide. the light of full moons for all the urbanites and unemployed for the losers who lost hope for the urban citizens logged in tidal and river water for the rest of time? purnama cahaya Bagi para urban dan pengangguran Bagi orang-orang kalah yang kehilangan harapan Bagi warga kota yang tergenang rob dan banjir sepanjang zaman? 113Flood Management and Chronic Time in Semarang, Indonesia abrasion \u2013 are interpreted as representing two things: the impossibility of restraining nature and the corrupt nature of state infrastructure projects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2642", "words": "9720", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Kunz, Yvonne; Hein, Jonas; Mardiana, Rina; Faust, Heiko", "title": "Mimicry of the Legal: Translating de jure Land Formalization Processes Into de facto Local Action in Jambi province, Sumatra", "date": "2016", "keywords": "forest; formalization; hein; indonesia; land; land tenure; law; mimicry; national; nla; processes; rights; scale; settlement; sporadik; tenure; title; village", "summary": "At the same time, local land own- ers legitimize the exceeding of competencies through requesting village-scale titles. Led by the concepts of \u201claw as process\u201d (Moore, 1978) and \u201cpolitics of scale\u201d (Brenner, 1998; Meadowcroft, 2002; Neumann, 2009; Swyngedouw, 2010; Towers, 2000; Zulu, 2009), we combine theory and empirical data from Jambi province, Su- matra, to shed light on a confusingly high number of different kinds of land titles in use and their relation to public authorities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2643", "words": "8360", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "F\u00fcnfgeld, Anna", "title": "The State of Coal Mining in East Kalimantan: Towards a Political Ecology of Local Stateness", "date": "2016", "keywords": "actors; capital; coal; coal mining; companies; east; ecology; indonesia; kalimantan; law; mining; people; practices; samarinda; state; stateness", "summary": "These forms of state capital can be related to the basic elements of states, as de- scribed above. Furthermore, I ask how the actors make use of the symbolic forms of state capital described by Bourdieu when carrying out 157The State of Coal Mining in East Kalimantan practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2644", "words": "4297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Einzenberger, Rainer", "title": "Contested Frontiers: Indigenous Mobilization and Control over Land and Natural Resources in Myanmar's Upland Areas", "date": "2016", "keywords": "areas; building; burma; frontier; land; myanmar; peoples; resources; rights; space; state", "summary": "(Brenner & Elden, 2009, p. 367) Following the work of Lefebvre, Poulantzas (1978/2000) has examined in his state theory the interrelation of global and national capitalist expansion and the produc- tion of state frontiers. Frontiers of commodification: State lands and their formalization.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2645", "words": "3298", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Anderson, Zachary R", "title": "Assembling the \u2018Field\u2019: Conducting Research in Indonesia\u2019s Emerging Green Economy", "date": "2016", "keywords": "actors; berau; east; economy; field; green; kalimantan; research", "summary": "\u2018Green economy\u2019 is meant to decouple continued econom- ic growth from environmental destruction, while reducing emissions and poverty (UNEP, 2012); the much-lauded \u2018triple-win\u2019. However, the \u2018green economy\u2019 as it is emerging in Berau is not one clear project, like REDD+ or community-based for- estry, but a collection of disparate policies, projects, and practices bundled together under the names \u2018green economy\u2019 or \u2018green growth\u2019.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2646", "words": "3229", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Pichler, Melanie", "title": "\u201cSome of the Best Movement People are Political Ecologists at Heart\u201d: An Interview About Political Ecology With Nancy Peluso", "date": "2016", "keywords": "ecology; forest; indonesia; melanie; nancy; people; research", "summary": "Melanie: You pioneered research on \u201cpolitical forests\u201d in Indonesia in the 1990s. What did the formation of political forests mean?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2647", "words": "3272", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Lengauer, Dayana", "title": "New Media in Southeast Asia: Concepts and Research Implications", "date": "2016", "keywords": "digital; horst; media; miller; new", "summary": "Rather than the technologies themselves, Editorial w w w .s ea s. at d oi 1 0. 14 76 4/ 10 .A SE A S- 20 16 .2 -1 188 Dayana Lengauer \ue050 ASEAS 9(2) she argues, it is people\u2019s perceptions of and experiences with social media (e.g., Face- book or Instagram) that define them as new. As Muhammad Fajar (2016) observed, those who opposed the protest \u201coften intelligibly discuss complicated democracy-related concepts on social media but fail to back these up with a vigorous movement on the ground\u201d.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2648", "words": "10539", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Laungaramsri, Pinkaew", "title": "Mass Surveillance and the Militarization of Cyberspace in Post-Coup Thailand", "date": "2016", "keywords": "coup; cyber; cyberspace; digital; freedom; government; internet; law; mass; masses; media; militarization; military; new; online; order; people; post; security; society; state; surveillance; thailand", "summary": "Thailand internet censorship: Junta defends cybersecurity laws, or-ders press freedom briefing canceled. Second, Internet surveillance has been attached to the mili- tary\u2019s security agenda and institutionalized within the new military state.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2649", "words": "9375", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Schaffar, Wolfram", "title": "New Social Media and Politics in Thailand: The Emergence of Fascist Vigilante Groups on Facebook", "date": "2016", "keywords": "bangkok; facebook; fascism; government; groups; internet; l\u00e8se; majest\u00e9; media; monarchy; network; new; politics; rco; research; schaffar; shirts; thailand; vigilante", "summary": "Screenshot, taken from the timeline of RCO Facebook group, May 2015, showing the campaign against Tananun Buranasiri. Screenshot, taken from the timeline of RCO Facebook group, May 2016, illustrating the campaign against Rose.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2650", "words": "8844", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Guntarik, Olivia; Trott, Verity", "title": "Changing Media Ecologies in Thailand: Women's Online Participation in the 2013/2014 Bangkok Protests", "date": "2016", "keywords": "digital; engagement; internet; media; new; participation; people; politics; protests; public; sites; technology; thailand; women; yingluck", "summary": "Our study on women\u2019s participatory politics in Thailand seeks to determine what forms of online political participation exist among Thai women in Thailand. We draw on insights from feminist activism in other parts of the world in order to explore how new definitions of participation bear on the forms of online political participation emerging among Thai women today.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2651", "words": "8457", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Sch\u00e4fer, Saskia", "title": "Forming 'Forbidden' Identities Online: Atheism in Indonesia", "date": "2016", "keywords": "aan; activists; atheism; atheists; belief; case; group; identity; indonesia; international; media; non; online; public; religion; rights; state", "summary": "The political theorist Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (2015) has investigated the con- sequences of a religious rights and freedoms model that singles out groups for le- gal protection as religious groups. A major effect that this sectarianization (Hurd, 2015) has for religious groups is the strengthening of boundaries and of claims to orthodoxy and authority.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2652", "words": "8877", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Reyes, Joseph Anthony Lazareto", "title": "Exploring Leisure Time Activities and Sociodemographic Indicators of Subjective Happiness and Self-Perceived Health Among Filipinos", "date": "2016", "keywords": "activities; happiness; health; indicators; leisure; leisure activities; leisure time; life; respondents; study; subjective; time; variables", "summary": "Exploring leisure time activities and sociodemographic indicators of subjective happiness and self-perceived health among Filipinos. This study explores the relationships of subjective happiness and self-perceived health with leisure time activities and sociodemographic variables among Filipinos.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2653", "words": "2350", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Fauzanafi, Muhammad Zamzam", "title": "Searching for Digital Citizenship: Fighting Corruption in Banten, Indonesia", "date": "2016", "keywords": "acts; banten; citizenship; corruption; dynasty; media", "summary": "Searching for digital citizenship: Fighting corruption in Banten, Indonesia. ASEAS \u2013 Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 9(2), 289-294. This paper presents the emerging results of research on digital citizenship in Banten, Indo- nesia, focusing on how new forms of citizenship are brought into being through digital acts that are defined as speech acts uttered through the use of social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2654", "words": "2868", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Thongsawang, Sirima", "title": "Mobile Technology in the Lives of Thai Immigrants in Germany", "date": "2016", "keywords": "berlin; embassy; germany; immigrants; media; mobile; thai", "summary": "Mobile technology in the lives of Thai immigrants in Germany. This paper examines the role of mobile technology in the lives of Thai immigrants in Berlin.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2655", "words": "4427", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "62", "author": "Einzenberger, Rainer", "title": "If It's on the Internet It Must Be Right: An Interview With Myanmar ICT for Development Organisation on the Use of the Internet and Social Media in Myanmar", "date": "2016", "keywords": "facebook; htaike; internet; media; myanmar; people; rainer; use", "summary": "Additionally, we engage with media people to discuss what is happening on Facebook on a monthly basis. If It's on the Internet It Must Be Right: An Interview with Myanmar ICT for Development Organisation on the Use of the Internet and Social Media in Myanmar \u201cIf It\u2019s on the Internet It Must Be Right\u201d: An Interview with Myanmar ICT for Development Organisation on the Use of the Internet and Social Media in Myanmar Rainer Einzenberger \u25ba Einzenberger, R. (2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2656", "words": "1311", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Lengauer, Dayana", "title": "Workshop Report: Social Media and Islamic Practice in Southeast Asia, 14-15 April 2016, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences", "date": "2016", "keywords": "islamic; media; southeast; university; workshop", "summary": "As a number of presenters argued, social media use affects the ways in which Southeast Asian Muslims understand their religion and conversely, Muslims\u2019 understandings of their religion affect the ways they use social media to spread their message, as in the case of online da\u2019wa, or Islamic proselytization. Workshop report: Social media and Islamic practice in Southeast Asia, 14-15 April 2016, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2657", "words": "1817", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "B\u00f3dis, Zolt\u00e1n", "title": "Book Review: Lwin, S. M.(2010). Narrative Structures in Burmese Folk Tales.", "date": "2016", "keywords": "folktale; lwin; research; tales", "summary": "Folktale research in Central-Europe took the first steps toward the interpretation of folktales in the postmodern period when tales were no longer interpreted as being a historical archive or a network of narrative structure but a kind of socio-cultural phe- nomenon in which text production and reception governed by interpretative tenden- cies gave a new color to folktale research. By using the most important theoretical outcomes of modern text centered folktale research it provides the possibility for the Burmese tales, and tales in general as a complex genre, to become worthy of attention even for the postmodern approach \u2013 an approach focusing on orality, multidimensionality, and performativity.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2658", "words": "4585", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Gro\u00dfmann, Kristina; Padmanabhan, Martina; Afiff, Suraya", "title": "Gender, Ethnicity, and Environmental Transformations in Indonesia and Beyond", "date": "2017", "keywords": "development; economic; ethnicity; gender; gro\u00dfmann; indonesia; issue; land; padmanabhan; resources; rights; transformations; women", "summary": "In this issue, Stefanie Steinebach and Yvonne Kunz reflect on the highly political process of creating ethnicity in the case of local indigenous land rights in the province of Jambi, Sumatra. The overlap of areas with community lands, protected areas and indigenous conservation sites cause policy and regulatory uncertainties over land use and property rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2659", "words": "8615", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Gro\u00dfmann, Kristina; Padmanabhan, Martina; Braun, Katharina von", "title": "Contested Development in Indonesia: Rethinking Ethnicity and Gender in Mining", "date": "2017", "keywords": "communities; development; economic; environment; ethnicity; gender; gro\u00dfmann; identity; indonesia; mining; new; power; research; resources; rights; studies; university; women", "summary": "ECONOMIC GROWTH THROUGH MINING IN INDONESIA Indonesia, as many other countries, links development with resource extraction and mining which is directly associated with economic and social development. Priorities and interests differ between communities, the state, and mining companies (Resosudarmo, Reso- sudarmo, Sarosa, & Subiman, 2009).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2660", "words": "9107", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Haug, Michaela", "title": "Men, Women, and Environmental Change in Indonesia: The Gendered Face of Development Among the Dayak Benuaq", "date": "2017", "keywords": "asia; benuaq; borneo; change; dayak; development; female; gender; gendered; indonesia; kalimantan; male; new; research; southeast; university; women", "summary": "NGO literature tends to depict Dayak women as an especially vulnerable group. Building on this equivalence meaning of equality, I argue that Dayak Benuaq gender relations are characterized by a far-reaching gender equality.7 This argument is based on the following observations: Specific gender roles do exist in Benuaq society, but they are not strictly followed and often overlap.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2661", "words": "8023", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Steinebach, Stefanie; Kunz, Yvonne", "title": "Separating Sisters From Brothers: Ethnic Relations and Identity Politics in the Context of Indigenous Land Titling in Indonesia", "date": "2017", "keywords": "adat; area; colonial; communities; duabelas; forest; forestry; indonesia; jambi; land; national; orang; park; population; rights; rimba; social; state; village", "summary": "FORESTRY LAWS AND INDIGENOUS LAND TITLING IN INDONESIA Most land use conflicts registered in Jambi province are rooted in land dispossession of local rural communities during the Suharto era (1965-1998). In 1967, the Forestry Law2 declared about 70% of Indonesia\u2019s territory as forest land under the jurisdic- tion of the state (Contreras-Hermosilla & Fay, 2005, p. 9; Indrarto et al., 2012, p. 23).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2662", "words": "8238", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Winarto, Yunita Triwardani; Stigter, Cornelis Johan (Kees); Wicaksono, Muki Trenggono", "title": "Transdisciplinary Responses to Climate Change: Institutionalizing Agrometeorological Learning Through Science Field Shops in Indonesia", "date": "2017", "keywords": "agricultural; change; climate; climate change; farmers; field; indonesia; knowledge; learning; new; rainfall; research; scientists; sfss; stigter; winarto", "summary": "Sum- marizing the criticism, Conway (1985) argues that high productivity was achieved at the expense of agro-ecological sustainability, namely ecosystem stability and equity for local farmers. A transdisciplinary educational commitment would be a necessary means to meet the needs of local farmers in the current dynamic situation of high complexity and uncertainty resulting from climate change.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2663", "words": "9521", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Reese, Niklas", "title": "\u201cOnly if You Really, Really Need It\u201d: Social Rights Consciousness in the Philippines", "date": "2017", "keywords": "activists; citizenship; communitarianism; culture; data; government; issp; people; philippines; public; reese; respondents; rights; sense; service; society; state", "summary": "Proactive citizens, defines Sucgang (2006), are those who under- stand political citizenship as proactive engagement in the public arena, for example by running for public office or joining political rallies and street demonstrations. In its first part, the article presents data on the sense of citizenship and concepts of social rights and obligations among Filipinos by combining findings from a series of problem-centered interviews with young urban professionals and quantitative data collected within annual surveys by the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) on government, social inequality, and citizenship.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2664", "words": "3834", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Matthies, Angelina", "title": "Community-Based Disaster Risk Management in the Philippines: Achievements and Challenges of the Purok System", "date": "2017", "keywords": "capital; community; disaster; management; philippines; purok; reduction; risk; system", "summary": "Similar to the barangay structure, purok communities are organized through a DRR committee including assigned persons who ensure that every house- hold is informed of an upcoming hazard. In cases of natural hazards, purok communities gather and wait for the transportation to evacuation centers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2665", "words": "3906", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Stange, Gunnar", "title": "\u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Limit Myself to Binary Thinking\u201d: An Interview With the Indonesian Artist Arahmaiani", "date": "2017", "keywords": "arahmaiani; art; artist; binary; gunnar; indonesia; thinking; way", "summary": "What are the most pressing political, societal, and environmental challenges in Indonesia these days? Arahmaiani: We are facing many problems in Indonesia: problems that are related to the past, the present, and the future. She has taught at universities in Australia, China, Indonesia, Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2666", "words": "1103", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Blum, Franziska", "title": "Rezension: Keller, A. (Hg.). (2015). Indonesien 1965ff. Die Gegenwart eines Massenmordes. Ein politisches Lesebuch.", "date": "2017", "keywords": "als; den; der; des; die; indonesien; und; von", "summary": "Die Gegenwart eines Massenmordes. Die Gegenwart eines Massenmor- des.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2667", "words": "1481", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "O'Rourke, Iris", "title": "Book Review: Chandler, D., Cribb, R., & Narangoa, L. (Eds.). (2016). End of Empire. 100 Days in 1945 That Changed Asia and the World. Copenhagen: NIAS Press. ISBN 978-87-7694-183-3. i-vi + 346 pages.", "date": "2017", "keywords": "days; end; war; world", "summary": "End of an Em- pire portrays a variety of sides and perspectives of the complexities of World War II and the post-war period in truly inspiring and enriching ways, without falling into nationalistic or patronizing traps. As 2015 marked the 70-year anniversary of the end of World War II, Scandi- navian publisher NIAS Press developed the idea of balancing the focus on Asia in light of the commemorations, which usually focused more on Europe and the US.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2668", "words": "1878", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Stange, Gunnar", "title": "Book Review: Aspinall, E. & Sukmajati, M. (Eds.). (2016). Electoral Dynamics in Indonesia. Money Politics, Patronage and Clientelism at the Grassroots.", "date": "2017", "keywords": "elections; indonesia; patronage; politics; studies", "summary": "The research presented in Aspinall\u2019s and Sukmajati\u2019s volume aims at \u201cidenti- fying the chief mechanisms that Indonesian legislative candidates used to appeal to voters [in the 2014 legislative elections]\u201d (p. ix). Although the book appears to present an inventory of cases rather than a deep comparative analysis, without doubt its value lies in the thick description and docu- mentation of vote buying, patronage, and clientelist dynamics in Indonesian elections at the grassroots in highly heterogeneous localities.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2669", "words": "4750", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Sciortino, Rosalia", "title": "Philanthropy, Giving, and Development in Southeast Asia", "date": "2017", "keywords": "asia; countries; development; ford; foundation; giving; global; international; philanthropy; public; rockefeller; southeast", "summary": "Global private philanthropy for development: Preliminary results of the OECD Data Survey. To take this variety into account implies again an expansion of the conceptual boundaries to allow for an all-encompassing definition of 'global philanthropy' that: incorporates both giving and doing and includes both the traditional and non-traditional, the formal and informal, the religious and the secular.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2670", "words": "12978", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Sciortino, Rosalia", "title": "Philanthropy in Southeast Asia: Between Charitable Values, Corporate Interests, and Development Aspirations", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aseas; asia; business; countries; csr; development; family; foundation; funding; giving; government; indonesia; institutions; interests; international; organizations; philanthropy; philippines; public; region; singapore; society; southeast; southeast asia; thailand", "summary": "Unlike in the U.S., in Southeast Asia family and corporate foundations, even when moti- vated by religious convictions, do not prioritize funding to religious causes. More generally, across Southeast Asia people give for a variety of reasons: expressing a sense of belonging, strengthening ethnic and religious identities, manifesting social cohesion, enhancing social status, or building patronage and social networks.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2671", "words": "10722", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Zurbuchen, Mary", "title": "Legacies of Cultural Philanthropy in Asia", "date": "2017", "keywords": "arts; aseas; asia; culture; field; ford; ford foundation; foundation; grants; heritage; india; international; making; new; offices; philanthropy; program; social; support; work; world", "summary": "During the second half of the 20th century the Ford Foundation \u2013 at the time the world\u2019s largest private philanthropy \u2013 made a significant commitment to issues of cultural herit- age as part of its international work in Asia. Keywords: Art; Asia; Culture; Ford Foundation; Philanthropy \ue050 INTRODUCTION", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2672", "words": "10376", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Phaholyothin, Natalie", "title": "Moving Beyond Charity to Philanthropy? The Case of Charitable Giving in Thailand", "date": "2017", "keywords": "activities; aseas; charity; csr; development; donations; foundation; giving; health; organizations; philanthropy; programs; projects; public; sector; thailand", "summary": "Islam in modern Thailand: Faith, philanthropy and politics. The case of charitable giving in Thailand ASEAS 10(2)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2673", "words": "9581", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Dove, Cavelle", "title": "Giving Trends in Myanmar: More Than Merit Making", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aid; aseas; business; care; charity; community; development; donations; foundation; giving; government; group; making; myanmar; nargis; people; philanthropy; services; state; world", "summary": "In other words, whether rich or poor, young or old, and across religious and ethnic lines, Myanmar people give money more regularly than anywhere else in the world. The question remains as to why are Myanmar people such generous givers.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2674", "words": "7277", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Fauzia, Amelia", "title": "Islamic Philanthropy in Indonesia: Modernization, Islamization, and Social Justice", "date": "2017", "keywords": "development; giving; indonesia; islamic; islamization; justice; justice philanthropy; modernization; muslim; national; non; organizations; philanthropy; social; term; zakat", "summary": "The transformation toward social justice philanthropy has benefited from dialogs and exchanges between Islamic philanthropy organizations and secular ones, as well as with other faith-based organizations that are concerned with the agenda of social justice. The article defines Islamic philanthropy organizations as nonprofit entities which aim to provide public good and assistance for poor communities, either through organizations or directly to individuals, and which are based on Islamic values or having Islamic aims.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2675", "words": "9840", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Latief, Hilman", "title": "Addressing Unfortunate Wayfarer: Islamic Philanthropy and Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hong Kong", "date": "2017", "keywords": "aseas; associations; countries; development; female; hong; hong kong; indonesian; islamic; kong; migrant; muslim; new; organizations; philanthropic; problems; women; workers; zakat", "summary": "Islamic philanthropic or- ganizations, such as DD, have functioned not only as intermediaries between benefactors in Indonesia and Indonesian migrant workers overseas but also as energizers to encourage the zakat practice among fortunate migrant workers to help their unfortunate fellows overseas. One of the Indonesian NGOs in Hong Kong that has come to the fore and plays a pivotal role in creating solidarity is the Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (IMWU), an advocacy NGO organized directly by Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2676", "words": "3683", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Sakulsri, Teeranong; Tadee, Reena; Trupp, Alexander", "title": "Analyzing International Migrant Responses to Crisis Situations in the Context of Floods in Thailand", "date": "2017", "keywords": "crisis; flood; migrants; migration; responses; situations; thailand; workers", "summary": "Moreover, Myanmar migrants reported cases of detainment of undocumented migrants who tried to cross provincial or international borders during the crisis. Undocumented migrants can be detained when crossing provincial or national bor- ders if they are stopped by police or immigration officials and thus constitute the most vulnerable group.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2677", "words": "2479", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Morrissey, Michael", "title": "Qatari Philanthropy and Out-of-School Children in Southeast Asia: An Interview With the Director of Educate A Child", "date": "2017", "keywords": "children; eac; education; morrissey; southeast", "summary": "In addition, to receive EAC fund- ing a partner must demonstrate that it has a plan to sustain attention to OOSC once EAC funding is no longer available. The total funding for EAC projects now exceeds USD 1.3 billion for our entire portfolio.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2678", "words": "1751", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "McCormick, Patrick", "title": "SEA Junction: Our Venue to Connect on Southeast Asia", "date": "2017", "keywords": "asia; junction; region; sea; southeast", "summary": "A lot of Southeast Asia centers are in universities, but they are not accessible to the public. The Southeast Asia Junction (SEA Junction) is a \u2018knowledge venue\u2019, an event space, a hub, a gallery, and a library with the goal of fostering understanding and appreciation of Southeast Asia, from arts and crafts to the economy, politics, and development.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2679", "words": "2575", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "42", "author": "Niner, Sara", "title": "Reflection on the Special Gender Stream: 2017 Timor-Leste Studies Association Conference", "date": "2017", "keywords": "conference; gender; leste; national; timor; timorese; violence; women", "summary": "The ongoing discrimination and inequality faced by Timorese women from Portuguese colonization to OPMT\u2019s efforts during the Indonesian occupation was highlighted in her paper but her major focus was on women\u2019s contemporary solidarity and advocacy, including the establishment of the women\u2019s network, REDE FETO Timor-Leste in 2000, and the strategic successes of the women\u2019s movement.2 Many of these issues were reiterated by the next speaker, Nurima Alkatiri (who was running for parliament with FRETILIN) focusing on the \u201chigh prevalence of vi- olence against women and children, chronic malnutrition, one of the highest birth rates in the world, high rates of maternal and child mortality and low rates of women participation in the work force\u201d. Timorese women accepted that the struggle for women\u2019s rights established in the early 1970s was not possible during their long war, but the struggle depended upon women\u2019s substantial contributions and sacrifices therefore creating a pool of highly skilled and motivated women who no longer accepted the status quo.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2680", "words": "6088", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Einzenberger, Rainer; Schaffar, Wolfram", "title": "The Political Economy of New Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia", "date": "2018", "keywords": "aseas; asia; authoritarianism; china; crisis; democracy; economy; new; populism; regimes; rights; rise; schaffar; social; southeast; thailand", "summary": "How can we analyze the social base of new authoritarian regimes? One line of argumentation \u2013 following Poulantzas \u2013 is that new authoritarian regimes mean a further intensification of neoliberalism.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2681", "words": "11307", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Einzenberger, Rainer", "title": "Frontier Capitalism and Politics of Dispossession in Myanmar: The Case of the Mwetaung (Gullu Mual) Nickel Mine in Chin State", "date": "2018", "keywords": "burma; capitalism; chin; chin state; chinese; cnrwg; development; dispossession; frontier; government; international; land; military; mining; mwetaung; myanmar; national; politics; project; rights; society; state; transition", "summary": "| 29 Rainer Einzenberger 2013 Formation of local CSO networks at local monastery in Kalay 2013 Media campaign in Kalay town 2013 Poster exhibitions on FPIC in local villages 2013 Village consultation meetings around Mwetaung area between January and February with hundreds of participants 2013 Civil society coalition on Mwetaung is renamed to Chinland Natural Resources Watch Group (CNRWG) in February 2013 North Mining Investment Co. Ltd submits feasibility reports on 'Mwetaung Nickel Smelt- ing Project' to the Ministries of Mines, and Environmental Conservation and Forestry 2013 Reports of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Social Impact Assessment (SIA) and Health Impact Assessment (HIA) are submitted to Ministry of Environmental Con- servation and Forestry 2013 Meeting with local political parties in March Discussion of Mwetaung Project at Chin State parliament 2013 Public consultation with local government and NMIC in Tiddim town hall, NRWG pres- ents 48 questions in April 2013 NMIC holds village meetings 2013 Buddhist monk and CNRWG members meet with local media 2013 Meeting with Chin regional government and Chin MPs in Hakha in May 2013 Meeting at Tiddim town hall: Manager from NMIC answer 46 questions 2013 CNRWG sends letter to the Mr. Quintana, UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar in August 2013 CNRWG and GDI conduct collaborative research in Mwetaung area in August and Sep- tember 2013 Representatives of four Chin political parties conduct a survey on the Mwetaung project with local communities in September 2013 Chin parties meet with state government in Hakha 2013 Press conference in Yangon with CNRW, GDI, Chin political parties and civil society representatives 2013 Meeting with speaker of Union Parliament (lower house) Retrieved from http://www.chro.ca/index.php/publications/73-special-reports/411-threats-to-our -existence Chin State ministers and MPs.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2682", "words": "10020", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Schaffar, Wolfram", "title": "The Iron Silk Road and the Iron Fist: Making Sense of the Military Coup D\u2019\u00c9tat in Thailand", "date": "2018", "keywords": "aseas; asian; bangkok; china; chinese; coup; development; economic; government; iron; military; new; power; project; road; schaffar; state; system; thailand; thaksin; trade; world", "summary": "Sufficiency economy and royal projects in the hills of Nan province, northern Thailand. ASEAS 11(1) | 35 The Iron Silk Road and the Iron Fist: Making Sense of the Military Coup D\u2019\u00c9tat in Thailand Wolfram Schaffar \u25ba Schaffar, W. (2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2683", "words": "14274", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Juego, Bonn", "title": "The Institutions of Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Malaysia: A Critical Review of the Development Agendas Under the Regimes of Mahathir, Abdullah, and Najib", "date": "2018", "keywords": "abdullah; aseas; china; democracy; development; economic; economy; global; government; institutions; islam; mahathir; malaysia; market; minister; najib; national; neoliberalism; new; policy; politics; prime; regime; social; state; umno", "summary": "The analysis reveals the attempts at maintaining authoritar- ian neoliberalism, or a neoliberal economy embedded in an authoritarian polity, as the de facto social regime in contemporary Malaysia. Most crucially, Mahathir will be held accountable by his current political supporters from Pakatan Harapan, originally belonging to the Reformasi movement, who once faulted him for much of what ails contemporary Malaysia in terms of a culture of impunity, corruption, and other institutional malaises.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2684", "words": "9043", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Middleton, Carl", "title": "National Human Rights Institutions, Extraterritorial Obligations and Hydropower in Southeast Asia: Implications of the Region\u2019s Authoritarian Turn", "date": "2018", "keywords": "asia; case; dam; etos; government; human; hydropower; institutions; international; laos; national; nhrct; project; rights; society; southeast; state; thailand", "summary": "This article examines the role of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) and trans- national civil society in pursing Extraterritorial Obligation (ETO) cases in Southeast Asia as a means to investigate human rights threatened by cross-border investment projects. Keywords: Civil Society; Don Sahong Dam; Mekong River; National Human Rights Commission of Thailand; Xayaburi Dam \ue050 INTRODUCTION In Southeast Asia, new means are needed to ensure that governments and busi- nesses protect and respect human rights.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2685", "words": "8581", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Nomnian, Singhanat", "title": "Thai Doctoral Students\u2019 Layers of Identity Options Through Social Acculturation in Australia", "date": "2018", "keywords": "acculturation; australian; doctoral; english; identities; identity; options; people; social; students; study; thai; university", "summary": "I argue that Thai students in Australia represent an ideal case for an investigation of such identity construction. To scrutinize how Thai students construct and negotiate their identities as legit- imate speakers of English in Sydney, which is considered one of the world\u2019s most multilingual cities, it is crucial to understand how language users\u2019 identities in multi- lingual contexts are constructed and negotiated, which can be explained by Pavlenko and Blackledge\u2019s (2004) conceptual framework.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2686", "words": "11490", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Holden, William N.", "title": "Typhoons, Climate Change, and Climate Injustice in the Philippines", "date": "2018", "keywords": "aseas; city; climate change; climate injustice; co2; countries; cyclones; emissions; et al; haiyan; injustice; people; philippines; quezon; storm; typhoons; world", "summary": "Climate change amplified typhoons move the discussion of climate change from unspectacular time to \u201cspectacular time\u201d (Nixon, 2011, p. 6). Typhoons, climate change, and climate injustice in the Philippines.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2687", "words": "4375", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Schaffar, Wolfram", "title": "The Social Base of New Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Class Struggle and the Imperial Mode of Living", "date": "2018", "keywords": "asia; authoritarianism; brand; class; global; living; middle; mode; new; southeast; thailand; wissen", "summary": "The social base of new authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Class struggle and the imperial mode of living. A question of class.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2688", "words": "3642", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Schaffar, Wolfram", "title": "\u201cTrust Me, I am the One Who Will Drain the Swamp\u201d: An Interview With Walden Bello on Fascism in the Global South", "date": "2018", "keywords": "bello; class; duterte; fascism; people; philippines", "summary": "Moreover, many classes in Germany and France had never been reconciled to the emergence of democracy. Bello: The problem we have in the Philippines is that, to some extent, \u201cfascist\u201d to many people is still a foreign word.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2689", "words": "1557", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Duile, Timo", "title": "Book Review: Robinson, B. G. (2018). The Killing Season. A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66.", "date": "2018", "keywords": "army; book; history; robinson", "summary": "Historical conditions, as Robinson stresses, are also crucial to understand the developments in Indonesia after the alleged coup. It becomes clear throughout the book that the main lines of argumentation and the focus on the army, international contexts, and historical conditions are highly influenced by the author\u2019s academic background as he is an expert not only on geno- cides and mass violence in general but also on Indonesian history.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2888", "words": "826", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Pichler, Melanie", "title": "Editorial", "date": "2019", "keywords": "asia; indonesia; southeast; university", "summary": "In another qualitative case study, Dodi Widiyanto (Nagoya University, Japan & Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia) analyses the phenomenon of farmers\u2019 markets in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Dealing with historical events that shape current societies, Hakimul Ikhwan, Vissia Ita Yulianto, and Gilang Desti Parahita (Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia) focus on the 1965 anticommunist killings in Indonesia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2890", "words": "7239", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Ikhwan, Hakimul; Ita Yulianto, Vissia; Desti Parahita, Gilang", "title": "The contestation of social memory in the new media: A case study of the 1965 killings in Indonesia", "date": "2019", "keywords": "documentary; film; g30s; history; indonesia; killings; mass; media; memories; memory; narratives; new; past; pki; studies; videos; youtube", "summary": "The contestation of social memory in the new media: A case study of the 1965 killings in Indonesia. Practically and theoretically, we ask how the tragedy of the 1965 killings is contest- ed in the new media and how social memory plays out in this contestation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2900", "words": "7380", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Rangkla, Prasert", "title": "Future-making and frictional mobility in the return of Burmese migrants", "date": "2019", "keywords": "burmese; business; future; groups; karen; land; making; migrants; migration; mobility; myanmar; opportunities; return; returnees; thailand", "summary": "FUTURE-MAKING IN RETURN To return to Myanmar and survive with a small-scale business has attained specific significance in Southeast Myanmar, where emigration has been common for decades. The perception of Myanmar development on its return migrants: Implications for Burmese migrants in Thailand.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2902", "words": "9539", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Puder, Janina", "title": "Excluding migrant labor from the Malaysian bioeconomy: Working and living conditions of migrant workers in the palm oil sector in Sabah", "date": "2019", "keywords": "bioeconomy; btp; conditions; labor; living; malaysia; migrant; oil; palm; palm oil; plantation; sector; socio; state; workers; working", "summary": "The group of migrant plantation workers encompasses all jobs linked to maintaining the estate (i.e., harvesting, fertilizing, collecting loose fruit, tree nurs- ery, and basic services such as cleaning). This espe- cially applies to migrant plantation workers without a (valid) working permit and to those who migrated at an early age to Malaysia or were even born as second-genera- tion workers on the estate.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2903", "words": "9625", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Widiyanto, Dodi", "title": "The third wave of Indonesia\u2019s food market: Practices at small community markets in Yogyakarta", "date": "2019", "keywords": "aseas; community; farmers; fms; food; indonesia; journal; managers; markets; materials; products; quality; supply; vendors; yogyakarta", "summary": "Keywords: Community Markets; Farmers\u2019 Markets; Food and Health; Indonesia; Market Practices \ue050 INTRODUCTION In Indonesia, there are several types of food markets that can broadly be clas- sified into traditional and modern (Dyck, Woolverton, & Rangkuti, 2012). These traditional markets sell local food with its characteristic \u201cfood quality and freshness\u201d (Ostrom, 2006, p. 66).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2904", "words": "10950", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Blake, David J. H.", "title": "Recalling hydraulic despotism: Hun Sen\u2019s Cambodia and the return of strict authoritarianism", "date": "2019", "keywords": "aseas; blake; cambodia; china; chinese; cpp; dam; development; hun; hun sen; hydraulic; hydropower; infrastructure; irrigation; mekong; new; party; project; sen; society; state; water; wittfogel", "summary": "Hun Sen\u2019s Cambodia. | 69 Recalling Hydraulic Despotism: Hun Sen\u2019s Cambodia and the Return of Strict Authoritarianism David J. H. Blake \u25ba Blake, D. J. H. (2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2905", "words": "9448", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "To Nguyen, Hong-Kong; To Nguyen, Viet-Ha; Vuong, Thu-Trang; Ho, Manh-Tung; Vuong, Quan-Hoang", "title": "The new politics of debt in the transition economy of Vietnam", "date": "2019", "keywords": "borrowing; capital; consumption; credit; debt; economic; economy; household; income; indebtedness; journal; new; nguyen; ratio; social; transition; vietnam; vietnamese; vuong", "summary": "The prob- lem of financial debt is more acute at the macro level in developing countries: the financial crises in, for example, Nicaragua, Morocco, Pakistan, and India, were linked to the uncontrolled expansion of microfinance (Chen, Rasmussen, & Reille, 2010; Lascelles, Mendelson, & Rozas, 2012). When looking at household indebtedness in rural Vietnam, one study has noted a high incidence of indebtedness in the period between 2007 and 2011 such that up to 76% of Vietnamese households had taken out at least one loan, and the trend of tak- ing out multiple loans rose steadily and peaked in 2011 (Chichaibelu & Waibel, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2911", "words": "10658", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Hrub\u00fd, Jakub; Petr\u016f, Tom\u00e1\u0161", "title": "China\u2019s cultural diplomacy in Malaysia during Najib Razak\u2019s premiership", "date": "2019", "keywords": "actors; china; chinese; cultural; culture; diplomacy; government; institute; international; malacca; malaysia; new; power; prc; public; relations; state; university; zheng", "summary": "While many aspects of China\u2019s engagement with Southeast Asia have received scholarly attention, Chinese cultural diplomacy has only been partially researched, often within the scope of a wider overview of its public diplomacy (d\u2019Hooghe, 2015; Kornphanat, 2016; Shambaugh, 2013; Shuto, 2018). A detailed analysis of the Malaysian case reveals an intricate pattern of involve- ment of various actors, both Chinese and local, state, semi-state, and non-state, pursuing their own interests, which tend to converge and overlap with the aims of Chinese cultural diplomacy, forming a synergy that helps to promote a positive image of present-day China in Malaysia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-2912", "words": "1520", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Chan, Ralph; Makalintal, Joshua", "title": "Book Review: Werning, R. & Schwieger, J. (2019). Handbuch Philippinen. Gesellschaft-Politik-Wirtschaft-Kultur", "date": "2019", "keywords": "book; country; duterte; philippines; werning", "summary": "Though this description does not capture the politics of the strongman in its entirety, considering that his govern- ment has also embraced policies of previous administrations, the term can, neverthe- less, be further expounded by referring to Nicole Curato\u2019s (2017) characterization of Dutertismo as something that \u201cdisrupts and perpetuates the Philippines\u2019 elite democ- racy, marked by its stark inequalities in political power [\u2026]. Werning and his co-editor J\u00f6rg Schwieger, a Protestant theologian, together with Filipino and non-Filipino scholars, practitioners, and activists, raise their voices against assorted social ills in this extensive primer on Philippine society, which now includes a variety of analyses of the ramifications of the Duterte presidency.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3021", "words": "7962", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Kreuzer, Peter", "title": "Police Use of Deadly Force in the Philippines: Comparing Levels and Patterns Before and Since Duterte", "date": "2019", "keywords": "analysis; duterte; force; levels; national; officers; philippines; police; police officers; police use; police violence; suspects; violence", "summary": "Finally, in section five I investigate the temporal and spatial patterns of pre- Duterte and Duterte police violence as well as the role of the threat and the lethality of PNP use of deadly force. Sub-National Magnitudes of Police Use of Deadly Force Before and Under Duterte A detailed analysis of available data for the two periods before and under Duterte yields three types of key information: first, the change in overall numbers; second, variation in sub-national magnitude of violence during the two phases; and third, the relationship between the pre-Duterte and Duterte ranking of provinces and cities with respect to deadly police violence.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3024", "words": "11198", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Seto, Ario", "title": "Islamist Buzzers: Message Flooding, Offline Outreach, and Astroturfing", "date": "2019", "keywords": "actors; andika; aseas; banners; buzzers; community; february; fpi; fundamentalist; group; indonesia; interview; islam; islamic; jakarta; media; new; organization; people; post; public; rallies; rally; role", "summary": "As operators, FPI buzzers are the guardians of the formation of fundamentalist Islamic associative norms which eventually make the presence of FPI in the public relevant. The sense of col- lectivity plays a crucial role in forming solidarity among FPI buzzers to the degree 14", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3031", "words": "13292", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Marddent, Amporn", "title": "Religious Discourse and Gender Security in Southern Thailand", "date": "2019", "keywords": "agenda; conflict; deep; gender; government; human; international; local; malay; muslim; participation; patani; peace; peacebuilding; region; rights; security; social; society; southern; state; thailand; violence; women; wps", "summary": "Among local women, the problem of identity is also related to how their \u201cwomen-ness\u201d is defined through various global discourses. In order to address gender-sensitivity in peace processes, local women are push- ing for a public discourse on women\u2019s peace policy, including the UNSCR 1325 ASEAS 12(2)", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3036", "words": "10458", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Rydstrom, Helle", "title": "Machinery of Male Violence: Embodied Properties and Chronic Crisis amongst Partners in Vietnam", "date": "2019", "keywords": "abuse; body; crisis; gender; harm; life; machinery; male; nations; partner; press; rydstrom; united; university; vietnam; violence; women", "summary": "Gendered social learning, nonfamily institutions, and attitudes about recourse after partner violence. Machinery of male violence: Embodied properties and chronic crisis amongst partners in Vietnam.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3120", "words": "11478", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Dolezal, Claudia; Miezelyte, Dominyka", "title": "Volunteer Tourists and the SDGs in Bali: Agents of Development or Redundant Holiday-Makers?", "date": "2020", "keywords": "aseas; bali; children; development; goals; impact; local; organization; program; research; sdgs; teaching; tourism; tourists; volunteer; volunteer tourism; volunteering; voluntourism", "summary": "Volunteer tourism is an ever-growing phenomenon and a multi-million-pounds industry, particularly in developing countries. Its aim is to start a discussion as to whether and under which conditions volunteer tourism can be a viable instrument in line with Agenda 2030.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3166", "words": "9706", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Ocha, Witchayanee", "title": "Gold Rush Abroad: The Trajectory of Singapore-Based Thai Transsexual (Male to Female) Sex Workers in Global Sex Tourism", "date": "2020", "keywords": "customers; gender; mae; research; respondents; rights; sex; sex workers; singapore; tact; thailand; tourism; tourists; transgender; transsexual; travel; workers; working", "summary": "Pull factors that attract Thai transsexual sex workers to travel to Singapore are: first, the opportunity for a higher income; second, the geographic proximity to and accessibility from Thailand; and, third, the legalization of sex work in Singapore in certain areas, which allows established, though informal, agencies/networks to arrange Thai sex workers to work in Singapore. Their decisions are influenced by push factors such as the economic recession and political tensions related to a military coup (2014-2019), and the fact that the \u2018legal non-acknowledgment\u2019 of marginalized identities in Thailand motivates Thai sex workers to travel out of the country.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3213", "words": "9847", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Stange, Gunnar; Sakdapolrak, Patrick; Sasiwongsaroj, Kwanchit; Kourek, Matthias ", "title": "Forced Migration in Southeast Asia: A Brief Overview of Current Research", "date": "2019", "keywords": "asia; border; displacement; health; human; international; journal; malaysia; migration; myanmar; persons; refugee; research; southeast; studies; study; thailand; trafficking", "summary": "Ancylostoma ceyla- nicum hookworm in Myanmar refugees, Thailand, 2012-2015. Perspectives from Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3214", "words": "8394", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "60", "author": "Sousa, L\u00facio", "title": "State Appropriation of Traditional Actors and Oral Narratives in Timor-Leste", "date": "2019", "keywords": "community; east; leste; lia; lia na`in; na`in; national; new; portuguese; process; ritual; role; sacred; scale; social; sousa; state; timor; timorese", "summary": "Timor Leste: Politics, history, and culture. The decolonization of Timor-Leste only began after the Carnation Revolution in Portugal took place on 25 April 1974, and political parties emerged in East Timor.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3241", "words": "9581", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "M\u00fcller, Sabine; Huck, Lukas; Markova, Jitka", "title": "Sustainable Community-Based Tourism in Cambodia and Tourists\u2019 Willingness to Pay", "date": "2020", "keywords": "cambodia; cbt; community; development; ecotourism; expatriates; international; journal; research; services; sites; study; tourism; tourists; visitors; willingness; wtp", "summary": "Resident attitudes toward sustainable community tourism. If CBT is implemented to maximize the benefits for the local commu- nities, all three pillars of sustainable tourism development \u2013 i.e., economic efficiency, social value, and environmental sustainability \u2013 have to be respected so the commu- nity gains control of tourism from early planning stages onward.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3247", "words": "8004", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Dahles, Heidi; Prabawa, Titi Susilowati; Koning, Juliette", "title": "Local Tourism Businesses in Indonesia: A Pathway to Crisis Resilient Development?", "date": "2020", "keywords": "business; crisis; dahles; development; embeddedness; entrepreneurship; indonesia; industry; journal; kotagede; research; silver; susilowati; tourism; yogyakarta", "summary": "The tourism industry has been widely commended for its potential to help achieve sustainable development, as small tourism businesses, in particular, have been acknowledged for providing income and jobs for many peo- ple. As the aim of this paper is to provide a contextualized exploration of the ways in which small business owners manage profound change unleashed by enduring crises, a focus on the material and immaterial qualities of network ties is needed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3251", "words": "10481", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Chan, Ying-kit", "title": "The Golden Mile Complex: The Idea of Little Thailand in Singapore", "date": "2020", "keywords": "anderson; aseas; asian; complex; construction; idea; little; migrants; mile complex; public; singapore; singaporeans; space; state; straits; thai; thailand; times; urban; workers", "summary": "Angry petition by Golden Mile Complex residents. Keywords: Golden Mile Complex; Place; Race; Singapore; Thailand \ue050 INTRODUCTION Completed in 1973, the Golden Mile Complex is one of Singapore\u2019s first shopping malls.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3257", "words": "11367", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Nomnian, Singhanat; Trupp, Alexander; Niyomthong, Wilawan; Tangcharoensathaporn, Prakaimook; Charoenkongka, Anan", "title": "Language and Community-Based Tourism: Use, Needs, Dependency, and Limitations", "date": "2020", "keywords": "akha; baan; cbt; communication; communities; community; development; english; international; journal; language; learning; mee; nomnian; pha; research; thailand; tourism; tourists; villagers", "summary": "Some vil- lagers responsible for local tourism in both communities also learned English through a language training program offered by flight attendant volunteers, but this was not regular as it depended on availability. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS AND CONCLUSION Practical Implications Drawing upon the results that highlight linguistic gaps between local languages and global communication, communities\u2019 current communicative English needs, and language users\u2019 identities, this study has implications for SDGs 4 (Quality Education) and 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3302", "words": "7629", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Seto, Ario; Stange, Gunnar; Schr\u00f6ter, Susanne", "title": "Durable Violence in Southeast Asia: Machinery and Scale", "date": "2019", "keywords": "actors; asia; issue; marddent; non; power; security; seto; sousa; southeast; stange; state; violence; women", "summary": "The growth of ethnocentric paramilitary groups and radical Islamists in Southeast Asia (Hadiz, 2016; Wilson, 2010) are two fitting examples of such violence, particularly when violence has become a common 138 | ASEAS 12(2) Social movements, political violence, and the state: A comparative analysis of Italy and Germany.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3305", "words": "4509", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "63", "author": "Stange, Gunnar", "title": "\u201cThe Danger of Intolerant Above-ground, Non-clandestine Organizations is Bigger for Indonesia Than Violent Extremism\u201d: An Interview with Sidney Jones on Religious Extremism, Political Violence and Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia", "date": "2019", "keywords": "conflict; extremism; group; indonesia; jones; organizations; papua; people; stange; violence", "summary": "It focuses on questions of religious extremism, political violence, and conflict dynamics in contemporary Indonesia. | 267 \u201cThe Danger of Intolerant Above-ground, Non-clandestine Organizations is Bigger for Indonesia Than Violent Extremism\u201d: An Interview with Sidney Jones on Religious Extremism, Political Violence and Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia Gunnar Stange \u25ba Stange, G. (2019).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3462", "words": "8998", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "B\u00e4rnthaler, Richard", "title": "Conflict, Controversy, Compromise, and Compression: The Pragmatics of Transdisciplinary (Development) Projects", "date": "2020", "keywords": "13(2; academic; approaches; development; global; interaction; interviews; practices; research; scholars; science; social; studies; transdisciplinarity; work", "summary": "(MaAuGe6) The third thread of disagreements epitomized the widely discussed trend from struc- tural theories towards more actor-oriented approaches4 in development research (cf., Schuurman, 2007). The increasing dominance of neoclassical economic thinking in development research (Bernstein, 2007) was a predominant concern.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3487", "words": "8838", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Seemann, Frank; Antweiler, Christoph", "title": "Linking European and Southeast Asian Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production: Lessons Learnt by Doing Evaluation", "date": "2020", "keywords": "13(2; capacity; european; evaluation; knots; knowledge; management; project; quality; research; southeast; students; summer; time", "summary": "Like project management, quality management should also be explicitly assigned a reflec- tive role in such projects. Several authors consistently follow an \u201coutput-outcome-im- pact\u201d concept for evaluation \u2013 a concept coming from project management (Binder et al., 2015, p. 547; Schuck-Z\u00f6ller, Jakob, & Cortekar, 2018, p. 31).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3490", "words": "6398", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Doi, Nguyen Minh", "title": "Institutional Prospects and Challenges to Transdisciplinary Approach in the Knowledge Production System of Vietnam: Reflections on a North-South Partnership Project", "date": "2020", "keywords": "actors; institutional; knowledge; knowledge production; logic; new; production; project; research; system; transdisciplinarity; vietnam", "summary": "However, these agencies and actors lack capacities, as well as autonomy, to change institutional logic and habits or to pursue prospects in this framework. The neo-institutionalism perspective in policy studies, which focuses on institutional isomorphism and institutional logic change, can help (DiMaggio & Powell, 1983; Friedland & Alford, 1991; Meyer & Rowan, 1977; van Vught, 1996).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3602", "words": "9545", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Dannecker, Petra", "title": "Transdisciplinarity \u2018Meets\u2019 Power Structures: Challenges and Experiences of a Capacity Building Project on Transdisciplinarity ", "date": "2020", "keywords": "activities; actors; development; global; knowledge; north; power; production; project; research; science; south; structures; studies; transdisciplinarity", "summary": "Connected to this point is yet another, namely, how to handle the pre-framing of phenomena and problems that transdisciplinary research projects are planning to tackle. This has important implications not only for participation but also for the transformative potential of transdisciplinary knowledge production (Rosendahl et al., 2015).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3606", "words": "5153", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Stephenson, Marcus L.; Dobson, Graeme", "title": "Deciphering the Development of Smart and Sustainable Tourism Cities in Southeast Asia: A Call for Research", "date": "2020", "keywords": "asean; asia; case; cities; city; development; potential; southeast; tourism; tourists; urban", "summary": "\u2018Smart sustainable cities\u2019 offer a potential strategic solution to attaining urban sustainability by utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT) (see Bibri & Krogstie, 2019). Generating a vision for smart sustainable cities of the future: a scholarly backcasting approach.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3620", "words": "11423", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Low, Choo Chin", "title": "Legal Reforms in Protecting Migrant Workers\u2019 Welfare in Malaysia: Labor Law and Social Security", "date": "2021", "keywords": "accommodation; act; asean; conditions; employers; government; housing; ilo; labor; malaysia; protection; reforms; rights; security; social; socso; standards; welfare; workers", "summary": "Migrant workers have limited access to social security ben- efits in the receiving states because access is unequally distributed between national 62 | ASEAS 14(1) Legal Reforms in Protecting Migrant Workers\u2019 Welfare in Malaysia workers and migrant workers. According to Tenaganita, a human rights group, foreign workers are trafficked and placed in forced labor conditions because the country has not sufficiently addressed workers\u2019 protection and living conditions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3658", "words": "1722", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Aquino, Richard", "title": "Book Review: Dolezal, C., Trupp, A., & Bui, H. T. (Eds.). (2020). Tourism and Development in Southeast Asia.", "date": "2020", "keywords": "asia; chapter; development; southeast; tourism", "summary": "Written by the editors, Chapter 1 sets the scene by systematically reviewing published studies on Southeast Asian tourism and development, while Chapter 2 (Bui and Dolezal) comprehensively narrates the evolution of tourism development in the region in line with development theories. These introductory chapters objectively position the volume within exist- ing tourism and development paradigms and discourses, and invite readers to reflect on the sustainability of tourism development in Southeast Asia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3771", "words": "9186", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Heis, Alexandra; Chayan, Vaddhanaphuti", "title": "Thai Baan Methodology and Transdisciplinarity as Collaborative Research Practices: Common Ground and Divergent Directions", "date": "2020", "keywords": "13(2; academic; actors; baan; chayan; development; knowledge; local; methodology; practice; production; research; science; thai; thai baan; transdisciplinarity", "summary": "Thai Baan research was developed in the late 1990s as a counter-hegemonic, emanci- patory means of knowledge production. Integrating Thai Baan research in academic and NGO structures has helped to translate the methodology into other local struggles on wetland ecosystems and other socio-ecological challenges and allowed it to become a significant strategy for academic 3 SEARIN, today Living River Siam Association, is involved in research and analysis of dam projects on lives of indigenous people.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3821", "words": "9417", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Trupp, Alexander; Dolezal, Claudia", "title": "Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals in Southeast Asia", "date": "2020", "keywords": "asia; covid-19; development; development goals; dolezal; goals; journal; research; sdgs; southeast; times; tourism; tourism development; trupp; unwto", "summary": "Simultaneously, however, different forms of (mass) tour- ism development have led to an unequal distribution of economic benefits, overex- ploitation of resources, and uncontrolled tourism development (Dolezal, Trupp, & Bui, 2020a). However, tourism development is overly focused on the island of Bali, and vulner- able to natural disasters and terrorism (Hampton & Clifton, 2017).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3867", "words": "1700", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Berka, Gerhard", "title": "Malaysia-News - eine Facebook-Gruppe: Ein Erfahrungsbericht in Social Media Nutzung", "date": "2021", "keywords": "den; der; die; ein; facebook; gruppe; malaysia; mit; m\u00e4rz; news; sich; und; von", "summary": "Die Stichwortsuche in der Suchmaschine Google entspricht diesen Spitzen. Malaysia-News \u2013 eine Facebook Gruppe: Ein Erfahrungsbericht in Social Media Nutzung.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3909", "words": "1740", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Paredes Grijalva, Daniela", "title": "Book Review: Samuels, A. (2019). After the Tsunami: Disaster Narratives and the Remaking of Everyday Life in Aceh. ", "date": "2020", "keywords": "author; disaster; narratives; tsunami", "summary": "The book focuses on how people speak, or remain silent, about the tsunami and its aftermath, and adds important insights to the anthropological study of disasters by exploring how subjectivities are constructed through disaster narratives. The author has revealed a series of paradoxes and ambiguities that infuse post-disaster life: that people in Aceh have an immense capacity to remake life in the face of immense loss; that both remembering, as in prayers and monuments, as well as forgetting, as in traumatic experiences, are necessary for the process of griev- ing; and that the tsunami can be framed both as misfortune (musibah) and as divine wisdom (hikmah).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-3930", "words": "9551", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Dang, Hoang Linh", "title": "Social Media, Fake News, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Sketching the Case of Southeast Asia", "date": "2021", "keywords": "april; aseas; asia; content; coronavirus; covid-19; facebook; health; indonesia; infodemic; information; media; news; online; pandemic; people; philippines; post; public; southeast; thailand", "summary": "Particularly, the article focuses on three sets of questions: (1) What is fake news and what is the role of social media in the context of Southeast Asia; (2) how can we classify COVID-19 related fake news and what are con- sidered the harmful impacts of the COVID-19 infodemic; and (3) how do Southeast Asian governments respond to the infodemic and how are their measures perceived? Social media, fake news, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Sketching the case of Southeast Asia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-4060", "words": "7297", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Porter, Brooke; Orams, Mark B.; L\u00fcck, Michaek; Andreini, Enrico Maria", "title": "Trash or Treasure? A Qualitative Exploration of Gleaning By-Products in Tourism Supply Chains in Remote Filipino Fishing Communities", "date": "2021", "keywords": "chain; coastal; communities; fisheries; fishing; gleaning; marine; philippines; products; research; shell; souvenir; supply; tourism; trade", "summary": "There is some overlap in the species exported as shell souvenirs and those that serve as an important protein source for coastal residents. Some of the same spe- cies used for consumption can also be found as parts of shell souvenirs throughout the country, and in other coastal locations across the globe.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-4295", "words": "3315", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Mendoza, Karl Patrick", "title": "Vaccine Hesitancy and the Cultural Politics of Trust in the Dengvaxia Controversy: A Critical Discourse-Ethnographic Study of Online News Content, Producers, and Audiences", "date": "2020", "keywords": "analysis; controversy; dengvaxia; discourse; hesitancy; news; research; trust; vaccine", "summary": "However, the media is rarely theorized within the trust studies literature as trust research has mostly focused on the structuring of trust culture or \u201csystem trust\u201d at the macrosocial level (Giddens, 1990; Luhmann, 1979; Misztal, 1996) and the micro-level construction of trust relationships between trustors and trustees across various domains such as business, management, demo- cratic governance, healthcare, and law, among others (Barber, 1983; Lewis & Weigert, 1985; Mollering, 2006; Seligman, 1997; Sztompka, 1999). For this purpose, the research adopts the theory of social trust propounded by the Polish sociologist Piotr Sztompka and links it to the study of news media using crit- ical discourse analysis.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-5059", "words": "9616", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Dang, Thi Kim Phung", "title": "Livelihood and Poverty: The Case of Poor Women in the Rural Areas of Ca Mau Province, Vietnam", "date": "2021", "keywords": "access; activities; aseas; capital; development; district; farmers; farming; gender; household; land; livelihood; mau; poverty; programs; province; respondents; shrimp; shrimp farming; vietnam; women", "summary": "The findings presented here uncover the deep interlinkages between livelihood capitals and the impact of the wider socioeconomic contexts on household livelihood activities and outcomes. Knowledge about livelihood capitals is considered crucial to under- stand the main causes of rural poverty (Lawal et al., 2011; Peter, 1999; Su & Shang, 2012), and international donors (Oxfam, Action Aid, and CARE) growingly support the livelihood perspective in poverty reduction programs (Batterbury, 2007; Khatiwada et al., 2017; Mdee, 2002; Okali, 2006).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-5068", "words": "14691", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Schaffar, Wolfram; Praphakorn, Wongratanawin", "title": "The #MilkTeaAlliance: A New Transnational Pro-Democracy Movement Against Chinese-Centered Globalization?", "date": "2021", "keywords": "accounts; april; aseas; bright; china; chinese; democracy; facebook; figure; globalization; hong; hong kong; internet; june; kong; media; meme; milkteaalliance; movement; new; nnevvy; pop; series; social; taiwan; thai; thailand; twitter; war", "summary": "One of his clips, where at one point he repeatedly shouted the curse \u201cYour mother is dead\u201d (\u4f60\u5988\u6b7b\u4e86ni ma si le), went viral in China, and later the initial letters of the Pinyin transcription \u201cNMSL\u201d became a fixed expres- sion of cursing on Chinese social media (Fang, 2020). | 13 Wolfram Schaffar & Praphakorn Wongratanawin rights to their stories to Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese companies, but also inside mainland China, where the BL genre arrived through the mediation of Taiwan.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-5081", "words": "4490", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "70", "author": "Schaffar, Wolfram", "title": "\u201cI Am not Here for Fun\u201d: The Satirical Facebook Group Royalists Marketplace, Queer TikToking, and the New Democracy Movement in Thailand : An Interview With Pavin Chachavalpongpun", "date": "2021", "keywords": "chachavalpongpun; facebook; group; marketplace; pavin; people; royalists; schaffar; thailand", "summary": "In April 2020, Prof. Pavin Chachavalpongpun founded the Facebook group Royalists Marketplace (\u0e23\u0e2d\u0e22\u0e31\u0e25\u0e25\u0e34\u0e2a\u0e15\u0e4c\u0e21\u0e32\u0e23\u0e4c\u0e40\u0e01\u0e47\u0e15\u0e40\u0e1e\u0e25\u0e2a). 1 See Royalists Marketplace Facebook group site at https://www.facebook.com/ groups/634791290746287.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-5102", "words": "8481", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Teo, Sue Ann", "title": "Marginalized Minorities in Malaysia? A Case Study of a Demolished Estate Hindu Temple in Penang", "date": "2021", "keywords": "committee; community; demolition; estate; estate hindus; government; hindus; malaysia; management; new; penang; state government; temple", "summary": "A case study of a demolished estate Hindu temple in Penang. With a case study of a demolished estate Hindu temple in Penang, I demonstrate Malaysian Indians in diverse and changing social and political realities from individual to group associations and communal representations.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-5284", "words": "2808", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Nov\u00e1kov\u00e1, Barbora; Lopatkov\u00e1, Marta", "title": "Ethics and the Role of Humanities in Transdisciplinary Research? A Short Reflection on the KNOTS Project", "date": "2020", "keywords": "ethics; humanities; project; research; role; studies", "summary": "In the course of a three years long mutual learning process, we realized that striving to create a common understanding of research ethics and cross-cultural awareness is an indispensable element of teaching and doing transdis- ciplinary research in a multicultural environment. The session consisted of a part devoted to the specifics of conducting research in Vietnam and creating basic cross-cultural awareness, while another focused more on research ethics required for the upcoming field trip in the Mekong Delta.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-5369", "words": "5137", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Dannecker, Petra; Heis, Alexandra", "title": "\u2018Transdisciplinarity\u2019: A Framework of Knowledge Production in North-South Partnerships?", "date": "2020", "keywords": "development; knots; knowledge; production; project; research; south; studies; transdisciplinarity; university", "summary": "\u2018Transdisciplinarity\u2019: A framework of knowledge production in North- South partnerships? Taking transdisciplinarity as a departure for capacity-building activi- ties and collaborations in the course of the KNOTS project was a response to trends and challenges in world development requiring new frameworks of knowledge production.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-5399", "words": "3856", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Pratama, Arif Budy", "title": "\u201cSmart is not Equal to Technology\u201d: An Interview with Suhono Harso Supangkat on the Emergence and Development of Smart Cities in Indonesia", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bandung; cities; city; development; indonesia; people; pratama; smart; supangkat; technology; urban", "summary": "According to your research and practical experi- ence, who are the main actors in smart city development in Indonesia? Supangkat: The main actors are the local government (the mayor/regent and his ad- ministration).10 \u201cSmart is not equal to technology\u201d: An interview with Suhono Harso Supangkat on the emergence and development of smart cities in Indonesia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6060", "words": "1826", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Yulianto, Vissia Ita; Simatupang, G. R. Lono Lastoro ", "title": "Book Review: Bijl, P., & Chin, G. V. S. (Eds.). (2020). Appropriating Kartini: Colonial, National and Transnational Memories of an Indonesian Icon. : ISEAS. ISBN 978-981-4843-92-8. 198 pages.", "date": "2021", "keywords": "bijl; book; colonial; dutch; kartini", "summary": "In the first chapter of their edited book Appropriating Kartini, Paul Bijl, a Dutch historian based in Utrecht, and Grace V. S. Chin, a feminist historian at University Sains Malaysia, introduce the national, regional, and transnational appropriations of Kartini \u2013 a young Javanese woman who lived in Jepara, Central Java, between 1879 and 1904. Overall, to read and re-read Kartini, who died at the young age of 24, and to read and re-read the appropriations of her, continues to provoke emotional and postcolonial sensitivities, as well as incite intellectual introspection.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6083", "words": "9667", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Nguyen, Tran Tuan; G\u00e1bor, Heged\u0171s", "title": "Land Acquisition Under Land Law 2013: A Case Study of Vinh City, Nghe An Province", "date": "2022", "keywords": "acquisition; compensation; households; industrial; land; land acquisition; land law; law; nghe; nguyen; people; process; project; province; rights; state; vietnam; vsip", "summary": "Land acquisitions under Land Law 2013: Increasing land demand, leading to land acquisition, is inevitable.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6153", "words": "9260", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Hadna, Agus Heruanto; Askar, Media Wahyudi", "title": "The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Low-Income Individuals in Indonesia", "date": "2022", "keywords": "cash; cct; consumption; education; expenditure; impact; income; individuals; indonesia; inequality; poverty; program; quantile; research; study; transfers", "summary": "CCT programs have positively affected infant health, for example, in Mexico (Fernald et al., 2008; Mill\u00e1n et al., 2019), Latin American countries (Owusu-Addo & Cross, 2014), Zimbabwe (Robertson et al., 2013), and other Sub-Saharan countries (Garoma et al., 2017). Despite those successes, there have been many criticisms of CCT programs, such as the argument that they are paternalistic, and of the ways low-income fami- lies spend the transfers (Ravallion, 2016).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6222", "words": "4155", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Duile, Timo", "title": "Social Media in Research on a Marginalized Identity: The Case of Atheism in Indonesia", "date": "2021", "keywords": "atheism; atheists; groups; indonesia; media; online; research", "summary": "Sometimes members in atheist social media groups shared content making fun of radical believers. From my engagement with atheist social media groups, I have come to the (provisional) conclusion that atheist ways of life are not so much about constantly expressing their difference from mainstream religious society, but rather about find- ing like-minded individuals, which gives them a sense of belonging.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6231", "words": "1166", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Duile, Timo; Lengauer, Dayana", "title": "Editorial", "date": "2021", "keywords": "asia; media; region; research; southeast", "summary": "Social media are also in the focus of the Current Research article by Huang Linh Dang who provides a regional overview of how governments in Southeast Asia have used and restricted social media in terms of their measures against the pandemic. Southeast Asia is among the regions with the fastest growth in social media users, and a number of contributions to this issue recognize the urgency of ana- lyzing ongoing developments by taking a closer look at the dynamics evolving in and beyond social media.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6237", "words": "9765", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Ayuningtyas , Annisa ; Yuniza, Mailinda Eka", "title": "Indonesian Government Intervention in the Management of Indonesian Migrant Workers\u2019 Remittances: Is It Constitutionally Justified?", "date": "2022", "keywords": "art; constitution; development; government; imws; indonesian; international; intervention; law; management; migrant; migration; protection; remittances; state; welfare; workers", "summary": "Migrant worker remittances, micro-finance and the informal economy: Prospects and issues, 41. Meanwhile, Engle (2004, p. 38) defines migrant remittance specifically in terms of migrant workers, as money and goods generated during work abroad and sent home.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6264", "words": "11103", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "48", "author": "Rueangdej, Chutiwan; Nomnian, Singhanat", "title": "Stakeholders\u2019 Insights Into Migrant Students\u2019 Experiences in a Thai Public School: A Linguistic Ecological Perspective ", "date": "2021", "keywords": "children; classroom; education; english; journal; language; learning; migrant; nomnian; parents; public; school; stakeholders; students; study; teachers; thai; thailand", "summary": "Thai schools have recently become linguisti- cally and culturally diverse as a result of the labor mobility and migration of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). Because migrant parents did not have an educa- tional background in Thai schools or know Thai language, they could not help their children with assignments.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6286", "words": "6803", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Prihatini, Ella; Prajuli, Wendy", "title": "Gender in Academic Journals: Experience from Indonesia", "date": "2022", "keywords": "authors; gender; indonesia; international; journals; male; research; science; studies; women", "summary": "However, this inclusion and exclusion strategy is in line with the aim of the study, which is to examine the gendered patterns in Indonesian IR journals, representing a Global South setting and the dissemination of knowledge in a non-Western country. List of Indonesian IR journals observed.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6324", "words": "5769", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "45", "author": "Arphattananon, Thithimadee", "title": "Teaching Migrant Students From Myanmar: Professional Development Program to Facilitate Multicultural Competence for Teachers", "date": "2021", "keywords": "competence; cultures; development; education; knowledge; myanmar; schools; students; teachers; training", "summary": "Both groups were similar in terms of age distribution, edu- cational backgrounds, and prior experiences in multicultural education training. Above 50 6 (9.3%) Received multicultural education training in the past 5 years Received multicultural education training in the past 5 years", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6332", "words": "10457", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Dewi, Rosita", "title": "The Paradox of Papuan Recognition After Two Decades of Special Autonomy: Racism, Violence, and Self-Determination", "date": "2024", "keywords": "adat; aseas; autonomy; central; conflict; determination; dewi; government; independence; indonesia; jokowi; law; military; mrp; national; otsus; papua; papuan recognition; papuans; recognition; rights; self", "summary": "The extension of OTSUS for Papua was followed by a divi- sion of Papua province into four provinces (Papua, Papua Tengah, Papua Pegunungan, and Papua Selatan Province) and Papua Barat Province into two provinces (Papua Barat and Papua Barat Daya Province) at the end of 2022. Papua and Papua Barat are the easternmost provinces of Indonesia; the region is known as Papua and is referred to as such throughout this article.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6347", "words": "9591", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Pillai, Stefanie; Kaur, Surinderpal; Chau, Meng Huat", "title": "The Ideological Stance of Multilingualism in Education in Malaysia in the Press 2000-2020", "date": "2021", "keywords": "articles; aseas; country; education; english; identity; issues; language; malay language; malaysia; mandarin; national; policy; reasons; schools; statements; tamil", "summary": "Language Label comprises terms such as English language, Mandarin, Malay, Malay language, Bahasa, Tamil, Tamil language, Chinese, Chinese language, Iban, Dusun, Kadazan, and Minority language. In 2016, two further programs related to language education were introduced: The Highly Immersive Programme and the Dual Language Programme (DLP).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6370", "words": "13834", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Zara, Muhammad Yuanda", "title": "Attracting and Educating \u2018New Citizens\u2019: Indonesian Public Discourse on the Integration of Indo-Europeans Into Indonesian Society During the Dutch-Indonesian War (1945-1947)", "date": "2022", "keywords": "aseas; citizens; citizenship; colonial; dutch; europeans; government; groups; het; indonesian; information; ministry; nationalists; people; sjahrir; society; van", "summary": "Thirdly, Indonesian nationalists convinced the Indo-Europeans that, by becoming Indonesian citizens, they could get many benefits. The Indonesian government, through its propaganda machine, the ministry of infor- mation, issued a special booklet to explain the Indonesian concept of citizenship to minorities of European, Chinese and Arabic descent, and even call them to eventu- ally become Indonesian citizens by emphasizing the opportunities that they might obtain if they adopted Indonesian citizenship.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6374", "words": "8506", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Yamabhai, Jitjayang; Knoop, Riemer; Cusripituck, Patoo", "title": "Participatory Engagement for Sustainable Innovation in Karen Communities", "date": "2021", "keywords": "aseas; communities; community; cultural; design; development; ecomuseum; engagement; heritage; innovation; karen; participatory; people; process; research; villagers; way", "summary": "Participatory engagement for sustainable innovation in Karen communities. The research aimed to find and introduce sustainable business models in Karen ethnic communities using essential heritage products and intangible practices.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6375", "words": "6705", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Saemee, Kulthida; Ra, Jaewon Jane", "title": "Teachers\u2019 Perceptions of Cultural Contents in English Language Textbooks Used in Multicultural Classrooms at a Thai Primary School", "date": "2021", "keywords": "cultures; elt; english; language; school; students; teachers; teaching; textbooks; thai", "summary": "Therefore, the aim of this study is to understand how local teachers perceive and convey cultural content in English language textbooks, and to what extent this pro- motes intercultural awareness (ICA) and intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in multicultural classrooms. Thai cultural aspects in English language textbooks in a Thai secondary school.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6382", "words": "8725", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Anui; Arphattananon, Thithimadee", "title": "Ethnic Content Integration and Local Curriculum in Myanmar", "date": "2021", "keywords": "content; culture; curriculum; education; ethnic; groups; implementation; integration; language; myanmar; national; school; state; teachers; teaching", "summary": "Some were also reluctant to include ELT during school hours as they were under the impression that local ethnic languages were not to be taught at school during school hours. In this vein, the National Education Law (NEL), which took effect in 2014, provides the integration of non-dominant ethnic languages and cultural identities into the mainstream curriculum.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6415", "words": "8359", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Eligue, John Ceffrey", "title": "Living With Pervasive Hazards: Place-Based Approach for Identifying Vulnerability and Coping Strategies in an Island Community in Cebu, Philippines", "date": "2023", "keywords": "climate; community; disaster; disaster risk; events; experiences; hazards; impacts; management; people; philippines; place; reduction; risk; san; strategies; vulnerability", "summary": "Secondary data including the comprehensive land use plan and local disaster risk reduction and management plans were used to triangulate and validate the data gathered from the survey and supplemental interviews. Therefore, livelihood support and disaster management strategies may be inconsistent with the actual local needs and contexts, which are a prerequisite for understanding disaster risk as mentioned in the Sendai Framework1 (UNISDR, 2015b).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6546", "words": "10609", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Chin, Wei Lee; Noorashid, Najib", "title": "Communication, Leadership, and Community-based Tourism Empowerment in Brunei Darussalam", "date": "2022", "keywords": "brunei; cbt; cbte; chin; communication; community; darussalam; development; empowerment; et al; giampiccoli; hospitality; journal; leadership; management; owners; stakeholders; tourism", "summary": "Previous scholarship also highlighted the necessity to develop communication skills among stakeholders to ensure effec- tive performance of community tourism (Aghazamani & Hunt, 2017; Raub & Robert, 2012). A post-COVID future: Tourism community re-imagined and enabled.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6570", "words": "2624", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Arphattananon, Thithimadee", "title": "Multi-Lingual and Multicultural Education in Globalizing Southeast Asia", "date": "2021", "keywords": "asia; education; groups; issue; language; southeast; thailand", "summary": "However, upon entering the 21st century, a shift in language policies reflecting an ostensible acceptance of cul- tural diversity has been witnessed in many parts of Southeast Asia. However, at the turn of the 21st century, a seismic shift in language policy was wit- nessed in Malaysia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6761", "words": "9138", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Lapanun, Patacharin", "title": "Transnational Intimacies and Marriages: Gender and Social Class Complexities in two Northeastern Thai Villages", "date": "2022", "keywords": "class; farang; gender; intimacies; land; lapanun; marriages; migration; relations; relationships; social; studies; thai; village; women", "summary": "This research explored experiences and negotiations of women under transnational marriage relations and it complicates conventional views about materiality and intimacy in these settings (Lapanun, 2019). In 2016-2017, I conducted research in Na Charoen village, Khon Kaen province to explore perceptions, expe- riences, and reactions of local men regarding the ongoing changes resulting from transnational marriages of village women.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6762", "words": "9813", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion", "title": "Multiform Transmission and Belonging: Buddhist Social Spaces of Thai Migrant Women in Belgium", "date": "2022", "keywords": "aseas; belgium; belonging; buddhist; children; class; flot; fresnoza; migrants; migration; spaces; temple; thai; thailand; transmission; wat; women", "summary": "During my fieldwork, some Thai women criticized the reality television series called Exotische liefde (exotic love) broadcasted on the VT4 channel in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking region of the country) for its portrayal of Thai women as being \u2018only after money\u2019. Although studies show that exoticism entails the notions of religiosity or spirituality (H\u00e9lie-Lucas, 2001; Shields, 2010), Thai women in Belgium appear mainly viewed as \u201cAsian women\u201d with feminine qualities suited for couple or family formation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6770", "words": "9800", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "59", "author": "Thongkrajai, Cheera", "title": "Femininity in Transition: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Experiences of Thai Transgender Migrants in Europe", "date": "2022", "keywords": "class; countries; european; female; femininity; gender; identity; kathoey; migrants; migration; relationship; research; sex; sexuality; thai; thailand; transgender; women", "summary": "Thai kathoey migrants, similarly to other queer migrants in Europe, risked being doubly marginalized as they were ethnic minorities in the host countries and sex- ual minorities within both the host society and the home community (Mole, 2021). As the Asian male body usually has less body hair, less muscular and masculine char- acteristics than Europeans, Thai kathoey are also usually pretty small and can blend in among local European females.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6774", "words": "9201", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Scuzzarello, Sarah; Statham, Paul", "title": "Transgender Kathoey Socially Imagining Relationships with Western Men in Thailand: Aspirations for Gender Affirmation, Upward Social Mobility, and Family Acceptance", "date": "2022", "keywords": "aspirations; family; gender; isan; kathoey; life; men; money; partner; people; relationships; sex; statham; thai; thailand", "summary": "Transformations of transgender: the case of Thai kathoey. Western men were seen as more dedicated to partnering, caring, and being publicly seen in social settings (including family), compared to Thai.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6776", "words": "8987", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Sunanta, Sirijit", "title": "Thai Immigrant Service-based Entrepreneurship in the UK: Mixed Embeddedness, Superdiversity, and Combined Ethnic and Non-Ethnic Capital", "date": "2022", "keywords": "brighton; british; business; capital; entrepreneurship; forms; immigrant; marriage; massage; migrants; migration; studies; thai; thailand", "summary": "This paper examines Thai immigrant entrepreneurship in the UK, drawing on 17 interviews with Thai migrants in Brighton, East Sussex. This study of Thai immi- grant entrepreneurship in Brighton contributes to this literature illustrating how the feminization of migration caused by gendered global entanglements between sending and receiving countries, and gendered stereotypes of Thai migrants constitute a con- text in which Thai immigrant entrepreneurship has evolved.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-6779", "words": "10528", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Brown, Panitee", "title": "Coming Home: Thai-Dutch Couples\u2019 Spatial Trajectories at the Intersection of Mobility Capital, Gender, and Ageing", "date": "2022", "keywords": "capital; couples; dutch; gender; life; marriage; migrants; migration; mobility; mobility capital; movement; netherlands; pension; thailand; women; years", "summary": "A significant feature of this migra- tion is the incidence of cross-cultural marriages between Thai women and European men. However, in recent years, there has been an ever-increasing reversal of this migration flow with Thai women and their Western husbands mov- ing from Europe back to Thailand (Kanchanachitra & Chuenglertsiri, 2020; Maher & Lafferty, 2014; Sunanta & Jaisuekun, 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7124", "words": "1783", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Keomanichanh, Mimy", "title": "Book Review: Lapanun, P. (2019). Love, Money and Obligation. Transnational Marriage in a Northeastern Thai Village", "date": "2022", "keywords": "marriage; thai; women", "summary": "The book focuses on the motivation of Thai women. Thai women also practice their spiritual beliefs by praying at local sacred places in order to find the \u2018right\u2019 Western husband.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7181", "words": "5892", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Goh, Yi Sheng; Teh, Pek Yen", "title": "Festivals and the Theory of Inclusive Development in Malaysia: Perspectives from a Festival Organizer", "date": "2022", "keywords": "community; development; festival; inclusive; island; locals; malaysia; organizer; pangkor; pif; process; residents; villagers", "summary": "To this end, a successful Pangkorian businessman commissioned a seasoned art director, who has a strong background in community art festivals, to organize Pangkor Island Festival (PIF) as a means of promoting inclusive development. Towards a typology of community participation in the tourism development process.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7264", "words": "11127", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "58", "author": "Lacap, Jean Paolo", "title": "Yaoi Media Consumption and Travel Motivation: Evidence From Filipino Viewers of Thai Boys\u2019 Love Series", "date": "2023", "keywords": "bl series; consumption; kim; media; media consumption; motivation; series; study; thai; thai bl; thai yaoi; tourism; travel; travel motivation; viewers; yaoi; yaoi media", "summary": "The study reveals that all dimensions of cultural prox- imity significantly affect Thai yaoi media consumption, and Thai yaoi media consumption was found to have an influence on emotional involvement and travel motivation. Emo- tional involvement was also found to significantly affect travel motivation, and, at the same time, act as a mediator between Thai yaoi media consumption and travel motiva- tion.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7286", "words": "2350", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "61", "author": "Holden, William N.", "title": "Book Review: Rafael, V. L. (2022). The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte.", "date": "2022", "keywords": "book; drugs; duterte; rafael; war", "summary": "Rafael explains an important component of Duterte\u2019s contempt for drug users, which is his resentment of their enjoyment of drugs (known in French as jouissance). To Duterte, drug users enjoy something illicitly and he wants to stop this illicit enjoy- ment by destroying them.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7393", "words": "10053", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Missbach, Antje; Purdey, Jemma", "title": "Indonesian International Students in Australia during the COVID-19-Pandemic: Coming Out Stronger?", "date": "2023", "keywords": "aseas; australia; awards; covid-19; education; family; government; indonesia; pandemic; people; purdey; scholarships; students; study; time; universities; university", "summary": "Australia is a sought-after destination for international students, including from countries of the Global South such as Indonesia. Prior to the pandemic, the tertiary education of international students was its second largest export.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7418", "words": "1661", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "29", "author": "Lengauer, Dayana; Trupp, Alexander; Aquino, Richard S.", "title": "Editorial", "date": "2022", "keywords": "aseas; authors; editorial; sciences; southeast; studies", "summary": "Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 15(1), 1-4. ASEAS 15(1) launches the first issue of the Journal under its new title, Advances in Southeast Asian Studies. Since its inaugural issue, which was published 15 years ago in 2008, ASEAS has promoted the emancipation of knowledge and thematic pluralism in Southeast Asian Studies through an open-access and free of paywalls publishing system (Gerstl & Schweitzer, 2008).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7551", "words": "1574", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Chen, Cai", "title": "Book Review: Fresnoza-Flot, A., & Liu-Farrer, G. (Eds.). (2022). Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personhood Across Social Spheres in Asian Migration", "date": "2022", "keywords": "migration; mobilities; mobility; studies", "summary": "The tangled nature of mobilities constitutes the core of all chapters in the pres- ent volume, which illuminate collectively the intricate link between mobility and personhood, the value of an affective lens of analysis, the relational mobility and stasis, and interweaving social spheres that individuals inhabit and traverse. Tangled Mobilities: Places, Affects, and Personhood Across Social Spheres in Asian Migration Berghahn Books.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7560", "words": "8730", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Jaehn, Miriam", "title": "Coup, Conflict, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Burmese Peoples Moving in Times of Isolation", "date": "2023", "keywords": "burmese; conflict; country; coup; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; government; health; military; minorities; myanmar; pandemic; people; protests; public; rohingya", "summary": "COVID-19 vaccine was tested on Myanmar military personnel without their consent \u2013 sources. Myanmar medics resist military coup.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7561", "words": "11816", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Prabaningtyas, Raden Ajeng Rizka Fiani; Pudjiastuti, Tri Nuke ; Alami, Athiqah Nur ; Farhana, Faudzan; Arfan", "title": "Access to Education for Refugee Children in Indonesia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Adaptation Strategies", "date": "2023", "keywords": "access; accessibility; batam; covid-19; education; indonesia; information; international; iom; june; learning; letter; makassar; pandemic; parents; refugee children; refugees; research; rights; schools; students; support", "summary": "Despite initial problems with the implementation of these changes and the ongoing dependency on international agencies for refugee children education, this provision of access to education may potentially signal a wider change in refugee treatment in Indonesia, affecting rights provisions other than education. While formal edu- cation was for many years not clearly regulated for refugee children, unexpectedly during the pandemic (when most schools were heavily affected by the lockdowns and the requirement for online teaching), the Indonesian government became more receptive to granting refugee children access to formal education.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7666", "words": "10159", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion; Sunanta, Sirijit", "title": "Challenging Stereotypes in Europe-Thailand Transnational Migration: Non-conventional Unions, Mobilities, and (Re)productive Labor", "date": "2022", "keywords": "care; class; europe; european; flot; fresnoza; gender; issue; kathoey; migrants; migration; mobility; sex; stereotypes; studies; sunanta; thai; thailand; women", "summary": "European long-stayers in Thailand are predominantly men, many of whom are in romantic/marital rela- tionships with Thai women and, less visibly, in same-sex partnerships with Thai gay men. More recently, during and in the aftermath of World War II (1939-1947), as many as 2,000 Dutch prisoners of war who were present in Thailand registered their marriages to Thai women (Ten Brummelhuis, 1994, as cited in Lapanun, 2018).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7667", "words": "11222", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Bagalawis, Candace Noreen; Villanueva, Rose Marie; Katigbak, Jovito Jose", "title": "Press Freedom in the Time of COVID-19: The Philippine Experience Under the Duterte Administration", "date": "2024", "keywords": "administration; attacks; covid-19; democracy; disinformation; duterte; fear; freedom; government; journalists; media; network; news; pandemic; philippines; press; press freedom; public; role; state", "summary": "R\u00fcland (2021) contends that COVID-19-related restrictions mainly caused the decline in media freedom. According to Bernadas and Ilagan (2020), an indication of the \u201cshrinking space for media freedom\u201d", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7687", "words": "10138", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "53", "author": "Abd Jalil, Aslam; Hoffstaedter, Gerhard", "title": "The Effects of COVID-19 on Refugees in Peninsular Malaysia: Surveillance, Securitization, and Eviction", "date": "2023", "keywords": "aseas; authorities; covid-19; foreigners; government; health; hoffstaedter; immigration; malaysia; market; media; migrants; myanmar; peninsular; public; refugees; rohingya; rohingya refugees; securitization; state; surveillance; unhcr; workers", "summary": "One example was a media report that stated local residents believed that Rohingya refugees were unhygienic, brought crime and drugs to the neighborhood, and posed unfair competition to the job markets. However, unlike neighboring countries like Singapore, where migrant workers were confined to their workplaces, refugees in Malaysia are much more spread out and not easily confined to specific locations, except for those who have been detained in immigration detention.1 This became a national issue for Rohingya refugees because an early COVID cluster was detected as part of an Islamic missionary group Tablighi Jamaat mass gathering, which many Rohingya from across peninsular Malaysia had attended.2 The gather- ing at Sri Petaling Mosque in Kuala Lumpur from 27 February until 1 March 2020 involved 16,000 attendees comprising Malaysians, visitors from 27 countries, as well as migrants and refugees residing in Malaysia, and quickly became the country\u2019s larg- est COVID-19 infection cluster (Malaysiakini, 2020).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7703", "words": "2040", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "49", "author": "Einzenberger, Rainer", "title": "Book Review: Yamahata, C., & Anderson, B. (2022). Demystifying Myanmar\u2019s Transition and Political Crisis", "date": "2022", "keywords": "coup; development; myanmar; studies; transition", "summary": "Ruling Myanmar: From cyclone Nargis to national elections. Burma Myanmar: Strong regime, weak state?", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7704", "words": "3125", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Sunanta, Sirijit; Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion", "title": "Social Networks and Organization of Thai Migrants in Europe: An Interview with Chongcharoen Sornkaew Grimsmann, President (2019-2022) of Thai Women Network in Europe", "date": "2022", "keywords": "europe; grimsmann; members; network; social; thai; twne; women", "summary": "Grimsmann: TWNE is an association of Thai social volunteers for Thai women and people living in Europe. What drove Dr. Pattaya to start forming the group was the inpouring of Thai women to Germany and other European countries in the early 2000s and the problems the women faced in their living and working conditions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7947", "words": "3911", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Cusripituck, Patoo; Yamabhai, Jitjayang", "title": "Mobilizing the (Im)Mobile Museum Through Hybrid Curation: A Story of Hybrid Curation of Cultural Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic", "date": "2023", "keywords": "covid-19; ethnicity; exhibition; lua; mobile; museum; research; thailand; vivid", "summary": "Vivid Ethnicity exhibits mundane life objects donated from ethnic groups in Thailand. Our DMHTT service innovation offers a \u2018vivid\u2019 box that consists of a story book about ethnic groups created by our volunteers, a teddy bear with a D-I-Y ethnic dress (the audience can choose the size of the bear), ethnic coffee or ethnic popcorn (the audience can choose either), and a Facebook Messenger channel for the visitors to share their experiences with ethnic groups with us.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7950", "words": "9498", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Dean, Karin", "title": "Belt and Road Initiative in Northern Myanmar: The Local World of China\u2019s Global Investments", "date": "2023", "keywords": "authorities; border; china; chinese; development; economic; government; infrastructure; kachin; land; local; medz; myanmar; myitkyina; project; public; road; state; tengchong; zone", "summary": "While economic development zones (EDZs) have a centuries-long history as commercial zones designed to encourage entrep\u00f4t trade in citywide zones on inter- national trade routes (World Bank & International Finance Corporation, 2009), in China, the creation of EDZs has been a gradual policy since the late 1970s and early 1980s. The role of economic development zones in national development strategies: The case of China.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-7956", "words": "9567", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Anoraga, Bhirawa", "title": "A Decade of Charitable Crowdfunding and Its Impacts on the Social Justice Trajectory of Islamic Philanthropy in Indonesia", "date": "2023", "keywords": "act; campaigns; crowdfunding; donations; donors; giving; impacts; indonesia; islamic; justice; kitabisa; muslim; ngos; non; organizations; philanthropy; social; study", "summary": "Furthermore, in the last three decades, Islamic philanthropy in Indonesia has undergone an institutional transformation with the emergence of professional Muslim NGOs, which arguably hold the potential to foster social justice philanthropy (Abubakar & Bamualim, 2016). The third section traces the development of crowdfunding by presenting the case of Kitabisa, which demonstrates the potential to support social justice philanthropy in Indonesia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8064", "words": "1722", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Datta, Amrita", "title": "Book Review: Ullah, AKM. A., & Chattoraj, D. (2022). COVID-19 Pandemic and the Migrant Population in Southeast Asia: Vaccine, Diplomacy and Disparity", "date": "2023", "keywords": "book; covid-19; pandemic; southeast", "summary": "As correctly pointed out by the authors in the preface, this volume is one of the few to address the impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers in Southeast Asia. Lastly, although the book briefly addresses the vulnerability of non-male migrants, mostly categorizing them as women migrant workers, the feminization of the pandemic (Yavorsky et al., 2021) among non-male migrants in Southeast Asia remains an important subject of inves- tigation and in need of further attention. \ue050 174 | ASEAS 16(1) Book Review: Ullah, AKM. A., & Chattoraj, D. (2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8065", "words": "8619", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Noviani, Ratna; Manasikana, Rinta Arina; Anggrahita, Debora Dayu Ajeng", "title": "Digital Intimacies and the Construction of Social Capital in a Heteronormative Society: A Study of Dating App Users in Indonesia", "date": "2024", "keywords": "apps; capital; connections; dating; gay; heteronormative; individuals; indonesia; intimacies; media; online; platforms; relationships; society; study; users", "summary": "The results demonstrate that dating app users exploit digital intima- cies as resources to expand their networks, which enables them to gain certain benefits. For instance, the need to cope with loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic has motivated dating app users to connect virtually with other people, as informant P shared: I installed dating apps for the first time when the pandemic hit.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8074", "words": "10966", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "54", "author": "Nicolaisen, Franziska S.", "title": "The Politicization of Mobility Infrastructures in Vietnam - The Hanoi Metro Project at the Nexus of Urban Development, Fragmented Mobilities, and National Security", "date": "2023", "keywords": "aseas; china; chinese; city; development; figure; government; hanoi; hanoi metro; line; metro; mobility; motorbike; people; planning; project; public; society; space; transport; urban; vietnam; vietnamese", "summary": "The potential impact of the Hanoi Metro on urban mobility in a setting dominated by motorbikes is discussed using the mobilities paradigm, with a focus on local mobility practices and experiences. In the final discussion, the different sections are brought together to discuss the role of the Hanoi Metro in state-society negotiations in Vietnamese cities and its potential impact on urban mobility.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8077", "words": "8344", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Missbach, Antje; Stange, Gunnar", "title": "The COVID-19 Pandemic, (Im)Mobilities, and Migration in Southeast Asia", "date": "2023", "keywords": "asia; asylum; border; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; global; international; measures; migrants; migration; mobility; pandemic; people; refugees; southeast", "summary": "Social scientists have studied particularly the temporality-anxiety nexus that resulted from many COVID-19 public health measures. National governments, rather than supranational organizations, have acted as main protagonists in the contrivance and implementation of COVID-19 responses, reserv- ing their hegemonic power to censor and control people\u2019s behaviors.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8078", "words": "5665", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Stange, Gunnar; Pagogna, Raffaella; Sterly, Harald; Sakdapolrak, Patrick; Borderon, Marion; Schraven, Benjamin; Serraglio, Diogo Andreola", "title": "Impeded Migration as Adaptation: COVID-19 and Its Implications for Translocal Strategies of Environmental Risk Management", "date": "2023", "keywords": "adaptation; climate; covid-19; households; livelihoods; migrants; migration; origin; places; resilience; risks; sakdapolrak; systems; workers", "summary": "These situations pose different threats and stresses to translocal social livelihoods, they prompt dif- ferent strategies by the migrants and their (rural) households in places of origin, and thus require different forms of political action for support or relief. IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY MAKING The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted \u2013 at least temporarily \u2013 in more restrictive immigration processes, disrupted translocality, and related hardships. Third, there is still lit- tle detailed empirical knowledge about the different ways in which the pandemic affects translocal social livelihood systems around the world, albeit there is growing evidence that it does so.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8137", "words": "14120", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "K\u00e4k\u00f6nen, Mira", "title": "Entangled Enclaves: Dams, Volatile Rivers, and Chinese Infrastructural Engagement in Cambodia", "date": "2023", "keywords": "aseas; asia; cambodia; china; chinese; dams; development; enclaves; global; hydropower; infrastructure; k\u00e4k\u00f6nen; laos; mekong; press; projects; relations; rivers; state; university; water; world", "summary": "Entanglements with the Larger Complex of Bilateral (Infrastructural) Affairs While Chinese dams in Cambodia are disentangled from multipurpose basin man- agement schemes such as those fostered by the Mekong River Commission, they share this characteristic with other concessionary projects in the region. A less speculative overflow relates to the significant opportuni- ties for timber extraction provided by dam projects.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8200", "words": "1995", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Sahrasad, Herdi", "title": "Book Review: Kramer, E. A. (2022). The Candidate\u2019s Dilemma. Anticorruptionism and Money Politics in Indonesian Election Campaigns.: ", "date": "2024", "keywords": "candidate; corruption; indonesia; kramer; money; politics", "summary": "Despite the fact that Indonesia has seen a substantial shift away from authoritar- ian control and a democratic reform process over the past 20 years, the issues of money politics and corruption still persist. But this competitive political system also means that elections are expensive for candidates, which brings up another widespread issue, this is, money politics, or the doling out of substantial sums of money to voters in advance of elections through a variety of tactics.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8273", "words": "2059", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Kleinod-Freudenberg, Michael", "title": "Book Review: Tappe, O., & Rowedder, S. (Eds.). (2022). Extracting Development: Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia", "date": "2023", "keywords": "asia; capital; frontier; land; resource; southeast; studies", "summary": "Frontier assemblages: The emergent politics of resource frontiers in Asia. Extracting development: Contested resource frontiers in mainland Southeast Asia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8279", "words": "11981", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "47", "author": "Ponce, Floramante SJ", "title": "Beyond Debt-Trap Narratives: How the Lao State Manoeuvres the Hybrid Governance of a Chinese Hydropower Project", "date": "2025", "keywords": "bank; china; chinese; dam; debt; development; district; governance; hydropower; lao; lao state; laos; nnua1; project; resettlement; stakeholders; state; trap; villagers; world", "summary": "NGOs/CSOs and other environmental publics \u2013 stakeholders that have his- torically expressed concerns over the basin-wide harm of massive dams on and in behalf of affected communities \u2013 had no engagement in the project owing to the ambivalence of the NNua1\u2019s private sector actors and state officials towards them in particular; the Lao state\u2019s inflexible regulatory framework for civil society groups in general. This contradicts the claims of Lao consultants and staff I spoke with that they studied carefully the dam construction\u2019s social and environmental risks and their impacts on livelihood and food sources.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8412", "words": "7031", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Singdee, Chaiyaporn", "title": "Assembling Authenticity: The Afterlives of U.S. Army Uniforms in Thailand", "date": "2024", "keywords": "authenticity; collectors; culture; material; meanings; military; objects; thai; thailand; u.s; uniforms; vietnam; vintage; war", "summary": "THE SOCIAL LIVES AND BIOGRAPHIES OF THE VIETNAM WAR UNIFORMS The social lives and biographies of Vietnam War uniforms offer insights into how these artifacts captivate Thai collectors. This study combines material culture and assemblage theory to comprehen- sively understand how Thai collectors engage with U.S. military uniforms from the Vietnam War era.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8510", "words": "8578", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "46", "author": "Zara, Muhammad Yuanda", "title": "\u2018Mabuhay ang Filipina!\u2019: The Independence of the Philippines in the Imaginations of Indonesian Freedom Fighters in the Context of the Dutch-Indonesian War", "date": "2024", "keywords": "1946; dutch; filipino; independence; indonesian; july; merdeka; nationalists; philippines; rakjat; relations; romulo; roxas; struggle; women", "summary": "The Indonesian nationalists not only congratulated the Philippines on its independence but also made Philippine independence a momentum to evaluate and reflect on the struggle for Indonesian independence, including by using the Philippines as an example of how a young country can educate its people, emancipate its women and have an important position in the international world, mainly because of its good relations with the United States. Indonesian independence was declared on August 17, 1945 and Philippine independence was recognized by the United States (US) on July 4, 1946.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8570", "words": "5413", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Daniels, Gary", "title": "Navigating Precarity: Health and Safety Challenges in Southeast Asia\u2019s Gig Economy Food Delivery Sector", "date": "2024", "keywords": "asia; couriers; delivery; economy; et al; food; food delivery; gig; goto; health; management; safety; southeast; work", "summary": "It critically assesses how these platforms navigate courier safety amidst algorithmic management and precarious employment, employing a framework to evaluate corporate commitment, operational practices, and worker sup- port. Corporate Transparency in Southeast Asia\u2019s Food Delivery Industry Table 1 highlights the distinct strategies employed by Southeast Asia\u2019s foremost food delivery platforms \u2013 Delivery Hero, Grab, and GoTo \u2013 in addressing courier safety and welfare.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8578", "words": "6235", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Cornell, Daryl; Manamtam, Jay-R; Tham, Aaron", "title": "Invisible Workers in Philippines\u2019 Ghost Kitchens: Trends and Implications", "date": "2024", "keywords": "cloud; component; delivery; employees; et al; food; ghost; ghost kitchen; hospitality; item; journal; kitchen; research; working", "summary": "This research workshop reports on employee relations within ghost kitchens, which are delivery-only food businesses. Surveys conducted with 125 \u2018invisible\u2019 ghost kitchen employees revealed that almost 70% of them had less than one year\u2019s experience working in ghost kitchens.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8658", "words": "9896", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Duile, Timo; Ricardo, Vincent", "title": "The (Im)Possibilities of Public Atheism in Indonesia: Legal Perspectives and Social Practices", "date": "2024", "keywords": "atheism; atheists; belief; god; harmony; indonesia; islam; law; notion; pancasila; people; public; religion; secular; society; state", "summary": "The (im)possibilities of public atheism in Indonesia: Legal perspectives and social practices. While studies stress that Indonesia\u2019s society has become increasingly conservative in recent years, cases of public atheism have also emerged.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8691", "words": "1316", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Trupp, Alexander; Lengauer, Dayana", "title": "Editorial: Researching Digital Platforms and Dynamics of Civic Space", "date": "2024", "keywords": "advances; aseas; indonesia; southeast; studies", "summary": "Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 17(1), 1-3. ASEAS 17(1) marks a new phase for Advances in Southeast Asian Studies with adjusted publication timelines, now releasing issues in March/April and September/October, while maintaining our Online First feature. Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 17(1), 5-24.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8837", "words": "5188", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "55", "author": "Jacobs, George; Chau, Meng Huat", "title": "Early Adopters or Forever Resisters? Singapore Veg*ns\u2019 Views Toward Alternative Protein Foods", "date": "2025", "keywords": "alternative; animal; author; diets; foods; meat; plant; population; protein; protein foods; singapore; veg*ns; vegan; vegetarian", "summary": "Singapore veg*ns\u2019 views toward alternative protein foods. Alternative protein foods, which provide significant quantities of protein but do not use conventional animal sources, can be an important component of sustainable diets.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8840", "words": "8932", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "36", "author": "Dolo, Shivanee A.", "title": "Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Legislative Representation Through the Philippine Party-List System", "date": "2025", "keywords": "communities; community; elections; groups; hor; ips; laws; list; list system; members; national; party; peoples; philippine; representation; sectors; study; system", "summary": "In New Zealand, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, and India, there are reserved seats in the legislature for members of the indigenous communities (Hoffay & Rivas, 2016; Mor- ris, 2021), while countries such as Singapore, Ecuador, and Zimbabwe have constitutionally guaranteed indigenous representation in the executive and judicial branches (Morris, 2021). Mechanisms for indigenous representation, participation and consultation in constitu- tional Systems: International examples to inspire Chile.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8842", "words": "9355", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Udasmoro, Wening; Kunz, Rahel", "title": "Language and De-/Escalation of Conflict in Aceh, Indonesia", "date": "2025", "keywords": "18(1; aceh; acehnese; aseas; civilians; conflict; context; de-/escalation; dynamics; gam; indonesian; language; military; power; research; role; soldiers; use; violence", "summary": "This violence was largely attributed to the disconnection between the soldiers, who communicated in formal and standard Indonesian, and the local residents, who employed a mix of local Acehnese language and Indonesian language, either out of choice or because they did not speak Indonesian. The sense of otherness fostered through language use can be a sig- nificant driver of conflict escalation.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8909", "words": "10458", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "50", "author": "Ubaidillah, Ubaidillah; Santoso, Widjajanti M.; Widyawati, Nina; Purwadi, Purwadi; Windarsih, Ana", "title": "Memes and the Indonesian 2024 Presidential Elections: Performative Politics in an Illiberal Setting", "date": "2025", "keywords": "18(1; 2022; article; aseas; culture; digital; discourse; election; figure; gibran; indonesia; jokowi; kaesang; media; memes; people; politics; power; prabowo; president; public; purwadi; research; society; ubaidillah", "summary": "Therefore, political memes are seen as a social media genre that uses incongruous humor to expose the contradictions, conflicts, and hypocrisy of populist politicians (Kristensen & Mortensen, 2021). Political memes and perceptions: A study of memes as a political com- munication tool in the Indian context.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-8951", "words": "5082", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "56", "author": "Lengauer, Dayana", "title": "Emergency Activism: Indonesia\u2019s Eroding Democracy, Activist Students, and the Art of Protest. An Interview With Frans Ari Prasetyo.", "date": "2024", "keywords": "aseas; bandung; emergency; indonesia; jokowi; lengauer; media; people; police; protest; public; students", "summary": "In Bandung, I had the priv- ilege to participate in a similar protest in front of the West Java DPRD office on Diponegoro Street, only about 100 meters away from the West Java Governor\u2019s Office \u2013 a location that has been popular for public protests since the New Order era. Student groups from a variety of universities arrived, bearing posters, student flags, and alma mater jackets, which served to distin- guish them from other groups and symbolize their identity as students.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9052", "words": "9731", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "66", "author": "Baird, Ian G.", "title": "History-Making: The Communist Party of Thailand\u2019s Attempt to Shape Hmong and Lua Narratives", "date": "2025", "keywords": "baird; china; chinese; communist; cpt; government; groups; history; hmong; lua; norki; party; people; project; thailand; university", "summary": "Contact: ibaird@wisc.edu https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12070391 https://books.google.com/books?id=_U-5sq5MDBQC&pg=PA23&dq=tartan+highland+romantic&hl=En&ei=JqATTq_bD5Gy8QOpk7H8Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CEIQ6wEwBA#v=onepage&q=tartan%20highland%20romantic&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=_U-5sq5MDBQC&pg=PA23&dq=tartan+highland+romantic&hl=En&ei=JqATTq_bD5Gy8QOpk7H8Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CEIQ6wEwBA#v=onepage&q=tartan%20highland%20romantic&f=false mailto:ibaird@wisc.edu Ian G. Baird ASEAS 18(2) | B17 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you to all the people who have helped me better understand Hmong involvement with the CPT, especially the many former-CPT Hmong who have spent time explaining to me about their experiences, especially Norki Akararot (Sae Lor). CPT history of the CPT, part 1 (in Thai).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9070", "words": "996", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "44", "author": "Husa, Lukas Christian", "title": "Editorial: Sustainability, Socio-Political Activism, and International and Interregional Relations", "date": "2024", "keywords": "advances; aseas; southeast; studies", "summary": "Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 17(2), 1-4. Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 17(2), 187-200.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9095", "words": "1679", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "41", "author": "Khaikham, Ladawan", "title": "Book Review: Prajak Kongkirati. (2024). Thailand: Contestation, Polarization, and Democratic Regression.", "date": "2025", "keywords": "military; polarization; prajak; thailand", "summary": "Since then, the royal-military alliance gradually became a dominant force, influencing regime changes, and hindering democratic consolidation in Thai political institutions. These interrelated themes provide a holistic framework for under- standing the complex interplay of historical, institutional, economic, and social factors shaping Thai political instability.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9098", "words": "8633", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Kyaw Lat, Min Htin; Fr\u00f6berg, Lieke", "title": "Digital Strike: Monetizing Online Engagement and Content for Myanmar\u2019s Spring Revolution", "date": "2025", "keywords": "click; content; digital; facebook; financial; groups; money; myanmar; online; research; resistance; revolution; spring; strike; support", "summary": "First, information on digital strike groups and support groups was gathered. Second, financial information published by digital strike groups was used to calculate the amount of money raised and donated to resistance groups.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9161", "words": "11808", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "43", "author": "Sroypetch, Supattra; Rangsungnoen, Grid; Caldicott, Rodney William", "title": "A Co-Generated Analysis of Thai Homestays: Overcoming SERVQUAL Deficiencies and Sustainability Barriers", "date": "2025", "keywords": "asean; asean homestay; cbt; community; development; et al; homestay; homestay standard; journal; management; pho; puan; quality; research; sdgs; service; servqual; standard; sustainability; tak; thai; thailand; tourism", "summary": "Tourism service quality: a dimension-specific assessment of SERVQUAL. LITERATURE REVIEW The literature is abundant on studies about tourism sustainability (Scheyvens & Cheer, 2022; Trupp & Dolezal, 2020), the effects of COVID-19 on tourism (Lew et al., 2020; Pham Minh & Ngoc Mai, 2023), particularly on the lodging sector and health protocols (Ongsakul et al., 2022).", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9304", "words": "1432", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Black, Joseph", "title": "Book Review: Karlsson, K. A Sense of Place and Belonging: The Chiang Tung Borderland of Northern Southeast Asia.", "date": "2025", "keywords": "chiang; karlsson; state; tung", "summary": "In the introductory chapter, Karlsson lays out the historical and cultural context of Chiang Tung, framing it as a contested borderland marked by shifting sover- eignties, diverse ethnic communities, and deep-rooted struggles for autonomy. Karlsson\u2019s approach is commendable in that it contextualizes Chiang Tung through a local perspective rather than imposing Western academic frameworks onto its history and culture.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9360", "words": "10137", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "39", "author": "Rautan, Imran; Supramaniam , Sivakumari; Nezakati , Hossein; Homer , Stephen", "title": "Understanding Low Ecovillage Adoption in Southeast Asia: Insights from Malaysia Using Diffusion of Innovation Theory", "date": "2025", "keywords": "adoption; asia; barriers; communities; development; ecovillages; innovations; lack; living; malaysia; money; people; research; social; southeast", "summary": "Ecovillage researchers have stated that ecovillage communities are social in- novations and the diffusion of technological innovations is intimately linked (Roysen et al., 2024). This means that sustainability-focused initiatives, such as ecovillage communities, struggle to gain sufficient institutional and financial support.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9398", "words": "1779", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "52", "author": "Nguyen, Minh Tien", "title": "Book Review: Pollock, T. R. (2024). Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry: Art, Affect, and Labor.: Cornell University Press. ISBN: 978-15-0177-493-5 (paperback). 186 pages.", "date": "2025", "keywords": "art; book; dancers; fire; thailand", "summary": "Fire Dancers in Thailand's Tourism Industry: Fire dancers in Thailand's tourism industry: Art, affect, and labor.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9417", "words": "1506", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "40", "author": "Thakur, Prachi; Trupp, Alexander", "title": "Editorial: Sustainability, Governance, and Conflict", "date": "2025", "keywords": "18(1; conflict; governance; southeast; studies; sustainability", "summary": "Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 18(1), 103-113. Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 18(1), 5-29.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9631", "words": "11134", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "51", "author": "Khu, Stanley; Khumairoh, Izmy", "title": "Entering the Mind as a Way of Approaching God: Practicing Meditation and Being Muslim in Semarang, Indonesia", "date": "2025", "keywords": "aseas; buddhist; culture; god; indonesia; islam; islamic; life; meditation; mind; muslim; practice; religion; salat; sense; way; zahir", "summary": "Open mind, open heart: An anthropological study of the therapeutics of meditation practice in the US. Producing intersubjectivity in silence: An ethnographic study of meditation practice.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9696", "words": "1432", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "26", "author": "Paredes Grijalva, Daniela; Hidayah, Sita; Weichart, Gabriele", "title": "Bridging Currents: Emerging Trends in Indonesian Anthropology", "date": "2025", "keywords": "anthropology; department; indonesia; research; university", "summary": "From ethnographic exhibitions to digital activism, Indonesian anthropology of- fers fresh pathways for engaged scholarship that traverses North\u2013South, East\u2013West divides. 2. Exhibition as Multimodal Ethnography Rugun Sirait (Center for Anthropology Studies, University of Indonesia) discussed two recent experiments in translating ethnographic research into public exhibitions.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9801", "words": "2098", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "57", "author": "Kleinod-Freudenberg, Michael", "title": "Book Review: Storey, I. (2025). Putin\u2019s Russia and Southeast Asia: The Kremlin\u2019s Pivot to Asia and the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War. ", "date": "2025", "keywords": "asean; asia; russia; southeast; storey; ukraine", "summary": "Putin\u2019s Russia and Southeast Asia: The Kremlin\u2019s pivot to Asia and the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war. Putin\u2019s Russia and Southeast Asia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}, {"id": "aseas-9838", "words": "3175", "extension": ".pdf", "flesch": "35", "author": "Lengauer, Dayana; Einzenberger, Rainer; Rowedder, Simon; Trupp, Alexander", "title": "Editorial: Inequalities and Representation in Southeast Asia", "date": "2025", "keywords": "advances; asia; indonesia; issue; media; protests; representation; september; southeast; studies; thailand", "summary": "Advances in Southeast Asian Studies, 18(2), G1-G6. ______________________________________________________________________ Social media again hit the headlines of media outlets in South and Southeast Asia. Her research interests include youth, social media, Islam, and gender in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on student activism and online publics in Indonesia.", "mime": "application/pdf"}]