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The Sulu Zone: The Dynamics of External Trade, Slavery and Ethnicity in the Transformation of a Southeast Asian Maritime State, 1768-1898
By James F. Warren First published in 1981, The Sulu Zone deals with a fascinating geographical, cultural and historical "border zone" centered on the Sulu and Celebes Seas between 1768 and 1898, and its complex interactions with China and the...
Iranun and Balangingi: Globalization, Maritime Raiding and the Birth of Ethnicity
By James F. Warren The aim of this book is to explore ethnic, cultural and material changes in the transformative history(s) of oceans and seas, commodities and populations, mariners and ships, and raiders and refugees in Southeast Asia, with particular...
Ah Ku and Karayuki-san: Prostitution in Singapore, 1870-1940
By James F. Warren Among the many groups of workers whose labor built Singapore in the 20th century, there may be none as marginalized in memory as the women who travelled from China and Japan to work in Singapore as...
Seaways and Gatekeepers: Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.1906
Finalist, EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2022 by Heather Sutherland The eastern archipelagos stretch from Mindanao and Sulu in the north to Bali in the southwest and New Guinea in the southeast. Many of their inhabitants are regarded as “people without...
An Indonesian History: Personalized Politics in Makassar and South Sulawesi, c.1600-2018
Heather Sutherland How does the deep history of a region shape its contemporary politics? Why do some areas remain stubbornly resistant to central control, generation after generation? And how do centuries-old power dynamics persist even as empires rise and fall?...
Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asia Frontier, 1865-1915
By Eric Tagliacozzo Winner of the 2007 Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asia Studies Over the course of the half century from 1865 to 1915, the British and the Dutch delineated colonial spheres in the process of creating new frontiers....
Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement and the Longue Durèe
Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo Contemporary concerns with the way the movement of Islamist ideas has radicalized Southeast Asia are put in a necessary deep historical context by this timely book. The fourteen authors represent the best of the new trilingual...
Between Frontiers: Nation and Identity in a Southeast Asian Borderland
By Noboru Ishikawa A staple of post-war academic writing, "nationalism" is a contentious and often unanalyzed abstraction that has come to be treated as something "imagined", "fashioned", and "disseminated". Between Frontiers restores the nation to the social field from which...
Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand
By Duncan McCargo Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighbouring provinces and the Thai's government's harsh...
Floating on a Malayan Breeze: Travels in Singapore and Malaysia
By Sudhir Thomas VadakethWinner of the 2012 Asian Publishing AwardBest Insights into Asian Societies (non-fiction): Excellence Award What happens when a country splits apart? Forty-five years ago, Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed along their own...
[Re]Negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Region, Regionalism, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
By Alice D. Ba This book seeks to explain two core paradoxes associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): how have diverse states hung together and stabilized relations in the face of competing interests, divergent preferences, and arguably...
Thai South and Malay North: Ethnic Interactions on a Plural Peninsula
Edited by Patrick Jory and Michael J. Montesano The portion of the Malay Peninsula where the Thai Buddhist civilization of Thailand gives way to the Malay Muslim civilization of Malaysia is characterized by multiple forms of pluralism. An appreciation of...
Water Frontier: Commerce and the Chinese in the Lower Mekong Region, 1750-1880
Edited by Li Tana and Nola Cooke, Contributions by James Kong Chin, Choi Byung Wook, Anthony Reid, Puangthong Rungswasdiasb, Yumio Sakurai, Carl Trocki and Geoff Wade This innovative book rethinks the 18th and early 19th century history of coastal and riverine southwest...
Singapore's Borderlands: Tourism, Migration and the Anxieties of Mobility
By Johan A. Lindquist The Indonesian island of Batam is a booming frontier territory where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Indonesian female migrants dominate the island's economic landscape both as factory workers and...
Southeast of Now Vol. 7, No. 2
The second issue of the seventh volume features: Articles Rumah Abu: Death and the Photographic Medium in Straits Chinese Ancestral HallsRoy Ng Excavating Amnesia: A Media Archaeology of Early Internet Art from SingaporeJohann Yamin, Alex Mitchell Erasure/Exposure: (Re-)Witnessing 1965 in...
Southeast of Now Vol. 1, No. 1
The inaugural issue features:Editorial: DiscomfortArticles“Total Community Response”: Performing the Avant-garde as a Democratic Gesture in Manila Patrick D. FloresAn Exceptional Inclusion: On MoMA's Exhibition Recent American Prints in Color and the First Exhibition of Southeast Asian ArtKathleen DitzigEndurance and Overcoming in...
Mosques and Imams: Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia
Edited by Kathryn M. Robinson With contributions from Adlin Sila, Wahyuddin Halim, Faried F. Saenong, Eva Nisa, Yasir Alimi, Stella Hutagalung, Andrew McWilliam, Phillip Winn Islam is at home in many of the areas of eastern Indonesia, with the early...
The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619: Power, Trade and Diplomacy
By Paulo Jorge De Sousa Pinto Following the fall of the Melaka Sultanate to the Portuguese in 1511, the sultanates of Johor and Aceh emerged as major trading centers alongside Portuguese Melaka. Each power represented wider global interests. Aceh had...
Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940
By James F. Warren Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to serve its rapidly growing economy. This book chronicles the vast movement of coolies between China and the Nanyang, and their...
An Indonesian Frontier: Acehnese and Other Histories of Sumatra
By Anthony Reid Sumatra is a vast and understudied island with a population of 43 million people divided into a variety of ethnic groups. Apart from William Marsden's great study of 1783, few serious historical works deal with Sumatra's history,...
Southeast of Now Vol. 6, No. 2
Guest edited by Amanda Katherine Rath (Goethe University, Frankfurt) and Wulan Dirgantoro (The University of Melbourne) Editorial Introduction In the Making: Experimentation and Experiment in Southeast Asian ArtAmanda Katherine Rath, Wulan DirgantoroArticles Black Cube: The Stage for Performance in Singapore,...
Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia
Edited by Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia applies a new theoretical literature on social memory to remembered events in Burma, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. Highlighting connections between theorizing based on...
Southeast of Now Vol. 1, No. 2
The second issue features:Editorial: DiscomfortArticlesFelicitous "Misalignments": Bagyi Aung Soe's Manaw Maheikdi Dat PangyiYin Er The Painting of Prostitutes in Indonesian Modern ArtMatt Cox Rites of Change: Artistic Responses to Recent Street Protests in Kuala LumpurFiona Lee The Third Avant-garde: Messages...
Southeast Asian Lives: Personal Narratives and Historical Experience
Edited by Roxana Waterson Southeast Asian Lives presents life stories of ordinary people in Southeast Asia, one of the most dynamic and rapidly changing regions in the world. The narratives illustrate the richness of life histories in revealing what it...
Southeast of Now Vol. 8, No. 1
The first issue of the eighth volume features: Articles Fifty Years Later: Art, Ecocide and Animatedness in VietnamBrianne Cohen Why Exhibit Trauma?Serubiri Moses Telemetric Feeling in Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett’s The Ring of Fire (2014–Present)Soh Kay Min /Shi: A...
Southeast of Now Vol. 8, No. 2 & Vol. 9, No. 1
This special issue features: Editorial Introduction Yvonne Low, Simon Soon Articles From Wild School to Wild Food: Struggles for Food Sovereignty in Indonesian Research-based Art Edwin Jurriëns Fullness Over Flatness: Re-tangling Ethnicity and Religion in Yeoh Jin Leng's Baptism of Fire (2003) Eric...
Southeast of Now Vol. 3, No. 1
The first issue of the third volume features: Editorial: Gender in Southeast Asian Art HistoriesYvonne Low, Roger Nelson, Clare Veal Articles Making Line and Medium May Adadol Ingawanij Art on the Back BurnerEileen Legaspi-Ramirez Picturing FemininityEksuda Singhalampong Women, Tradition and...
Southeast of Now Vol. 7, No. 1
The first issue of the seventh volume features: Articles Where Is My Land?:: Sand Extraction, Land Reclamation, and Artistic Imagination in Cambodia and SingaporeAna Bilbao Latent If Not Present: Arriving at and Departing from Lito MayoKiko Del Rosario Towards an...
Southeast of Now Vol. 2, No. 1
The first issue of the second volume features:Editorial: MovementArticlesItinerant Cinematic Practices in and around Thailand during the Cold War May Adadol Ingawanji Negotiating Change in Recent Southeast Asian ArtJohn Clark Manchukuo, Capitalism and the East Asian Modern: Desire in Kishi the VampireMi...
Typhoons: Climate, Society, and History in the Philippines
For Ateneo de Manila University Press James Francis Warren Typhoons offers an unprecedented and extensive view of the complex interplay of typhoons and Philippine society. Its sweeping coverage of the Philippine landscape that includes the earliest contact with the West, the...
Philippine Ancestral Gold
Edited by Florina H. Capistrano- Baker, John Guy and John N. Miksic Philippine Ancestral Gold is a spectacular publication in full-color that features more than 1,000 gold objects that were recovered in the Philippines from the 1960s to 1981 and...