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Publications

Elisabeth Kramer
In The Candidate's Dilemma, Elisabeth Kramer tells the story of how three political candidates in Indonesia made decisions to resist, engage in, or otherwise incorporate money politics into their…

Southeast Asia Program

Steffen Bo Jensen and Karl Hapal
Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics explores the notoriously brutal Philippine war on drugs from below. Steffen Bo Jensen and Karl Hapal examine how the war on drugs folded itself into…

Southeast Asia Program

Sango Mahanty
Unsettled Frontiers provides a fresh view of how resource frontiers evolve over time. Since the French colonial era, the Cambodia-Vietnam borderlands have witnessed successive waves of market…

Southeast Asia Program

Chiara Formichi
In 1945, Sukarno declared that the new Indonesian republic would be grounded on monotheism, while also insisting that the new nation would protect diverse religious practice.

Southeast Asia Program

By Our Faculty
Grace Nono
Babaylan Sing Back depicts the embodied voices of Native Philippine ritual specialists popularly known as babaylan. These ritual specialists are widely believed to have perished during colonial times…

Southeast Asia Program

Joshua Baker and Eric Tagliacozzo
Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and book reviews.

Southeast Asia Program

By Our Faculty
Arnout van der Mee
Performing Power illuminates how colonial dominance in Indonesia was legitimized, maintained, negotiated, and contested through the everyday staging and public performance of power between the…

Southeast Asia Program

Tom G. Hoogervorst
By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G.

Southeast Asia Program

Leslie Castro-Woodhouse
Woman between Two Kingdoms explores the story of Dara Rasami, one of 153 wives of King Chulalongkorn of Siam during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in a kingdom near…

Southeast Asia Program

Mirjam Lücking
Indonesians and Their Arab World explores the ways contemporary Indonesians understand their relationship to the Arab world.

Southeast Asia Program