Iola Lenzi’s Power, Politics and the Street: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia after 1970 (Lund Humprhies, 2024, 240 pages) is the latest addition to a narrow but deep bibliography aiming to account ...

Art in a time of democratic abeyance in Thailand In "Memory Complex", an empty Bangkok shophouse becomes home to artworks that provide a potent reminder of the sacrifices made for the possiblity of ...

Extracting value, losing ground: the critical minerals boom in Palawan Despite a 2025 moratorium on mining that halts new permits to mine ‘critical’ minerals in the island province, local Indigenous ...

Sea space, conflict and state building in Sulawesi In Indonesia, a boom in demand for seaweed from largely China-based industry has transformed seaweed farmers’ relationships with the sea and each ...

There’s a notorious stretch of road in Indonesia, by the border of North Sumatra and Aceh provinces, that passes through kilometres and kilometres of oil palm plantations. There are few people there, ...

Coffee, conflict, and inadvertent state-building in Vietnam Post-Đổi Mới Vietnam saw large-scale internal migration by those seeking new economic opportunities opened up by the reforms. Amid a boom in ...

Making Mainland Southeast Asia safe for autocracy The region’s close political and economic links to Beijing loom large in explanations of why it remains in the democratic doldrums. But overemphasis ...

Name-calling in Myanmar: on protocols From Naypyidaw to Tatmadaw, how various political actors are referred to is more politically loaded than many journalists, and some scholars, recognise. Andrew ...

Ethnic solidarities in Myanmar: coalitions or movement? The social revolution bound up in the resistance to the coup has opened, in a partial yet meaningful way, avenues for Myanmar to transcend ...

Jokowi broke the ‘Reformasi coalition’ Repression and harassment have played a part in the political marginalisation of reformist civil society. But that marginalisation is also deeply linked to ...

Ethnonationalism and Myanmar’s future The crisis in Myanmar is a fundamental struggle over the identity and structure of the nation-state. Underpinning this conflict are ethnonational politics that ...

Jim Scott in memoriam, Southeast Asian studies in perpetuum Scott’s scholarship “has provided not only a shared point of reference but also a guiding spirit which has helped to sustain and to ...