Book reviews

Reviews from Aseasuk News no.49 (Spring 2011)

Heritage Tourism in Southeast Asia

Between frontiers: nation and identity in a Southeast Asian borderland

Islamic connections: Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia

Singapore: the unexpected nation

Islam, education and reform in southern Thailand: tradition and transformation

Digital atlas of Indonesian history

Reviews from Aseasuk News no. 48 (Autumn 2010)

·     Wartime in Burma: a diary, January to June 1942

·     The Shan of Burma:  memoirs of a Shan exile

·     Divided over Thaksin. Thailand’s coup and problematic transition

·     Working with nature against poverty – development, resources and the environment in eastern Indonesia

·     The Iban diaries of Monica Freeman 1949-1951 including ethnographic drawings, sketches, paintings, photographs and letters

·     The formative years of Malaysian politics: the MCA and the Alliance, 1950-1954

·     Race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore

·     The state, development and identity in multi-ethnic societies

Reviews from Aseasuk News no. 47 (Spring 2010)

·      The art of not being governed: an anarchist history of upland Southeast Asia

·      Securing Southeast Asia: the politics of security sector reform

·      Southeast Asia in world history

·      Asia on tour. Exploring the rise of Asian tourism

·      Kampung, Islam and state in urban Java

·      Javanese performance on an Indonesian stage: celebrating culture, embracing change

·      The politics of the periphery in Indonesia: social and geographical perspectives

·      Making fields of merit: Buddhist female ascetics and gendered orders in Thailand

·      Post-conflict heritage, postcolonial tourism: culture, politics and development at Angkor

·      Building the Tatmadaw: Myanmar Armed Forces since 1948

·      Singapore in the Malay world: building and breaching regional bridges

·      Multiethnic Malaysia: past, present and future

Reviews from Aseasuk News no. 46 (Autumn 2009)

·      Military politics, Islam and the state in Indonesia: from turbulent transition to democratic consolidation

·      Muslims and matriarchs: cultural resilience in Indonesia through jihad and colonialism

·      Paths and rivers:  Sa’dan Toraja society in transformation

·      Torture, truth and justice: the case of Timor Leste

·      Loan-words in Indonesian and Malay

·      A history of modern Burma

·      Colonialism, violence and Muslims in Southeast Asia: the Maria Hertogh controversy and its aftermath

·      Across the causeway: a multi-dimensional study of Malaysia-Singapore relations

·      Constructing Singapore: elitism, ethnicity and the nation-building project

·      Proper Islamic consumption: shopping among the Malays in modern Malaysia

·      Hard choices: security, democracy, and regionalism in Southeast Asia

·      Tourism in Southeast Asia: challenges and new directions

·      The sociology of Southeast Asia: transformations in a developing region

·      Southeast Asia in the global economy: securing competitiveness and social protection

·      Gendered politics in Asia: women manoeuvring with dominant gender orders