Rescuing Malaysian higher education from neoliberalism Putrayaja is taking Malaysia’s universities down the sorry path tread by many other governments towards commercialisation—and the declining ...

Beyond the “Berkeley Mafia” A look at the rise of banker and investor technocrats in Indonesia—and how they’ve eclipsed academic economists as a key source of influence over the direction of economic ...

An ethnography of rural electrification in LaosFrom flickers to full power: when reliable electricity arrived in Banmai Scholarship on the impacts of hydroelectricity often focuses on what it destroys ...

Floramante SJ Ponce merges various anthropological and sociological theories and methods to understand Southeast Asia’s economic, political, and sociocultural dynamics, particularly those of Laos and ...

Attapeu’s new city pillar: worship, develop, unite! The mining industry is posed to transform the economy of Laos’ southernmost province of Attapeu. Mineral wealth is being enshrined—literally—in a ...

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 ...

Aqida Salma is a PhD candidate in political science and Southeast Asian studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, and a visiting fellow at Cornell University through the AIFIS–Henry Luce Foundation and ...

Elites in Indonesia increasingly treat social media as a proxy for the popular will—and live in fear of its wrath. On the one hand, that reflects well on Indonesia’s democratic health. But as Aqida ...

Amrih Widodo retired from the Australian National University in 2017 after a career lecturing in Indonesian language and cultures, performing arts, media and popular cultures in universities in ...

Anthony John Stanhope Reid—known to friends, students, and colleagues simply as Tony—passed away on Sunday, 8 June 2025, in Canberra. It was a quiet Sunday, typically devoted to church and reflection ...