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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Name-calling in Myanmar: on people Honorifics, nicknames and pseudonyms for prominent Myanmar figures have been a mainstay of Myanmar public life, with the subtleties of their use often lost on many ...

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 ...

Buddhist division and polarisation in Myanmar’s revolutionary situation While military co-optation strategies of the Sangha are an important dynamic, there is also significant monastic resistance 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 ...

A new direction for the New Colombo Plan. Maybe. Changes to the decade-old program seek to extend the length of time Australian students spend studying in Asia and the Pacific, but universities ...

Review: “On the Shadow Tracks” In her account of explorations of Myanmar’s railway network, Clare Hammond has produced a travelogue of empire, authoritarianism—and hope.

The growing contradictions of Singapore’s HDB scheme Singapore's lauded public housing scheme is more than a welfare program—it's a key political and economic institution. But its greatest irony is ...