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Jim Scott in memoriam, Southeast Asian studies in perpetuum

“The field of Southeast Asian studies has come to resemble the region as he saw and celebrated it, warts and all”

James C. Scott: against the myopic study of politics

“To become good and dynamic, political science must be broadened and cooperate with, among others, anthropologists, sociologists, and historians”

The price of representation in Indonesia

New evidence for the overriding importance of money in electoral success

In Myanmar, prison protests are revolutionary

“The prisoner’s body is a political, but perishable, weapon.”

Amid revolution, Myanmar’s NGOs face a deficit of donor solidarity

Relationships need to move beyond oversight to solidarity

Reclaiming Phnom Penh’s streets for citizens

On the promise of “spontaneous tactical urbanism” to renew Cambodia’s capital

Forgotten war in Burma, ignored war in Myanmar

International media outlets’ clichéd descriptions of the ongoing conflict are at best self-incriminating

The workers paying the price for Indonesia’s nickel boom

An industry that markets itself as socially responsible is failing in its duty to protect worker safety

Review: “On the Shadow Tracks”

“This is a book with a whole lot of heart for Myanmar and her people.”

Ayungin Shoal and the spectre of informal international law

What an alleged gentleman’s agreement tells us about China’s vision of international law

Indonesia’s killer commodity

The kretek cigarette industry and its devastating public health impacts are sustained via a huge apparatus of labour, and appeals to cultural nationalism