Category: Southeast Asia
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Singapore Circa 1965: Multiracial Legacies and Nation-Building in a Nationless State
Abstract: In 1965, after a tumultuous two-year union, Singapore was unilaterally expelled from the Federation…
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Looking Back at Indochine, The Lover, and Dien Bien Phu: Justifying Panivong Norindr’s Phantasmatic Indochina
Abstract: In 1992, three French film productions were released: The Lover (L’Amant) directed by Jean-Jacques…
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A Pandemic of Protest: COVID-19 and the Thai Democracy Movement
While 2020 marked an unprecedented transition into the COVID-19 pandemic, it also saw a resurgence…
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Event Report: “Japan and Asia in the Post Pandemic Era: Selective Cooperation vs. Strategic Competition in Southeast Asia”
On April 13, the Centre for the Study of Global Japan, the Asian Institute, and…
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Event Report: “Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam”
On April 22, 2021, the Centre for the Study of the United States (CSUS), joined…
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The Act of Killing: Re-enacting the Indonesian Massacres
Keywords: Indonesian coup, psychological warfare, Cold War in Asia-Pacific, reconciliation, documentary methodology Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary/docufiction…
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Regulated Bodies: Sex Trafficking and Sex Work in Thailand
Keywords: Sex Worker, Sex Trafficking, Precarious, Raids, Collusion Introduction Thailand is renowned as one of…
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COVID-19: A Crisis of Chinese Clientelism in Cambodia and Laos
While states have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic to differing extents, a closer examination…
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Event Report: Securitizing COVID-19 in the Philippines
How does the state transform the COVID-19 pandemic into a security threat? On November 23,…
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Event Report: Race and Singapore Short Cinema
On October 22, the Jackman Humanities Institute and the UTM Collaborative Digital Research Space at…
