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On this page you will find a selection of recent publications by SEAC Associates as well as the full library of SEAC Event Recordings.

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SEAC is delighted to have published  edited by SEAC Associate, Professor Hyun Bang Shin. This book features the work of 38 contributors, more than 30 of whom originating from Southeast Asia or based therein. This new edited volume compiles reflections on the following three themes: (1) Urbanisation, digital infrastructures, economies, and the environment; (2) Migrants, (im)mobilities, and borders; and (3) Collective action, communities, and mutual action. Read more and download your copy .

Selected recent books by SEAC Associates

2023 / forthcoming

Shin, H.B. and Gimm, D-W. (eds.) The Political Economy of Mega Projects in Asia: Globalization and Urban Transformation. Regions and Cities Series. Routledge (due 2024).

Shin. H.B. Making China Urban: Geographical Aspects of Development and Disparity. Routledge (under contract).

2021 

Shin, H.B., Mckenzie, M. and Oh, D.Y., eds. (2022)  ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Press, London, UK. ISBN 9781909890763

Sidel, J. 2021. Cornell University Press.

2020

Brickell, K. 2020. . Wiley. 

Sidel, J. and Faustino, J. 2020. . The Asia Foundation. 

Smith, T. & Schulze, K. 2020 (eds) . London: IB Tauris.

2019

Chen, Y.L. & Shin. H.B., 2019. . Palgrave Macmillan.

Rigg, J., 2019. . University of Hawaii Press.

Sidel, J. & Faustino, J. 2019. The Asia Foundation.

2018

Ortiz, C. & Lipietz, B. (2018) (eds.) The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, Asian Coalition of Housing Rights and Community Architects Network.

2017

Brickell, K., Arrigoitia, M.F. and Vasudevan, A., 2017. . Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Koh, S.Y. 2017.  Asian Review30(1)

Koh, S.Y., 2017. . Springer.

Ortiz, C. & Lipietz, B.  2017 (eds.) The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, Asian Coalition of Housing Rights and Community Architects Network

2016

Brickell, K. and Springer, S. eds., 2016. . Taylor & Francis.

Chant, S. and McIlwaine, C., 2016. . Routledge: London

Haacke, Jürgen (2016)  Special Forum, 4 (1). ISSN 2288-5757

Lees, L., Shin, H.B. & López-Morales, E. 2016. . Cambridge, Polity Press.

McKay, D.C., 2016. . Indiana University Press.

Rigg, J., 2016. , London: Routledge, 250 pp

2015

Lees, L., Shin, H.B. & López-Morales, E. (eds.) (2015) . Bristol: Policy Press 

Selected recent research articles by SEAC Associates

2023/forthcoming

 Antona, Laura (2023)  Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

Antona, Laura (2023) Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48 (2). 425 - 438.

Oh, D.Y. and Shin, H.B. (2023) University as realestate developer: comparative perspectives from the global east. Geoforum, 144, 103764.

2022

Allerton, C. (2022) Discordant temporalities ofmigration and childhood. The Journal of theRoyal Anthropological Institute.

Natarajan, Nithya & Brickell, Katherine (2022) Credit, land and survival-work in rural Cambodia: rethinking rural autonomy through a feminist lens. Journal of Agrarian Change, 22(3). 473-488.

Brickell, Katherine, Lawreniuk, Sabina, McCarthy, Lauren, Chhom, Theavy & So, Hengvotey (2022) ‘Worn out’: Debt discipline, hunger, and the gendered contingencies of the COVID-19 pandemic amongst Cambodian garment workers. Social and Cultural Geography.

Forsyth, T., & Springate-Baginski, O. (2022).Who benefits from the agrarian transition underviolent conflict? Evidence from Myanmar. Journal of Rural Studies, 95, 160-172.

Koh, Sin Yee & Sin, I Lin (2022) Race, whiteness and internationality in transnational education: Academic and teacher expatriates in Malaysia. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45(4), 656-676.

Cheng, Yi’En & Koh, Sin Yee (2022) The ‘soft infrastructure’ of the Belt and Road Initiative: Imaginaries, affinities and subjectivities in Chinese transnational education. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Parmanand, Sharmila (2022) Ethics and Social Welfare, 16 (2). 129 - 143.

Parmanand, Sharmila (2022) European Journal of Women's Studies, 29 (1_suppl). 43S - 59S

Shin, H.B., Zhao, Y., & Koh, S.Y. (2022) The urbanising dynamics of global China: speculation,articulation, and translation in global capitalism. Urban Geography, 43(10), 1457-1468.

Sidel, J.T. (2022) Crisis as Catalyst: Introducing Urban Transport Reforms in the Philippines Amidst the Global Pandemic. The Asia Foundation.

Steinmüller, Hans (2022) Sovereignty as care: acquaintances, mutuality, and scale in the Wa state of Myanmar. Comparative Studies in Society and History.

Steinmüller, Hans (2022) Grace is incommensurability in commensuration: the semantics of bwan among three generations of Wa and Lahu prophets’. Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 40 (1). 104-120. 

2021

Natarajan, Nithya, Brickell, Katherine, Guermond, Vincent, Lawreniuk, Sabina & Parsons, Laurie (2021) Challenging the Financial Inclusion-Decent Work Nexus: Evidence from Cambodia’s Over-indebted Internal Migrants. Global Public Policy and Governance, 1. 361–381.

Brickell, Katherine. (2021) Event(ful) spaces of organised legal encounter: Reflections from a client consultation competition on domestic violence law in Cambodia. Area, 53(4). 586-594.

Forsyth, Tim and Springate-Baginski, Oliver (2021) Are landscape approaches possible under authoritarianism? Multi-stakeholder governance and social transformation in Myanmar. Environmental Science and Policy, 124. 359 - 369.

Koh, S.Y. 2021  Urban Studies.

Martin-Anatias, Nelly, Long, Nicholas J., Graham Davies, Sharyn, Aikman, Pounamu Jade, Appleton, Nayantara Sheoran, Deckert, Antje, Fehoko, Edmond, Holroyd, Eleanor, Jivraj, Naseem, Laws, Megan, Roguski, Michael, Simpson, Nikita, Sterling, Rogena, Trnka, Susanna and Tunufa’i, Laumua (2021) Lockdown Ibuism: experiences of Indonesian migrant mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, 45.

McCargo, Duncan (2021) Network Monarchy as Euphoric Couplet. Pacific Affairs, 94(3), 549-565.

Parmanand, Sharmila (2021) Journal of International Women's Studies, 22 (2). 78 -91.

Sidel, John T. (2021) Vannessa Hearman. Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia. The American Historical Review, 126(2), 779-780. 

Steinmüller, H. , 2021 , Social Anthropology.

Steinmüller, Hans (2021) State, mind, and legibility without writing in the Wa State of Myanmar. Ethnos.

Yin, Qingfei, and Path, Kosal (2021) Remembering and forgetting the last war: discursive memory of the Sino-Vietnamese war in China and Vietnam. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 9 (1). 11 - 29.

2020

Allerton, C. 2020 . Critique of Anthropology 

Koh, S.Y., 2020 , International Migration Review 

Koh, S. Y., Harris, A., 2020 , Children's Geographies

McKay, D. 2020 , Modern Languages Open. 

Ong, A. and Steinmüller, H., 2020 , Critique of Anthropology

Shin, H. B., Zhao, Y., and Koh, S. Y., 2020 , City

Sidel, J. 2020 , Critical Asian Studies, 52 (3).

Steinmüller, H. , 2020 , Social Anthropology, 28 (1)

Steinmüller, H. , 2020 , Critical Asian Studies, 52 (3)

Zhao, Y., 2020 , Urban Geography, 41 (10)

Zhao, Y., 2020 , Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 13 (3)

2019

Bateman, M., Natarajan, N., Brickell, K., and Parsons, L., 2019 ‘’. Made in China Journal. 4(1)

Brearley, F.Q., Adinugroho, W.C., Cámara-Leret, R., Krisnawati, H., Ledo, A., Qie, L., Smith, T.E., Aini, F., Garnier, F., Lestari, N.S. and Mansur, M., 2019. . Annals of Forest Science

Cole, R. and Rigg, J., 2019. . The Australian Journal of Anthropology.

Forsyth, T., 2019. . Antipode.

Forsyth, T., 2019. . Annals of the American Association of Geographers109(2)

Graham, N. and Brickell, K., 2019. . Gender, Place & Culture.

Haacke, J. & Breen, J. H., 2019  (Contemporary Southeast Asia Vol. 41/3 (December 2019) 

Haacke, J. 2019. . International Relations of the Asia-Pacific.

Haacke, Jürgen (2019)  H-Diplo Roundtable Review. pp. 13-16.

Huat, C.B., Dean, K., Engseng, H., Chong, H.K., Rigg, J. and Yeoh, B., 2019.  South East Asia Research27(1).

McCargo, D., 2019. . Journal of Democracy30(4).

McCargo, D., 2019.. Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs41(2).

McKay, D. and Perez, P., 2019. . Third World Quarterly40(10).

Natarajan, N., Parsons, L. and Brickell, K., 2019. . Antipode.

Natarajan, N., Brickell, K. and Parsons, L., 2019. . Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.

Schulze, K.E. and Hwang, J.C., 2019. . Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs41(1).

Schulze, K.E., 2019. . Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs41(1).

Schulze, K.E. and Liow, J.C., 2019. . Asian Security15(2).

Steinmüller, H., 2019. . Comparative Studies in Society and History61(3).

2018

Allerton, C., 2018. . Ethnos.

Allerton, C., 2018. . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies44(7).

Antona, L (2018) . Area. ISN 1475-4762

Haacke, Jürgen and Breen, John Harley (2018)  East Asia Forum. pp. 1-3. ISSN 1839-0242

Long, N.J., 2018. . Ethos46(1).

Long, N.J., 2018. . Medical anthropology quarterly.

Rigg, J., Salamanca, A., Phongsiri, M. and Sripun, M., 2018. . World development107.

Rigg, J., 2018. . Asia Pacific Viewpoint59(2).

Rigg, J., 2018. . TRaNS: Trans-Regional and-National Studies of Southeast Asia6(1).

Schulze, K. and Hwang, J.C. 2018. , Terrorism and Political Violence, 30 (6)  

Smith, T.E.L., Evers, S., Yule, C.M. and Gan, J.Y., 2018. . Global Biogeochemical Cycles32(1).

2017

Allerton, C., 2017. . Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies15(3).

Brickell, K., 2017. . Journal of interpersonal violence32(9).

Long, N.J., 2017.. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute23(4).

McCargo, D., 2017. . International Journal of Communication11.

McCargo, D., 2017. . Critical Asian Studies49(3).

Schulze, K.E., 2017. . Ethnic and racial studies40(12).

2016

Brickell, K., 2016.. Dialogues in human geography6(2).

Haacke, J., 2016. , ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, Trends 4/2016.

Haacke, Jürgen (2016)  Special Forum, 4 (1)

Rigg, J., Salamanca, A. and Thompson, E.C., 2016. . Journal of Rural Studies43.

2015

Brickell, K., 2015. . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers40(3).

Brickell, K. and Platt, M., 2015. . Ethnos80(3).

Gibson, K., Cahill, A. and McKay, D., 2015.. Making Other Worlds Possible: Performing Diverse Economies.

Haacke, J. 2015.  Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 34(2)

Koh, S.Y., 2015. . Geography Compass9(8).

Koh, S.Y., 2015. . Asian and Pacific Migration Journal24(1).

Koh, S.Y., 2015. . Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies41(3).

McCargo, D., 2015. . Asian Studies Review39(1).

McCargo, D., 2015. . Contemporary Southeast Asia.

Rigg, J. and Oven, K., 2015. . Global Environmental Change32.

2014

Allerton, C., 2014. . Tilburg Law Review19(1-2).

Brickell, K., 2014.. Annals of the Association of American Geographers104(6).

Brickell, K., 2014. . Geoforum51.

Rigg, J., Promphaking, B. and Le Mare, A., 2014. . World Development59.

Rigg, J., Nguyen, T.A. and Luong, T.T.H., 2014. . Journal of Development Studies50(3).

Selected recent book chapters by SEAC Associates

2022

Long, N. J. (2022) Fieldwork, or family therapy? Kinship, status, and therapeutic ethnography in Sumedang, West Java. In: Haug, Michaela and Stolz, Rosalie, (eds.) Ethnographic Encounters: Essays in Honour of Martin Rössler. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Cologne, DE. 

2021

Shin, H.B ‘Theorising from where? Reflections on De-centring Global (Southern) Urbanism’ in Lancione, M. and McFarlane, C. (eds), Global Urbanism: Knowledge, Power and the City (London: Routledge: 2021)

2020

Schulze, K. and Hwang, J.C. ‘From Afghanistan to Syria: How the global remains local for Indonesian Islamist Militants’  in Tom Smith and Kirsten E. Schulze (eds), Exporting the Global Jihad: ‘Critical’ Perspectives from the Periphery, (London: IB Tauris, 2020)

2019 

McKay, D.  2019. The Philippines-Hong Kong Corridor. In: Bastia, T. and Skeldon, R. eds., . London: Routledge

Shin, H.B., (2019) "Asian urbanism." In: .

Shin, H.B. (2019) Contesting Property Hegemony in Asian Cities. In:  Chen, Y.-L. and Shin, H.B. (eds.) . Palgrave Macmillan.

Chen, Y.-L. and Shin, H.B. (2019) Centering Housing Questions in Asian Cities. In:  Chen, Y.-L. and Shin, H.B. (eds.) . Palgrave Macmillan.

2017

Haacke, J., 2017 ‘Regional’, in Adam Simpson, Nicholas Farelly and Ian Holliday, eds., Abingdon: Routledge, 2018.

2016

Allerton, C., 2016. ' "Difficult" Children: Ethnographic Chaos and Creativity in Migrant Malaysia.' In Allerton, C. ed., 2016. . Bloomsbury Publishing.

Haacke, J., 2016.  In: Bellamy, Alex and Dunne, Tim, (eds.) . Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK

Long, N.J., 2016. . In Rethinking Power Relations in Indonesia. Routledge.

2014

Haacke, J., 2014.  In: Steinberg, David I., (ed.) Myanmar: The Dynamics of an Evolving Polity. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, USA.

Recordings of past SEAC events

The 2024 Presidential Elections in Indonesia: Do they Matter? (V)

Wednesday 6 December

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in the Philippines

Wednesday 29 November

The Making of an Authoritarian Dynasty: From Hun Sen to Hun Manet in Cambodia (V)

Wednesday 22 November

Consumer Socialism and Vietnam’s New Middle Classes (V)

Wednesday 15 November

China, Japan, and the United States and Infrastructure in Southeast Asia: The Geopolitics of Transportation and Telecommunications Development in the Philippines (V)

8 November 2023

Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar (V)

1 November 2023

Branding Authoritarian Nations: Political Legitimation and Strategic National Myths in Military-Ruled Thailand (Book launch) (V)

25 October 2023

Rendering the Southeast Asian smallholder ‘social’ (V)

19 October 2023

Malaysia’s rise as an Islamic financial frontier (V)

11 October 2023

Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, and the State (V)

4 October 2023

Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy: The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste (V)

27 September 2023

Towards an Infrastructural Sublime: Recent Films from a Hub in the Global Supply Chain (V)

14 June 2023

The Ambiguous Axis; The Royal City in Contemporary Context (V)

8 June 2023

In the Shadow of the Constitution: the Micropolitics of Constitutional Contestation in Cambodia (V)

31 May 2023

Corruption, Property and Space-time in the Southeast Asian City (V)

22 May 2023

Fernando Amorsolo: Master Painter of Philippine Sunlight and Elite Conceptions of Nature (V)

3 May 2023

Modalities of Speculative Urbanism: Tales from Jakarta

4 April 2023

Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar

29 March 2023

The Cutting-Edge Youth Movement in Thailand and Unfinished Democracy

23 March 2023

Seasonality in the Anthropocene: Understanding Transboundary Haze in Southeast Asia

8 March 2023

Urban Political Ecologies on the Edge and the Making of Manila's Resource Frontier

3 March 2023

Storefront Maids and Shopfloor Maids on the Global Labor Assembly Line: Control and Deployment of Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore and Indonesia

8 February 2023

Roundtable: After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong’s first Handover, 1997–2019

30 January 2023

Gentrification in Thai, Thailand, Thai land

25 January 2023

Urban Risk and Well-Being in Asian Mega Cities: Urban lower and middle classes in Bangkok, Shanghai, and Tokyo

18 January 2023

23 November 2022

Authoritarian Nostalgia, Democratic Ambivalence, and the Marcos Political Comeback in the Philippines

23 November 2022

17 November 2022

Public Subsidy/Private Capital: Political Economic Contradictions in Singapore's Public Housing System

16 November 2022

Justice After Carbon Workshop

10 November 2022

Interconnected Worlds: electronics global production networks after the pandemic

9 November 2022

Saving our Sisters: Exploring the politics of anti-trafficking and sex work in the Philippines

9 November 2022

Decentring Critical Urban Scholarship: Conversations with IJURR

3 November 2022

1 November 2022

Does State-Sponsored Violence Lead to Democratic Erosion? Evidence from a List Experiment in the Philippines

26 October 2022

Governing the Gig-Economy in the Global South: Examining Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective

18 October 2022

Scrutinizing Nusantara: The Fallacies of Indonesia's New Capital

12 October 2022

From Red Revolution to Red Solution: China and the Cold War Endgame in Indochina

5 October 2022

'Making space for the new state capitalism' A SEAC-IBF Roundtable Discussion

3 October 2022

ECR Event: Opportunities in Asia for Southeast Asia focused PhDs

28 September

Counter-mapping in Southeast Asia: Mapping With and For the People (V)

22 June 2022

Sociological Portraits of the Indonesian Office Corps: Introducing the INDOMAG Dataset (V)

15 June 2022

“Don’t Always Blame Climate Change”: The Political Ecology of Uneven Development and Vulnerability to Flooding in Southeast Asian Megacities (V)

1 June 2022

Electoral Dystopias in the Philippines: From Colonial Democracy to Duterte and the Return of the Marcoses (V)

25 May 2022

Expanding transboundary water governance: A mobile political ecology of sand and shifting resource-based livelihoods in Southeast Asia (V)

18 May 2022

Doing Research in Cambodia: Connecting the Dots, Spotting the Interlinks (V)

11 May 2022

Muslim parliamentarians and the allure of socialism: the case of Indonesia's Masjumi, 1950 – 60 (V)

4 May 2022

Let It Burn Out: The 1957 Flu Pandemic and Decolonisation in Singapore (V)

6 April 2022

The importance of humiliation: 1974, Vietnam and the South China Sea (V)

23 March 2022

Urban Waterscapes and Global Climate Justice: Views from Jakarta (V) 

16 March 2022

Community-Led Development as Pathway to Urban Equality: Perspectives from the ACHR Network (V)

9 March 2022

FinTech in Southeast Asia: Observations across consumption and production dynamics (V)

3 March 2022

COVID-19 in Southeast Asia: insights for a post-pandemic world (V)

23 February 2022

China's Belt and Road Initiative: the impact on sub-regional Southeast Asia (V)

9 February 2022

The Sino-Soviet Split from the Periphery: The Philippines as Case Study (V)

2 February 2022

The Urban Agency of Global China: Tales from Four Cities in the UK, Malaysia and China (V)

25 January 2022

Cultivating migrant-driven diversity and the production of difference in Singapore (V)

19 January 2022

Critical Voices from Myanmar: Contexts and Concerns after the 2021 coup d'état

13 December 2021

Roundtable: Living Heritage and Urban Informalities: Perspectives from Southeast Asian Cities (V)

6 December 2021

Southeast Asian Waters Series: Property, Profit & Risk: Jakarta's Real Estate Industry and the Ongoing Water Crisis (V)

24 November 2021

Southeast Asian Waters Series: Ghosts in the Machine: Technology and Imperialism in Maritime Asia (V)

17 November 2021

Roundtable: Southeast Asia's Contentious Polls: Electoral Management in Comparative Perspective (V)

10 November 2021

Society and Economy in Southeast Asia: Presentations by ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ PhD researchers (V)

29 October 2021

Work and Life in the COVID-19 Era: (Preliminary) findings from the SEAC Undergraduate Research Fellowship Projects (V)

28 October 2021

The Role of Philanthropy in a New Social Contract (V)

27 October 2021

Roundtable: Comparative Urbanism for Southeast Asia (V)

26 October 2021

Environment and Politics in Southeast Asia: Presentations by the awardees of the SEAC Research Fund (V)

25 October 2021

Book Launch: Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia by Prof. John Sidel (V)

20 October 2021

With, without and/or against the state? Exploring the (re)production of space in the Global South (V)

13 October 2021

The Colliding Emo-Scapes of Indonesia and Malaysia Affecting Migration Governance: Emotional Connectivity and the Counter Narratives of Migrant Domestic Workers (V)

6 October 2021

Digital Interventions on Urban Societal Challenges in Southeast Asian Communities

16 June 2021

27 May 2021

Southeast Asia Digital Summer School

20-26 May 2021

Land, Ladies, and the Law: A Case Study on Women’s Land Rights and Welfare in Southeast Asia in the Nineteenth Century

13th May 2021

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9th March 2021

Life in a Post-COVID World: learning from Southeast Asia
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3rd February 2016

Australia's role in Indonesian independence - liberal internationalism in action, or the realpolitik of regional security? (P)
20th January 2016


13th January 2016

ISIS in Southeast Asia: The Apocalypse, Just War and Pragmatic Jihad (P)
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