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Stephen Huard, "Calibrated Engagement: Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar" (‎Berghahn Books, 2024)

This episode of New Books in Southeast Asian Studies features Stéphen Huard talking about Calibrated Engagement: Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar (‎Berghahn Books, 2024), in which he takes a deep dive into the history and ant... more

1 Nov 2025 • 52 min

Jeff Neilson, "Fortress Farming: Agrarian Transitions, Livelihoods, and Coffee Value Chains in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

Over the last several decades, sources of income derived away from farms have come to play a much bigger role in rural Indonesian households. How do rural people in Indonesia engage with farming and social and economic spheres beyond their villages? ... more

25 Oct 2025 • 44 min

Vincent Pak, "Queer Correctives: Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality and Christianity in Singapore" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Queer Correctives: Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality and Christianity in Singapore (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) explores Christian discourses of sex and sexuality in Singapore to argue that metanoia, the theological concept of spiritual transformat... more

3 Oct 2025 • 53 min

Kathryn Dyt, "The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)

When we think about the way that Southeast Asian rulers governed their kingdoms, we usually think of the relationship between the rulers and the people. But as Katheryn Dyt shows in her new book, The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteent... more

1 Oct 2025 • 40 min

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Episode: Jeff Neilson, "Fortress Farming: Agrarian Transitions, Livelihoods, and Coffee Value Chains in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

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Episode: Vincent Pak, "Queer Correctives: Discursive Neo-homophobia, Sexuality and Christianity in Singapore" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Kathryn Dyt

Author and British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the History Department at SOAS, University of London

SOAS, University of London

Episode: Kathryn Dyt, "The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)

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Matthew Bowser

Assistant Professor of Asian History at Alabama A&M University

Alabama A&M University

Episode: Matthew Bowser, "Containing Decolonization: British Imperialism and the Politics of Race in Late Colonial Burma" (Manchester UP, 2025)

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Episode: Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (William Collins, 2025)

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Episode: Islam, Society, and Politics in Indonesia: An Interview with Robert Hefner

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Julie Yu-Wen Chen

Professor of Chinese Studies at University of Helsinki, Finland

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This is one of those podcasts that I’m incredibly grateful for. It provides in depth conversation with Southeast Asian scholars regarding topics that have traditionally been inaccessible or unknown to the mainstream public, at least in the English speaking world. I truly hope more people get to listen to this amazing podcast. Keep up the awesome work! You’re truly making a difference :)
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Jeff Neilson, "Fortress Farming: Agrarian Transitions, Livelihoods, and Coffee Value Chains in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

Q: What do you mean by institutional environment?

It refers to the incentive structures that shape human behavior, originating from the global value chain world and the work of Douglas North on institutions and economic history.

Jeff Neilson, "Fortress Farming: Agrarian Transitions, Livelihoods, and Coffee Value Chains in Indonesia" (Cornell UP, 2025)

Q: What led you to visit a village in South Sulawesi where coffee was being grown in 1998?

I was encouraged by a Tarajan friend who introduced me to the communities and helped me think about doing research in Taraja during a tumultuous period in Indonesia.

Ioana Emy Matesan, "The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Q: What does this mean and what are the implications for de-escalation?

Matesan explains that once a group offers justification for violence, it is challenging to control how individuals within the group behave.

Ioana Emy Matesan, "The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Q: What factors affect this perhaps seemingly contradictory finding?

Matesan highlights that the timing and context of repression play crucial roles in determining whether it leads to escalation or de-escalation.

Ioana Emy Matesan, "The Violence Pendulum: Tactical Change in Islamist Groups in Egypt and Indonesia" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Q: What does this mean and what are the implications of this for studying tactical change?

Matesan argues that Islamist groups operate both strategically and based on their religious motivations, impacting how they use violence.

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