Bøker i Modern Southeast Asia-serien

This edited volume examines the many facets of contemporary Malaysia-India bilateral relations. The contributors provide analysis from the perspectives of trade and economic relations, people-to-people connections, tourism, security cooperation, ethnic identities, comparative religiosity, and revisiting the historical links between these countries.

This book studies the Indonesian martial art Pencak Silat and related media practices, and, building on that, assesses mediatization processes, meaning the potential influence of technology-based media practices. Pencak Silat represents a cultural system of values and beliefs, with hierarchical structures and relations, and social advancement being mediated in embodied social learning. The study contributes to martial arts studies and media studies, demonstrating potentials and limitations of media technologies and their (dis-)embodiment their extension or reduction of the body as medium, and their embeddedness in or detachment from a given socio-cultural context. With Pencak Silat being practiced all over Indonesia, by a large part of the population, the thesis also represents a contribution to Indonesian studies. Based on extensive fieldwork (between 2008 and 2016), the study analyzes martial arts and/as media in Indonesia, and presents an ethnography of Pencak Silat and mediatization.

The book offers a sociological perspective on postconflict transitions. It dissects the inner ranks of three Cambodian insurgent groups and develops a theory explaining the path-dependencies of various social groups of former soldiers and commanders.

A former CIA officer led one hell of an interesting life, from Montana to Southeast Asia. Equally embraces a rowdy Western life, the brutal realities of ground war, and the beauty of tribal funeral rituals.

This edited volume features a collection of disparate case studies that examine the varied ways in which local cultural, social, and political dynamics inform and mitigate the veritable road map toward palpable and meaningful progress with pursuing the goals of environmental sustainability in Southeast Asia.

Stories of grit and gumption, as told by the "Mud Marines"