South East Asia Research

Papers
(The TQCC of South East Asia Research is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The power of the blood: myths and practices surrounding menstruation in Indonesian diamond mining8
Tản Đà (1889–1939) and the making of new literature in colonial Vietnam7
Imperial borderlands: maps and territory-building in the Northern Indochinese Peninsula (1885–1914)6
Imagining Manila: literature, empire and orientalism6
Teardrops of time: Buddhist aesthetics in the poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong4
Fishers, monks and cadres: navigating state, religion and the South China Sea in Vietnam3
Vietnam’s policies and the role of the country of origin in the integration process of migrant workers in the EU3
Aung San Suu Kyi and ethnic cleansing: the dark side of ‘Myanmar way’ democracy3
The trope of the Native American in nineteenth-century British and American accounts of South East Asia3
Unsettled frontiers: market formation in the Cambodia–Vietnam Borderlands3
The relational archive of the Khmer Republic (1970–1975): re-visiting the ‘coup’ and the ‘civil war’ in Cambodia through written sources2
Embodying ‘Thainess’ and the post-2006 coup crisis in Buppesannivas ( Love Destiny )2
The culture of pamatbat and parapamatbat in the Central Philippines2
A feminist analysis of colonial representations of Visayan women at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition2
The restoration of gotong royong as a form of post-disaster solidarity in Lombok, Indonesia2
Blessing the living spaces of migrants: religious practices of Thai workers in Japan and their meanings2
Kretek capitalism: making, marketing, and consuming clove cigarettes in Indonesia2
Financialization and rural development: comparing credit systems in Thailand and Cambodia2
Agency, precarity and recognition: reframing South East Asian female migrant workers on screen2
The first Vietnam War: violence, sovereignty, and the fracture of the South, 1945-19562
Celluloid colony: locating history and ethnography in early Dutch colonial films Celluloid colony: locating history and ethnography in early Dutch colonial films , by Sa2
Return of the junta: why Myanmar’s military must return to barracks Return of the junta: why Myanmar’s military must return to barracks , by Oliver Slow, London, Bloomsb2
Trending Islam: cases from Southeast Asia2
Beauty, educational prestige and vote choice in Indonesia: an experimental study1
The deer and the dragon: Southeast Asia and China in the 21st century1
Performative politics: unravelling the complexities of Myanmar–China relations and the Belt and Road Initiative1
Postcolonial hangups in Southeast Asian cinema1
The 2018 and 2019 Indonesian elections: identity politics and regional perspectives1
Finding eunuchs in imperial Vietnam: questions and sources1
Cina Timor: Baba, Hakka, and Cantonese in the making of Timor-Leste1
Multispecies ethnography: reciprocal interaction between residents and the environment in Segara Anakan, Indonesia1
Making Mindanao: place-making and people-making in the southern Philippines1
Feigned resignation as political strategy: cracking the mysterious case of Phibunsongkhram’s reversal of resignation in 19431
The phantom world of Digul: policing as politics in colonial Indonesia, 1926–19411
‘Good for the country, beneficial to the family’: the Bắc Hưng Hải irrigation system and pragmatic collectivism in post-1954 northern Vietnam1
The story of suyam of Agusan Manobo1
Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018: Disease, Society and the State1
Wayward distractions: ornament, emotion, zombies and the study of Buddhism in Thailand1
Southeast Asia on screen: from independence to financial crisis (1945–1998)1
The downstream impacts of dams on the seasonally flooded riverine forests of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia1
Gender, violence, and power in Indonesia: across time and space0
Winning by process: the state and neutralization of ethnic minorities in Myanmar Winning by process: the state and neutralization of ethnic minorities in Myanmar , by Ja0
Guest editor’s foreword0
Port security and preman organizations in Indonesia0
Petitioning by clerks and the colonial state in late nineteenth-century Burma0
Jakarta: the city of a thousand dimensions0
Belittled citizens: the cultural politics of childhood on Bangkok’s margins0
Workers and democracy: The Indonesian labour movement, 1949–19570
Navigating stigmatized motherhood: self-stigma of single mothers with mental illness in Thailand0
Adapting to local markets and political changes: Chinese businesses in Malaysia and Indonesia0
Letters to the editor: reporting disasters and creating identity in the late nineteenth century Philippines0
The city in time: contemporary art and urban form in Vietnam and Cambodia0
The English East India Company and Cochinchina (1614–1705): from free trade to coercion0
Language superdiversity among ethnic minority communities in southeast Vietnam0
Cinema and the cultural cold war: US diplomacy and the origins of the Asian cinema network0
Indonesia–Malaysia relations from below: Indonesian migrants and the role of identity0
Contextualization of MNEs and the emergence of local marketers: brand competition in the Thai Detergent Industry (1950s–1980s)0
Islam and reimagining communists in post-New Order Indonesia: an analysis of White Book of the PKI Terror in Kanigoro0
An abandoned Cham temple of Vietnam: the woven history of the Hòa Lai Temple from a multiple disciplinary approach0
Fluid jurisdictions: colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia Fluid jurisdictions: colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia , by Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Ithaca and London, C0
Race, sexuality and prostitution in colonial Singapore: reading J. G. Farrell's The Singapore Grip0
Les sultanats du Sud philippin: Une histoire sociale et culturelle de l’islamisation (xv e -xx e siècles)0
Islam, blasphemy, and human rights in Indonesia: The trial of Ahok0
Local social movements and local democracy: tin and gold mining in Indonesia0
Nation, city, arena: sports events, nation building, and city politics in Indonesia0
Bomb children: life in the former battlefields of Laos0
South East Asian countries’ policies toward a rising China: lessons from Vietnam’s hedging response to the Belt and Road Initiative0
Eunuchs in Vietnam: what’s missing?0
Politics of unbelonging: ethnic Chinese identity politics in post-Suharto Indonesia0
The ramifications of displacement for mealtime-related activities, practices and dynamics among people affected by conflict in Mindanao, Philippines0
‘Mouthpiece’ and ‘arena’? – social(ist) media in contemporary Laos0
‘Writing’ and sustaining Asian regionalism: interpreting the official discourse of ASEAN0
The value of wild fish: diet and livelihoods in two rural villages in the Mun River Basin, northeastern Thailand0
Beyond dualistic categories: interstitial practices in peri-urban Hanoi0
Hiding behind the platform: the myth of flexibility for gig workers in Indonesia0
The transformation of South East Asian studies in China: Sinocentric and de-Sinocentric paradigms0
The Communist Party of Thailand's education for young children in Northern Laos and Southern China0
Global city dilemmas and Anglophone Singapore literature: intersectional politics and cultural negotiations in the 21st century0
Economic Cold War: Chinese economic aid to Vietnam, 1954–19750
Moments of silence: the unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, massacre in Bangkok Moments of silence: the unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, massacre in Bangkok , by Th0
Film style in Indonesian cinema, 1998–20180
Seaways and gatekeepers: trade and state in the Eastern archipelagos of Southeast Asia, c.1600–c.19060
Mobilizing idol celebrity in queer affective advertising: exploring the impacts of ‘Boys Love’ media and fandom in Thailand0
The Javanese way of law: early modern sloka phenomena0
‘The buffalo skin written word’: the cultural politics of orality and writing in mainland South East Asia0
Suharto’s Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World0
Hatta and Indonesia’s independent and active foreign policy: retrospect and prospect Hatta and Indonesia’s independent and active foreign policy: retrospect and prospect 0
Silver screens and golden dreams: a social history of Burmese cinema0
Juan Luna as nationalist painter and hero: examining configurations of public memory in the Philippines0
Angkor Wat: a transcultural history of heritage0
Qur’an manuscripts from Mindanao: collecting histories, art and materiality0
State of disorder: privatised violence and the state in Indonesia0
The anthropological signification of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epics0
On creoles and technologies of nation-making: Nick Joaquin as a theorist of nationalism0
A new sun rises over the old land0
Storied Island: New Explorations in Javanese Literature0
What sayeth the margins? A note on the state of Mindanao scholarship in Mindanao0
Tides of empire: religion, development and environment in Cambodia0
Empires of vice: the rise of opium prohibition across Southeast Asia0
Pa-uli na ’: Filipino familial intimacy and entreaties to returning interprovincial migrants0
SOGIE equality bill deliberations in the 18th Congress of the Philippines: a persisting battle against discrimination0
The Filipino migration experience0
Regionalism as anti-colonialism: imaginaries of area in South East Asian omnibus film and database art0
Histories of scale: Java, the Indies and Asia in the imperial age, 1820–1945 Histories of scale: Java, the Indies and Asia in the imperial age, 1820–1945 , by Vincent Ho0
From Thailand to Hong Kong: reinventing womanhood in the journeys of migrant women0
Illusions of democracy: Malaysian politics and people0
Strategic hedging: a case study of nineteenth-century Siam0
Kidung Pañji Margasmara: A Middle Javanese Romance Kidung Pañji Margasmara: A Middle Javanese Romance , by Kĕmuling Rat Dyah Atapêng Raje, edited and translated by Stuar0
Acculturation orientation and expectation: mapping the labour migration processes of Cham youth in Cambodia0
Mountains of blame: climate and culpability in the Philippine uplands0
Bisayan studies0
Living Theravada: Demystifying the people, places, and practices of a Buddhist tradition0
In terms of kalibutan : notes on method via the Visayas0
The candidate’s dilemma: anticorruptionism and money politics in Indonesian election campaigns The candidate’s dilemma: anticorruptionism and money politics in Indonesian election campa0
Winaray without tears: annotations on the translations and transcriptions of Bisayan terms and phrases in Alcina’s Historia (1668)0
Unarticulated tensions in the marketization of organic agriculture: the case of pioneer organizations in Yogyakarta, Indonesia0
Recycling infrastructures in Cambodia: circularity, waste, and urban life in Phnom Penh0
Enunciating ambiguity: Thailand’sphiand the epistemological decolonization of Thai studies0
The lay Buddhist gaze and femininity in Thai male monasticism0
Shaping a Dutch East Indies: François Valentyn’s VOC empire0
Before the Philippines: textual and cartographical representations of Mindanao in sixteenth-century Portuguese sources0
Between chili farms and an aerotropolis: the struggle against the new airport in Yogyakarta, Indonesia0
China-style tourism in Indonesia: prospects for people-to-people bonds0
Outsourcing the polity: non-state welfare, inequality, and resistance in Myanmar Outsourcing the polity: non-state welfare, inequality, and resistance in Myanmar , by Ge0
Bangkok middle-class spectatorship and social realist media: contesting modernity through visualizing Muslim minorities0
Pursuing morality: Buddhism and everyday ethics in Southeastern Myanmar0
Elite opposition and popular rejection: the failure of presidential term limit evasion in Widodo’s Indonesia0
Innovation, style and spectacle in wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the evolution of an Indonesian performing art Innovation, style and spectacle in wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the evolution of an0
Living standards in Southeast Asia: changes over the long twentieth century, 1900–20150
Vietnam’s Chinese-style ‘tributary system’ in South East Asia in the nineteenth century0
Miracles and material life: rice, ore, traps and guns in Islamic Malaya0
A political biography of the Indonesian lesbian, bisexual and trans movement0
The first Malayan Chinese women barristers and their pursuit of legal education in Britain, 1923–19340
The made-up state: technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia The made-up state: technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia 0
Vietnam: navigating a rapidly changing economy, society, and political order0
Polarization among the ASEAN member states: a geopolitical analysis0
Spirit possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: worlds ever more enchanted0
Kaagi: tracing Visayan identities in cultural texts0
Thai politics in translation: monarchy, democracy and the supra-constitution0
Living art: Indonesian artists engage politics, society and history Living art: Indonesian artists engage politics, society and history , edited by Elly Kent, Virginia H0
The Sitala controversy: politicization of K-pop for democratization in Thailand0
Correction0
Film is dangerous: ten years of censorship in Thailand’s cinema, 2010–20200
Metaphor in Mahathir’s political speeches in the context of economic crisis0
Citizen designs: city-making and democracy in northeastern Thailand0
Owners and occupants: mapping the Blaan of Malbulen (Davao Occidental, Philippines)0
Photographic realism and communism: the twin spectres in the image of the student skit in Dao Sayam0
The Angkorian World0
Dynastic democracy: political families in Thailand Dynastic democracy: political families in Thailand , by Yoshinori Nishizaki, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 20
Robinson on Con Dao: mango writing and faltering diplomacy in the precursors ofCrusoein Vietnam0
Painting Myanmar’s transition0
An anthropological rethinking of the Pintados and early tattooing in the Visayas, Central Philippines0
Rising Islamic conservatism in Indonesia: Islamic groups and identity politics0
The road to Nusantara: process, challenges and opportunities0
Amnesia: a history of democratic idealism in modern Thailand0
‘Brave and self-sacrificing Covid warriors:’ the metaphors used to describe healthcare workers in Thailand0
Political mobilization of the Malaysian Christian minority in the 1980s0
Finding Bisaya : the state of the field for Visayan literature0
Plant recognition by Northern Khmer children in Ban Khanat Pring and Ban Ramboe Villages, Surin Province, Thailand0
Nationalism and decolonisation in Singapore: the Malayan generation, 1953–19630
Illegal tin mining, policy gaps and the plight of small-scale tin miners in Indonesia0
Worshipping the Other: a literary anthropological study of the Datuk Gong cult in Malaysia0
Botanical knowledge and indigenous textiles in the Southern Mindanao highlands: method and synthesis using ethnography and ethnobotany0
Uneasy military encounters: the imperial politics of counterinsurgency in southern Thailand0
Do ethnic politics matter? Reassessing the role of ethnicity in local elections in Indonesia0
Southeast Asia’s multipolar future: averting a new Cold War0
The cult of glory: national myth and the idea of Global Maritime Fulcrum in Indonesia’s foreign policy, 2014–20190
Narrating the racial riots of 13 May 1969: gender and postmemory in Malaysian literature0
Access barriers to health and social services in Cambodia: experiences in healthcare use of people with disabilities0
Single mothers and the state’s embrace: reproductive agency in Vietnam0
State of fear: policing a postcolonial city0
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