Film Crazy Rich Asians and competing Asian subjectivities August 9, 2019 0 Written by Mark Gallagher. Image Credit (header image and included screenshots): Crazy Rich Asians (2018). Directed by Jon M. Chu. [Film]. US: Warner Bros. Enterntainment. The…
Corruption The role of money in Southeast Asian politics August 1, 2019 0 Written by Andreas Ufen. Image Credit: Jokowi by Eduardo M.C./Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Parties and candidates in many Southeast Asian countries need enormous amounts of…
Business and Politics Following the money: Political financing in Malaysia July 30, 2019 0 Written by Tricia Yeoh. Image Credit: Najib’s campaign visit to USM, 8 December 2012 by radiantjustice/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. It is important to examine how political parties are…
Business Party finances and money politics in Southeast Asia July 29, 2019 0 Written by Wolfgang Sachsenröder. Image Credit: ฮุนเซนเลือกตั้ง 29 ก.ค. 61, by Prachatai/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Problems with party funding are universal. Political activities – especially election campaigns –…
Business Patterns in politics on palm oil June 7, 2019 0 Written by Otto Hospes. Image Credit: Oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The recent controversy between Indonesia and the EU over the revised EU Renewable Energy Directive…
Business Reconciling conflicting visions of ‘sustainable palm oil’ June 6, 2019 0 Written by Rory Padfield. Image Credit: Truck filled with oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Diplomatic relations between the EU and the major…
Economic Growth Malaysian palm oil: National pride and prejudice through the years June 3, 2019 0 Written by Helena Varkkey. Image Credit: Palm oil plantation by Angela Sevin /Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC 2.0. Introduced to then-Malaya from West Africa via the Dutch East Indies…
Democracy Malaysia today: The demise of a hybrid? Not so fast… May 14, 2019 0 Written by William Case. Samuel Huntington’s notion of a third wave of democratic transitions captured the many dozens of countries whose regimes transitioned from authoritarian…
Civil society Indonesian society and Islam: Identity politics and the making of a majority May 6, 2019 1 Written by Kikue Hamayotsu. Muslim demands and movements calling for the elevation of sharia within the state legal structure, along with numerous mass mobilisations targeting…
Cambodia Southeast Asia – drifting towards Digital Authoritarianism? March 15, 2019 0 Written by Jason Abbott. In the West, the principal concern of most digital activists relates to privacy issues surrounding the collection of data by governments…
