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Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity – An Introduction

The 47th Southeast Asia Seminar was held along the Thai-Myanmar border in the districts of Tha Song Yang, Mae Ramat, Mae Sot, and Phop Phra of Tak Province, Thailand, in December, 2023. A border is a “contact zone” of people, culture, and capital. The Thai-Myanmar border zones are, therefore, mosaic spaces populated by peoples with different cultural lifeworlds that shape their (economic) lives along the border vis-à-vis the two nation-states’ political and socio-economic policies. [...]

Critical Counterpoints: Human-mosquito relations from the Thai-Myanmar borderlands to Singapore

Building on my previous work on environmental peacebuilding in Southeast Myanmar, my current research explores processes of “making peace” with disease-bearing mosquitos in Singapore. When I recently returned to the Thai-Myanmar borderlands for the 47th Southeast Asian Seminar, [...]

Circumventing undocumented-ness: Ethnic migrants along the Thai-Burma border pursue multiple mobilities

Having studied the migration of young Yunnanese migrants along the Thai-Burma border for several years, the 47th Southeast Asia Seminar gave me the chance to learn from other migrant communities, particularly the Karen. One commonality [...]

The crime of caring

What does it mean when your own country does not care about you? Among others, this question swirls in my mind when I recall the places that we visited during the 47th Southeast Asia Seminar. Roaming the vicinity of the new Kawthoolei Karen Baptist Bible School and College just across the stream from the Mae La “temporary shelter area,” I was intrigued by the rustic cadence of the place. En route to the school, [...]

(Health) care and family (planning) of undocumented people along state borders

The 47th Southeast Asia Seminar offered an excellent opportunity to expand my focus from displaced Rohingya refugee families in South and Southeast Asia borderlands to gain a deeper understanding of different displaced groups in the Thai-Myanmar borderlands. [...]

Message from the Editor

KRSEA has achieved its new milestone both in terms of greater global reach and its continued promotion of indigenous languages of Southeast Asia. It is now time to celebrate our achievement with the launch of this book. At the Crossroads unravels a critical juncture in Southeast Asia, from 2017 to 2021, a juncture replete with changes, contestations and challenges facing the region, from different viewpoints: political, economic, social, and cultural. This time, we bring together all the English articles published from January 2017 to December 2020 into one volume.
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Praetorian Variations: The United States and Military Politics in Thailand and the Philippines

by Mesrob Vartavarian in Issue 37 Mar. 2024

American Military Aid and Praetorian Agency Strategic considerations motivated US involvement in Cold War Southeast Asia. Containing communism required the construction and maintenance of military bases around rival states. The need for bases resulted in American support for highly authoritarian regimes willing to suppress popular discontent [...]

Review–The Rise of International Capital: Indonesian Conglomerates in ASEAN

Title: ASEAN and The Intensification of Regional Cooperation: Class Formation and Internationalized Capital Author: Al-Fadhat, Faris Palgrave [...]
Review– Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins

Title: Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins Author: Bolotta, Giuseppe Copenhagen: NIAS Press, [...]
Review– The Bersih Movement and Democratisation in Malaysia: Repression, Dissent and Opportunities

Title: The Bersih Movement and Democratisation in Malaysia: Repression, Dissent and Opportunities Author: Khoo Ying Hooi Singapore, [...]
Review– Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered Transformations and Political Transitions

Title: Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered Transformations and Political Transitions Edited by: Jenny Hedström and Elisabeth [...]
Review– A Soldier King: Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X

Title: A Soldier King: Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X Author: Supalak Ganjanakhundee Singapore: [...]

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Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity – An Introduction

Tomas Cole

Critical Counterpoints: Human-mosquito relations from the Thai-Myanmar borderlands to Singapore

Siu-hei Lai

Circumventing undocumented-ness: Ethnic migrants along the Thai-Burma border pursue multiple mobilities

Vincen Gregory Yu, MD

The crime of caring

Miriam Jaehn

(Health) care and family (planning) of undocumented people along state borders

Message from the Editor

CALL FOR PAPERS

Praetorian Variations: The United States and Military Politics in Thailand and the Philippines

Book Reviews

Review–The Rise of International Capital: Indonesian Conglomerates in ASEAN

Review– Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins

Review– The Bersih Movement and Democratisation in Malaysia: Repression, Dissent and Opportunities

Review– Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered Transformations and Political Transitions

Review– A Soldier King: Monarchy and Military in the Thailand of Rama X