Viral Entanglements in Malaysian Porcine Worlds
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The Shitty Affairs of British Colonialism in Malaya: Manicuring “Native” Agriculture through Race-Specific Livestock Interbreeding
In January 2020, I accidentally came across a series of photographs at the UK National Archives documenting agricultural and livestock experimentation in 1930-1940s British Malaya. The peculiarity of…
“Legibility by Invitation”: Rohingya Refugees and the Struggle for Political Recognition
Once, in mid-August 2018 in a café tucked away in Klang Valley, Malaysia, Husin, my Rohingya research collaborator, and I sat with Fatimah, a young Rohingya woman. As…
In the Journals – Policing Migration
A Macedonian police officer raises his baton toward migrants by Freedom House via creativecommons Welcome back to In the Journals! This ongoing series aims to bridge conversations that…
Mobilizing Cemeteries, Representing Ancestors: The Infrastructure of Protest and the Anti-Petroleum Complex Movement in Pengerang, Malaysia
Resisting the “Rotterdam Port of the East” In 2011, the prime minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, and the CEO of the national oil company Petronas, Shamsul Azhar Abbas,…
Don’t make me laugh: How getting it wrong shapes interspecies entanglements in the Batek’s forest
“yeʔ kan plŋal!” “lawac!” “hɛy yeʔ leh!” “Don’t laugh!”, “It’s taboo!”, “We shouldn’t!” Naʔ Srimjam kept admonishing us one afternoon that she, her sister Naʔ Badək, and I,…
Decolonizing Extinction: An Interview with Juno Salazar Parreñas
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation By Juno Salazar Parreñas, The Ohio State University 288pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. § Colin Hoag spoke with…
Long Read Review: Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance by Daromir Rudnyckyj
In Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance, Daromir Rudnyckyj takes the reader into the world of Malaysian financial, religious and state regulatory experts who aspire for Islamic finance t…
Religious extremism: vulnerability and resistance among Indonesian migrant workers in Asia
By Yudha Dewanto After turning 16, never having stepped a foot outside of her province, Katri pushed herself to go to Malaysia. Seeking a solution to family problems,…
Book Review: Race, Education and Citizenship: Mobile Malaysians, British Colonial Legacies and a Culture of Migration by Sin Yee Koh
In Race, Education and Citizenship: Mobile Malaysians, British Colonial Legacies and a Culture of Migration, Sin Yee Koh offers a study of the migratory trajectories of tertiary-educated mobile Malays…
Semi-Feurdal Cyber-colonialism
Yes! thank you, Evers and Nordin [of course it is always slightly embarrassing to be posting citations, but the occasional acknowledgement of a phrase I particularly dwelt long…
Semifeudal Cybercolonialism: Technocratic Dreamtime in Malaysia
Thanks Kaloy Cunanan for recovering this from ascii-land. An article on the multi-function polis in Malaysia, from 1999 Hutnyk 1999 Semifeudal Cybercolonialism Technocratic Dreamtime in Malaysia appea…
In the Journals – October 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, our monthly look at some of the many different publications on crime, law, security, and the state. With the fall semester coming…
Tausche Asylbewerber gegen registrierten Flüchtling„Swap“-Initiativen und die transkontinentale Unterwanderung des Asylrechts
In den letzten Jahren haben sich weltweit Maßnahmen vermehrt, die das Recht auf Asyl unterwandern. In dieser Hinsicht analysiert mein Beitrag Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen zwei Initiativen, die als Kernele…
„No negations of any kind!“ – Islamischer Feminismus versus Pro-Familie-Bewegung
Dana Fennert (Universität Marburg) promovierte im Sonderprogramm “Islam, Moderner Nationalstaat und Transnationale Bewegungen” der Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung und zuvor im DFG-Kolleg “Kulturkontakt und Wis…
Albuquerque on Lances vs War Elephants
I’m reading Thomas Trautmann’s new-ish book on war elephants, Elephants and Kings, on my Kindle. It’s a brilliant book, full of well-written and totally reasonable analysis of…
Albuquerque on Lances vs War Elephants
I’m reading Thomas Trautmann’s new-ish book on war elephants, Elephants and Kings, on my Kindle. It’s a brilliant book, full of well-written and totally reasonable analysis of…
Albuquerque on Lances vs War Elephants
I’m reading Thomas Trautmann’s new-ish book on war elephants, Elephants and Kings, on my Kindle. It’s a brilliant book, full of well-written and totally reasonable analysis of…
An Armenian Source on Medieval Sumatra/Srivijaya
There aren’t many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there’s no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they’re less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
An Armenian Source on Medieval Sumatra/Srivijaya
There aren't many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there's no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they're less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
An Armenian Source on Medieval Sumatra/Srivijaya
There aren’t many Eastern Christian sources on ancient Indo-Malaysia/Nusantara, but there’s no reason to neglect them nor to believe that they’re less valuable than Marco Polo. In…
26. Thoughts on the symposium “Internet in Southeast Asia: Power and Society”
This is the twenty-sixth post in the freedom technologists series See also the Directory of freedom technologists This past 3-4 December 2015 I was at the Bandar Sunway…
The Arrival of the Portuguese – Malay Annals
You may remember that I’ve been working on my Jawi script – the Perso-Arabic-based writing system used by Malay speakers to write their language from the fourteenth…
The Arrival of the Portuguese – Malay Annals
You may remember that I've been working on my Jawi script – the Perso-Arabic-based writing system used by Malay speakers to write their language from the fourteenth…