Beyond the “Berkeley Mafia” A look at the rise of banker and investor technocrats in Indonesia—and how they’ve eclipsed academic economists as a key source of influence over the direction of economic ...

An ethnography of rural electrification in LaosFrom flickers to full power: when reliable electricity arrived in Banmai Scholarship on the impacts of hydroelectricity often focuses on what it destroys ...

Rescuing Malaysian higher education from neoliberalism Putrayaja is taking Malaysia’s universities down the sorry path tread by many other governments towards commercialisation—and the declining ...

Attapeu’s new city pillar: worship, develop, unite! The mining industry is posed to transform the economy of Laos’ southernmost province of Attapeu. Mineral wealth is being enshrined—literally—in a ...

Floramante SJ Ponce merges various anthropological and sociological theories and methods to understand Southeast Asia’s economic, political, and sociocultural dynamics, particularly those of Laos and ...

Ngo Sheau-Shi is a lecturer at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)’s School of Communication. She is currently the Malaysian Academic Movement (GERAK) Treasurer. Her areas of research are women, ethnicity ...