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Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University proudly presents the new issue (20) of Kyoto review on September 2016

kr-20The Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University proudly presents the new issue (20) of Kyoto review (September 2016) which focuses “Memory and History” of Southeast Asia. We have five articles by Vatthana Pholsena, Taylor M Easum, Boreth Ly, Malinee Khumsupa & Sudarat Musikawong, and Anne Yvonne Guillou–all are translated into Japanese, Thai and Bahasa Indonesian. We are delighted to have Dr Penny Edwards (University of California at Berkeley) as guest editor. This issue, as usual, also includes a section of book reviews, and a column–Young Academic’s Voice (YAV), as a platform for young researchers to voice their opinions on all things Southeast Asia, with one article per month. As for this month’s YAV, we present Thaweeporn Kummetha, a Bangkok-based journalist with Prachatai, who has written on a topic, “Misunderstanding the Internet, Misunderstanding the Users: Cases from Thailand”.

List of articles:

  • Vatthana Pholsena: Mobile/Immobile Bodies: Recollections of Growing up in Times of Upheaval
  • Taylor M Easum: Sculpting and Casting Memory and History in a Northern Thai City
  • Boreth Ly: Parasites’ Paradise: The Erasure of Memory in Dang Nhat Minh’s ‘The House of Guava (Mùa ỏ̂i)’
  • Malinee Khumsupa & Sudarat Musikawong: Counter-Memory: Replaying Political Violence in Thai Digital Cinema
  • Anne Yvonne Guillou: Potent Places as Embodied Memory in Cambodia

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YAV at: http://kyotoreview.org/yav/misunderstanding-internet-thailand/

Book Reviews at: http://kyotoreview.org/issue-17-book-reviews/

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