The role of the renminbi in trade partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region
Research article written by Phi Minh Hong and TRAN Thi Anh-Dao, affiliated researcher at IRASEC, in Post-Communist Economies journal, Volume 32, 2020 - Issue 8.
The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) on 15 November 2020 by leaders of 15 Asia Pacific countries has created the largest regional free trade zone in the world. As part of the 37th ASEAN Summit chaired by Vietnam in Hanoi, (...)

Fututre climate scenarios over Vietnam :
preliminary results from Gemmes
GEMMES VN Project is launching a webinar series dedicated to disseminate its preliminary research results. This series would take the form of 5 Workshop from December 2020 and be organized in Hanoi and online for participants.
We will have the 1st webinar/seminar session on 03 December 2020 (Thursday) from 15:30 Vietnam time (GMT+7), with some papers as below :
Building high-resolution future climate scenarios in (...)

a multispecies ethnography of the Khamti and elephants in Northeast IndiaMuséum national d’Histoire naturelle
Paris, 26 novembre 2020, 272 p.
ISBN : 978-2-85653-928-6
We are pleased to announce the publication of the book by Nicolas LAINÉ, IRASEC scholarship holder in 2018, published by the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Presentation of the book / Table of contents / Buy the (...)

Beyond official heritage agendas: The third space of conservation practices in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Publication, on September 10, 2020, of an article by Gabriel FAUVEAUD (University of Montreal, Canada), and Adèle ESPOSITO, IRASEC researcher, in the SAGE journals.
Urban heritage conservation has often been portrayed as a practice shaped by ‘authorised discourses’ which are produced by powerful actors including the state, international organisations and experts. But the literature has also (...)

L’éducation au Cambodge en milieu rural
Steven PRIGENT
Les Indes Savantes, 194p
ISBN 978-2-84654-545-7
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication du livre de Steven PRIGENT, chercheur associé à l’IRASEC, enseignant à la faculté d’anthropologie de l’université de Bordeaux.
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Cet ouvrage, fondé sur une série d’enquêtes menées dans un village de la province de Kompong Cham entre 2008 et 2016, porte sur l’éducation des enfants dans le Cambodge rural contemporain. Quel «   (...)

Birmanie (Myanmar) 2010-2017 : un pays en transition ?
Aurore Candier (dir.)
Presses de l’Inalco, 150p
ISBN 978-2-85831-364-8
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la publication d’un ouvrage collectif dirigé par Aurore CANDIER, chercheuse associée à l’IRASEC, portant sur la transition politique en Birmanie. Bénédicte BRAC de la PERRIÈRE et Alexandra de MERSAN ont notamment contribué à ce livre destiné à un large public.
Lire le compte-rendu de François ROBINNE paru dans Moussons.
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Étude des pratiques syncrétiques de l’islam javanais au sein du théâtre masqué wayang topèng à Java Centre
Clara GILBERT
Bourse de terrain 2019 de l’IRASEC
Bourse Louise Beyrand - Olivier Toussaint (Fondation Arts et Ouvrage)
Le présent rapport rend compte d’une mission de huit mois réalisée à Java Centre (Indonésie) du 6 janvier 2020 au 12 août 2020. Financée par l’Institut de Recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est Contemporaine (IRASEC) en 2019, elle entrait dans le cadre d’une recherche doctorale en (...)

Nicolas LAINÉ
Bourse de terrain 2018 de l’IRASEC
The scholarship offered by IRASEC (2018) allowed me to deepen the processing and analysis of a corpus of data collected during two stays in Laos. Wishing to bring to light the relationship to nature and the relationship to others among the Tai-Lue in Laos, I led broader reflections on the links between environment and health, biodiversity and cultural diversity, as well as on the co-construction of shared knowledge between humans and animals. (...)

Les nouveaux paysages urbains de Singapour dans la Malaisie rurale
Amel FARHAT
IRASEC, Bangkok, septembre 2020, 160 p.
ISBN : 978-616-7571-37-9
Singapore and Johor, the neighbouring Malaysian state, have close ties due to their shared history and economic and social entanglement. As residents of a modern, global metropolis, Singaporeans enjoy strong purchasing power but also face exorbitant living costs. In comparison, Johor, and especially the Johor Bahru Metropolitan Area, offers (...)