We are pleased to announce the publication of Nicolas Salem-Gervais’ chapter “Curricular Decentralisation as an Antidote to ‘Burmanisation’? Including Ethnic Minorities’ Histories in Myanmar’s Government Schools (2011–2020)”, published in Negotiating Ethnic Diversity and National Identity in History Education edited by Helen Mu Hung Ting and Luigi Cajani, Palgrave Macmillan.

Read the chapter.

Nicolas Salem-Gervais, Summer Aung, Amber Spreelung, Ja Seng, Jung Benatar, and Chan published an article on the website Tea Circle, a Forum for New Perspectives on Burma/Myanmar. This article outline the evolving language-in-education landscape following the coup, within and beyond military-controlled territory in Part 1 of a 2-part post.

Review by Nicolas Salem-Gervais in Moussons n°40 of the book :

Moving around Myanmar. Migration in, from, and back to Burma
Tony Waters, Ashley South, Chayan Vaddhanaphuti & Luke Corbin
Chiang Mai, RCSD, 2021, 288 p.

Read the review.

L’Asie du Sud-Est 2023; Bilan, enjeux et perspectives

Edited by Gabriel Facal and Jérôme Samuel
IRASEC, Bangkok, march 2023, 460 p.
ISBN: 978-2-35596-074-1

This book offers a detailed analysis of the main political and diplomatic events, as well as the economic, social and environmental developments of 2022 in each of the eleven countries of the region. This analysis is completed for each country by a focus on two personalities of the year and an important news item with striking images.

Follow the news of the ANR Urbaltour on the blog Hypotheses : https://urbaltour.hypotheses.org/

The URBALTOUR project analyses the convergences between urban and tourist logics based on high altitude resorts founded during the colonial era in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Article de Jérôme Samuel dans le numéro 104 de la revue Archipel, à lire sur OpenEdition Journals.

Cet article sʼinscrit dans le cadre dʼune étude systématique de la peinture sous verre javanaise aux XIXe-XXIe siècles, en abordant ici un corpus spécifique, celui des représentations des Lieux saints de lʼislam. Il se fonde sur lʼexamen et lʼanalyse de 84 peintures représentant les mosquées de la Mecque, Médine et Jérusalem, dont il propose dʼabord une typologie formelle.

Herbary Zhang
Palgrave Macmillan
2023, Number of Pages : XIII, 152
Hardcover ISBN 978-3-031-15974-9
eBook ISBN 978-3-031-15975-6

The monography “Engendering Migration Journey : Identity, Ethnicity and Gender of Thai Migrant Women in Hong Kong” written by Herbary Zhang, adjunct researcher at IRASEC, was just published by Palgrave Macmillan (Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series) on 2nd February 2023.

The article written by Valérie Erlich and Jimmy STEF, doctoral student associated with IRASEC, analyses the impact of internationalisation dynamics on the higher education system in Singapore over the last fifty years.

Lien social et Politiques
Numéro 89, 2022, p. 107–129
L’enseignement supérieur en recomposition : entre institutions et parcours éducatifs
Diffusion numérique : 29 novembre 2022

From Tribalism to Nationalism
The Anthropological Turn in Laos – A Tribute to Grant Evans

Edited by Yves Goudineau and Vanina Bouté
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS)
NIAS Studies in Asian Topics, N° 76
September 2022, 384 p.
ISBN : 978-87-7694-303-5

An article of Emmanuelle Peyvel co-authored with two Vietnamese colleagues, Ngọc Thắng Dương and Cẩm Thi Trần, has just appeared in a special issue of the geography journal Echogéo devoted to leisure in the cities of the South.
This article examines recreational fishing in Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam’s largest metropolitan area. Whether casual or sportive, we show that this practice remains the prerogative of working and middle class males, thereby exposing their territoriality within the city, (...)