region: Southeast Asia

Historical maps of Southeast Asia and Singapore

“On August 30, the online platform Historical Maps of Southeast Asia was launched. The platform provides access to over 1,400 digitised maps of Southeast Asia from the collections of the National Library Board Singapore (307 maps), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library – Yale University (150 maps), Bodleian Libraries – University of Oxford (387 maps) […]

E-books from ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute is a leading research centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security, and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. ISEAS Publishing disseminates important research and analyses from and about Southeast Asia to the rest of the world and is the largest publisher […]

Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context

“Transcultural Research ­– Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context presents peer-reviewed books by members of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: The Dynamics of Transculturality” as well as scholars from historical and empirical disciplines who are working on emerging fields that cross disciplinary boundaries. The book […]

DOAB – Directory of Open Access Books

DOAB is a discovery service for  peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to over 65.000 high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books. TERMS OF USE: All books listed in DOAB are freely accessible and therefore free to read, but this does not mean readers are free to do anything […]

DOAJ – the Directory of Open Access Journals

The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Many journals are searchable at article level. The aim is to cover all subjects and languages.

Colonial Journals of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)

This digital collection consists of ninety serials and journals related to the colonial enterprise in the Dutch East and West Indies. The publications are mainly in Dutch and cover the period of the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. They pertain to the cultivation of tropical products such […]

Southeast Asian Newspapers

East View has announced OA access to a Southeast Asian Newspapers collection covering 125 titles from within the period 1839-1976. All the 125 titles with location, language and available years can be found here “The Southeast Asian Newspapers collection chronicles the changes that took place throughout the region during this period, and the challenges of early […]

Advances in Southeast Asian Studies

Nation, City, Arena: Sports Events, Nation Building and City Politics in Indonesia

by Friederike Trotier  In 1962, Indonesia celebrated its national rebirth, modernity and international arrival by hosting the 4th Asian Games in Jakarta. Since then, Indonesia has hosted several other major multi-sport events as well as numerous tournaments in a single sport. But the return to Jakarta in 2018 of the 18th Asian Games was significant: […]

Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos

by Rosalie Stolz  How can we conceive of kinship and sociality in the rapidly transforming uplands of mainland Southeast Asia? How to bridge the divide between classical ethnography and modern approaches to kinship studies? Using her rich findings from extensive fieldwork among the Khmu of northern Laos, the author offers a fresh perspective on kinship […]