Southeast Asian Studies: Advance Online Publication | Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University

The Southeast Asian Studies has published the following book reviews for early view on J-STAGE and the journal’s website.

Nguyễn-võ Thu-hương. Almost Futures: Sovereignty and Refuge at World’s End. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024.
Quan Tue Tran
https://doi.org/10.20495/seas.br25009
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2025/11/earlyview-br-quan-tue-tran/

Edward Aspinall and Amalinda Savirani, eds. Governing Urban Indonesia. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2024.
Freek Colombijn
https://doi.org/10.20495/seas.br25010
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2025/11/earlyview-br-freek-colombijn/

Kai Chen. Children Affected by Armed Conflict in the Borderlands of Myanmar: 2021 and Beyond. Singapore: Springer, 2024.
William Plowright
https://doi.org/10.20495/seas.br25011
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2025/11/earlyview-br-william-plowright/

Chua Beng Huat. Public Subsidy / Private Accumulation: The Political Economy of Singapore’s Public Housing. Singapore: NUS Press, 2024.
Satoshi Nabekura
https://doi.org/10.20495/seas.br25012
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2025/11/earlyview-br-nabekura-satoshi/

Amy H. Liu and Joel Sawat Selway, eds. State Institutions, Civic Associations, and Identity Demands: Regional Movements in Greater Southeast Asia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024.
Jacques Bertrand
https://doi.org/10.20495/seas.br25013
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2025/11/earlyview-br-jacques-bertrand/

Ryan Wolfson-Ford. Forsaken Causes: Liberal Democracy and Anticommunism in Cold War Laos. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024.
Martin Rathie
https://doi.org/10.20495/seas.br25014
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2025/11/earlyview-br-martin-rathie/

Philip Fountain. The Service of Faith: An Ethnography of Mennonites and Development. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024.
Sumanto Al Qurtuby
https://doi.org/10.20495/seas.br25015
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2025/11/earlyview-br-sumanto-al-qurtuby/

Marina Welker. Kretek Capitalism: Making, Marketing, and Consuming Clove Cigarettes in Indonesia. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024.
Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir
https://doi.org/10.20495/seas.br25016
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2025/11/earlyview-br-abdil-mughis-mudhoffir/

Rudolf Mrázek. Amir Sjarifoeddin: Politics and Truth in Indonesia, 1907–1948. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2024.
Hongxuan Lin
https://doi.org/10.20495/seas.br25017
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2025/11/earlyview-br-lin-hongxuan/

Michael Goldman, Nancy Lee Peluso, and Wendy Wolford, eds. The Social Lives of Land. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024.
Philip Hirsch
https://doi.org/10.20495/seas.br25018
https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2025/11/earlyview-br-philip-hirsch/