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Jun 16
20 years ago today New Mandala published for the first time. Here, the site's current and former editors reflect on what it has achieved, and offer their thanks to those who have had a hand in bringing it to this very special milestone. newmandala.org/20-years-of-n…
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Jun 16
20 years ago today New Mandala published for the first time. Here, the site's current and former editors reflect on what it has achieved, and offer their thanks to those who have had a hand in bringing it to this very special milestone. newmandala.org/20-years-of-n…
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Jun 15
NEW 🇰🇭🇹🇭 Thailand tried to use economic leverage against Cambodia during the 2025 border conflict, but it didn't have its intended impacts. The episode provides a case study in the limits of "geoeconomics" in Southeast Asia. newmandala.org/cambodia-thai…
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Jun 10
NEW 🇸🇬 via @acadsingapore: By trying to protect Lee Kuan Yew from scrutiny, a new exhibition offers a comforting story of independence instead of an educational one where power, fear, race, ambition, and moral compromise led to the exit from Malaysia newmandala.org/singapores-al…
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บทความที่สรุปเนื้อหาวิทยานิพนธ์ ป. เอกของผมคร่าวๆ ตีพิมพ์กับ New Mandala แล้วนะครับ โดยงานชิ้นนี้ได้รางวัล New Mandala's Emerging Scholar Award ด้วย
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Jun 9
NEW 🇹🇭 Interviews with students and educators show how the conservative indoctrination effort that has become an increasingly key part of Thailand's ROTC program is undermined from within by apathy and quiet defiance. newmandala.org/at-the-coalfa…
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NEW 🇹🇭 Interviews with students and educators show how the conservative indoctrination effort that has become an increasingly key part of Thailand's ROTC program is undermined from within by apathy and quiet defiance. newmandala.org/at-the-coalfa…
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NEW 🇹🇭 Interviews with students and educators show how the conservative indoctrination effort increasingly a part of Thailand's ROTC program is undermined from within by apathy and quiet defiance from unlikely sources. newmandala.org/at-the-coalfa…
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gonna have to start keeping a “days since last ‘forgotten war’ article” counter…
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17 Jun 2024
NEW: 'Like Victorian ethnographers’ use of “vanishing peoples,” a “forgotten war” can become a self-fulfilling terminology'—@edithmirante unpacks the problems with the western media's cliché of choice on Myanmar's post-coup conflict: newmandala.org/forgotten-war…
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May 21
My recently published piece on @newmandala with Shelli Israelsen. In commemorating the restoration of independence day of Timor Leste, we reflect on the challenges facing Timorese women’s movement in the post-independence period. newmandala.org/the-timorese-…
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May 13
NEW 🇮🇩 Southeast Asians' navigation of commercial spaces crafted to convey colonial superiority reveals how consumer markets can become "places where people learn, perform, contest, and sometimes refuse the terms on which modern life is offered to them." newmandala.org/buying-boycot…
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May 20
NEW 🇹🇱 24 years since Timor-Leste's independence, some legacies of the resistance against Indonesian occupation pose challenges for the women’s movement, in the form of a a patriarchal political scene, donor dependency, and deep inter-generational divides. newmandala.org/the-timorese-…
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May 20
NEW 🇮🇩 The trial of Nadiem Makarim shows how Indonesia's broadly worded anti-corruption laws are facilitating arbitrary prosecutions by increasingly politicised law enforcement agencies, write Simon Butt and Tim Lindsey. newmandala.org/the-nadiem-tr…
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Apr 24
NEW: Through contemporary artworks and a chance encounter in the Singapore Art Museum, Lukas Fort reflects on how Singapore’s commitment to renewal shapes its cityscape, its visions of youth and ageing, and everyday engagements with technology. newmandala.org/city-of-renew…
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OBITUARY: "Vince Rafael exemplified the onset of a long overdue shift in the intellectual centre of gravity in Southeast Asian Studies to new generations of scholars hailing from the region" newmandala.org/vicente-l-raf…
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Apr 23
NEW 🇲🇲 Specimens of Myanmar's rich artistic heritage have often been copied and sold to foreign buyers. The booming post-coup market in counterfeit antiquities, gemstones and paintings is simply the latest chapter in a tradition of creative deception. newmandala.org/buyer-beware-…
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NEW 🇮🇩 When Dutch soldiers burned the home of Acehnese resistance leader Cut Nyak Dhien, they recorded the objects they took under her husband’s name. More than 130 years later, 🇳🇱has returned one of those objects—but not to where it was taken from. newmandala.org/returned-but-…
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Apr 9
NEW 🇮🇩 President Prabowo's drive to reassert state control addresses a genuine postcolonial grievance—but with a strategy that destroys the broader institutional conditions for the prosperity it claims to pursue, argues Rayhan Prabu Kusumo. newmandala.org/indonesias-ne…
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