Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies

Please join our webinar on how to publish an article with ASEAS on 22 April, 2021,held by our wonderful editor in chief, Dayana Lengauer (@pd_dayana).

In her article, Petra Dannecker focuses on power relations. She argues that the success of North-South transdisciplinary collaborations depends highly on awareness of power hierarchies, reflexivity, positionality and different understandings of knowledge. shorturl.at/htyEF

In the editorial, Petra Dannecker and Alexandra Heis introduce the "Fostering Multi-lateral Knowledge Networks of Transdisciplinary Studies to Tackle Global Challenges" (KNOTS) project and offer some initial insights into the transdisciplinarity debate. shorturl.at/htyEF

We happily announce that the latest @ASEAStudies issue 13(2) "Negotiating #Transdisciplinarity" has just been published. We are grateful to our guest editors Petra Dannecker and Alexandra Heis from @univienna for making this inspiring issue possible. shorturl.at/almC7

Yesterday, Jeff Bezos became the first man worth $200 billion. 30 million American households didn't have enough food this week. Tax the rich.

Many refugees fled bigotry, only to experience it in their new homes.  As the #BlackLivesMatter movement spreads around the world, refugees talk about how it affected them. bit.ly/2YXngEI

Most we think we know about migration is probably wrong: Labor demand drives migration more than poverty, migration would be less dramatic w more open borders, climate refugees has no scientific basis. Listen to professor @heindehaas on #mindtheshift apple.co/3aXoFPJ

Your reminder that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy owns between $30,000,000 and $75,000,000 of assets in USPS competitors.

Apropos of @taomo_zhou's recent _Migration in the Time of Revolution_ @CornellPress, @NTUHistory is featuring her important article on China's Indonesia Cold War policy @chinaquarterly @CSEAS_JGU @ASEAStudies @SinoVienna @Diplomat_APAC Link: tinyurl.com/y3v7ct9l

Khairun University in Ternate, Indonesia, expelled 4 students for taking part in a protest and demanding the release of #WestPapua political prisoners. They sue but the police charged one for "treason" with max 20 years prison term🤬hrw.org/news/2020/08/0…

Prof. Faizah Zakaria @laurelinarien @NTUHistory will be a keynote speaker at the ARI @nus_ari annual Graduate Forum on SEA Studies next week! @ntusg @NUSingapore @yalenus @sgSMU @NewBooksSEAsia @ASEAStudies @CSEAS_JGU @NIHSAnetwork @south @seaarch

Nine female cyclists in Indonesia’s Banda Aceh were tracked down by Sharia police for wearing long-sleeved shirts and dark slacks. It dragged the province's discriminatory Islamic Sharia-inspired dress code back into the spotlight vice.com/en_ca/article/…

In her paper "Gold rush abroad", Witchayanee Ocha shows that the commercial sex trade involving #Thai #transsexual #sexworkers is global in every sense, including the way it is funded, developed, structured, and organized. Check it out! rb.gy/div0yb

How do #Singapore's media frame people from #Thailand and #Thai culture and how does that relate to #Orientalism? Find some answers by checking out Yang-kit Chan's paper on the "Golden Mile Complex" in the latest ASEAS issue! rb.gy/m53ltg

In the latest ASEAS issue on #tourism & the #SDGs, Sabine Müller, Lukas Huck, & Jitka Markova examen the viability of the top-down community based tourism model in comparison to the bottom up approach to promote sustainable tourism development in Cambodia. rb.gy/a1gkkv

Have you ever wondered how local communities in community based #tourism perceive English language needs and how this relates to the #SDGs? Check out Nomnian et al.'s paper in ASEAS 13(1) on #tourism & the #SDGs and see for yourself! rb.gy/5vjwhd @alex_trupp #Thailand

Find out whether #volunteer #tourists are agents of #development or redundant holiday-makers as discussed by @dolezal_claudia and @miezelyte in their latest paper on "Volunteer tourists and the SDGs in #Bali". rb.gy/krdbqk

In our latest ASEAS issue on #tourism and the #SDGs, Heidi Dahles, Titi Susilowati Prabawa, and @koning_juliette explore strategies of small enterprises in the silver souvenir industry in #Yogyakarta during the Indonesian decade of crisis (1996-2006) rb.gy/bipnkf

In our latest ASEAS issue 13(1) on #tourism and the #SDGs, @dolezal_claudia and @alex_trupp discuss the links between #tourism and the SDGs, at a time when #SoutheastAsia and #tourism at large have been strongly impacted by #COVID19 rb.gy/ldnzzg