New Books at ISEAS Library – Feb 2023

Highlights

Global discord: values and power in a fractured world order / Paul Tucker. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2022.

Call no: HF1359 T89

Democracies are facing a drawn-out contest with authoritarian states that is entangling much of public policy with global security issues. In Global Discord, Paul Tucker lays out principles for a sustainable system of international cooperation, showing how democracies can deal with China and other illiberal states without sacrificing their deepest political values. — Publisher.


COVID-19 pandemic and the migrant population in Southeast Asia: vaccine, diplomacy and disparity / AKM Ahsan Ullah, Diotima Chattoraj.  Singapore: World Scientific, 2023.

Call no: RA644 C87U41

While there is an emerging literature studying the impacts of COVID-19 on migration, the situation in Southeast Asia has not received much scholarly attention. This book fills the literature gap by studying the experiences of migrants and citizens in Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore and highlighting how the pandemic has exacerbated inequalities between and within the groups. — Publisher.



Other new arrivals

by country in alphabetical order, then by region

Indonesia

Indonesia out of exile: how Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet killed a dictatorship / Max Lane.  Singapore: Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022.
Call no: DS634 L26

Chinese indentured labour in the Dutch East Indies, 1880-1942: tin, tobacco, timber, and the penal sanction / Gregor Benton.  Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Call no: HD4875 I5B47

Consolidating democracy: resilience and challenges in Indonesia and South Korea / Brendan Howe, editor.  Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Call no: JQ776 C75

Innovation, style and spectacle in Wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the evolution of an Indonesian performing art / Kathryn Emerson.  Singapore: NUS Press, 2022.
Call no: PN1979 S5E53

Other Indonesians: nationalism in an unnative language / Joseph Errington.  New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Call no: PL5079 E72


Malaysia

Education in Malaysia: developments, reforms and prospects / edited by Donnie Adams.  Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2023.
Call no: LA1236 E24


Philippines

Christianity and radical democracy in the Philippines: building a church of the poor / Christopher Moxham.
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Call no: BX2347.72 P5M93



Thailand

Dynastic democracy: political families in Thailand / Yoshinori Nishizaki.  Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2022.
Call no: DS575 N721

Amnesia: a history of democratic idealism in modern Thailand / Arjun Subrahmanyan.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2021.
Call no: JQ1749 A15S942

Thai diplomacy: in conversation with Tej Bunnag / interviewed & edited by Anuson Chinvanno.  Bangkok: International Studies Center, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2021.
Call no: DS575 T26


ASEAN and Southeast Asia

Local responses to global challenges in Southeast Asia: a transregional studies reader / editors, Lina Knorr, Andrea Fleschenberg, Sumrin Kalia, Claudia Derichs.  Singapore; Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, 2023.
Call no: JZ1318 L81

Practicing peace: conflict management in Southeast Asia and South America / Aarie Glas.  New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Call no: JZ5584 A9G54

Presidentialism and democracy in East and Southeast Asia / edited by Marco Bünte and Mark R. Thompson.  Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Call no: JQ1499 A91P93

Queer Southeast Asia / edited by Shawna Tang and Hendri Yulius Wijaya.  London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Call no: HQ76.3 A9Q3

Revisiting electricity market reforms: lessons for ASEAN and East Asia / Han Phoumin, Rabindra Nepal, Fukunari Kimura, Gazi Salah Uddin, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, editors.  Singapore: Springer, 2022.
Call no: HD9685 A8R45


Climate change and the environment

Supercharge me: net zero faster / Eric Lonergan and Corinne Sawers.  Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2022.
Call no: TD171.75 L84

Planet in peril: humanity’s four greatest challenges and how we can overcome them / Michael D. Bess.  Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Call no: JC576 B55


Media, technology and society

Data cartels: the companies that control and monopolize our information / Sarah Lamdan.  Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2023.
Call no: KF2848 L22

Data analysis for social science: a friendly and practical introduction / Elena Llaudet and Kosuke Imai.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
Call no: HA29 L79

Philippine digital cultures: brokerage dynamics on YouTube / Cheryll Ruth Soriano and Earvin Charles Cabalquinto.  Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022.
Call no: HM742 S71

There are no facts: attentive algorithms, extractive data practices, and the quantification of everyday life / Mark Shepard.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2022.
Call no: B105 F3S54

Writing the revolution: Wikipedia and the survival of facts in the digital age / Heather Ford; foreword by Ethan Zuckerman.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2022.
Call no: AE100 F69