New Books at ISEAS Library – Oct 2023

Highlights

Incomplete conquests: the limits of Spanish empire in the seventeenth-century Philippines / Stephanie Joy Mawson.  Ithaca: Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.

Call no: DS674 M46

Incomplete Conquests foregrounds the experiences of indigenous, Chinese, and Moro communities and their responses to colonial agents, weaving together stories that take into account the rich cultural and environmental diversity of this island world” — Publisher.


Is artificial intelligence racist? the ethics of AI and the future of humanity / Arshin Adib-Moghaddam.  London, UK; New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023.

Call no: Q334.7 A23

“Delving into the narratives enveloping the development of AI systems, with a particular emphasis on “tech-giants” and the ideas of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam explains how and why technology aids and abets various forms of extremism, entrenches social hierarchies and discriminatory boundaries and how this will impact international security and human rights in the future” — Publisher.



Other new arrivals

by country in alphabetical order, then by region

Cambodia

Public financial management: Cambodian experiences / by General Secretariat of Public Finance Management Reform Steering Committee; edited by Vinel Yeth, Youthy Um and Penghuy Ngov.  Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute; Cambodia: Ministry of Economy and Finance, Cambodia, 2023.
Call no: HJ1360.3 C15P97


Indonesia

Gender and politics in post-reformasi Indonesia: women leaders within local oligarchy networks / Kurniawati Hastuti Dewi, editor.  Singapore: Springer; Jakarta: National Research Innovation Agency (BRIN), 2022.
Call no: HQ1236.5 I5G322

Indonesia and the Indo-Pacific / Senia Febrica.  Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2023.
Call no: VA667 I5F28

Regional inequality and development: measurement and applications in Indonesia / Takahiro Akita, Mitsuhiko Kataoka.  Singapore: Springer Nature, 2022.
Call no: HT395 I5A31

Suharto’s Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the world / Mattias Fibiger.  New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2023.
Call no: DS644.4 F44

Port security and preman organizations in Indonesia / Senia Febrica.  Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.
Call no: HV8291 I5F28

Terrorism in Indonesia and the perceived oppression of Muslims worldwide / Prakoso Permono and A’an Suryana.  Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.
Call no: DS501 I59T NO. 14(2023)

Indonesia’s moderate Muslim websites and their fight against online Islamic extremism / A’an Suryana.  Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.
Call no: DS501 I59T NO. 15(2023)

Indonesia’s COVID-19 infodemic: a battle for truth or trust? / Yatun Sastramidjaja.  Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.
Call no: DS501 I59T NO. 12(2023)

Strangers in the family: gender, patriliny, and the Chinese in colonial Indonesia / Guo-Quan Seng.  Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.
Call no: DS632.3 C5S473


Malaysia

Selected research on Orang Asli communities / edited by Stefanie Pillai, Hanafiah Hussin, Roshidah Hassan.  Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 2022.
Call no: DS595.2 O73S46

Sensitiviti agama menurut pandangan penganut Islam, Buddha, Hindu dan Kristian di Lembah Klang / Nur Syarihah Muhammad Shah, Nur Farhana Abdul Rahman.  Bangi Selangor, Malaysia: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2023.
Call no: BL2080 K4N97

谁是”沙巴之子: Sino 与土著地位的距离 / 吳佳翰著.  Petaling Jaya, Selangor: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre, 2023.
Call no: DS597.334 W95

Siasah Madani / Dr. Maszlee Malik, Dr. Hamidah Mat.  Cyberjaya, Selangor: Kawandanet Sdn Bhd; 2023.
Call no: JQ1062 A91M42

Suami isteri naik haji: kembara Raja Shahabuddin dan Rahmah 1939-1940 / Abdur-Razaq Lubis.  Pulau Pinang, Malaysia: Areca Books , 2023.
Call no: BP187.3 L92

休戚與共: 馬來西亞左翼運動史論集 / 何启才 著.  Kuala Lumpur: Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies, 2023.
Call no: JQ1062 A98H67

从宏观视角评述一带一路 / 编著: 拿督谢诗坚博士; 合著: 马来西亚理科大学  Penang: 马来西亚一带一路研究中心, 2023.
Call no: HF1604 Z4M3X6

Writing women: the women’s pages of the Malay-language press (1987-1998) / Sonia Randhawa.  Malaysia: Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD); Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan,2022.
Call no: PN5449 M3R19


Singapore

George Yeo: musings. Series three / with Woon Tai Ho.  Singapore; Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2024.
Call no: DS610.73 Y46W91 V. 3

Shipwrecks and the maritime history of Singapore / edited by Kwa Chong Guan.  Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.
Call no: VK1288 S6S55


Timor Leste


Vietnam

Between war and the state: civil society in South Vietnam, 1954-1975 / Van Nguyen-Marshall. Ithaca, New York: Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.
Call no: HN700.5 A8N579

Miscellany of the South Seas: a Chinese scholar’s chronicle of shipwreck and travel through 1830s Vietnam / Cai Tinglan; translated and introduced by Kathlene Baldanza and Zhao Lu.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.
Call no: DS556.36 C13

The labour politics of app-based driving in Vietnam / Joe Buckley.  Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.
Call no: DS501 I59T NO. 16(2023)


ASEAN and Southeast Asia

Navigating the new political economy in Southeast Asia: perspectives from Japan, Taiwan and the region / Alan Hao Yang, Masahiro Matsumura.  Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2023.
Call no: HC441 N32

Regionalisasi ketahanan nasional Indonesia di ASEAN / Galby Rifqi Samhudi.  Jakarta: Penerbit Buku Kompas, 2023.
Call no: JZ6009 A9S18

Trending Islam: cases from Southeast Asia / edited by Norshahril Saat, A’an Suryana and Mohd Faizal Musa.  Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2023.
Call no: BP63 A9T79


Asia-Pacific

Electoral malpractice in Asia: bending the rules / edited by Netina Tan and Kharis Templeman.  Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 2023.
Call no: JQ38 E382

The administrative foundations of the Chinese fiscal state / Wei Cui.  Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Call no: KNQ3558 C96

The Routledge handbook of nationalism in East and Southeast Asia / edited by Lu Zhouxiang.  New York, NY: Routledge, 2024.
Call no: JC311 R86

Revisiting colonialism and colonial labour: the South Asian working class in British Malaya / edited by Sivachandralingam Sundara Raja and Shivalinggam Raymond.  Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2024.
Call no: HD8700.6 R45


Others

Revolutionary spring: Europe aflame and the fight for a new world, 1848-1849 / Christopher Clark.  New York: Crown, 2023.
Call no: D387 C59


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