New Books at ISEAS Library – Jan 2024

Resource nationalism in Indonesia: booms, big business, and the state / Eve Warburton.  Ithaca, New York: Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.

Call no: HC447.5 W25

“This book explores how, when, and why states nationalize their natural resources. Focusing on Indonesia, Eve Warburton shows that the Indonesian government took an increasingly nationalist approach to foreign ownership in its resource sectors, particularly after the global commodity boom of the twenty-first century” — Publisher.

Vietnam’s dissidents: political dissonance in the age of global capitalism and coloniality / Susann Pham.  Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2023.

Call no: DS559.912 P532

“This book is the first ethnography on Vietnam’s contemporary dissident movement. As a country that became known and is still remembered as one of the last remnants of Communist revolutions, Vietnam has managed to lift itself from one of the poorest war-torn post-colonies to one of the fastest growing market economies in Southeast Asia. Yet, while holding on to the legacy of a communist-led liberation movement, the present-day Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) finds itself subject to political challenges from below. In recent years, dissident voices critical of the party-state’s malgovernance over social, economic and environmental issues have mushroomed across classes, generations and provinces.” — Publisher.