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International Quarterly for Asian Studies
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ISSN 2566-686X · Arnold Bergstraesser Institute · 288 articles in the index
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Navigating the Disrupted Field: Researching Education in Indonesia during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Research during the COVID-19 pandemic precipitated various challenges for data collection and fieldwork. In Indonesia, the pandemic has become a magnifier of long-prevalent inequalities, especially in the education sector. This paper reflects upon the authors’ online and offline field research…
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Gendered Cosmology, Landscape and Species-Inclusive Community in Yunnan’s Tibeto-Burman Origin Myths
This paper examines gender- and species-inclusive notions of community as reflected in the origin myths, animistic beliefs and practices of a few Tibeto-Burman minorities in the uplands of China’s southwestern province of Yunnan. Among these minorities, culture-specific views of descent and…
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Conducting Qualitative Interviews Online and In-person: Issues of Rapport Building and Trust
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the dynamics of social research and posed various challenges for researchers working in the field. Studies have highlighted different methodological challenges posed by the pandemic; in particular, issues of trust and rapport building with participants…
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Engagement and Ethics for Digital Ethnography: Reflections from (online) Indonesia in times of COVID-19
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic brought out a number of urgent issues for ethnographers and other scholars working across online and offline spaces. Whereas the massive recourse to social media platforms and other digital means of communication led to a surge in popularity and credibility…
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Bringing Up Underground Corpora: Ethics and Manuscripts in an Age of Digital Reproduction
While methodological considerations of positionality and disciplinary reflexivity have long been standard components of ethnographic studies, this is still not the case in codicology. Within the field of Arabic and Islamic manuscripts, recent debates on provenance and the use of digital archives…
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Rural Social Movements and Popular Struggles under Jokowi’s Presidency
The victory of Joko Widodo in the 2014 presidential election and the early phase of his first-term presidency brought some hope to Indonesian rural social movements. However, the structural constraints under oligarchic politics, the elite jockeying surrounding Jokowi, and the president’s lack of…
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Recurrent Frontiers: Land Dispossession, Illegal Resource Extraction and Environmental Degradation in Sorong, West Papua
Over the past decade, during the tenure of President Joko Widodo, West Papua has undergone a process that Jason and Michael (2019) describe as a “recurring frontier”, whereby frontiers emerge, evolve and are continually redefined. The situation there is exemplified by a number of intertwined…
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Japan’s Coast Guard Capacity Building under Abe Shinzō: Between Power, Money and Norms
For Japan’s former prime minister Abe Shinzō, security cooperation with Southeast Asia was central to preventing the South China Sea from turning into a “Lake Beijing” – completely under Chinese control. This paper explains why Abe’s security engagement in the region focused mainly on providing…
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“Twin Brothers”: Claim-Making Strategies by the Ata Modo in the Tourism Development Project of Komodo National Park, West Manggarai
The Komodo monitor lizard is an endangered species found only on the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores and Gili Motang. To protect them, a national park was established in the 1980s. In 2019, the Indonesian government designated Komodo National Park as a super-premium tourist…
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Legal Changes during Joko Widodo’s Administration – Backsliding of Democracy?
This paper provides an overview of the legislative landscape and its background under the Joko Widodo administration (2014–2024). The transition of presidential power from Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to Joko Widodo marked the consolidation of democracy in post-authoritarian Indonesia, continuing from…
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Thailand’s Bilateral Response to the 2021 Myanmar Military Coup: Historical Contexts and Evolving Strategies
Thailand has pursued its own bilateral policy towards Myanmar, which stands in stark contrast to the Five-Point Consensus policy of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The central research question of this article is: Why has Thailand articulated its own independent policy towards…