06/2005
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| Prof. Omar Farouk Bajunid is editing the papers of the 2003 panel in a volume forthcoming with Marshall Cavendish Academic (former Times, Singapore) in the Islam in Asia series, edited by Omar Farouk Bajunid.
See link at www.marshallcavendish.com
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04/2005
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| Chaiwat Satha-Anand just published his collected essays in a volume entitled:
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The Life of This World
Negotiated Muslim Lives in Thai Society
Chaiwat Satha-Anand
ISBN: 9812103554
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| Islam in Asia is an ongoing series that features high-quality original works on Islam and the Muslims in Asia
by regional scholars and other specialists. Focusing on both empirical studies as well as those
that address the whole range of contemporary issues affecting the Muslim communities
within and across national frontiers in the region, the areas of discussion include the ongoing discourses
on Islam and political violence, Muslim diversity, international Islamic networks, the role of Muslim minorities,
the role of Islam in pluralistic societies and Islam and inter-religion dialogues.
Monographs on selected themes may be focused on a single country or on the region as a whole.
The Life of This World focuses on the ways in which Muslims in predominantly non-Muslim Thailand
negotiate their lives as a minority group, using different sites where their identities as Muslims
are contested while facing various challenges that call into question their connectedness
with the local, national and global contexts.
See the book review by Alexander Horstmann
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04/2005
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Dear Friends,
Many papers from the First International Conference on Southern Thailand in Pattani (2002) are now available in a collection edited by Wattana Sugganasil.
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Dynamic Diversity in Southern Thailand
Wattana Suggansasil, Editor
Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books
ISBN 974-9575-82-2
2005
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| The twelve articles making up this volume examine a wide range of social, political, and economic issues in southern Thailand, such as: Is Islam compatible with Thai nationalism and the ideals of the Thai state? What features make southern Thailand politics unique? What are some social consequences of top-down development projects in the South? How has subregional development affected southern Thailand? To what extent are women involved in community development in the South? Other articles investigate the consumption practices in a rural border community, the nang talung shdow puppet theatre, the Hat Yai vegetarian festival, the feminization of nora spirit mediumship, a Dhamma walk around Lake Songkla to highlight ecological concerns, the social relationship network of the Baba Chinese Business community in Phuket, and the cultural construction of a Thai community across the border in Kelantan. Highly recommended!
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A Plural Peninsula
Find report in the Kyoto Review Issue 5 from March 2004
Our readers can read papers from the "Plural Peninsula" Conference organized by the Asia Research Institute (Singapore) in the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asian Studies No. 5: Islam in Southeast Asia here.
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03/2004
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Southern Thai Border Identities
Find field reports and research notes in the Kyoto Review Issue 7
Alexander Horstmann will edit a special issue of the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asian Studies on States, Peoples and Borders in Southeast Asia No. 7, in October 2005.
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06/2005
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Centering the Margin in Press
Order now with Berghahn Books!
Alexander Horstmann and Reed Wadley (Missouri) proudly announce the publication of their forthcoming book: Centering the Margin: Agency and Narrative in Southeast Asian Borderlands. Oxford/ New York: Berghahn that is the result of an ongoing research interest of the editors in Southeast Asian borderlands. Interested Readers order at berghahnbooks
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06/2005
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Class, Culture and Space republished
Class, Culture and Space is re-published with transcript Publishers (Bielefeld) and transaction Publishers (New Brunswick). Readers from Germany order at transcript-verlag, readers from the USA order at transactionpub.
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09/2002
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Class, Culture and Space:
The Construction and Shaping of Communal Space in Southern Thailand
by Dr. Alexander Horstmann
ILCAA Research Monograph A818
 Preface (by Prof. Stauth)
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| Horstmann's book Class, Culture and Space is based on sound empirical data and provides an understanding of identity politics among the Thais, Chinese and Malays in South Thailand. It also gives invaluable insights into the lived-conduct of individuals and families and how they feature in the identity projects mounted by the various religious organisations in the Songkla and Pattani areas in the era of globalisation. Given its ethnographic details, factual contents and perceptive intrepretation of the communities in the border region, in my view the book will enlighten those who are interested to follow current developments in the Thailand and Malaysia with respect to civil society formation in "peripheral" areas and emerging inter-religious and political discourses. In addition, the book will be a welcome contribution to current research on Southeast Asia for its innovative concepts of culture and religion and above all, identity politics in South Thailand.
Prof. Sharifah Zaleha, UKM, Bangi, Malaysia
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