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Financialization and rural development: comparing credit systems in Thailand and Cambodia South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-04-10 W. Nathan Green, Ian G. Baird
This article compares rural credit systems in Thailand and Cambodia in order to advance studies on financialization and rural development in South East Asia. In Thailand, the state remains a large ...
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Jakarta: the city of a thousand dimensions South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Sony Karsono
Published in South East Asia Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Recycling infrastructures in Cambodia: circularity, waste, and urban life in Phnom Penh South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Lukas Fort
Published in South East Asia Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Acculturation orientation and expectation: mapping the labour migration processes of Cham youth in Cambodia South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Steve Kwok-Leung Chan
In multi-ethnic societies, different cultures interact with each other, and communities often have to consider acculturation strategies. These strategies are fluid and develop across geographical b...
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The road to Nusantara: process, challenges and opportunities South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Abidin Kusno
Published in South East Asia Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Navigating stigmatized motherhood: self-stigma of single mothers with mental illness in Thailand South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Herbary Cheung
Drawing on participant observations and in-depth interviews with twenty-two single mothers with mental illness and four medical workers from a psychiatric hospital in Thailand, this article analyse...
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SOGIE equality bill deliberations in the 18th Congress of the Philippines: a persisting battle against discrimination South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Tracy Mae Ildefonso
This article analyses the turbulent process that the House Bill No. 4982, an anti-discrimination bill also known as the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression (SOGIE) bill, has undergone...
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Trending Islam: cases from Southeast Asia South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Martin Slama
Published in South East Asia Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Mouthpiece’ and ‘arena’? – social(ist) media in contemporary Laos South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Paul-David Lutz
This article addresses a critical lacuna in the scholarship on South East Asian media: the lack of a general overview of the media and social media landscape in the Lao People's Democratic Republic...
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Vietnam: navigating a rapidly changing economy, society, and political order South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Andrew Wells-Dang
Published in South East Asia Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Brave and self-sacrificing Covid warriors:’ the metaphors used to describe healthcare workers in Thailand South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Wuttinun Kaewjungate, Siravast Kavilanan, Nopphadol Boonkan
During 2020–2021, the COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand was severe and difficult to control, and healthcare workers were important in managing the pandemic. This article focuses on the metaphors used i...
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Vietnam’s policies and the role of the country of origin in the integration process of migrant workers in the EU South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Luu Tuan Anh
The European Union has become a new ideal destination for Vietnamese migrant workers in recent years, but with this comes challenges in integrating into the labour market and society of host countr...
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The Angkorian World South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Joanna Wolfarth
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Political mobilization of the Malaysian Christian minority in the 1980s South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Pui Yee Choong
Amid Islamic revivalism in the 1980s, the Malaysian government introduced policies to promote the primacy of Islam. These policies impacted the religious rights of the Christian community and compe...
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Living Theravada: Demystifying the people, places, and practices of a Buddhist tradition South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Pyi Phyo Kyaw
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Workers and democracy: The Indonesian labour movement, 1949–1957 South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Iqra Anugrah
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 4, 2023)
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Letters to the editor: reporting disasters and creating identity in the late nineteenth century Philippines South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Greg Bankoff
A revolution in how news was reported occurred in the Philippines during the late nineteenth century with the publication of daily newspapers, the establishment of a postal system, and the construc...
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Mobilizing idol celebrity in queer affective advertising: exploring the impacts of ‘Boys Love’ media and fandom in Thailand South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Thomas Baudinette, Chavalin Svetanant
Recent years have witnessed an explosion in Thailand of ‘Boys Love (BL)’ media that focus on romantic relationships between men. This article explores one site through which BL media is significant...
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Hiding behind the platform: the myth of flexibility for gig workers in Indonesia South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Anindya Dessi Wulansari, Arif Novianto, Yeremias Torontuan Keban, Ari Hernawan
Mainstream arguments hold that the digital gig economy has been a boon for countries with high levels of unemployment, and some have even deemed it the future of work. Online platform companies han...
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Kaagi: tracing Visayan identities in cultural texts South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Cristina Martinez-Juan
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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In terms of kalibutan: notes on method via the Visayas South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Patrick Flores
This essay discusses the curatorial method that engages with the concept of kalibutan, a word from the Visayas in the central Philippines that signifies both consciousness and the world, to awarene...
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Finding Bisaya: the state of the field for Visayan literature South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Merlie M. Alunan
This article explores the marginalized status of Visayan literature in the Philippines, comprising of literary texts written in languages like Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a, Akeanon, Cebuano, and Waray. De...
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Bisayan studies South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Resil B. Mojares
This essay briefly introduces Bisayan studies as a field of academic research, with a focus on literature and history. It outlines the designation of the Visayas as a distinct region by Spanish col...
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Les sultanats du Sud philippin: Une histoire sociale et culturelle de l’islamisation (xve-xxe siècles) South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Edwin P. Wieringa
Published in South East Asia Research (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Kidung Pañji Margasmara: A Middle Javanese Romance South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan
Published in South East Asia Research (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Winaray without tears: annotations on the translations and transcriptions of Bisayan terms and phrases in Alcina’s Historia (1668) South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Voltaire Q. Oyzon
ABSTRACT This article examines sample transcriptions and translations into English of the Waray sentences, phrases and terms found in Francisco Ignacio Alcina's Historia (1668). Alcina was a Jesuit missionary who spent over thirty years recording the Bisayan culture, particularly in the Samar-Leyte area, where the Waray language is spoken. His is considered the most complete and accurate account of
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The made-up state: technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Brian Curtin
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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Worshipping the Other: a literary anthropological study of the Datuk Gong cult in Malaysia South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Zhaoyuan Wang
ABSTRACT In Malaysia, Malays and Chinese are considered to be two distinct ethnic groups. Therefore, the popular cult of Malay-Muslim Datuk Gong among Chinese religious believers – a worship of ‘the Other’ – is a fascinating ethno-religious phenomenon. Adopting the approach of literary anthropology to examine discrete writings on Datuk Gong produced by different individuals over a century, this article
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The anthropological signification of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in Visayas and Mindanao epics South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Myfel D. Paluga, Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio
This article argues that the enigmatic figure of the ‘Man with No Breath’ in the Visayan Labaw Donggon and the Sugidanon epics of Panay is not just a random flair in literary imagery, but works as ...
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The downstream impacts of dams on the seasonally flooded riverine forests of the Mekong River in northeastern Cambodia South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Ian G. Baird, Michael A.S. Thorne
On the Mekong River, north of Stung Treng town in northeastern Cambodia, and below the border with Laos, lies an area of riverine seasonally flooded forest designated as an internationally signific...
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An anthropological rethinking of the Pintados and early tattooing in the Visayas, Central Philippines South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio, Myfel D. Paluga
ABSTRACT No image of precolonial Visayans is as emblematic as the tattooed Pintados. But this imagery is almost always coupled with notions of warriorship and male valour in scholarly and popular discourses about the early Visayas. Comparing what we know about Visayan tattooing with customary tattooing in southern Mindanao and other tattooing traditions in the Austronesian-speaking world has opened
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Living art: Indonesian artists engage politics, society and history South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Edwin Jurriëns
Published in South East Asia Research (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Return of the junta: why Myanmar’s military must return to barracks South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Bobby Anderson
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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Outsourcing the polity: non-state welfare, inequality, and resistance in Myanmar South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Jangai Jap
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 3, 2023)
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Elite opposition and popular rejection: the failure of presidential term limit evasion in Widodo’s Indonesia South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Marcus Mietzner, Jun Honna
ABSTRACT In recent years, there has been an increasing body of scholarship analyzing the conditions under which incumbent presidents can launch successful attempts to evade existing term limits. It has generally been found that if presidents use multi-strategy approaches, the probability of their success is high. Failure of term limit evasion, on the other hand, is typically ascribed to opposition
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A feminist analysis of colonial representations of Visayan women at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Mary Dorothy dL. Jose
Significant works have been published on American colonial photography in the Philippines, which primarily focus on the depiction of Filipinos in general and not on the images of Filipino women, sp...
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Language superdiversity among ethnic minority communities in southeast Vietnam South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Nguyen Van Khang, Tran Thi Hong Hanh
ABSTRACT Our research investigates multilingual practices and communication among ethnic minority communities in the southeast of Vietnam, where globalization and migration have led to dramatic changes in all aspects of socioeconomic life. A range of empirical data collected through interviews, questionnaires and direct observation of interviewees in their daily interactions helps to determine what
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Celluloid colony: locating history and ethnography in early Dutch colonial films South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Eric Sasono
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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Hatta and Indonesia’s independent and active foreign policy: retrospect and prospect South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Damien Kingsbury
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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Innovation, style and spectacle in wayang: Purbo Asmoro and the evolution of an Indonesian performing art South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Matthew Isaac Cohen
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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Moments of silence: the unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, massacre in Bangkok South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Tyrell Haberkorn
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2023)
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An abandoned Cham temple of Vietnam: the woven history of the Hòa Lai Temple from a multiple disciplinary approach South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Tuyen Dai Quang, Danh Thanh Dong, William B. Noseworthy
ABSTRACT This article examines the Hòa Lai Temple in Ninh Thuận province, Vietnam, which has been overlooked in recent literature, despite numerous Champa temple-tower complexes in the region having been the subject of scholarly studies. Using multidisciplinary methods such as ethnography, manuscript studies, historical analysis, oral historical methods, epigraphy and archaeology, our findings reveal
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Dynastic democracy: political families in Thailand South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-06-05 John T. Sidel
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2023)
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The ramifications of displacement for mealtime-related activities, practices and dynamics among people affected by conflict in Mindanao, Philippines South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Zaldy Collado
ABSTRACT Displaced by war in 2017, internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Marawi City in southern Philippines continue to face severe economic challenges, seriously undermining their mealtime-related affairs. This article examines the extent to which displacement has negatively impacted activities or practices related to mealtime preparation, the actual family meal or commensality and the frequency
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Between chili farms and an aerotropolis: the struggle against the new airport in Yogyakarta, Indonesia South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Heronimus Heron, Min Seong Kim
ABSTRACT Yogyakarta International Airport (YIA), which opened on 28 August 2020, represents one of the largest infrastructure developments in the modern history of the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. While, for some, the airport project was proof of the Indonesian government’s commitment to invest in the region, to the farmers of the Temon area on which the airport now stands, it represented
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Fluid jurisdictions: colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Sumit K. Mandal
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2023)
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The power of the blood: myths and practices surrounding menstruation in Indonesian diamond mining South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Riza Priandhita, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
ABSTRACT This paper is a feminist investigation into the beliefs and practices surrounding menstruation among traditional artisanal diamond mining women in the Muslim Banjar ethnic community in rural parts of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Based on feminist ethnographic field methods, it investigates how these women interpret the religious and cultural restrictions in their everyday lives as miners,
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‘The buffalo skin written word’: the cultural politics of orality and writing in mainland South East Asia South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Micah F. Morton
ABSTRACT Throughout mainland South East Asia, there are numerous indigenous histories of the loss and return of the written word. These histories are often linked to narratives of Christian conversion, and the desire for literacy and modernity. In this article, I revisit questions about the cultural politics of orality and the written word from the perspectives of certain Akha communities in the Thai–Myanmar
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Winning by process: the state and neutralization of ethnic minorities in Myanmar South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Nick Cheesman
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2023)
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‘Pa-uli na’: Filipino familial intimacy and entreaties to returning interprovincial migrants South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Eric N. Awi
ABSTRACT This article explores how family intimacy and traditional values interplay in the return of rural interprovincial migrants in the Philippines, in response to entreaties made by family members. Specifically, it looks at how Filipino behavioural patterns for social acceptance underlie interprovincial migrants’ decision to return. Jacqui Gabb’s concept of family intimacy and Virginia Miralao’s
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The candidate’s dilemma: anticorruptionism and money politics in Indonesian election campaigns South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Ross H. McLeod
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2023)
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The culture of pamatbat and parapamatbat in the Central Philippines South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Sheldon Ives Go Agaton, Joezenon Apurillo Purog
ABSTRACT A pamatbat is a prayer used amongst Catholics in the Philippines to petition or give thanks to God, Mary or the saints through the assistance of a parapamatbat, or prayer leader. Utilizing an oral-history method, this paper delves into three aspects of this intangible culture. First, the practice of pamatbat and the existence of parapamatbat come under the auspices of the Catholic faith, and
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Histories of scale: Java, the Indies and Asia in the imperial age, 1820–1945 South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Sanne Ravensbergen
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2023)
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Blessing the living spaces of migrants: religious practices of Thai workers in Japan and their meanings South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Jessadakorn Kalapong
ABSTRACT Existing literature suggests that religion plays a significant role in migrants’ social and cultural capital, engaging them with their ethnic communities both within and across the host countries’ borders. This article proposes that religion provides a mechanism for migrants to reconstitute their spaces under the subjugation of a migratory structure. The article reports findings of a case
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Finding eunuchs in imperial Vietnam: questions and sources South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Bradley Camp Davis
ABSTRACT Written as a response to Katherine Bowie's essay (‘Eunuchs in Vietnam: What's Missing?’), this piece presents some introductory research on the role of eunuchs in the court culture and the everyday administration of imperial Vietnam during the Nguyễn dynasty (1802–1945). In addition to explaining the role of eunuchs in Vietnamese historiography, this essay critically evaluates claims about
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The first Vietnam War: violence, sovereignty, and the fracture of the South, 1945-1956 South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Bruce M. Lockhart
Published in South East Asia Research (Vol. 30, No. 4, 2022)
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Strategic hedging: a case study of nineteenth-century Siam South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Gustavo A. Mendiolaza, Ben Rich, Alexey D. Muraviev
ABSTRACT A longstanding view in realist studies of international relations has been that within the context of great power competition, lesser states must choose between balancing or bandwagoning. However, a third option is also available: strategic hedging, which provides a means of explaining foreign policy strategies that do not traditionally fit within this standard binary. This article seeks to
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Local social movements and local democracy: tin and gold mining in Indonesia South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Amalinda Savirani, Indah Surya Wardhani
ABSTRACT This article investigates the strategies used by local social movements to respond to increased extractive industry activities in decentralized Indonesia since 2001. Using tin mining in Bangka Belitung (Sumatra) and gold mining in Banyuwangi (East Java) as case studies, this article explores how local democracy, including political decentralization that gives power to local government and
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Race, sexuality and prostitution in colonial Singapore: reading J. G. Farrell's The Singapore Grip South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Prashant Maurya, Nagendra Kumar
ABSTRACT The brothel business flourished parallel to industrial and commercial growth in colonial Singapore during the early twentieth century. This article explores the British Empire's role in proliferating prostitution in colonial Singapore as depicted in James Gordon Farrell's historical novel, The Singapore Grip (1978). It argues, as the novel describes, that the British administration in Singapore
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Film is dangerous: ten years of censorship in Thailand’s cinema, 2010–2020 South East Asia Research Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Sudarat Musikawong, Malinee Khumsupa
ABSTRACT The passing of the Cinema Act of 1930 marked the enforcement of the first official cinematic censorship measures in Thailand. However, it was constitutive censorship combined with official and expansive censorship practices enforced by the Film Censor Board that created an environment of self-censorship which is most dangerous for freedom of speech in cinema. The justification for banning