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ABOUT THE SERIES

Developments in the field of area studies — goaded by the analytical deconstruction of world regions as such — have deeply affected the knowledge production on societies and cultures located in these politicized compartmentalization of the globe. With this series, the editors and authors wish to contribute to a reformulation of area studies that emphasizes the continuing epistemic value of contextualized knowledge production that is firmly rooted in concrete places. Starting with the notion of Southeast Asia, books published in this series will contribute to a more nuanced understanding of regionality based on a multidisciplinary approach. The series represents an outlet for young scholars intending to publish their degree theses and dissertations; and for established scholars who are looking for a place to republish out-of-print books, edited volumes or themed collections of their own papers and articles. We also invite scholarly collectives to publish collaborative works or edited volumes on topics that usually will not attract the attention of big presses due to their transdisciplinary orientation or the niche character of their topic. Our overall motivation is to maintain Southeast Asian studies as a critical and self-reflexive academic field.

 

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Chief Editor Dr. Benjamin Baumann is assistant professor at Heidelberg University’s Institute of Anthropology. Before joining Heidelberg University in April 2020, he was research associate at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin's Department of Southeast Asian Studies. He is a multidisciplinarily working anthropologist and received his PhD in Southeast Asian Studies from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with a dissertation on the Khmer-speaking minority population in Thailand’s lower Northeast. His fields of expertise cover Thailand, Cambodia and Laos as well as social organization, religion, ritual, mythology and anthropological theory.

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PD Dr. Daniel Bultmann is a visiting professor for Society and Transformation in Asia and Africa at the Institute of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research and teaching currently focus on the analysis of power elites as social fields in Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos. Previously, he has worked on the structure and reintegration of armed groups, on the history of the Khmer Rouge, on digital memorialization, and on the connection between torture practices and body knowledge.

His main research interest includes Political sociology, Social structures and inequality, Peace and conflict studies, Collective violence, Sociology of the body, Sociology of knowledge, Sociology of elites, Regional focus Southeast Asia: Cambodia, Thailand and Laos
His particular research interests are focused on the country of Cambodia.

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Prof. Caroline S. Hau is Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. Born in Manila and educated at the University of the Philippines and Cornell University, she is the author and editor of more than sixteen books, mainly dealing with Philippine literature and culture. She has also published a novel and two collections of short stories.

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Prof. Dr. Vincent Houben is Professor Emeritus of Southeast Asian History and Society, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin.

His main research interest includes Modern History of Southeast Asia (19. – 21. Century), Theory and History of Area Studies, Colonial and, Imperial History, History of Labour, and Memory Studies

His particular interest are focused on the countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore

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Peter A. Jackson is Emeritus Professor of Thai history and cultural studies in the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific. Over the past four decades, he has written extensively on modern Thai cultural history, with special interests in the social and political history of Buddhism, magical cults and ritual, gender transformations and the emergence of gay, lesbian and transgender cultures in Asia. He has also undertaken comparative work in globalization studies and critical theoretical approaches to historical and cultural studies of Asia. Prof. Jackson was editor-in-chief of Asian Studies Review, flagship journal of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, from 2009 to 2012 and a founding member of the editorial collective of Hong Kong University Press’s Queer Asia monograph series. He has also established the Thai Rainbow Archives Project, which was funded by the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme to collect and digitize Thai gay, lesbian and transgender magazines and community organisation newsletters.

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Prof. Dr. Guido Sprenger teaches anthropology at Heidelberg University since 2010, after positions at the Academia Sinica, Taipei and the University of Münster. He has done research in the uplands of Laos since 2000. His research interests include ritual, exchange, human-environment relations, animism, cultural identity, kinship and social structure. Among his publications are Die Männer, die den Geldbaum fällten (The Men who cut the Money Tree: Concepts of Exchange and Society among Rmeet of Takheung, Laos) (2006), Animism in Southeast Asia (co-edited with Kaj Århem, 2016) and numerous journal articles.

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Prof. Dr. Barend Jan (Baas) Terwiel retired in 2007 from the Chair of Thai and Lao Languages and Literatures, Hamburg University. He has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Thailand and in Assam. He has written extensively on Thai history, Theravada Buddhism and the Tai-speaking peoples of Assam. Among his most read publications are, Monks and Magic (2012) and “What Happened at Nong Sarai? Comparing Indigenous and European Sources for Late 16th Century Siam“, Journal of the Siam Society, Vol 101, 2013, pp. 19-34. His own favorite publication was: “The Hidden Jātaka of Wat Si Chum: A New Perspective on 14th and Early 15th Century Thai Buddhism”, Journal of the Siam Society, Vol 101, 2013, pp. 1-17.

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Dr. Xue Li is a lecturer for ASEAN-China Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts at Thammasat University, Thailand. She has completed her doctoral studies at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses primarily on changes in local society in China between the mid-nineteenth and twentieth century. Her research interest also includes the changes in the Chinese community in Thailand in the same period.

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Brunei

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East Timor

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Indonesia

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Laos

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Malaysia

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Myanmar

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Philippines

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Singapur

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Thailand

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We are accepting manuscripts for publishing. Galda Verlag is not charging any fees or other costs. Please send your inquiry or submit your book proposal for review. Please find our book proposal guidelines below.

This book series is dedicated to the cherished memory of Boike Rehbein.

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