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Making Indonesia Clean from Waste with Dr Lukas Fort, John Legge Prize Winner 2023

Congratulations on being awarded the 2023 John Legge Prize for the Best Thesis in Asian Studies in Australia in 2022! Can you tell us a bit about your thesis? Indonesia faces a major waste problem; its residents are habituated to littering, landfills are overflowing, and seas and rivers are clogged with plastic. Indeed, Indonesia is […]

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Interview with Dr Annie Wu, 2023 Postdoctoral Writing Grant Recipient

Congratulations on being awarded an ASAA 2023 Postdoctoral Writing Grant! Can you tell us a bit about your current research? My current research is a monograph about the circular migration between Australia and Timor-Leste. It’s an ethnographic and longitudinal piece about seasonal agricultural workers’ lives in Australia. In addition, it’s about the socio-economic and community

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Excavating the History of ‘Asia’ in Global Politics: An Interview with Ahmad Rizky M. Umar

Congratulations on being awarded an ASAA 2023 Postdoctoral Writing Grant! Can you tell us a bit about your current research? I currently have three research agendas that lie in the intersection between International Relations, Global History, and Asian Studies. First, I am currently transforming my PhD thesis into a book project. My thesis, which I

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“Becoming Resilient: Disaster Recovery in Post-Yolanda Philippines through Women’s Eyes” by Dr Kaira Zoe Alburo Cañete, John Legge Thesis Prize Winner

Congratulations on being awarded the John Legge Prize for Best Thesis in Asian Studies in Australia in 2021! Can you tell us a bit about your thesis? What’s the problem/topic it explores and what did you find? My thesis examines the reconstruction of Tacloban City in the Philippines following typhoon Yolanda (internationally known as Haiyan),

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“The Storytelling State: Performing Life Histories in Singapore”, by Cheng Nien Yuan John Legge Thesis Prize Winner

Can you tell us a bit about your thesis. What’s the problem it explores and what did you find? My thesis identifies and explores Singapore’s newfound interest in a specific form of narration as a phenomenon I call the storytelling state. Over the last decade, public (auto)biographical storytelling, elicited through visualised narrative interviews, have proliferated

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