Amelie Katczynski is a PhD candidate at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, conducting anthropological research on the training of public health workers in Lao PDR.

I arrive at the office of Ajan Mala, a teacher at a Public Health School in southern Laos. We grab brooms, buckets, sponges and floor cleaner and she walks ahead of me towards the student dorm. As we ...

Keith Barney is Associate Professor at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, where his research focuses on political ecology and natural resource policy across Southeast Asia. Rini Astuti is a ...

Indonesian Borneo has long been known for its gold mineral wealth—and its gold rushes. As Nancy Peluso has previously explored at New Mandala, not all of this gold mining occurs through large ...

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New Mandala provides anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on Southeast Asia. It devotes its attention to the politics and societies of Southeast Asian countries, and their connections with one ...

Jefferson Ng is an Associate Research Fellow, Indonesia Programme, at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His work at RSIS focuses on ...

Academia.SG is an international network of Singaporean scholars aiming to promote publicly engaged scholarship about Singapore, including by encouraging debate on the systemic impediments to such ...

Mark Inkey interviews Sunai Julapongsatorn, a leader of the pro-government mobilisation underway across parts of Thailand ...

Phacharaphorn Phanomvan is a DPhil student in Economic History at the University of Oxford. She specialises in pre-15th century CE Asian economies, and urbanisation. She holds a masters in global ...

Hosted by the Australian National University’s Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, New Mandala provides anecdote, analysis, and new perspectives on Southeast Asia. Online since June 2006.

Greg Doyle is a PhD student in the School of Languages and Cultures at Sydney University. His research examines how the Australian art world understands and values Indonesian contemporary art. The ...