Book Review: Hongsaton, P., & Chan, Y.-K. (Eds.). (2025). New Directions in Thai Studies.
Advances in Southeast Asian Studies
Editorial: Resistance, Critique, Hope. Global Crises and Southeast Asian Experiences.
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Rethinking the Crisis of Reading: Literary Ecosystems and Reading Culture in Contemporary Thailand
This article challenges the widely circulated claim that Thailand is a non-reading society. Public dis course frequently reduces reading culture to quantitative indicators such as the number of books read per year, obscuring the complex institutional e…
Visualizing water struggles: Using Photovoice for research and community empowerment in northwest Vietnam
Research on hydropower development in Southeast Asia has documented processes of dispossession and environmental change, yet small hydropower projects and their cumulative, everyday impacts on community life remain comparatively underexamined. This art…
Embracing ‘slow life’ in the field: Navigating research delays, politics, and environmental care as early-career scholars
This article examines the possibilities and challenges of slowing down in field research. It follows four early-career scholars of Southeast Asia with varied positionalities and roots in the region, attempting to conduct reciprocal research and activis…
Boundary Objects in Practice: Business Incubators as Translation Devices
Business incubators have become central organizations within global entrepreneurial ecosystems, and their intermediary position between local entrepreneurs and multinationals calls for closer, more nuanced examination. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork…
So you want to come do research in Bali? Rethinking research collaborations in Southeast Asia and their decolonial possibilities
In this article, I describe my long-standing experience of engaging with ‘foreign’ researchers when I was asked to provide support and partner as a local fixer, research assistant, tour guide for field studies, recruiter of enumerators, and field facil…
Book review of Bönisch‑Brednich, Brigitte, Christou, Anastasia, Meyer, Silke, Karner, Marie, and Escher, Anton Jakob (eds.) 2024. Migrant Narratives: Storytelling as Agency, Belonging and Community. London: Routledge, 226 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Winters, Nanneke, Drotbohm, Heike, and Guevara González, Yaatsil (eds.) 2024. (Un)Settling Place: Diverse and Divergent Place‑Making of People on the Move. Berghahn Books, 241 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Huttunen, Laura and Perl, Gerhild (eds.) 2023. An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 298 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Heusala, Anna‑Liisa, Aitamurto, Kaarina, and Eraliev, Sherzod (eds.) 2024. Global Migration and Illiberalism in Russia, Eurasia, and Eastern Europe. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 341 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Dickinson, Eliot 2023. Human Migration and the Refugee Crisis: Origins and Global Impact. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 256 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Book review of Markkanen, Airi and Åberg, Kai (eds.) 2024. The Culture of the Finnish Roma. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 137 pp.
Nordic Journal of Migration Research
Traces of a Magical Class Struggle
The Tattarisuo Mystery was a sensationalized witchcraft case in Finland in the early 1930s. At its centre was a group of displaced working-class individuals, called by the press the Tattarisuo coven, who sought through magical rituals to re…
Inner Role-taking and Emotion in New Religious Movements and Contemporary Spirituality
In Finland, kirtan—communal call-and-response singing rooted in Indian devotional traditions—has become a diverse practice across both new religious movements and contemporary spirituality. This article asks how culturally learned symbols c…
A Revelation You Can Taste
How do practitioners learn to recognize divine presence? Drawing on apprentice ethnography in the Court of Aine, a Swedish Wiccan coven—four interviews and some twenty ritual occasions—this article argues that revelation is best understood …
Religion: Concealed and Revealed
Within religion, spirituality and esotericism aspects of concealment and revelation are a recurring theme. This thematic issue brings together articles developed from papers presented at the summer school and conference Religion: Concealed …
Esoteric Epistemic Practices in Early Twentieth-Century Finland
In this article I examine how Elsa Heporauta (1883–1960) produced, interpreted and circulated esoteric knowledge in early-twentieth-century Finland, situating her work within a vibrant esoteric milieu. Drawing on archival notebooks, manuscr…
The Kantele of Lucifer
In this article I explore the evolving relationship the Finnish poet and journalist Aarni Kouta had to the mythological character of Lucifer over his lifetime. Kouta was a prominent figure in the early-twentieth-century Finnish cultural sph…
From Concealment to Heritage
This article examines the historical formation and contemporary significance of Kirishitan shrines (Kirishitan jinja) in Nagasaki Prefecture. Rather than viewing Kakure Kirishitan survival primarily as the preservation of Christian practice…
A Feminine Enlightenment?
The focus of the article is Duchess Hedwig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp and her involvement in Freemasonry, specifically through her lodge of adoption, which operated within the Stockholm royal castle in the late eighteenth centu…
Nature as a Site of Alternative Epistemologies
In this article I engage with the video works Sentimentum and Fantomi by the Finnish visual artist Venla Helenius, departing from the conceptual frameworks of esotericism and critical posthumanism. In these video works, different epistemolo…
Imagined pasts: photography, colonialism, and archives
This special section, with texts by six researchers, three of whom are also the volume’s editors, spans diverse geographical spaces – Portugal, Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe, Indonesia, and the Netherlands – and a long chronology from the mid-nineteent…
Being out of Time:
This paper examines the life narratives by and about queer youth in Sweden and Switzerland through the lens of scholarship on queer temporality. The analysis focuses on two questions: Firstly, how do queer youth narrate their childhood (past) and adole…
On the margins of the Indian Ocean:
This article analyses the practice and presence of photography in Goa, and by Goan photographers outside of Goa, from the 1850s to the 1900s. One of the aims of this text is to draw a preliminary mapping of Goan photographic histories beyond its most w…