Category: German

This study examines how frontline restaurant employees in Malaysia experience and interpret the integration of service robots within a labor-scarce hospitality sector characterized by reliance on a migrant workforce and high-touch service traditions. D…

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This article explores the possibilities and limits of advancing social justice through language-related support for migrant workers in Thailand. Using collaborative autoethnography, we reflect on our experiences in two university-led initiatives with M…

Forests are central to ecological sustainability and local livelihoods, yet forest governance in Aceh is characterized by persistent contestation between customary institutions, such as Imuem Mukim, Geuchik/Reje, and the Aceh/Gayo Customary Councils o…

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This article examines how contemporary ghost legends related to the Mỹ Lai Massacre (March 16, 1968) shape collective memory in postwar Vietnam. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, including 38 in-depth interviews conducted from 2021 to 2024, the study…

Over the past several decades, Thailand has undergone significant transformations in sport media policy, driven by shifts in national governance. The transition from conventional sport broadcasting to digital sport media has introduced several key chal…

This study explores the sociocultural, economic, and symbolic significance of graveyards – conceptualized as deathscapes – among survivors of the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, East Java. Drawing on ethnographic engagement and qualitative interv…

This article explores the ways in which Muslim meditation practitioners in Indonesia understand and utilize Buddhist meditative practice. Focusing on the narrative of one such practitioner, we draw out the little-known role that meditation plays in the…

The world is facing multiple intertwined crises, like environmental degradation and socioeconomic inequalities. The impacts of these crises are disproportionately severe in emerging nations, such as those in Southeast Asia. Ecovillages are emerging as …

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This qualitative study examines whether the Philippine party-list system effectively enables indigenous peoples’ legislative representation by reviewing documents from the Philippine Commission on Elections, the Philippine Congress, the Philippine Supr…

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Armed conflict between the Communist Party of Thailand (CPT) and the military of Thailand in northern Thai-land began in mid-1967. By the end of the 1960s, there were a number of CPT stronghold bases in the remote uplands of Northern Thailand. Large nu…

Digital networks and social media are increasingly becoming spaces with high political stakes as well as great economic gains. This paper contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the relationship between economic and political motivations, particu…