Embodying Tradition: Khmer Classical Dance and Images of Queer Presence and Possibility
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The Two Railroads: Prayut’s Search for Unity, Growth, and Modernity
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Unmaking the Mekong: How Hydropower Couples the Social, Political, and Environmental on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap
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Transboundary Haze Pollution in Island Southeast Asia: A Crisis of Collective Action
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A New Apocalypse: The Creation of A New Cultural Memory of the Vietnam War
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A Country to Be Proud Of: The Transformative Power of Rap Against Dictatorship’s Protest Music
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Bakla Hegemony, Gay Universe: Developing Queer Translocalities in a “Post”-Colonial Philippines
Abstract: Queer studies in the Philippines have confounded native and foreign scholars alike due to concepts resistant to definition and classification. Using a brief study on Lloyd Cadena’s popular YouTube vlogs, this essay aims to examine the powers and limits of bakla success stories. In this, we see that in response to the globalizing forces of social media, bakla voices do not deconstr uct existing gender structures, but instead can perpetuate a marginalization of non-bakla voices.
Incompatible Identities: Ethnicity, Belonging, and Exclusion in Making Myanmar’s Democracy
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