While the size and speculative nature of land transactions in the wake of energy, food and
climate crises have surprised observers, the reasons for partial implementation of many land …

Gangs and militias have been a persistent feature of social and political life in Indonesia.
During the authoritarian New Order regime they constituted part of a vast network of sub …

Two home-grown insurgencies arose in Nigeria after the return to civilian rule in 1999: Boko
Haram in the Muslim northeast, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta …

Names: Hodgson, Damian E., editor.| Fred, Mats, editor. Title: The projectification of the
public sector/edited by Damian Hodgson, Mats Fred, Simon Bailey, and Patrik Hall …

In contemporary Indonesia as in many other parts of the global south, policy plays a limited
role in guiding the practice of rural development. What proliferates, instead, is the project: a …

Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity is a long-term study of the
historical transformations of the Minangkabau polity of nagari, property relations and the …

Borderland regions in Southeast Asia have increasingly been reimagined as resource-rich,
unexploited 'wastelands' targeted for large-scale development schemes for economic …

How do ordinary Muslims deal with and influence the increasingly pervasive Islamic norms
set by institutions of the state and religion? Becoming Better Muslims offers an innovative …

This paper takes the broker as an entry‐point for considering the problem of exemplification
in anthropology. In particular, it approaches this problem by way of the relationship between …

Cosmopolitan ideals and pluralist tendencies have been employed creatively and adapted
carefully by Muslim individuals, societies and institutions in modern Southeast Asia to …