Advances in Southeast Asian Studies

This open issue presents four current research articles, one book review, and a network contribution, together spaning five Southeast Asian countries. The contributions broaden the lens of ongoing movements across Southeast Asia to examine underlying political and social dynamics in the region. The issue opens with a research article on Myanmar that introduces a new form of social media campaign that does not rally around the voices of protesters but instead capitalizes on time. It then moves to an in-depth investigation of a political history-making project involving two ethnic minority groups in Thailand, followed by an examination of the legislative representation of indigenous peoples in the Philippines. A fourth research article discusses how legal systems and social norms in Malaysia impede the development of urban living solutions otherwise understood as sustainable and community-based.

Managing Editors
Dayana Lengauer & Rainer Einzenberger

Cover Photo
"Protestors Raising Three Fingers at Hledan Yangon 5" by Maung Sun