The Vietnam–Saudi Arabia BLA came during period of relative openness Vietnamese civil society’s labour advocacy activities that had begun in the early 2000s. Labour newspapers and global NGOs stepped ...

British photographer Colin Grafton’s exhibition Cambodia 1972–1975 opened at the art gallery of the SOSORO Museum of Money ...

The disciplinary study of art history has been in crisis for some time. One of the premises of Roger Nelson’s remarkable ...

In Western educational discourse, heading abroad for university is frequently imagined as an exercise in personal ...

On 11 March 2026, the first anniversary of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest and transfer to ICC custody, two scenes unfolded across the Philippines. In Manila, families of drug war victims gathered for ...

Anwar Ibrahim’s new tome, Rethinking Ourselves: Justice, Reform and Ignorance in Postnormal Times, appears at a time when both Malaysia and the international community are wrestling with uncertainty ...

A textbook might define anarchism s a political philosophy that rejects hierarchies of domination, especially the state and capitalism. Anarchists, accordingly, advocate for horizontal forms of social ...

The global trend toward the neoliberalisation of higher education, characterised by market-driven practices, privatization, and financial austerity, poses serious threats to educational equity, ...

Floramante SJ Ponce merges various anthropological and sociological theories and methods to understand Southeast Asia’s economic, political, and sociocultural dynamics, particularly those of Laos and ...

Open your fridge, pantry, or bathroom cabinet, and you’re likely to find a product containing carrageenan, a gelling substance derived from red seaweed. It is an essential part of modern daily life, ...

Last year New Mandala was pleased to be able to introduce our Emerging Scholar Award, an initiative aimed at promoting the dissemination of outstanding PhD research on Southeast Asia to a global ...