EuroSEAS Book Prize 2022

EuroSEAS has awarded two book prizes at the 12th EuroSEAS Conference in Paris-Aubervilliers, 28 June-1 July 2022.

Winner of the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize for the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the humanities – including archaeology, art history, history, literature, performing arts and religious studies is: 

Thongchai Winichakul with Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976 Massacre in Bangkok. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020.

Winner of the EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize for the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the social sciences – including anthropology, economics, law, politics and international relations, and sociology is:

Lukas Ley with Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.

The winners received the book prize certificate and € 750!


 

Shortlist

Please find the shortlist of the nominated books for the EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 2022 and Social Science Book Prize 2022 below.

1. The EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize 

The EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize for the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the humanities – including archaeology, art history, history, literature, performing arts and religious studies.

Shortlist:
-Baird, Ian, Rise of the Brao;  Ethnic Minorities in Northeastern Cambodia during Vietnamese Occupation. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020.

-Harnish, David, Change and Identity in the Music Cultures of Lombok, Indonesia. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2021.

-Schedneck, Brooke, Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks. Washington: University of Washington Press, 2021. 

-Sutherland, Heather, Seaways and Gatekeepers, Trade and State in the Eastern Archipelago of Southeast Asia, c.1600-c.1906. Singapore: NUS Press, 2021. 

-Tan-Tangbau, Stan BH and Quyen Van Minh, Playing Jazz in Socialist Vietnam, Quyen Van Minh and Jazz in Hanoi. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021.

-Winichakul,Thongchai, Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976 Massacre in Bangkok. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020.

 

2. The EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize

The EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize for the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in the social sciences – including anthropology, economics, law, politics and international relations, and sociology.

Shortlist:
-Bolotta, Giuseppe, Belittled citizens: The cultural politics of childhood on Bangkok’s margins. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2021.

-Chaplin, Chris, Salafism and the State: Islamic Activism and National Identity in Contemporary Indonesia. Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2021.

-Ley, Lukas, Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang. Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.

-Mudhoffir, Abdil Mughis, State of Disorder: Privatised Violence and the State in Indonesia. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

-Ray, Sandeep, Celluloid Colony: Locating History and Ethnography in Early Dutch Colonial Films of Indonesia. Singapore: NUS Press, 2021.

-Suryomengolo, Jafar, Fearless Speech in Indonesian Women’s Writing: Working-Class Feminism from the Global South. Blue Ridge Summit: Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2021.