MAI Press

UK, Europe, Central Asia, Middle East & Africa

maipress — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:19:33 +0000

MAI Press are thrilled to announce that we have signed with the Eurospan Group to distribute our books in these territories. Eurospan will provide easy access to our titles for libraries, bookshops, individuals and institutions. Visit our bookstore at the Eurospan website:

http://www.eurospanbookstore.com/maipress

Intriguing new book about Tibet

maipress — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:34:44 +0000

This innovative collection brings a new approach to scholarship about Tibetan culture. It considers fields as diverse as power in Lhatok in Eastern Tibet, the dynamics and politics of lattice window design in Rebgong (Amdo), humour in old Tibetan verse, and concepts of the self in modern testimonio.

New Views of Tibetan Culture is distinguished as the first Australian publication about Tibet, and represents a group of emerging Australian scholars whose approach to Tibetan subjects is refreshing.

Masculinity in Indonesia

maipress — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:05:03 +0000

Maskulinitas, and exciting new book from MAI Press, is a ground-breaking treatment of the representation of men and masculinity in Indonesian culture, from Suharto’s New Order era to the present. It includes critical analysis of Indonesian cultural expression in literature, cinema, society and politics. This book challenges the way scholars of Indonesia have held firm to the categories and frameworks of gender studies—a field still often equated with women’s studies—while offering fascinating insights into representations and images of men as engendered and engendering subjects.

Maskulinitas: culture, gender and politics in Indonesia, by Marshall Clark, 2010, AU$29.95, ISBN 978 1 876924 76 8

New assessments of the Bandung conference

maipress — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:51:32 +0000

An intriguing new book from MAI Press presents fresh interpretations of the 1955 Asia-Africa conference in Bandung, Indonesia. The conference hosted a glittering array of international stars, including Sukarno, Nehru, and Zhou Enlai, ensuring headlines in newspapers around the world. Focusing on some under-researched individuals, countries and themes—Lebanon’s Charles Malik, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, Japanese intellectuals, Burmese socialists, Australian politicians—the authors demonstrate the historical depth and repercussions of the conference.

Banding 1955: little histories, edited by Antonia Finnane and Derek McDougall, 2010, AU$29.95, ISBN 9781876924737

Democracy in Indonesia

maipress — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:06:50 +0000

MAI Press is pleased to announce the release of a new book in the Annual Indonesia Lecture Series.

The Return to Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia, edited by Thomas Reuter, examines each presidency since Suharto, and discusses Suharto’s political legacy and the vibrancy of democracy in Indonesia today.

MAI Press goes electronic

maipress — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:04:34 +0000

MAI Press has signed a distribution agreement with Informit, who host and distribute scholarly publications online. The first series to be digitised will be the iconic Working Papers on Southeast Asia. Subject to copyright permission from the authors, the back catalogue, which goes back to 1974, will be made available online, and future editions will be published online and in print. Most of the authors have now been contacted, and they are very enthusiastic about this new development.
We are keen to follow this up with the Annual Indonesia Lecture Series, and selected out-of-print books. It will take some time to digitise the back catalogue. Some of the older titles will be scanned with text recognition software and laid out afresh. Illustrations will take on a new life, as the electronic format allows better reproduction than the printing methods we have traditionally used for the working papers. The end result will be high quality, searchable texts for readers around the world.

New title released

maipress — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:32:57 +0000

Imagining Siam, by Caron Eastgate Dann
This is the first comprehensive critical study of Western literature about Thailand. It offers a broad view, covering literary attempts to describe Siam in the 13th century, through the formative phase of Western engagement in the 16th century, the various competing European imperialisms in the 19th century, to today’s era of mass tourism and the global reach of mobile, economically and culturally powerful ‘First World’ populations. This will appeal to those interested in Thailand, critiques of travel writing and the Anna Leonowens legacy.

13 New titles in 2008

maipress — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:42:34 +0000

MAI Press released 13 new titles in 2008

Business in Asia, edited by Russell Smyth and Marika Vicziany

Indonesian Islam in a new era: how women negotiate their Muslim identities, edited by Susan Blackburn, Bianca Smith and Siti Syamsiyatun

The First Indonesian Women’s Congress of 1928, edited by Susan Blackburn

Malaya’s secret police 1945-60: the role of the Special Branch in the Malayan Emergency, by Leon Comber

Tall tales and true: India, historiography and British Imperial imaginings, edited by Kate Brittlebank

Narrating the other: Australian literary perceptions of Japan, by Megumi Kato

Is Japan really remilitarising? The politics of norm formation and change, by Yasuo Takao

The iconic female: goddesses of India, Nepal and Tibet, edited by Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat and Ian Mabbett

Horizons of home: nation, gender and migrancy in island Southeast Asia, edited by Penelope Graham

Muslim politics and democratisation in Indonesia

The politics of satire: Tarjoman, Afghanistan’s first satirical newspaper, by Faridullah Bezhan

Migrant remittances in low-income households in Sri Lanka: development policy issues, by Judith Shaw

Global trends in religion and the reaffirmation of Hindu identity in Bali, by Thomas Reuter

For more information go to the MAI Press website: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/press/index.php

Between Three Worlds new DVD release

maipress — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:25:27 +0000

MAI Press and Between Three Worlds films are proud to announce the release of Indonesia at the margins: political documentaries and essay films

The four films on this DVD are the most important early documentary and essay films by Indonesia’s leading director of features, Garin Nugroho. The executive producer of this DVD is David Hanan of Film and Television Studies in the School of ECPS, who re-subtitled the documentaries, designed and authored the DVD and wrote a lengthy essay on the films, which is included in the DVD as a pdf file. The subjects examined in this collection include environmental issues in Jakarta, the plight of some young street kids in Yogyakarta, the past and future of West Papua, and Nugroho’s relationship to his own films. The first two films in effect are pioneering works in the development of critical and investigative documentary in Indonesia, made in the Suharto era, at a time of considerable political repression. The two later films are innovative documentary-essay films, made by Nugroho with the resources of his SET Workshop.

The collection comprises the following four films (all with English subtitles):

Air Dan Romi (‘Water and Romi’, 1991)
Dongeng Kancil Tentang Kemerdekaan (‘Kancil’s Story About Independence’, 1995)
My Family, My Films and My Nation (1998)
Aikon: Sebuah Peta Budaya (‘Icon: A Cultural Map’, 2000-2002)

For details on how to order go to: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/films/orderform.php

New publication

maipress — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:08:17 +0000

Is Japan really remilitarising? The politics of norm formation and change

Yasuo Takao, 2008, 220 pp, page size A5 210 x 148mm

Is Japan really remilitarising? According to the mass media, Japanese nationalism is on the rise. Tokyo’s stance on national security is becoming uncharacteristically assertive. This book explores the prospect of Japan’s remilitarisation and challenges the preconceived approaches taken by existing theories to Japan’s national security. The book examines Japan’s pacifism since the Second World War, developments in Japanese military build-up since the late 1960s, and Japan’s responses to the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Controversies between realism and social constructivism continue to dominate Japan’s national security debates but neither is fully able to make point predictions. This study, an attempt to bridge the gap between these two rigid approaches, helps us understand this vital aspect of national security.

To order: http://ecommerce.arts.monash.edu.au/categories.asp?cID=58