Dissertations / Theses: 'Southeast Asians'

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Hathamart, Phaitoon. "A dynamic process of Christian conversion a study of conversion among the Southeast Asians in the Twin Cities /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Tang, Yuen-man, and 鄧沅雯. "Language and identity positioning of multilingual Southeast Asian sojourners in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50162858.

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Modern transportation has given rise to and facilitated the movement and mobility of populations. While much critical attention has been drawn to the permanent migration of the mobile population, very few scholars in the field of sociolinguistics have stressed the temporary movement of the group of travelers who are subsumed under the appellation, “the sojourner”. In addition, previous research predominantly focused on non-English speakers sojourning to English-dominant countries (Haneda and Monobe, 2009; Lee, 2008; Own, 1999), thus largely neglecting the multilingual contexts in Asia. To fill this scholarly gap, small-scale research was conducted by employing two frameworks, Social Network Theory (Milroy, 1980) and Community of Practice (Wenger, 1998; Eckert & McConnell-Ginet, 1992), to examine linguistic practices and identity positioning of Southeast Asian (SEA) sojourners when they interact with Hongkongers and other sojourners. In particular, it tackles a more complex language contact situation in which two major lingua francas, namely English and Mandarin, are available. This study was conducted in a higher education dance school in Hong Kong and three SEA sojourn students were recruited. Multi-faceted identities and multiple communities of practices are found: (1) at Communal Level: Cantonese is the shared linguistic repertoire of this dance community and three SEA sojourn students form the weakest ties with local students; (2) at Group Level: both Mandarin and English are adopted and stronger ties are established with other overseas sojourn students; and (3) at Individual Level: Singapore English is the dominant code choice used among these three SEA sojourners and they are bound together by the strongest ties. Instances of trilingual code-mixing and code-switching are also found in the interaction among the sojourners and Hong Kong locals. The two theories, Social Network Theory and Community of Practice, are complementary in accounting for the social organization of multilingual communities. Ultimately, this study demonstrates the complexity of multilingual communities with the aforesaid language contact in Hong Kong as a case in point.
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Shaheen, Shabana. "The Identity Formation of South Asians: A Phenomenological Study." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5042.

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This research explores the lived experiences of South Asians college students. This research, through a qualitative study that is rooted in the philosophy of phenomenology, explores the essence South Asians’ identity formation. Qualitative data was collected through semi-structured interviews with South Asian college students. The data analysis was under a phenomenological lens that centered the lived experiences and the essence of these experiences in the results. Seven themes emerged from this phenomenological study: negotiating bicultural identity, model minority expectations, meaningful impact of religious spaces, understandings of intra-community tensions, racialization of Islamophobia, understandings of South Asian identity and efficacy of Asian American identity. This study’s findings provide a foundation to build a more expansive framework for understanding the identity formation of South Asians.

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Mehta, Pangri G. "Behind the Curtain: Cultural Cultivation, Immigrant Outsiderness, and Normalized Racism against Indian Families." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6899.

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This qualitative dissertation uses an Indian dance studio based in the suburbs of a mid-sized Florida city as an entry point to examine how racism impacts the local upwardly mobile Asian Indian community. Utilizing two and a half years of ethnographic data collected at the studio as a Bollywood instructor, 24 in-depth interviews with Indian immigrant parents and their children, 12 self-portraits drawn by children during their interviews, and home visits with 13 families, this project examines the strategies of accommodation and resistance that Indian families use to construct a sense of home and belonging. Applying socialization, visual research methods, critical race, and feminist scholarship to the exploration of how the local Indian immigrant community builds a sense of home and belonging within a nation whose success is a product of racial domination, this project makes four innovative and distinctive contributions to sociological research on socialization, U.S. immigration, and contemporary race relations. In the first data chapter, I coin and develop the term cultural cultivation to describe strategic ethno-cultural socialization efforts immigrant parents use to preserve a culture ‘left behind’ (Ram 2005). Cultural cultivation adds a nuanced dimension to ethno-cultural socialization studies by demonstrating that these efforts are laborious, often regarded as women’s work, and effectively operate as an ‘added step’ to Hochschild and Machung’s (2003) work on the “second shift.” The second data chapter utilizes an innovative research technique of having children draw self-portraits. While cultural cultivation helps children develop a meaningful attachment to Indian culture, self-portraits and interview data uncovered experiences of being teased and feeling ‘left out.’ As a result, many children forged what Portes and Rumbaut (2001) call a “reactive ethnicity” as a way to cope with prejudice and discrimination and construct a sense of identity and belonging. The third data chapter examines the ways families minimized and internalized experiences of prejudice and discrimination. Rather than recognizing them as a part of structural racism, many immigrant parents regarded racial offenses as a deserved response to individual misbehaviors or inadequacies that were to be pointed out and corrected. This internalization prompted several of the interviewees to police their and their children’s actions when in the presence of non-Indians in an attempt to preemptively minimize prejudicial statements and discrimination. For the last data chapter, by revealing the enduring hardships related to socialization and assimilation, I argue that high levels of assimilation and acculturation were also commonly accompanied by what I call immigrant outsiderness, or the subjective dimensions of the migration experience which are marked by 1. Lack of cultural inclusion, 2. Lack of social inclusion, and 3. Feelings of emotional disconnect. Data demonstrate that in spite of meeting the objective benchmarks typically associated with successful structural integration, acculturation, and assimilation, the immigrant experiences of this “model minority” are bounded and characterized by cultural and social exclusion as well as an emotional disconnect. This dissertation concludes by urging both a critical exploration and integration of how Asian Indians and South Asians fit into the contemporary racial landscape beyond terms like “model minority” and “honorary white” so that we can have a more honest and complex understanding of the role racial domination plays in our everyday lives.

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Broinowski, Alison Elizabeth, and alison broinowski@anu edu au. "About face : Asian representations of Australia." The Australian National University. Faculty of Asian Studies, 2002. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20030404.135751.

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This thesis considers the ways in which Australia has been publicly represented in ten Asian societies in the twentieth century. It shows how these representations are at odds with Australian opinion leaders assertions about being a multicultural society, with their claims about engagement with Asia, and with their understanding of what is typically Australian. It reviews the emergence and development of Asian regionalism in the twentieth century, and considers how Occidentalist strategies have come to be used to exclude and marginalise Australia. A historical survey outlines the origins of representations of Australia in each of the ten Asian countries, detecting the enduring influence both of past perceptions and of the interests of each countrys opinion leaders. Three test cases evaluate these findings in the light of events in the late twentieth century: the first considers the response in the region to the One Nation party, the second compares that with opinion leaders reaction to the crisis in East Timor; and the third presents a synthesis of recent Asian Australian fiction and what it reveals about Asian representations of Australia from inside Australian society. The thesis concludes that Australian policies and practices enable opinion leaders in the ten countries to construct representations of Australia in accordance with their own priorities and concerns, and in response to their agendas of Occidentalism, racism, and regionalism.

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Catsis, Nicolaos Dimitrios. "Examining the Impact of Colonial Administrations on Post-Independence State Behavior in Southeast Asia." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/257213.

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This project is concerned with examining the impact of colonial administrations on post-independence state behavior in Southeast Asia. Despite a similar historical context, the region exhibits broad variation in terms of policy preferences after independence. Past literature has focused, largely, upon pre-colonial or independence era factors. This project, however, proposes that state behavior is heavily determined by a combination of three colonial variables: indigenous elite mobility, colonial income diversity, and institutional-infrastructure levels. It also constructs a four-category typology for the purposes of ordering the broad variation we see across post-colonial Southeast Asia. Utilizing heavy archival research and historical analysis, I examine three case studies in the region, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, that share a common colonial heritage yet exhibit markedly different post-independence preferences. Vietnam's colonial legacy is characterized by high indigenous elite mobility, medium colonial income diversity, and medium-high levels of institutional-infrastructure. This creates a state where the local elites are capable and socially mobile, but lack the fully developed skill sets, institutions and infrastructure we see in a Developmental state such as South Korea or Taiwan. As a result, Vietnam is a Power-Projection state, where elites pursue security oriented projects as a means of compensating for inequalities between their own social mobility and acquired skills, institutions and infrastructure. In Cambodia, indigenous elite mobility and colonial income diversity are both low, creating an entrenched, less experienced elite. Medium levels of institutional-infrastructure enables the elite to extract wealth for class benefit. As a result, the state becomes an instrument for elite enrichment and is thus classified as Self-Enrichment state. Laos' colonial history is characterized by low levels of indigenous elite mobility, colonial income diversity, and institutional-infrastructure levels. Laos' elite are deeply entrenched, like their counterparts in Cambodia. However, unlike Cambodia, Laos lacks sufficient institutional-infrastructure levels to make wealth extraction worthwhile for an elite class. Laos' inability to execute an internal policy course, or even enrich narrow social class, categorize it as a Null state. The theory and typology presented in this project have broad applications to Southeast Asia and the post-colonial world more generally. It suggests that the colonial period, counter to more recent literature, has a much greater impact on states after independence. As most of the world is a post-colonial state, understanding the mechanisms for preferences in these states is very important.
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Ahmad, Dzulkarnain. "ASEAN+3 : the institutionalization of Asian values." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2003. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion-image/03Dec%5FAhmad.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies)--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2003.
Thesis advisor(s): Robert M. McNab, Gaye Christoffersen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-78). Also available online.

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Sheridan, Jennifer Ann. "Variation in Southeast Asian anurans." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3296894.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Apr. 7, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-138).

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Litzinger, Ralph A. "Crafting the modern ethnic : Yao representation and identity in post-Mao China /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6421.

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Hayashino, Diane Suyeko. "A construct development and preliminary validation study of the parenting stress scale for Southeast Asian immigrant and refugee parents /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3080589.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 254-263). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Poh, Ping Lee. "Southeast Asian Economic Relations with Japan." MIT-Japan Program, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9657.

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Stelbrink, Björn. "A biogeographic view on Southeast Asia's history." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17094.

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Das tropische Südostasien, und besonders der Indo-Australische Archipel, ist bekannt für seine bemerkenswerte floristische und faunistische Diversität, besonders konzentriert in vier der identifizierten Biodiversitäts-Hotspots (Indochina, Sundaland, die Philippinen und Wallacea). In dieser Arbeit wird die biogeographische Geschichte Südostasiens beleuchtet, um Regionen mit einer erhöhten Biodiversität zu identifizieren und zu testen, ob dies mit Diversifikationen innerhalb der Region und Einwanderungen und/oder Auswanderungen korreliert und ob sich diese Faktoren über die Zeit hinweg ausgleichen. Ein besonderer Augenmerk wird auf Sulawesi und seine besondere Fauna gelegt, um zu testen, ob ein Ursprung durch Vikarianz für verschiedene Tiergruppen plausibel erscheint und wann Diversifikationen innerhalb der Fisch- und Schnecken-Radiationen im Malili-Seensystem begannen. Dabei wird auf Meta-Analysen und mehrere Disziplinen zurückgegriffen für eine integrative biogeographische Geschichte Südoastasiens und seiner Fauna, indem molekulare Uhr-Analysen, Berechnungen zur Ermittlung des Ursprungsortes mit tektonischen, paläogeographischen und klimatischen Rekonstruktionen verbunden werden, um potentielle Ursachen für die heutige Verbreitung zu finden.
Tropical Southeast Asia, and particularly the Indo-Australian Archipelago, is known for its tremendous floral and faunal biodiversity, mainly accumulated in four of the world’s biodiversity hotspots identified (Indochina, Sundaland, the Philippines, and Wallacea). Here, Southeast Asia’s biogeographic history is examined to identify areas being characterized by high levels of biodiversity (number of lineages, species richness) through time and to test whether the respective biota is mainly due to in situ diversification, immigration and/or emigration, or equilibrium dynamics. Moreover, this thesis focuses particularly on Sulawesi and its peculiar fauna to test if a vicariant origin appears plausible for certain groups and when the remarkable fish and snail radiations found in the Malili Lakes system started to diversify. To achieve this, meta-analytical and multi-disciplinary approaches are considered for an integrative historical biogeographic history of Southeast Asia and its biota by using molecular clock analyses and ancestral area estimations together with tectonic, palaeogeographic and climatic reconstructions to reveal potential causes for present-day distribution.

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Roshanravan, Shireen. "South Asian American identity formation and the politics of women of color." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.

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Xiao, Lin Jia. "The rhetorical vision of China in Southeast Asian online communities : a fantasy theme analysis on Southeast Asian forums." Thesis, University of Macau, 2010. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2162046.

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Bawihrin, Thla-Awr. "The impact of missionary Christianity on the Chins." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Ketkamon, Mattana Grabill Joseph L. "United States-Southeast Asian relations, 1780s-1980s." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1988. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p8907676.

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Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1988.
Title from title page screen, viewed September 22, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Joseph L. Grabill (chair), Robert W. Hunt, Lawrence W. McBride, Louis G. Perez, L. Moody Simms. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-165) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Lourie, Sara Anne. "Phylogeography of Southeast Asian seahorses in a conservation context." Thesis, McGill University, 2004. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84284.

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This thesis investigates the potential role of historical isolation of ocean basins in promoting diversification among marine organisms in Southeast Asia. It also questions the possible effects of Pleistocene exposure of the Sunda Shelf on present day marine distributions and genetic diversity. Four species of exploited seahorses (genus Hippocampus), with differing ecological parameters, are used to test historical hypotheses. The results (based on cytochrome b DNA sequencing) suggest that significant phylogeographic structure does exist among seahorse populations in Southeast Asia, but that the patterns are only partially concordant across species. Distinct phylogeographic breaks are seen in H. barbouri, H. kuda, and H. trimaculatus, whereas greater spatial overlap of haplotypes in H. spinosissimus indicates more extensive gene flow. The phylogeographic history of the two shallow water species (H. barbouri and H. kuda) appears to have been primarily shaped by fragmentation and/or long-distance colonisation events. Both species show patterns consistent with hypotheses of divergence mediated by ocean basins separations. The deeper water species (H. spinosissimus and H. trimaculatus) show more evidence of range expansion and isolation by distance. Hippocampus trimaculatus shows a deep east-west phylogeographic division at right angles to that predicted by the separation of the Indian versus Pacific Ocean basins and instead parallels the terrestrial division known as Wallace's Line. Different species have also responded differently to the reflooding of the Sunda Shelf at the end of the last Ice Age: the two deeper water species have colonised it extensively suggesting limited barriers to movement, whereas the shallow water species have not. It is possible that the populations of H. kuda now inhabiting the shelf may stem from populations that found refuge in brackish water lakes when the shelf was exposed to the air. All four species are heav

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Mohr, Alexander T., and B. N. Kumar. "The effects of the Asian crisis on German FDI in Southeast Asia." Gabler Publishing, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/4047.

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Hudson, Geoffrey Stephen. "The Evolution of American Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 1990. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1373975377.

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Tiffin, Sarah Perry. "Power, progress and the course of Empire : British ruin sentiment in Southeast Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18733.pdf.

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Khamchoo, Chaiwat. "Japan's Southeast Asian policy in the post-Vietnam era (1975-1985)." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10767.

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Masilamani, Loganathan 1965. "Regionalism in Southeast Asia : the evolution of the association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)." Monash University, Dept. of Politics, 1998. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8668.

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Saengkhiew, Pataporn. "Southeast Asian Immigrant Women's Perspectives on Domestic Violence." VCU Scholars Compass, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10156/2110.

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Hughes, Alice Catherine. "The conservation and biogeography of Southeast Asian bats." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.541648.

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Jones, Zachary P. "Southeast Asian space programs: motives, cooperation, and competition." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/43935.

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The developing countries of Southeast Asia are rapidly increasing their investments in space technologies and formalized national space agencies. The inherent dual-uses and broad applications of space technologies as tools of security and development and the geopolitical importance of Southeast Asia make this examination of small-state space programs useful in exploring a number of themes. This thesis seeks to determine the conditions under which ASEAN member states choose to pursue space programs as vehicles for cooperation and competition with each other and developed international space powers within the context of international relations theory. It analyzes Southeast Asian national space developments to date, the relationship between domestic and foreign policies in influencing national space policies and extra-regional cooperation, the extent of regional space cooperation within ASEAN, and the role of bureaucratic and epistemic space communities in fostering an ASEAN community. The thesis concludes that cooperative and competitive forces complement each other as they operate at various levels within a multi-scalar international network. Patterns of space cooperation and competition among Southeast Asian space programs balance these two activities, as well as regional centrifugal and centripetal forces, in a relatively peaceful, positive sum game for national and regional space development.

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Hoang, Phu Dinh. "Attitudes of Southeast Asian immigrant students toward counseling /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7782.

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Leungaramsri, Pinkaew. "Redefining nature : Karen ecological knowledge and the challenge to the modern conservation paradigm /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6541.

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Pookapun, Savit. "Product interface design for South-East Asian countries : industrial design context." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1994.

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Erazo, Lina Lorraine Reyes. "Analysis of the Impact of Prolonged Liminal Periods and Scarcity on Precariously Mobile Populations." Thesis, The American University of Paris (France), 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13871650.

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Hogan, Mary Vivianne. "The development and role of ASEAN as a regional association." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B16043017.

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Cuasay, R. Peter L. "Time borders and elephant margins among the Kuay of South Isan, Thailand /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6462.

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Sykes, Ian. "HOW TO TRY TO MASK COLONIALISM AND FAIL ANYWAY: AMERICAN PROPAGANDA IN NON-COMMUNIST ASIA DURING THE EARLY COLD WAR." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/566222.

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M.A.
This paper examines Free World articles covering anticommunism, modernization, decolonization, intra-regionalism, US foreign affairs, US foreign aid, and neocolonialism because the task of popularizing specific iterations of these ideas illustrated the implementation of the ideas formulated in NSC 48/5. Moreover, NSC 48/5 called non-communist Asia the location of “the most immediate threats to American National Security.” My paper seeks to answer the question of how American propaganda in Asia, seen through a case study of Free World, tried to accomplish this popularization objective. I argue that the United States Information Agency (USIA) masked America’s neocolonialist intentions and activities in East and Southeast Asia through a rhetoric of anticommunism, intra-regionalism, and modernization.
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Lindberg, Lena. "The regionalisation process in Southeast Asia and the economic integration of Cambodia and Laos into ASEAN /." Göteborg : Göteborg Univ, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/559192932.pdf.

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Subbakrishna, Nagendra. "Appropriate technology and the rural energy sector in South East Asian developing countries." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28348.

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Given increasing problems in the availability, affordability and deliverability of commercial primary and secondary energy resources, coupled with growing macroeconomic uncertainties, the use of renewable, non-commercial energy resources has been actively promoted in rural areas of developing countries. This, in addition to the fact that conventional, 'state-of-the-art' energy facilities present technical problems, are inequitable and pose potential environmental hazards, has led to proposals for instituting alternative, intermediate or 'appropriate' technologies in rural settlements. This thesis identifies technical, economic, social, cultural and institutional barriers to the introduction of intermediate or 'appropriate' technologies in rural areas. The cases of solar and biogas technologies in Korea, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea the Philippines and Thailand are considered. Policy and planning process recommendations are made on the roles of government, voluntary aid-agencies and the rural user, to overcome the obstacles to implementing these technologies. These recommendations cover the micro (village) and macro (regional and national) levels over two time horizons, and stress the need for a comprehensive approach to discerning rural needs, followed by integrated technology diffusion through effective program and project implementation. In addition, this thesis identifies the need for a continuous collection of information on rural socio-economic conditions and potential for rural interfuel substitution and finally, recommends research into improving technical efficiencies of alternative energy technologies such as solar and biogas. Alternative or intermediate energy technologies such as solar and biogas can play an important role in augmenting rural energy supply. Unless steps are taken to remove the identified barriers to implementation in future technology diffusion efforts, this potential will not be realized. Policy and planning process recommendations made in this thesis present means through which these barriers could be removed.
Applied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
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Ryland, Fritzie. "Friendship relations of Southeast Asian immigrant children in Norway." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Norsk senter for barneforskning, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-23732.

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The main focus and aim of this master thesis is to write about the nature of friendship and experiences of the Southeast Asian immigrant children in Norway. The overall methodological perspective of this study is based on the philosophy of the new social studies of childhood where children are constructed as social actors, listening to their voices, seeing them as active agents in their daily lives who are able to choose their friends and form friendship in their new country. I conducted semi-structured interview and observation with my participants and informal discussion with the parents. I interviewed eight children from ages 8 to 14 years old. In the analysis chapter I discussed about my participant’s idea of friendship or the meaning of the concept for them, I also talked about the activities they do together to nurture the friendship. I wrote down some quotations from my participants to illustrate their own words on the matter. I also discuss ways my participants formed friendship with the other children, and in doing so, it became evident to me that my younger participants form friendship with other children differently than my older participants. I further discuss the differences of friendship relations of my participants across different age groups, factors how they view friendships. I also discussed my participant’s friendship at home, in school and their neighborhood and their parent’s earlier influence on friendship formation. I also talked about my participant’s groups, their experiences of conflicts and disputes with friends. I also talked about gendered friendship because it is an important area to help us understand the nature of children’s friendship. I conclude my research with the results that among the challenges my participants experienced as an immigrant, learning the language spoken in the country where they live is the most important aspect to enable the children to form friendship with other children. My research also documented that my participants are competent children capable of adapting to a new society by learning the language, making new friends and nurture friendship. This thesis therefore confirm the new social studies of childhood where children are social actors who are active agents in their daily lives able to choose their friends and form friendship in their new country.

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Khan, Shazida jan Mohd. "Bank efficiency, competition and the Southeast Asian financial crisis." Thesis, Bangor University, 2011. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/bank-efficiency-competition-and-the-southeast-asian-financial-crisis(6f5d0108-3daa-4172-98f3-e80f87caaa34).html.

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The financial crisis which hit Southeast Asian countries in July 1997 had a significant impact on the countries' economies and forced governments in the region to undertake programmes of financial restructuring in order to reduce weaknesses in banks' balance sheets, stabilise currencies and, most importantly, to improve the soundness of the banking and financial sectors. The main aim of such policies was to restore confidence and help meet the ongoing challenges associated with financial innovation and globalisation. The causes and consequences of the Asian crisis have been studied extensively in the past decade. However, the literature on the impact of the post-crisis crisis restructuring programmes on bank efficiency, performance and competition, and their evolving relationships, remain rather limited and inconclusive. This study aims to shed some light on these interrelated aspects, with particular reference to the experience of six of the countries mostly affected by the crisis - Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand - during their recovery period (1999 to 2005). Results from the efficiency analysis, carried out by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), show evidence of efficiency improvements in the region thereby indicating a positive impact of the restructuring programmes on the banking sector. Between 1999 to 2005 most of the countries in our sample actively followed policies of either closing failing institutions or fostering mergers. As a consequence, bank concentration in the region increased, raising the issue of the impact of the restructuring programmes on the competitive structure of banking markets. We found that, despite increased concentration, competition (assessed by the Panzar-Rosse Hstatistic) also increased leading us to conclude that the structural changes in South East Asia improved the region's banking industry performance without resulting in banks enjoying excessive market power. These lessons from the Asian crisis may prove valuable in the light of current re-structuring of global banking systems in the light of the 2008 credit crisis.

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Cheung, Siu-woo. "Subject and representation : identity politics in southeast Guizhou /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6516.

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Walton, Clevelan Dale. "Victory denied : the myth of inevitable American defeat in Vietnam." Thesis, University of Hull, 1998. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:13906.

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Saltford, John Francis. "UNTEA and UNRWI : United Nations involvement in West New Guinea during the 1960's." Thesis, University of Hull, 2000. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:16428.

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This thesis examines the role played by the United Nations in the implementation of the August 1962 New York Agreement. The Agreement ended a thirteen year dispute between the Netherlands and Indonesia concerning the future of West New Guinea and its Papuan inhabitants (or Irianese as they were known by Indonesia). Under the terms of the Agreement, the territory's administration was transferred to a temporary UN authority (UNTEA) which remained from 1 October 1962 until 1 May 1963. Following this, control of West New Guinea was handed over to Indonesia which renamed it West Irian (later Irian Jaya, now Papua). In 1968, a small UN team returned, led by Fernando Ortiz Sanz, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for West Irian (UNRWI). The team's responsibility was to "advise, assist and participate" in Indonesian preparations for an act of Papuan self-determination planned for 1969. This 'Act of Free Choice' (or Pepera as it was known by Indonesia), and the UN's involvement, were central to the Agreement and its fulfillment. Following the Introduction and a short chapter on the background to the dispute, chapters two to four look at the UNTEA administration. Chapter five examines briefly the first years of Indonesian rule in West Irian between 1963 and 1967. The arrival of the UN team in 1968 and Ortiz Sanz's first two tours of the territory are discussed in Chapters Six and Seven. Preparations for the Act in 1969, including the selection of the 1022 Papuan representatives who took part in it, are examined in Chapters Eight and Nine. Chapter Ten looks at the conduct of the Act itself and international reaction culminating in the UNGA vote of November 1969. The thesis ends with a conclusion in Chapter Eleven.

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Vangvanitchyakorn, Titima. "A survey on consumer perception Southeast Asian restaurants in Minneapolis, Minnesota /." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000vangvanitchyakornt.pdf.

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Yeo, Shang Xuan. "Understanding the Behavior of Southeast Asian States vis-à-vis the Rise of China." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1336.

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Conventional wisdom states that, in response to a rising threat, weaker states may choose either to balance against, or to bandwagon with, the threat. However, the states in Southeast Asia, in response to a rising China, exhibit behavior that conforms neither to pure balancing nor bandwagoning. This senior thesis seeks to understand why that is the case, and argues that, in a world of ambiguity, the domestic level of analysis becomes of greater importance in explaining state behavior.

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Bird, Miles T. "Social Piracy in Colonial and Contemporary Southeast Asia." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/691.

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According to the firsthand account of James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, it appears that piracy in the state of British Malaya in the mid-1800s was community-driven and egalitarian, led by the interests of heroic figures like the Malayan pirate Si Rahman. These heroic figures share traits with Eric Hobsbawm’s social bandit, and in this case may be ascribed as social pirates. In contrast, late 20th-century and early 21st-century pirates in the region operate in loosely structured, hierarchical groups beholden to transnational criminal syndicates. Evidence suggests that contemporary pirates do not form the egalitarian communities of their colonial counterparts or play the role of ‘Robin Hood’ in their societies. Firsthand accounts of pirates from the modern-day pirate community on Batam Island suggest that the contemporary Southeast Asian pirate is an operative in the increasingly corporate interest of modern-day criminal organizations.

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Chan, Hon-ki, and 陳翰奇. "Phylogeography and cryptic diversity of occidozyga lima (gravenhorst 1829)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50605835.

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The anuran fauna has been found to harbor substantial cryptic diversity, and chronic, low-level population declines in evolutionarily significant units can be masked by a lack of resolution on this diversity. Numerous species previously believed to be common and widespread have been found to represent cryptic species complexes consisting of distinct genetic lineages with restricted ranges. Most research on cryptic diversity has focused on high elevation areas because they usually harbor higher diversity and levels of endemism; thus cryptic diversity from lowland areas remains poorly understood. This study investigated the population divergence of the pearly-skinned floating frog (Occidozyga lima), a lowland wetland species broadly distributed throughout Southeast Asia and considered common throughout its range. I analyzed six DNA regions (Histone H3, Tyrosinase exon-1, 28S, 16S, ND1 and 12S; a total of 4,650 base pairs) to reconstruct the phylogenetic relationships among populations. Morphometric analyses were conducted to test for morphological differentiation. Both genetic and morphological data revealed substantial lineage divergence in O. lima. I found that sympatric lineages are not sister lineages, a common feature of cryptic species complexes. The current status of O. lima as a single species should be rejected. Three candidate species were delineated based on 5% mitochondrial 16S genetic divergence. The name O. lima should be restricted to populations in the type locality, Java, Indonesia (candidate species I), and two new species should be assigned to populations from South China to Northern Indochina (candidate species II) and Southern Indochina to Myanmar (candidate species III). Resolving the widely-distributed species complex into three valid species requires reassessment of the IUCN conservation status. Given observed population declines in South China and Indonesia, the new species are likely to belong to a higher threat category. Species considered to be common and widespread are under-represented in current conservation planning because conservation priority has been biased toward rare and range-restricted species. Increasing evidence suggests that species whose populations are considered stable are declining at rates exceeding those of rare species. Using habitat availability as a proxy for their occurrence, it appears that the three clades are threatened to varying degrees because of habitat loss. Populations from South China and Indonesia are the most threatened due to massive development of lowland habitats. In addition, conversion of wet agriculture to permanent dry crops and the predicted increases in persistent droughts pose threats to amphibian populations in lowland habitats. The extirpated O. lima populations should be restored in Hong Kong by means of reintroduction. A study of the reproductive ecology of O. lima followed by experimental reintroduction is necessary to restore populations and may serve as a model for public education about amphibian conservation. Given the rapid decline of this species in South China, a reintroduction plan and resources to initiate a reintroduction are urgently needed.
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Wall, Hamish Keith. "The dynamics of small arms transfers in Southeast Asian insurgencies." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Political Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/895.

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This thesis is an attempt to fill the theoretical and empirical gap that exists in current small arms literature, which has failed to examine and identify the different aspects that are involved with small arms transfers in Southeast insurgencies. Small arms not only play a significant role in all internal conflicts throughout the world, but they are of particular concern right through Asia, where civil wars have tended to last longer than those in any other region. This study uses a comprehensive dataset that defines active armed conflict in Southeast Asia during 2002. This has allowed for the detailed analysis of three countries within Southeast Asia, where government forces have been involved in active armed conflict with insurgent groups. Important aspects of this thesis include; the analysis of external and internal sources insurgent groups are able to secure both financially and militarily; the most important sources of supply for insurgent groups obtaining small arms; and how the supply, use and accumulation of these small arms by insurgent groups have affected internal conflict. This study suggests that internal sources, rather than external sources, are more important for insurgent groups in securing forms of finances and weaponry. The most important sources of supply for obtaining small arms would also tend to come from internal sources. Furthermore, it is likely that variables of intra-state conflicts, such as duration and intensity, have been highly affected by small arms usage. This thesis concludes by suggesting that the study of how insurgent groups obtain different forms of finances and resources is equally as important as the analysis of how insurgent groups obtain small arms.

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Mineo, David. "The Threshold of Jihadism Securing Patronage in Southern Thailand and the Philippines." Thesis, Georgetown University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13422095.

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The issue of southern Thailand becoming the next battleground for international jihadist terrorist organizations—such as al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or Jemaah Islamiyah—has reemerged as a prominent security concern following the defeats sustained by ISIS in the Middle East and the dispersion of its fighting force. While the prospect was hotly debated a decade ago, the majority of contemporary scholarship contends that jihadism will find little audience with the Malay Muslims in Thailand’s Deep South, whose Shafi’i population does not espouse the conservative Salafist beliefs underlying global jihad—a religiously-charged violent campaign against infidels (non-believers), munafik (traitorous Muslims), and bastions of state secularism and Western liberal values. It is furthermore believed that because southern Thailand’s armed groups are fighting a nationalist struggle for independence, as opposed to fighting for more ideological reasons, they would not be amenable to jihadist involvement in their conflict.

Although it is true that Malay-Muslim militants in Thailand have declined offers of foreign fighters from international terrorist organizations, the cooperation between various separatist movements in Mindanao and global jihadist groups reveals that ethno-nationalism and ideological dissonance are insufficient causes for a rejection of jihadism. Rather, I argue that secessionists develop ties with jihadist groups when they are in need of political, financial, or military support they cannot secure from a legal entity, such as a state. This often occurs when one militant faction breaks away from its state-sponsored parent group following the signing of a peace deal it considers unappealing. Insurgent groups in Thailand have been inclined to distance themselves from jihadism because they have already acquired state patronage from Malaysia, and association with terrorist organizations would likely undermine that relationship. Strategic decisions to cooperate with jihadist organizations are thus executed according to a cost-benefit analysis and are not exclusively determined by ideological predilections.

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Meredith, Katherine Jane. "Navigating the great powers : Myanmar and Southeast Asian security strategies." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44587.

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Small states face a unique predicament in the international system, and have been faced with the necessity of developing a range of strategies to ensure their survival in the midst of great power struggles. In the literature on Southeast Asia, scholars have developed a number of ways of conceptualizing the complex strategies used at the individual and regional level by small states in this region to pursue their security, including triangular politics, complex balancing, omni-enmeshment, and hedging. Through an examination of the case of Myanmar, this thesis finds that in certain situations, the actions taken by states simply do not fit with these conceptualizations; moreover, the pursuit of these security strategies at the bilateral level may be in tension with their pursuit at the multilateral level. This paper argues that the lack of fit and bilateral-multilateral divide are due to assumptions of homogeneity related to the goals and circumstances of states found in the literature on Southeast Asia. In particular, these models of state strategies in do not leave adequate room for countries with different conceptualizations of security and regional order. Similarly, they do not anticipate or explain actions in a country where China is both the main economic and security partner, but rather assume partnerships with the United States. These gaps must be addressed and the models of state strategies extended if analysts are to have a full understanding of countries like Myanmar, as well as broader regional dynamics.

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Thomas, Daniel Caspar. "Phylogenetics and historical biogeography of Southeast Asian Begonia L. (Begoniaceae)." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1997/.

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The Begonia flora of Southeast Asia comprises more than 540 species. This exceptional species diversity and the wide distribution of the genus in tropical rainforests offers the opportunity to address biogeographical questions and to investigate the processes which underlie modern patterns of biodiversity, but also poses major taxonomic challenges. Only few apomorphies characterising infrageneric taxa in this large genus have been identified and delimitation of Asian Begonia sections is highly problematic. A robust phylogenetic framework of Asian Begonia informing taxonomic monographs and facilitating biogeographical and evolutionary studies is currently lacking. Maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses of plastid (ndhA intron, ndhF-rpl32 spacer, rpl32-trnL spacer; 115 taxa) and nuclear ribosomal (ITS; 89 taxa) sequence data were used to reconstruct the phylogeny of Southeast Asian Begonia and to determine whether major Asian sections are monophyletic. Morphological characters which are crucial in current sectional circumscriptions were mapped on the phylogeny to determine their degree of homoplasy and to assess their suitability in infrageneric classifications. Relaxed molecular clock analyses of a Cucurbitales-Fagales datatset (cpDNA: matK gene, rbcL gene, trnL intron, trnL-F spacer; 92 taxa; five fossil calibrations) and a Begoniaceae datatset (cpDNA: ndhA intron, ndhF-rpl32 spacer, rpl32-trnL spacer; 110 taxa; two alternative secondary calibrations), as well as ancestral area reconstructions were employed to elucidate temporal and spatial diversification patterns in Asian Begonia. The results indicate that Asian and Socotran Begonia species form a well supported clade. Most major Asian sections are not supported as monophyletic and the strong systematic emphasis placed on single, homoplasious characters such as undivided placenta lamellae (section Reichenheimia) and fleshy pericarps (section Sphenanthera), and the recognition of sections primarily based on a plesiomorphic fruit syndrome and the absence of characteristic features of other taxa (section Diploclinium) has resulted in the circumscription of several highly polyphyletic sections. Ovary and fruit characters have traditionally played a major role in sectional delimitation, however the high level of homoplasy associated with these has obscured systematic relationships in Asian Begonia. Gene trees derived from separate analyses of the plastid and nuclear ribosomal data show congruent support for several major clades, but there is hard incongruence within the clades comprising species of the species-rich sections Platycentrum s.l. (including section Sphenanthera) and Petermannia s.l. (including section Symbegonia), indicating that hybridization might have had a significant impact on the evolution of the genus. The molecular divergence ages and the biogeographical analyses indicate an initial diversification of Asian Begonia on the Indian subcontinent and in continental Southeast Asia in the Middle Miocene, and subsequent colonization of Malesia by multiple lineages. The predominant directional trend of the reconstructed dispersals between continental Asia and Malesia and within Malesia is from west to east including four independent dispersal events from continental Southeast Asia and the Malesian Sunda Shelf region to Wallacea dating from the Late Miocene to the Pleistocene. Dispersal across the ancient deep water channels separating intervening islands of the Sunda Shelf and Wallacea and subsequent successful colonisation of Wallacean islands seem to have been infrequent events during this period. This suggests that the water bodies which have separated the Sunda Shelf region from Wallacea have been distinct, yet porous barriers to the predominantly anemochorous dispersal in Begonia. The inferred timing of dispersals from the Sunda Shelf region to Wallacea is generally concordant with hypotheses about the geological history of the region, which indicate that the period from the Late Miocene onwards offered opportunities for dispersal to Wallacea and across Wallacea to New Guinea as substantial land masses emerged in Sulawesi and New Guinea, and newly emergent volcanic islands along the Sunda Arc, the Banda Arc and the Halmahera Arc formed potential routes for dispersal by island hopping. The results further suggest that Begonia section Petermannia (>270 spp.) originated in the Malesian Sunda Shelf region, and subsequently dispersed to Wallacea, New Guinea and the Philippines. Lineages within this section diversified rapidly since the Pliocene with diversification peaking in the Pleistocene. The timing of diversifications coincides with orogenesis on Sulawesi and New Guinea, as well as pronounced glacioeustatic sea-level and climate fluctuations. It can be hypothesised that a complex interplay of extrinsic and intrinsic factors including the presence and formation of suitable microhabitats by orogenesis, cyclical vicariance by frequent habitat fragmentations and amalgamations caused by sea-level and climate fluctuations, as well as only weakly developed mechanisms to maintain species cohesion in fragmented habitats in Begonia could have driven speciation in allopatry and could have resulted in the remarkable Begonia species diversity found in Southeast Asia today.

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Panasawatwong, Warittha. "Evaluating the trend and impact factors of Southeast Asian monsoon." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119993.

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Thesis: S.M. in Atmospheric science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2018.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-53).
As a global leading agricultural producer, Southeast Asian (SEA) economy and livelihood rely on water supply from the monsoon precipitation during the rainy season. However, SEA monsoon system is still understudied. Here, we focus on the Mainland SEA monsoon because of its geographical simplicity. We find that the total precipitation of the Mainland SEA monsoon has experienced a reversing trend from a four-decade-long drying by 0.18 mm day-1 decade-1 to increasing by 0.13 day-1 decade-1 starting from 1989. The increased energy and moisture post-reversal comes from the strengthened Hadley and Walker cell due to the increasing meridional equivalent potential temperature ([theta]e) gradient. The meridional [theta]e gradient shows significant correlation with the precipitation time-series at r = 0.52 (p = 0.0015), despite [theta]e gradient has reversed ahead of precipitation for 4-5 years. Even though the overall precipitation trend of Mainland SEA in recent decades is increasing, the north of Myanmar and the south of China shows a decreasing trend. The surface wind analysis shows that surface southwesterly is weakening in the Northern Hemisphere, so the north of Mainland SEA receives less moisture, but also allow more moisture from the South China Sea to access the south of Mainland SEA. The surface wind change also corresponds with the rising branch of Hadley cell shifting southward. Lastly, we find that the Mainland SEA monsoon is a mixed convection system, composing of deep, moist convection directly over the region at 10-20°N, and a shallow, dry convection just north of the region at 35°, aligning with further assessment using zonal-mean precipitation, [theta], and [theta]e,. The deep, moist convection coincides with the zonal-mean [theta]e peak. The shallow, dry convection coincides with the zonal-mean [theta] peak.
by Warittha Panasawatwong.
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Sham, Desmond Hok-Man. "Heritage as resistance : preservation and decolonization in Southeast Asian cities." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2015. http://research.gold.ac.uk/12308/.

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This dissertation is about Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and postcolonial studies, with cultural heritage as the subject of examination. It examines how postcolonial heritage preservation can function as an actual decolonization project, with specific reference to the Southeast Asian context, by articulating the relationship between the understanding of history, place-attachment and decolonization. The dissertation suggests that heritage needs to be understood in a trialectic relationship of time, space and identity and not in purely temporal or economic terms, such that the complexity and possibilities of cultural heritage can be articulated. It also argues for the importance of differentiating between depoliticized and radicalized versions of “collective memory”, where the latter provides the space for resistance. Elaborating on the “Inter-Asia” approach and on previous studies of “port cities” as cosmopolitan urban spaces closely related with each other long before the era of “global capitalism” and often marginalized in the nationalist discourses, this dissertation proposes and demonstrates how looking at port cities can be operative as “method”. This methodology allows different locales to become each other’s mutual reference point in an equal way, based on their common historical experiences. With examples mainly drawn from three former British colonial port cities in Southeast Asia—Hong Kong, Singapore and Penang—this dissertation articulates the following issues: (1) Colonial heritage: How is colonial heritage treated in postcolonial societies and how are nationalism and global capitalism implicated within the decision-making process? Why are anti-colonial nationalism and the demolition of colonial heritage not effective ways of decolonization? How might a decolonization process that challenges both nationalism and global capitalism be possible through the preservation of “colonial” heritage? (2) Heritage of port cities: How have heritage places and urban landscapes that embed the histories of port cities been treated in postcolonial societies? What are the ideologies represented behind these treatments? What is the significance of the heritage of port cities for reflections on multiple vernacular modernities, multiculturalism, cultural hybridization and race relations in postcolonial societies? (3) Possibilities of cultural heritage as resistance: How is it possible for cultural heritage to operate as forms of resistance against displacement, neoliberalization and undemocratic decision-making processes? How can the “depoliticized” face of cultural heritage be used as the channel to smuggle in dissent from the dominant paradigm of society? By discussing these themes, the dissertation argues that critical negotiation with the histories embedded in heritage, place-based memory and sense of place associated with heritage, and the association of heritage with “right to city” are significant for the preservation of cultural heritage to function as a project of resistance and decolonization.

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SAMRETH, Sovannroeun. "Research on International Monetary Economics:Empirical Studies on Southeast Asian Countries." Kyoto University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/124117.

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