New Titles in 2022
For the second half of 2022, we’ve got 6 new books in the making. To keep you informed, we’ve put together this outlook for our upcoming publications. Previous Next June 2022 Community Still Matters.Uyghur Culture and Society in Central Asian Context e …
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Recent NIAS Press Books on Thai Studies
For visitors in Thailand or other parts of Southeast Asia, you can also find our the books with our partners in Chiang Mai, Silkworm. Click here
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Interview with Bertil Lintner
NIAS Press Lunch Interview with Bertil Lintner and Postdoctoral researcher at NIAS Mai Van Tran
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Living Kinship and Fearing Spirits in Laos with Rosalie Stolz
A new podcast about a NIAS Press book is out! Rosalie Stolz, author of “Living Kinship and Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Nothern Laos” joined us in a conversation about her fascinating new ethnography. This book is an intimate study of …
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State, Religion and the South China Sea with Edyta Roszko
New podcast published about a NIAS Press book! Edyta Roszko is the author of “Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam”. “In a nutshell, this book explores how the fishermen and fisherwomen in the …
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“Nation, City, Arena: Sports Events, Nation Building and City Politics in Indonesia”
NIAS Press is delighted to have recently published Friederike Trotier’s book “Nation, City, Arena: Sports Events, Nation Building and City Politics in Indonesia”. This book is the first comprehensive study of international multi-sport events in Indones …
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Photographing Laos with Martin Stuart-Fox
Fifty years ago, the Vietnam War was still raging and had spread into neighbouring Laos and Cambodia. One of the Western journalists reporting on the conflict on the ground was Martin Stuart-Fox who, based at the University of Queensland, went on to be …
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Interview with Pétur Mar Gudmundsson from Sigvaldi books
In October 2019, Adela from NIAS Press had the immense pleasure of talking to Pétur Mar Gudmundsson from Sigvaldi books, a specialised book service and bookstore in Iceland. According to their website, Sigvaldi is based on two things: ‘the old-fashione …
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From Queer Comrades to Queer China
By Hongwei BaoIn this blog entry, author Hongwei Bao introduces his two books on queer Chinese cultures and reflects upon how he documents China’s LGBTQ community history and conceptualises a postsocialist queer politics in the context of a neoliberali …
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