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NIAS Press is a scholarly press specializing in publishing innovative research on modern Asia. See our latest book catalogue: http://www.e-pages.dk/ku/1252/

Based at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), part of the University of Copenhagen, we are a globally focused publisher with the rigorous academic standards expected of a university press, but with the speed and decisiveness often found among commercial publishers. While we publish in all areas of Asian studies, our focus is primarily on:
•innovative research within the social sciences

and history
•works with a geographical focus on East or Southeast Asia
•monographs in preference to edited volumes

Many established scholars have published with us, and we pride ourselves on the large number of young post-docs that we have helped to get their first major work into print. We aim to give every NIAS Press author the very best editorial service we can, working to produce each book as attractively as possible.We strive to ensure that the books we publish reach the largest possible audience.

18/12/2023

UPDATE!

We are happy to announce that most NIAS Press books will find a safe new home at NUS Press, Singapore, from 1 January 2024. From our collaboration and competition with NUS over the years, we are confident we have made the right decision.
Not every book (and none of the working papers) is going to NUS Press. We aim to make as many as possible free to view at the NIAS legacy website, www.nias-asia.dk. This will be launched in January. This website will offer many more things of interest (including links to NUS book pages), check it out in the new year!

26/10/2023

👀🔖 New book review!

Reviews are now beginning to stream in for "Deities and Divas", edited by Peter A. Jackson & Benjamin Baumann (NIAS Press, 2022).

"[This] is an exciting contribution to scholarly understandings of gender and religion and how they are transforming and evolving in contemporary Southeast Asia. The authors highlight the agency, ability, and creativity of q***r ritual specialists, who can transform and reconstruct their sexual identities within the boundaries of localised sexual norms. The book is highly recommended to scholars, researchers, students, and even general readers who are interested in q***r and gender studies, with in-depth anthropological insights into the private lives of q***r ritual specialists adapting to a rapidly globalising world." 🔎

– Poonnatree Jiaviriyaboonya (Nakhon Phanom University), in Asian Studies Review, September 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2023.2256032

13/10/2023

After decades of dedication and passion, NIAS Press is closing its doors at the end of the year. We thank our partners, authors and readers for their interest, support and friendship.
Our books are going to be transferred to a trusted new home - more updates on this soon!
Whilst the books will live on, our website ceases to be updated. You can continue to buy our books from your trusted booksellers.

28/09/2023

🔎 New Review
'Afghanistan Beyond the Fog of War: Persistent Failure of a Rentier State' by Michael Fredholm. NIAS Press, 2018.

Sometimes one comes across an older book that is very insightful and remains relevant. Such is Swedish scholar Michael Fredholm’s volume on Afghanistan. While published five years ago, it is the best book available that provides detailed understanding of the history, politics, ethnicities, government, invasions, and dynamics of Afghanistan from the 1700s to today.
- Peter C. Oleson, The Intelligencer: Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies, Vol. 28 (2), Summer-Fall 2023

27/09/2023

🔎New Review

Waves of upheaval in Myanmar: gendered transformations and political
transitions. Edited by Jenny Hedström and Elisabeth Olivius. NIAS Press. 2023

The book must be commended for not only outlining the variation in participation,
access, concerns and lived experiences of women within Myanmar, but also
for its commitment to a feminist methodology to study conflict and International
Relations (IR). The contributors include a variety of practitioners, academics and
specialists, based in Myanmar as well as outside its borders. Each chapter offers a
thoughtful reflection on the contributor’s positionality, providing a great example
of how such reflexive practice can powerfully advance academic research. The
book’s breadth of methodological approaches provides insight into the plurality of
ways to engage, analyse and cooperate within research. - Anna Plunkett in International Affairs, 99:5

25/09/2023

🔎 New Review
Deities and Divas: Q***r Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand, and Beyond.
Edited by Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann. NIAS Press, 2022

Focused on the growing numbers of gay and trans female ritual specialists found in the proliferating spirit possession cults of mainland Southeast Asia, Deities and Divas illuminatingly brings the scholarship of q***r studies and spirit possession studies into an otherwise previously neglected dialogue. Through analytic overviews and empirical case studies, Peter Jackson and Benjamin Baumann’s edited volume explores how the personal lives of q***r spirit mediums are remade in the ambiguous, contentious interactions among q***r social life, Buddhism, and spirit possession, as well as how cultures of spirit mediumship are changing in response to the increasingly public prominence of q***r mediums. - Erick White in the Journal of Asian Studies, 82:3

18/09/2023

🔎New Review!

Rosalie Stolz. Living Kinship, Fearing Spirits: Sociality among the Khmu of Northern Laos. NIAS Press, 2021.

"This book is instead a deliberate and thoughtful response to the recent tendency toward “taking for granted” (p. 3) the dynamic complexity of kinship. Stolz undertakes to examine the role of agency amongst all the structures of kinship, searching for empirically derived elaborations of how these structures are not just “miraculously” reproduced by themselves (p. 5). To do this, she observes the many meanings and workings of kinship as practiced in the village she calls Pliya. The result is a refreshing, enlightening, and enjoyable story that is told from the inside out and delivered with elegance and honesty."
- Nathan Badenoch, in Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 12

14/09/2023

📚 Our bestselling book of 2022!

'Deities and Divas: Q***r Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and beyond', edited by Peter A. Jackson & Benjamin Baumann, NIAS Press 2021

"Traditional spiritual practices such as cross-gender spirit possession are resurgent throughout Southeast Asia, in a historical moment when the epistemic hegemony of the Eurocentric world-system is cracking open. This important collection of essays brings that phenomenon into dialog with Western q***r and trans studies, and builds a bridge to the future." - Susan Stryker, University of Arizona & Mills College

Across the Buddhist societies of mainland Southeast Asia, local q***r cultures are at the center of a recent proliferation of professional spirit mediumship. Drawing on detailed ethnographies and extensive comparative research, Deities and Divas captures this variety and ferment. The first book to trace commonalities between q***r and religious cultures in Southeast Asia and the West, it reveals how modern gay, trans and spirit medium communities all emerge from a shared formative matrix of capitalism and new media. With insights and analysis that transcend the modern opposition of religion vs secularity, it provides fascinating new perspectives in transnational cultural, religious and q***r studies.

To the book: https://www.niaspress.dk/book/deities-and-divas/

13/09/2023

📚 Our Nr.2 of the Top 10 of 2022!

'Thai Politics in Translation: Monarchy, Democracy and the Supra-constitution', edited by Michael K. Connors & Ukrist Pathmanand, NIAS Press 2021

"On the whole, [...], the book offers well-translated works which will serve as must-have references for scholars and others interested in Thai democracy and conservatism." -Kittisak Sujittarom in Contemporary Southeast Asia

The chapters in this book invite readers to refrain from quick judgement and engage with the conservative norms of sections of the middle class, military, intellectuals and state ideologues. Among the six English translations of Thai sources are chapter-length excerpts from seminal works by Nakharin Metrairat and Chalermkiat Phi-nuan. Other contributions include pieces by accomplished scholars including Saichon Sattayanurak, Pasuk Phongpaichit and Somchai Preechasilpakul. The book enables a better understanding of the forces shaping Thailand’s democracy struggles into the present day.

To the book: https://www.niaspress.dk/book/thai-politics-in-translation/

12/09/2023

📚 Our Nr.3 of the Top 10 of 2022!

'Spirit Possessions in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds ever more enchanted', by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière & Peter A. Jackson, NIAS Press 2022

"A must-read for anyone interested in the social life of the spirits in today's world"
- Peter van der Veer

Buddhist Southeast Asia is currently witnessing an upsurge of spirit cults and diverse forms of magical ritual. This is found in many social strata and across the different political systems of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. This volume examines the phenomenon by exploring the interplay of neoliberal capitalism, visual media, the network cultures of the Internet, and the politics of cultural heritage and identity. Challenging long-held assumptions of modernization theory, it demonstrates that the cults in question are novel ritual forms that emerge out of inherently modern conditions.

To the book: https://www.niaspress.dk/book/spirit-possession-in-buddhist-southeast-asia/

Also available as an E-book!

11/09/2023

📚 NIAS Press Bestsellers 2022.
🥇THE TOP 3!

Over the last two weeks, we shared seven of our best-selling titles of 2022. Now, prepare for the top 3:

3. "Spirit Possessions in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds ever more enchanted", by Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière & Peter A. Jackson, NIAS Press 2022

2. "Thai Politics in Translation: Monarchy, Democracy and the Supra-constitution", edited by Michael K. Connors & Ukrist Pathmanand, NIAS Press 2021

1. "Deities and Divas: Q***r Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and beyond", edited by Peter A. Jackson & Benjamin Baumann, NIAS Press 2022

07/09/2023

📚 Our Nr. 4 of the Top 10 of 2022

"From Tribalism to Nationalism. The Anthropological Turn in Laos - A Tribute to Grant Evans". Yves Goudineau & Vanina Bouté (eds.), NIAS Press 2022

It was not until the 1990s that some international researchers were able to return to the field in Laos, often in difficult and precarious conditions. While recognizing the value of some early ethnographies, their approach deliberately turned towards anthropological questioning with new theoretical perspectives. The book brings together several of these anthropological studies representative of a new generation of researchers engaged in fieldwork, often in collaboration with Lao researchers in joint projects.

To the book: https://www.niaspress.dk/book/from-tribalism-to-nationalism/

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