EuroSEAS Book Prize 2021

EuroSEAS will award two book prizes at the 11th EuroSEAS Conference in Olomouc, 7-10 September 2021.

Announcement of the winners will be during the conference in September 7th, 2021, during the opening session. The winners will receive € 750.

The EuroSEAS Humanities Book Prize

Shortlist

• Ang, Claudine, Poetic Transformation, Eighteenth-Century Cultural Projects on the Mekong Plains. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2019.
• Barnard, Timothy P. Barnard, Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819–1942. Singapore: NUS Press 2019.
• Chia, Jack Meng-Tat, Monks in Motion, Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea. New York: Oxford University Press 2020.
• Klaas, Stutje, Campaigning in Europe for Free Indonesia; Indonesian Nationalist and the Worldwide Anticolonial Movement, 1917-1931. Copenhagen: NIAS Press 2019.
• Mrazek, Jan, Wayang & Its Doubles, Javanese Puppet Theatre, Television and the Internet. Singapore: NUS Press 2019.
• Yahaya, Nurfadzilah, Fluid Jurisdictions; colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia; Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2020.

The EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize

Shortlist

• Bo Kyeong So, Eliciting Care: Health and Power in Northern Thailand. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 2020.
• Schwenkel, Christina, Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam. Durham: Duke University Press 2020.
• Lawreniuk, Sabina and Laurie Parsons, Going Nowhere, Fast: Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020.
• Samuels, Annemarie. After the Tsunami: Disaster Narratives and the Remarking of Everyday Life in Aceh. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press 2019.
• Streicher, Ruth. Uneasy Military Encounters: Uneasy Military Encounters: The Imperial Politics of Counterinsurgency in Southern Thailand. Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2020.
• Maung, A. Thawnghmung, Everyday Economic Survival In Myanmar. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 2019.

Members of the jury of the Humanities Book Prize

Henk Schulte Nordholt
KITLV
Reuvensplaats 2
2311 BE Leiden
The Netherlands

Vincent Houben
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften Humboldt Universität
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Germany

Ivona Baresova
Katedra Asijských Studií, FF UP
třída Svobody 26
779 00, Olomouc
Czech Republic

Members of the jury of the Social Science Book Prize

Professor Silvia Vignato
Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione
Università di Milano-Bicocca
20126 Milano
Italy

Bart Barendregt
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Leiden University
Dr. J. Presserstraat 287
2552 LW Den Haag
The Netherlands

Amelia Fauzia
Jl Ciberes No 09
Kp Batutapak, Rt 01 Rw 05
Desa Cidokom
Kecamatan Gunung Sindur
Bogor, West Java
Indonesia 16340