The ANR Urbaltour is recruiting two post-docs : One for 12 months in urban and/or tourism studies on two high altitude resorts in Indonesia and Malaysia : see the job description. The other for 18 months in colonial history on highland resorts in South and South-East Asia : see the job description.
The deadline for applications is 31 October.

Geraint Howells, Hans-W Micklitz, Mateja Durovic and André Janssen (Eds)
Bloomsbury Publishing
August 2022, 624 p.
ISBN : 9781509957545

Thi Anh-Dao TRAN (Ed)
Palgrave Macmillan
2022, Number of Pages: XXXII, 393
Hardcover ISBN978-3-030-98103-7
eBook ISBN978-3-030-98104-4

Éric FRÉCON participated in the Pacific Regional Law Enforcement Conference organised by the Australia Pacific Security College on 1-3 August 2022. His presentation - entitled "The fight against Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Pacific : From diplomacy to public policy..." - attempted to draw on South East Asian lessons to better address the Pacific (...)

Éric MOTTET and Frédéric LASSERRE contributed to the collective publication "Inequalities and environmental changes in the Mekong region" (AFD Éditions), coordinated by HUYNH Thi Phuong Linh, Stéphane LAGRÉE, Etienne ESPAGNE and Alexis DROGOUL, with the chapter entitled "Social justice and mining exploitation in Lao PDR".

https://doi.org/10.4000/moussons.9044
An article by Nicolas Salem-Gervais and Ja Seng has just been published in the latest issue of Moussons (n°39). In it, they discuss the introduction of minority languages in public schools in Kachin State and its educational and socio-political consequences.
In Myanmar, the 2011-2020 period—before the February 2021 military coup—has witnessed limited but steadily increasing momentum in terms of introducing ethnic minority languages (as subjects and oral (...)

Christine Cabasset a contribué au livre de Michel Korinman (dir.), Vous avez dit « Pacifique » ? (Ed. David Reinharc, mai 2022) avec un chapitre sur « Australie – Indonésie – Timor-Leste. Avec la Chine dans le viseur australien, un nouveau tournant dans les relations maritimes ».
On constate depuis une décennie un ralliement massif autour de la notion géo-politique d’« Indo-Pacifique » lancée en tant que « pan-région » en Allemagne dans les années 1920 par Karl Haushofer. Ce géographème recouvre un espace (...)

Éric Frécon co-published with Denghua Zhang an article in The Interpreter (Lowy Institute), on July 11th, 2022.
In recent years, France has stepped up its Pacific engagement. In October 2020, it appointed Christophe Penot as its first ambassador for the Indo-Pacific. It released an updated version of the Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022, pledging to strengthen relations with Pacific islands. In the same month, a ministerial forum for cooperation in the Indo-Pacific was hosted by France (...)

IRASEC Doctoral Workshops
in Social Sciences and Humanities
The winter school Urban Theories Across Borders (UTAB) targets early career researchers — master and PhD students — who aim to pursue knowledge production about cities and urbanization in Southeast Asia from a social sciences perspective. It helps the students to engage with the most recent debates in the urban studies field, provides methodological tools to write and improve research proposals, and initiate the students to urban (...)

Christine Cabasset gave a lecture on 15 July 2022 on "Australia - Indonesia - Timor-Leste : The three neighbours’ new political and economic dynamics in light of maritime relations" for the International Summer School, organised by the College of Communication, National Chengchi University (Taipei).