From Southeast Asia to Indo-Pacific: Culture, Identity, and the Return to Geopolitics Series_Percy & Pam It is a story of

It is a story of how the Orang Seletar became refugees from their own land in the relentless pursuit of modernisation in Singapore in the sixties

we look at where Singlish words come from: “There are England terms like ‘act cute’ and ‘act blur’ whose meanings we tweak

including books on Balinese and Indonesian architecture

She received her PhD from Durham University where she worked on spatiality and modernist women’s writing

he is a Singapore Candidate Master and a past National Youth chess champion as well as past President of the Oxford University Chess Club

From Southeast Asia to Indo-Pacific: Culture, Identity, and the Return to Geopolitics Series_Percy & Pam It is a story ofDescription About the Author Southeast Asia was created by geopolitics, and it might die with it. An era of great power rivalry made the rise of Southeast Asia possible. It stimulated common purpose and unity among nations and led to the creation and consolidation of ASEAN. The question now is, will the return of geopolitics have a similar impact? This is no means assured. In fact, the opposite could happen. The new geopolitics is, after all, quite