The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to announce the publication of a new volume in the IAS/Springer “Asia in Transition” Series, Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia edited by Jason Paolo Telles, John Charles Ryan and Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach. This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis, participatory ethnography, auto ethnography, and semi-structured interviewing. It is divided into four sections: I.…

The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to announce the publication of the latest volume in the IAS/Springer “Asia in Transition” Series, (Re)presenting Brunei Darussalam: A Sociology of the Everyday edited by Lian Kwen Fee, Paul J. Carnegie and Noor Hasharina Hassan (IAS).This book has been made open access through the generous support of Universiti Brunei Darussalam. This thoughtful and wide-ranging open access volume explores the forces and issues shaping and defining contemporary identities and everyday life in Brunei Darussalam. It is a subject that until now has received comparatively limited attention from mainstream…