The rapidly changing world and new social dynamics need alternative perceptions to explain them as part of a phase of globalization. The terms of development are diverse in different contexts. Knowledge of economic development shaped the world in a similar pattern via international institutions. In Thailand, the government’s long held key role in modifying local community structures is a main principle of national development.

Industrial development is intended to increase production through the use of modern technology. However, people in rural areas impacted by industrial development projects rejected discursive practices in changing circumstances and joined local community movements against dominant powers. Globalization has also opened alternative communication channels that create opportunities for other groups to challenge the dominant. The old mechanisms used by the state to exercise control and wield power may no longer be practicable; the state risks losing its hegemony in the near future.

This paper aims to examine the transnational impact of Yali Falls Dams, on the local’s people livelihood in Phi village, Sesan community, Oyadaw district, Rattanakiri province, Cambodia. In addition, the linkage between the change in local people’s traditional livelihood and in forest cover will be addressed. The study site is a remote Jarai village located in the Sesan river basin. The village has no road, no electricity, and insufficient fresh water. Local people’s livelihood is based mainly on natural resources and shifting cultivation. The study was conducted in November 2011 and March 2012. In this study, a qualitative apporach is deployed to understand the interaction between people and nature as well as the impact of Yali Falls Dam on the community. Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) are used to analyse land use and forest cover change during the period from 1990 to 2010. The study shows that local people’s livelihood has changed significantly because of the dam, and livelihood change is one of the factors contributing to forest cover change in the area.

The island of Bali, Indonesia is renowned for its rich artistic, musical, and dance traditions. For decades, travelers and tourists have visited the island to experience and even study this unique cultural abundance. Beneath the surface-level guise of entertainment, as is the case with many performance traditions, exist profound layers of meaning. Ritual dance in Bali, for instance, can be used to appease the gods as well as for purposes of healing. Furthermore, there are subtle gender dynamics within the culture that manifest themselves through performance. Tari legong and kecak are two dance traditions that exemplify this notion. Tari legong, specifically, is traditionally performed by prepubescent girls. Through the rigorous training that culminates in performance, these young women not only embody their cultural heritage, but via dance, also symbolize their rite of passage into adulthood.

Maria Serena I. Diokno is Professor of History at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Professor Diokno is a co-founder of the SEASREP Foundation. Her interests span the colonial period of Southeast Asia, about which she has published. Among her publications are "Corruption and the Moral Imperative, through the Lens of Rizal" (2011), "Expeditions of Knowledge: Supporting Southeast Asian Studies in the Region" (2010), and "Southeast Asia: Imperial Possession and Dispossession in the Long Twentieth Century" (2006).

Ma. Mercedes G. Planta is Associate Professor of History at the University of the Philippines Diliman. Her research and publications are in the fields of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) and Science, Technology and Society (STS) studies in colonial Southeast Asia, particularly Spanish and American Philippines. Her current research examines the development of modern medicine in Dutch Indonesia, British Malaya, and American Philippines. She is the author of Traditional Medicine in the Colonial Philippines, 16th to the 19th Century (University of the Philippines Press 2017).

Maitrii Aung-Thwin is an area-studies specialist of Southeast Asia, with particular expertise in Myanmar history, politics, and society. His research engages conversations from the fields of postcolonial studies, socio-legal studies, intellectual history, public history, and transnational studies. His publications include: A History of Myanmar since Ancient Times: Traditions and Transformations (2013), The Return of the Galon King: History, Law, and Rebellion in Colonial Burma (2011), and A New History of Southeast Asia (2010). He is currently Associate Professor of Myanmar/Southeast Asian history and Convenor of the Comparative Asian Studies PhD Program at the National University of Singapore.

Joseph M. Fernando is Associate Professor of History at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He obtained his PhD in History from Royal Holloway College, University of London. His areas of specialization are Malaysian political and constitutional history, British imperialism in Southeast Asia, and modern history of Southeast Asia. Dr. Fernando was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University in 2004-2005. His publications include The Making of the Malayan Constitution (2002); The Alliance Road to Independence (2009); and "British and Commonwealth Legacies in the Framing of the Malayan Constitution, 1956-1957", Britain and the World, Vol. 8, No. 2, September 2015.

Rieyen D. Clemente is a graduate student of the Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman. He is a member of the Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society for Social Sciences and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.

Patricia Anne Y. Asuncion is a BA Comparative Literature graduate from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She is currently pursuing her second degree (BA Linguistics) in the same university.

Jeanne Therese L. Maling is a graduate student at the University of the Philippines, Diliman (UPD).

Dr. Charnvit Kasetsiri, former Rector of Thammasat University, is secretary of the Foundation for the Promotion of Social Sciences and Humanities Textbooks Project in Thailand. He holds an MA in Diplomacy from Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, and a PhD in Southeast Asian History from Cornell University. He specializes in Thai history (Ayutthaya, Thai political history, and contemporary Thai politics) and history of Southeast Asia.

Dr. Taufik Abdullah is a retired Professor of History at the Gadjah Mada University. He was Chair of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). He also chaired the Indonesian Historical Society and was a Director of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research. He received his Doctorandus from Gadjah Mada University, and MA and PhD degrees from Cornell University. Dr. Taufik has worked on the political history of Indonesia and Islam.

Dr. Ruth McVey, Emeritus Reader in Southeast Asian Politics at the University of London, received her PhD in Government at Cornell University in 1961 and subsequently held research and teaching positions at Yale University, the Center for International Studies at MIT, Cornell University, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her early work concentrated on the history of the Indonesian Communist movement and the general relationship between ideology and social change in Indonesia. Later, she studied social and ideological transformation in rural southern Thailand, and the rise of the Southeast Asian business-political elite.