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      • Biography & True Stories

        Caged: Women’s Voices from a Bangkok Prison

        by Thanadda Sawangduean

        “’Sup, Po? Back again, are you? You can’t stand sleeping  in your own house? You like it here too much, huh?” “It’s the cops, Pa... I had nothing on me. But they brought me in anyway.” Po was saying this to Pa Dab. “Oh, don’t you worry about that. They’ll find you something.”   The latest from two-time winner of the Chommanard Book Prize, Caged: Women’s Voices from a Bangkok Prison details the author’s three years in prison for a crime she did not commit. Eri brings to light the lives of women behind bars. While many cannot get past the strict regulations and poor living conditions, for Eri, there is room for much more. Throughout this book, she teaches us how to live our life to the fullest, maintain our positivity, and never lose hope.

      • Fiction

        Poon Pid Thong Gold-Pasted Cement

        by Krisna Asoksin

        “I hope you’ll try to understand.”   “What is there to understand?” He asked and could not help but sound heartless.   “That I didn’t mean to leave you. You really thought I deserted you?”   “Yes, Mother,” he answered. “I certainly did.”   Winner of the prestigious S.E.A. Write Award, Gold-Pasted Cement captures the world of privileged Thais in the 1980s, a time of modernization and rampant male privilege. The products of broken homes, Songmuang and Balee are plagued by their past. Now they are determined to build a home. Written with great insight by Thailand’s National Artist Krisna Asoksin, Gold-Pasted Cement is a favourite among Thais.

      • Biography & True Stories

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      • 2017

        De synthèse / The Imago State

        by Karoline Georges

        A story of luminous lucidity, the kind that can free the consciousness and thrill the soul, De synthèse shines a light on the end of a filial relationship. It is told from the point of view of an image-obsessed woman reunited with her family just as her mother enters a terminal phase following a long period of suffering. It’s a story about the body, about disappearance, about reflections, about composition and decomposition. Winner of several literary awards. To learn more about this title, click here: https://editionsalto.com/droits-rights/de-synthese/

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2020

        Different Resources, Different Conflicts?

        The Subnational Political Economy of Armed Conflict and Crime in Colombia

        by Angelika Rettberg, Ralf J. Leiteritz, Carlo Nasi, Juan Diego Prieto (eds.)

        This book explores some of the risks associated with sustainable peace in Colombia. The book intentionally steers away from the emphasis on the drug trade as the main resource fueling Colombian conflicts and violence, a topic that has dominated scholarly attention. Instead, it focuses on the links that have been configured over decades ofarmed conflict between legal resources (such as bananas, coffee, coal, flowers, gold, ferronickel, emeralds, and oil), conflict dynamics, and crime in several regions of Colombia. The book thus contributes to a growing trend in the academic literature focusing on the subnational level of armed conflict behavior. It also illustrates how the social and economic contexts of these resources can operate as deterrents or as drivers of violence. The book thus provides important lessons for policymakers and scholarsalike: Just as resources have been linked to outbreaks and transformations of violence, peacebuilding too needs to take into account their impacts, legacies, and potential.

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