TOK situations from Southeast Asia
Where a case comes from changes what it can show. These are the situations in the library drawn from southeast asia.
- Southeast Asia
Perpetrators, re-enacting
The Act of Killing invited men who carried out Indonesia's 1960s massacres to restage their killings in the film genres they loved, and the perpetrators' own…
Enduring · History · The arts
- Truth
- Interpretation
- Southeast Asia
The city the lasers found under the jungle
Airborne laser scanning over Angkor stripped away the canopy digitally and revealed a vast low-density urban sprawl around the temples, overturning estimates…
Enduring · History
- Evidence
- Interpretation
- Southeast Asia
The divers evolution equipped
The Bajau of Southeast Asia free-dive to remarkable depths, and genetic studies found enlarged spleens consistent with selection for diving over generations.…
Enduring · The natural sciences
- Evidence
- Culture
- Southeast Asia
Batik and the question of whose heritage
UNESCO's recognition of Indonesian batik sharpened a recurring dispute with Malaysia, where related techniques also have deep roots, over who may claim the…
Enduring · The arts
- Power
- Culture
- Southeast Asia
Counting the drug war
Government figures and independent tallies of deaths in the Philippine drug war differed by tens of thousands, depending on which killings were classified as…
Enduring · The human sciences
- Evidence
- Power
- Southeast Asia
The small skeleton that split palaeoanthropology
The metre-tall skeleton found on Flores in 2003 was declared a new human species by some researchers and a diseased modern human by others, with both camps…
Enduring · The natural sciences
- Evidence
- Interpretation
- Southeast Asia
The orchestra with no score
Javanese gamelan is learned by sitting in the ensemble and absorbing it, with written notation used as a reminder rather than a source. A player knows their…
Enduring · The arts
- Interpretation
- Culture
- Southeast Asia
Thirteen lives and competing expertise
The 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue forced a live arbitration between cave divers, military planners, medics and engineers whose recommendations conflicted, under…
Enduring · The human sciences
- Evidence
- Responsibility
- Southeast Asia
A language that changed its alphabet
Vietnam's shift to the Latin-based quoc ngu under colonial influence enabled mass literacy campaigns, and within generations most Vietnamese could no longer…
Enduring · History
- Power
- Culture
- Southeast Asia
When the platform is the public square
In several Southeast Asian countries, a single social platform effectively is the internet for much of the population, and investigations after episodes of…
Enduring · The human sciences
- Evidence
- Responsibility
- Southeast Asia
History taught by shadow puppets
Javanese wayang kulit performances retell epics through the night, with dalangs weaving in contemporary politics and local commentary as they go. Audiences…
Enduring · History · The arts
- Power
- Interpretation
- Culture