Monographs

Rowedder, Simon (2022) Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Edited Books

Tappe, Oliver and Simon Rowedder (eds.) (2022) Extracting Development: Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing.

Book Chapters

Ampuero-Ruiz, Pablo, Simon Rowedder , Lena Kaufmann and Susanne Brandtstädter (forthcoming) “Global China(S): Iterations of China in the Academic Production of Estudios Americanos and Southeast Asian Studies”. In Lammer, Christof, Marco Lazzarotti and Jean-Baptiste Pettier (eds.) China Multiple:Un/Doing Ethnographic Regions in Anthropology. Publication as part of the DFG Scientific Network “Anthropology and China(s)”

Rowedder, Simon, and Oliver Tappe (2022) “Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia: An Introduction”. In Tappe, Oliver and Simon Rowedder (eds.) Extracting Development: Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing: 1 – 27.

Rowedder, Simon (2022) “‘Only the best fruits for China!’ Local Productions of a ‘Fruit Frontier’ in the Borderlands of China, Laos and Thailand”. In Tappe, Oliver and Simon Rowedder (eds.) Extracting Development: Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing: 79-105.

Rowedder, Simon (2021) “Studying Comparisons”. In Sidaway, James D. and Franz Waldenberger (eds). Comparing Comparisons. Tokyo: Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien: 37-39.

Journal Articles

Rowedder, Simon, Willcox, Phil, and Brandtstädter, Susanne (eds.) (forthcoming), Special Issue on “Negotiating Chinese Infrastructures of Modern Mobilities: Insights from Southeast Asia”. Advances in Southeast Asian Studies 16(2).

Rowedder, Simon (in press) Dreaming the ‘Chinese Dream’: Local Productions of and Engagements with Chinese Infrastructures in Northern Laos. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.

Rowedder, Simon (2020) “I didn’t learn any occupation, so I trade”: Untold Stories of Entrepreneurial Experimentation, Cosmopolitanism and Urbanisation in Northern Laos. SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 35(1): 31-64.

Rowedder, Simon (2020) Railroading Land-linked Laos: China’s Regional Profits, Laos’ Domestic Costs? Eurasian Geography and Economics 61(2): 152-161.

Sidaway, James D, Simon C Rowedder, Chih Yuan Woon, Weiqiang Lin and Vatthana Pholsena (2020) Introduction: Research Agendas Raised by the Belt and Road Initiative, part of Symposium “Politics and Spaces of China’s Belt and Road Initiative”. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38(5): 795-802.

Book Reviews

Rowedder, Simon (2022) Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia. By David M. Lampton, Selina Ho, and Cheng-Chwee Kuik. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2020. Asian Studies Review 46(2): 373-375.

Rowedder, Simon (2019) Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands. By Bradley Camp Davis. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2017. Southeast Asian Studies 8(3): 441-444.

Rowedder, Simon (2018) From Padi States to Commercial States: Reflections on Identity and the Social Construction Space in the Borderlands of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar. By Frédéric Bourdier, Maxime Boutry, Jacques Ivanoff and Olivier Ferrari (eds.). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Asian Journal of Social Science 46(4-5): 583–586.

Rowedder, Simon (2016) Transnational Dynamics in Southeast Asia: The Greater Mekong Subregion and Malacca Straits Economic Corridors. By Nathalie Fau, Sirivanh Khonthapane and Christian Taillard (eds.). Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Asian Journal of Social Science 44(1-2): 295-297.

Comments/Op-eds

Rowedder, Simon (2020) “Understanding China’s BRI in Northern Laos”, The Business Times, 13 January. Available at: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/asean-business/understanding-chinas-bri-in-laos