- Number 1: Thematic Issue: Distant Divides and Intimate Connections (part 2) (March 2009)
- Tyrell Haberkorn – An Unfinished Past: Assassination and the 1974 Land Rent Control Act in Northern Thailand
- Anupama Roy and Ujjwal Kumar Singh – The Ambivalence of Citizenship: The IMDT Act (1983) and the Politics of Forclusion in Assam
- Michele R. Gamburd – Advocating for Sri Lankan Migrant Workers: Obstacles and Challenges
- Lenore Lyons – Transcending the Border: Transnational Imperatives in Singapore's Migrant Worker Rights Movement
- Hsiao-Chuan Hsia – The Making of a Transnational Grassroots Migrant Movement: A Case Study of Hong Kong's Asian Migrants' Coordinating Body
- Nicole Constable – Migrant Workers and the Many States of Protest in Hong Kong
- Amy Sim and Vivienne Wee – Undocumented Indonesian Workers in Macau: The Human Outcome of Colluding Interests
- Number 2 (June 2009)
- Katharine E. McGregor – Confronting the Past in Contemporary Indonesia: The Anticommunist Killings of 1965–66 and the Role of the Nahdlatul Ulama
- Elena V. Barabantseva – Development as Localization: Ethnic Minorities in China’s Official Discourse on the Western Development Project
- Stig Toft Madsen and Kenneth Bo Nielsen – The Political Culture of Factionalism among Hindu Nationalists in Denmark
- Channapha Khamvongsa and Elaine Russell – Legacies of War: Cluster Bombs in Laos
- elin o’Hara slavick – Hiroshima: After Aftermath
- Jamie S. Davidson – Studies of Massive, Collective Violence in Post-Soeharto Indonesia
- A. Tom Grunfeld – Film Reviews: Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom and They Chose China
- Oliver Pye – Book Review: Forest Guardians, Forest Destroyers: The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Northern Thailand
- Number 3 (September 2009)
- Yoonkyung Lee – Migration, Migrants, and Contested Ethno-Nationalism: Migration, Migrants, and Contested Ethno-Nationalism in Korea
- Bert Suykens – The Tribal-Forest Nexus in Law and Society in India: The Tribal-Forest Nexus in Law and Society in India: Conflicting Narratives
- Theresa Wong and Joel Wainwright – Offshoring Dissent: Offshoring Dissent: Spaces of Resistance at the 2006 IMF/World Bank Meetings
- Sangtin Writers: Reena, Richa (n), Richa (s), Surbala – Still Playing With Fire: Still Playing With Fire: Intersectionality, Activism, and NGO-ized Feminism
- Mark Selden et al. – As The Empire Falls: As The Empire Falls: Lessons Learned and Unlearned in "America’s Asia"
- Jim Peck et al. – Knowledge to Serve What Ends? An Exchange from 1968: Knowledge to Serve What Ends? An Exchange from 1968
- Marilyn B. Young – Film Reviews: Review of Agent Orange: A Personal Requiem and The Last Ghost of War
- Number 4 (December 2009)
- Meredith L. Weiss – Intellectual Containment: The Muting of Students in Semidemocratic Southeast Asia
- Nel Vandekerckhove – “We Are Sons of This Soil”: The Endless Battle over Indigenous Homelands in Assam, India
- Leonora C. Angeles and Sirijit Sunanta – Demanding Daughter Duty: Gender, Community, Village Transformation, and Transnational Marriages in Northeast Thailand
- Ian G. Baird, Keith Barney, Peter Vandergeest, and Bruce Shoemaker – Internal Resettlement in Laos: Reading Too Much into Aspirations: More Explorations of the Space between Coerced and Voluntary Resettlement in Laos
- Holly High – Internal Resettlement in Laos: Complicities and Complexities: Provocations from the Study of Resettlement in Laos
- David Ryan and David Fitzgerald – Iraq and Vietnam: Endless Recurrence or Stirrings Still?
- David Roediger – Tribute: Donald M. Lowe: Asian Studies Scholar, Social Theorist, Marxist Historian