The Philippines / Smita Lahiri and Deirdre de la Cruz
Domestic helper / José B. Capino
Chinese mestizo / Richard T. Chu
Filipino seaman / Kale Bantigue Fajardo
Public manager / Anna Romina Guevarra
Lawless element / Orlando de Guzman
Agriculturalist / Adam Lukasiewicz
Bakla returnee / Martin F. Manalansan
Call center agent / Jan M. Padios
Community health worker / Mai M. Taqueban
Beauty contestant / T. Ruanni F. Tupas


Vietnam / Erik Harms
Petty trader / Ann Marie Leshkowich
Prostitute / Christophe Robert
Domestic investor / Allison Truitt
Enterprising cadre / Ken MacLean
Soviet-trained scientist / Christina Schwenkel
Aspiring overseas student / Erik Harms
A Cham Hʼroi girl / Truong Huyen Chi
Mountain village head / Christian C. Lentz
Photo retoucher / Nina Hien
Cultural expert / Lauren Meeker
Vietnamese transnational(s) / Ivan Small


Cambodia / Jonathan Padwe
Cham modernizer / Alberto Pérez-Pereiro
World musician / Stephen Mamula
Village police chief / Eve Zucker
Broken woman / Annuska Derks
(Buddhist) Ascetic who remembers past lives / Erik Davis
Government official / Jenna Grant


Laos / Jerome Whitington
Miss Beer Lao / Holly High
Mobile phone monk / Patrice Ladwig
Mitigation expert / Michael Dwyer
Hippie, interrupted / N. J. Enfield
Beleaguered village leader / Jerome Whitington


Thailand / Jane M. Ferguson
Grassroots woman leader / LeeRay Costa
Bangkok slum leader / Pilapa Esara
Transnational farmworker / Sudarat Musikawong
Thai Airways flight attendant / Jane M. Ferguson
Kickboxer / Pattana Kitiarsa
Single woman / Emily Zeamer
Rural DJ / Julia Cassaniti
Spirit medium / Andrew Johnson
Hmong-Thai schoolgirl / Tracy Pilar Johnson


Indonesia / Joshua Barker and Johan Lindquist
Telecommunications and multimedia expert / Karen Strassler
Muslim television preacher / James Hoesterey
Spiritual trainer / Daromir Rudnyckyj
Person with HIV/AIDS / Tom Boellstorff
Activist / Doreen Lee
Ex-combatant from the Free Aceh Movement / Jesse Grayman
NGO worker / Aryo Danusiri
Overseas female labor migrant / Rachel Silvey
Field agent / Johan Lindquist
Street vendor / Sheri Gibbings
Street kid(s) / Chris Brown
Mr. Hajj / Dadi Darmadi
Rich person / Joshua Barker
Career woman / Carla Jones


Malaysia / Yeoh Seng Guan
National leader / Sven Alexander Schottmann
Reactionary / Gerhard Hoffstaedter
Scholar-musician / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
Hang Tuah, revisited / Rusaslina Idrus
Supra-ethnic Malaysian / Julian C. H. Lee
Political satirist / Khoo Gaik Cheng
Squatter / Yeoh Seng Guan
Returning urbanite / Matthew Amster
Timber entrepreneur / Michael Eilenberg


Singapore / Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied
Malay gangster / Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir
Bangladeshi worker / Md Mizanur Rahman
Woman activist / Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Peri-urban tenant / Loh Kah Seng
The people's filmmaker / Liew Kai Khiun
Schoolteacher / Adeline Koh
Social entrepreneur / Erik Holmberg


Burma / Nicholas Farrelly
Urban dumsa / Mandy Sadan
Journalist / Thomas Kean
Political prisoner / David Scott Mathieson
Exile / David Gilbert and Violet Cho
Sex worker in Thailand / Ikuko Okamoto
Tatmadaw officer / Jacqueline Menager
Korean soap opera junkie / Aung Si
Entrepreneur / Nicholas Farrelly
Indie musician / Aung Naing Thu (pseudonym).