Books

2022. L’islamisation du Sud philippin 15e-20e. Une histoire sociale et culturelle des sultanats, Paris : EFEO, collection Monographies.Reviews: https://journals.openedition.org/moussons/10215#ftn2; https://journals.openedition.org/archipel/3144; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0967828X.2023.2251808; https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/146/article/909508; https://estudiosdeasiayafrica.colmex.mx/index.php/eaa/article/view/3058/2930

[In preparation] Administrating land in the Malay Peninsula. A cultural approach to territory formation. (manuscript expected in 2026)

[In preparation] The ones who remember. The 1965-66 events in Indonesia and its living memory. (manuscript expected in 2026)

Edited volumes, special issues, dossier

[In preparation] (with Quan Tran, ed.) Memory Studies in Southeast Asia. A Handbook, Leiden, Brill (under contract for publication, 2026).

2024. (guest editors with Mulaika Hijjas) “The transmission and (re)invention of tradition in Island Southeast Asia”, Indonesia and the Malay World 52 (152).

2018. (coord. with Asvi Warman Adam) “The aftermath of 1965: an Indonesian perspective”. Archipel 95, 1–110.

Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries

[Forthcoming] “A long journey in Borneo: James Brooke’s journals and letters”, in Judith E. Bosnak & Rick Honings (ed.), The Malay Archipelago through Travellers’ Eyes (1800-1900), Singapore: NUS Press.

[Forthcoming, 2026] “The Surat Sungai: Plantations, legal documents, and Malay writing culture in Johor (c.1860-c.1920)”, in Sher Banu A.L. Khan & Maznah Mohamed (ed.), World-Making with Malay-Indonesian Manuscripts. Circulation, contestation, connection, Singapore: NUS Press.  

[Forthcoming 2026] “Muslim shrines and genealogies in the Malay-speaking world: The palimpsest of religious memory”, In Quan Tran and Elsa Clavé (ed) Memory Studies in Southeast Asia. A Handbook, Leiden, Brill.

[Forthcoming 2026] “Remembering and representing Islam in The Philippines. Discussing collective and cultural memory”, In Jocelyn Martin & Joyce Arriola (ed), Handbook of Memory studies in the Philippines, Leiden: Brill. 

[Forthcoming 2026] “Mona Lohanda” (Indonesian historian); “Encarnación Alzona” (Filipina historian); “Zeus Salazar” (Filipino historian; written with Adonis Elumbre), in N. Kouamé et A. Michel (dir.), Encyclopédie des historiographies Afriques, Amériques, Asies. Volume 2.

2025.  “Beyond war and trade: Mindanao, Sulu, their textual sources, and the writing of social history”, Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez. Nouvelle série, 55 (2), 2025, pp. 321-327.

2025. “Postkoloniale Geschichte aus philippinischer Perspektive”. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte. Philippinen 40/41,12–17. http://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/APuZ_2025-40-41_online_Philippinen.pdf

2024. “Dressing up the monarch: representations of authority in the Sulu sultanate royal tradition (18th- 21st).” Indonesia and the Malay World vol. 52 (152), 76–96. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13639811.2024.2325226?src=exp-mr

2023. “Abu Bakar, the temenggong of Johor, and the crafting of a unique type of Malay land deeds”. In Janine Droese, Ulla Kypta & Uta Lauer, Originators. Transformations and Collaborations in the Production of Original Written Artefacts (Manuscript Cultures n°21), 173–186. http://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/mc/files/articles/mc21-clave.pdf

2022. with Arlo Griffiths “The Laguna Copper Plate. 10-th c. Luzon, Java and the Malay World”, Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints, 70 (2), 167–242. https://philippinestudies.net/ojs/index.php/ps/article/view/5135/6971

2022. “Numismatic in insular Southeast Asia”, in M. Alram, J. Bodzek and A. Bursche (eds), Survey of Numismatic Research 2014–2020, Warsaw: The International Numismatic Council, vol. 2, 1093–1095.

2020. “Heroines, Forgotten and Silenced Fighters : Insights into Women Combatants’ History in Aceh”, in T. Rettig and V. Lanzona (ed.), Women Warriors in Southeast Asia, London: Routledge, 109–135.

2020. “Sources pour l’histoire de l’islamisation des Philippines”, “La plaque de Laguna”, “Sarsila/Tarsila” in N. Kouamé, E.P. Meyer et A. Viguier  (dir.), Encyclopédie des historiographies: Afriques, Amériques, Asies. Volume 1: Sources et genres historiques, Paris: Presses de l’INALCO.      https://books.openedition.org/pressesinalco/21819

2020. “Filmed Memories of 1965”, Introduction, Archipel  99,  19–21. https://doi.org/10.4000/archipel.1639

2019. “Panorama des études philippines en Europe. Reflexions sur les dynamiques actuelles”, Archipel 98, 35–48. https://journals.openedition.org/archipel/1301

2018. “On the Footsteps of Islam in the Philippines: Islamic Epigraphy, Chinese Trade and Exchange Networks in Southeast Asia”, in I. Donoso (ed.), More Islamic than we Admit, Manila : Vibal Foundation, 105–122.

2016. “Jalons pour une histoire du théâtre indonésien moderne”, in R. Madinier (dir.), Indonésie contemporaine, Bangkok/Paris : Irasec, 415–423.

2015. “Lignées et légitimité au sein du sultanat de Magindanao, Philippines, XVI^e–  XVII^e“, Péninsule 71, 235–256.

2014. “Silenced Fighters: An Insight into Women Combatants History in Aceh”, Archipel 87, Special issue on Aceh, 273–306. https://www.persee.fr/doc/arch_0044-8613_2014_num_87_1_4465

2013. “Historiennes philippines”, “Femmes journalistes aux Philippines”, in Dictionnaire universel des femmes créatrices, Paris : Des femmes.

2011. Clavé, E. and al., “Aceh : les déséquilibres et les tensions de la province à la veille du tsunami” in F.Lavigne and R. Paris (ed.), Tsunarisque, Paris : Publications de la Sorbonne, 199–212.

2008. Gaillard, J. C., Clavé, E., & Kelman, I. (2008). Wave of peace? Tsunami disaster diplomacy in Aceh, Indonesia. Geoforum, 39(1), 511–526. [Contribution: The political history of Aceh].

2008. Gaillard, J. C., Clavé, E., Vibert, O., Azhari, Dedi, Denain, J. C., & Setiawan, R. “Ethnic groups’ response to the 26 December 2004 earthquake and tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia”. Natural Hazards, 47, 17–38. [Contribution: Ethnic migration history and ethnohistorical approach].

2006 “Artaud et le théâtre balinais: les spectacles de 1931”, Revue d’histoire du théâtre, 58 (2), 125–148.

Translations

• Filipino-English/French

2023. « La vie rêvée », « Cette chose-là… » (with Elisabeth Luquin) in Les voix de l’exil (Malaisie). Poèmes de migrants. Etienne Naveau and Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux (ed.), Editions Arkuiris.

2022 « The Three Kings » (with Judy Freya Sibayan) [script], Southeast Asia of Now. Direction in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, Autumn 2022

• Indonesian/French

2018. « Hamzah de Barus » [short story], Jentayu, hors série n°3, Journal on Southeast Asian Literature, Autumn 2018

2014. « En attendant maman », [short story], Jentayu 1, Journal sur les littératures d’Asie, Automne 2014.

2006. L’homme-grenouille (with Azhari), Banda Aceh: Comité du Livre/ Komunitas Tikar Pandan.

Public outreach and publications in professional newsletters or catalogues

2022. “The islamization of the Philippines”, Catalogue of the exhibition Trajectories and movements of the Philippine identity” (Barcelona 5–20 March 2022). 

2020. Dictionnaire de l’insolite en Indonésie, Paris : Cosmopole (revised edition, first print 2010)

2017. “Facing History. The International People Tribunal on 1965”, with Andy Füller, Inside Indonesia (online).

2016. “Mythes et réalités des femmes en Aceh”, Le Banian 22, Dezember 2016, 80–91.

2014. “Goûter les Philippines…à Sulu”, Special issue on Food in Southeast Asia, Lettre de  l’Association francaise pour la recherche en Asie du Sud-est,  Spring 2014, 9–11.

2009. “Sainteté et Islam à Sulu”, Lettre de l’Association francaise pour la recherche en Asie du Sud-est, Printemps 2009, 15-17.

2008. “Images of the Past, Realities of the Present, the Acehnese Inong Balee”, IIAS Newsletter, 48:10-11.

2006. “Religion et reconstruction à Aceh”, Lettre de l’Association francaise pour la recherche en Asie du Sud-est, Printemps 2006: 13-14.

2006. L’homme-grenouille, with Azhari Ayub, Banda Aceh: Comité du Livre/Komunitas Tikar Pandan.

Book reviews

2023. The Memorykeepers : Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History, Series Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race n° 4, Dorothy B. Fujita-Rony, Leiden, Brill, 2021 (Moussons 41)

2023. Oral Literature, Gender, and Precedence in East Timor. Metaphysics in Narrative, Copenhagen, David Hicks, Copenhagen, NIAS Press (Moussons 40)

2021. Racial Difference and the Colonial Wars of 19th Century Southeast Asia, Farish Noor & Peter Carey (ed.), Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press (Archipel 101)

2021. L’image de la famille dans les littératures modernes d’Asie du Sud-est, Monique Lajoubert (dir.), Paris, Les Indes Savantes (Archipel 101)

2018. Le Long remord de la conquête, Romain Bertrain, Paris, Seuil (Archipel 95)

2015. Philippines contemporaine, William Guéraiche (dir.), Bangkok, Irasec (Lettre de l’Afrase, Autumn 2014), (in English in BKI, 2015)

2012. Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia, Evelyn Blackwood, Honolulu, the University of Hawaii Press (Genre, sexualité & société 8)

2009. The Future in the Balance, Essays on Globalization and Resistance, Walden Bello, Quezon City, UP Press, 2001, xx-312 (Péninsule 58, 2009, 50-53)

2009. The Many Ways of Being Muslim: Fiction by Muslim Filipino, Coeli Barry (ed.), Cornell University/Anvil Press, 2008, 216 p (Archipel 78, 2009, 260-261)