Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Southeast Asia.
Land Tenure, Conservation and Development in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Peter Eaton
September 10, 2012
This book examines the relationship between land tenure, conservation and rural development in the context of the Southeast Asian archipelago. In particular, it is concerned with people living in and around national parks and other protected areas. It discusses the value of reinforcing indigenous ...
The Political Theory of Tyranny in Singapore and Burma: Aristotle and the Rhetoric of Benevolent Despotism
1st Edition
By Stephen McCarthy
July 27, 2012
Covering various fields in political science, this new book presents an historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism. Using Singapore and Burma as case studies, the book questions the basic assumptions of democratization theory, examining the political science of tyranny...
Ageing in Singapore: Service needs and the state
1st Edition
By Peggy Teo, Kalyani Mehta, Leng Leng Thang, Angelique Chan
July 11, 2012
Older persons are often portrayed as social and financial burdens because pensions, health and social care have to withstand increasing old age dependency ratios. Due to a lack of access to representation or a lack of social and economic power, older people have found few opportunities to have ...
Expressions of Cambodia: The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier, Tim Winter
July 11, 2012
Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural productions and practices, the changing ...
Living with Transition in Laos: Market Intergration in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Jonathan Rigg
July 11, 2012
Laos - the Lao People's Democratic Republic - is one of the least understood and studied countries of Asia. Its development trajectory is also one of the most interesting, as it moves from state, or perhaps more appropriately subsistence, to market. Based on extensive original research, this book ...
Gender and Transitional Justice: The Women of East Timor
1st Edition
By Susan Harris Rimmer
May 09, 2012
Gender and Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive feminist analysis of the role of international law in formal transitional justice mechanisms. Using East Timor as a case study, it offers reflections on transitional justice administered by a UN transitional administration. Often ...
The Revival of Tradition in Indonesian Politics: The Deployment of Adat from Colonialism to Indigenism
1st Edition
Edited
By Jamie Davidson, David Henley
April 10, 2012
The Indonesian term adat means ‘custom’ or ‘tradition’, and carries connotations of sedate order and harmony. Yet in recent years it has suddenly become associated with activism, protest and violence. This book investigates the revival of adat in Indonesian politics, identifying its origins, the ...
Community, Environment and Local Governance in Indonesia: Locating the commonweal
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol Warren, John F. McCarthy
March 13, 2012
This book explores the forces reconfiguring local resource governance in Indonesia since 1998, drawing together original field research undertaken in a decade of dramatic political change. Case studies from across Indonesia’s diverse cultural and ecological landscapes focus on the most significant ...
Ethno-Religious Violence in Indonesia: From Soil to God
1st Edition
By Chris Wilson
October 05, 2011
Ethno-religious violence in Indonesia illustrates in detail how and why previously peaceful religious communities can descend into violent conflict. From 1999 until 2000, the conflict in North Maluku, Indonesia, saw the most intense communal violence of Indonesia’s period of democratization. For ...
Timor Leste: Politics, History, and Culture
1st Edition
By Andrea Katalin Molnar
September 14, 2011
This book provides a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asia’s newest nation, Timor Leste (East Timor). This book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, and its political history from the pre-Portuguese period up to 2009. The book pays particular attention to the ...
Muslims in Singapore: Piety, politics and policies
1st Edition
By Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Alexius A. Pereira, Bryan S. Turner
May 06, 2011
This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and the cultural dominance of its Chinese elite, who are predominantly Buddhist and Christian. ...
Violent Conflicts in Indonesia: Analysis, Representation, Resolution
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles A. Coppel
March 14, 2011
Indonesia is currently affected by many serious conflicts which have arisen as a result of a variety of ethnic, religious and regional tensions. Presenting important new thinking on violent conflict in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, this book examines a selection of conflicts in ...