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.
Material Cultures in Southeast Asia: Objects in Context
1st Edition
Edited
By Sabine Chaouche
May 30, 2025
This book investigates everyday objects in Southeast Asia as integral forms of cultural heritage, examining their functions, significance, and the diverse values and emotions they have embodied over time. By foregrounding material culture, the chapters delve into how these objects—ranging from ...
The Urban Vernacular in Southeast Asia: Settlement as Serendipity
1st Edition
Edited
By Nor Zalina Harun, Shireen Jahn Kassim
May 16, 2025
This book constructs a number of discourses, dialectics and analyses across the disciplines of urban form, architecture and urban experience, thus incorporating both conservation and design issues. It bridges the gap between practice and theory by reconstructing the role of the “village” or “...
The Climate–Energy–Land Nexus in Indonesia: Biofuel, REDD+ and biochar
1st Edition
Edited
By Akihisa Mori, Alin Halimatussadiah
May 06, 2025
This book extends the framework of the climate-energy-land nexus to elucidate political, economic, social, and institutional factors and causal mechanisms that stringent climate targets bring about, rather than mitigate a disproportional heavy burden on the forest sector in Indonesia. Assessing ...
The Literature of Brunei: History, Culture, and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Ooi Keat Gin, Kathrina Mohd Daud
February 19, 2025
This book presents an overview of the literature of Brunei, surveying literary traditions, innovations, and new approaches as well as historical and contemporary issues and challenges. This book highlights the unique characteristics of Bruneian literature, including its approach to bilingualism - ...
War Memorialization and Nation-Building in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By John Lee Candelaria
February 19, 2025
War Memorialization and Nation-Building in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia explores how three Southeast Asian countries— the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore—have utilized war memorialization in their nation-building efforts. Set against the backdrop of colonialism, world wars, independence ...
Planning Indonesia's New Capital City: Behind Nusantara
1st Edition
By Delik Hudalah
December 31, 2024
This book critically analyzes the hidden political dimensions associated with the planning of Indonesia's new capital. Planning Indonesia’s New Capital City reveals the underlying agendas behind the Indonesian government’s decisive and rapid action, under the leadership of President Jokowi, to ...
Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia: Queer Muslims and their Allies
1st Edition
By Diego Garcia Rodriguez
December 18, 2024
Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia explores gender, sexuality and religion in contemporary Indonesia. It is the first book-length analysis of the experiences of queer Muslims in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country and the world’s fourth most populous nation, as well as the ...
Education and Power in Contemporary Southeast Asia
1st Edition
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By Azmil Tayeb, Rosalie Metro, Will Brehm
November 28, 2024
This book focuses on education and power in Southeast Asia and analyzes the ways in which education has been instrumentalized by state, non-state, and private actors across this diverse region. The book looks at how countries in Southeast Asia respond to the endogenous and exogenous influences in ...
Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia: Hierarchies, Conflicts, and Coexistence
1st Edition
Edited
By Timo Duile, Kristina Großmann, Michaela Haug, Guido Sprenger
November 28, 2024
This book draws on ethnographic studies in Southeast Asia to provide new insights into human–environmental relationships and ecologies, together with a set of theoretical innovations. Contextualizing ecologies in this region as pluralizing or hegemonic, conflictive or cooperative, the case studies ...
The Art of Environmental Activism in Indonesia: Shifting Horizons
1st Edition
By Edwin Jurriëns
November 28, 2024
This book analyses the intersections between contemporary art and environmental activism in Indonesia. Exploring how the arts have promoted ecological awareness from the late 1960s to the early 2020s, the book shows how the arts have contributed to societal change and public and political responses...
Islam, Education and Radicalism in Indonesia: Instructing Piety
1st Edition
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By Tim Lindsey, Jamhari Makruf, Helen Pausacker
October 08, 2024
This book explores the connections between traditional Islamic education, rising religious intolerance, religious attitudes to gender, campaigns for curricula innovation and modernisation, and politics and society in Indonesia. Drawing on extensive original research and the deep experience of the ...
Conflict, Continuity, and Change in Social Movements in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Abdul Rohman
August 26, 2024
This book demonstrates how preserving ideology and relationships with other activists affords social movements to persist over time amid limited resources and political opportunities in Southeast Asia. Examining two peace movements in Indonesia – the largest democratic country in Southeast Asia – ...