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.
Education and Power in Contemporary Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Keramat, Sacred Relics and Forbidden Idols in Singapore
1st Edition
By William L. Gibson
September 05, 2024
Keramat, holy graves and shrines, represent physical markers of Singapore’s history as a multi‑ethnic maritime trading center. They offered sanctified spaces not only for Muslims but also for the entire community in which they emerged. Maintained by self‑appointed caretakers, the stories of keramat...
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 – ...
Marginalisation and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Al Khanif, Khoo Ying Hooi
August 26, 2024
This book analyses marginalisation and human rights in Southeast Asia and offers diverse approaches in understanding the nuances of marginalisation and human rights in the region. Throughout the region, a whole range of similarities and differences can be observed relating to the Southeast Asian ...
Myanmar’s Peace Process and the Role of Middle Power States
1st Edition
By Chiraag Roy
August 26, 2024
This book explores middle power engagement in peace processes through the cases of Australian, Japanese and Norwegian engagement in Myanmar’s peace process, a core event in Myanmar’s contemporary recent political history. The book asks to what extent, and how, middle powers have engaged in Myanmar’...
NGOs and Civil Society in Thailand: Metagovernance and the Politics of NGO Funding
1st Edition
By Theerapat Ungsuchaval
August 26, 2024
NGOs and Civil Society in Thailand critically examines the relationships of civil society to nongovernmental organisations in Thailand, and examines the ‘NGOisation’ of civil society, how NGOs are funded and governed, and in what way the NGOs has been shaped to work with the funder. NGOisation is ...
Public Expenditure and Income Distribution in Malaysia
1st Edition
By Mukaramah Harun, Sze Ying Loo
August 26, 2024
This book studies the impact of public expenditure allocations in achieving income equality goals in Malaysia. The book examines the initial functional and institutional distribution of income across different institutional agents and sectors and evaluates the impact of the public expenditure ...
Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh
1st Edition
By Kathrin Eitel
August 26, 2024
This book examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It considers the circular flows of waste and practices through ‘infracycles’, maintenance practices that tinker with the social and capitalist order, and postcolonial ways of doing politics that co-constitute predominant waste...
Territorial Change and Conflict in Indonesia: Confronting the Fear of Secession
1st Edition
By Ratri Istania
August 26, 2024
This book focuses on Indonesia and investigates why competition between various identity-affiliated groups to claim a new province increases conflict severity. It includes a quantitative study, along with complementary case studies of provinces in Indonesia, which provide evidence that group ...