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.
The Political Economy of Growth in Vietnam: Between States and Markets
1st Edition
By Guanie Lim
May 06, 2022
Since the doi moi reforms in 1986, Vietnam has experienced a dramatic socioeconomic transformation. Lim examines the role of the state and its interaction with market forces in bringing this change about. Taking the motorcycle and banking industries as case studies, this book explores the dynamics ...
Ethnographies of Development and Globalization in the Philippines: Emergent Socialities and the Governing of Precarity
1st Edition
Edited
By Koki Seki
April 29, 2022
The contributors to this volume examine the actual workings and on-the-ground effects of contemporary political economic shifts in the Global South, and implications for reconfiguring social networks, conceptions and practices of governance, and burgeoning social movements. How do various groups ...
Global Indonesia
1st Edition
By Jean Gelman Taylor
June 30, 2021
In the 19th century, colonial rule brought the modern world closer to the Indonesian peoples, introducing mechanized transport, all-weather roads, postal and telegraph communications, and steamship networks that linked Indonesia’s islands to each other, to Europe and the Middle East. This book ...
The 2018 and 2019 Indonesian Elections: Identity Politics and Regional Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Leonard C. Sebastian, Alexander R. Arifianto
October 16, 2020
The 2018/2019 Indonesian elections were among the most divisive elections in Indonesian history, where identity politics and ethno-religious sentiments were prevalent not just during the 2019 presidential election, but also during the 2018 regional executive elections as well. Contributors to this ...
Nation-Building and National Identity in Timor-Leste
1st Edition
By Michael Leach
August 23, 2018
Timor-Leste’s long journey to nationhood spans 450 years of colonial rule by Portugal, a short-lived independence in 1975, and a 24-year occupation by Indonesia. This book examines the history of nation-building and national identity in Timor-Leste, and the evolution of a collective identity ...
Maritime Security and Indonesia: Cooperation, Interests and Strategies
1st Edition
By Senia Febrica
August 14, 2018
Indonesia is the largest archipelago state in the world comprising 17,480 islands, with a maritime territory measuring close to 6 million square kilometres. It is located between the two key shipping routes of the Pacific and Indian Ocean. Indonesia’s cooperation in maritime security initiatives is...
Visual Media in Indonesia: Video Vanguard
1st Edition
By Edwin Jurriëns
August 14, 2018
In the age of digital communication and global capitalism, people’s mental, social and natural environments are interconnected in complex and often unpredictable ways. This book focuses on the visual media, one of the key factors in shaping the contemporary ecology of colliding environments. ...
Identity Politics and Elections in Malaysia and Indonesia: Ethnic Engineering in Borneo
1st Edition
By Karolina Prasad
June 28, 2018
In recent social research, ethnicity has mostly been used as an explanatory variable. It was only after it was agreed that ethnicity, in itself, is subject to change, were the questions of how and why it changes, possible to answer. This multiplicity of ethnic identities requires that we think of ...
Social Democracy in East Timor
1st Edition
By Rebecca Strating
June 28, 2018
Since the end of the Cold War, considerable scholarly debates have been devoted to the nature and scope of international state-building interventions in ‘fragile’, post-colonial states and their effectiveness in instituting democratic rule. By examining the construction of political institutions ...
The Politics of Aid to Burma: A Humanitarian Struggle on the Thai-Burmese Border
1st Edition
By Anne Decobert
June 28, 2018
For over sixty years, conflict between state forces and armed ethnic groups was ongoing in parts of the borderlands of Burma. Ethnic minority communities were subjected to systematic and widespread abuses by an increasingly complex patchwork of armed state and non-state actors. Populations in more ...
Local Governance in Timor-Leste: Lessons in postcolonial state-building
1st Edition
By Deborah Cummins
January 24, 2018
Across many parts of the postcolonial world, it is everyday reality for people to cross regularly between state-based and customary governance, institutions and norms. This book examines this phenomenon in the context of the villages of Timor-Leste, and the state-building efforts that have been ...
Media Consumption in Malaysia: A Hermeneutics of Human Behaviour
1st Edition
By Tony Wilson
January 22, 2018
How do visitors immersing themselves in material places such as shopping malls or video sites online make sense of the experience, enabling criticizing - or consenting to content? How is this evident in behaviour? Reflecting on accounts by Chinese, Indian, Malay and Indigenous members of Malaysian ...