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.
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 ...
Philippine Politics: Possibilities and Problems in a Localist Democracy
1st Edition
By Lynn White III
January 22, 2018
Philippine political history, especially in the twentieth century, challenges the image of democratic evolution as serving the people, and does so in ways that reveal inadequately explored aspects of many democracies. In the first decades of the twenty-first century the Philippines has nonetheless ...
Brunei – History, Islam, Society and Contemporary Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Ooi Keat Gin
January 12, 2018
Brunei, although a relatively small state, is disproportionately important on account of its rich resource base. In addition, in recent years the country has endeavoured to play a greater role in regional affairs, especially through ASEAN, holding the chair of the organisation in 2013, and also ...
Rhetoric and the Decolonization and Recolonization of East Timor
1st Edition
By David Hicks
January 12, 2018
By the end of the 1960s the process of decolonization had practically run its course in Southeast Asia. One exception, however, was tiny Portuguese Timor, where notions of self-determination and independence had yet to be generated. In 1974, the Carnation Revolution in Portugal brought about the ...
Southeast Asia and the European Union: Non-traditional security crises and cooperation
1st Edition
By Naila Maier-Knapp
January 12, 2018
Amidst the Eurozone crisis, the European Union (EU) is stepping up its dialogue and engagement with and within Southeast Asia. The EU’s contemporary approach towards Asia emphasises the importance of open economies and common challenges of the 21st Century. So-called non-traditional security issues...
Urbanization in Vietnam
1st Edition
By Gisele Bousquet
January 03, 2018
Most studies on urbanisation focus on the move of rural people to cities and the impact this has, both on the cities to which the people have moved, and on the rural communities they have left. This book, on the other hand, considers the impact on rural communities of the physical expansion of ...