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.
Animism in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Kaj Arhem, Guido Sprenger
November 22, 2017
Animism refers to ontologies or worldviews which assign agency and personhood to human and non-human beings alike. Recent years have seen a revival of this concept in anthropology, where it is now discussed as an alternative to modern-Western naturalistic notions of human-environment relations. ...
Human Trafficking in Cambodia
1st Edition
By Chenda Keo
November 22, 2017
Reporting the findings of a comprehensive study of human trafficking in Cambodia, this book focuses on the characteristics and operations of the traffickers. It provides a theoretical framework that explains the emergence of the phenomenon, and the role of moral panic and western hegemony in the ...
Islam, Politics and Youth in Malaysia: The Pop-Islamist Reinvention of PAS
1st Edition
By Dominik Mueller
October 26, 2017
Providing an ethnographic account of the Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) and its Youth Wing (Dewan Pemuda PAS), this book analyses the genesis and role of Islamic movements in terms of their engagement in mainstream politics. It explores the party’s changing approach towards popular culture and ...
Human Trafficking in Colonial Vietnam
1st Edition
By Micheline Lessard
October 13, 2017
Examining the widespread phenomenon of human trafficking in Vietnam during the period of French colonial rule, this book focuses on the practice of kidnapping or stealing Vietnamese women and children for sale in Chinese markets from the 1870s through to the 1940s. The book brings to light the ...
Islam in Modern Thailand: Faith, Philanthropy and Politics
1st Edition
By Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown
October 13, 2017
This book addresses the complexity of Islam in Thailand, by focusing on Islamic charities and institutions affiliated to the mosque. By extrapolating through Islam and the waqf (Islamic charity) in different regions of Thailand the diversity in races and institutions, it demonstrates the regional ...
Adolescents in Contemporary Indonesia
1st Edition
By Lyn Parker, Pam Nilan
October 12, 2017
The youth demographic is a large and growing cohort in Indonesia, and adolescents embody the currents of social change. Throughout the twentieth century they were significant agents of social protest leading to social and political transformation. This book looks at the importance of adolescents in...
Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked: Authority, Participation and Equity in East Timor
1st Edition
By Christopher Shepherd
October 12, 2017
Focusing on rural development and environmental management, this book brings together the detailed history of development in East Timor under two colonial regimes and under the contemporary conditions of national independence. It addresses two comparative areas of development: across the three...
New Media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet
1st Edition
By Susan Leong
October 12, 2017
In the four decades or so since its invention, the internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological ...
Legal Pluralism in Indonesia: Bridging the Unbridgeable
1st Edition
By Ratno Lukito
June 16, 2017
With the revival of Islamic law and adat (customary) law in the country, this book investigates the history and phenomenon of legal pluralism in Indonesia. It looks at how the ideal of modernity in Indonesia has been characterized by a state-driven effort in the post-colonial era to make the ...
Political Change and Territoriality in Indonesia: Provincial Proliferation
1st Edition
By Ehito Kimura
June 16, 2017
What makes large, multi-ethnic states hang together? At a time when ethnic and religious conflict has gained global prominence, the territorial organization of states is a critical area of study. Exploring how multi-ethnic and geographically dispersed states grapple with questions of territorial ...
Corruption and Law in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Simon Butt
May 31, 2017
Indonesia has transformed from one of South East Asia’s most repressive and centralised political systems to its most decentralised and democratic. Despite this, obstacles still remain that hinder Indonesia achieving the ‘rule of law’, and in particular, the country is consistently ranked as having...
Separatist Conflict in Indonesia: The long-distance politics of the Acehnese diaspora
1st Edition
By Antje Missbach
May 31, 2017
The socio-political activities of the Acehnese diaspora, located mainly in Malaysia, Scandinavia, the USA and Australia, have been of fundamental importance to conflict and politics within Aceh. The intensity of the relations between the diaspora and the homeland was mainly determined by the ...