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.
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 ...
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...