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.
Neoliberal Morality in Singapore: How family policies make state and society
1st Edition
By Youyenn Teo
November 07, 2013
Using the case study of Singapore, this book examines the production of a set of institutionalized relationships and ethical meanings that link citizens to each other and the state. It looks at how questions of culture and morality are resolved, and how state-society relations are established that ...
Law and Religion in Indonesia: Conflict and the courts in West Java
1st Edition
By Melissa Crouch
October 25, 2013
Understanding and managing inter-religious relations, particularly between Muslims and Christians, presents a challenge for states around the world. This book investigates legal disputes between religious communities in the world’s largest majority-Muslim, democratic country, Indonesia. It ...
The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia: Conflict and Leadership
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus Mietzner
October 25, 2013
In the late 1990s, prominent scholars of civil-military relations detected a decline in the political significance of the armed forces across Southeast Asia. A decade later, however, this trend seems to have been reversed. The Thai military launched a coup in 2006, the Philippine armed forces ...
Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons
September 20, 2013
This book brings together extensive recent innovative research on the study of men and masculinities in Southeast Asia. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the book examines both dominant and marginal ...
Social Activism in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Michele Ford
March 21, 2013
Social Activism in Southeast Asia brings together cutting-edge accounts of social movements concerned with civil and political rights, globalization, peace, the environment, migrant and factory labour, the rights of middle- and working-class women, and sexual identity in an overarching framework of...
The Theatre and the State in Singapore: Orthodoxy and Resistance
1st Edition
By Terence Chong
March 05, 2013
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the contemporary English-language theatre field in Singapore. It describes Singapore theatre as a politically dynamic field that is often a site for struggle and resistance against state orthodoxy, and how the cultural policies of the ruling People’...
Singapore in the Global System: Relationship, Structure and Change
1st Edition
By Peter Preston
October 10, 2012
This book tracks the phases of Singapore’s economic and political development, arguing that its success was always dependent upon the territories links with the surrounding region and the wider global system, and suggests that managing these links today will be the key to the country’s future. ...
Land Tenure, Conservation and Development in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Peter Eaton
September 10, 2012
This book examines the relationship between land tenure, conservation and rural development in the context of the Southeast Asian archipelago. In particular, it is concerned with people living in and around national parks and other protected areas. It discusses the value of reinforcing indigenous ...
The Political Theory of Tyranny in Singapore and Burma: Aristotle and the Rhetoric of Benevolent Despotism
1st Edition
By Stephen McCarthy
July 27, 2012
Covering various fields in political science, this new book presents an historical and political-cultural analysis of Buddhism and Confucianism. Using Singapore and Burma as case studies, the book questions the basic assumptions of democratization theory, examining the political science of tyranny...
Ageing in Singapore: Service needs and the state
1st Edition
By Peggy Teo, Kalyani Mehta, Leng Leng Thang, Angelique Chan
July 11, 2012
Older persons are often portrayed as social and financial burdens because pensions, health and social care have to withstand increasing old age dependency ratios. Due to a lack of access to representation or a lack of social and economic power, older people have found few opportunities to have ...
Expressions of Cambodia: The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier, Tim Winter
July 11, 2012
Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural productions and practices, the changing ...
Living with Transition in Laos: Market Intergration in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
By Jonathan Rigg
July 11, 2012
Laos - the Lao People's Democratic Republic - is one of the least understood and studied countries of Asia. Its development trajectory is also one of the most interesting, as it moves from state, or perhaps more appropriately subsistence, to market. Based on extensive original research, this book ...