Resisting Dictatorship: Repression and Protest in Southeast Asia

ISBN-13: 9780521839891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 308 str.

Vince Boudreau

Opis

Vince Boudreau compares strategies of repression and protest in post-war Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines because these alternative strategies shaped the social bases and opposition cultures available to dissidents and, in turn, influenced their effectiveness. He includes first-hand research as well as the the social movements' literature to consider the interactions between the regimes in the wake of repression, and the subsequent emergence of democracy. Boudreau offers a genuinely comparative study of dictatorship and resistance in South East Asia.

Recenzje

"a major study whose greatest strength is its ability to link forms of authoritarian rule (with a particular emphasis on authoritarians' ways of taking power and initial repression of society) with the subsequent development of opposition. For students of Southeast Asian politics and scholars generally interested in regime types, oppostion protest and social movements, this is truly a must read." - Mark R. Thompson, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Protest, repression and transition in Southeast Asia; 3. Authoritarian attack and dictatorial rise; 4. Protest in socialist Burma; 5. New order repression and the Indonesian opposition; 6. The Philippine new society and state repression; 7. Repression and protest in comparative perspective; 8. People power and insurgency in the Philippine transition; 9. Protest and the underground in Burma; 10. Indonesia's democracy protests; 11. Democracy protest and state repression; List of references; Index.