Social Activism in Southeast Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415523554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str.

Michele Ford

Opis

This text examines the ways in which social movements operate in a region characterized by a history of authoritarian regimes and relatively weak civil society.

Spis treści

1. Social Activism in Southeast Asia: An Introduction  2. Southeast Asian Activism and the Limits to Independent Political Space  3. Separatism in Aceh: From Social Rebellion to Political Movement  4. Philippine Contention in the Democratic ‘Transitions’  5. Values and the Institutionalization of Indonesia’s Organic Agriculture Movement  6. Burmese Social Movements in Exile: Labour, Migration and Democracy  7. Labour Activism in Thailand  8. The Anti-Globalization Movement in the Philippines  9. Activism and Aid: Shaping the Peace Movement in Timor-Leste  10. International Agendas and Sex Worker Rights in Cambodia  11. Sexuality Rights Activism in Malaysia: The Case of Seksualiti Merdeka  12. The Christian Right and the Singaporean Feminist Movement

O autorze

Michele Ford is Director of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre and Associate Professor in the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the Indonesian labour movement and organized labour’s responses to temporary labour migration in East and Southeast Asia. She is the author of Workers and Intellectuals: NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement (NUS/Hawaii/KITLV 2009) and co-editor of Women and Work in Indonesia (Routledge 2008); Women and Labour Organizing in Asia: Diversity, Autonomy and Activism (Routledge 2008); Indonesia Beyond the Water’s Edge: Managing an Archipelagic State (ISEAS 2009); Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia (Routledge 2012) and Labour Migration and Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives (Routledge 2012).