This volume explores the myriad manifestations, tropes and experiences of 'power' in Southeast Asia. The contributors address the surprising absence of direct scholarly engagement with the theme of 'power' in Southeast Asia given innumerable social, political and economic transformations of the region over the last half-century.
This volume explores the myriad manifestations, tropes and experiences of 'power' in Southeast Asia. The contributors address the surprising absence o...
This volume follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' on Luzon in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and government to better understand the processes of deforestation and initiate a strategy whereby upland ecosystems can be returned to productive stability.
This volume follows the work of the 'Good Roots Project' on Luzon in the Philippines. The scheme is an attempt on the part of industry, science and go...
Using the case study of the Kadazan of Sabah, a region in the Malaysian section of Borneo, this book examines national, ethnic and local identities in post-colonial states. It shows the importance of the connection between lived experience and identity and belonging, and by doing so, provides a deeper and fuller explanation of the apparently contradictory conflict between different collective forms of identification and the way in which they are employed in reference to everyday situations.
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and historical analysis, the book reconstructs the...
Using the case study of the Kadazan of Sabah, a region in the Malaysian section of Borneo, this book examines national, ethnic and local identities...
Dealing with the complex and discomforting grey area where sex, love and money collide, this book highlights the general materiality of everyday sex that takes place in all relationships. In doing so, it draws attention to and destigmatizes the transactional elements within many normative partnerships be they transnational, inter-ethnic or otherwise.
Focusing on Cambodia, and on a subculture of young women employed in the tourist bar scene referred to as professional girlfriends, the book shows that the resulting transnational relationships between Cambodian women and their foreign...
Dealing with the complex and discomforting grey area where sex, love and money collide, this book highlights the general materiality of everyday se...
Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world's third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. The country has achieved a successful transition to democracy and yet Indonesian democracy continues to be flawed, illiberal, and predatory.
This book suggests that this and other paradoxes of democracy in Indonesia often assume occult forms in the Indonesian political imagination, and that the spirit-like character of democracy and corruption traverses into the national media and the political elite. Through a...
Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world's third-largest democracy is as comp...
Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the concept of power in relation to these transformations, and examines its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms.
The book works from the ground up, portraying Southeast Asians' own perspectives, conceptualizations and experiences of power through empirically rich case studies. Exploring concepts of power in diverse settings, from the stratagems of Indonesian politicians and the aspirations of marginal Lao...
Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable far-reaching changes and dramatic transformations over the last half-century. This book explores the conce...
