Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

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11. Land Tenure, Conservation and Development in Southeast Asia

    By Peter Eaton

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    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...

    Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
12. Political Change and Territoriality in Indonesia

    Provincial Proliferation

    By Ehito Kimura

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    What makes large, multi-ethnic states hang together? At a time when ethnic and religious conflict has gained global prominence, the territorial organization of states is a critical area of study. Exploring how multi-ethnic and geographically dispersed states grapple with questions of territorial...

    Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
13. Building a People-Oriented Security Community the ASEAN way

    By Alan Collins

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    ASEAN has declared its intention to create a security community in Southeast Asia that is people-orientated. This book evaluates ASEAN’s progress, and in doing so examines three matters of concern. The book firstly looks at the importance of constitutive norms to the workings of security...

    Published August 21st 2012 by Routledge
14. Parties and Parliaments in Southeast Asia

    Non-Partisan Chambers in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand

    By Roland Rich

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    Political parties are an essential ingredient in a modern democracy. They are also seen as the least trusted and most problematic institution in most democratic systems. While there have been attempts to strengthen parties through institutional design and capacity building, a new strategy has been...

    Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
15. The Political Theory of Tyranny in Singapore and Burma

    Aristotle and the Rhetoric of Benevolent Despotism

    By Stephen McCarthy

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    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...

    Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
16. Ageing in Singapore

    Service needs and the state

    By Peggy Teo, Kalyani Mehta, Leng Leng Thang, Angelique Chan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    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...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
17. Living with Transition in Laos

    Market Intergration in Southeast Asia

    By Jonathan Rigg

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    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...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
18. Expressions of Cambodia

    The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change

    Edited by Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier, Tim Winter

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    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...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
19. Legal Pluralism in Indonesia

    Bridging the Unbridgeable

    By Ratno Lukito

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    With the revival of Islamic law and adat (customary) law in the country, this book investigates the history and phenomenon of legal pluralism in Indonesia. It looks at how the ideal of modernity in Indonesia has been characterized by a state-driven effort in the post-colonial era to make the...

    Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge
20. Singapore Malays

    Being Ethnic Minority and Muslim in a Global City-State

    By Hussin Mutalib

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    The Malay population makes up Singapore's three largest ethnic groups. This book presents holistic and extensive analysis of the 'Malay Muslim story' in Singapore. Comprehensively and convincingly argued, the author examines their challenging circumstances in the fields of politics, education,...

    Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge