South East Asian Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Post-Tsunami Reconstruction in Indonesia

   Negotiating Normativity through Gender Mainstreaming Initiatives in Aceh

   By Marjaana Jauhola

   Series: Interventions

   This book offers a critical analysis of gender mainstreaming initiatives in the post-tsunami context in Indonesia. Aiming to challenge the terms of the debate in gender mainstreaming and disaster reconstruction efforts, Jauhola offers an important contribution for the discussion of what ‘feminisms...

   Published June 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia

   Edited by Andrew N. Weintraub

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   Home to approximately one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. Islam is a religion but there is also a popular culture, or popular cultures of Islam that are mass mediated, commercialized,...

   Published June 5th 2013 by Routledge
3. Higher Education in Southeast Asia

   Blurring Borders, Changing Balance

   By Anthony Welch

   Series: Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia

   This is the first book to systematically chart and comparatively assess the trend towards private higher education in South East Asia. Caught between conflicting imperatives of spiralling demand, and limited resources, the balance between public and private higher education systems in South East,...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. ASEAN Regionalism

   Cooperation, Values and Institutionalisation

   By Christopher B. Roberts

   Series: Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series

   This book examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. It demonstrates how security and economic concerns -domestic, regional and international - have either contributed to, or detracted from, an increased level of unity and cooperation in ASEAN...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)

   Essays in the Political Economy of Structural Change

   Edited by Richard Higgott, Richard Robinson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   The articles in this edited collection, first published in 1985, consider the competing theories of the nature of development and underdevelopment in Southeast Asia. Each chapter challenges the academic orthodoxies and dominant traditions of Southeast Asian studies, particularly in relation to...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
6. India and Southeast Asia (Routledge Revivals)

   Indian Perceptions and Policies

   By Mohammed Ayoob

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   This title, first published in 1990, provides a close contextual analysis of how influential Indian policy-makers have perceived India's interests within the ASEAN region since Indian independence in 1947. Placing these perceptions in the context of India's broad strategic and foreign policy...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
7. Genocide and Mass Atrocities in Asia

   Legacies and Prevention

   Edited by Deborah Mayersen, Annie Pohlman

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   The twentieth century has been labelled the ‘century of genocide’, and according to estimates, more than 250 million civilians were victims of genocide and mass atrocities during this period. This book provides one of the first regional perspectives on mass atrocities in Asia, by exploring the...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. Post-War Borneo, 1945-1950

   Nationalism, Empire and State-Building

   By Ooi Keat Gin

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book examines Borneo, both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950. Borneo then was at the crossroads. Following the Japanese Occupation, the likely future status of the various Bornean territories was not at all clear, and the book...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
9. Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature

   Edited by James Fairhead, Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones

   Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

   Across the world, ecosystems are for sale. ‘Green grabbing’ – the appropriation of land and resources for environmental ends – is an emerging process of deep and growing significance. A vigorous debate on ‘land grabbing’ already highlights instances where ‘green’ credentials are called...

   Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge
10. The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora

    Revisiting the boat people

    Edited by Yuk Wah Chan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee...

    Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge