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Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
The youth demographic is a large and growing cohort in Indonesia, and adolescents embody the currents of social change. Throughout the twentieth century they were significant agents of social protest leading to social and political transformation. This book looks at the importance of adolescents in...
To Be Published June 3rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series
Although Indonesia is generally considered to be a Muslim state, and is indeed the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, it has a sizeable Christian minority as a legacy of Dutch colonialism, with Christians often occupying relatively high social positions. This book examines the management...
To Be Published July 3rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series
Indonesia has a long and rich tradition of homosexual and transgender cultures, and the past 40 years in particular has seen an increased visibility of sexual minorities in the country, which has been reflected through film and popular culture. This book examines how representations of gay, lesbian...
To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series
The traditional Islamic boarding schools known as pesantren are crucial centres of Muslim learning and culture within Indonesia, but their cultural significance has been underexplored. This book is the first to explore understandings of gender and Islam in pesantren and Sufi orders in Indonesia. By...
To Be Published August 20th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
In the four decades or so since its invention, the internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological...
To Be Published October 3rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
This book challenges the popular notion that Burmese women are powerful and are granted equal rights as men by society. Throughout history Burmese women have been represented as powerful and as having equal status to men by western travellers and scholars alike. National history about women also...
To Be Published October 22nd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
Over the last two decades, Singapore has undergone a substantial degree of ‘Asianization’. Apart from participating in the Asian values debate of the 1990s, re-visioning itself as ‘New Asia’ and a global-Asian hub, and establishing Asian identities for the commodities it consumes and produces,...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
Ever since China and Vietnam resumed diplomatic contacts and reopened the border in 1991, the borderland region has come been part of the vibrant growing economies of both countries and drawn many from the interior provinces to the borderland for new economic adventures. This book examines...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
Identity and the State in Malaysia examines the formation of national identities in post-colonial states. In particular, it demonstrates the importance of the connection between lived experience and identity and belonging. It focuses on the case study of the Kadazan of Sabah in the Malaysian...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research, this monograph concerns Cambodian history and historiography, with an ultimate aim to broadening and deepening bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravadin politico-cultural complex. The book takes the form of an interdisciplinary...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
