Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Southeast Asia.
International Norms and Local Politics in Myanmar
1st Edition
By Yukiko Nishikawa
September 25, 2023
Nishikawa explores how international norms have been adopted in the local context in Myanmar to project a certain international image, while in fact the authorities are exploiting these norms to protect their own interests. In the liberal international world order promoted since the end of the Cold...
Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei
1st Edition
By Johanna O. Zulueta
September 25, 2023
The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed a rather different path after they married foreign occupiers. During Okinawa’s Occupation by the Allies from 1945 to 1972, many Okinawan women ...
Pathways for Irregular Forces in Southeast Asia: Mitigating Violence with Non-State Armed Groups
1st Edition
Edited
By Atsushi Yasutomi, Rosalie Arcala Hall, Saya Kiba
September 25, 2023
An exploration of the roles that pro- and anti-government militias, private armed groups, vigilantes, and gangs play in local communities in the new democracies of Southeast Asia. Scholars have typically characterized irregular forces as spoilers and infiltrators in post-conflict peacebuilding ...
From Mekong Commons to Mekong Community: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Transboundary Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Seiichi Igarashi
May 31, 2023
Considering the Mekong region as an aggregation of various commons, the contributors to this volume investigate the various commons across the boundaries of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The book incorporates the specialized fields of political science, area studies, ...
Literature and Nation-Building in Vietnam: The Invisibilization of the Indians
1st Edition
By Chi P. Pham
January 09, 2023
This book analyzes why Indians have been made invisible in Vietnamese society and historiography. It argues that their invisibilization originates in the formulaic metaphor Vietnamese nation-makers have used to portray Indians in their quest for national sovereignty and socialism. The book ...
Political Continuity and Conflict in East Timor: A History of the 2006 Crisis
1st Edition
By Ruth Nuttall
January 09, 2023
This book examines the history of political continuity and conflict in East Timor between 1974 and 2006, and the origins of an unexpected crisis in 2006 which caused an international military intervention and several more years of UN missions. Providing a fresh and empirical political history to ...
The Minority Muslim Experience in Mainland Southeast Asia: A Different Path
1st Edition
By John Goodman
January 09, 2023
This book examines the lives of the Malay and Cham Muslims in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and examines how they co-exist and live in societies that are dominated by an alternative consensus and are illiberal and non-democratic in nature. Focusing on two major Muslim communities in Southeast ...
Fake News and Elections in Southeast Asia: Impact on Democracy and Human Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By James Gomez, Robin Ramcharan
December 30, 2022
This book offers a regional analysis of the impact of fake news – misinformation, malinformation and disinformation – on electoral democracy and freedom of expression in Southeast Asia, which has taken place in the middle of a global health pandemic. The book maps the impact of social media and the...
Translational Politics in Southeast Asian Literatures: Contesting Race, Gender, and Sexuality
1st Edition
Edited
By Grace V. S. Chin
September 26, 2022
Highlighting the interconnections between Southeast Asia and the world through literature, this book calls for a different reading approach to the literatures of Southeast Asia by using translation as the main conceptual framework in the analyses and interpretation of the texts, languages, and ...
Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration
1st Edition
By Carlos M. Piocos III
August 29, 2022
This book explores the politics of gendered labor migration in Southeast Asia through the stories and perspectives of Indonesian and Filipina women presented in films, fiction, and performance to show how the emotionality of these texts contribute to the emergence and vitality of women’s social ...
ASEAN and Power in International Relations: ASEAN, the EU, and the Contestation of Human Rights
1st Edition
By Jamie Stacey
August 01, 2022
This book analyses the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a powerful actor in International Relations by examining how the ASEAN community has evolved, looking specifically at its relationship with the EU with regards to human rights. The book adds to important contemporary debates ...
Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew
1st Edition
By Sabrina Ching Yuen Luk, Peter W. Preston
August 01, 2022
This book addresses key questions about how Singapore is likely to develop going forward, what are the key challenges facing the state, and how is the government going to deal with these matters. The book shows how important Lee Kuan Yew and subsequent individual leaders have been in shaping ...