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.
The Politics of Religion in Indonesia: Syncretism, Orthodoxy, and Religious Contention in Java and Bali
1st Edition
Edited
By Michel Picard, Rémy Madinier
September 11, 2014
Indonesia is a remarkable case study for religious politics. While not being a theocratic country, it is not secular either, with the Indonesian state officially defining what constitutes religion, and every citizen needing to be affiliated to one of them. This book focuses on Java and Bali, and ...
Chinese Indonesians Reassessed: History, Religion and Belonging
1st Edition
Edited
By Siew-Min Sai, Chang-Yau Hoon
July 03, 2014
The Chinese in Indonesia form a significant minority of about three percent of the population, and have played a disproportionately important role in the country. Given that Chinese Indonesians are not seen as indigenous to the country and are consistently defined against Indonesian nationalism, ...
Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons, Willem van Schendel
July 03, 2014
Since the signing of the UN Trafficking Protocol, anti-trafficking laws, policies and other initiatives have been implemented at the local, national and regional levels. These activities have received little scholarly attention. This volume aims to begin to fill this gap by documenting the ...
Journalism and Conflict in Indonesia: From Reporting Violence to Promoting Peace
1st Edition
By Steve Sharp
June 19, 2014
This book examines, through the case study of Indonesia over recent decades, how the reporting of violence can drive the escalation of violence, and how journalists can alter their reporting practices in order to have the opposite effect and promote peace. It discusses the nature of press freedom ...
The Future of Singapore: Population, Society and the Nature of the State
1st Edition
By Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Bryan S. Turner
May 14, 2014
Singapore, like many other advanced economies, has a relatively low, and declining, birth-rate. One consequence of this, and a consequence also of the successful economy, is that migrants are being drawn in, and are becoming an increasing proportion of the overall population. This book examines ...
Environmental Cooperation in Southeast Asia: ASEAN's Regime for Trans-boundary Haze Pollution
1st Edition
By Paruedee Nguitragool
March 19, 2014
One of the most challenging environmental threats to the ten countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been the haze, the sickening and deadly cloud of smoky pollution caused by widespread burning of land and forests in Indonesia. This book examines both the threat and ...
Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore: Making Future Citizens
1st Edition
By Shirley Hsiao-Li Sun
March 07, 2014
This book examines the relationship between population policies and individual reproductive decisions in low-fertility contexts. Using the case study of Singapore, it demonstrates that the effectiveness of population policy is a function of competing notions of citizenship, and the gap between ...
Justice and Governance in East Timor: Indigenous Approaches and the 'New Subsistence State'
1st Edition
By Rod Nixon
November 08, 2013
Focusing on the case study of Timor Leste, this book presents the New Subsistence State as a conceptual tool for understanding governance challenges in countries characterised by subsistence economic and social relations. It examines the ways in which Timor Leste conforms to the typology of the New...
Neoliberal Morality in Singapore: How family policies make state and society
1st Edition
By Youyenn Teo
November 07, 2013
Using the case study of Singapore, this book examines the production of a set of institutionalized relationships and ethical meanings that link citizens to each other and the state. It looks at how questions of culture and morality are resolved, and how state-society relations are established that ...
Law and Religion in Indonesia: Conflict and the courts in West Java
1st Edition
By Melissa Crouch
October 25, 2013
Understanding and managing inter-religious relations, particularly between Muslims and Christians, presents a challenge for states around the world. This book investigates legal disputes between religious communities in the world’s largest majority-Muslim, democratic country, Indonesia. It ...
The Political Resurgence of the Military in Southeast Asia: Conflict and Leadership
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus Mietzner
October 25, 2013
In the late 1990s, prominent scholars of civil-military relations detected a decline in the political significance of the armed forces across Southeast Asia. A decade later, however, this trend seems to have been reversed. The Thai military launched a coup in 2006, the Philippine armed forces ...
Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons
September 20, 2013
This book brings together extensive recent innovative research on the study of men and masculinities in Southeast Asia. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the book examines both dominant and marginal ...