ASAA Southeast Asian Publications Series – serie
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21 produkter
Soul Catcher
Java's Fiery Prince Mangkunagara I, 1726-1795
Häftad, 2018
528 kr
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Mangkunagara I (1726-95) was one of the most flamboyant figures of 18th-century Java. A charismatic rebel from 1740 to 1757 and one of the foremost military commanders of his age, he won the loyalty of many followers. He was also a devout Muslim of the Mystic Synthesis style, a devotee of Javanese …
Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia 1996-1999
Av Jemma Purdey
Häftad, 2005
338 kr
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Indonesians of Chinese descent constitute only two to three per cent of the country's population but dominate the private business sector. Serious acts of violence against this ethnic minority occurred during Indonesia's colonial past, and after a period relatively free of such incidents became …
Cham Muslims of the Mekong Delta
Place and Mobility in the Cosmopolitan Periphery
Häftad, 2007
312 kr
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This book provides an account of the vigorous survival of an Islamic community in the strife-torn borderlands of the lower Mekong Delta and its creative accommodation to the modernising reforms of the Vietnamese government. Officially regarded as one of Vietnam's national minority groups, the …
Javanese Performances on an Indonesian Stage
Celebrating Culture, Embracing Change
Häftad, 2008
338 kr
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During the dramatic economic and social transformation of late twentieth-century Indonesia, theatre performances in Central Java featured a familiar cast of rulers, nobles, clown servants and ordinary people. However, these presentations were not a repetition of age-old cultural 'traditions'. …
Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya
Negotiating Urban Space in Malaysia
Av Ross King
Häftad, 2008
328 kr
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Arguably Southeast Asia's most spectacular city, Kuala Lumpur - widely known as 'KL' - has celebrated 50 years as the national capital of Malaysia. But KL now has a very different twin in Putrajaya, the country's new administrative capital. Where KL is a diverse, cosmopolitan, multi-racial …
Workers and Intellectuals
NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement
Av Michele Ford
Häftad, 2009
321 kr
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After decades of repression, Indonesia's independent labour movement re-emerged in the 1990s, led by the NGO activists and students who organised industrial workers and spoke on their behalf. Worker-led trade unions returned to centre stage in 1998 when Suharto's authoritarian regime crumbled, and …
Madurese Seafarers
Prahus, Timber and Illegality on the Margins of the Indonesian State
Häftad, 2011
321 kr
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The Madurese are one of the great maritime and trading peoples of the Indonesian Archipelago. This remarkable study takes readers into the coastal villages of Madura, where the distinctive traditional vessels were powered by sail until the late twentieth century. It examines informal-sector …
Development Professionals in Northern Thailand
Hope, Politics and Power
Häftad, 2012
312 kr
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'Development' promises higher incomes, better livelihoods, social justice, and emancipation, but decades of good intentions have left hill communities in Northern Thailand with high rates of drug addiction and poverty, and a loss of traditional knowledge and values. A former volunteer and …
Surabaya, 1945-2010
Neighbourhood, State and Economy in Indonesia's City of Struggle
Häftad, 2013
321 kr
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Surabaya, 1945-2010 presents the recent history of one of Indonesia's great port cities as viewed from a crowded low-income neighbourhood (kampung) called Dinoyo. By following the lives of Dinoyo residents over three generations, it provides a new perspective on landmark moments in the country's …
Squatters Into Citizens
The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore
Av Loh Kah Seng
Häftad, 2013
352 kr
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The crowded, bustling, 'squatter' kampongs so familiar across Southeast Asia have long since disappeared from Singapore, leaving few visible traces of their historical influence on the life in the city-state. In one such settlement, located in an area known as Bukit Ho Swee, a great fire in 1961 …
Money, Power, and Ideology
Political Parties in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
Häftad, 2013
325 kr
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Are political parties the weak link in Indonesia's young democracy? More pointedly, do they form a giant cartel to suck patronage resources from the state? Indonesian commentators almost invariably brand the country's parties as corrupt, self-absorbed, and elitist, while most scholars argue that …
Khmer Lands of Vietnam
Environment, Cosmology and Sovereignty
Häftad, 2014
342 kr
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The indigenous people of Southern Vietnam, known as the Khmer Krom, occupy territory over which Vietnam and Cambodia have competing claims. Regarded with ambivalence and suspicion by nationalists in both countries, these in-between people have their own claims on the place where they live and a …
Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters
Ethnography and Animism in East Timor, 1860-1975
Häftad, 2019
453 kr
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Haunted Houses and Ghostly Encounters presents a history of Western ethnography of animism in East Timor during the Portuguese period. The book consists of ten chapters, each one a narrative of the work and experience of a particular ethnographer. Part One deals with colonial ethnography and Part …
Resilience and the Localisation of Trauma in Aceh, Indonesia
Häftad, 2018
384 kr
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Aceh is a region that is no stranger to violent conflict and tragedy. This special territory of Indonesia has faced occupation, fallen into civil war, and was brutalized by the deadly 2004 tsunami. While these forces have altered the lives of the Aceh people, their very experiences of suffering and …
Unmarked Graves
Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia
Häftad, 2018
352 kr
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The wave of anti-communist violence that swept across Indonesia in 1965-66 produced a particularly high death toll in East Java. It also transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of survivors, who faced decades of persecution, imprisonment and violence. In this book, Vannessa Hearman examines …
Other Malays
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in the Modern Malay World
Av Joel S. Kahn
Häftad, 2006
338 kr
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This stimulating new reading of constructions of ethnicity in Malaysia and Singapore is an important contribution to understanding the powerful linkages between ethnicity, identity and nationalism in multi-ethnic Southeast Asia.The narrative of Malay identity devised by Malay nationalists, writers …
History in Uniform
Military Ideology and the Construction of Indonesia's Past
Häftad, 2007
280 kr
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Under the New Order regime (1967-98), the Indonesian military sought to monopolise the production of official history and control its contents. The goal was to validate the political role of the armed forces, condemn communism and promote military values.In this detailed examination of the …
Kampung, Islam and State in Urban Java
Häftad, 2009
328 kr
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The nature of community in urban Java changed dramatically during the economic and political transition that followed the fall of the Soeharto regime in Indonesia, although the community continues to provide a rallying point for urban low-income residents in the off-street neighbourhoods (kampong) …
Tai Lands and Thailand
Community and State in Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2009
328 kr
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Studies of the Tai world often treat 'state' and 'community' as polar opposites: the state produces administrative uniformity and commercialisation, while community sustains tradition, local knowledge and subsistence economy. This assumption leads to the conclusion that the traditional community is …
Contours of Mass Violence in Indonesia, 1965-1968
Av Douglas Anton Kammen, Katharine E. McGregor
Häftad, 2012
338 kr
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The violence directed against the political left in Indonesia from 1965 until 1968 has been the subject of intense speculation. The large number of deaths, brutal interrogations, as well as rape, torture, short- and long-term detention and on-going discrimination inflicted on hundreds of thousands …
Taming the Wild
Aborigines and Racial Knowledge in Colonial Malaya
Häftad, 2015
352 kr
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In Malaysia race is viewed not as an external attribute attached to a person but rather as an innate characteristic. Starting from this foundation, race and indigeneity have featured prominently in Malaysian politics throughout the post-war era, influencing both thecivil status and property rights …
