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Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia
Through the Lens of the Japanese Wartime Empire
Av Diana S. Kim
Häftad, 2025
275 kr
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This Element explores the significance of the Japanese wartime empire's occupation of Southeast Asia during World War Two for understanding the region's colonial legacies. It conceptualizes the occupation as a critical juncture that mediated the survival of American and European colonial …
The Philippines
From 'People Power' to Democratic Backsliding
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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This Element explores how in the Philippines a 'whiggish' narrative of democracy and good governance triumphing over dictatorship and kleptocracy after the 'people power' uprising against Ferdinand E. Marcos in 1986 was upended by strongman Rodrigo R. Duterte three decades later. Portraying his …
Myanmar
A Political Lexicon
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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Myanmar: A Political Lexicon is a critical inquiry into how words animate politics. Across sixteen entries the lexicon stages dialogues about political speech and action in this country at the nexus of South, East and Southeast Asia. This Element offers readers venues in which to consider the …
The Politics of Cross-Border Mobility in Southeast Asia
Av Michele Ford
Inbunden, 2024
892 kr
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This Element explains how cross-border mobility defines diplomatic relationships between Southeast Asian states and social and political dynamics within the region's key destination countries. It begins by providing an historically situated discussion of bordering processes within the region, …
Politics in a Pandemic
Governance and Crisis Management in Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2026
838 kr
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The COVID-19 pandemic offers unique insight into how regimes govern in 'hard times.' In Southeast Asia, public health and economic strain revealed the scope for adaptation in the face of crisis, against the pull of path-dependent habits and patterns. Recent experience of SARS and other outbreaks, …
Thailand
Contestation, Polarization, and Democratic Regression
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element aims to provide an overview of Thai politics with an up-to-date discussion of the characteristics of political regimes, political economy, and identity and mobilization that are grounded in historical analysis stretching back to the formation of the modern nation state. The thematic …
Courts and Politics in Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2024
838 kr
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Courts around the globe have become central players in governance, those in Southeast Asia have been no exception. This Element analyses the historical foundations, patterns, and drivers of judicialization of politics by mapping critical junctures that have shaped the emergence of modern courts in …
Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia
Av Merlyna Lim
Inbunden, 2025
892 kr
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This Element endeavors to enrich and broaden Southeast Asian research by exploring the intricate interplay between social media and politics. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and grounded in extensive longitudinal research, the study uncovers nuanced political implications, highlighting the …
Sustainable Development and the Environment in Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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The rapid economic development experienced by Southeast Asia has come at the cost of considerable environmental degradation, including deforestation and land degradation, biodiversity loss, water and ocean pollution, rising greenhouse gas emissions, and increasing vulnerability to climate change. …
State and Sub-State Nationalism in Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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Nationalism is a political phenomenon with deep roots in Southeast Asia. Yet, state attempts to create homogenous nations met with resistance. This Element focuses on understanding the rise and subsequent ebbing of sub-state nationalist mobilization in response to state nationalism. Two factors …
State and Sub-State Nationalism in Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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Nationalism is a political phenomenon with deep roots in Southeast Asia. Yet, state attempts to create homogenous nations met with resistance. This Element focuses on understanding the rise and subsequent ebbing of sub-state nationalist mobilization in response to state nationalism. Two factors …
Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia
Through the Lens of the Japanese Wartime Empire
Av Diana S. Kim
Inbunden, 2025
854 kr
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This Element explores the significance of the Japanese wartime empire's occupation of Southeast Asia during World War Two for understanding the region's colonial legacies. It conceptualizes the occupation as a critical juncture that mediated the survival of American and European colonial …
The Rise of Sophisticated Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2020
302 kr
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This Element offers a way to understand the evolution of authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia. The theoretical framework is based on a set of indicators (judged for their known advantages and mimicry of democratic attributes) as well as a typology (conceptualized as two discreet categories of …
Independent Timor-Leste
Between Coercion and Consent
Häftad, 2019
308 kr
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This Element explores the primary modes by which rulers have exercised power and shaped political relations in Timor-Leste across four distinct periods. The contrast between coercion under colonial rule and consent expressed through the 1999 referendum on independence exerted a powerful influence …
Cambodia
Return to Authoritarianism
Av Kheang Un
Häftad, 2019
308 kr
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Drawing data from multiple sources, Un argues that following the 1993 United Nations intervention to promote democracy, the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) perpetuated a patronage state weak in administrative capacity but strong in coercive capacity. This enabled them to maintain the presence of …
Ritual and Region
The Invention of ASEAN
Häftad, 2018
308 kr
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Why has ASEAN endured and why do members, many of whom remain comparatively weak and poor, continue to invest in the regional project? Existing answers, either that ASEAN is meaningless or that it has transformed regional affairs through the creation of shared values are both misplaced. Neither …
Vietnam
A Pathway from State Socialism
Häftad, 2019
308 kr
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This is a study of Vietnam's socialist transition and state transformation, generally known as đổi mới. It examines the drivers of socialist-regime change, the nature of the đổi mới state, and the basis of regime legitimacy in Vietnam. The Element argues that despite its 'one-party rule' label, the …
Indonesia
Twenty Years of Democracy
Häftad, 2018
308 kr
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This Element argues that after twenty years of democratization, Indonesia has performed admirably. This is especially so when the country's accomplishments are placed in comparative perspective. However, as we analytically focus more closely to inspect Indonesia's political regime, political …
Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2018
308 kr
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Civil-Military Relations in Southeast Asia reviews the historical origins, contemporary patterns, and emerging changes in civil-military relations in Southeast Asia from colonial times until today. It analyzes what types of military organizations emerged in the late colonial period and the impact …
Populism in Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2018
308 kr
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Conceiving of populism as the charismatic mobilization of a mass movement in pursuit of political power, this Element theorizes that populists thrive where ties between voters and either bureaucratic or clientelistic parties do not exist or have decayed. This is because populists' ability to …
Singapore
Identity, Brand, Power
Häftad, 2018
308 kr
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Contemporary Singapore is simultaneously a small postcolonial multicultural nation state and a cosmopolitan global city. To manage fundamental contradictions, the state takes the lead in authoring the national narrative. This is partly an internal process of nation building, but it is also achieved …
Myanmar
A Political Lexicon
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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Myanmar: A Political Lexicon is a critical inquiry into how words animate politics. Across sixteen entries the lexicon stages dialogues about political speech and action in this country at the nexus of South, East and Southeast Asia. This Element offers readers venues in which to consider the …
Thailand
Contestation, Polarization, and Democratic Regression
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element aims to provide an overview of Thai politics with an up-to-date discussion of the characteristics of political regimes, political economy, and identity and mobilization that are grounded in historical analysis stretching back to the formation of the modern nation state. The thematic …
Media and Power in Southeast Asia
Av Cherian George, Gayathry Venkiteswaran
Häftad, 2019
308 kr
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This study of Southeast Asian media and politics explores issues of global relevance pertaining to journalism's relationship with political power. It argues that the development of free, independent, and plural media has been complicated by trends towards commercialisation, digital platforms, and …
Democratic Deconsolidation in Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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Since the mid-2000s, the quality of democracy around the world has been in decline, and Southeast Asia is no exception. This Element analyzes the extent, patterns and drivers of democratic deconsolidation in the three Southeast Asian countries that boast the longest history of electoral democracy …
Islam and Political Power in Indonesia and Malaysia
The Role of Tarbiyah and Dakwah in the Evolution of Islamism
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Islamism in Indonesia and Malaysia has undergone a fascinating transformation from social movement roots to mainstream politics. How did this take place, and to what ends? Drawing on social movement theories, this Element explains this transformation by focusing on key Islamic social movements in …
Urban Development in Southeast Asia
Häftad, 2022
354 kr
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Urbanization as a process is rife with inequality, in Southeast Asia as anywhere else, but resistance and contestation persist on the ground. In this element, the author sets out to achieve three goals: 1) to examine the political nature of urban development; 2) to scrutinize the implications of …
Civil Society in Southeast Asia
Power Struggles and Political Regimes
Av Garry Rodan
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Contrary to popular claims, civil society is not generally shrinking in Southeast Asia. It is transforming, resulting in important shifts in the influences that can be exerted through it. Political and ideological differences in Southeast Asia have sharpened as anti-democratic and anti-liberal …
Rural Development in Southeast Asia
Dispossession, Accumulation and Persistence
Häftad, 2020
308 kr
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Rural areas and rural people have been centrally implicated in Southeast Asia's modernisation. Through the three entry points of smallholder persistence, upland dispossession, and landlessness, this Element offers an insight into the ways in which the countryside has been transformed over the past …
Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia
Av Merlyna Lim
Häftad, 2025
276 kr
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This Element endeavors to enrich and broaden Southeast Asian research by exploring the intricate interplay between social media and politics. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and grounded in extensive longitudinal research, the study uncovers nuanced political implications, highlighting the …
