| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 51 |
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Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 51.
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| Contents |
Social activism in Southeast Asia : an introduction / Michele Ford -- Southeast Asian activism and the limits to independent political space / Garry Rodan -- Separatism in Aceh : from social rebellion to political movement / Edward Aspinall -- Philippine contention in the democratic "transitions" / Vince Boudreau -- Values and the institutionalization of Indonesia's organic agriculture movement / Nicola Edwards -- Burmese social movements in exile : labour, migration and democracy / Dennis Arnold -- Labour activism in Thailand / Andrew Brown and Sakdina Chatrakul Na Ayudhya -- The anti-globalization movement in the Philippines / Dominique Caouette and Teresa Tadem -- Activism and aid : shaping the peace movement in Timor-Leste / Thushara Dibley -- International agendas and sex worker rights in Cambodia / Larissa Sandy -- Sexuality rights activism in Malaysia : the case of Seksualiti Merdeka / Julian C.H. Lee -- The Christian right and the Singaporean feminist movement / Lenore Lyons |
| Summary |
Social Activism in Southeast Asia examines the ways in which social movements operate in a region characterized by a history of authoritarian regimes and relatively weak civil society. It situates cutting-edge accounts of activism around civil and political rights, globalization, peace, the environment, migrant and factory labour, the rights of middle- and working-class women, and sexual identity in an overarching framework of analysis that forefronts the importance of human rights and the state as a focus for social activism. Drawing on contemporary evidence from Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed November 10, 2014) |
| Subject |
Social movements -- Southeast Asia
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Social action -- Southeast Asia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Social action
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Social conditions
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Social movements
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Soziale Bewegung
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| SUBJECT |
Southeast Asia -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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| Subject |
Southeast Asia
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Südostasien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ford, Michele.
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| ISBN |
9781136230479 |
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1136230475 |
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9780203100233 |
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0203100239 |
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9781283711951 |
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1283711958 |
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9781136230424 |
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1136230424 |
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9781136230462 |
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1136230467 |
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