Social activism in Southeast Asia
By: edited by Michele Ford
Series: Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series -- 51; Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series -- 51.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415523554; 9780203100233
Subjects: Social conditions; Social action; Social movements
Description: "Brings together cutting-edge accounts of social movements concerned with 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 in a region characterized by a history of authoritarian developmentalism and weak civil society"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social activism in Southeast Asia : an introduction / Michele Ford; title: Southeast Asian activism and the limits to independent political space / Garry Rodan; title: Separatism in Aceh : from social rebellion to political movement / Edward Aspinall; title: Philippine contention in the democratic "transitions" / Vince Boudreau; title: Values and the institutionalization of Indonesia's organic agriculture movement / Nicola Edwards; title: Burmese social movements in exile : labour, migration and democracy / Dennis Arnold; title: Labour activism in Thailand / Andrew Brown and Sakdina Chatrakul Na Ayudhya; title: The anti-globalization movement in the Philippines / Dominique Caouette and Teresa Tadem; title: Activism and aid : shaping the peace movement in Timor-Leste / Thushara Dibley; title: International agendas and sex worker rights in Cambodia / Larissa Sandy; title: Sexuality rights activism in Malaysia : the case of Seksualiti Merdeka / Julian C.H. Lee; title: The Christian right and the Singaporean feminist movement / Lenore Lyons.