Southeast Asian images
Subtitle: towards civil society?
By: Niels Mulder.
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chiang Mai
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Civil society -- Asia, Southeastern.; Southeast Asia -- Social conditions.; Thailand -- Social conditions.; Philippines -- Social conditions.; Indonesia -- Social conditions.
Description: "This unusual study discloses the public discourse among educated, urban Southeast Asians in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and considers how these people conceive of their society and its problems and process. It examines basic patterns of thought, the interpretation of observed behavior, the opinions of public intellectuals, and the diagnoses of novelists. Together these provide the basis for evaluating whether or not an activist civil society can develop. Because of the muddled situation prevailing in the countries under scrutiny, the emergence of a public committed to change seems to be a necessary condition for strengthening the society and civilizing the state. Will it happen?"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Thai democratic way of life; title: Philippine image of the nation; title: Civics à la Indonesia; title: Change and problems in Thailand; title: Changing Filipino values; title: Indonesia : the call for reform; title: Thinking women's emancipation; title: Society diagnosed; title: Religious revival; title: Civic malaise; title: The social imagination; title: Towards civil society?