Böcker i Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series-serien

The contributors to this book challenge this conventional understanding of irregular forces in Southeast Asia, demonstrating that they often attract solid support from civilians and can be major contributors to the building of community security.

This book extends the framework of the climate-energy-land nexus to elucidate political, economic, social, and institutional factors and causal mechanisms that stringent climate targets bring about, rather than mitigate a disproportional heavy burden on the forest sector in Indonesia.

This book focuses on education and power in Southeast Asia and analyses the ways in which education has been instrumentalized by state, non-state, and private actors across this diverse region. It fills a gap in the literature on education in Southeast Asia.

Using the high-profile 2017 blasphemy trial of the former governor of Jakarta, Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama as its sole case study, this book assesses whether Indonesia's liberal democratic human rights legal regime can withstand the rise of growing Islamist majoritarian sentiment.

This book explores the connections between traditional Islamic education, rising religious intolerance, religious attitudes to gender, campaigns for curricula innovation and modernisation, and politics and society in Indonesia.

This book offers a regional analysis of the impact of fake news - misinformation, mal-information and dis-information - on electoral democracy and freedom of expression in Southeast Asia, in the midst of a global health pandemic. It will be of interest in Political Science, Asian Politics & Southeast Asian Politics.

Highlighting the interconnections between Southeast Asia and the world through literature, this book calls for a different reading approach to the literatures of Southeast Asia by using translation as the main conceptual framework in the analyses and interpretation of texts, languages, and cultures.

This book analyses marginalisation and human rights in Southeast Asia and offers diverse approaches in understanding the nuances of marginalisation and human rights in the region. It will be of interest to readers in the fields of Asian Law, Human Rights in Asia, and Southeast Asian Studies, in particular Southeast Asian Politics.

This book demonstrates how preserving ideology and relationship with other activists affords social movements to persist over time amid limited resources and political opportunities in Southeast Asia.

This book examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, considering the circular flows of waste and practices through 'infracycles', maintenance practices that tinker with the social and capitalist order. It will be of interest to environmental anthropology, science & tech, urban studies, & SEA studies.

This book studies the impact of public expenditure allocations in achieving income equality goals in Malaysia and evaluates the impact of the public expenditure policies in reducing the inter-ethnic and rural-urban disparity. It will be of interest to economists and researchers on Southeast Asian Studies.

NGOs and Civil Society in Thailand critically examines the relationships of civil society to nongovernmental organisations in Thailand, and examines the 'NGOisation' of civil society, how NGOs are funded and governed, and in what way the NGOs has been shaped to work with the funder.

This book explores middle power engagement in peace processes through cases of Australian, Japanese and Norwegian engagement in Myanmar's peace process. The book is located within the fields of IR & Development Studies & will be of interest to Asian/Peace & Conflict Studies & Myanmar Politics.

The contributors to this book challenge this conventional understanding of irregular forces in Southeast Asia, demonstrating that they often attract solid support from civilians and can be major contributors to the building of community security.

Incorporating elements of history, sociology, international relations, economics, geography, public health, biotechnology, and engineering, the contributors to this book pioneer a new interdisciplinary study of the Mekong Commons.