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Social activism in Southeast Asia ​ edited by Michele Ford.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 51 | ERA CollectionPublication details: London New York Routledge 2013.Description: xiii, 214 pages illustrations, 1 map 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415630597
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4840959 FOR
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 S. Encarnacion 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. The anti-globalization movement in the Philippines /​ Dominique Caouette and Teresa S. Encarnacion 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. 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: "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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 S. Encarnacion 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. The anti-globalization movement in the Philippines /​ Dominique Caouette and Teresa S. Encarnacion 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. Sexuality rights activism in Malaysia : the case of Seksualiti Merdeka /​ Julian C.H. Lee The Christian right and the Singaporean feminist movement /​ Lenore Lyons.

"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.

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