Edited by Jason Lim, Terence Lee

On 9 August 2015, Singapore celebrated its 50th year of national independence, a milestone for the nation as it has overcome major economic, social, cultural and political challenges in a short period of time. Whilst this was a celebratory event to acknowledge the role of the People’s Action Party…

Paperback – 2016-06-09
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By Ashley Thompson

Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research, this monograph concerns Cambodian cultural history and historiography, with an ultimate aim of broadening and deepening bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravadin politico-cultural complex. The book takes the form of an…

Hardback – 2016-05-02
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Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

By Sumanto Al Qurtuby

Maluku in eastern Indonesia is the home to Muslims, Protestants, and Catholics who had for the most part been living peaceably since the sixteenth century. In 1999, brutal conflicts broke out between local Christians and Muslims, and escalated into large-scale communal violence once the Laskar…

Hardback – 2016-04-21
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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

Edited by Norman G. Owen

The study of the history of Southeast Asia is still growing, evolving, deepening and changing as an academic field. Over the past few decades historians have added nuance to traditional topics such as Islam and nationalism, and created new ones, such as gender, globalization and the politics of…

Paperback – 2016-04-01
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Edited by H. Kumarasingham

Britain’s main imperial possessions in Asia were granted independence in the 1940s and 1950s and needed to craft constitutions for their new states. Invariably the indigenous elites drew upon British constitutional ideas and institutions regardless of the political conditions that prevailed in…

Hardback – 2016-03-31
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By John Solomon

Untouchable migrants made up a substantial proportion of Indian labour migration into Singapore in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, they were subject to forms of caste prejudice and discrimination that powerfully reinforced their identities as untouchables overseas. Today…

Hardback – 2016-03-31
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Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

By Phansasiri Kularb

Since 2004, Thailand’s southern border provinces have been plagued by violence. There are a wide array of explanations for this violence, from the revival of Malay nationalist movements and the influence from the global trend of radical Islam, to the power play among the regional underground crime…

Hardback – 2016-02-22
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Rethinking Southeast Asia

By Lydia M. Beuman

In 2002, East Timor became an independent state following a long conflict with Indonesia, and went on to adopt a semi-presidential form of government. In a semi-presidential system there is a directly elected fixed-term president, prime minister and government who are collectively responsible for…

Hardback – 2016-02-15
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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

Edited by Bianca J. Smith, Mark Woodward

The traditional Islamic boarding schools known as pesantren are crucial centres of Muslim learning and culture within Indonesia, but their cultural significance has been underexplored. This book is the first to explore understandings of gender and Islam in pesantren and Sufi orders in Indonesia. By…

Paperback – 2016-01-21
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ASAA Women in Asia Series

By Ben Murtagh

Indonesia has a long and rich tradition of homosexual and transgender cultures, and the past 40 years in particular has seen an increased visibility of sexual minorities in the country, which has been reflected through film and popular culture. This book examines how representations of gay, lesbian…

Paperback – 2016-01-21
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Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

By Karolina Prasad

In recent social research, ethnicity has mostly been used as an explanatory variable. It was only after it was agreed that ethnicity, in itself, is subject to change, were the questions of how and why it changes, possible to answer. This multiplicity of ethnic identities requires that we think of…

Hardback – 2015-12-21
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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

By Delphine Alles

The past fifteen years have seen Indonesia move away from authoritarianism to a thriving yet imperfect democracy. During this time, the archipelago attracted international attention as the most-populated Muslim-majority country in the world. As religious issues and actors have been increasingly…

Hardback – 2015-12-17
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Rethinking Southeast Asia

Edited by Ooi Keat Gin

Brunei, although a relatively small state, is disproportionately important on account of its rich resource base. In addition, in recent years the country has endeavoured to play a greater role in regional affairs, especially through ASEAN, holding the chair of the organisation in 2013, and also…

Hardback – 2015-12-15
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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

Edited by Kaj Arhem, Guido Sprenger

Animism refers to ontologies or worldviews which assign agency and personhood to human and non-human beings alike. Recent years have seen a revival of this concept in anthropology, where it is now discussed as an alternative to modern-Western naturalistic notions of human-environment relations.…

Hardback – 2015-11-23
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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

By Anne Decobert

For over sixty years, conflict between state forces and armed ethnic groups was ongoing in parts of the borderlands of Burma. Ethnic minority communities were subjected to systematic and widespread abuses by an increasingly complex patchwork of armed state and non-state actors. Populations in more…

Hardback – 2015-11-16
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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

Edited by Ooi Keat Gin, Hoang Anh Tuan

This book presents extensive new research findings on and new thinking about Southeast Asia in this interesting, richly diverse, but much understudied period. It examines the wide and well-developed trading networks, explores the different kinds of regimes and the nature of power and security,…

Hardback – 2015-10-22
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

Edited by Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, Fernando Rosa

One key concept in the large body of scholarship concerned with theorizing social relations is the idea of 'cosmopolitanism'. This book unpacks the idea of cosmopolitanism through the linked knowledges of the Global South. It brings into dialogue an inter-disciplinary team of local and…

Hardback – 2015-10-05
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Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

By Rebecca Strating

Since the end of the Cold War, considerable scholarly debates have been devoted to the nature and scope of international state-building interventions in ‘fragile’, post-colonial states and their effectiveness in instituting democratic rule. By examining the construction of political institutions…

Hardback – 2015-10-01
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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

By Myengkyo Seo

Although Indonesia is generally considered to be a Muslim state, and is indeed the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, it has a sizeable Christian minority as a legacy of Dutch colonialism, with Christians often occupying relatively high social positions. This book examines the management…

Paperback – 2015-09-29
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Routledge Religion in Contemporary Asia Series

By Gisele Bousquet

Most studies on urbanisation focus on the move of rural people to cities and the impact this has, both on the cities to which the people have moved, and on the rural communities they have left. This book, on the other hand, considers the impact on rural communities of the physical expansion of…

Hardback – 2015-09-28
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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

By Ooi Keat Gin

This book examines Borneo, both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950. Borneo then was at the crossroads. Following the Japanese Occupation, the likely future status of the various Bornean territories was not at all clear, and the book…

Paperback – 2015-09-04
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Minh Son Le, Tarlok Singh, Duc-Tho Nguyen

This book uses Alan Winters’ analytical framework to investigate the effects of trade liberalisation on economic growth and poverty in Vietnam. The country launched a programme of economic and trade reforms, known as Doi Moi, in the mid-1980s which placed the economy on a transitional path from…

Hardback – 2015-08-28
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Edited by Gaik Cheng Khoo, Julian C.H. Lee

This book provides a picture of a globalized Malaysia where its conventionally-conceived multi-ethnic composition of Malays, Chinese, Indians and Others rub shoulders with or interact more intimately on a daily basis with transnational ethnoscapes of migrant workers, asylum seekers, international…

Hardback – 2015-08-24
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Edited by Dinesh Bhugra, Samson Tse, Roger Ng, Nori Takei

Geographically and demographically Asia is a huge region with a large number of societies and cultures, each affected by their own unique problems including over-population, major natural disasters, poverty and changing social and economic factors. Inevitably this means that different mental health…

Hardback – 2015-08-20
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