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Subject(s)

• Social movements—Southeast Asia [Browse]
• Social action—Southeast Asia [Browse]
• Southeast Asia—Social conditions—21st century [Browse]

Contributor

• Ford, Michele [Browse]

Series

Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series [More in this series]

Summary note

Social Activism in Southeast Asia examines the ways in which social movements operate in a region characterized by a history of authoritarian regimes and relatively weak civil society. It situates cutting-edge accounts of activism around 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. Drawing on contemporary evidence from Cambodia, Indones

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Social activism in Southeast Asia: An introduction; 2 Southeast Asian activism and limits to independent political space; 3 Separatism in Aceh: From social rebellion to political movement; 4 Philippine contention in the democratic 'transitions'; 5 Values and the institutionalization of Indonesia's organic agriculture movement; 6 Burmese social movements in exile: Labour, migration and democracy; 7 Labour activism in Thailand; 8 The anti-globalization movement in the Philippines
• 9 Activism and aid: Shaping the peace movement in Timor-Leste10 International agendas and sex worker rights in Cambodia; 11 Sexuality rights activism in Malaysia: The case of Seksualiti Merdeka; 12 The Christian Right and the Singaporean feminist movement; Index

ISBN

• 1-283-71195-8
• 0-203-10023-9
• 1-136-23047-5

OCLC

817887433

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