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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series


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The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Southeast Asia.

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Keramat, Sacred Relics and Forbidden Idols in Singapore

Keramat, Sacred Relics and Forbidden Idols in Singapore

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By William L. Gibson
September 06, 2024

Keramat, holy graves and shrines, represent physical markers of Singapore's history as a multi-ethnic maritime trading center. They offered sanctified spaces not only for Muslims but the entire community in which they were found. Maintained by self-appointed caretakers, the stories keramat often ...

Hedging Strategies in Southeast Asia ASEAN, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam and their Relations with China

Hedging Strategies in Southeast Asia: ASEAN, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam and their Relations with China

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Alfred Gerstl
May 27, 2024

Introducing a re-conceptualized comprehensive hedging framework, this book analyses the relations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam with China in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the South China Sea dispute. The ...

Military Modernisation in Southeast Asia after the Cold War Acquisition, Retention, and Geostrategic Impacts

Military Modernisation in Southeast Asia after the Cold War: Acquisition, Retention, and Geostrategic Impacts

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Shang-Su Wu
April 01, 2024

Southeast Asian countries represent a wide range of approaches to military modernisation due to their great diversity in politics, economies, geography and other factors. Bounded by the Pacific and Indian Oceans and located between China and India is the setting for the geostrategic impacts of ...

The Protection of Refugees in Southeast Asia A Legal Fiction?

The Protection of Refugees in Southeast Asia: A Legal Fiction?

1st Edition

By Sébastien Moretti
January 29, 2024

This book offers a comprehensive and detailed analysis of refugee protection in Southeast Asia from an international law perspective. It examines both the legal and policy frameworks pertaining to the protection of refugees in the region as well as the countries’ response to refugee movements from ...

The Climate–Energy–Land Nexus in Indonesia Biofuel, REDD+ and biochar

The Climate–Energy–Land Nexus in Indonesia: Biofuel, REDD+ and biochar

1st Edition

Edited By Akihisa Mori, Alin Halimatussadiah
December 13, 2023

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. Assessing ...

Indonesia’s Failure in Papua The Role of Elites in Designing, Implementing and Undermining Special Autonomy

Indonesia’s Failure in Papua: The Role of Elites in Designing, Implementing and Undermining Special Autonomy

1st Edition

By Emir Chairullah
September 25, 2023

Chairullah investigates how the political, social, and economic interests of national and local elites were negotiated in the formulation and early stages of Special Autonomy in Papua Province, Indonesia. The Papuan case lends support to the current conception of elite theory, which considers the ...

International Norms and Local Politics in Myanmar

International Norms and Local Politics in Myanmar

1st Edition

By Yukiko Nishikawa
September 25, 2023

Nishikawa explores how international norms have been adopted in the local context in Myanmar to project a certain international image, while in fact the authorities are exploiting these norms to protect their own interests. In the liberal international world order promoted since the end of the Cold...

Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration From War Brides to Issei

Okinawan Women's Stories of Migration: From War Brides to Issei

1st Edition

By Johanna O. Zulueta
September 25, 2023

The phenomenon of “war brides” from Japan moving to the West has been quite widely discussed, but this book tells the stories of women whose lives followed a rather different path after they married foreign occupiers. During Okinawa’s Occupation by the Allies from 1945 to 1972, many Okinawan women ...

Pathways for Irregular Forces in Southeast Asia Mitigating Violence with Non-State Armed Groups

Pathways for Irregular Forces in Southeast Asia: Mitigating Violence with Non-State Armed Groups

1st Edition

Edited By Atsushi Yasutomi, Rosalie Arcala Hall, Saya Kiba
September 25, 2023

An exploration of the roles that pro- and anti-government militias, private armed groups, vigilantes, and gangs play in local communities in the new democracies of Southeast Asia. Scholars have typically characterized irregular forces as spoilers and infiltrators in post-conflict peacebuilding ...

Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia Queer Muslims and their Allies

Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia: Queer Muslims and their Allies

1st Edition

By Diego Garcia Rodriguez
August 31, 2023

Gender, Sexuality and Islam in Contemporary Indonesia explores gender, sexuality and religion in contemporary Indonesia. It is the first book-length analysis of the experiences of queer Muslims in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country and the world’s fourth most populous nation, as well as the ...

Education and Power in Contemporary Southeast Asia

Education and Power in Contemporary Southeast Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Azmil Tayeb, Rosalie Metro, Will Brehm
July 18, 2023

This book focuses on education and power in Southeast Asia and analyzes the ways in which education has been instrumentalized by state, non-state, and private actors across this diverse region. The book looks at how countries in Southeast Asia respond to the endogenous and exogenous influences in ...

Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia Hierarchies, Conflicts, and Coexistence

Plural Ecologies in Southeast Asia: Hierarchies, Conflicts, and Coexistence

1st Edition

Edited By Timo Duile, Kristina Großmann, Michaela Haug, Guido Sprenger
June 15, 2023

This book draws on ethnographic studies in Southeast Asia to provide new insights into human–environmental relationships and ecologies, together with a set of theoretical innovations. Contextualizing ecologies in this region as pluralizing or hegemonic, conflictive or cooperative, the case studies ...

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