1st Edition

Collective Goods Collective Futures in East and Southeast Asia

Edited By Sally Sargeson Copyright 2002

    This edited collection explores issues surrounding the provision of collective goods within the context of post-crisis East and Southeast Asia. It includes case studies on Korea, Indonesia, China, Laos, Malaysia and Singapore among others.

    Chapter 1 The Contested Nature of Collective Goods in East and Southeast Asia, Sally Sargeson; Chapter 2 The Construction of International Regimes in East Asia, Mark Beeson; Chapter 3 The International Management of Southern Bluefin Tuna, Sidney Adams; Chapter 4 Ngos in Pursuit of ‘the Public Good’ in South Korea, Kim Hyuk-Rae; Chapter 5 Customary Regimes and Collective Goods in Indonesia’s Changing Political Constellation, Carol Warren, John McCarthy; Chapter 6 From Village Commons to Shareholding Corporation, Jian Zhang; Chapter 7 The Privatisation of Public Infrastructure in Transitional Southeast Asian Economies, Andrew B. Wyatt; Chapter 8 Social Policies As Collective Goods, M. Ramesh; Chapter 9 Individualisation of Social Rights in China, Linda Wong; Chapter 10 Urban Development and the Search for Civil Society in China, Leaf Michael; Chapter 11 Providing Public Spaces, Chua Beng-Hua; Chapter 12 Epilogue, Sally Sargeson;

    Biography

    Sally Sargeson is a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, and a Lecturer in Organisational and Labour Studies at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of Reworking China’s Proletariat and is a regular contributor to scholarly journals and the Australian press.