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Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia by Lena Rethel (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101107558832
ISBN-139781107558830
eBay Product ID (ePID)242801582
Product Key Features
Number of Pages283 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameEveryday Political Economy of Southeast Asia
Publication Year2018
SubjectWorld / General, Economic Conditions, Development / Economic Development
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Business & Economics
AuthorLena Rethel
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight15.6 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews'Policy-makers and pundits are seduced by visions of an 'Asian century' ahead. In this context, the authors' carefully crafted volume grounds the discussion of Asia in the global economy by advancing scholarship on the everyday experience of sweeping economic changes. In focusing on Southeast Asia, the contributors to the volume highlight a region that has pioneered political-economic trends that have transformed our world in recent decades: the rise of export oriented economies, huge flows of migrants and remittances, and varying experiences of boom and bust. The interdisciplinary perspectives offered in the component chapters serve both to deepen our understanding of how Southeast Asian political economy plays out on a human scale, and extend important theoretical debates. The volume is a worthy successor to the work of scholars like James Scott and Benedict Kerkvliet who have immersed themselves in the study of the region to teach us about politics everywhere.' Jason Sharman, Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations, University of Cambridge, 'This genuinely multidisciplinary work by an impressive set of authors draws on three intersecting fields of study - International Political Economy (IPE), social anthropology and economic geography - as well as using original fieldwork from Southeast Asia to show how processes of market-building unfold on the ground involving non-elite, even marginalised or vulnerable groups, in a non-western setting. The authors demonstrate convincingly that an everyday approach adds value to more common elite-centred analyses of economic transformation by unmasking tensions, subjectivities and behaviours otherwise hidden from scholarly eyes directed towards elites. This book is highly recommended for students of political economy and of Southeast Asia for its nuanced analysis of non-elite agency, often in unexpected and seemingly non-rational ways, that complicates, perhaps even frustrates, top-down, elite-dominated agendas, plans and programmes.' Helen Nesadurai, Monash University, Malaysia
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal330.959
Table Of ContentPart I. Introduction: 1. Southeast Asia and everyday political economy Juanita Elias and Lena Rethel; Part II. From Development to Multiple Modernities: 2. Policies and negotiated everyday living: a view from the margins of development in Thailand and Vietnam Johnathan Rigg; 3. Everyday agents of change: trade unions in Myanmar Nicholas Henry; 4. Neoliberalism, resource governance and the everyday politics of protest in the Philippines Jewellord T. Nem Singh and Alvin A. Camba; Part III. Widening and Deepening Markets: 5. The political economy of Muslim markets in Singapore Johan Fischer; 6. Islamic finance in Malaysia: global ambitions, local realities Lena Rethel; 7. Resisting marketization: everyday actors, courts and education reform in post-New Order Indonesia Andrew Rosser; Part IV. People, Mobilities and Work: 8. From formal employment to street vending: Malaysian women's labour force participation over the life course Anja K. Franck; 9. Everyday identities in motion: situating Malaysians within the 'war for talent' Adam Tyson; 10. Regional disputes over the transnationalization of domestic labour: Malaysia's 'maid shortage' and foreign relations with Indonesia and Cambodia Juanita Elias and Jonathan Louth; 11. Everyday agency, resistance and community resources for Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong Carol G. S. Tan; Part V. Conclusion: 12. Everyday international political economy meets the everyday political economy of Southeast Asia John M. Hobson, Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel and Leonard Seabrooke.
SynopsisIn this empirically rich collection of essays, a team of leading international scholars explore the way that economic transformation is sustained and challenged by everyday practices across Southeast Asia. Drawing together a body of interdisciplinary scholarship, the authors explore how the emergence of more marketized forms of economic policy-making in Southeast Asia impacts everyday life. The book's twelve chapters address topics such as domestic migration, trade union politics in Myanmar, mining in the Philippines, halal food in Singapore, Islamic finance in Malaysia, education reform in Indonesia, street vending in Malaysia, regional migration between Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia, and Southeast Asian domestic workers in Hong Kong. This collection not only enhances understandings of the everyday political economies at work in specific Southeast Asian sites, but makes a major theoretical contribution to the development of an everyday political economy approach in which perspectives from developing economies and non-Western actors are taken seriously., This book draws together a body of interdisciplinary scholarship in Southeast Asian studies to explore how the emergence of more marketized forms of economic policymaking in Southeast Asia impacts everyday life and is sustained and contested through everyday practices.
LC Classification NumberHC441.E946 2018
