Social activism in Southeast Asia / edited by Michele Ford.

"Brings together cutting-edge accounts of social movements concerned with 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...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 51
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Physical Description:xiii, 214 p. :; ill., map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Social activism in Southeast Asia : an introduction / Michele Ford
  • Southeast Asian activism and the limits to independent political space / Garry Rodan
  • Separatism in Aceh : from social rebellion to political movement / Edward Aspinall
  • Philippine contention in the democratic "transitions" / Vince Boudreau
  • Values and the institutionalization of Indonesia's organic agriculture movement / Nicola Edwards
  • Burmese social movements in exile : labour, migration and democracy / Dennis Arnold
  • Labour activism in Thailand / Andrew Brown and Sakdina Chatrakul Na Ayudhya
  • The anti-globalization movement in the Philippines / Dominique Caouette and Teresa Tadem
  • Activism and aid : shaping the peace movement in Timor-Leste / Thushara Dibley
  • International agendas and sex worker rights in Cambodia / Larissa Sandy
  • Sexuality rights activism in Malaysia : the case of Seksualiti Merdeka / Julian C.H. Lee
  • The Christian right and the Singaporean feminist movement / Lenore Lyons.