Local Cultures and the New Asia : : The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia / / ed. by C.J.W.-L. Wee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Alatas, Syed Farid,; Barker, Joshua David,; Berger, Mark T.,; Koanantakool, Paritta Chalermpow,; Lan, Goh Beng,; Malhotra, Kamal,; Wee, C. J. W. L.,; de Jesus, Edilberto C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Wee, C.J.W.-L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)

Southeast Asia, until the Asian economic crisis of 1997-2000, was a high economic growth area. However, despite the neo-liberal and globalizing logic of capitalism, local conditions and cultures determine that capitalism will spread in ways not entirely consonant with its Western origins. Capitalism is not a free-floating entity -- it is a socially embodied phenomenon that needs to function in various cultural contexts. Consequently, the tension between the universal status that some claim capitalism now occupies in the post–Cold War world and the particularities of the local cultures it enters should be of great concern.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Local Cultures, Economic Development, and Southeast Asia -- SECTION I: THE STATE -- 1. Development Enabler or Disabler? The Role of the State in Southeast Asia -- 2. Muddling Through: Development under a “Weak” State -- SECTION II: THE CULTURAL LINEAGES OF “ASIAN” CAPITALISM -- 3. Battering Down the Chinese Walls: The Antinomies of Anglo-American Liberalism and the History of East Asian Capitalism in the Shadow of the Cold War -- 4. Religion, Values, and Capitalism in Asia -- SECTION III: THE STATE AND LOCAL CULTURES -- 5. From Universal to Local Culture: The State, Ethnic Identity, and Capitalism in Singapore -- 6. Telephony at the Limits of State Control: “Discourse Networks” in Indonesia -- 7. Rethinking Modernity: State, Ethnicity, and Class in the Forging of a Modern Urban Malaysia -- 8. Thai Middle-Class Practice and Consumption of Traditional Dance: “Thai-ness” and High Art -- Index