Social Activism in Southeast Asia [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462179703321
• Autore: Ford Michele
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-71195-8; 0-203-10023-9; 1-136-23047-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
• Disciplina: 303.48/40959; 303.4840959
• Soggetti: Social action - Southeast Asia; Social action -- Southeast Asia; Social movements - Southeast Asia; Social movements -- Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia - Social conditions - 21st century; Southeast Asia -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Sociology & Social History; Social Sciences; Social Conditions; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Social activism in Southeast Asia: An introduction; 2 Southeast Asian activism and limits to independent political space; 3 Separatism in Aceh: From social rebellion to political movement; 4 Philippine contention in the democratic 'transitions'; 5 Values and the institutionalization of Indonesia's organic agriculture movement; 6 Burmese social movements in exile: Labour, migration and democracy; 7 Labour activism in Thailand; 8 The anti-globalization movement in the Philippines; 9 Activism and aid: Shaping the peace movement in Timor-Leste10 International agendas and sex worker rights in Cambodia; 11 Sexuality ; rights activism in Malaysia: The case of Seksualiti Merdeka; 12 The Christian Right and the Singaporean feminist movement; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Social Activism in Southeast Asia examines the ways in which social movements operate in a region characterized by a history of authoritarian regimes and relatively weak civil society. It situates cutting-edge accounts of activism around 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 importance of human rights and the state as a focus for social activism. Drawing on contemporary evidence from Cambodia, Indones