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  • The Politics of Cross-Border Mobility in Southeast Asia

    by Michele Ford ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
    This Element explains how cross-border mobility defines diplomatic relationships between Southeast Asian states and social and political dynamics within the region's key destination countries. It begins by providing an historically situated discussion of bordering processes within the region, examining evolving historical conceptions of power and sovereignty, and processes of bordering in colonial ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Labor and Politics in Indonesia

    by Teri L. Caraway, Michele Ford ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    Two decades after Indonesia's transition to democracy, its labor movement has emerged as a vibrant and influential political actor. Labor and Politics in Indonesia provides the first in-depth analysis of this development, investigating how a structurally weak labor movement carved out a strategic foothold in a country with no recent history of union engagement in politics. Caraway and Ford show ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • From Migrant to Worker

    Global Unions and Temporary Labor Migration in Asia

    by Michele Ford ...
    What happens when local unions begin to advocate for the rights of temporary migrant workers, asks Michele Ford in her sweeping study of seven Asian countries? Until recently unions in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand were uniformly hostile towards foreign workers, but Ford deftly shows how times and attitudes have begun to change. Now, she argues, NGOs and ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Everyday Life in Southeast Asia

    by Lorraine Aragon, Andrew Causey, Holly High, Judith Nagata, Harold C. Conklin, Hjorleifur Jonsson, John Clammer, Christina Schwenkel, Susan Darlington, Nancy Smith-Hefner, Katharine Wiegele, Pattana Kitiarsa, Sandra Cate, Nir Avieli, Shaun Kingsley Malarney, Elizabeth Traube, Eve Zucker, Chris Lyttleton, Robert Dentan, Anthony (Bah Tony) Williams-Hunt, Juli Edo, Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons, Gene Ammarell ...
    This lively survey of the peoples, cultures, and societies of Southeast Asia introduces a region of tremendous geographic, linguistic, historical, and religious diversity. Encompassing both mainland and island countries, these engaging essays describe personhood and identity, family and household organization, nation-states, religion, popular culture and the arts, the legacies of war and recovery, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Activists in Transition

    Progressive Politics in Democratic Indonesia

    Edited by Thushara Dibley, Michele Ford ...
    Activists in Transition examines the relationship between social movements and democratization in Indonesia. Collectively, progressive social movements have played a critical role over in ensuring that different groups of citizens can engage directly in—and benefit from—the political process in a way that was not possible under authoritarianism. However, their individual roles have been different, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Women, Work and Care in the Asia-Pacific

    Edited by Marian Baird, Michele Ford, Elizabeth Hill ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    This book provides a comparative analysis of the social, economic, industrial and migration dynamics that structure women’s paid work and unpaid care work experience in the Asia-Pacific region. Each country-focused chapter examines the formal and informal ways in which work and care are managed, the changing institutional landscape, gender relations and fertility concerns, employer and trade union ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Women and Work in Indonesia

    Edited by Michele Ford, Lyn Parker ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    This book examines the meaning of work for women in contemporary Indonesia. It takes a broad definition of work in order to interrogate assumptions about work and economic activity, focusing on what women themselves see as their work, which includes not only paid employment, home life and child care, but also activities surrounding ritual, healing and religious life. It analyses the key issues, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book brings together extensive recent innovative research on the study of men and masculinities in Southeast Asia. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork from Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia and Timor-Leste, the book examines both dominant and marginal constructions of heterosexual masculinity and the ways in which these are performed in different localized ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Social Activism in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Michele Ford ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    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 ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Michele Ford, Lenore Lyons, Willem van Schendel ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Since the signing of the UN Trafficking Protocol, anti-trafficking laws, policies and other initiatives have been implemented at the local, national and regional levels. These activities have received little scholarly attention. This volume aims to begin to fill this gap by documenting the micro-processes through which an anti-trafficking framework has been translated, implemented and resisted in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • ASEAN Regionalism

    Cooperation, Values and Institutionalisation

    by Christopher B. Roberts ...
    Series series Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series
    This book examines the key motivations for and challenges to greater regional integration in Southeast Asia. It demonstrates how security and economic concerns -domestic, regional and international - have either contributed to, or detracted from, an increased level of unity and cooperation in ASEAN. It also explores how the patterns of interaction and socialization generated by these issues, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Human Security in Southeast Asia

    by Yukiko Nishikawa ...
    Series series Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series
    There is a growing interest in human security in Southeast Asia. This book firstly explores the theoretical and conceptual basis of human security, before focusing on the region itself. It shows how human security has been taken up as a central part of security policy in individual states in Southeast Asia, as well as in the regional security policy within the Association of Southeast Asian ... Read more

    $65.99 USD