Southeast Asian Perspectives on PowerLiana Chua Over the last half-century, Southeast Asia has undergone innumerable, far-reaching changes that have consequences not only for large-scale institutions and processes, but also for everyday life. This book focuses on the topic of power in relation to these transformations, and looks at its various social, cultural, religious, economic and political forms. Consisting of empirically rich case studies, the book works from the ground up, seeking to capture Southeast Asians' own perspectives, conceptualizations and experiences of power. |
Contents
Power and orientation in Southeast Asia
| 1 |
2 The subject of power in Southeast Asia
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Aspiration and materiality in Thailand
| 37 |
Power and the disenchantment of the world
| 51 |
5 Landscape power and agency in Eastern Indonesia
| 67 |
6 The symbolic appropriation of warmade objects by the Jorai of Northeast Cambodia
| 81 |
The unsettled dead and the imagined state in contemporary Singapore
| 93 |
8 Privateers politicians prowess and power
| 107 |
9 Bureaucratic migrants and the potential of prosperity in upland Laos
| 119 |
Power planning and the emergence of baroque forms of life in urban Malaysia
| 135 |
Vietnams emergent welfare state and the restless dead of Thanh Ha
| 151 |
On religion and revolt in the modern Philippines
| 165 |
Filmography
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Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power Liana Chua,Joanna Cook,Nicholas Long,Lee Wilson Limited preview - 2012 |
Southeast Asian Perspectives on Power Liana Chua,Joanna Cook,Lee Wilson,Nicholas Long No preview available - 2017 |
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