By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia offers a unique bottom-up perspective on the evolving character of public life in democratizing Southeast Asia. Readership: All interested in politics and governance in Southeast Asia, as well as
When the Mahabharata and Ramayana are performed in South and Southeast Asia, audiences may witness a variety of styles. A single performer may deliver a two-hour recitation, women may meet in informal singing groups, shaddow puppets may host an all-night play, or professional theaters may put on productions lasting thirty nights. Performances often celebrate ritual passages: births, deaths, mar…
While following the probes of foreign individuals into various obscure parts of Southeast Asia over the centuries is a diverting and entertaining pastime, the purpose of this volume is to investigate this past with the mind, to question and postulate upon the historical patterns that have developed from earlier study of the area, and to bring concepts from other areas and disciplines to bear on…
When the Mahabharata and Ramayana are performed in South and Southeast Asia, audiences may witness a variety of styles. A single performer may deliver a two-hour recitation, women may meet in informal singing groups, shaddow puppets may host an all-night play, or professional theaters may put on productions lasting thirty nights. Performances often celebrate ritual passages: births, deaths, mar…
While following the probes of foreign individuals into various obscure parts of Southeast Asia over the centuries is a diverting and entertaining pastime, the purpose of this volume is to investigate this past with the mind, to question and postulate upon the historical patterns that have developed from earlier study of the area, and to bring concepts from other areas and disciplines to bear on…
The authors consider the ways in which the high degree of ethnic diversity within the region is related to the nature of tropical Asian environments, on the one hand, and the nature of Southeast Asian political systems and the ways in which they manipulate natural resources, on the other. Rather than focus on defining the phenomenon of ethnicity, this book examines the different social evolutio…
‘This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neo…
Ecologists have long based their conceptual frameworks in the natural sciences. Recently, however, they have acknowledged that ecosystems cannot be understood without taking into account human interventions that may have taken place for thousands of years. And for their part, social scientists have recognized that human behavior must be understood in the environment in which it is acted out. Re…
Peluang pemanfaatan data satelit radar atau Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) di Indonesia cukup tinggi karenakemampuan data satelit SAR yang dapat menembus awan, yang sering menjadi kendala dalam pemantauan permukaan bumi menggunakan data satelit optik. Selain itu, kelebihan data satelit radar ini dapat memantau permukaan tanpa gangguan cuaca serta dapat digunakan dalam kondisi siang dan malam. …
Regionalisme Asia Tenggara yang cukup terkenal, ASEAN, tidak hanya berhasil mengintegrasikan sepuluh negara anggotanya, melainkan juga memiliki peran penting dalam menciptakan stabilitas keamanan di Kawasan Asia Timur. Namun tahukah Anda bahwa juga terdapat tiga kerja sama subregional di antara negara-negara di Asia Tenggara yang berperan/turut serta membangun kawasan tersebut? Greater Mekong…
Buku ini merupakan sari dari buku-buku penelitian sebelumnya sesuai dengan penelitian lapangan yang dilakukan oleh tim penulis. Ulasan berupa evaluasi atas mekanisme yang dilakukan juga menjadi penekanan pada penulisan buku ini. Secara umum penyelesaian konflik yang disajikan terutama antara negara Thailand dengan 4 negara tetangga (dengan Kamboja terkait sengketa Candi Preah Vihear; dengan Lao…
As developing countries with recent histories of isolation and extreme poverty, followed by restoration and reform, both Cambodia and Vietnam have seen new opportunities and demands for non-state actors to engage in and manage the effects of rapid socio-economic transformation. This book examines how in both countries, civil society actors and the state manage their relationship to one another …