The Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia explores the nature and implications of civil society across the region, engaging systematically with both theoretical approaches and empirical nuance for a systematic, comparative, and informative approach.
The handbook actively analyses the varying definitions of civil society, critiquing the inconsistent scrutiny of this sphere over time. It brings forth the need to reconsider civil society development in today’s Southeast Asia, including activist organisations' and platforms' composition, claims, resources, and potential to effect sociopolitical change. Structured in five parts, the volume includes chapters written by an international set of experts analysing topics relating to civil society
Spaces and platforms
Place within politics
Resources and tactics
Identity formation and claims
Advocacy
The handbook highlights the importance of civil society as a domain for political engagement outside the state and parties, across Southeast Asia, as well as the prevalence and weight of 'uncivil' dimensions. It offers a well-informed and comprehensive analysis of the topic and is an indispensable reference work for students and researchers in the fields of Asian Studies, Asian Politics, Southeast Asian Politics and Comparative Politics.
Author(s): Eva Hansson, Meredith L. Weiss
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 410
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Illustrations
Contributors
1. Civil society in politics and Southeast Asia in civil society: Conceptual foundations
PART I: Spaces and platforms
2. From activist media to algorithmic politics: The Internet, social media, and civil society in Southeast Asia
3. Contemporary arts in and for civil society
4. Spatial perspectives: Civil society activism as struggles for space in urbanising Southeast Asia
5. Legal mobilisation and civil society: On the use and usefulness of strategic litigation in Southeast Asia
PART II: Place within politics
6. Civil society and efforts at regime change in Southeast Asia
7. Civil society and the contentious politics of democratisation and autocratisation in Myanmar
8. Civil society activism beyond the nation state: Legitimating ASEAN?
PART III: Resources and tactics
9. The failing financing of civil society in Southeast Asia
10. Civil society leadership
11. Violence and civil society in Southeast Asia
PART IV: Identity formation and claims
12. Civil society and gender advancement in Thailand
13. The LGBT movement in Vietnam
14. Indigenous groups and ethnic minorities
15. Religion and civil society in Southeast Asia
PART V: Advocacy
16. Organised labour and autocratisation in Southeast Asia
17. Business associations and civil society in Southeast Asia
18. Vernacularising human rights in Southeast Asia
19. Civil society and environmentalism: Crossing frontiers of activism
20. Multi-level migrant civil society activism in Southeast Asia
21. Conclusion: Southeast Asia’s glocalised civil society landscapes: national topographies and transnational contours
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