This book traces the expansion of Islamisation within a modern and plural state such as Malaysia. It elaborates on how elements of theology sacred space resources and their interactivity with secular instruments such as legislative electoral and new social technolo... Lees meer.

This book analyses the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN as a powerful actor in International Relations by examining how the ASEAN community has evolved looking specifically at its relationship with the EU with regards to human rights.... Lees meer.

This book presents a new organizing framework for studying democratic recession and autocratization in Southeast Asia. By introducing a new concept democratic backlash the book details how democratic recession inevitably provokes resistance that often forms the nucle... Lees meer.

This book examines the failure of Islamic politics in becoming a hegemonic force in Indonesia and the far-reaching consequences for current practices of democracy and of Islam itself. In contrast to the thesis of compatibility between Islam and democracy following the d... Lees meer.

This book presents a collection of original research about every day innovative interactive and multiple religiosities among Sri Lankan Buddhists Hindus Muslims Christians and devotees of New Religious Movements in post-war Sri Lanka. This book presents a col... Lees meer.

This book presents a collection of original research about every day innovative interactive and multiple religiosities among Sri Lankan Buddhists Hindus Muslims Christians and devotees of New Religious Movements in post-war Sri Lanka. The contributors examine the... Lees meer.

This book offers an in-depth insight into post-socialist rural shamans in Mongolia thereby making a rare but important contribution to the ethnography of both Inner Asia and Southern Siberia. It examines the social making of shamans in particular those of the Shishget... Lees meer.

The Power of New Urban Tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social political cultural architectural and economic implications. By investigating various showcases of New Urban Tourism within its social and spatial frames the book offers ins... Lees meer.

It has been necessary within the context of Kenyah s experience of religious change as it enabled many actors from various social classes to obtain and perceive religious authority in a specific local and regional political-religious situation while promoting their iden... Lees meer.

This book analyses the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ASEAN as a powerful actor in International Relations by examining how the ASEAN community has evolved looking specifically at its relationship with the EU with regards to human rights. The book adds to imp... Lees meer.

This book examines how fiction films and novels represent the communist-led national democratic NatDem revolution in the Philippines. Produced aboveground decades after the Philippines historic transition from dictatorship to elite democracy these NatDem fictions de... Lees meer.

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies London School of Economics language. English abstract. Where the popular meets culture a rich repository of oppositional voices versus hegemonic narratives evolves through representations images a... Lees meer.

At the epicenter of the world s most dynamic economic continent Southeast Asia provides a window into some of the most important contemporary global developments in politics and plays a crucial role in determining the wider region s future. The 3rd edition of this hig... Lees meer.

This book focuses on how Indonesian civil society organisations interact with ASEAN to shape human rights institutionalisation in the region. Randy Nandyatama offers a pathbreaking study of ASEAN s human rights turn as seen through the lens of Indonesian civil societ... Lees meer.

This book examines how the young in Northeast Asia engage with the political especially in terms of the production reformulation or contestation of their national identities. This book examines how the young in Northeast Asia engage with the political especiall... Lees meer.