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Book Synopsis Reflections on Development in Southeast Asia by : Teck Ghee Lim
Download or read book Reflections on Development in Southeast Asia written by Teck Ghee Lim and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1988 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid pace of economic development in Southeast Asia has involved a changing and often volatile relationship between traditional structures and values, and new structures associated with state and administrative power. In this volume, a variety of original perspectives is offered on crucial subjects, including region, the bureaucracy, the state and non-governmental organizations.
Book Synopsis Whatever Happened to Class? by : Rina Agarwala
Download or read book Whatever Happened to Class? written by Rina Agarwala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes. This outcome is puzzling; new configurations of global economic forces and policy have widened gaps between classes and across sectors and regions, altered people’s relations to production, and produced new state-citizen relations. Does market triumphalism or increased salience of identity politics render class irrelevant? Has rapid growth in aggregate wealth obviated long-standing questions of inequality and poverty? Explanations for what happened to class vary, from intellectual fads to global transformations of interests. The authors ask what is lost in the move away from class, and what South Asian experiences tell us about the limits of class analysis. Empirical chapters examine formal and informal-sector labor, social movements against genetic engineering, and politics of the "new middle class." A unifying analytical concern is specifying conditions under which interests of those disadvantaged by class systems are immobilized, diffused, coopted -- or autonomously recognized and acted upon politically: the problematic transition of classes in themselves to classes for themselves.
Book Synopsis Critical Reflections on Cities in Southeast Asia by : Tim Bunnell
Download or read book Critical Reflections on Cities in Southeast Asia written by Tim Bunnell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Reflections draws together the multi-disciplinary research of scholars working in/on cities across Southeast Asia. The fourteen essays collected in the volume are organised into three thematic sections: (re)conceptualisation, competition and intervention. Collectively, these reflections contribute to and interrogate the expanding urban and regional studies literature. The volume constitutes a critical corrective to the existing literature which all-too-often seeks to diagnose contemporary urban trends everywhere from a small number of, mostly Western, "paradigmatic cases". Yet, while acknowledging the increasing interconnectedness and shared global orientation of most cities in Southeast Asia, the volume is wary of positing an equally generalising regional model. Individually, these essays attend to the diversity of contemporary urban experiences in Southeast Asia.
Download or read book Reflections written by Yang Razali KASSIM and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew is a collection of essays reflecting on Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew's immense contribution to nation-building and the idea of development. This includes its various models -- from government and statecraft as well as leadership and governance, to economic development and the management of plural societies. The papers are written by a range of authors who had worked closely with, or for, or grew up, under Lee Kuan Yew.
Book Synopsis Living With Civilisations: Reflections On Southeast Asia's Local And National Cultures by : Gungwu Wang
Download or read book Living With Civilisations: Reflections On Southeast Asia's Local And National Cultures written by Gungwu Wang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Wang Gungwu is the Institute of Policy Studies' 12th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore. This book is an edited collection of his four IPS-Nathan Lectures, delivered from November 2022 to March 2023, and includes highlights of his question-and-answer segments with our audience.The Southeast Asian region is home to a set of diverse local cultures and distinct local identities. In this lecture series, Professor Wang looks at how great civilisations came into contact with our region and shaped its local identities and cultures. Being at the centre of Southeast Asia, Singapore's national identity and development have also been moulded by great ancient civilisations, namely the Indic, Sinic and Islamic. Later on, the idea of modernity brought about by Christian European civilisation greatly impacted our region. Understanding the history of Singapore from this perspective will give us insight to how the country's modern identity is being shaped and enable us to better understand our region's place in the modern world order.The IPS-Nathan Lecture series was launched in 2014 as part of the S R Nathan Fellowship for the Study of Singapore, named after Singapore's sixth and longest-serving president. It seeks to advance public understanding and discussion of issues of critical national interest for Singapore.
Book Synopsis Reflections on ASEAN by : Mahathir bin Mohamad
Download or read book Reflections on ASEAN written by Mahathir bin Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mahathir Mohamad, in this book, reflects on Asean and its role and where it is heading. In so far as he is concerned, Asean should remain at the forefront of the foreign-policy priorities of each member nation. The rationale behind this thinking is that the vital role of Asean as a stabilising force and as a catalyst in developing the economic resilience of the region cannot be denied. "We cannot prosper alone in a region that is in turmoil and unstable," Mahathir argues. "To prosper we must have the kind of regional environment that is conducive to economic growth."" "This collection of speeches demonstrates Mahathir's continuous call for a stable and cohesive Asean, his caring attitude towards the well-being and prosperity of the Asean peoples and his concern over the organisation succumbing to external pressures. Besides this, he also looks at such topics as globalisation, protectionism, Asian values, the Asian financial crisis, democracy and economic cooperation."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Book Synopsis Reflections on 30 Years of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal by : Asian Development Bank
Download or read book Reflections on 30 Years of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Asian Development Bank’s Administrative Tribunal, this publication presents essays written by judges and international experts in labor mediation and arbitration. Among the main topics covered are reflections on key decisions made by the Administrative Tribunal, strengthening the internal justice system, and reliefs and remedies. The publication also looks back on the history of the Administrative Tribunal, along with its commitment to being independent, just, and accessible—as key to lasting industrial peace.
Book Synopsis Reflections on Asia by : Mahathir bin Mohamad
Download or read book Reflections on Asia written by Mahathir bin Mohamad and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Defining Southeast Asia and the Crisis in Area Studies by : Victor T. King
Download or read book Defining Southeast Asia and the Crisis in Area Studies written by Victor T. King and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis COVID-19 in Southeast Asia by : Hyun Bang Shin
Download or read book COVID-19 in Southeast Asia written by Hyun Bang Shin and published by LSE Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in society, compelling us to question what it means to return to “normal” and what insights can be gleaned from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. In this regard, this edited volume collects the informed views of an ensemble of social scientists – area studies, development studies, and legal scholars; anthropologists, architects, economists, geographers, planners, sociologists, and urbanists; representing academic institutions, activist and charitable organisations, policy and research institutes, and areas of professional practice – who recognise the necessity of critical commentary and engaged scholarship. These contributions represent a wide-ranging set of views, collectively producing a compilation of reflections on the following three themes in particular: (1) Urbanisation, digital infrastructures, economies, and the environment; (2) Migrants, (im)mobilities, and borders; and (3) Collective action, communities, and mutual action. Overall, this edited volume first aims to speak from a situated position in relevant debates to challenge knowledge about the pandemic that has assigned selective and inequitable visibility to issues, people, or places, or which through its inferential or interpretive capacity has worked to set social expectations or assign validity to certain interventions with a bearing on the pandemic’s course and the future it has foretold. Second, it aims to advance or renew understandings of social challenges, risks, or inequities that were already in place, and which, without further or better action, are to be features of our “post-pandemic world” as well. This volume also contributes to the ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production. It endeavours to help secure a place within these debates for a region that was among the first outside of East Asia to be forced to contend with COVID-19 in a substantial way and which has evinced a marked and instructive diversity and dynamism in its fortunes.
Book Synopsis Asian Development Revisited by : Clifton R. Wharton
Download or read book Asian Development Revisited written by Clifton R. Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cities for People by : William Siew Wai Lim
Download or read book Cities for People written by William Siew Wai Lim and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A selection of twenty-one papers and letters presented at conferences and published in journals over a period of ten years from 1980 to 1989" --P. v.
Book Synopsis Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation by : Debra M. Kawahara
Download or read book Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation written by Debra M. Kawahara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding multicultural feminist perspectives is vital for clinicians working to effectively help women in therapy. Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation: Asian American Women in Therapy provides therapists with valuable insight and research into the identities of Asian and Asian American women, all toward the crucial goal of being more effective when providing therapeutic help. In-depth explorations into the women’s personal experiences and psychological issues provide an empowering multicultural feminist viewpoint that challenges assumptions and stereotypes about their identities while presenting innovative therapeutic approaches. Identity is made up from several factors, such as worldview, beliefs, values, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, class, age, and religious orientation. Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation: Asian American Women in Therapy explores how these common factors impact psychotherapy approaches for women of Asian American backgrounds. This unique text presents the current research, what the data mean for adjusting clinical strategies, and personal accounts from Asian and Asian American women. Each chapter is extensively referenced. Topics in Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation: Asian American Women in Therapy include: breaking free of the passive, subservient stereotypes defining gender identity cultural and identity issues emotional parity negotiations in Chinese immigrant women’s marital relationships suicide as a means of agency rather than simply a cry for help the use of feminist and multicultural principles with survivors of domestic violence research on Asian American lesbians’ health integrating multiculturalism and feminism in the treatment of eating disorders innovative therapeutic approach based on Hindu understandings of Shakti approaches to work on body image and eating disorders group counseling with Asian American women training multicultural feminist therapy practitioners Feminist Reflections on Growth and Transformation: Asian American Women in Therapy is an insightful exploration of the culturally sensitive knowledge and skills clinicians need to work more effectively with female clients of Asian ancestry. This stimulating work is important reading for therapists, counselors, psychologists, and others in the mental health and social work fields.
Book Synopsis The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia by : Donald K. Swearer
Download or read book The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia written by Donald K. Swearer and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unparalleled portrait, Donald K. Swearer's Buddhist World of Southeast Asia has been a key source for all those interested in the Theravada homelands since the work's publication in 1995. Expanded and updated, the second edition offers this wide ranging account for readers at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Swearer shows Theravada Buddhism in Southeast Asia to be a dynamic, complex system of thought and practice embedded in the cultures, societies, and histories of Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Laos, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka. The work focuses on three distinct yet interrelated aspects of this milieu. The first is the popular tradition of life models personified in myths and legends, rites of passage, festival celebrations, and ritual occasions. The second deals with Buddhism and the state, illustrating how King Asoka serves as the paradigmatic Buddhist monarch, discussing the relationship of cosmology and kingship, and detailing the rise of charismatic Buddhist political leaders in the postcolonial period. The third is the modern transformation of Buddhism: the changing roles of monks and laity, modern reform movements, the role of women, and Buddhism in the West.
Download or read book ASEAN Matters! written by Yoong Yoong Lee and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The initiative to establish the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Community was adopted by the ten leaders at the 2003 Bali Summit in Indonesia. Since then, the concept of a community-building process in ASEAN has become an issue that attracts a great deal of attention from scholars and experts around the world. ASEAN Matters! Reflecting on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations carries essays with different perspectives on critical issues relating to the three pillars in building the ASEAN Community, namely the ASEAN Political and Security Community; the ASEAN Economic Community; and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. In a nutshell, this book provides broad and invaluable insights into the role ASEAN plays in enhancing peace, prosperity, and stability in the Southeast Asian region. Written in a highly accessible style, the contents include both a thorough review of current issues and a succinct overview of the past and future direction of ASEAN. The book reiterates the continued and strengthening relevance of ASEAN, 43 years after its founding. Unlike most other books on ASEAN, a majority of the essays are written by former professional staff at the ASEAN Secretariat, as well as from current office holders. This gives the volume a high degree of authenticity and unique insights. More interestingly, it also includes viewpoints from experts, scholars, diplomats and officials who either have extensive research knowledge or had been involved in ASEAN's external and economic relations with the dialogue partners, such as China, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and the European Union (EU), among others. Contents:Foreword (Tommy Koh)Introduction (Lee Yoong Yoong)AcknowledgementsThe ContributorsASEAN's History, Image and Challenges:ASEAN: What It Cannot Do, What It Can and Should Do (Rodolfo C Severino)ASEAN's Potential and Role: A Review (Tran Duc Minh)The Promises and Contradictions of ASEAN (Liu Yanling)Can We Do Anything about the Unimplemented ASEAN Agreements? (Bernard K M Tai)ASEAN's Perception Problem (S Tiwari)ASEAN: The Challenge Is Upon Us (Bandol Lim)Covering ASEAN for Three Decades (Kavi Chongkittavorn)Three Decades of ASEAN Linkage: Brunei Darussalam, from 1984 Towards 2015 (Pushpa Thambipillai)ASEAN and East Timor: Family Someday? (Noordin Azhari)Politics and Security:ASEAN: A Pillar of Regional Stability (Johari Achee)Relevance of ASEAN in Forging Regional Peace, Security and Prosperity (Nicholas T Dammen)The Nargis Experience: Pragmatic Solutions Towards Change (Moe Thuzar)ASEAN Efforts in Dealing with Transnational Crime (Un Sovannasam)Economics:ASEAN Economic Integration: The Strategic Imperative (Ong Keng Yong)Overcoming the Obstacles: Increasing ASEAN Relevance in the Promotion of Regional Trade (David Martin)Trade Dispute Settlement within ASEAN (David Chin Soon Siong)From AFTA to Free Movement within ASEAN: A Bridge Too Far? (Lok Hwee Chong)ASEAN Integration Enters the Critical Stage: A Private Sector's Narrative (Tai Hui)The Germination of Asian Financial Security (Suthad Setboonsarng)Does ASEAN Benefit Business? (Raul L Cordenillo)ASEAN and Australia Partnership: Time for Business and People to Lead (Christopher Findlay & David Parsons)Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline: More than Just a Pipe Dream (Zainal Abidin Matassan & Lee Yoong Yoong)Encompassing the AEC Blueprint into ASEAN's Subregional Frameworks: A Commentary (Gary P Krishnan)Socio-Cultural:Population Ageing in ASEAN: Prospects and Implications (Kang Soon Hock & Yap Mui Teng)Making ASEAN Relevant to the Young (Diana Lee)ASEAN and Human Capital (Faizal Bin Yahya)The ASEAN Quest for Greater Engagement and Commitment (Braema Mathiaparanam)External Relations:Lao PDR's Role in ASEAN-China Trade Ties (H E Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh)ASEAN's Diplomatic Importance to China (Sheng Lijun)ASEAN as a Mover of Asian Regionalism (Akiko Fukushima)What I have Always Wondered about ASEAN: A Perspective from ROK (Lee Sun-Jin)India's Place and ASEAN's Primacy in the New East Asia (P S Suryanarayana)Reflections on Regionalism: The ASEAN Journey (Simon Murdoch)ASEAN and Latin America: Time for a Vibrant Connectivity (Paulo Alberto da Silveira Soares)Building a Strategic Partnership: A Review of Relations between ASEAN and the ILO (Ng Gek-Boo)The Future:The Future of ASEAN: Obsolescent or Resilient? (Amitav Acharya)How Can ASEAN Stay Relevant? (Joergen Oerstroem Moeller)ASEAN into the Future: Towards a Better Monitoring and Evaluation of Regional Co-operation Programmes (Azmi Mat Akhir)Strengthening the Foundation for an ASEAN Community (Wilfrido V Villacorta)GlossaryAnnex I: Press StatementIndex Readership: General public; academics; government officials; foreign affairs practitioners; regional economists. Keywords:ASEAN;ASEAN Community;Regional Integration;Regional Cooperation;Political and Security Community;Economic Community;Socio-Cultural Community;Community-Building;International Relations;International BusinessKey Features:Designed to appeal to intelligent lay readers as well as experts Offers a valuable reference source for researchers in academia and private sector
Book Synopsis Singapore's Economic Development by : Linda Y. C. LIM
Download or read book Singapore's Economic Development written by Linda Y. C. LIM and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Singapore is known internationally for its successful economic development. Key to its economic successes is a variety of policies put into place over the past 50 years since its independence. Singapore's Economic Development: Retrospection and Reflections provides a retrospective analysis of independent Singapore's economic development, from the perspective of different policy domains each considered by different expert scholars in that particular field. The book is written by academic economists in a style that is accessible to non-experts. Each chapter includes reviews of past scholarship, current data on each policy area, and reflections on required or desirable future policy changes and outcomes"--
Author :Robert F. Zimmerman Publisher :Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ISBN 13 :9814377392 Total Pages :128 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (143 download)
Book Synopsis Reflections on the Collapse of Democracy in Thailand by : Robert F. Zimmerman
Download or read book Reflections on the Collapse of Democracy in Thailand written by Robert F. Zimmerman and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1978-04-04 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the three-year attempt by the Thai people to establish a viable democratic political process. It focuses on the primary reasons for their failure: excessive right-left student activism, political polarization, intellectual-academic irresponsibility, status quo conservative and communist inspired subversion of the political process, ineffective civilian political leadership, excessive number of political parties, the impact of communist success in Indochina, and US foreign policy twards Thailand during this period. The paper also examines basic attitudes and patterns of action of traditional Thai political culture that may have indirectly contributed to the failure of democracy in Thailand. A central theme of the paper, however, is that old Thai bureaucratic polity that governed Thailand from 1932 to October 1973 collapsed because its political process could not cope with the rise of new economic and social pressures tht its earlier development 'successes' created. Thailand, in short, is seen as a case study of the hypothesis that long term economic development and political stability cannot occur and be maintained without corresponding development of the political structure and process that ultimately will develop and define the policies and processes most conducive to steady economic and social progress.
