The Everyday Political Economy Of Southeast Asia
by Juanita Elias /
2016 / English / PDF
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In this empirically rich collection of essays, a team of leading
international scholars explore the way that economic
transformation is sustained and challenged by everyday practices
across Southeast Asia. Drawing together a body of interdisciplinary
scholarship, the authors explore how the emergence of more
marketized forms of economic policy-making in Southeast Asia
impacts everyday life. The book's twelve chapters address topics
such as domestic migration, trade union politics in Myanmar, mining
in the Philippines, halal food in Singapore, Islamic finance in
Malaysia, education reform in Indonesia, street vending in
Malaysia, regional migration between Malaysia, Indonesia and
Cambodia, and Southeast Asian domestic workers in Hong Kong. This
collection not only enhances understandings of the everyday
political economies at work in specific Southeast Asian sites,
but makes a major theoretical contribution to the development
of an everyday political economy approach in which perspectives
from developing economies and non-Western actors are taken
seriously.
In this empirically rich collection of essays, a team of leading
international scholars explore the way that economic
transformation is sustained and challenged by everyday practices
across Southeast Asia. Drawing together a body of interdisciplinary
scholarship, the authors explore how the emergence of more
marketized forms of economic policy-making in Southeast Asia
impacts everyday life. The book's twelve chapters address topics
such as domestic migration, trade union politics in Myanmar, mining
in the Philippines, halal food in Singapore, Islamic finance in
Malaysia, education reform in Indonesia, street vending in
Malaysia, regional migration between Malaysia, Indonesia and
Cambodia, and Southeast Asian domestic workers in Hong Kong. This
collection not only enhances understandings of the everyday
political economies at work in specific Southeast Asian sites,
but makes a major theoretical contribution to the development
of an everyday political economy approach in which perspectives
from developing economies and non-Western actors are taken
seriously.