The State and Ethnic Politics in SouthEast Asia

The State and Ethnic Politics in SouthEast Asia
Author: David Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134797060

Ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia represent a clear threat to the future stability of the region. David Brown's clear and systematic study outlines the patterns of ethnic politics in: * Burma * Singapore * Indonesia * Malaysia * Thailand The study considers the influence of the State on the formation of ethnic groups and investigates why some countries are more successful in 'managing' their ethnic politics than others.

The State and Ethnic Politics in SouthEast Asia

The State and Ethnic Politics in SouthEast Asia
Author: David Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134797052

Ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia represent a clear threat to the future stability of the region. David Brown's clear and systematic study outlines the patterns of ethnic politics in: * Burma * Singapore * Indonesia * Malaysia * Thailand The study considers the influence of the State on the formation of ethnic groups and investigates why some countries are more successful in 'managing' their ethnic politics than others.

Ethnicity and Politics in Southeast Asia

Ethnicity and Politics in Southeast Asia
Author: Amy H. Liu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2022-05-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108934544

What explains the treatment of ethnic minorities in Southeast Asia? This Element conceptually disaggregates ethnicity into multiple constituent markers – specifically language, religion, and phenotype. By focusing on the interaction between these three ethnic markers, Liu and Ricks explore how overlap between these markers can affect whether a minority integrates within a broader ethnic identity; successfully extracts accommodation as unique group; or engages in a contentious and potentially violent relationship with the hegemon. The argument is tested through six case studies: (1) ethnic Lao in Thailand: integration; (2) ethnic Chinese in Thailand: integration; (3) ethnic Chinese in Malaysia: accommodation; (4) ethnic Malays in Singapore: accommodation; (5) ethnic Malays in Thailand: contention; and (6) ethnic Chinese in Indonesia: contention.

Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia

Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia
Author: Kusuma Snitwongse
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9812303405

Potentially destabilizing ethnic conflicts continue to challenge nation-states worldwide: The countries of Southeast Asia are no exception. Globalization, population movements and historical and political fault-lines in a tremendously ethnically diverse region, coupled with continuing uneven access to economic development, have seen the resurgence of old conflicts or the flaring up of new ones. Along with violence and the loss of life and livelihood there are also longer-term cross-border impacts to consider in the form of refugees or displaced persons, illegal migrant labour, as well as drug and arms smuggling. Written by country experts, this volume examines ethnic configurations as well as conflict avoidance and resolution in five Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand. Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia is a resource for scholars, policy-makers, NGO personnel, analysts and others who wish to deepen their understanding of the region, or develop strategies to prevent, modulate and resolve such conflicts.

Chinese and Nation-building in Southeast Asia

Chinese and Nation-building in Southeast Asia
Author: Leo Suryadinata
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This book comprises eight papers which deal with various aspects of ethnic Chinese and nation-building in Southeast Asia: ethnic Chinese and the concept of nation in the region, Chinese political participation, government's policies towards ethnic Chinese, ethnic Chinese and indigenous economics nationalism, ethnic Chinese and Sino-Indonesian relations, and China's policies towards Southeast Asian Chinese. This edition features a new postscript by the author.

Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia

Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia
Author: Chee Kiong Tong
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9048189098

Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities. This is true especially in Southeast Asia, where Chinese migrants have continued to make their new homes over a long period of time, resulting in many different ethnic groups co-existing in new nation states. Focusing on the consequences of migration, and cultural contact between the various ethnic groups, this book describes and analyses the nature of ethnic identity and state of ethnic relations, both historically and in the present day, in multi-ethnic, pluralistic nation states in Southeast Asia. Drawing on extensive primary fieldwork in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, the book examines the mediations, and transformation of ethnic identity and the social incorporation, tensions and conflicts and the construction of new social worlds resulting from cultural contact among different ethnic groups.

Ethnic Politics in Burma

Ethnic Politics in Burma
Author: Ashley South
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134129548

This book considers the conflict and civil war that has ravaged Burma, and considers the implications that conflict has had for Burma’s development and prospects for democratization.

Autonomy and Ethnic Conflict in South and South-East Asia

Autonomy and Ethnic Conflict in South and South-East Asia
Author: Rajat Ganguly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136311890

This book uses empirical evidence from various case studies to examine the relationship between territorial and regional autonomy, the nation-state and ethnic conflict resolution in South and South-East Asia. The concept of territorial or regional autonomy holds centre stage in the literature on ethnic conflict settlement because it is supposed to be able to reconcile two paradoxical objectives: the preservation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the state, and the satisfaction of ethnic minorities’ right to national self-determination. Critics argue, however, that autonomy may not be the panacea for ethnic conflict in all cases. The contributing authors begin with the concept of territorial or regional autonomy and subject it to a rigorous empirical analysis, which provides reliable evidence regarding the suitability of the autonomy solution to intractable ethnic conflicts. Drawing upon case studies from Kashmir, Assam, Sri Lanka, Aceh, Mindanao and Southern Thailand, this edited volume argues that autonomy arrangements may at best work to resolve only a handful of separatist ethnic conflicts in South and South-East Asia. This book will be of much interest to students of South and South-East Asia, Asian security, ethnic conflict, peace studies and IR in general.

Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia

Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia
Author: Lee Hock Guan
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9812304827

Papers from a workshop on Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia held in Singapore, 2003.

State, Society, and Minorities in South and Southeast Asia

State, Society, and Minorities in South and Southeast Asia
Author: Sunil Kukreja
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2015-05-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0739188917

South and Southeast Asia continue to be extremely critical regions, deeply intertwined and bound in many ways by centuries of intersecting histories. As the recent experiences of rapid and transformative political and economic changes in several countries in these two regions illustrate, these changes have significant bearing on and are simultaneously affected by the legacy and continued dynamic of dominant-minority group relations. To be sure, while the dynamics of dominant-minority relations in each country are distinct and often mitigated by distinct historical conditions, the phenomenon of these dominant-minority relations, especially along ethnic and religious fault lines, are deeply consequential to many of the nations in these regions. This book, featuring eight case studies, provides a multidisciplinary and multi-layered assessment of the salience of the ethnic and religious realities in shaping various South and Southeast Asian nations. Featuring chapters on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, this volume provides a deep appreciation of the challenges that these societies confront in integrating and/or responding to specific ethnic and/or religious based conflicts and tensions.