Citizen participation and decentralization in the Philippines / Emma Porio -- Everyday citizenship in village Java / Takeshi Ito -- Elections and emerging citizenship in Cambodia / Astrid Noren-Nilsson -- Sosialisasi, street vendors and citizenship in Yogyakarta / Sheri Lynn Gibbings -- Militias, security and citizenship in Indonesia / Laurens Bakker -- Custom and citizenship in the Philippine uplands / Oona Paredes -- Citizenship and Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia / David Kloos and Ward Berenschot -- Digital media and Malaysia's electoral reform movement / Merlyna Lim -- Citizenship, rights and adversarial legalism in Thailand / Wolfram Schaffar -- Defending Indonesia's migrant domestic workers / Mary Austin -- Yellow vs. red and the rise of a new middle class in Thailand / Apichat Satitniramai.
Summary:
Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia redirects the largely western-oriented study of citizenship to postcolonial states. Providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens interpret and realize the recognition of their property, identity, security and welfare in the context of a weak rule of law and clientelistic politics, this study highlights the importance of studying citizenship for understanding democratization processes in Southeast Asia. With case studies from Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Cambodia, this book provides a unique bottom-up perspective on the character of public life in Southeast Asia.
Series:
Social, economic and political studies of the Middle East and Asia, 1385-3376 ; volume 115
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