The Palgrave Handbook of Political Norms in Southeast Asia / edited by Gabriel Facal, Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux, Astrid Norén-Nilsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Facal, Gabriel.

Contributor:

Lafaye de Micheaux, Elsa.

Norén-Nilsson, Astrid.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative government.

Human rights.

Asia--Politics and government.

Asia.

Comparative Politics.

Politics and Human Rights.

Asian Politics.

Local Subjects:

Comparative Politics.

Politics and Human Rights.

Asian Politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (635 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Summary:

“The Palgrave Handbook of Political Norms in Southeast Asia offers a fresh and insightful analysis of the dynamics of political change ongoing in the region. The collection brings together a set of highly expert authors from inside and outside the region, who offer a deep understanding of the region’s history and politics, providing a stimulating and colourful take on the region’s contemporary political movements. The Handbook will be invaluable to both longstanding observers of the region and to newcomers seeking to understand both the diversity and complexity of Southeast Asian politics, and its regional distinctiveness.” —Professor Caroline Hughes, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A “A sophisticated and compelling argument about how to conceive and explain political norms and dynamics. Insights from various social sciences expose complex power relationships involving competing interests promoting norms within, across, and in articulation with, Southeast Asia. Conflicts and contradictions are thus brought out of shadows and into light, posing a formidable theoretical challenge to influential orthodoxies. An outstanding collection.” —Emeritus Professor Garry Rodan, Murdoch University, Australia This open access handbook aims to constitute a reference point on political norm dynamics in Southeast Asia, by bringing together the array of normative repertoires that frame the possibilities for citizens to participate in, set agendas for, make decisions in, and contest, not only electoral and institutional politics but also informal and imaginary political spaces. It sheds light on intersecting political and social transformations and their consequences from the vantage point of political norms. While chapters lay out and analyse how political norms across Southeast Asia have been shaped in successive historical phases, the core of the handbook addresses current dynamics involved in defining and transforming political norms. Gabriel Facal is Deputy Director of the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC), Bangkok, Thailand. Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux is Professor in Political Economy at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, France. Astrid Norén-Nilsson is a Senior Lecturer in the Study of Contemporary Southeast Asia at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

Contents:

Part I. Introductory Part

Chapter 1: Introduction - Political Norms in Southeast Asia: Overlapping registers and shifting practices

Chapter 2: Institutional Pluralism and Interactions between Normative Systems: A theoretical overview

Part II. Transnational Imprints on Political Norms

Chapter 3: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A normative benchmark for Southeast Asia?

Chapter 4: Normalising Authoritarianism: Authoritarian rule of law in Singapore and Hong Kong

Chapter 5: The Draft Law on Association in Vietnam: Legal, political and practical norms under debate

Chapter 6: Christian NGOs: From marginal liberation theologists to regional policy-shapers

Chapter 7: Mapping the Transnationalisation of Social Movements through Online Media: The case of the Milk Tea Alliance

Chapter 8: Does China have a Model to Export?, an Interview with Chloé Froissart

Chapter 9: Human Rights Work in the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, an Interview with Yuyun Wahyuningrum

Part III. Governmental Re-Orientations

Chapter 10: The Mall and the Mosque: Conflicting norms in Brunei Darussalam

Chapter 11: Timor-Leste: Constitutional provisions, political conventions and legitimacy under strain

Chapter 12: The Singaporean Battlefield for the Chinese New World Order: Norms in the security domain

Chapter 13: Lao PDR: The politics of stability in turbulent times

Chapter 14: Authoritarian Fantasies and Democratic Aspirations: The Philippines after Duterte

Chapter 15: Beyond Leftist-Phobia: Political prejudice and stigma in Indonesia

Chapter 16: The Underbelly of Indonesia-China relations, Excerpts from an interview with Faisal Basri

Part IV. Vernacular Institutions

Chapter 17: What’s Asia Got to Do with It? “Asian Values” as reactionary culturalism

Chapter 18: Military Norms in Southeast Asia: Comparing the cases of Thailand and Burma

Chapter 19: Grounding the Shifting Political Registers in a Potent Cambodian Landscape

Chapter 20: Moderate Islamic Organisations and Contestation over Political Theology: The responses by Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah towards Islamism in Indonesia

Chapter 21: The Rise of Indigenous Peoples Rights in Southeast Asia: Recent advances and current challenges

Chapter 22: Khmer Buddhism and the Moderation of Political Power in Cambodia

Chapter 23: Social Regulatory Regimes in Northern Vietnam: How interpersonal network norms, state laws and market rules interact

Chapter 24: Malay Kingship in Contemporary Malaysia: From cultural legitimacy to social proficiency

Chapter 25: Royalism in Cambodia Today, an interview with Prince Sisowath Thomico

Part V. Against Orthodoxies

Chapter 26: Photo Portfolio: Myanmar Streets of Protest

Chapter 27: The Contested Domain of Political Space in Southeast Asia

Chapter 28: Urbanised Villagers and Political Change in Southeast Asia, Duncan McCargo

Chapter 29: Rhizomatic Protest, Generational Affinity and DigitalRefuge: Southeast Asia’s new youth movements

Chapter 30: The Development of an LBT Movement in Indonesia: Post-reformasi identity politics

Chapter 31: Making Claims Modestly: The norms and discourse driving land conflicts in rural Indonesia

Chapter 32: The Bersih Movement and Political Rights in Malaysia, Khoo Ying Hooi

Chapter 33: Awas Polisi! Anarchists and punks transgressing normative ‘politeness’ while resisting state repression in Indonesia

Chapter 34: Human Rights Activism in Indonesia, an Interview with Usman Hamid.

ISBN:

9789819996551

9819996554

OCLC:

1439596476