The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia

• Other Authors: Elias, Juanita (Editor), Rethel, Lena (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2016 2018
• Subjects: Economic development > Social aspects > Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia > Economic conditions
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• Item Description: First paperback edition 2018
• Physical Description: xiii, 269 pages illustrations 23 cm.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781107558830

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