Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia (Asia in Transition, 5)

"This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia. It deals with a set of 'insecurities' that is not readily understood or measurable. As such, it conceptually locates the threats and impediments to 'human security' within relationships of risk, uncertainty, safety and trust. At the same time, it presents a wide variety of investigations and approaches from both localized and regional perspectives. By focusing on the human and relational dimensions of insecurities in Southeast Asia it highlights the ways in which vulnerable and precarious circumstances (human insecurities) are part of daily life for large numbers of people in Southeast Asia and are mainly beyond their immediate control. Many of the situations people experience in Southeast Asia represent the real outcomes of a range of largely unacknowledged socio-cultural-economic transformations interlinked by local, national, regional and global forces, factors and interests. Woven from experience and observations of life at various sites in Southeast Asia, the contributions in this volume give an internal and critical perspective to a complex and manifold issue. They draw attention to a variety of the less-than-obvious threats to human security and show how perplexing those threats can be. All of which underscores the significance of multidisciplinary approaches in rethinking and responding to the complex array of conditioning factors and interests underlying human insecurities in Southeast Asia."-- Provided by publisher "This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia. It deals with a set of insecurities that is not readily understood or measurable. As such, it conceptually locates the threats and impediments to human security within relationships of risk, uncertainty, safety and trust. At the same time, it presents a wide variety of investigations and approaches from both localized and regional perspectives. By focusing on the human and relational dimensions of insecurities in Southeast Asia it highlights the ways in which vulnerable and precarious circumstances (human insecurities) are part of daily life for large numbers of people in Southeast Asia and are mainly beyond their immediate control. Many of the situations people experience in Southeast Asia represent the real outcomes of a range of largely unacknowledged socio-cultural-economic transformations interlinked by local, national, regional and global forces, factors and interests. Woven from experience and observations of life at various sites in Southeast Asia, the contributions in this volume give an internal and critical perspective to a complex and manifold issue. They draw attention to a variety of the less-than-obvious threats to human security and show how perplexing those threats can be. All of which underscores the significance of multidisciplinary approaches in rethinking and responding to the complex array of conditioning factors and interests underlying human insecurities in Southeast Asia."--Back cover Annotation This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia. It deals with a set of insecurities that is not readily understood or measurable. As such, it conceptually locates the threats and impediments to human security within relationships of risk, uncertainty, safety and trust. At the same time, it presents a wide variety of investigations and approaches from both localized and regional perspectives. By focusing on the human and relational dimensions of insecurities in Southeast Asia it highlights the ways in which vulnerable and precarious circumstances (human insecurities) are part of daily life for large numbers of people in Southeast Asia and are mainly beyond their immediate control. Many of the situations people experience in Southeast Asia represent the real outcomes of a range of largely unacknowledged socio-cultural-economic transformations interlinked by local, national, regional and global forces, factors and interests. Woven from experience and observations of life at various sites in Southeast Asia, the contributions in this volume give an internal and critical perspective to a complex and manifold issue. They draw attention to a variety of the less-than-obvious threats to human security and show how perplexing those threats can be. All of which underscores the significance of multidisciplinary approaches in rethinking and responding to the complex array of conditioning factors and interests underlying human insecurities in Southeast Asia." Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-5 Of Risk, Uncertainty, Safety, and Trust: (Re)Locating Human Insecurities....Pages 7-19 “Anthropologizing Human Insecurities”: Narrating the Subjugated Discourse of Indigenes on the Deterritorialized Landscapes of the Malaysian Nation-State....Pages 21-51 Imagined Communities, Militancy, and Insecurity in Indonesia....Pages 53-68 Space, Mobilities, and Insecurity in Maritime Sabah: The Impact of Government Bordering Practices Following the 2013 Sulu Intrusion....Pages 69-88 How Safe Is Safe? “Safe Migration” in Southeast Asia....Pages 89-101 Can ASEAN Cope with “Human Insecurity” in Southeast Asia? In Search of a New ASEAN Way....Pages 103-119 Historical Injustice and Human Insecurity: Conflict and Peacemaking in Muslim Mindanao....Pages 121-140 Civil Movements and Human Insecurity: A Case from Thailand....Pages 141-156 Human Insecurities in Southeast Asia: Impediments to Achieving a People-Oriented ASEAN....Pages 157-172 Plantation Economy, Indigenous People, and Precariousness in the Philippine Uplands: The Mindanao Experience....Pages 173-192 Conclusion....Pages 193-195 Back Matter....Pages 197-200