The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia

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. Southeast Asia And Everyday Political Economy / Juanita Elias And Lena Rethel -- From Development To Multiple Modernities -- Policies And Negotiated Everyday Living: A View From The Margins Of Development In Thailand And Vietnam / Johnathan Rigg -- Everyday Agents Of Change: Trade Unions In Myanmar / Jewellord T. Nem Singh And Alvin A. Camba -- Neoliberalism, Resource Governance And The Everyday Politics Of Protest In The Philippines: Everyday Agents Of Change: Trade Unions In Myanmar / Nicholas Henry -- Widening And Deepening Markets -- The Political Economy Of Muslim Markets In Singapore / Johan Fischer -- Islamic Finance In Malaysia: Global Ambitions, Local Realities / Lena Rethel -- Resisting Marketization: Everyday Actors, Courts And Education Reform In Post-new Order Indonesia / Andrew Rosser -- People, Mobilities And Work -- From Formal Employment To Street Vending: Malaysian Women's Labour Force Participation Over The Life Course / Anja K. Franck -- Everyday Identities In Motion: Situating Malaysians Within The War For Talent / Adam Tyson -- Regional Disputes Over The Transnationalization Of Domestic Labour: Malaysia's Maid Shortage And Foreign Relations With Indonesia And Cambodia / Juanita Elias And Jonathan Louth -- Everyday Agency, Resistance And Community Resources For Indonesian Migrant Workers In Hong Kong / Carol G. S. Tan -- Conclusion -- Everyday International Political Economy Meets The Everyday Political Economy Of Southeast Asia / John M. Hobson, Juanita Elias, Lena Rethel And Leonard Seabrooke. Edited By Juanita Elias And Lena Rethel. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. frontmatter epigraph contents list_of_figures_and_map list_of_tables notes_on_contributors acknowledgements introduction southeast_asia_and_everyday_political_economy from_development_to_multiple_modernities policies_and_negotiated_everyday_living_a_view_from_the_margins_of_development_in_thailand_and_vietnam neoliberalism_resource_governance_and_the_everyday_politics_of_protests_in_the_philippines everyday_agents_of_change_trade_unions_in_myanmar widening_and_deepening_markets political_economy_of_muslim_markets_in_singapore islamic_finance_in_malaysia_global_ambitions_local_realities resisting_marketization_everyday_actors_courts_and_education_reform_in_postnew_order_indonesia people_mobilities_and_work from_formal_employment_to_street_vending_malaysian_womens_labour_force_participation_over_the_life_course everyday_identities_in_motion_situating_malaysians_within_the_war_for_talent regional_disputes_over_the_transnationalization_of_domestic_labour_malaysias_maid_shortage_and_foreign_relations_with_indonesia_and_cambodia enforcing_socioeconomic_rights_everyday_agency_resistance_and_community_resources_among_indonesian_migrant_domestic_workers_in_hong_kong conclusion everyday_international_political_economy_meets_the_everyday_political_economy_of_southeast_asia index This book draws together a body of interdisciplinary scholarship in Southeast Asian studies to explore how the emergence of more marketized forms of economic policymaking in Southeast Asia impacts everyday life and is sustained and contested through everyday practices. This book explores the way that forms of economic policymaking are sustained and challenged by everyday practices across Southeast Asia.