Citizens Civil Society And Heritage Making In Asia

Author : Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814786683

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Citizens, Civil Society and Heritage-Making in Asia by Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao Pdf

This volume is based on papers from the second in a series of three conferences that deal with the multi-scalar processes of heritage-making, ranging from the local to the national and international levels, involving different players with different degrees of agency and interests. These players include citizens and civil society, the state, and international organizations and actors. The current volume focuses on the role of citizens and civil society in the politics of heritage-making, looking at how these players at the grass-roots level make sense of the past in the present. Who are these local players that seek to define the meaning of heritage in their everyday lives? How do they negotiate with the state, or contest the influence of the state, in determining what their heritage is? These and other questions will be taken up in various Asian contexts in this volume to foreground the local dynamics of heritage politics.

Author : Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351054249

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Middle Class, Civil Society and Democracy in Asia by Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao Pdf

This book offers a timely analysis of the tripartite links between the middle class, civil society and democratic experiences in Northeast and Southeast Asia. It aims to go beyond the two popular theoretical propositions in current democratic theory, which emphasise the bilateral connections between the middle class and democracy on one hand and civil society and democracy on the other. Instead, using national case studies, this volume attempts to provide a new comparative typological interpretation of the triple relationship in Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. Presenting a careful analysis and delineation of historical democratic transformation over the past thirty years, three discernible typologies emerge. Namely, there are positive links in Taiwan and South Korea, dubious links in the Philippines and Indonesia, and negative links in Thailand. Middle Class, Civil Society and Democracy in Asia will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics and democracy.

Author : Ali Mozaffari,Tod Jones
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789204827

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Heritage Movements in Asia by Ali Mozaffari,Tod Jones Pdf

Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place. By bringing social movements into heritage studies, the book advocates a shift of perspective in understanding heritage, one that is no longer bound by (at times arbitrary) divisions such as those assumed between the state and people or between experts and non-experts.

Author : Lee Hock Guan
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9812302581

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Civil Society in Southeast Asia by Lee Hock Guan Pdf

What is the relevance of civil society to people empowerment, effective governance, and deepening democracy? This book addresses this question by examining the activities and public participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the areas of religion, ethnicity, gender and the environment. Examples are taken from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. State regimes' attempts to co-opt the concept or reject it as alien to "Asian values" have apparently not turned out as expected. This is evident from the fact that many Southeast Asian citizens are inspired by the civil society concept and now engage in public discourse and participation. The experience of civil society in Southeast Asia shows that its impact -- or lack of impact -- on democratization and democracy depends on a variety of factors not only within civil society itself, but also within the state.

Author : David C. Schak,Wayne Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822032259764

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Civil Society in Asia by David C. Schak,Wayne Hudson Pdf

This volume is the outcome of a symposium on Asian civil society and a conference on justice and governance held at Griffith University during 2001. The contributors offer new perspectives on the nature and definition of Asian civil society.

Author : Sonia Lam-Knott,Creighton Connolly,Kong Chong Ho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000692570

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Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities by Sonia Lam-Knott,Creighton Connolly,Kong Chong Ho Pdf

Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities examines how the concept of ‘post-politics’ has manifested across a range of Asian cities, and the impact this has had on state-society relationships in processes of urban governance. This volume examines how the post-political framework—derived from the study of Western liberal democracies—applies to Asian cities. Appreciating that the region has undergone a distinctive trajectory of political development, and is currently governed under democratic or authoritarian regimes, the book articulates how post-political conditions have created obstacles or opportunities for civil society to assert its voice in urban governance. Chapters address the different ways in which Asian civil society groups strive to gain a stake in the development and management of cities, specifically by looking at their involvement in heritage and environmental governance, two inter-related components in discourses about establishing liveable cities for the future. By providing in-depth case studies examining the varying degrees to which post-political ideologies have been enacted in urban governance across Central, South, Southeast, and East Asia, this book offers a useful and timely resource for students and scholars interested in urban studies, political science, Asian studies, geography, and sociology.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander,Agnes Shuk-mei Ku,Sunwoong Park
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781108427838

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The Civil Sphere in East Asia by Jeffrey C. Alexander,Agnes Shuk-mei Ku,Sunwoong Park Pdf

Examines a range of contemporary social and cultural conflicts in East Asia and the echoes they have throughout the world.

Author : Philippe Peycam,Shu-Li Wang,Hui Yew-Foong,Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814881166

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Heritage as Aid and Diplomacy in Asia by Philippe Peycam,Shu-Li Wang,Hui Yew-Foong,Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao Pdf

Drawing from eleven rich case studies in Asia, this book is the first to explore how heritage is used as aid and diplomacy by various agencies to produce knowledge, power, values and geopolitics in the global heritage regime. It represents an interdisciplinary endeavour to feature a diversity of situations where cultural heritage is invoked or promoted to serve interests or visions that supposedly transcend local or national paradigms. This collection of articles thus not only considers processes of “UNESCO-ization” of heritage (or their equivalents when conducted by other international or national actors) by exploring the diplomatic and developmentalist politics of heritage-making at play and its transformational impact on societies. It also describes how local and outside states often collude with international mechanisms to further their interests at the expense of local communities and of citizens’ rights. Heritage as Aid and Diplomacy in Asia explores the following questions: Under the current international heritage regime, what are the mechanisms of—and the manipulations that take place within—ideological, political and cultural transmissions? What is heritage diplomacy and how can we conceptualize it? How do the complicated history and colonial past of Asia constitute the current practices of heritage diplomacy and shape heritage discourse in Asia? How do international organizations, nation-states, NGOs, heritage brokers and experts contribute to the history of the global heritage discourse? How has the flow of global knowledge been transferred and transformed? And how does the global hierarchy of cultural values function?

Author : Robert P. Weller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134291106

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Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia by Robert P. Weller Pdf

Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. In Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller has brought together an international group of experts on the subject, whose chapters address these questions through a series of extensive case studies from East and Southeast Asia including Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Author : Niels Mulder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052752345

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Southeast Asian Images by Niels Mulder Pdf

This unusual study discloses the public discourse among educated, urban Southeast Asians in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, and considers how these people conceive of their society and its problems and process. It examines basic patterns of thought, the interpretation of observed behavior, the opinions of public intellectuals, and the dianoses of novelists. Together these provide the basis for evaluating whether or not an activist civil society can develop. Because of the muddled situation prevailing in the countries under scrutiny, the emergence of a public committed to seems to be a necessary condition for strengthening the society and civilizing the state. Will it happen? Niels Mulder, an independent anthropologist, has been actively engaged with life in Java, Thailand, and the Philippines for more than thirty years and is the author of a number of books.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004329669

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Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia by Anonim Pdf

This title will be available in its entirety in Open Access. By providing various fascinating first-hand accounts of how citizens negotiate their rights in the context of weak state institutions, Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia offers a unique bottom-up perspective on the evolving character of public life in democratizing Southeast Asia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134151875

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Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anjana Sharma
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814786416

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Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections by Anjana Sharma Pdf

Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage has its conceptual core the inter-regional networks of Nalanda Mahavihara and its unique place in the Asian imaginary. The revival of Nalanda university in 2010 as a symbol of a shared inter-Asian heritage is this collection’s core narrative. The multidisciplinary essays interrogate ways in which ideas, objects, texts, and travellers have shaped — and in turn have been shaped by — changing global politics and the historical imperative that underpins them. The question of what constitutes cultural authenticity and heritage valuation is inscribed from positions that support, negate, or reframe existing discourses with reference to Southeast and East Asia. The essays in this collection offer critical, scholarly, and nuanced views on the vexed questions of regional and inter-regional dynamics, of racial politics and their flattening hegemonic discourses in relation to the rich tangible and intangible heritage that defines an interconnected Asia.

Author : Wang Gungwu
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789814786515

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Nanyang by Wang Gungwu Pdf

This volume is a book of reflections and encounters about the region that the Chinese knew as Nanyang. The essays in it look back at the years of uncertainty after the end of World War II and explore the period largely through images of mixed heritages in Malaysia and Singapore. They also look at the trends towards social and political divisiveness following the years of decolonization in Southeast Asia. Never far in the background is the struggle to build new nations during four decades of an ideological Cold War and the Chinese determination to move from near-collapse in the 1940s and out of the traumatic changes of the Maoist revolution to become the powerhouse that it now is.

Author : Muthiah Alagappa
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0804750971

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Civil Society and Political Change in Asia by Muthiah Alagappa Pdf

A systematic investigation of the connection between civil society and political change in Asia - change toward open, participatory, and accountable politics. Its findings suggest that the link between a vibrant civil society and democracy is indeterminate: certain civil society organizations support democracy; thers could undermine it.