Dynamic Of Ethnic Relations In Southeast Asia

Author : Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani,Shamsuddin L. Taya
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443821698

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Dynamic of Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia by Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani,Shamsuddin L. Taya Pdf

Dr Mahathir Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, said in the Far Eastern Economic Review, 28 October 1996: “The threat is from inside ... So we have to be armed, so to speak. Not with guns, but with the necessary laws to make sure the country remains stable.” He implied that ethnic conflict and political instability are inevitable in a multi-ethnic society unless protected by certain laws. Ethnic conflict is like a time bomb. The misuse of human rights for political ends and to exploit ethnic sentiments can spark ethnic conflict. In theory, the modern nation-state must achieve pluralism in its project of nation building. There are few nations in the world which consist of a single ethnic group. Yet, multi-ethnicity also seems to be a serious challenge to any system of government, especially in Southeast Asia, as it adds possibly deep-running cleavages to societies. Some groups are marginalized in the course of nation-building as a result of the nature of the relationship between nation and state. Arjun Appadurai stated that “the nation and the state have become one another’s project”: groups try to capture states and their power while states try to “monopolize about the nationhood.” There is always tension between the centre and the margin. The centre often consists of one ethnic group and marginalised minority groups are denied their right to equality. Sometimes horrible wars with thousands of victims commence as a consequence of such processes of ethnically-framed nation-building. Therefore, a democratic setting should be functionally superior; that is, in a better position to moderate the escalatory tendencies inherent in a multi-ethnic setting, thereby achieving less violence-prone conflict management, and its eventual resolution in Southeast Asia. This book is intended for anyone interested in the subject of ethnic relations and conflicts, especially politicians, policy makers, civil society activists, academia, and students of ethnic/race studies and Southeast Asian politics.

Author : Christian Culas,François Robinne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135172008

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Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia by Christian Culas,François Robinne Pdf

South-East Asia is one of the most complex regions in the world as far as ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity is concerned with an extremely rich ancient and contemporary history. Because of this, it offers an exceptionally rich field of study for inter-ethnic relations. This book examines interethnic relationships between groups and the dynamics of exchange networks throughout Asia and includes case studies based in Vietnam, Burma, Laos, Nepal, China, and Siberia. The innovative aspect of this book lies in the fact that the contributors examine relationships between groups and the dynamics of exchange networks across Asia rather than ethnic groups studied in isolation. Rendering the important moments of daily life of ethnic groups and focussing on the exchanges between groups sharing a specific social space, this approach, today still rarely used in Asian anthropology, allows systems of exchange to emerge and for us to understand the systems of power and local leadership from the inside out. Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian culture and society, ethnicity and regional anthropology.

Author : Chee Kiong Tong
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048189090

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Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia by Chee Kiong Tong Pdf

Modern nation states do not constitute closed entities. This is true especially in Southeast Asia, where Chinese migrants have continued to make their new homes over a long period of time, resulting in many different ethnic groups co-existing in new nation states. Focusing on the consequences of migration, and cultural contact between the various ethnic groups, this book describes and analyses the nature of ethnic identity and state of ethnic relations, both historically and in the present day, in multi-ethnic, pluralistic nation states in Southeast Asia. Drawing on extensive primary fieldwork in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, the book examines the mediations, and transformation of ethnic identity and the social incorporation, tensions and conflicts and the construction of new social worlds resulting from cultural contact among different ethnic groups.

Author : Kusuma Snitwongse,Willard Scott Thompson
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : Burma
ISBN : 9789812303400

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Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia by Kusuma Snitwongse,Willard Scott Thompson Pdf

Potentially destabilizing ethnic conflicts continue to challenge nation-states worldwide: The countries of Southeast Asia are no exception. Globalization, population movements and historical and political fault-lines in a tremendously ethnically diverse region, coupled with continuing uneven access to economic development, have seen the resurgence of old conflicts or the flaring up of new ones. Along with violence and the loss of life and livelihood there are also longer-term cross-border impacts to consider in the form of refugees or displaced persons, illegal migrant labour, as well as drug and arms smuggling. Written by country experts, this volume examines ethnic configurations as well as conflict avoidance and resolution in five Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand. Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia is a resource for scholars, policy-makers, NGO personnel, analysts and others who wish to deepen their understanding of the region, or develop strategies to prevent, modulate and resolve such conflicts.

Author : Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9812301828

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Ethnic Relations and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia by Leo Suryadinata Pdf

Ethnic/racial relations have been a perennial theme in Southeast Asian studies. Current events have highlighted the tensions among ethnic groups and the need to maintain ethnic/racial harmony for national unity. This book analyses ethnic/race relations in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia, with special reference to the roles of ethnic Chinese in nation-building. It brings together a group of established Southeast Asian scholars to critically examine some of the important issues such as ethnic politics, nation-building, state policies, and conflict resolution. These scholars of different ethnic origins present their own ethnic perspectives and hence make the book unique. This is the most up-to-date book on ethnic/racial relations with special reference to the ethnic Chinese in three Southeast Asian countries.

Author : Miriam Coronel Ferrer
Publisher : Third World Studies Center University of Philippines
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015042942725

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Sama-sama by Miriam Coronel Ferrer Pdf

Author : Urmila Phadnis,Rajat Ganguly
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025034641

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Ethnicity and Nation-building in South Asia by Urmila Phadnis,Rajat Ganguly Pdf

First published in 1989, this widely hailed core text of the dynamics of ethnic identities and movements in the South Asian region is perhaps even more relevant today, as the region faces a resurgence of ethno-nationalist sentiments and the outbreak of new ethnic conflict. Among the features of this thoroughly revised edition are: /-/ - it provides a critical appraisal of various theoretical approaches to the study of ethnicity and nation-building /-/ - delineates the ethnic composition of the South Asian Region/-/ - examines the specific state structures of the countries studied: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives/-/ - discusses various ethnic movements in these countries/-/ - covers the most recent developments in the region

Author : Rajat Ganguly,Ian Macduff
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052759753

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Ethnic Conflict and Secessionism in South and Southeast Asia by Rajat Ganguly,Ian Macduff Pdf

In this title, international scholars offer empirical and conceptual insights into causes of worldwide ethnic conflict and possible directions for ethnic peace. They focus on six conflicts in South and Southeast Asia and emphasise factors beyond ethnicity that perpetuate these struggles.

Author : Hock-Tong Cheu
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781543762129

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Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in Multi-Ethnic Malaysia by Hock-Tong Cheu Pdf

Hock Tong Cheu received his Masters and Ph.D degrees from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., and had lectured in Anthropology and Sociology in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia from 1976 till mid-1995. From mid-1995 till 2000, he taught in the Malay Studies Department and the Southeast Asian Studies Center, National University of Singapore. He was a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore in 1984 and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from August 1987 to October 1988. He has made several in-depth studies of the Nine Emperor Gods Spirit-Medium Cults as well as the Chinese Locality Saints, the Nadugong, and the Malay Keramat in Southeast Asia. Dr Cheu, who is effectively trilingual in English, Chinese and Malay, wrote prolifically, and had contributed numerous articles in all three languages to professional and academic journals, magazines and newspapers. He had also presented numerous academic papers for discussion in local and international conferences.

Author : Chang-Yau Hoon,Ying-kit Chan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813360969

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Contesting Chineseness by Chang-Yau Hoon,Ying-kit Chan Pdf

Combining a historical approach of Chineseness and a contemporary perspective on the social construction of Chineseness, this book provides comparative insights to understand the contingent complexities of ethnic and social formations in both China and among the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia. This book focuses on the experiences and practices of these people, who as mobile agents are free to embrace or reject being defined as Chinese by moving across borders and reinterpreting their own histories. By historicizing the notion of Chineseness at local, regional, and global levels, the book examines intersections of authenticity, authority, culture, identity, media, power, and international relations that support or undermine different instances of Chineseness and its representations. It seeks to rescue the present from the past by presenting case studies of contingent encounters that produce the ideas, practices, and identities that become the categories nations need to justify their existence. The dynamic, fluid representations of Chineseness illustrate that it has never been an undifferentiated whole in both space and time. Through physical movements and inherited knowledge, agents of Chineseness have deployed various interpretive strategies to define and represent themselves vis-à-vis the local, regional, and global in their respective temporal experiences. This book will be relevant to students and scholars in Chinese studies and Asian studies more broadly, with a focus on identity politics, migration, popular culture, and international relations. “The Chinese overseas often saw themselves as caught between a rock and a hard place. The collection of essays here highlights the variety of experiences in Southeast Asia and China that suggest that the rock can become a huge boulder with sharp edges and the hard places can have deadly spikes. A must read for those who wonder whether Chineseness has ever been what it seems.” Wang Gungwu, University Professor, National University of Singapore. “By including reflections on constructions of Chineseness in both China itself and in various Southeast Asian sites, the book shows that being Chinese is by no means necessarily intertwined with China as a geopolitical concept, while at the same time highlighting the incongruities and tensions in the escapable relationship with China that diasporic Chinese subjects variously embody, expressed in a wide range of social phenomena such as language use, popular culture, architecture and family relations. The book is a very welcome addition to the necessary ongoing conversation on Chineseness in the 21st century.” Ien Ang, Distinguished Professor of Cultural Studies, Western Sydney University.

Author : Peter Kunstadter
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400887620

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Southeast Asian Tribes, Minorities, and Nations, Volume 1 by Peter Kunstadter Pdf

A major source of political instability in Southeast Asia has been ethnic diversity and the lack of congruence between ethnic distributions and national boundaries. Here twenty specialists base their papers largely on original field work in Burma, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Contrary to the usual picture of tribal people as isolated, homogeneous, stable, and conservative, the papers show tribesmen are often a dynamic force in the modern history of Southeast Asian states. Descriptions of tribal life and government programs, together with charts, tables, maps, and photographs give a wealth of data. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Leo Suryadinata
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Chinese
ISBN : UOM:39015060607523

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Chinese and Nation-building in Southeast Asia by Leo Suryadinata Pdf

This book comprises eight papers which deal with various aspects of ethnic Chinese and nation-building in Southeast Asia: ethnic Chinese and the concept of nation in the region, Chinese political participation, government's policies towards ethnic Chinese, ethnic Chinese and indigenous economics nationalism, ethnic Chinese and Sino-Indonesian relations, and China's policies towards Southeast Asian Chinese. This edition features a new postscript by the author.

Author : Yukio Hayashi,ʻArunrat Wichīankhīeo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Burma
ISBN : UOM:39015043728412

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Inter-ethnic Relations in the Making of Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwestern China by Yukio Hayashi,ʻArunrat Wichīankhīeo Pdf

Collection of revised papers originally read at the International Workshop on "Inter-Ethnic Relations in the Maling of Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwestern China" held in Chiang Rai, Thailand, 23-24 March 2001.

Author : David Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134797066

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The State and Ethnic Politics in SouthEast Asia by David Brown Pdf

Ethnic tensions in Southeast Asia represent a clear threat to the future stability of the region. David Brown's clear and systematic study outlines the patterns of ethnic politics in: * Burma * Singapore * Indonesia * Malaysia * Thailand The study considers the influence of the State on the formation of ethnic groups and investigates why some countries are more successful in 'managing' their ethnic politics than others.

Author : Raymond L. M. Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Ethnicity
ISBN : UOM:39015012882034

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Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in Malaysia by Raymond L. M. Lee Pdf