Social activism in Southeast Asia / edited by Michele Ford. - London : Routledge, 2013. - xiii, 214 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 51. . - Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia series ; 51. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Brings together cutting-edge accounts of social movements concerned with civil and political rights, globalization, peace, the environment, migrant and factory labour, the rights of middle- and working-class women, and sexual identity in an overarching framework of analysis that forefronts the importance of human rights and the state as a focus for social activism in a region characterized by a history of authoritarian developmentalism and weak civil society'--Provided by publisher.

9780415523554 (hbk.) RM472.50


Social movements--Southeast Asia.
Social action--Southeast Asia.


Southeast Asia--Social conditions--21st century.