1st Edition
Local Organizations and Urban Governance in East and Southeast Asia Straddling state and society
1.State-Linked Associational Life: Illuminating Blind Spots of Existing Paradigms Benjamin L. Read 2. Japan’s Neighborhood Associations: Membership without Advocacy Robert Pekkanen 3. Swaying Between State and Community: The Role of RT/RW in Post-Suharto Indonesia Aiko Kurasawa 4. The Mutual Colonization of State and Civil Society Organizations in Vietnam Joseph Hannah 5. Municipal Governments and the Role of Cooperative Community Groups in Thailand Chandra Mahakanjana 6. The Multiple Uses of Local Networks: State Cultivation of Neighborhood Social Capital in China and Taiwan Benjamin L. Read 7. The Sign of the Cross: Vertical and Horizontal Tensions in Vietnamese Church-State Relations Lan T. Chu 8. State Shaping of Community-Level Politics: Residents’ Committees in Singapore Ooi Giok Ling
Biography
Benjamin L. Read is an assistant professor in the Politics Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Robert Pekkanen is chair of the Japan Studies Program and an associate professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.
