Development Studies: South East Asia

By Damien Kingsbury

Politics in Developing Countries provides a clear and reader-friendly introduction to the key factors and themes that shape political processes in developing countries. Achieving development outcomes such as reducing poverty and inequality is only possible through efficient governance, well-planned…

Paperback – 2019-02-06
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Edited by Arve Hansen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia explores the nexus between automobility and development in a pan-Asian comparative perspective. The book seeks to integrate the policies, production forms, consumption preferences and symbolism implicated in emerging Asian automobilities. Using empirically…

Paperback – 2019-02-04
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Routledge Studies in Transport, Environment and Development

Edited by Christian Aspalter, Kenny Teguh Pribadi

In recent years, government and policymakers around the world have shifted their attention away from money-oriented, supply-side economics to institutional economics and people-oriented social and economic development. Issues such as poverty reduction, win-win solutions and strategies in social…

Paperback – 2019-01-17
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By Matthew Clarke, Anna Halafoff

Community development is most effective and efficient when it is situated and led at the local level and considers the social behaviours, needs and worldviews of local communities. With more than eight out of ten people globally self-reporting religious belief, Religion and Development in the…

Paperback – 2019-01-08
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Routledge Research in Religion and Development

Edited by Brendan Howe

Faced with significant security challenges, in recent years Japan and South Korea have both sought to raise their international profile through peacebuilding, development, humanitarian assistance, and human security. This book assesses the past, present, and future potential of these niche…

Hardback – 2018-11-06
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Routledge Research on Asian Development

By Anne Decobert

For over sixty years, conflict between state forces and armed ethnic groups was ongoing in parts of the borderlands of Burma. Ethnic minority communities were subjected to systematic and widespread abuses by an increasingly complex patchwork of armed state and non-state actors. Populations in more…

Paperback – 2018-06-28
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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

Edited by Ryo Fujikura, Mikiyasu Nakayama

Hydropower generation by construction of large dams attracts considerable attention as a feasible renewable energy source to meet the power demand in Asian cities. However, large development projects cause involuntary resettlement. Of the world’s forty to eighty million resettlers, many resettlers…

Paperback – 2018-04-25
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Edited by Tania Lewis

Economic development in Asia is associated with expanding urbanism, overconsumption, and a steep growth in living standards. At the same time, rapid urbanisation, changing class consciousness, and a new rural–urban divide in the region have led to fundamental shifts in the way ecological concerns…

Paperback – 2018-04-10
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Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia

By Matthew Phillips

Thailand’s position during the Cold War was ambiguous: the country’s political leadership was very keen to maintain the country’s independence on the world stage, yet at the same time was anxious to establish the country’s credentials as staunchly anti-communist. However, as this book argues,…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

By Weiqing Song

This book examines, comprehensively, the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, the regional organisation which consists of China, Russia and most of the Central Asian countries. It charts the development of the Organisation from the establishment of its precursor, the Shanghai Five, in 1996, through…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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Routledge Contemporary China Series

Edited by Jaclyn L Neo

At the heart of constitutional interpretation is the struggle between, on the one hand, fidelity to founding meanings, and, on the other hand, creative interpretation to suit the context and needs of an evolving society. This book considers the recent growth of constitutional cases in…

Paperback – 2018-01-12
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Routledge Law in Asia

By Gisele Bousquet

Most studies on urbanisation focus on the move of rural people to cities and the impact this has, both on the cities to which the people have moved, and on the rural communities they have left. This book, on the other hand, considers the impact on rural communities of the physical expansion of…

Paperback – 2018-01-03
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Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series