Governance in Transitional Societies in East and Southeast Asia

This book brings together scholars based in, or had previously been based in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries, building on their respective primary empirical data and first-hand experience as academics and think tank researchers, in order to pluralise the current debates about governance in transitional societies. In an era of global democratic backsliding, this edited volume offers less-explored local perspectives, to balance the Western-centrism observed in area studies and the focus on former Soviet countries in transit. What is the future of governance in Asia? This book, by attempting to supply a diversity of answers, will interest political scientists, economists, and journalists.

This edited volume brings together scholars familiar with a range of Asian countries The scope of this edited volume enables us to bring out the contrast between developed and less-developed societies Highlights the political and economic dynamics of the region

Auteur

Chi Zhang is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews and an Associate Member of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. She has published in journals Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Politics and Religion and Asian Security. She is the editor of Human Security in China: A Post-Pandemic State.

Binh Trinh graduated from the University of Leeds in 2020 with a doctoral degree in Politics and International Studies. Her PhD thesis focuses on narratives and life histories of women working in NGOs in post-socialist Vietnam Her work lies at the intersection of political economy, development studies and anthropology. She is specialised in qualitative research and fieldwork studies. Her research specialisation is on gender, civil society, NGOs, governance and governmentality.

Contenu
Chapter 1: Navigating transitions: governance in East and Southeast Asia.- Chapter 2: The formation of civil society through a mode of governmentality in post-reform Vietnam.- Chapter 3: Labour-Market Flexibility and Digitalization: Challenges to Work Intensification, Employment Relations, and Trade Unions in Indonesia.- Chapter 4: Civil Society and Regional Connectivity: Governing the Transforming Connectivity at Thai-Laos Border.- Chapter 5: New Economic Policy: Impact of social and economic engineering on Malaysia's development.- Chapter 6: Housing affordability in Hong Kong and its socio-political implications.- Chapter 7: How a New, Small and Poor Country Withstands Global Challenges: A Case of Timor-Leste.