The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia

In this empirically rich collection of essays, a team of leading international scholars explore the way that economic transformation is sustained and challenged by everyday practices across Southeast Asia. Drawing together a body of interdisciplinary scholarship, the authors explore how the emergence of more marketized forms of economic policy-making in Southeast Asia impacts everyday life. The book's twelve chapters address topics such as domestic migration, trade union politics in Myanmar, mining in the Philippines, halal food in Singapore, Islamic finance in Malaysia, education reform in Indonesia, street vending in Malaysia, regional migration between Malaysia, Indonesia and Cambodia, and Southeast Asian domestic workers in Hong Kong. This collection not only enhances understandings of the everyday political economies at work in specific Southeast Asian sites, but makes a major theoretical contribution to the development of an everyday political economy approach in which perspectives from developing economies and non-Western actors are taken seriously.

Author: Juanita Elias
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/08/2018
Pages: 283
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781107558830

About the Author
Elias, Juanita: - Juanita Elias is Associate Professor in International Political Economy. She joined the University of Warwick in 2013 from Griffith University, Queensland, where she held an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. Her research and teaching interests include gender and international political economy, studies of work and migration, Southeast Asian political economy, with a particular focus on Malaysia, and the role of gender in global economic governance. She has published her work in journals such as International Political Sociology, Asian Studies Review, Economy and Society, Third World Quarterly, Review of International Political Economy, the International Feminist Journal of Politics and The Pacific Review. She is the author of Fashioning Inequality: The Multinational Firm and Gendered Employment in a Globalising World (2004) and editor of The Global Political Economy of The Household in Asia (with Samanthi J Gunawardana, 2013). She is currently working on projects that explore the gender politics of efforts to promote economic competitiveness in Malaysia and the Southeast Asian regional domestic worker migration regime.Rethel, Lena: - Lena Rethel is Associate Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. Her research interests are concentrated in the broad areas of the political economy of finance and Southeast Asian politics. Conceptually, this includes the relationship between finance and development, financialisation and the politics of debt, alternative globalisations and the disciplinary parameters and spatial location of contemporary international political economy scholarship. In her research, she has focused on developments in the Southeast Asia region, mainly Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Her most recent books are Global Governance in Crisis (co-edited with Andre Broome and Liam Clegg, 2015) and The Problem with Banks (with Timothy J. Sinclair, 2012). Currently, she is working on a range of projects that explore the relationship between financial system change and development, trajectories of emerging market debt and the emergence of Islamic finance.