Local Cultures and the New Asia : The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia
C.J.W.-L. Wee
Bok Engelsk 2002 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , 2002
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (246 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Local Cultures, Economic Development, and Southeast Asia; 1 Development Enabler or Disabler? The Role of the State in Southeast Asia; 2 Muddling Through: Development Under a ""Weak"" State; 3 Battering Down the Chinese Walls: The Antinomies of Anglo-American Liberalism and the History of East Asian Capitalism in the Shadow of the Cold War; 4 Religion, Values, and Capitalism in Asia; 5 From Universal to Local Culture: The State, Ethnic Identity, and Capitalism in Singapore. - 6 Telephony at the Limits of State Control: ""Discourse Networks"" in Indonesia7 Rethinking Modernity: State, Ethnicity, and Class in the Forging of a Modern Urban Malaysia; 8 Thai Middle-Class Practice and Consumption of Traditional Dance: ""Thai-ness"" and High Art; Index. - Southeast Asia, until the Asian economic crisis of 1997-2000, was a high economic growth area. However, despite the neo-liberal and globalizing logic of capitalism, local conditions and cultures determine that capitalism will spread in ways not entirely consonant with its Western origins. Capitalism is not a free-floating entity -- it is a socially embodied phenomenon that needs to function in various cultural contexts. Consequently, the tension between the universal status that some claim ca...
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| Emner | Capitalism - Social aspects - Southeast Asia
Economic development - Social aspects - Southeast Asia Social values - Southeast Asia Capitalism -- Social aspects -- Asia. Vis mer... Economic development -- Social aspects -- Asia.
Ethnicity -- Southeast Asia. Business & Economics Economic History sørøst-asia kapitalisme lokalsamfunn kulturkontakt økonomisk utvikling sosiologi antropologi etnisitet |
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| ISBN | 9812301224. - 9812301232
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