Local Cultures and the New Asia: The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia

Local Cultures and the New Asia

The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia

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Publisher:: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
Online publication date:: October 2015
Print publication year:: 2002
Online ISBN:: 9789812307149

Series:: Social Issues in Southeast Asia
Subjects:: Demography, Social Statistics, Sociology

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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 capitalism now occupies in the post-Cold War world and the particularities of the local cultures it enters should be of great concern.

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Local Cultures and the New Asia

The State, Culture, and Capitalism in Southeast Asia

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Contributors
pp ix-x

Introduction: Local Cultures, Economic Development, and Southeast Asia
pp 1-28

SECTION I - THE STATE
pp 29-30

1 - Development Enabler or Disabler? The Role of the State in Southeast Asia
pp 31-50

2 - Muddling Through: Development under a “Weak” State
pp 51-74

SECTION II - THE CULTURAL LINEAGES OF “ASIAN” CAPITALISM
pp 75-76

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
pp 77-106

4 - Religion, Values, and Capitalism in Asia
pp 107-126

SECTION III - THE STATE AND LOCAL CULTURES
pp 127-128

5 - From Universal to Local Culture: The State, Ethnic Identity, and Capitalism in Singapore
pp 129-157

6 - Telephony at the Limits of State Control: “Discourse Networks” in Indonesia
pp 158-183

7 - Rethinking Modernity: State, Ethnicity, and Class in the Forging of a Modern Urban Malaysia
pp 184-216

8 - Thai Middle-Class Practice and Consumption of Traditional Dance: “Thai-ness” and High Art
pp 217-242

Index
pp 243-245

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